They retreated comfortably as we passed the ball too slowly among ourselves at the back, and we never appreciated the need to quicken our rhythm.
As the rhythm quickened, skirts swirled and sweat began trickling down faces.
Now, we don't want to typecast it as torpid, and maybe that city's generic/general rhythm has quickened in recent times from the indolent pulse of trip-hop, but this bears scant relation to anything we've ever heard coming out of St Paul's or environs.
The heart is not just there to help oxygenate and circulate the blood, but to quicken a thrilling rhythm, to throb in our ears, to push against our ribcages, burning us from inside with all that we feel and want.
The 24-hour news cycle quickened this week.
With its stretched-out sequences and rich candy colors, "Juliet of the Spirits" makes you aware of the degree to which modern film editing, with its jump cuts and flashes, has quickened the pace and compressed the rhythm of movies, in effect rewiring the medium's nervous system.
During the last decade, the numbers of known TE families has grown, as has the number of examples of TE domestication, and the rhythm of publications on TEs has quickened.
But the rhythm is quickening as the city gears up for the huge Art Basel fair from June 10 to 14, which adds an estimated 60,000 visitors — art dealers, artists, curators and critics — to a population of only 190,000.
Spending has since quickened.
Barça quickened the tempo.
