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slow and repetitive
Lester's fantasies are emphasized by slow motion and repetitive motion shots ; Mendes uses double-and-triple cut backs in several sequences, and the score alters to make the audience aware that it is entering a fantasy.
After several weeks of script rewrites on the Monroe picture and very little progress, mostly due to the director George Cukor's slow and repetitive filming, in addition to Monroe's chronic sinusitus, Marilyn Monroe was fired from Something's Got to Give and two months later she was found dead, although controversially to this day.
In the breeding season, the best identification feature is the song, which is slow and repetitive, with much mimicry of other birds, punctuated with scales and typically acrocephaline whistles.
The resulting images are visualized on LCD flat panels in a slow, non repetitive motion
The game was never commercially released, as it was considered too repetitive and slow, although on modern computers, the game will typically run many times faster than the original speed.
Mad Professor heavily edited the original material to form a slow, pulsating mix in which the beat is emphasized, reverb is extensively used and the occasional vocals ( many of the tracks are almost entirely instrumental ) fade in-and-out in typical dub fashion, making a hypnotic, if slightly repetitive, mix.
Early signs may be subtle personality and behavior changes, slow learning or regression, repetitive speech or echolalia, clumsiness, or stumbling.
His compositions, often for small and unusual instrumentations ( e. g., The City the Wind Swept Away is scored for piano, solo strings, two trombones and two bass trombones ), are slow, creating tension and interest through unpredictable change within a generally repetitive idiom.
A slow waltz, the piece uses a repetitive ABABC structure and features a distinctive rising and falling woodwind arpeggio.
Its songs are often long, slow, repetitive and crushing, heavy sections of distorted guitars often interspersed with orchestral interludes and extended, post-rock-esque forays.

slow and work
A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.
Power generated by muscles, however, is limited by force – velocity relationship, and even at the optimal contraction speed for power production, total work done by the muscle will be less than half of what could be done if the muscle were contracting over the same distance at very slow speeds, resulting in less than 1 / 4 the projectile launch velocity possible without the limitations of the force – velocity relationship.
This slow drying aspect of oil can be seen as an advantage for certain techniques, but in other regards it impedes the artist trying to work quickly.
And as is often the case with this director's work, the pace is so slow and the mood so reverent, that initial enchantment gives way to bored fidgeting.
The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.
The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.
All of this early work assumed that light could slow down and fall, which was inconsistent with the modern understanding of light waves.
Rather, they show Selznick's mounting dissatisfaction with Cukor's slow pace and quality of work.
Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited " hot bloods " with speed and endurance ; " cold bloods ," such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work ; and " warmbloods ," developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe.
Notably, it has been extended to non-Hamiltonian systems ( starting with Moser ), to non-perturbative situations ( as in the work of Michael Herman ) and to systems with fast and slow frequencies ( as in the work of Mikhail B. Sevryuk ).
Arrests and imprisonment for various offences such as " slow pace of work " or leaving the work space were everyday occurrences
It follows that the magnetic force does no work on the particle ; it may change the direction of the particle's movement, but it cannot cause it to speed up or slow down.
The reason for the generally slow pace is to improve coordination and balance by increasing the work load, and to require the student to pay minute attention to their whole body and its weight as they perform a technique.
However, work was very slow on the engine, since John Carmack, the main programmer of Quake, was not only developing a full 3D engine, but also a TCP / IP networking model.
He made but slow progress in school work and at Christmas 1851 was removed and sent to live as a private pupil with the Rev.
The Spectrum was intended to work with a normal domestic cassette recorder, and despite differences in audio reproduction fidelity, the software loading process was quite reliable, if somewhat slow ( by today's standards ).
Perhaps the most technically challenging part of his workand that which has benefited most from the advances since his earliest pieces — is his use of extreme slow motion.
During the time that Bruckner began work on this symphony, he was aware that Wagner's death was imminent, and so the Adagio is slow mournful music for Wagner ( the climax of the movement comes at rehearsal letter W ), and for the first time in Bruckner's oeuvre, Wagner tubas are included in the orchestra.
Many enzymes work only under very precise conditions ; if the pH moves outside of a narrow range, the enzymes slow or stop working and can denature.
He led his army through the Caspian Gates, the main road through the mountains that would work to slow a following army.
A rod effective for trolling should have relatively fast action, as a very " whippy " slow action rod is extremely frustrating to troll with, and a fast action ( fairly stiff ) rod is generally much easier to work with when fishing by this method.
According to the diary of the German attache in Sofia at the time, Colonel von Schoenebeck, the two German doctors who attended the king – Sajitz and Hans Eppinger – both believed that the king had died from the same poison that Dr. Eppinger had allegedly found two years earlier in the postmortem examination of the Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas, a slow poison which takes weeks to do its work, and which causes the appearance of blotches on the skin of its victim before death.

