Sentences with phrase «with staccato»

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

They whip through levels, vaporizing thousands of monsters with the staccato clicking of their mouse and keyboard.

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.

In the morning, the M2 feels refreshed too and bursts to life with its staccato brap!

Pitched somewhere between a dry comedy and an anthropological nightmare, Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter paved the way for Noah Baumbach and his sardonic ilk with its staccato knot of idealism and neurosis.

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.

With his theory of language as narrative raging with a staccato fury, exposition is discarded and what's left is the mean gristle on an overworked bone.

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.

Stripped down with staccato strings, it's playfully melodramatic, an arch acknowledgement of the white, male privilege on display.

It may have a ton of Native American cinematic clichés - dream sequences with staccato wooden flutes, soaring eagles, and so on - but it works.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.»

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.

Her personal performance is very poor, with a robotic, staccato delivery alienating her audience before the actual content of her message is delivered.

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.

Example: a staccato hmm, hmm, timed with exhalations.

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

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.

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).

(Significantly, the first part of the video essentially begins with two technological sounds / images / rhythms: film turning on an editing table and Godard tapping typewriter keys — the first legato, the second staccato.)

Refn co-wrote The Neon Demon with two playwrights, Mary Laws and Polly Stenham, which explains why so much of the dialogue sounds so clipped, precise, almost staccato.

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

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.

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.

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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 Camewith 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 CameWith 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 Camewith other quick cuts that show what's happening in Vortigern's Camelot.

Using freeze frames, slow motion, jump cuts, exotic camera movement, staccato step - printing and more to make a triad murder ring out with visual (and aural) poetry.

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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.

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.

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.»

On one side, there was the staccato of boarded - up row houses and the occasional stoop with small kids playing.

Hence, there was more attention to the exercises, using staccato on one note, with spoken rhythms being demanded so that understanding and accuracy were achieved.

Plug - in controls such as attack, release, sustain and decay help students to visually interact with terms such as staccato, legato and accent — all essential tools when creating a highly expressive composition.

However, I still envisioned that, for me, teaching would be a sparkling scene of students with noses in their books while the staccato beats of their pencils provided the soundtrack of our learning.

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.

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.

It provides manageable sound with a beautiful staccato note that opens up for less engine restriction when activated by the accelerator pedal.

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...

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

I chalk this up to picturesque, semi-static environments that fail to flow in sync with 360 degree character movements, creating a staccato sense of motion and depth.

Prouvost's films are sensuous and lyrical, with open - ended narrative arcs that are fragmented by sharp, staccato edits and grammatically wonky syntax.

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.

The staccato efficiency usually associated with this reductive nautical language is reduced to absurdity, encoding nothing.

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.