Word: unisonal
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...kendo stance, he whisks out a golden fan emblazoned with the red circle of the Japanese flag. He briskly waves the fan in deliberate downward strokes as a militaristic march plays in the background. The audience claps along, one solid clap every three seconds, while they sing in unison...
...there were two suspects besides Michael: his brother Thomas, who was the primary focus in the early days of the investigation, and the Skakels' live-in tutor, Kenneth Littleton, who was an alcoholic and a manic-depressive. Two of Michael's brothers and a cousin testified in near unison as to his whereabouts at the time of the murder: he was a 20-minute drive away, watching Monty Python at his cousin's house. Skakel never took the stand, but those present say he mouthed words at witnesses while they testified: "I love you." "Good job." "You f______ liar...
...Baddest - with all that that implies. ... Scenes climax in a cubist explosion of herky-jerky jump cuts wherein an actor appears in a succession of slightly askew angles. ... Actors play multiple roles, some characters seem blessed with precognition while others get marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze casually off-camera. - Hoberman, "Bad Movies...
...find offensive, and often breaking stories before the mainstream media does. In fact, the mainstream media regards blogs as sources now, because they leverage the power of thousands of people close to the news. And, because of technological reasons that are too long to explain here, when acting in unison, bloggers can definitively bring an issue into the public forum, because their frequent updates and plentiful hyperlinks to information sources and to other blogs make them influential sites for search engines. Using a technique called “googlebombing,” concerted bloggers have successfully elevated chosen websites...
When the last mournful notes of that born-sad song escaped from the open-mouthed breathlessness of the bugle, the six flag bearing Marines before me commenced to fold. Twelve hands worked in silent unison, tucking the flag tightly in on itself until it had been properly folded into a bunched package of star-spangled gratitude. It was given to an officer who held it between his white-gloved hands, knelt before my grandmother, and presented it to her. I could not hear most of what he whispered to her but the strong breezes of that day did carry three...