Sentence examples for halting rhythm from inspiring English sources
He gets the rumble and halting rhythm of Mr. Mandela's speech, the erect posture and stiff gait.
Social dancing itself is not that much fun to watch onstage, and the vignette structure is occasionally confusing and also gives the work a halting rhythm.
Similarly the halting rhythm of the show, skipping like a scratchy record tended by someone preoccupied with other matters, comes across as more an artistic defect than a representation of the couple's stuttering, stuck relationship.
He speaks in a staccato halting rhythm seemingly lost within the logic of his own head, then waves his head from side-to-side when he gets in the rhythm of the argument.
On Yousef El-Gindi Street, where the government built a wall to keep demonstrators from approaching the ministry, the clashes settled by Friday afternoon into a violent, halting rhythm.
The halting rhythms of the poem formed the unlikely backbone of a project constructed by Kelly and the Australian National Academy of Music's 2011 composer-in-residence, James Ledger.
Given that the films are often anthropological studies of 20-something mating rituals, attuned to the halting rhythms and circular digressions of actual speech, Richard Linklater is perhaps the most obvious forefather.
In "Grace," a 20-minute concerto for two marimbas (Robert van Sice and James Deitz) and chamber orchestra, extended passages of halting rhythms and quizzical restraint are broken up with bursts of precise and telling gestures.
Among the strata are various forms of mutual dependence and influence, and the harmonies or disharmonies among the strata (e.g. between the halting rhythms of a character's speech and his timid personality) may contribute other aesthetic merits or demerits to the work.
Poetry, to Cendrars, was action sealed into words by bold new devices: simultaneous impressions in a jumble of images, feelings, associations, surprise effects, conveyed in a halting, syncopated rhythm.
