Sounds of fire, speech, tools, and the calls of wild dogs mark important steps in our species' advancement, and Morse code announces the dawn of modern communications.
All those prologues and epilogues pleading for collaboration and cooperation and indulgence – of which the "O for a muse of fire" speech from Henry V is perhaps the archetypal example – moments I had once suspected were a bit fey, a bit winsome, flare into emotional clarity.
Mr. Welch, a 5-foot-7 dynamo, is a coiled spring given to rapid-fire speech.
In rapid-fire speech, Mr. Cobb cuts through a vast trove of facts and thoughts in his head, inevitably veering toward racial slurs.
A former Army captain with a shaved head, a square jaw and rapid-fire speech, he led a platoon in Afghanistan when he was 26.
By playing up cultural stereotypes -- garish colors, rapid-fire speech, raucousness throughout -- Mr. Lamos substitutes one played-out device for another.
"The 25th Frame" ends with more rapid-fire speech, this time from Mr. Moniaci (also the show's composer and musician) as an auctioneer babbling through the successive bids for "Peace of Mind" and finally the production we've been watching.
"I want to thank Canada," Mr. Affleck said in a rapid-fire speech, a reference to that country's heroics in saving the diplomats who were the subject of his movie.
Price has been celebrated for his gift for dialogue — in particular, for the sinewy, idiomatic, rapid-fire speech of urban crime novels like "Clockers," "Freedomland," and "Lush Life," in which police-procedural interrogation scenes are integral.
Mr. Muhly, an engaging, funny man whose rapid-fire speech is peppered with profanities, said he wanted to give equal voice to Eliza, the character who decides to escape, and the women who choose to remain on the compound.
Price has been celebrated for his gift for dialogue in particular, for the sinewy, idiomatic, rapid-fire speech of urban crime novels like "Clockers," "Freedomland," and "Lush Life," in which police-procedural interrogation scenes are integral.
