Word: thwacking
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...inch mallet creates a satisfying thwack!, not a dull thud, against the ball, which flies precisely in the direction he intends even as he sits atop an animal that could be moving from 25 to 35 miles per hour. Nick rides the horse with a knowing intimacy, as he rhythmically pumps his upper body so that the two work as one fluid unit. No longer is Nick an awkward ursine: he’s a four-legged creature with two abdomens...
...wrist. The two began, simultaneously, to berate each other: insults, oaths, and threats of the most vile sort.Until, suddenly, they stopped.A sound had silenced and frozen the couple, a sound at once clear and clean and decisive. It was the sound of chopping wood and then—thwack!—it reached their ears for a second time. They both looked in that direction. There in the middle distance stood a stable boy, poised gracefully at the peak of his next arc above a cord of oak. The axe, a natural extension of his body, fell.Chapter...
...Thwack. Almost every time he hit a long iron, Charlie McPhee would hear the dread sound of a golf ball headed for trouble. Thwack. Instead of hitting the ball solidly in the blade's sweet spot, he would catch it slightly forward, on his club's toe. "I was sick of hearing that sound," he says. "I would hear it in my sleep...
...forward momentum carried her into Lane and rolled the puck over the line for the hat trick clincher. For plays like these, and her success with rebounds, Brine deflected praise onto her new running mates. “Just in the right place at the right time, able to thwack them home,” Brine said. “Basically just hard work from my linemates.” Brine (8-6-14) now ranks 11th in goals per game and 16th in points per game among freshmen nationally. Although the Corriero comparisons carry with them the weight...
...records in history. Diamonds from Sierra Leone features the Bassey sample, keyboards stolen from a Vegas lounge act and a horn section fit for a coronation. Gone opens with an Otis Redding sample (from It's Too Late) and a two-note piano melody. Then there's a thwack of percussion and what seems like eight different string sections playing disciplined countermelodies that change with each verse to modify the vocals. In the middle it slows to a crawl for a few seconds, just because. At the end, West is justified in boasting, "Maybe you can be my intern...