Sentences with phrase «staccato about»

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.

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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.

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.»

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.

There is something about the staccato line drawing and painterly frames that gives the older footage a contemporary urgency.