"A case of rape," the young woman answered, in clipped French.
On the tape, Mr. Malvo spoke in clipped, cogent, bloodless phrases.
"We will not wear clogs," she instructs her rebellious daughter, Patti, in clipped "Mommie Dearest" tones.
They all talked in clipped, pacy sentences that helped the book race along.
They do not touch, even when they start to dance together in clipped precise patterns.
And both are equally as likely to tell you so in clipped but pointed English.
The platitudes, however, are coming in clipped English accents and Irish brogues.
But both sounded dry and easily tired, resulting in clipped phrase endings, forced tone and tight high notes.
When we first meet her, Julia is wearing a black dress, carrying a briefcase, and speaks in clipped tones.
By contrast, All Things Go consists of deep thoughts over barely-existent synth wisps delivered in clipped, serious-faced tones.
Ms. Goodman's words want more flexibility and lyricism, and too many stretches of Mr. Adams's vocal writing are rendered in clipped, intoned lines.
