Sentence examples for staccato movement from inspiring English sources

Its instructions said to grate the potatoes, which would rob me of my entire staccato movement.

Other felicities abound: in the hesitant, widely spaced utterances of the Staccato movement of Schürmann's suite from his 1726 opera "Ludovicus Pius"; in the scampering Air Bourrée from Erlebach's Ouverture No. 4 of 1693; in the courtly tread of the Chaconne from the Premier Concert of Schieferdecker's 1713 "Concerts Musicaux"; in a remarkably ripe sarabande by the Handel of 1705.

Press gently with staccato movement and say "umm-hmm" with lips closed.

Now press gently with a staccato movement and make sound with the lips closed". Saying "ummmm-hmmm" can help, adds Cooper, author of "Change Your Voice, Change Your Life" (Harper & Row).

If you do staccato movements to legato music, the effect is usually funny.

For the film Mr. Moore sought to have the Niceland residents use the same crude, stilted, staccato movements as in the game.

Best are the three perplexed hens, in skirts and heeled shoes, never doing the same staccato movements of head and shoulders at the same time.

The nonstop vehemence of the polka finale makes all the more impression because of the thrilling rigor demonstrated in the many remarkable slow and staccato movements earlier.

The "Earth" dances were all named after lizards (gecko, chameleon, dragon, iguana): their point lay in mime detail (staccato movements of head, eyes, tongue), all relentlessly addressed at the audience.

Hummingbird feeders hang from the trees, which are naturally strung with orchids (Ecuador has more than 4,000 species of the flower) and the air seems almost to vibrate with the staccato movements of the myriad hummingbirds.

He felt that it lacked flow, thanks in large part to Vanessa's "clumsily staccato" movements and inability to move and shoot simultaneously.