Sentence examples for manipulating time from inspiring English sources
As always, creating suspense on television requires manipulating time.
"How the Other Half Loves" is a drawing-room comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, that master practitioner of manipulating time and place.
His The Interpreters (1965) weaves stories from the contemporary world to the mythic and historical past, manipulating time so that in the end the very structure of the story is a comment on the lives of the several protagonists.
And one of the things they're doing is they're predicting everything — our every move — and they are doing it because they have some way of manipulating time to repeat the same day to go back in time.
As such, a more comprehensive modeling of dance should involve more flexible (i.e., variable) representations of the use of space while manipulating time according to temporal cues of the musical rhythm.
McEwen's paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations present subtle re-workings of the familiar signs and objects that surround us in our daily lives, his understated but complex rhetoric manipulating time, space, language, and images to alternately esoteric and persuasive effect.
Gamers must also manipulate time to overcome a series of rudimentary platform puzzles.
Shortly afterwards, Joyce discovers he has the ability to manipulate time in his immediate vicinity.
The author manipulates time and point of view to powerful effect.
During a trip to Arizona in the early 1960s, he met Don Juan Matus, a Yaqui who allegedly could manipulate time and space.
He's clearly excited by the way the medium can manipulate time and information, folding straightforward events and simple motives into Möbius strips of paradox and indeterminacy.
