Sentence examples for jerk us from inspiring English sources

Filled with joyless people in drab rooms (Josh Silfen's grubby cinematography doesn't make things any cheerier), "Silver Tongues" takes a novel idea and uses it to jerk us around.

The action is tightly edited, and the sentences jerk us forward like a leash.

Netanyahu might as well know he won't get another free pass to jerk us around on settlements.

Jump cuts jerk us back and forth from the 1910s to 2010 and then to 1971, the year Busner and Audrey meet.

If the music sounds like an arbitrary sampling of Clark's current playlist, the choreography and design jerk us around even more.

Falling: in the first stages of sleep, we often have spasms in our limbs, which jerk us awake, and falling dreams often take place in the early stages, so they may be related to some unconscious need to stay alert.

Stop jerking us all around".

"The police are jerking us around," Mr. Eckert said.

He's just jerking us around.'" Pollan was quite clear about the food and drink he wanted in the house.

And the plot jerked us along, alternately insulting the intelligence and thwarting it, favouring muddy storytelling over complexity (what was that nonsense with the hidden letter?) and relying on half-glimpsed characters hovering at the corner of the screen at crucial moments.

Zaillian indulges in passages of languorous funk and ornate literary reflection, and then suddenly jerks us out of the passive, self-regarding moods with a cut to a car hurtling along or a brassy swell of James Horner's music, which is overbearing throughout.