Horror movies in particular benefit from massive movie-theater sound: the jumps are jumpier, the screams more blood-curdling.
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If the Fed were less considerate, asset prices would be jumpier, making investors more attuned to the inherent riskiness of their portfolios.
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She says that these days doctors and pharmacists are jumpier about DEA scrutiny, which in extreme cases can lead to licences being revoked.
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This hints that traders see the chance for a jumpier tape to come — and, eventually, the end of the longest ever streak without a 5 percent pullback.
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The Republicans are definitely jumpier than they were before the convention, but historically speaking these leaks have tended to signal the end of a period of turmoil rather than the beginning.
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That stew of concerns has made fund investors jumpier, with demand for domestic stock funds deteriorating overall and growing more fickle from week to week in 2018 compared to last year, the ICI data shows.
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And perhaps this market would be jumpier if it were more driven by the heavy participation of individual investors rushing in and out of individual stocks, rather than index funds, asset-allocation models and quantitative strategies.
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But Smith, famous for brushing off the IPO question, seemed a bit jumpier when asked about it during a recent visit to his gorgeous new headquarters (complete with a basketball court and a 1950s-inspired soda joint).
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The dinner was on a rooftop offering a romantic view of the colonial city, and each table had a warm amber candle, and I grew jumpier as the courses unfolded, as ceviche gave way to squash blossoms gave way to mole.
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Like many recent rappers who mean to depict the real terror of ghetto violence, he raps in a higher pitch and a jumpier tone than most of his predecessors — the convention in gangsta rap is to project a smug, relaxed mastery, which Staples markedly avoids.
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"Bowlaway" (her third novel, and first in 18 years) is jumpier, twitchier, a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, creating what McCracken calls a "genealogy," occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious.
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Even more than his earlier books — because it's more varied, jumpier, less consistent — "Feed" lets sympathetic readers pretend to live, for almost 80 pages, inside Pico's charismatic, uneasy mind, where lust distracts him from environmental disaster, and environmental disaster distracts him from performance anxiety, and performance anxiety distracts him from financial precarity, and wordplay distracts him from everything, while it lasts.
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The "jumpier rhythms help", and the band "still know how to write a hook". Spin writer Trevor Kelly said the album had a "few clunk dance tracks", but Madden's "search for love in the L.A. wasteland" provides it with "a certain charm".Trevor 2007, p. 86 Sputnikmusic staff member Dave de Sylvia said the record was "inconsistent; downright sinful at times", with glances of "brilliance and some very creditable pop moments".
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Two Against Nature was met with both commercial and critical success. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Writing in March 2000 for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau applauded the music as an excellent "rock comeback" and a "jumpier and snappier, sourer and trickier and less soothing" iteration of the jazz pop featured on Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja, describing it as "postfunk". Thematically, he found it unified by fictitious yet revelatory accounts of "dirty old men" seeking "validation" and "excitement" in their sex lives, which are "full of heady infatuations and random acts of cruelty, self-interest and self-hate, vicious cycles blowing hot and cold", all conveying "the urgency of attraction".
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