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"patter" Definitions
  1. [singular] the sound that is made by something repeatedly hitting a surface quickly and lightly
  2. [uncountable, singular] fast continuous talk by somebody who is trying to sell you something or entertain you
"patter" Synonyms
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"Comparing my patter when I started the thing and my patter now, I sound nearer and nearer to my expiration," Pop said.
As per Archimedes' Theory of Patter: This is Poor Gerald.
Occasionally, a macabre echo occurs in the tour guides' patter.
The recording starts with the patter of a summer squall.
But he had assumed it was just part of his patter.
It sent me to Spotify with Murray's patter in my head.
The room was silent, except for the patter of heavy rain.
" Another features "grandiloquent outbursts, Cubist outlines and intimate music-box patter.
Roman drops a lot of marvelously oddball patter in this episode.
It zips by, as hollow and seductive as a politician's patter.
Nor does the patter among Jack's friends and family produce much hilarity.
Well, until I heard the loud patter of clicks from press cameras.
I'm working from home, listening to the pitter patter of rain outside.
They want to silence the self-critical patter in their own heads.
Their mind-reading act was top-notch, their patter a notch lower.
All it would take was a fake badge and the right patter.
Patter from servers will be stripped down to what feels natural and pragmatic.
But from the first moment there's natural chemistry and patter sizzling between them.
There's something distinctly sibling-like about the conversational pitter-patter of these two.
I follow the absent patter, snarling at jokes in languages I don't understand.
And, not long after that, could come the pitter-patter of tiny feet.
Her teaching style is a mix of spiritual patter, pragmatic instruction and shtick.
His rant is hilarious, the patter rapid and twisted and defiantly, exuberantly Scots.
Tiny children patter through the destruction, many having bared witness to beheadings and crucifixions.
There's plenty of talent in "Cooper Barrett," solid sitcom actors delivering crisp, writerly patter.
The intricacies of small-town life blend with McLemore's idiosyncratic personality and nonstop patter.
There's some patter about getting into character and then bam: Chmerkovskiy becomes Frozen's Olaf.
For me, being doped up cuts the rapid patter malarkey off at the knees.
Magic is still a boy's club, and most magic patter is just formalized mansplaining.
But I think it's worth a reminder that there's a pattern to the patter.
At 17A, the answer to "Sound of little feet," is, of course, PITTER PATTER.
She instructs with folksy patter sprinkled with wisecracking, delivered in a New Yawkese chirp.
The tone of Vincenzetti's sales patter was strangely upbeat, especially considering his dire forecasts.
As they sang hymns, one young woman's crystalline voice soared above the patter of rain.
Conrad isn't the only Hills alum who is hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet.
NextVR also has their own commenting crew, who kept up decent patter about the game.
Despite the strangeness of the situation, the patter between Roker and Ficquette feels disarmingly natural.
"Now I have lots of Brazilian friends," she said, her patter flecked with adolescent slang.
That all sounds like the standard patter you get at the more emotional arena shows.
The celebrity judges were practically silent, but Mr. Taylor filled the airtime with nonstop patter.
But I still miss their baby feet, and their patter, and the piffle of childhood.
Or would you say it skips a beat, goes pitter-patter or begins to race?
At the very least, you can personalize the pouch's color or patter to suit your taste.
Which is at least a little bit sales patter, as much as it's heartfelt appreciation, naturally.
In her scenes with Nolte, Boyle's affectless delivery pales in power next to his natural patter.
His dialogue is snappy without being distractingly clever, which gives the patter an almost effortless quality.
Hoda Kotb might just be hearing the pitter-patter of a second pair of baby feet.
The back-and-forth patter between the two stars also makes this a more approachable movie.
"I'm just going to play for the guys that can't play hockey anymore," Patter told TSN.
The modern-sounding patter of the dialogue is not merely a source of ironic humor, however.
The very patter of Glee exists in a different world than the one we're dealing with.
The patter is inane, funny, lifelike, and Ms. Sarandon's Jersey intonations give it a comic topspin.
The raunchy patter, so long as it wasn't directed at Lyle, was part of their job.
Will Anna and Bates ever hear the pitter-patter of little feet across their cottage floor?
That developing this brand of vegetarian anti-patter is actually a deep howling cry for help.
As we walk, the pitter-patter of rain begins to softly strike the leaves around us.
That same Sunday, two small voices could be heard over the pitter-patter of tiny footsteps.
After all, they make getting dressed to pitter-patter on your window a lot more energizing.
That's a widely held position, but its gratuitous enunciation doesn't make Israelis' hearts go pitter patter.
At the Brooklyn coffee shop, she occasionally directed her rapid-fire patter into the middle distance.
Keep clicking to learn their beauty style and the products that made their hearts go pitter-patter.
The handful of scenes recreated for Curb brought audiences back to familiar Seinfeld sets, situations, and patter.
Camrud and Patter are the only two players to survive the crash and return to the sport.
The familiar 100 days patter might bring a little relief, but it can only do so much.
When the decision was announced, a patter of boos erupted, but the cheers soon thundered above them.
But it is Ms. Lang's extemporaneous patter, which changes from night to night, that can provoke gasps.
This isn't exactly LOL territory, folks, but I don't listen to stage patter expecting to hear literature.
Click here to learn their beauty style and the products that made their hearts go pitter-patter.
The Norseman, whose name was Halfdan, kept up a jovial patter as we sped past frozen fjordscapes.
And her stage patter has always been its own entertainment, part stand-up comedy, part populist sermonizing.
Mr. Abel toured for a time as a one-man percussion act — half playing, half comic patter.
But in songs and stage patter, she sometimes conflated self-realization and self-absorption with social progress.
Their sharp comic timing and natural patter opened the door to a radio program and, later, early television.
Says Haddish, "I'm open to whatever God puts in front of me and makes my heart pitter patter."
"Always be careful of listening to campaign trail patter and trying to translate it into policy," Hobbs said.
His beats aren't cold or choppy, and his bars are delivered with a distinct, pitter-patter Scottish flow.
A light pitter-patter on the tin roof turns into a deafening roar as the clouds open up.
A subtheme of the book and of her often rambling patter was her lifelong sense of intellectual inferiority.
On the phone, Welch, who had been speaking in a businesslike patter all morning, sounded cajoling, almost motherly.
But regulating Mark Zuckerberg, right now, it does feel like a lot of the patter ... Regulating Mark Zuckerberg.
DANNY BROWN Hip-hop shows are notorious for filler: audience-participation routines, self-congratulatory stage patter, D.J. interludes.
But finding attractively valued stocks with dependable sales and earnings growth can make some hearts go pitter-patter.
West Ham did not disclose the terms of the agreement, instead employing the clichéd patter of English soccer.
It struck me as less like Chinese rap than a Chinese art/pop equivalent of Italian operatic patter.
Booker knocked on her door with a pitter-patter knock that sounded like he was canvassing the neighborhood.
Between songs, Mr. Amram told of meeting Woody Guthrie, and gave brief philosophical orations in a beatnik patter.
" Later, in Act II, Mr. Mastro gets an amusing, sewer-themed patter song, "Love Gone Down the Drain.
