Sentences with phrase «like staccato»

The dialogue between Don and Gal was a Mametian - like staccato that will have you back on your heels.

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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.

Black music used to mean the blues and jazz; now it is more often identified with the staccato verbal violence of trash - talking rapper plutocrats like Snoop Dogg.

Pulse three staccato - like times.

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.»

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

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

As if to underline his status as one of indie rock's great eccentrics, Malkmus makes a decent fist of orchestral pop on the frisky, staccato - like Brethren, and severs all ties with conventional songwriting, revealing an aptitude for space rock (Difficulties / Let Them Eat Vowels).

The language was so right, the staccato way of speaking, how he says it, was so much like Niki.

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.

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.

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.

What is fresh about the film is not merely the way its tension and the chemistry of its stars take it far past regulation - thriller bits like the annoying staccato chatter of a Teletype machine accompanying little announcements like «TASHKENT, 15 MAY, 0430 HRS.»

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.»

It's great just off idle and until 2000 rpm (where it sounds like a diesel truck's exhaust — deep and staccato with that ever - present turbo whistle) but then it all just kinda goes... vacuum cleaner.

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.

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.

Like dialing between radio frequencies, Hundley lingers in the static between lucid signals and sporadic staccato transmissions, where dissolving is another type of becoming.

From Dawn Black's portraits of beauty queens, gun nuts, and terrorists, to Hanna von Goeler's stripped down and ghost - like dollar bill paintings, Chris Hipkiss's dystopian landscape drawing, and Judy Rifka's flickering staccato insects, the visual images on view in Madness pick up where definable language fails us.

Typically completed in a single sitting, Jackson's sequential drawings present a fragmentary, staccato - like form of storytelling where aspects of his daily life intersect with remembered scenes from movies and television shows or song lyrics.

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.

I am not sure where I got this staccato style — with the heavy use of the em dash — but I like it a lot.