Word: abruptly
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What remains confused, however, is the underlying rationale for the show's abrupt shifts in mood, which are matched only by the noisiness of the set changes. To be sure, Bicentennial Follies is fun to watch; it's certainly possible to enjoy lilting voices and mildly amusing comic vignettes without insisting on dramatic coherence. If Bicentennial Follies gets good mileage out of the exposure and inversion of American values, it also illustrates the inversion of one good old American saying: for here is one case, at least, where the sum of the parts is infinitely greater than the whole...
Elli Mylonaf can skate better than most of the men on the Adams House intramural hockey team, so with the encouragement of friends, she volunteered for the team. But Mylonaf's hockey career came to an abrupt end Tuesday night because she didn't have a medical clearance...
There are no abrupt transitions in the work. Each of six characters retains a unique sense of herself while passing through subtle inflections of mood. The coda "Velvets" summarizes the piece well: five women in long velvet gowns turn slowly in place, evolving a series of gestures suggesting fright, aloofness, serenity...
...past there had been certain deficiencies in the way in which the University officially recognized the death of a faculty member. The President's office had investigated the matter and discovered that frequently the only official contact between the University and the survivor had been a rather abrupt letter from the Comotroller's Office concerning termination of salary. Efforts were now being made to extend to the surviving spouse the University's sympathy and to inform that person concerning the full range of benefits and prerogatives. Seminars had been established to counsel survivors on the legal and financial matters involved...
...engaging dialogue or insight, the book meanders from perversion to perversion, progressing through huge quantities of drugs and alcohol, through impotence and sadism, to a final act of dwarfish fistfucking. Amis is able to extricate himself from this morass only with difficulty, and the ending he chooses has an abrupt, they-all-get-run-over-by-a-truck quality...