Word: abruptly
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...Perhaps you could point me out your favorite biker/leather bar?” I asked. The motorcycle jerked as Stith clutched and released the brake. The engine revved and we began an abrupt acceleration. Stith quickly informed me that she was deeply opposed to many of the common practices of motorcycle culture—most of all the entire notion of the biker bar, which she believes brings drinking and driving into uncomfortably close proximity...
Though the Crimson’s 10-game win streak came to an abrupt end yesterday against Massachusetts, it can take solace in that UMass is the perennial No. 1 team in the Northeast, and the second game was about as close as Harvard has ever come to beating the Minutewomen...
Trance music originated in Germany, where it is still championed in huge events like the Berlin Love Parade. Driven more by the pounding bass than by a drumbeat, it is characterised by abrupt shifts in texture. When the beats stop entirely and all that’s left is a high violin-like melody, you’re listening to trance. Characteristically, songs have prolonged build-ups and psychedelic, trance-like climaxes, which is when people usually break out the interpretive dance moves. Paul van Dyk’s The Riddle (Tell Me Why) is a good Trance 101 intro...
...novelette, which was originally called "Tell Me About It Tomorrow," runs 60 pages as reprinted in a recent collection of Lehman's short fiction. It's good reading, from the title - itself a press agent's misrepresentation of a story drenched in sour stench - to the abrupt ending of Sidney's discovering Hunsecker at the door, seeing his furious face and crying, "J.J.! Jesus! Don't!" (Is he about to beat Sidney up or actually kill him? Is this tale, like "Sunset Blvd." of the same year, narrated by a corpse...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...