I always used to marvel as a kid at the sheer slowness of rocket launches: how the rocket – a huge, heavy, sky-poking tower of a thing – used to lift itself into the air so torpidly, so grandly, so effortfully, as if steadied and eased upwards by giant invisible hands.
Scaring riveted not only the witness's attention but that of the jurors as well, who went from staring torpidly ahead of them to looking alive and interested.
At 1 51 A.M., Jack Nicholson is a frantic juvenile delinquent in "The Cry Baby Killer"; at 4 59 P.M., he is the paunchy and bald hero of "About Schmidt," gazing at his office clock as he torpidly awaits retirement.
At 7 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, irvingplaza.com; $20. (Anderson) ______ Jeans (Thursday) Not much less abrasive than its name (edited here), this torpidly heavy band from Allentown, Pa., tweaks grunge heaviness with sludge-metal's potent thrum; the result is a generally unholy union akin to Mudhoney fusing with Eyehategod.
But though the book is organized torpidly, the Tools themselves retain a fascination, in part because you're never sure if you'll turn the page and Stutz and Michels will go into some full-bore flip-out.
(Anderson) ★ ______ Jeans (Sunday) Not much less abrasive than its name (edited here), this torpidly heavy band from Allentown, Pa., tweaks grunge heaviness with sludge-metal's potent thrum; the result is a generally unholy union akin to Mudhoney fusing with Eyehategod.
(Anderson) ______ Jeans (Saturday) Not much less abrasive than its (unprintable) full name, this torpidly hefty band from Allentown, Pa., tweaks grunge heaviness with sludge-metal's potent thrum; the result is a generally unholy union akin to Mudhoney fusing with Eyehategod.
Sometimes, for a moment, a shriek or a cackle would hang torpidly in space.
Stumbling torpidly outside, we found ourselves in a city imbued with the burnished, ethereal quality of a looming thunderstorm.
Zahn walked outside again, more naturally this time, and Bale torpidly said, "We've gotta get out of here, Duane".
There will be revelations, reconciliations, etc. Everything moves, torpidly, to an eruption of feeling on Guernsey.
