The American couple jerk into life.
Infinite jerk into formation, bursting into song while performing a complicated, synchronised dance routine with almost eerie precision.
He began to jerk into life when the group came on in the second half and the noise bit began.
Later, he lowered himself, jerk by jerk, into a modified split, then sprang back into a standing position, using nothing, it seemed, but his bent left ankle.
He is a bit like one of those statue people you see in Covent Garden who suddenly and unexpectedly jerk into action.
There are squeals of delight when Coppélius's inventions – a toy lion and a soldier – jerk into life (though not having these two dance is a missed opportunity for kids).
In both Narcos and Our Brand is Crisis Americans do bad things – Jane gets an authoritarian jerk into the Bolivian presidency, Murphy orders a right-wing hit on narco-traffickers, resulting in the death of an innocent woman.
It has the stuttering energy of stop-motion footage built from thousands of photographs: synth figures jerk into sight then skitter off, bass notes stun like the flash of a camera, rhythms surprise as they speed and slow.
