Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.

The elements that did were the introspective slow movement, the beautiful transition to the third movement, and the passages of filigree that laced through the bigger moments of the opening movement and the final Rondo.

Mr. Cliburn gave the slow movement some of the quality of a Chopin Nocturne.

Then, after many more billions of years, when all the galaxies are whistling toward a common center, this movement will slow down and reverse itself again.

With an intact check reflex, the patient will check and activate the opposing triceps to slow and stop the movement.

Under the introductory slow chords in the last movement Beethoven wrote in the manuscript " Muß es sein?

Beethoven changes the usual pattern of Classical symphonies in placing the scherzo movement before the slow movement ( in symphonies, slow movements are usually placed before scherzi ).

The All-Music Guide states that " because of its strangely scored and undeniably eerie-sounding slow movement, it was dubbed the " Ghost " Trio.

* Camel kicks: ( done with the partners positioned side-by-side ) the same movement as the basic but where the non-planted foot kicks on each slow, and where the quick-quicks are done with one foot behind the other ( in tandem ).

Surface creep is the slow movement of soil and rock debris by gravity which is usually not perceptible except through extended observation.

The central movement ( of three ) is a highly ingenious set of variations, which are grouped to suggest the characters of slow movement and scherzo.

He favored a high tariff to encourage the building of factories, and restricted land sales to slow the movement west.

Even after its first few performances, Brahms destroyed the original slow movement and substituted another before the score was published.

( A conjectural restoration of the original slow movement has been published by Robert Pascall.

The unusually heavy stresses and abrupt masculine rhymes impose a slow and sonorous weightiness upon the movement of the iambic octosyllabics which is quite in contrast, say, to the light fast metre of the final stanza where speed of movement matches buoyancy of tone.

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.

In military science, minefields are considered a defensive or harassing weapon, used to slow the enemy down, to help deny certain terrain to the enemy, to focus enemy movement into kill zones, or to reduce morale by randomly attacking material and personnel.

Though not possible in traditional Latin dances like Rumba, Cha-cha, Tango Argentino because of partner separation, hip contact is a harmonious and sensual way of communicating movement to the partner, used primarily in Standard or Ballroom Dances ( English / slow Waltz, European Tango, Quickstep etc.

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

But for those which do, the slow growth of the area has a retarding effect on the metropolitan core.

Knowledge that thousands of school districts are involved and observation that school desegregation has occurred in only a handful in 1959-1960 leads to a conclusion that desegregation-from-court-order is slow.

Dextromethorphan has been noted to slow the development of tolerance to opioids and exert additional analgesia by acting upon the NMDA receptors ; some analgesics such as methadone and ketobemidone and perhaps piritramide have intrinsic NMDA action.

However, slow phosphor has the negative side-effect of causing image smearing and blurring when there is a large amount of rapid on-screen motion occurring.

Although there has been some American direct private investment in Belarus, its development has been relatively slow given the uncertain pace of reform.

Implementation of privatization, however, has been slow, and local entities only reluctantly support national-level institutions.

However, as of 2011 adoption of the new terms has been slow and usage has been limited in the marketplace and in the press, with notable exceptions such as Linux operating systems, several textbooks and scientific research papers.

In 1996 Charlie Ellington at Cambridge University showed that vortices created by many insects ’ wings and non-linear effects were a vital source of lift ; vortices and non-linear phenomena are notoriously difficult areas of hydrodynamics, which has made for slow progress in theoretical understanding of insect flight.

The area has now enjoyed a slow revival.

The science of this process has been slow to develop due to the secretive nature of the way most companies run their boards, however some standardization is beginning to develop.

A bricklayer in Paoua, Central African Republic. In the 40 years since independence, the CAR has made slow progress toward economic development.

The railway line of the Pan-European Corridor Vb, from the Hungarian border via Koprivnica, Zagreb, Karlovac to the seaport of Rijeka has a slow section through Gorski Kotar, which is planned to undergo a major overhaul.

As a brute-force method, ray tracing has been too slow to consider for real-time, and until recently too slow even to consider for short films of any degree of quality, although it has been used for special effects sequences, and in advertising, where a short portion of high quality ( perhaps even photorealistic ) footage is required.

