What's most surprising about this consistently surprising movie is how forcefully those beats resonate, even though you know how the story ends from the start.
And it was a test of her lung power, as backup singers set up the tunes before Ms. Blige sailed in above them: landing forcefully on the beat or sidestepping it with jazzy syncopations, bringing a desperate quaver to her voice or wailing an accusation at one more man who had let her down.
For much of the rest of the set Mr. Butler was forcefully tapping out beats on his MPC, his bearing shifting from dreamlike to sweaty, evasive to direct.
For example, the gene variant may help explain why some healthy people cannot exercise vigorously — they may be making chemicals that act like beta blockers, making their hearts beat less forcefully.
Violence, after all, was the medium of white domination: uprooting people from their homes, forcefully exploiting their labor, beating the disobedient into compliance.
Since then, as electronic beats and forcefully declaimed lyrics have become the norm, dancehall has grown closer in sound and spirit to hip-hop, just as hip-hop had borrowed many of its sounds and strategies from early dancehall.
They exclude the photographer and the viewer even more forcefully than the portrait of the beat boys, but they are also irresistible: looking glasses you want to travel through.
Somalia, where the viral-borne disease appeared to have fortified its presence in a stubborn defensive redoubt, nevertheless beat the disease back forcefully, and hasn't experienced an outbreak since August 2014.
"Sì," I answered forcefully, a singsongy Panzano rhythm, packing in all the notes that the locals seemed to get into a one-beat word.
Nyman himself took the podium for the Draughtsman's Contract arrangements, beating time in a forcefully literal way, which nonetheless seemed to catch the players entirely off-guard.
