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.
Like Ted Hughes, Oswald is capable of catching the reader up in swinging, pulsing rhythms, quickening this watery realm into urgent life.
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.
As the rhythm quickened, skirts swirled and sweat began trickling down faces.
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.
David Yates, who directed the fifth and sixth installments in the series, has shown a knack for capturing and quickening Ms. Rowling's storytelling rhythm.
Manziel's on-field success, within Sumlin's system and outside it, has already contributed to an accelerated, less deliberative rhythm of play, a quickening across college football that Saban has repeatedly lamented.
An investigative rendition of "Speak Low" by the jazz quartet West 73rd, in which the rhythm suggested a heartbeat slowing and quickening as if the song were on the verge of death before being revived, was the most fascinating arrangement of a Weill song in the group's show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Sunday evening.
(In her Salvador room, there are cut-out images of Jude Law and Ralph Fiennes glued to the wall; what could be more hopeless, as you turn tricks, than to dream of distant Brits?) The rhythm of this film is a thing of beauty, quickening from wistful indolence to sudden shudders of action.
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.
My heartbeat is already quickening.