For example, raw uncompressed PCM audio ( 44. 1 kHz, 16 bit stereo, as represented on an audio CD or in a. wav or. aiff file ) has long been a standard across multiple platforms, but its transmission over networks is slow and expensive compared with more modern compressed formats, such as MP3.

While the rate of cure declines the longer an adult has been infected with Chagas, treatment with benznidazole has been shown to slow the onset of heart disease in adults with chronic Chagas infections.

Digitalis also has a vagal effect on the parasympathetic nervous system, and as such is used in re-entrant cardiac arrhythmias and to slow the ventricular rate during atrial fibrillation.

It is more expressive than XSD, while providing a simpler syntax, but commercial software support has been slow in coming.

In other words, although the voltage applied is thermodynamically sufficient to drive electrolysis, the rate is so slow that to make the process proceed in a reasonable time frame, the voltage of the external source has to be increased ( hence, overvoltage ).

Pianist Angela Hewitt, in the liner notes to her 1999 Hyperion recording, argues that he was trying to caution against taking too slow a tempo, and thus turning the dance into a forlane or siciliano.

However, when a character is required to perform a quick movement, it is usually necessary to revert to animating " on ones ", as " twos " are too slow to convey the motion adequately.

* Entering in a manner in keeping with their character traits, such as a fast, highly energetic entrance, or a slow, stoic entrance.

In one scene, Hill's titular character shoots one of the villains ( Bob Todd ), who then proceeds to pirouette in extremely slow motion before collapsing.

The Harlequin character may have been based on or influenced by the Zanni archetype who, although a slow thinker, was acrobatic and nimble.

Most daisy wheel printers supported a relatively coarse and extremely slow graphics mode by printing the image entirely out of dots ( formed by the " period " character ).

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.

In terms of character, the two men were opposites — Bradford was patient and slow to judgment while Standish was well-known for his fiery temper.

It was especially notable in that Fangorn Forest was embodied by Treebeard, whose deliberate and slow moving character anthropomorphised Tolkien's deep invented history and placed its vast time in a contrapuntal humour with the ' hasty ' immediacy of the Hobbits ' drama in the War of the Ring.

Much of the complex character of aged vintage port comes from the continued slow decomposition of grape solids in each bottle.

) The concerto da chiesa alternated slow and fast movements ; the concerto da camera had the character of a suite, being introduced by a prelude and incorporating popular dance forms.

Each character has in his or her arsenal one or two slow but unblockable attacks.

The first three movements are relatively traditional in structure and character, with a standard sonata form first movement ( even including an exact repeat of the exposition, unusual in Mahler ) leading to the middle movements-one slow, the other a scherzo-with-trios.

On the other hand, there are many examples of slow and reflective works that are rondo in form but not in character.

The experience ( and his outing as a genetically engineered person ) began a slow personality change over the course of the series into a much more somber, dark character.

* Early mechanical printers were too slow to return the carriage in the time it took to process one character.

This consisted of a slow dance followed by a faster dance ; this dichotomy, between the slower and faster dances, has been seen as the " two contrasting aspects of the Hungarian character ".

Although archaic, simple, and usually very slow in style, modern Baisha music is euphonious, and sometimes even energetic in character.

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Richardson's famous trilogy about the slow decline, owing to character flaws and an unnamed brain disease, of a successful Australian physician and businessman and the emotional / financial effect on his family.

Since that time, the village has gained only 350 people, but its small size and slow growth has preserved its nineteenth century character.

Pursuing the theory of JB Dubos, but also transforming it, he maintained that those invasions were not marked by the violent and destructive character usually attributed to them ; that the penetration of the German barbarians into Gaul was a slow process ; that the Germans submitted to the imperial administration ; that the political institutions of the Merovingians had their origins in the Roman laws at least as much as, if not more than, in German usages ; and, consequently, that there was no conquest of Gaul by the Germans.

Edith was hardly the sharpest member of the family and could be a tad slow on the uptake, but she was certainly the happiest and wisest character on the show.

The overall effect, however, of that legislative initiative and Papp's other " Save the Theatres " efforts was to slow destruction of the old Theatre District enough to eventually ensure preservation of a number of other historic playhouses and to retain a measure of the District's original flavor, atmosphere, charm and historic character for future generations.

However, Phocion could barely cope with Ctesippus ' rather slow character.

It has been lucky in having relative prosperity and slow but steady growth which has given it the character of a friendly, active community.