Sentences with phrase «staccato from»

The staccato from my MP5K submachine gun had real weight, as did the explosive barrels strategically placed throughout the boards.

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.

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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.

Furthermore, Riddi alerted me to the calls of hornbills (calling loud or assertively, or yelping morosely — these birds are thought to be messengers from the spirit world), woodcocks (rambling sombre chattering), and pheasants (short staccato hoots).

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.

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

The blue - white fireball streaked over northern Mexico at 1:05 a.m., ending with a staccato of booms heard from hundreds of miles away.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

Just a small flick left and we're clipping the curbs and back on the gas, thundering down the short straight between turns 12 and 13 with staccato bangs coming from the exhaust on each up shift.

Redlined at 7400 rpm, the flat - four soundtrack is mellow, and since the intake resonance tube pipes intake noise from only two cylinders into the cabin, it's deep, staccato, and almost bi-plane in its exhaust note.

Dual staccato rumbles erupt from the exhaust pipes beneath the doors.

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.

- 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.»

It's often effective then to go from staccato to legato and open the next chapter with a descriptive passage.

The multiplayer options, both on and offline, offer experiences all the way from hilarious staccato flailing through to hugely tactical affairs where combatants look to take every opportunity to block, counter, or stall their opponents attacks in the hope of creating some small window to sneak a punch in.

The sounds from the other end of the line come promptly: crisp, staccato drips and splashes form different tones and patterns.

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.

In another, he scrambles the wood from the gym floors of shuttered high schools, giving it the staccato rhythm of geometric abstraction and transporting it from the arena of sport to art.

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.

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.

From intricate, 10 - square - inch acrylics on paper to large paintings on linen and canvas that exceed five feet in height, the works on view exemplify Inoue's signature, staccato brushstrokes, and her fluency with paint.

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.

In a new series of marble works, Claudia Comte plays with a similar staccato rhythm, along with the language of modernist abstraction, while Michael Dean's concrete sculpture explores the conversion of language from word to form, taking its shape from the artist's own writings remodelled into three - dimensional fonts.

short term, staccato and «pilot» funding arrangements with no commitment to ongoing funding and disconnected from the reality of the scale and timing of investment needed to drive lasting change