Sentences with phrase «in staccato»

It is not what Hemingway wrote in his staccato sentences.

Further, the cinematic apparatus of the running film strip representing reality, which Deschenes allegorically alludes to, is reversed to reveal through the photographic objects» mirroring material a fuzzy image of the passerby in staccato motion, while the photograms themselves, if you will, remain installed and fixed in place.

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.

For good measure, Silva repeats her comments in staccato Spanish as she sprints around the classroom, normally a McKinley science lab — but for the moment very much a painter's studio.

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.

In a staccato New York accent, he tells his tale.

The man, Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 47, gave his name in staccato tones; it was his only utterance.

«It's so stupid,» he says in staccato Jamaican English.

In the Hebrew, the words ring out in staccato cadence.

When delivered in a staccato mimicking machine - gun fire, the poem stood up to Forche's best work.

Not exact matches

They're a little bit like a less - dirty Strokes — all the swagger, carefully chimed guitars, crisp synths, staccato percussion and soaring choruses, while lead singer Thomas Mars» easy voice soars in and around every beat and instrumental wash.

I said Yes, Father, and he made that staccato sound in his throat again, and then it was time for us to get ready for Mass..

A thin, energetic 41 - year - old whose staccato laugh masks the seriousness with which he approaches his job, O'Neill likes to say that «there is no defense in rowing.»

Pert Jeanie Grolljahn, cheerleaders» co-captain, exercises both in Danbury's staccato «Hey What!»

Vaulting from the gate under the staccato pop of Eddie Arcaro's whip, Nashua sprinted in a wide - eyed panic to the lead, stole the march on Swaps, a horse that everybody thought was faster, repelled all challenges down the backside, then slowly pulled away around the final bend.

Again the staccato answer, and so the meeting went for an hour, with each man being asked to recite in detail the specific responsibilities of his job.

Beny speaks in low, staccato epigrams.

The words wouldn't emerge, and he coughed violently; staccato, like Gollum in Lord of the Rings.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, in his typical machine - gun staccato delivery, pop culture references dished out with an arched eyebrow and declarations best suited for a James Ellroy noir, seemed more disappointed than angry at yesterday's news conference that he keeps having to police Albany.

Flaherty speaks in a rapid - fire staccato about her still - born twin sons, lost after a difficult pregnancy more than 10 years ago, as she was about to start the residency portion of the Harvard - MIT M.D. - Ph.

But it's one that has, as Randall narrates in an excited staccato, «super-dramatic consequences.»

In slow, staccato tones — sounding at times as portentous as a postmodern French philosopher — Timothy gives a tortoise - eye view of the confines of his owner's garden.

From 1989 to 1994, the meteors came in bright, oddly staccato bursts.

That's where the work involving Stumpy — and a second right whale named Staccato — will come in.

But recently, some studies have suggested the opposite — that DNA produces RNA molecules in rapid - fire «staccato» bursts.

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.

She says in the perfect rendition of Suzy's definitive staccato voice, «I got decorative buttons tattooed down my chest, so that it always looks like I'm wearing a jacket.»

Staccato Aztec Cardigan in gray, similar in green, this reversible print, and this one is fab; Blue Hunter boots; Madewell denim; Old tank, similar here and here; Longchamp Crossbody discontinued, but I like this one and this one

It is set in common time, and makes use of staccato

Most impressive in an objective sense, as a technical exercise — its staccato technique preventing greater involvement.

Staccato tones, reverberant background vocals and some crackling in the background, «Until The Quiet Comes» is clearly no ordinary release.

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.

Given how deeply teenagers tend to feel about their troubles, the staccato rants will probably sound like emotional dumps to the average adult, whether they're weighing - in on absentee fathers, drug - addicted parents, or even just doting Jewish parents.

He also brought in a whole panoply of his other touchstones, ranging from Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer books and The Rockford Files to the Firesign Theater and «the shamus of shamuses Johnny Staccato.»

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

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.

And at the final moment, John Powell's tense, jittery score fades into the staccato synth - stabs of Moby's «Extreme Ways» — a song that, in any non-Bourne capacity, sucks real bad.

Yet a Shirley Crabtree, Jr. superhero would certainly be a sight to behold), who, upon costuming - up, sports a side - splitting aural homage to Adam West's staccato delivery in the 1960's camp crusader, Batman TVseries.

Arthur is just a boy as the story begins, and the movie takes him into adulthood with its sole imaginative sequence: With a drum machine pounding on the soundtrack, we see him growing in a series of staccato cuts, which are interspersed with other quick cuts that show what's happening in Vortigern's Camelot.

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

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.

Working with a smaller budget, it's basically a four - character film which wouldn't suffer too much from being staged in a theatre — featuring unusually long dialogue scenes in diners, restaurants and motel rooms, with staccato rhythms and masculine posturing borrowed from David Mamet, another of Anderson's key, acknowledged influences.

His agitated and volatile energy functioned as a counterweight to Brando's high - viscosity aloofness in The Wild One (53), but Marvin eventually learned to incorporate the latter's brooding into his own staccato restlessness, resulting in many a show - stopping study of the Soulful Man of Steel.

Their scenes together have little chemistry because neither of them is very funny, resorting to staccato dialogue in a subplot of clichés.

The staccato cadence of Tim Streeto's editing, which clusters together short scenes that excise the beginnings and ends of interactions, often keeps the impact of Bernard's autocratic parenting from registering fully on impact, but the film's tragicomic punch lands in the final act after an otherwise useless therapy session triggers in Walt a warm memory of his mother — thus spawning a stint of self - analysis that doubles as an occasion for viewer reflection.

He pioneered a staccato style that would become highly imitated, but playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet is still one of the more distinctive voices in American independent film — one that will be celebrated at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in the coming weeks.

Alongside her editor Joe Bini, Ramsay uncovers these scars in small, staccato dozes and refrains from spelling out too much.

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.

But where the geographical displacement of Happy Together gave resonance to the whole idea of going home, the idea of leaving doesn't do much for In the Mood for Love, which probably would have found a more fitting resolution with a staccato move, a sudden rupture.

Sure Goldsmith had conjured the American apocalypse with the likes of «Planet of the Apes» and «Logan's Run,» but rarely had his combination of primal eeriness, rousing patriotism and kick - ass staccato action been put to the wonderfully berserk test as it was in 1979's «Damnation Alley.»