" New Englanders liked their patter so much that the station soon gave them another, "Breakfast With Bob and Ray.
Soon, those famed L.A. hills are going to be filled with the pitter-patter of little reality-TV feet.
Both for the degree to which they've absorbed verbal tics appropriate for each subreddit, and for their general patter.
Is it because he isn't a showman capable of delivering some interesting pitter-patter at the drop of cap?
The entreaties of mother, father, sister and boss meld with the patter of rain and an ever-faster heartbeat.
So this rad thread from Vlambeer developer Rami Ismail made my heart go pitter-patter with nerdy joy yesterday.
The track itself is contemplative, stripped back and sees Shogun rap in his characteristic rapid-fire, pitter patter flow.
"Pyramid," hosted by Michael Strahan, is still a little on the slow side, particularly the patter with the contestants.
Kinane's a master of the pitter-patter refrain, which he deploys to develop a consistent rhythm throughout his act.
They lecture together on the law-school circuit—Chapter 11 stuff, with some Borscht Belt-style patter thrown in.
For the pitter-patter of the townspeoples' footsteps in Red Dead: Redemption II, the vibrations are light and muted.
Its front line of four dhol drummers had crowd-pleasing synchronized moves and a cheerful line of audience-participation patter.
The blackface debacle — her Waterloo, as it turned out — took place during a softball conversation: innocuous patter about Halloween costumes.
The result is an entertaining watch, one that may soon have you adding "pitter patter, boys" to your everyday lexicon.
Nico Tortorella and Bethany C. Meyers might soon be hearing the pitter-patter of little feet — but not too soon.
It's the natural patter for certain big tech CEOs too, these days, in a sign of our sociotechnical political times.
FARC commanders tried to perfect their media patter in ten-minute interviews, but some were gaffe-prone before the cameras.
The acting is of a consistently high standard, although Sam's patronizing "nice shot, little brother" patter during combat grows tiresome.
As a cinematic action sequence, it flows fine, framing a classic Jedi-versus-stormtroopers battle with Solo's fast-paced patter.
This promising first look carries all the visual style and rhythmic patter that fans of director Guy Ritchie would expect.
It is the single most commonly used phrase in traditional martial arts and yet it is largely meaningless sales patter.
Where it becomes a problem is when we pepper our patter with "uh" or "like" far more than is normal.
In patter numbers especially, it was hard to tell who was pushing whom, but what resulted was typically sheer incomprehensibility.
After miles of rousing spectator support, there is nobody around now, only the pitter-patter of our fellow marathoners' footsteps.
Even his between-song patter is reminiscent of Morrissey, overladen with colourful adjectives (though mercifully few references to UKIP councillors).
But, their post-fight patter was emblematic of the night as a whole—it all just felt a little flat.
That diamond patter was also on King Agnarr's coat trim, and we saw it back in the first "Frozen" movie.
He registers at first as an amiable host with an amusing line of patter about growing up Catholic in Denver.
At a Saturday show, patter was straight-up terrible, with gags about controlling wives, doctors' handwriting and van Gogh's ear.
Their patter was filled with pornographic double-entendres about the game they roasted, the savory loins, luscious breasts, tender thighs.
He's got his regular-Joe patter down, he adores retail politics and arguably nobody feels voters' pain better than him.
It can be tapped, pulled or struck, making sounds that sometimes dance, or patter, or move with a rustling grace.
That kind of utopian patter was big at the beginning of my career, when the hot new app was … fire.
I mean patter is what we're doing right now, so I wrote some patter for some hosts and VJs, and then Jake Weisberg at Slate heard that I had been doing that, and also heard that I was fumbling around trying to finish my dissertation in English, and he thought that was a hilarious combination.
As a high school group from Ottawa filed by, he strummed the chords to "Imagine" and began his usual polite patter.
"Dark Necessities" has all the trademarks: thumb-popping bass, chiming guitar, vocals that oscillate between rhythmic patter and a plaintive chorus.
So the arena became Ms. Streisand's living room, her audience became guests, and stage patter sometimes took cozy TED Talk turns.
First, I realized I was hearing a steady, quiet pitter-patter, like that from a drizzle, but on a sunny day.
But as you'd expect with an artist whose whole career feels like postmodernism's death rattle, her patter often feels déjà vu.
That morning, local DJ "Shelley the Playboy" Stewart served up some coded patter, confirming that the plan was on as scheduled.
This was the kind of rule he was only foggily aware of, the patter under the surface of his waking brain.
The album includes social commentary, notably on the title track, delivered in an arched-eyebrow patter by the actor Wendell Pierce.
Passages express the range of human emotion, from the crack of an angry email to the pitter-patter of a gossipy Slack.
Mr. Lutvak and Mr. Freedman may be reworking forms that have been previously established, primarily the patter song and the romantic ballad.
Emil, the tour guide, has an affectless storytelling style, like a podcast of Wikipedia entries, much less appealing than Hansson's profane patter.
Shimmying across the screen with those big teeth, that tireless cheesy patter and those nifty feet (over-exposure was his middle name!).
The former speaks in pages and paragraphs, the latter in two- or three-word fragments, without any Marinetti-like patter of power.
I know white noise can lull you to sleep, but maybe think twice before picking the sound of rain patter every night.
In the third round, Barberena channeled his inner Diaz and his pitter-patter boxing completely stifled the attacks of his Brazilian counterpart.
Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins suffered a particularly real-life moment today while doing some kind of patter-step, rolly, getty-uppy drill.
The Briton's defense differed to the American's, keeping both his forearms high to provide a double-gloved shield against Prograis's incoming patter.
The television pundit Larry Kudlow, best known for his patter on CNBC, was named on Wednesday as Mr. Trump's chief economic adviser.
Nothing moved, and, apart from the droning of the mosquitoes, the only sound was the patter of water running off the bergs.
How many diet-busting doughnuts, marriage-wrecking affairs, career-destroying crimes have been undertaken simply because someone fell for Liking's charming patter?
Some dances are presented without music: Accompanied only by the rhythmic patter of footsteps, the camera gracefully glides through long, uninterrupted shots.
Be it Germany or Japan, state-paid bonuses aim to amplify the patter of little feet in homes amid sagging fertility rates.
He doesn't appear to have problems, only to soothe the problems of others, with his case of goodies and friendly, nonjudgmental patter.
The rest of the interview, which does include some basic talk show patter about Hart's film The Upside, is currently available on EllenTube.
Buffett has mastered a folksy patter on many subjects over the decades, thanks in part to a pivotal Dale Carnegie public-speaking course.
So you could hear the little pitter-patter of feet with the youngest son of this family as he's playing around this pharmacy.
Then, she heard the sound of leather shoes, a distinctly different noise from the patter of rubber soles, and knew something was wrong.
Its mixture of meta-humor, genre awareness, funky metrosexuality, and über-dense patter seems more suited to today's audiences than to 2005's.
Tell that to the pitter-patter currently spitting up all over the cracked asphalt in the San Gabriel Mountains outside of Los Angeles.
