This is a living, animated place; gaining altitude over the eastern tower of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, you feel like you can reach out and grab it.
The perpetual onanistic motions that normally animate the place, flicking in one's peripheral vision, cease momentarily.
So Aerosmith went to Neversoft's motion capture studio, where the band members were filmed wearing special suits affixed with tracking balls before being digitally rendered, animated and placed in the game.
For the finale, McCay walked offstage from where he "reappeared" in the film; Gertie lifted up the animated McCay, placed him on her back, and walked away as McCay bowed to the audience.
Mr. Kelly, who designed the gentle driveway and sited the house to let the genius of the place animate every view, died of AIDS in 1993, leaving the Dials to carry out his vision for the gardens.
Maybe that is why the usually stoic Randolph was more animated in a place that had been his home as a player and a coach.
When Cary Grant's Jerry Warriner makes droll fun of Oklahoma City as a place animated by its own irrelevance, we're not meant to condemn the sentiment but thoroughly appreciate the urbanity enlivening it.
Just in front of me, through a little window, I can see an animated discussion taking place between Darius, one of our Croatian ski-guides, and the local snowcat driver.
The drama, which starts its third season on Tuesday at 10 p.m. on FX, is thematically indebted to the western, but topically it sits with us as a distant and infinitely more sophisticated relation of Paul Haggis's 2005 film, "Crash," which imagined Los Angeles as a place animated exclusively by conflicting prejudices.
But he is primarily committed to a characterization of the city as a place animated by mad and glorious subversions: by a feral artistic sensibility, by a radical sense of religious fealty, by a willingness on the part of certain members of the elite to seek and find connection with those far beyond their social order.
