Word: flickering
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...would be positioned on his side, and would try to move his shoulders. One of the trapezius muscles in his right shoulder could flicker a little. Nothing else. "It would take time for my brain to connect to what muscle to move. I'd have to think, 'My brain to my right shoulder. All right. Let's go. One, two, three.' I learned to will...
...Parenthetically, the full-color 7'x10' LED wall--a technical achievement, and a challenge--has frustrated us by not working with clear strong colors and without blur and flicker. It's being fixed. It has the potential to be more stunning and beautiful when running at full power. It runs on a Mac, and can take Quick-Time movies...
...mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone itself. Thus one has the strange impression of both looking at an opaque, polished stone form and gazing into transparency. It isn't a trick; the effect rises, swims into view, from...
...Wilson personifies the Audubon spirit of environmental activism," Audubon Society president John Flicker told the Harvard Gazette...
...line that filmmakers tread in trying to "send a message." Although director Oliver Stone obviously seeks to lay bare the media-crazy, hyped-up, and knocked-down society we live in, we begin to question his methods when his satire goes too far. With alarmingly fast-paced cuts, murders flicker by in the blink of an eye, only to disturb, perhaps deeply, just moments later. The cry of "That's the point!" can only go so far in defending movies that, in truth, are pounding the point--and the viewer--into the ground...