Then West loops the sample, syncopating Nancy's voice, bouncing it against the keyboard's pitter-patter, ending the song on a sweet, cheerful note.
I'm drawn to the rapid, strange and socially-unsanctioned patter of Unicole and her witches in their videos; I see myself in it.
The promise of easy money and the best dealers' witty patter had suckers reaching into wallets for cash they would never see again.
The most obvious instance in "Tootsie" is "What's Gonna Happen," a showstopping patter number for Michael's ex-girlfriend, the neurotic Sandy (Sarah Stiles).
Instead, he said, it's better to help companies actually fix their problems, which will do more to vindicate them than any snappy patter.
Representative Billy Long, Republican of Missouri, broke into an auctioneer's patter — he was once an auctioneer — to drown her out until security arrived.
She had an elegant style, a sweetheart grin and an ultrafast patter, with routines full of husband jokes, shopping jokes and kid jokes.
And so the concert went: complex ideas with a singularly Brazilian flavor, delivered with breezy tunes, sly patter and a glint of provocation.
Whether singing or delivering her often self-deprecating patter, Ms. Chenoweth always radiates a pleasure in performing that carries across the proverbial footlights.
Practicing good vocal hygiene includes staying hydrated; keeping studio music at lower levels; reducing unnecessary patter; and, when possible, leaving space between classes.
Remember the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" when a demon came to town and made everyone sing ballads and patter songs?
Later, a drifting tone like that of a not-quite-tuned-in radio station rises and for a while drowns out the patter.
Hsiung speaks a bit like a spiritual guru, albeit one with the accelerated patter and citation-filled arguments of a political podcast host.
At a certain point, there's a whoosh of wind, and pecans patter onto the stage floor (made from antique Texas heart-pine wood).
They are lulled more by the rhythm of his patter, the smartest-guy-in-the-dive-bar cadence, as much the words he uses.
He helps himself to a couple of chilies and a coriander frond, keeping up a steady patter with Ms Deh and her husband, Suchit.
We only just found out about pink gin and our hearts are already going pitter-patter at a new revelation: there's pink tequila, too.
Burt Reynolds, whose studliness, swagger and snappy patter have helped set TV and movie fans' pulses racing for nearly half a century, has died.
Kristy and Olive did their best to teach me to knit Kristy and Olive were extremely enthusiastic about knitting and had real stage patter.
Much of Ms. Melvoin's stage patter revolved around the idea of the show's being not just in Prince's memory, but for his heavenly delectation.
When I meet her, she is dressed informally, with wide, alert eyes, constantly moving hands, and rapid-patter Catalan that left my translator sweating.
Experienced in bartending patter, Prien reminded the three of us on the stools that there are only two recession-proof businesses: bars and crematories.
And the pitter-patter of little feet — the Lopezes have two daughters, Katie, now 11, and Annie, 7 — didn't help the situation one bit.
What distinguished Mr. Harrison in the highly competitive New York metropolitan market — even before the advent of shock jocks — was his folksy Midwest patter.
The press building's bigger names often have a full slate of paid appearances, entertaining diners with pro-level patter and off-the-record scuttlebutt.
He's a raspy, percussive rapper who understands how to slip alongside a beat, spitting slick pitter-patter while more exciting things erupt around him.
He's still playing with genre but not nearly enough, and no amount of self-reflexive winking and meta-patter about comics makes it better.
However, Latifi's solid UFC record is often overshadowed by the constant commentary patter reminding us of two moments in the fledgling stages of his career.
Aside from the chatter of bokoblins guarding a fort or pitter patter of rain streaming down Link's back, Breath of the Wild is unusually quiet.
This is an intriguing choice, which helps introduce the patter of Shakespeare's poetry to the ear without the distraction of Mr Craig's impossibly blue eyes.
Gunn keeps the comedic patter going, though, and the result is a film in which the fight scenes almost seem to get in the way.
He had left the door open, and our conversation was punctuated by the call-and-response patter of the intercom, the building's non-stop soundtrack.
The student with the misfortune of walking behind her just then was as surprised as she when the patter of her stiff leather shoes stopped.
He was a little awkward speaking about his own life, even in scripted patter; slipping into a character's skin, he appeared much more at ease.
Our ability to enjoy the cozy patter of a routine is not a given, since waking up is also an assessment: Who am I today?
Representative Billy Long, Republican of Missouri, imitated an auctioneer's patter, running a live auction as Ms. Loomer repeated her accusations in an ever-louder voice.
But it, too, sucked tension out of the proceedings, and the abrupt shifts from the presenters' patter to the announcements of the winners were jarring.
He has patter and stutter and groove all tied together in his drumming, and he shares Mr. Lloyd's relationship to rhythm: always ahead, never rushing.
Voting itself is a backward Western ritual; it takes a patter song modeled on Gilbert and Sullivan to explain the idiocy of the Electoral College.
Maurizio Muraro brought old-school polish to the tongue-twisting patter of the overbearing Dr. Bartolo; the sly Mikhail Petrenko was an oily Don Basilio.
The co-workers' patter is lighthearted and fast-paced, full of the kind of jokes and digs engendered by the familiarity of a high-stakes workplace.
Markets are in a holding patter ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech on Friday at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference of central bank officials.
For Mamet men, such verbal speed is both part of the con's patter and a way of confirming that they're still alive, still in the game.
"This case involves mainly words, but ultimately [Roy] decided to do the deed, so it didn't fit in with the classic patter of manslaughter," he said.
Brayden Camrud and Derek Patter suited up on Wednesday night for the season opener of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, according to the Saskatoon Star Phoenix.
A catalyst in their conversion, Mr. Horowitz said, was when a woman named Betty Van Patter was found dead in San Francisco Bay in January 1975.
Six months earlier, Mr. Horowitz had recruited Ms. Van Patter, a Ramparts employee, to be the bookkeeper for a group related to the Black Panther Party.
She kept up a line of patter as she strolled along 11th Avenue, her voice rising above gusts of wind and the whoosh of passing traffic.
Since Mr. McCartney tours frequently, his observant fans have often pointed out that he doesn't change the arrangements and stage patter for many of his staples.
"Nice to meet you!" he says into built-in microphone, upbeat and professional, a little bit amped, moving through his practiced patter at a fair clip.
"The pitter-patter of their feet wandering around the exhibits is just the break from the news I needed," says Remy Tumin of the Briefings team.
"The pitter-patter of their feet wandering around the exhibits is just the break from the news I needed," says Remy Tumin, on the Briefings team.
Patel gets the patter of the Indian-American household just right; the prim palaver around the tea salver strikes the right balance of nosiness and restraint.
Mr. Lee's dialogue encompassed Catskills shtick, like Spider-Man's patter in battle; Elizabethan idioms, like Thor's; and working-class Lower East Side swagger, like the Thing's.
"Everybody looks at the time on their phones now," he said, free-styling in a staccato patter that sounded, OK, more than a little like Leon.
She was slender and blond, with a scrubbed schoolgirl charm and a radiant voice that ranged from the patter of comedy to the edges of aria.