slow and involved
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.
Contrarily, local application of estrogen has been shown to block the ability of fluvoxamine to slow serotonin clearance, suggesting that the same pathways which are involved in SSRI efficacy may also be affected by components of local estrogen signaling pathways.
Newer titles take advantage of online gaming services, although lag created by slow data transmission can disrupt the split-second timing involved in fighting games.
Furthermore, the government of Nigeria has been slow to take action, leading some investigators to believe that some Nigerian government officials are involved in some of these scams.
After returning to Florida, he was involved in a serious car accident and was slow to recover, which added to his depression.
Though heralded as a fighter that could do everything ( fast supersonic dash, slow carrier and short airfield landings, tactical strike, and even close air support ), in the end it involved too many compromises to succeed at any of them.
Most of the crashes have involved heavy goods vehicles which are not able to slow down sufficiently to make the sharp bend after picking up speed on the hill.
Another sketch involved Worth complaining to a policeman outside the Houses of Parliament that Big Ben clock was slow because Jimmy Young, the BBC Radio 2 presenter known for " always being right " had said that it was ten minutes past ten, while the clock said it was 10am.
In the early 1920s, Victor was slow about getting deeply involved in recording and marketing black jazz and vocal blues.
Following a slow start to his career as a barrister, Blackstone became heavily involved in university administration, becoming accountant, treasurer and bursar on 28 November 1746 and Senior Bursar in 1750.
Therefore no slow, random recombination of n-and p-type carriers is involved, so that this diode can cease conduction faster than an ordinary p-n rectifier diode.
Sometimes database replication may be involved as a method of copying data between databases-and this can significantly slow down the whole process.
Since two reacting species are involved in the slow, rate-determining step of the reaction, this leads to the name bimolecular nucleophilic substitution, or S < sub > N </ sub > 2.
The plot was exposed and on the orders of the empress, all of the girls involved, including the emperor's favourite concubine ( Consort Duan, née Cao ) and another concubine ( Consort Ning, née Wang ), underwent execution by the slow slicing method and their families were killed.
Burton could not direct because of his commitment to Batman Returns and he did not want to be involved with " the painstakingly slow process of stop motion ".
However, Virgo would occasionally come back with wisecracks and insults, one example involved Davidson telling Virgo he would talk very slow because Virgo was a northerner, before Virgo said " Well, Jim, I know you're a southerner, so I'm not going to listen .".
The project also involved placing numerous pages on the eToys server, including financial documents, which would slow the eToys server during the busiest sale season of the year.
This process was slow as it involved research into historic usage and often public enquiries, and so was not completed by the time the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 was passed.
The gimmick involved an entrance which saw him rising from a ring of fire on stage, followed by a slow walk to the ring set to a sinister instrumental music theme.
" Maquet concluded that the areas of the brain involved with information processing and memory have increased brain activity during the slow wave sleep period.
After the War ended there were only two equity courts remaining, the Exchequer and Court of Chancery, the latter publicly reviled for its slow pace and because it was led by the Lord Chancellor, a political figure who had been intimately involved in the conflict.
The attacks of 11 September showed that terrorism was not limited to the national or regional sphere and that the fight against terrorism must be international as well: this helped in speeding up a process that was very slow because of the sensitive national issues involved.
The slow speeds of the vehicles involved, combined with the long-distance nature of auto rallying have made television coverage of the event limited.

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