Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

The forage-based diet for sheep that prevailed in the Colonies produced a characteristically strong, gamy flavor and a tougher consistency, which required aging and slow cooking to tenderize.

A protection play differs from a bluff in that the bluff can win only when the opponent folds, while protection bet is made with a hand that is likely to win a showdown, but isn't strong enough for slow playing.

The mid-16th century saw the rise of vernacular rhetorics — those written in English rather than in the Classical languages ; adoption of works in English was slow, however, due to the strong orientation toward Latin and Greek.

With the special teams failure of the 2010 season campaign, the Chargers hoped to rebound with a strong performance to start the season, and a way to overcome slow starts.

However, it does not form a proportional delta, owing to a strong north-flowing sea current close to the shore, to the steep shelving of the coast, and to slow tectonic subsidence.

The BER may be improved by choosing a strong signal strength ( unless this causes cross-talk and more bit errors ), by choosing a slow and robust modulation scheme or line coding scheme, and by applying channel coding schemes such as redundant forward error correction codes.

GameSpot's review acknowledged the " slow start " and " too much puzzle-solving ", but concluded by saying " the game's strong points-especially its combat-overshadow whatever problems Jedi Outcast may have early on ".

It required a strong arm and wrist, was very slow to recover if the initial thrust missed its mark, and was easily parried by a soldier who was trained to expect it, thus exposing the German soldier to a return thrust which he could not easily block or parry.

Alternatively, auks may have split off far earlier from the rest of the Lari and undergone strong morphological, but slow genetic evolution, which would require a very high evolutionary pressure, coupled with a long lifespan and slow reproduction.

His own country was slow in acknowledging the young artist whose strong, decorative and rugged style stood in opposition to the styles of well-known modern Spanish artists such as Fortuny, Madrazo, and Benlliure.

" He who is slow to anger is better than a strong man, and he who masters his passions is better than one who conquers a city " ( Proverbs 16: 32 ).

A player calling instead of raising with a strong hand is smooth calling or flat calling, a form of slow play.

Similarly, if a player is perceived as a " trappy " player ( uses frequent slow plays ), his bluffs are less likely to be respected ( i. e., more likely to be called ) because his opponents expect him to slow play his strong hands.

Governments can use a budget surplus to do two things: to slow the pace of strong economic growth, and to stabilize prices when inflation is too high.

Lewistown lost its role as a major transportation hub, but still boasted a strong industrial economy until the early 1970s when the county's industries began a slow decline.

The piece begins on a C major chord ( patterns one through seven ) with a strong emphasis on the mediant E and the entrance of the note F which begins a series of slow progressions to other chords suggesting a few subtle and ambiguous changes of key, the last pattern being an alteration between B ♭ and G. Though the polyphonic interplay of the various patterns against each other and themselves at different rhythmic displacements is of primary interest, the piece may be considered heterophonic.

* Chunky Kong, the older brother of Kiddy Kong and cousin to Tiny Kong, is a strong yet cowardly Eastern Lowland Gorilla who can lift heavy objects but ( as explained in the theme song ) is slow and unable to jump high.

Several of the 12 tracks were covers of pure Chicago blues ( side 1 kicking off strong with Otis Rush's " All Your Love " and Freddy King's hit instrumental " Hide Away " spelled without a space as “ Hideaway ”); Mayall wrote or arranged 5 ( such as " Double Crossing Time ", a slow blues with a scorching solo by cowriter Clapton ); and Eric debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to Robert Johnson, with " Ramblin ' on My Mind ".

They also include extensive use of harmonies, particularly in the characteristic power ballads, slow, emotional songs that gradually build to a strong finale.

The government forces citizens to wear " handicaps " ( a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast ).

Flight is a mixture of a slow, deep flapping and short glides: unlike their European namesakes, White-winged Choughs are not particularly strong or agile fliers and spend the great majority of their time on the ground, foraging methodically through leaf litter for worms, insects, grain, and snails in a loose group, walking with a distinctive swagger, and calling softly to one another every few seconds.

The Gulf of Thailand is relatively shallow: its mean depth is 45 m, and the maximum depth only 80 m. This makes water exchange slow, and the strong water inflow from the rivers make the Gulf low in salinity ( 3. 05-3. 25 %) and rich in sediments.

Vertov believed the camera — with its varied lenses, shot-counter shot editing, time-lapse, ability to slow motion, stop motion and fast-motion — could render reality more accurately than the human eye, and made a film philosophy out of it.

In Russia, Yevgeni Bauer put a slow intensity of acting combined with Symbolist overtones onto film in a unique way.

She was one of the first filmmakers to use tracking shots in a documentary, placing a camera on rails to follow the athletes ' movement, and she is noted for the slow motion shots included in the film.

Though the Allied governments were slow to use film as a medium for conveying a desired position and set of beliefs, individuals, such as Charlie Chaplin were considerably more successful with The Bond and Zepped.

The uranium content of the sample has to be known, but that can be determined by placing a plastic film over the polished slice of the material, and bombarding it with slow neutrons.

I was fascinated by the pinheads in the introductory scene and asked the projectionist ( who I knew ) if he could slow down the film so I could hear what they were saying better.

A dramatic film may require slow and sparse music while an action film may require 80 cues of highly active music.

Composition and focussing is done on view cameras by viewing a ground-glass screen which is replaced by the film to make the exposure ; they are suitable for static subjects only, and are slow to use.

He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes ( The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film ).

It opened to generally mixed reviews, with some critics complaining that the film was too depressing and slow.

In Japan, where the popular film tradition integrated silent movie and live vocal performance, talking pictures were slow to take root.

All were slow, cumbersome, and had problems with the limited computer horsepower of the time, but the mid-to-late-1980s saw a trend towards non-linear editing, moving away from film editing on Movieolas and the linear videotape method ( usually employing 3 / 4 " VCRs ).

Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.

Fassbinder portrays the slow meltdown of these relationships as inevitable, and his actresses ( there are no men in the film ) move in a slow, trance-like way that hints at a vast world of longing beneath the beautiful, brittle surface.

Both clips are notable for their use of hand-held camera work, rhythmic editing, slow motion shots and reversed film.

They used techniques borrowed from underground and avant garde film, including reversed film and slow motion, dramatic lighting, unusual camera angles and color filtering added in post-production.

The film did however cause a rift between real life brothers Steve Antin and Jonathon Antin as Jonathon was insulted over the film's close resemblance to their own family and how the character Brent Zetterland was depicted as vapid, vain, oafish and slow.

Like the rest of Japan's cinema industry, Ozu was slow to switch to the production of talkies: his first film with a dialogue sound-track was Hitori Musuko ( The Only Son ) in 1936, five years after Japan's first talking film, Heinosuke Gosho's The Neighbor's Wife and Mine.

This permitted the use of positive type emulsions for photographing in spite of their slow film speeds.

Relatively insensitive film, with a correspondingly lower speed index requires more exposure to light to produce the same image density as a more sensitive film, and is thus commonly termed a slow film.