"The Hire," the series of shorts made for BMW over the last two years -- in which feature directors from Joe Carnahan to Wong Kar-Wai put the "ultimate driving machine" through its paces -- consists of bite-size, individually wrapped monuments to this category.
In the early days of space flight, zero-gravity meals consisted of bite-sized cubes, freeze-dried powders (simply add water to... oops!) and a semi-liquid glop that had to be extruded into the mouth like tomato purée.
They consisted of bites that were driven solely by the skull musculature, with maximal bite force being assumed for each instance.
Because "Hotel Rwanda" has a lot of background to cover, much of the dialogue consists of sound bites that sketch a cursory history.
Experimentation, alternately focused, rapt and klutzy, was the order of the day, whether in canny live-from-the-television-studio takeoffs by Larry Miller and Martha Rosler, or in Richard Serra's "Television Delivers People," which consists of politically biting phrases scrolling down the screen to a Muzak score.
The new paradigm consists of sound bites and transient impressions.
(Mignardises are defined as sweets that consist of one bite, smaller than petits fours, which can be two bites or more).
The ritual consists of intermittent nose bites, nudges, and chasing behavior by the male until the female becomes receptive, at which time the pair lie side by side in the nest.
Direct exposure consisted of a bite, scratch, or contamination of mucous membrane with potentially infectious material directly from a suspected rabid animal.
The system, a biomass cook stove thermoelectric generator (BITE), consists of a commercial TE module (Taihuaxing model TEP1-1264 3.4), a metal sheet wall which acts as one side of the stove's structure and serves as the hot side of the TE module, and a rectangular fin heat sink at the cold side of the TE module.
The second bite consists of gradually realizing that Ms. Trachinger doesn't intend to do much with this notion except establish that Eva feels a compulsion to go to "the beach" and also wonders if she will be able to head off the future she has already seen, in which she shoots her lover, Marcus Jason Olivee).
