This stop-start rhythm also prevented him from choreographing as many new works as he had hoped.
The book has been made into a movie by David Cronenberg, although the reception of Cronenberg's "Crash" has had a more fitful stop-start rhythm.
Charlie Reid, singer and guitarist People say they love the song for lots of reasons: its marching beat, the stop-start rhythm, that call and response bit.
Colin Blunstone had one of the most smooth and sensuous voices of the period, but here it's strained and wobbly, jerking in time with the stop-start rhythm.
"Women on the Verge" meets the stop-start rhythm problem best in Laura Benanti's manic, sensational number as the model Candela, "Model Behavior," in which she skitters from phone to phone, babbling about her shallow life.
There is so much invention in Gravity Fatigue, yet its impact is frustratingly diminished because Chalayan has stuck with the stop-start rhythm of the catwalk, rather than attempting the sustained arc of theatre.
Most of the episodes are thinly developed, and over all the film has a jerky, stop-and-start rhythm, perhaps because it is the work of three different directors.
The show's ultimate impact was blunted by far too much talky (and often preachy) exposition, by some of the project's self-imposed technical limitations and by the stop-and-start rhythm dictated by the commercials.
The Albany Symphony ran into similar pacing problems with a program inspired by the Civil War era: a sequence of eight short pieces based on spirituals had a stop-and-start rhythm, the forms too short for individual voices to emerge.
"Price of Gas" has an angular, stop-start rhythm and a soaring refrain.