You thought it was your sweetheart that made you tremble, lose your appetite and get sweaty palms, not to mention that pitter-patter of your heart.
Then there was an effortful decapitation, with Jepsen keeping up buoyant patter as Dahl tried to sever vertebrae, using a knife held horizontally in two hands.
In late 1974, he asked a woman from Ramparts named Betty Van Patter to be a bookkeeper for a school run by the Panthers in Oakland.
Neto, whose presence evoked the cult leader of the mission in the 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, rambled between artspeak, capitalist patter and hobby ethnography.
It's got the pace and the patter of a staged production, but no one really sings in the 90-minute first episode of the new Netflix series.
In the past few months alone, we've seen shimmery kits, spot-on wand brushes, and even epic fan art that have made our hearts go pitter-patter.
If you're expecting the batter to be half protein patter and half egg yolks, you're wrong; the Rock uses Aunt Jemima Buttermilk mix just like everybody else.
In the video, Mary Keitany's feet rhythmically patter on a lifeless stretch of Kaptuli Road on the outskirts of Iten, Kenya, nearly 27,22006 feet above sea level.
What patter there was— l'esprit du divan —came from the kids' little screens, in the form of the pro gamer's mordant narration as he vanquished his opponents.
That day, the passageway was largely empty, kept in company by only the light patter of rain and a handful of restaurant employees on their smoke break.
What they're saying: White House officials in the audience thought Wolf's patter went too far, and thought the attacks on Sanders and Kellyanne Conway were too personal.
Speaking of inexplicable accents, we cut to the Sand Snakes having some inane patter about mothers and matricide as they sail with Ellaria and the Greyjoy siblings.
Through the soft patter of the rain and the calming streamsounds of the river, I heard a song in the distance, and through the fog saw lights.
The patter is charming in its intentional weirdness, with dashes of textspeak thrown in — characters proclaim "LOL" and "OMG" as if they're IMing or texting — all throughout.
The bidding reached $550 before Ms. Loomer was escorted from the room, and Mr. Long ceased his patter and yielded the floor back to the House Committee.
Then it hit City Hall, and everything became dark as night and quiet, except for the patter of debris hitting the roof of the old stone building.
"Apparently that mainstream economic analysis had to be purged because it basically didn't jibe with the Trump team's patter," Wyden said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing.
The usual hum and buzz of central London fell away, and the only sound remaining was the patter of heavy rain and the splashing of passing cars.
There it rested for 35 years, away from public view, its shapely curves collecting dust and grime under the pitter patter of periodic rain on the barn roof.
For several minutes, all she hears is the pitter-patter of chilly February raindrops on the barn roof mixed with the pulsing sound of her own heart racing.
Work for Eliza involves listening to the nonstop patter of her chatty best friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer), and mopping up bathrooms and labs in a secret government facility.
He talks at length about Escape-ism as mind control, and it's part of his stage patter, I get it, but on another level, I don't, you know?
But gathering in a crowd of 10,000 to watch those same two men talk at each other, no matter how good their patter may be—it's beyond me.
You don't need any spooky post-Halloween weekend patter from me – what you need is another great round-up of all the goings-on in the Premier League.
Retro Report Shame has been part of the human condition ever since Eve fell for the serpent's patter and she and Adam then realized that they were naked.
A.K. knew what patter worked with Westerners, how to put at ease first-timers to India like us, now at one of the holiest places in Hindu lore.
Instead Burial's new release draws on the ambient sounds of "Night Bus" or "Endorphin"; nearly inaudible police sirens, pitter-patter of rain drops and old-skool vinyl scratches.
Where Chau is modest, Hertzberg, who represents the San Fernando Valley, is voluble and insistent, with a slicked-back mane of hair and a steady borscht-belt patter.
These glitzy prestidigitators — not to be confused with the "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" crowd — have returned to Broadway with more patter, more magic, more questionable outfits.
"The pitter-patter of their feet wandering around the exhibits is just the break from the news I needed," says Remy Tumin, who is on the Briefings team.
If you've ever seen a performance presented by the Tank, you'll recognize the distinctive preshow patter: a request for cash, immediately followed by an endearing offer of help.
Although the characters talk in the unmistakable patter of police procedurals, their conversation is littered with misplaced idioms, fractured non-sequiturs, and baffling descriptions of inter-species violence.
The relationships and situations do continue to advance in this period comedy from writer-producer Amy Sherman-Palladino, with the rat-a-tat patter she has practically trademarked.
Bobby is a klutz of the heart; rather than simply falling in love, he tumbles and trips—nicely caught in Eisenberg's voluble patter, dotted with hiccups of anxiety.
The album's momentum springs from the precise timing of discrete sounds, slapstick effects, sudden shock noises, relentless pitter-patter, that together don't conjure much of a rhythmic throughline.
The genius of this fantastic piece is how Schreck weaves that now almost-archetypal patter of a one-woman show into the fabric of today's contentious political debates.
From early in his career, Mr. Reid mixed a kind of rhythmic talking into his music, borrowing the tempo of the patter he heard on black Southern radio stations.
The suit protected them as well, automatically and instantly distributing most concussions in an evenly expanding patter from the point of impact to the entire surface of the armor.
France's best-selling newspaper, Ouest France, made the Tapie-Trump connection last month in an article on the outspoken American, saying he has the "populist patter of a Tapie".
As I reached for the next cluster, a gentle patter began to echo through the vineyard; it turned into an urgent beat before I realized what it was: rain.
Mr. Mac's production is a hyperextended song cycle blended liberally with inspired patter, history viewed through a queer prism, elaborate audience-involving theatrical gambits and the occasional guest star.
The new album, like most of the old ones, has some political overtones, but, before setting out on tour, Joachim advised his father to go light on the patter.
And then there's Dennis Crowley, a 2003-year-old tech entrepreneur with Beatle-like hair, manic energy and a patter so quick his own mouth can barely keep up.
His move showed hubris, but also great opportunity: In Chelsea, this weathered, middle-aged man with his cardboard-box table and his cards and his patter was a curiosity.
In his verses and his brief, between-song patter, he fills us in on the last couple of centuries of human endeavor — struggle, genocide, a tentative tech-forward peace.
The labor market and the broader economy are both better than they look on the surface, and in fact have been mostly defying the continual patter of recession expectations.
And all of the characters speak with the same world-weary patter (save for the reptilian Killer Croc, who alternates between Cajun and African-American stereotypes for unfathomable reasons).
I can actually hear the sound of pitter-patter outside your window when it rains instead of it being drowned out by a constant flood of sirens and honks.
In the latest Broadway staging, Mr. van Hove dutifully follows their lead: The Sharks are played by Latinx performers, and there are snatches of urban Spanish patter between songs.
In Samuel Beckett's classic play "Happy Days," a woman sits on stage, buried up to her neck in a heap of sand, keeping up a patter of cheerful conversation.
Dr. Kurth said the background patter was likely oscillations of charged particles in the upper part of Saturn's ionosphere where atoms are broken apart by solar and cosmic radiation.
Spoken dialogue flows smoothly into patter arias and ensemble numbers, some of them sung with a weightless, silky blend that would be the envy of more classically rooted choirs.
