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The lung began to rise and fall in precise rhythm.
For them, Ms. L'Engle's tesseract is as familiar a concept as Camazotz, the dreary planet on which Meg's father is trapped, or IT, a disembodied force that demands such absolute conformity among Camazotz's citizens that children must bounce balls in the same precise rhythm.
It would be entirely true to Desiderio's spirit to think of the show as a sonnet — a sonnetto, "a little sound" — rather than an epic, an intimate study in precise rhythms, interior rhymes, energy concentrated rather than unfurled.
The Listener knocks on a table to halt the Reader's narration, as Beckett did in rehearsal, finding the precise rhythm of a line.
(Or nano-diapers that cleanse themselves?) Where is the smart swing that determines the precise rhythm for rocking a particular baby to sleep?
During "Two Steps, Twice," a glimmering two-guitar ostinato set the scene as the precise rhythm section arrived, slow and heavy at first, then twice as fast.
Whereas "What Is Told" was written in a precise, poetic, formal style well suited to its foreign-born characters, the prose in "Ambassador of the Dead" is more colloquial, the rhythms looser, more American-sounding.
She relays this information in a precise, quietly furious voice.
