And at four or five points in the late set, he stood up and stepped forward — in complete, decisive motions framed by stillness, like a bird or a lizard — to the front of a stage, on a miked platform, to dance.
On today's decisive procedural motion, senators refused by a vote of 57 to 42 to defeat the measure, a margin that surprised even Mr. McCain and his chief Democratic allies, Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin and Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut.
In the final two sonatas, the strikingly similar codas are composed of two parts, the first quiet and attenuated, creating a sense of expectation, the second animated, dissipating the final tension in decisive, agitated motion, ending with with fortissimo octaves.
Once the nuclear threshold is crossed, it is possible that conventional war would be skipped over as so much wasted motion, since the decisive weapons in any confrontation between the superpowers are nuclear.
By analysis, the centrifugal force caused by the curve motion is the decisive factor which makes the capillary flow in curved interior corners different from that in straight interior corners.
In motions graceful and decisive, though, and with reactions as fast as the imagination, he is a master of drop shots, of cat-and-mouse, of miscellaneous dinks and chips and (riskiest of all) the crosscourt half-volley.
He is lithe and springy, and his bearing is the bearing of a complete athlete reactions twice as fast as the imagination, motions graceful and decisive, in balance, under control.
Because the wheel made controlled rotary motion possible, it was of decisive importance in machine design.
"Less motion, less shifting, more quick and decisive throws for Kerry, Fassell said.
However, these criticisms are decisive, and have led us to oppose the motion.
