Sentences with phrase «by staccato»

Back on the bus, my thoughts are punctuated only by the staccato of the turn signal; a rhythmic pause in the route.

Naves notes that «In Resika's intaglio prints, gritty fields of aquatint are emboldened by staccato hatching; clubby lines dance upon zooming, milky expanses; and dense swaths of texture both set off and engulf Resika's motifs: boats, lighthouses and nudes on the beach.

The newly freed authors dancing around downtown Manhattan with that soothing orchestral accompaniment punctuated by staccato bursting of the traditional publisher's heads emphasizing certain musical phrases...

It certainly helps to be aided by the staccato rhythms of an Aaron Sorkin script, but in Steve Jobs, Michael Fassbender portrays the late Apple CEO like Silicon Valley's Gordon Gecko — impossibly charismatic despite a ruthless streak of narcissistic tactics.

The cardigan is by Staccato.

If you're like the 11 million Americans who tune in each week, you can't help but be hypnotized by the staccato quarter turns and rhythmic kicks from celebrities on Dancing with the Stars.

None of the film's freestyle raps made the cut, but white - hot foreboding pulses through each scene, accented by the staccatos shackles, shatters, fists, and gunfire.

Not exact matches

A two - hour bus ride to the mysterious, exotic East End of Montreal (the all - Francophone area, into which they never ventured otherwise); where everything was interesting and new, from the dark plumes of smoke that snaked across the sky from factory chimneys to the stray newspapers and empty plastic bags that swished across the neglected streets to the staccato joual that echoed down the alleys as they drove by.

As shot by Robert Elswit, Redbelt is clean and compact, its cinematography and editing exhibiting a clipped vigorousness that thankfully isn't complemented by the writer - director's usual, rat - a-tat-tat staccato verbal sparring, which makes only very occasional appearances.

A good example of Duke's editing rhythm is his use of staccato jump cuts, including what appear to be forward zooms broken up by skip framing, or eliminating every other frame — a rhythm that suggests a needle skipping across a record and that perfectly captures the panicky Los Angeles drug milieu the hero penetrates.

Loose, limber and driven by a fierce energy and staccato / pause rhythm we haven't seen previously from this filmmaker, Noah Baumbach «s sublime «Frances Ha» is a fresh and vivacious near - reinvention of the director / writer's comedic milieu.

Bouncing between Molly's rise in L.A.'s Viper Room to her fight against legal investigation and total bankruptcy, Sorkin's drama shuffles language like a deck of cards, the staccato sentences of his poker - playing spitfires punctuated by the witty English equivalent of flops, turns, and rivers.

Ostensibly - blessed with a brilliant memory but crippled by a lack of any emotional range, Thomas Horn flatly spits out his every line in staccato fashion, as if he's not making his acting debut but in a race against fellow game show contestants to answer trivia questions.

dominates the proceedings with its equally simple - minded guardians, leading to a never - in - question showdown with «The Moose» -209 — remote - piloted by evil villain Jackman — that Blomkamp assembles in his progressively more grating staccato style.

by Walter Chaw David Mamet the writer repeats himself in tight blobs of verbal noise, awkward turns of phrase, and staccato blasts.

It's not quite the real world, however; it's Mametland, that gritty, aggressive, masculine universe looks like reality but sounds like the theater, where every pungent insult and staccato phrase is savored by the actors like a holy wafer.

The music, most of it by Justin Hurwitz, is hard - edged modern bebop, and it suits this movie's bold, staccato style.

Rush Hour 2 lives and dies by the very specific appeal of each performer's carefully - crafted shtick; it is thus a great pity that Tucker is only funny accidentally while occupying the bulk of screentime, and that Jackie Chan is only allowed to offer staccato bursts of manic genius that serve more to illuminate just how badly Rush Hour 2 needed to put a muzzle on Tucker and let Chan loose.

Starring Joe Mantegna as a slick Seattle con man and Lindsay Crouse as an anxious therapist eager to learn the rules of the trade, the film featured the writer's trademark staccato dialogue delivered with deadpan aplomb by a slew of Mamet regulars such as Mike Nussbaum, J.T. Walsh, Ricky Jay and William H. Macy in a small role.

Suddenly the large, carbon - fiber air box under the hood sounds as if it's being ripped to pieces by the guttural, staccato intake pulses.

It provides manageable sound with a beautiful staccato note that opens up for less engine restriction when activated by the accelerator pedal.

Told in staccato prose, perfectly mirrored by R.C. Bray's noir - tinged narration, Smith's tautly twisted plot moves at a fast, cut - to - the - chase pace.

They turned into an even narrower alley, then into a footpath, and then, finally, after making a staccato rap on an almost invisible door, stooped under a lintel and stepped into a room lit by guttering candles and flickering firelight.

The prose ranges from staccato soldierly thoughts to raw depictions of violent death to intense personal ruminations by the author that don't appear to be fictional at all.

Not all cats will chatter, but those that do sound like they're making short, staccato clicks or coughs as they stare intently at a bird hovering by a window.

By observing repetitive play - signals, such as pawing, paw raising, play bows, or rhythmic or sudden staccato movements, it is possible to interpret the growls and yowls, snarls and snaps, and barks and bites as play rather than fear or aggression.

The site is put together by locals who know the place inside out and that's lends it a more personal and narrative touch versus the numerous staccato like travel information sites.

At the Met, sixty works carefully chosen from the Lehman Collection offered a rapid, staccato trip through the history of European art, distinguished by such spectacular inclusions as a scrupulously observed walking bear by Leonardo da Vinci, from the late quattrocento, a cranky Dürer self - portrait from about the same time, an exquisite Fra Bartolomeo landscape of figures moving through mountainous terrain, from the very beginning of the cinquecento, and a startlingly intimate, casual study after Leonardo's Last Supper, drawn in red chalk by Rembrandt in the early 1630s, when he was still in his twenties.

Visitors will create 3 - dimensional paintings inspired by Gene Davis» Staccato using acrylic paint and dowel rods.

Prouvost's films are sensuous and lyrical, with open - ended narrative arcs that are fragmented by sharp, staccato edits and grammatically wonky syntax.

In several works from 1972, Mr. Overstreet switches to an explosive, staccato drip technique, whose intimations of starry skies are regularly contradicted by dividing lines or added segments of canvas, leaving us suspended between deep space and eccentric objects.

Like Pollock, whose lyrical loops carried the private rhythms of an artist enamored of dance, and Twombly, whose staccato, sketchy lines reflect a different temperament, Carone's inspirations flow directly from a subconscious informed by a lifetime of association with some of the century's most important artists and their works.

Being composed of many short pieces arranged by topic, the rhythm of the book is a bit staccato but won't be anything new to anyone who's familiar with blogs.