The tone is jaunty and the patter thick as Brian (Michael Caine), recently bereaved, medicates his loneliness by planning one last job: robbing a vault in the jewelry district.
On the follow-up track, "Points," a haunting ballad opens up first into a drum machine patter and then burps of bass and ultimately a searing, alarm-filled synth cacophony.
If you're looking to hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet in the not-too-distant, you may want to consider getting some more of the following into your diet.
The wedding of my dream, a house in the suburbs, and probably the most good-looking children (besides the Beckhams, unfortunately — damn those jawlines!) to ever pitter-patter the earth.
Dancers move their feet at absurd speeds and perform acrobatic acts, the tracks bounce along at a machine gun patter, and regular people break their ankles trying to keep up.
If you had an early bedtime or just don't care for pomp and Teleprompter patter, here are the biggest moments you may have missed from Sunday night's Grammy awards. 93.
But in crowded and isolated places across the country, his name has also been quietly incorporated into the everyday local patter, in ways far removed from politics and world affairs.
He instead called for Al Qaeda to also carry out a patter of small- and medium-size plots, and to use propaganda to inspire self-directed attacks by supporters overseas.
The two hosts engage the group in rapid-fire patter, while an all-male panel of B-list celebrities called the South 4 tosses out oohs, aahs and sexual innuendo.
A manager would sometimes keep up a sports announcer patter over the intercom — "In third place for the first half, we have Bob at 2000 units per hour," Jake recalled.
With a silken patter that never stoops to snark or condescension — and an inclusive attention that reaches deep into the mezzanine — Mr. Veneziale asks the audience to feed him words.
And while the tears salting these scenes may be cynical given the movie's embrace of a what-me-worry nihilism, they offer a necessary break from the strained patter and violence.
Drollinger did not hesitate to oblige, though he improvised a bit of patter, words that would make it difficult to read the moment as a wholehearted endorsement of the Ortega regime.
His peppery business patter and limited command of policy detail mean he faces a tough battle against the able but uncharismatic SPD mayor, Carsten Sieling (campaign slogan: he "governs Bremen competently").
She was among those who recognized the theatrical potential of the songs and patter Stew delivered with his band, the Negro Problem, often at the Public's in-house cabaret, Joe's Pub.
The pitter-patter of indictments and plea deals suggest something much larger may be at work, but nobody knows for sure, save for him and his apparently airtight team of investigators.
His patter is honed by a career battling doubters (an analyst once put him down with the quip: "Ocado begins with an 'o', ends with an 'o', and is worth zero").
As he played, fingers clacking across the keyboard, his eyes flicked periodically from the screen to his chat monitor, so that he could keep up a steady patter with his audience.
If you just enjoy watching fights, and tune out for the patter and exterior shots in between them, you might not even notice where the UFC takes its cage each weekend.
But as Bloom revealed during a Wednesday radio chat with Howard Stern, he and fiancée Katy Perry could soon be hearing the pitter-patter of little feet around their home, too.
For though this Erie still remembers the oleaginous, Damon Runyonesque patter of the small-time grifter he is, he can no longer deliver it with his customary all-American cheer and assurance.
HQ is still usually playable, but I find that even on a strong Wi-Fi connection, whole swathes of Rogowsky's patter are lost as the screen freezes for 15 or 20 seconds.
The play rides on the audience reading the clues about this existence without its principal speaking; only the painful cheerfulness of the radio announcer's patter talks plainly, and by way of counterpoint.
Much of what happens isn't surprising, but Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah's script is consistently, genially funny, filled with patter and nonsense, and spiked with sincerity and a few gross-out flourishes.
While waiting for radiologists to insert tubes into my body or for nurses to instruct me on wound management in the past, I tried to keep up a continual patter of questions.
In mood, his work is almost always ambiguous: The loudest moments in "Joy Boy," mostly a delicate pitter-patter of a piece, might just as easily be cries of pain as joy.
"I knew there was a chance of getting injured, but I knew there was a life after injury," the genial and serene Salazar, who is 26, says now in his quick patter.
An obliging Mr. McDermott agreed to lie plank-like on the floor while Titano, delivering a well-honed patter in a slight brogue, affixed a leather harness to the nervous-looking director.
Yet this is recognizably Sorkin, and those are minor annoyances, because the real heart of Molly's Game is the script, which has the tempo of jazz, and Sorkin's direction matches his patter.
The patter between Affleck and Hedges is the sort that only a skilled playwright could write, hilarious and affectionate and biting, with a lot going on below the surfaces of the words.
Jackman copped to the childhood obsession Thursday at the G'Day USA Los Angeles Gala, where he closed the show with a two-song medley and some off-the-cuff patter about his idol.
We should also add that this juicer is exceptionally quiet, and anyone who might wake from its low whirring would be just as likely to wake from the faint pitter-patter of footsteps.
Flash tried emulating the patter of disco D.J.s, who talked while they spun, but he was too busy with the turntables, so he left a microphone for people from the crowd to talk.
"Different people may need different services and some people will never use digital services themselves directly but will benefit from others using digital services and freeing resources to help them," runs the patter.
Bald, compact, animated and wearing sunglasses even in the bar's dark, cool interior, Mr. Corona is a master craftsman, whose rapid-fire patter counterpoints the slow precision with which he makes his drinks.
But if the patter is your boss, and the pat is one of the ways he treats you differently than your male colleagues, then it certainly affects your ability to do your job.
There's also no predictable patter for when Netflix decides to pull the trigger for a new season, as sometimes it takes weeks and sometimes it takes months for news about a new season.
In "Please Hello," the United States and four cartoon European powers clamor for trade rights, each in an apt musical style: a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song for Britain, a cancan for France.
The broadcast was marred, however, by limp presenter patter and production issues like the audience noise after every commercial break, which made watching like trying to have a conversation in a crowded restaurant.
Would you rather start a conversation with a stranger over Tinder about who they're voting for in the Democratic primary and risk a meltdown or exchange some charming pitter-patter about your sun sign?
Most of his songs don't make any great demands on the tonsils (he's largely doing patter material), but he manages to sing in a variety of voices, distinguishing each character with a distinctive sound.
Only two players who survived the accident, Brayden Camrud and Derek Patter, ended up returning to the team, and both would take to the ice for the first time since the tragedy in September.
Currently, Gizmodo's correspondents are wandering around amongst the booth lackeys and PR shills in the dark, and everyone is getting a nice break from the eye-searing pixels and jargon-laden patter of pitches.
With Cruz, though, even the most fervent peroration always feels like a debater's patter, an advocate's brief — compelling enough on the merits, but more of a command performance than a window into deep conviction.
Like the Chloé-inspired lace-up platforms and Gucci-esque suede skirts that showed up at Zara that season, we soon heard the pitter-patter of baby feet with different names and lower prices.
When he gets going, Mr. Sanchez's drumming is an emulsion of low surge and high patter, distinctive enough that you might be able to recognize it from the "Birdman" film score, which he recorded.
The idea of putting America first, and looking out for our country before we worry about anyone else, has long been part of Trump's patter -- way before he ever even considered running for president.
