On "Two-Headed Coin" it's a jumpy bass line by Mr. Simpson, and on the melancholy "Back and Forth" it's Mr. Gursky's proud, yet mournful drumming.
It starts with a jumpy sequence of crisp, sonorous chords, like the chord bursts that punctuate the elusive opening of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
In a Gallup Poll run by the "News Chronicle" after the first satellite was launched, 46% of those questioned said it made them wonder what the future holds (in the way of interplanetary travel), 36% felt an increased respect for the Russians, 27% wondered why the Americans had been beaten to it, and only a jumpy 14% found that Sputnik had made them frightened of Russia.
It is a melange of a jumpy but fairly wholesome hayride followed by scenes of slaughterhouse abuse and malevolent medical experiments and shrieking corn maze exterminators.
It is for the most part a jumpy, suspenseful caper, full of narrow escapes, improbable reversals and complicated intrigue.
A jumpy club remix of "It Ain't Necessarily So" played over the sound system.
This is a jumpy, disordered world, where it is difficult not only to distinguish right from wrong, but also right from left.
A jumpy disco jam featuring Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I., it just spent a seventh week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, while the song's willfully provocative music video has been viewed online well over 100 million times.
Series three opens with a jumpy trick that deftly, confidently swats away the competition – and it only gets weirder from there.
Soon a jumpy melodic line emerges, like something that cannot decide if it is scat singing, with bits of solo saxophone, or a lost strand of counterpoint from a neo-Baroque toccata.
