Word: skittering
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...hushed sound that highlights Jones' elastic vocals and free-wheeling lyrics, which never flinch from unpleasant truths. The meditative tone is set on Pink Flamingos, which describes the denizens of a bar in terms that suggest a watering hole in the African veldt. As guitar and piano skitter above a buttery bass line, Jones sings, ''Look at them -- poking like flightless birds/. . .the spirit cannot wait to fly like the pink flamingo.'' . Wild animals, with their quality of being both savage and pure, are a recurring motif. On the run from predators imagined or real, Jones' protagonists seek refuge...
...With perfect control, she grabbed his collar and ripped open his shirt. She heard the buttons skitter to the floor as she stared at the damp hair clinging to his pallid chest. She paused, breathing heavily, as Frederick blinked at her. Almost trembling with contempt, she pursed her lips and spat in his face...
...intelligence might make him a weaker candidate. “[A]s [State Rep. Timothy J.] Toomey is almost certainly less intelligent than I am,” Slavitt speculates, “he has the advantage, because his mind is much less likely than mine to skitter off in all directions...
...Fingers in the Factories,” Editors successfully combine lead singer Tom Smith’s distant voice with energetic guitars chattering across a stark, echoing background. In “Munich,” the album’s stellar lead single, fast-paced guitars skitter up and down while Smith’s deep voice implores, “people are fragile things you should know by now, be careful what you put them through.” Similarly, the up-tempo punctuated guitar in “Blood” propels toward the murderously insistent refrain...
...time the 12th inning rolled around yesterday, Lentz was angry. The Crimson had lost all of a 5-0 fifth-inning lead, Lentz had watched a Barry Wahlberg wild pitch skitter past him to score a run as Brown made an eighth-inning comeback and had been called out at second on a controversial attempted suicide squeeze and steal in the top of the ninth. Lentz had left the base screaming at the umpire...