Then, Wayne dives into his verse with the same kind of staccato, syncopated patter that has become Young Thug's signature, where syllables are simultaneously hyper-enunciated and wackily truncated or elongated depending on the melody.
Just as Trump's television show blended roles usually kept separate, fusing the self-congratulatory patter of the talk show host with the performed character of the boss, Trump collapses the roles of sycophant and target.
Dunninger served as a bridge that led away from live performance — dating to old-school vaudevillian stagecraft — and toward the small stage of television, where magic was more patter than prestidigitation, more pizazz than performance.
Outside, a hard late-winter rain fell on Rome, joining with the patter of an onscreen storm, as if the line between the real world and the imagined one were weakening, bleeding, beginning to leak.
Mr. Rogan masters "The Speed Test," a quick-paced patter song with music borrowed from Arthur Sullivan and some lyrics from W. S. Gilbert, though most of the words, about stenography, are by Dick Scanlan.
So there is a touch of pathos in learning, from Mr. Lithgow's personal patter, that he first got to know "Haircut" when his father read it to him and his siblings during their peripatetic childhood.
" Ms. Elliott considered making Bobbie bisexual, puzzling over how to handle the character's offhanded proposal to Amy, a friend whose cold feet at the altar provoke the virtuosically jittery patter song "(Not) Getting Married Today.
Investor sentiment took heart in a steady patter of encouraging news about the prolonged trade talks, providing hope the on-again, off-again talks after 13 months of negotiations were finally drawing near to conclusion.
Watching John Collins's production, in which soliloquies are delivered with the velocity of Gilbert & Sullivan patter songs, conjures memories of cramming in college on the eve of an exam you haven't done the reading for.
Moore also gives the impression of someone who carefully considers each word he says before he says it, but still manages to keep up a near-constant patter once you've asked him a question he likes.
Kendrick), a neurotic given to garrulous patter and lightning mood swings, is betrayed by her boyfriend, she goes on a bender of Olympian self-pity and excess, to the exasperation of her roommate, Sophie (Katie Nehra).
That's the kind of patter you'll hear from Matthew Goode ("The Good Wife") and Matthew Rhys ("The Americans") as they search the world for fascinating wines, using an outlandishly picturesque villa in Italy as their headquarters.
She only knew that, about 33 minutes after Eagles of Death Metal began to play — mostly rock, not heavy metal despite the band's name — a patter of loud pops could suddenly be heard over the music.
Vincent's group of pals aren't quite in the "best boy" league of last year's Final Fantasy XV, but there's great patter between them, and Troy Baker injects a lot of personality into the leading man's lines.
"Tossing long, two-tone hair along with raunchy patter, she seemed a hippie earth mother heaven sent for Reno's adoring boys," Michael Schiavi wrote in "Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo" (20153). (Mr.
Representative Billy Long, Republican of Missouri and a certified auctioneer, quickly stepped in with a fast-paced patter in an attempt to drown out Ms. Loomer until the police could remove her from the hearing room.
Investor sentiment took heart in a steady patter of encouraging news about the prolonged trade talks, providing hope the on-again, off-again talks after 16 months of negotiations appeared to be drawing nearer to conclusion.
Professional game streamers, who often combine the prowess of an elite player with the patter of a talk radio disc jockey, can sometimes make a living off these sites through advertising, subscriptions and other revenue sources.
In any case, you are sure to feel a joyful complicity with what's occurring onstage, especially as Mr. Kahler's wonderful, Monty Python-esque Major-General gropes for rhymes to fill out his fabled signature patter song.
At the same time, it can do so with sounds that are fresh and disorienting in the genre, abrasive shards of noise and vocals that veer between the shouted patter of rap and sugary sweet choruses.
The split design features a black half (with Kat Von D's signature tattoo-inspired artwork, along with edgy thorned roses) and Too Faced's classic baby-pink half (embossed with gold-foil branches, flowers, and birds). Pitter-patter.
It obliterated presenters' and Mr. Gervais's patter, turned a bit with Jonah Hill as the bear from "The Revenant" into a virtual silent movie, and treated home viewers as if we were exiled to the kids' table.
As she began shouting, Congressman Billy Long (R-MO 7th District) summoned his certification as an auctioneer to overwhelm Loomer's alt-right accusations with rapid patter that would be welcome at either an art or cattle auction.
Cause ain't nobody never gonna stop us tonight, AMEN!) between song patter ('I'd like to propose a toast because I see a roomful of f–king champions') the evening spun from one kickass song into the next.
And here, as she shimmies menacingly across the stage in her "Rose's Turn" number, she at last releases all of the pent-up rage she's been carrying in an explosion of angry jazz hands and sardonic patter.
When rapping was little more than accompanying patter to enhance a D.J. set, he was a charismatic source of party-moving phraseology, and he would also handle the microphone for other D.J.s, including a young Grandmaster Flash.
"The reality is that the bar is sometimes higher for people who try to do things that don't match the patter of what other people are doing," says Bloomberg Beta's Karin Klein, whose fund invested in Cleo.
The minutia of the investigation have become so engrained in the President's day-to-day patter, one sometimes forgets how complicated the whole thing was -- or the revelations that have been discovered as part of Mueller's probe.
That way, the therapeutic calm instilled by the glorious Iberian scenery (photographed by James Clarke in shimmering, almost edible pastels) could be savored uninterrupted by the performative patter of the two stars, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.
He speaks in a rapid patter, often looping back to correct or expand what he has said, adding bits of reflection and analysis gleaned from his years of participating in, and eventually leading, prison self-help groups.
Kyle Buchanan: I'm doubtful we'll get a full-blown host, but I think the Academy is searching for big-name presenters who may get expanded duties — more than just reading light patter and standing to the side.
The lights, cameras, and some scripted patter of the instructor are clues that this class is different from SoulCycle, Flywheel, or any of the other popular spinning classes that have taken over gym culture in the past decade.
Yet over a pitter-patter beat that evokes a nervous heart thumping, vocalists Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft manage to sing about the desire and suspense of early-stage attraction in a way that's genuinely intoxicating. —N.
All she needed was her lyrics, preternaturally analytic, wry, and shrewd; her chords, largely self-invented, a kind of calligraphy of the moods; and her voice, which modulates from patter to rue to rhapsody in a single phrase.
The comedian John Mulaney co-wrote the episode, along with several brand-new show tunes, which so closely resemble Sondheim's rapid-patter style that I had to pause my viewing several times because I was laughing so hard.
Sample patter, from when they lie on the bed and gaze at the screen, which suddenly turns to project an image of each of them holding a dog, facilitating a tight conversation about how they both like dogs.
Mr. Zacherle put on the frock coat and, in October 1957, went to work as the host of "The Shock Theater" (later simply "Shock Theater"), bringing with him an endless supply of sight gags and ad-lib patter.
It would be easy to dismiss Mr. Trump's latest policy patter as hogwash, the sort of promise-making in which he specializes — like his pledge to drain the political swamp or get Mexico to pay for The Wall.
