through one's head
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Most of all, one is reminded, with the score of “Hamilton” running relentlessly through one’s head, that all of the players in this drama are again alive because a remarkable artist made them live again.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 10, 2016
And so it is; once, and only once, for each of us; and that is the tune that sings and sings through one’s head when one puts the book away.
From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Cather, Willa Sibert
Yes, the new popular song with the taking melody sings through one's head day and night, asleep and awake, till one is a wreck.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark
All sorts of things fly through one’s head, especially to-day, when we really are in an exciting position.
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
Especially if one has a helpful lilt, rhythmic to dust-cloth's stroke or needle's swing, throbbing like a strain of music through one's head: Cosmos—Cosmos!—Cosmos—Cosmos!
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
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