Sentence examples for jump abruptly from inspiring English sources

But, in the manner of the movie itself, which seems to begin in an uncanny present only to jump abruptly backward in time, let's cut to a flashback, the kind that in a more literal-minded movie would be established by the words "three weeks earlier".

At that time of day, sleep duration jumps abruptly.

The screen version often jumps abruptly in time.

So Mr. Walter's narrative jumps abruptly past holes in Remy's story.

Mateen appears incoherent at times in the video, and he jumps abruptly from topic to topic.

And the elder Mateen appears incoherent at times in the video, jumping abruptly from topic to topic.

Some R&B and hip-hop fans were dismayed that Rihanna's song jumped abruptly to No. 1 from No. 66, and that it has remained at the top of the chart ever since.

"For what?" he says now. "To tie up my store for days?" By now Mr. Guggenheim speaks like one of his radios — jumping abruptly from topic to topic, and speaking in police jargon.

It jumps abruptly from case to case, and when the asylum seekers talk, there are subtitles (to show the often alarming contrast between what they said and what the translators tell the hearing officers they said).

They are a mix of realism and wild imagination, with highways emerging from buildings or jumping abruptly off into space, trees sprouting at weird angles and dark spaces looming to engulf neighborhoods.

In this model, the Greenland temperature jumps abruptly into its warm phase when the overturning circulation — the sinking of surface waters to the deep ocean — in the North Atlantic Ocean speeds up.