It seemed as if he needed to shake himself down for each round.
Each time a fist grabs at Marley he smiles slightly, as if to himself, and tries to shake himself free.
"What education does she have?" Chris Albert then snarled, and tensed against his chair, as if trying to shake himself alert.
Despite sounding so agitated that he's liable to shake himself to death, Byrne's jerky themes (tension, consumerism - "Everything looks impressive, do not be deceived") are equally enduring.
He was frozen by the torchlight, awed, almost, by the pagan intensity of the crowd's idol worship, and had to shake himself out of a daze before he ran.
Maybe this is why Cuesta ends his movie so glumly, as if to shake himself out of his own dangerous dream; maybe that is why we head back to the expressway itself, with Harrigan cruising for rough trade.
According to Time magazine, which first disclosed that Ms Wolf was advising Mr Gore, one tip she offered the vice-president was that he needed to transform himself from a submissive "beta male" into a tooth-baring "alpha male" if he was ever to shake himself free of Bill Clinton and take over as top dog.
This Quixote will be set solely in the 21st century with Driver playing Toby, a TV ad director who gets mistaken for Sancho Panza by a mad actor (Palin, Gilliam's fellow former Monty Python member) who starred in Toby's film about Cervantes's knight 10 years earlier and hasn't been able to shake himself of the conviction that he is the real Quixote since.
He, perhaps, would argue that it was not deliberate and that he was only trying to shake himself free in a penalty-box tussle, but he knew the Ecuadorian was close and to thrust an elbow backwards at head height is only likely to have one outcome.
Attempting to shake himself free, he wrote, he did "unexpected things like pouring a bottle of whiskey over my head and walking into a department store and act[ing] pie-eyed, knowing that everyone would be talking amongst themselves as I left".
"As a result, forcing men to sit while emptying their bladders will serve little purpose, since no man wants to shake himself off while remaining seated on the toilet".