There are odd pauses, atonal noises, and the hosts have a question-and-answer patter going that invariably results in a not-quite-credible exclamation, providing clear signposts for the listener to heed a particular moment of revelation.
I have my back to the door, so I hear him—or to be more precise, I hear the dip in ambient noise, the patter of his delicate footsteps, and the swishing of his robes—before I see him.
Accordingly, the battle is also being waged in the Iraqi news media, and the various forces involved have all kept up a patter of statements claiming battlefield successes that, in some cases like on Monday, have yet to happen.
" When asked about his son's desire to follow the pitter-patter of little feet rather than the giant footsteps of his own father, elder Mariano Rivera smiled and said simply, "if he's happy, I'm happy — that's all that matters.
Their numbers have shrunk over time, so now it's a lonely guys' club that includes the gruff Luther (Ving Rhames), who's some kind of tech guy, and the rabbity Benji (Simon Pegg), another tech guy with more, faster patter.
The waltzes lilted, the patter went by quickly enough, and the cast amused — especially Adrian Eröd, who brought humorous, easy physicality to the role of the duped Eisenstein, and Annette Dasch, who brought operatic glamour as his wife, Rosalinde.
Up to eight players see who can answer the most emails in two minutes, which is accomplished by banging randomly on their keyboards — no matter what you press, the game automatically fills in a few words of boilerplate patter.
While they're currently enjoying couple time that includes glamorous vacations, Fletcher admitted in an interview with PEOPLE that she can't stop fantasizing about their wedding day (which will be some time in 2017) — and the pitter-patter of little feet!
Each of its hundreds of episodes churns through the expected beats of the home-buying process but ends with a genuine surprise — in part, I've come to suspect, because two-thirds of the show was nothing but distracting magician's patter.
There's a terrifically sardonic slant to this chap's ever-so self-aware patter, however styled out it is, and that's a wonderfully refreshing thing to come across in a field where everyone has the most original ideas, all the time.
Though Camrud and Patter were the only two players suited up, their other surviving teammates — one of who is currently in a wheelchair — made an appearance and lined up next to each other on the ice during the National Anthem.
The Sabri house in Karachi was full of the wheeze of portable harmoniums, the patter of drums and the joyous, repetitive mantras of qawwali, the songs of the millions of South Asian followers of the mystical Sufi strain of Islam.
With bundles of the freshly printed Gazette tucked into the trunk of her Honda Civic, Ms. Fournier, 2122, makes her way through town, plunking down papers on countertops, slipping them into wire racks and keeping up a cheerful patter with shopkeepers.
Since then, he has become the undisputed king of the food vendors in this student-heavy corner of the city, with his $5 platters of halal meat on basmati rice, free soda for high school students and gift for friendly patter.
As Ms. Simons turned the "oo" sound of that one-word refrain — "sure" — into a mocking playground taunt, I was reminded of Ashley's talent for finding the music in American patter, particularly in the throwaway phrases we're conditioned to tune out.
For a fleeting moment in the confused swirl of the 223s, Charles Manson, a diminutive ex-convict who had taken to hippie silks and a cosmic patter, somehow wormed his way into a plum spot adjacent the Hollywood A-list.
All of these negative emotions and revelations are floating through Henry's head when he meets Odin and Willy, making him especially susceptible to to their line of patter about how "the world is noise," which needs to be filtered out.
In the patter of a Catskill comedian, he delivers commentary on males, mail, people and their pets, semiotics, spiritualism, and the "Picture People," that 19983st century tribe tethered to their phones or photo albums, hunting for evidence that they exist.
It's one of the items that reflect Mr. DiSpirito's recent obsession with nutrient-dense dietary supplements, although the way it keeps coming up in the servers' patter makes you wonder if Mr. DiSpirito spent too much time as a QVC pitchman.
There were 10 of us altogether and Mr. Dana was a true pro, with insightful patter on everything, including the history and customs of the Navajos, whose land we were crossing on our 90-minute drive to the star attraction.
On the plot side of things — yes, there's a not-insignificant number of action-free sequences — the creative use of profanity and pithy patter wouldn't be out of place in a movie like Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
It had some trotting cumbia beats, mariachi horns and samples of booming Spanish DJ patter; it had stretches of buzzy, wriggling keytar lines; it had bursts of ghoulish laughter and metallic crashes; it had blasts of all-out, oversaturated noise.
He cracked wise about his germaphobia, recounted a run-in with a sick friend using a stand-up comedian's patter, waved around colorful graphs showing America's superiority on virus containment and listed facts he had just learned about the flu.
Even when the worst happens, Lorentzen doesn't turn the gore and tears into a spectacle, and it's instructive that some of the most dreadful moments take place off-camera or are conveyed through the triage patter or in later conversations.
It had everything: whiplash-quick patter, engaging performances, and a genuinely groundbreaking directorial style that popularized the "walk and talk" (where two characters deliver reams of dialogue while confidently striding through a frenzied office environment, as the camera follows along).
Keith and Kenny spoke to me by phone (always making sure to identify who was talking) about why they dress the way they do, how they developed their unique call-and-response comedy patter, and why they tell so many jokes about weed.
Some made fun of Xbox's perhaps-too-serious-face unveiling of the console, full as Phil Spencer's tech-spec patter was of bamboozling facts and stats that kind of got in the way, a bit, just a little, of The Actual Games.
An immaculately dressed showman who used to wheel out racks of clothes during shareholder meetings and wow an adoring mostly mature female audience with his salesman patter, Rose puts his success down to an ability to read the mood of the nation.
There were not many people in the seats yet — Rio is not an early riser — but there was the Portuguese patter of the announcers, the gut-thumping beat of music, and the slow, silent slinking of a gunmetal military ship just offshore.
It also made me think of Julia Child, not because I match her chef chops in the slightest, but because my random memories of her shows are of her good-humored, loopy patter and her unbridled enthusiasm for all of the good stuff.
The litmus test for any actor in this part — and, in Gilbert and Sullivan in general to a degree — is an ability to twist the tongue around the dense lyrics set to beat-the-clock tempos in their dizzyingly fun patter songs.
NEW ORLEANS — At the Music Box Village in New Orleans, melodies form from the clatter of a drum set made from pots and pans, the patter of dripping from a water tower, and the ring of chimes swinging from a house's awning.
The juxtaposition of gratuitous gore and tour-guide patter finally became too much when, outside of a narrow alley, our guide passed around a photograph of the Ripper's final victim, a woman named Mary Jane Kelly, taken by the police after her death.
It's silent except for the murmur of voices and the patter of feet, and there's no recovery food on the planet you'll enjoy more than the cold glass of chocolate milk and homemade peach ice cream you'll find waiting at the finish.
As guests — including a handful of New York transplants and former editors, friends from Mata's time as accessories editor at W magazine — filtered into the yard, the soothing sound of a fountain blended with the patter of children's feet playing on travertine stone.
And his gift with words, his rat-a-tat patter and comic rhythms, also left an indelible mark on television, the venue in which he cut his professional teeth alongside a host of other creative titans, writing for Sid Caesar in the 1950s.
