Sentences with word «staccato»

The annual Jazz festival in Eleuthera gathers together prestigious international musicians and Bahamian Jazz artists for a weekend of staccato rhythms... Read More

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.

I thought of this car a few days after driving it when, cruising along metro Detroit's famous Woodward Avenue, an older gentleman in a first - gen Challenger that appeared one - step short of being a full - on drag car pulled alongside me and gunned his Hemi in staccato bursts.

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...

Despite its fragmentary, seat - of - the - pants plot, Chungking Express abounds with staccato style and frenetic charm.

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.

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.

As participants processed into the space — in order of height and speaking their initials, or any initials, (or barking)-- the sharp staccato sounds became tones that extended and mingled in the long echo of the space.

Patient on the throttle through the turn 11 hairpin, then enjoy the 7,000 - rpm staccato from the twin - turbo Ferrari - V8 - derived 2.9 - liter V6 as your right hand grabs the shift paddle to snap off fourth, fifth and on to sixth gear.

When Mitchell settled in New York in 1950, after receiving her BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, she immediately became a mainstay on the avant - garde scene, thanks to her fiery wit and exuberant abstractions that married writhing, lyrical lines with searing colors rendered like staccato notes.

-LSB-...] brand statements and staccato sentences may be working a bit too hard to fulfill a mythical 6 - second scan of your resume.

The orange orb brimming with rows of staccato brushstrokes, balanced perfectly inside an atmospheric square field of paler orange, is both minimal in geometry and maximal in optical effects.

He favors evenly spaced applications of paint combined with staccato markings over the colors dominating various sections of his paintings.

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.

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

Past exhibitions include Deluge at the DeYoung Museum, Staccato at den contemporary, Alien Organic at compactspace, and Morphology at A.I.R. Gallery.

Then only the short, sharp staccato of the woodpeckers is immediately recognizable.

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.

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

The smoke machine sets off again, the song plays again, and the intricacies of staccato rap and carefully placed team references are tracked.

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

He enunciated my supervisors name in the deep booming staccato voice used widely in law enforcement circles to mimic Russ Frist.

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

«Instant Crush,» featuring The Strokes» Julian Casablancas, is an early standout with its beautifully icy chorus and staccato synth hook.

It's full of slow motion and moody music, and the lengthy scenes of the play have been broken up into staccato snippets and visual flashbacks.

Mamet's signature staccato dialogue punctuates the intricate plot as it twists and turns with startling results.

Dialogue has its own staccato rhythm.

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.»

With two turbos in its exhaust path the V8 is toned down a bit but it still plays that characteristic angry staccato beat as the V8 revs up to the redline.

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.

, 2014, is part of the artist's recent series of intimately - scaled paintings, wherein rich staccato brushwork creates movement and depth, hinting at landscape.

Staccato accents of leather macrame knots add visual interest.

He began collecting funding for his next project, Hora Staccato over this past year.

THE CREDIT SEQUENCE The Paramount logo fades to a black screen, which turns light grey as music starts: chunky staccato chords under keening violins.

Ultra-brief stimulation delivers staccato pulses of electricity, with each pulse on for only a very short time.

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.

The group then repeats the Lord's Prayer in staccato phrases.

When I could no longer hold my breath, my heart jumped staccato as my lungs filled with... air!

Straight, short staccato dashes arranged on a diagonal seem to shatter vertical and horizontal lines and vice versa, resulting in discordant, haphazard arrangements.

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.»

Reds manager Jurgen Klopp had spoken before the game of the need to create rhythm but this was a performance so staccato and out of tune it is difficult to see what how the players benefited at all.

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.

The camera slowly darts through a jungle before it whizzes along city streets, into buildings and down corridors at a dizzying speed, accompanied by the sort of quickly resolving, staccato musical score that sounds not at all like the artistry of Spielberg's usual composer, John Williams, though it is.

- Publishers Weekly «Alcott reveals stories of each character through staccato pacing that builds from whimsy to woe to redemption through the course of a delectably subtle yet sublimely fierce study of many forms of bravery and loyalty.»

Plodding through the fatigue of maternity with their signature staccato sarcasm, Reitman and Cody thrust heaping honesty and, more importantly, heart higher than any possible pile of overdue laundry or unwashed dishes.

The Time Traveler's Wife is a mood piece on the concept of free will, smashed into the center of an engrossing, if staccato, love story.

THE CREDIT SEQUENCE The Paramount logo fades to a black screen, which turns light grey as music starts: chunky staccato chords under keening...