Word: unisonal
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...Count the seconds whenever an interlocutor throws hands in air. One of Hamlet's reactions, after he's thrown down his mother in her chamber, lasts even after a cut. When Hamlet asks Ophelia, "Shall I lie in your lap?" we cut to a bevy of damsels cowering in unison like chorines...
...classes, Mrs. Finley starts by having her students read a haiku together, clapping in unison with the syllables, and then individually describe the images the poem conveys. To set them off on their own haiku, she gives them the first two lines, asks them to supply a third. The responses often reflect the down-to-earth quality of children's imaginations. Once, for example, she gave her daughter the lines
...Asian lightning bugs maintain their coordinated flashing is "one of the great mysteries of physiology," says Dr. Buck. Once this is fathomed, however, it may lead researchers toward a better understanding of nervous-system mechanisms that allow humans to act in perfect unison...
...There is a feeling, no doubt reflected the resolution [for the amendment], at our public schools must not be goodness Freuad said. Public prayer, he considered, does not respond to this feeling. "A brief ritual of prayer in unison in the Sharon is at beat a seeable and believe a easy way to avoid the real and pressing problems of moral education in the schools...
...most famous one, when he addresses the Roman plebs at Caesar's funeral in the Forum. Here he lacks sincerity and sonority. The crowd, however, handles itself rather effectively in this scene, emitting a susurrus of suspense before Brutus' harangue, and erupting into noisy iterations of a metrically unison spondee-anapest pattern before Mark Antony...