Word: staccatos
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...duty is painful," said he, shooting out his chin, speaking in quick staccato sentences, "but it is clear and categoric and I will fulfill...
...quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on. Ambassador Dawes stood up, pulled a typed manuscript from his pocket, apologized for reading his speech, but said its importance made reading necessary. The Pilgrims leaned forward on their chairs to catch the sound of his thin, high-pitched staccato voice. The major diplomats at the speakers' table were less excited. Earlier in the day Diplomat Dawes had asked them to read his speech in advance...
...readers of that gum-chewers' sheetlet, the New York Graphic, are gum-chewers. Some of them snuggle the pink-faced tabloid into Park Avenue homes, there to read it in polite seclusion. They have reason: the Graphic's gossip-purveying, scandal-scooping, staccato-styled Monday column, "Your Broadway and Mine...
...were fitting for the toy-soldier age. Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while it does not provide the grisly enjoyment that fills the soul on reading of a well-executed atrocity, it excels in honest naturalness, and reels its story out in the staccato What Price Glory manner that fits modern...
...course, a challenging play, as are all that come from this pen. It is told with strange confusion. O'Neill again resorts to the "aside," which he revived for Strange Interlude, and, at times, to the stark staccato of the new school. These make for cloudiness but the play frequently transcends its uncertainty with moments of eerie suspense. And the dia log is often shot through with a fine fire of poetry. It is played against elemental backgrounds designed by Lee Simonson which do much to soften its rough edges...