Sections of cheerful, melodic ambling are followed by bursts of synths, each grandiose stab punctuated by a split second of silence right after.
We'd stand and inhale for a moment, stretching our arms toward the storm; then, as the hiss of a billion approaching drops bore down, we'd run". This sort of thing, punctuated by the occasional burst of sunbeams through a cloud gap, keeps a road trip lively, even if you don't have 400 rods to mark the occasion.
Her "Domestic Goddess" routine, delivered in that flat, mean-as-a-snake voice and punctuated by her occasional burst of bawdy laughter, was inimitable, and it led her quickly to one of the most original and successful sitcoms in history.
In a speech punctuated by frequent bursts of applause, he said: "Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution.
The speculative final chapter, a tangle of philosophical free association punctuated by short bursts of incisive reasoning, includes a lot of huffing and puffing and hyperbole.
After a 23-hour siege punctuated by police bursts of tear gas and water from high-pressure hoses, a robbery suspect once active in a black militant group surrendered yesterday afternoon and ended a standoff that shattered the calm of a New Jersey town, the authorities said.
His voice loiters somewhere between a drawl and a growl – a deep Kentucky slurry of mumbles – but punctuated by surprise bursts of Queen's English, with the odd anglicism ("take a gander at this") thrown in, making him sound like Tom Waits auditioning for My Fair Lady.
No wonder we're all retreated into our Instagram caverns, punctuated by shorts bursts of Tinder and a couple of drunken snogs with people we've already vetted online.
He's not placid — at eighty-two, he's a garrulous bundle of energy, his conversation punctuated by little bursts of laughter — but he projects an aura of profound cool.
His manner is slightly awkward, vagueness punctuated by sudden bursts of lyricism; he has a reputation for being glum but is engagingly animated, if only periodically.
