Word: interruptive
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...aiming at an adult. An adult has sufficient life experience that they can supply the background where I have a blank area. Another element in the change is that I feel the story has far more importance now than when I was working [on "The Spirit."] Anything that would interrupt the story, such as highly complex artwork, is no longer useful. You'll find that in the case superheroes and adventure stories, the artwork tends to be very tight and complex, heavily detailed and so forth. I'm dealing in impressionism. So my work today, if you want...
Time is short--especially at the doctor's office. During each visit, you spend only 12 to 15 minutes with your doctor, the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey has found. And when you try to explain how you're feeling, chances are the doctor will interrupt before you get 23 seconds into your recital, says an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Blair had made the same charge, he would have been heckled into the floorboards during Question Time. He nearly was anyway, but when he arrived at the Capitol he was treated to America's upside-down version of that ritual, in which members of Congress interrupt only to show how much they fancy you - and they fancy Blair a lot. His arrival was greeted with whistles and applause. Eager faces full of laughter greeted his smallest quip, but more impressive were the church-service nods that broke out among the crowd when he talked about America's place in history...
...nearly was anyway, but when he arrived at the Capitol he was treated to America's upside-down version of that ritual, in which members of Congress interrupt only to show how much they fancy you - they did so 31 times in his 35-min. speech. Blair's arrival was greeted with such whistles and applause his opening line could have been: "My fellow Americans...
...doesn't take long for the war to interrupt our reverie. At dusk, gunfire erupts from Al Shifaniyah as a Black Hawk flies low overhead. An hour later, Staff Sgt. Scott Fountain snaps open the company radio. "Rock 6, Rock 6. Two men walking across the bridge, something in their hands." Illuminated rounds are sent up, the two men hit the ground and don't move. After watching them for half an hour on his Bradley's thermal scanner, Captain Melendez orders several bursts of rounds over their heads to scare them off. It works. The men slink off down...