Word: jarringly
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This phrase has not lost its power to jar the senses about social injustice. The words themselves endure, and breathe fire into those who work to tear down existing social, economic, and racial barriers, whatever stands in the way of equality...
...which literally picks up the band and moves it along. But Cinelu is a born show-stopper. He not only played over a dozen percussion instruments, but he warmed up the crowd with a conga solo, and gave a virtuoso performance on the udu, an instrument which resembles a jar. Keyboardist Delmar Brown complements Kirkland's jazz piano with a funky Caribbean sound. Campbell was simply electric, and Marsalis was, well, just Marsalis, which means excellent...
...virtuous and the innocent -- the others presumably do not give interviews. But Kozol is not really trying to be fair. An award-winning gadfly of the Boston schools where he once taught (Death at an Early Age, Illiterate America), he is trying to assault and appall his readers, to jar them from their complacent acceptance of the young beggars on their doorstep. To some extent, he succeeds in arousing anger. He quotes Robert Coles as saying that these are times when people "have to throw up their hands in heaviness of heart . . . and say, in desperation: God save them, those...
...booze, religion, romantic fantasies -- and totter off into Celtic twilight under her own renewed power. Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top, The Great Gatsby) seems to think these mingy cliches speak volumes. With his smugly self-effacing camera style, he could use, as the Irish say, a "wee jar" to warm him up. His movie needs a big jar to warm up the viewer...
...speedy talk tends to jar listeners--which is the main reason why attending T.M.U. lectures is as stimulating as gulping down a gallon of Jolt cola. "People around me start to twitch," says Maschitta. "I can start talking and I know they are going to be up until...