That style suits him though, the images in songs like "Lace," in which he recalls tires screeching on LA highways and the patter of feet on a wooden staircase, only feel more vibrant and detailed when they're viewed in this shattered way.
El Mal Querer still carries the traditional hallmarks of classic Cante Gitano singers, though her contemporary take on the pitter-patter hand clap production and pop-style videos that accompany them are luring thousands of English fans to her live sets and YouTube channel.
His music works within the expanded dimensions of vocal manipulation and melody Future and Young Thug injected into Atlanta trap over the last half decade, but his own style tends toward a nimble-tongued sing-song that naturally matches the quick patter of his conversation.
TROON, Scotland — Over the past four decades, the soundtrack to the British Open has generally included the whistling wind, the patter (or sometimes pounding) of raindrops and, at the start of every single round for every single golfer, a distinctively singsong voice from Dumfriesshire.
Still, under the brisk direction of David Schweizer, the show's momentum never flags, even when Ms. Gomez makes the occasional standup-style diversion, as when she talks about attending an Adele concert and only paying attention during the patter because, fundamentally, she doesn't like music.
The first half marks "Nights" as one of the few songs on the album to feature percussion of any kind, a distant drum hit in congress with soft bass patter, as Ocean offers lyrical points of advice and well-wishing to someone just out-of-scene.
If you have ever seen the 52 film of "The Front Page," based on the jauntily cynical play, you might have been startled by the moment when a wisecracking newspaperman silences his machine-gun-fast patter to raise his middle finger at the mayor and sheriff.
The hooks are concrete and rarely blurry, but their cumulative effect is gentler than hearing any one song in isolation would suggest; rhythms that would ordinarily be played on metallic drum machines instead patter softly, and even the trap keyboards and funk guitars seem muted somehow.
Before long he is chasing down a familiar dark tale of very young women and very bad men, and trading patter with both a silky rich cat (Robert Forster) and a smooth pimp (Clifton Collins Jr.), who rolls up with a scowl, pummeling first, asking questions later.
Williamson is a performer with the mid-Atlantic elocution and patter of an Old Hollywood actress, a penchant for clever analogies and bold claims, and an effective cadence where she builds to a crescendo in her speeches before stopping on a dime on the points she wants to stress.
Andrew Barker, Variety: At its best, the film resembles an ultraviolent Looney Tunes spinoff, with Reynolds once again going full Bugs Bunny behind either a mask or a mountain of makeup — his extremities all akimbo, his rapid-fire comic patter usually landing on just the right side of obnoxiousness.
Mr. Neville vows devotion through the toughest circumstances — "If you got something to go through, need someone to hold you, just take my hand" — as he cannily threads his tenor through the rapid-fire syncopation; congas patter, hi-hats hiss, horns punch and keyboards and guitar chatter and scrub.
She thought the song fit the film's plot, about falling for someone for who they are, not what they look like; it was the track's minimalist pitter-patter and Latin flourishes that caused radio jockeys to put unfinished leaked versions in rotation before the film's soundtrack was released.
Although Midler became known for the swift, self-mocking stage patter of her creation the Divine Miss M—she's looser and more cynical than Dolly Parton—she sometimes lets the island girl come out, and her ukulele playing while she sings a Hawaiian song is soft, slow, and tender.
I remember thinking they would always have that in common — the easy banter of seasonal sports, the patter of team statistics — which always seemed vacuous to me until I became a father, until I began to look with envy on the touchstone of sports between generations of other men.
AT 241 MINUTES 247 SECONDS The Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci's recital at Zankel Hall this week was full of surprises: rarities by Respighi, Nadia Boulanger and Poulenc, as well as some angular patter music by Britten than seemed to prefigure Stephen Sondheim's "Company," decades before its premiere.
In their collaborative concert, "Edges of Light," Mr. Dunne's percussive dancing — performed both in the footwear known as hard shoes and, more adventurously, barefoot — functions as a fourth musician, his feet doing the work of a drummer as they scuff, patter, chug, poke and swipe at the floor.
Our first look at Dolittle, a blockbuster take on the doctor who can talk to the animals, is filled with CG creatures, sweeping shots, and a strangely epic cover of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" that is at one point set to the rhythmic patter of cannon fire.
Her voice and band are both sufficiently blurry that on the occasions when the guitar doesn't slash out just right, or the drums don't patter, or detachment takes over her voice, the songs slide into vagueness, coming into focus only when you squint to see the involuted lyrical detail.
Adam Jelen, the crew-cut construction manager with the contractor Gilbane and the closest thing to a Foxconn representative there, sped through his presentation with a salesman-like patter, showing photos of the barren factory site and the lone warehouse-like structure that's nearly indistinguishable from the ones he'd shown before.
"How'd my life get so damn small?" the usually upbeat Moore muses at a low point, before stumbling upon the idea of developing a character around the crude comedy associated with an urban toast about a foul-mouthed pimp, Dolemite, whose rhyming patter served as an inspiration for early rap.
The profusion of quick-patter language in "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" had gotten the better of the baritone Brian Vu at the start of the afternoon; when he returned with an aria from Gounod's "Faust" the broad lyrical line revealed an ample and pleasing tone.
B99 gains much of its humor from its fast pace and snappy patter, and both of those elements are largely stripped from the episode's most involved scenes, particularly one where Amy and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz, who also directed) debate whether Amy was right to give the woman the advice she did.
The constant patter — desperate yet determined — is like a doomed wish, as if you could talk some sense into memory: sorrow spilling out of a neighbor's house, the family staggering under a mortal anguish that overwhelms the boundaries of the yard, the street, the city and, finally, even time itself.
With Joe Sanders on bass, Mike Moreno on guitar, Taylor Eigsti on Fender Rhodes and John Ellis on soprano saxophone, Oracle douses your ear in textures that are thick but aerodynamic, and on "'>>>>>>>>>>>Mocean" Ellis's liquid melody cuts against Scott's constant patter, feeding the band two different kinds of fuel.
While the Democrats kept their clapping to an absolute minimum in a ritualistic display of disdain almost no one cares about, Bernie's efficient, light patter of applause—where he used the fingers on his left hand to light tap his right palm—is clear evidence that he is a seasoned clapper.
A coke-addled record executive on a downtown New York street hears the pitter-patter of young feet running past, around and over his car, and as he follows the kids to a nearby New York Dolls concert (it's 1973), a scene of quiet squalor is transformed into a pulsating production number.
Having flattered British Prime Minister Theresa May, the first high political guest to his presidency, with lashings of special relationships patter, he casually roped in Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) – its equivalent to the United States' National Security Agency – as the means by which Barack Obama tapped the then president-elect's phone calls.
It's a fantastic show, held together by the psychological illusionist's charming patter and dazzling skill —but since Secret is his first Broadway show, many of his audience members might emerge from their viewings wondering where the hell that nice man with the magic brain came from, and why they've never seen him around before.
That's where new work from Intel AI researchers, working in collaboration with UCSD and Stanford, comes in — in a paper presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Patter Recognition, the assembled research team details how they created "PartNet," a large data set of 3D objects with highly detailed, hierarchically organized and fully annotated part info for each object.
On January 2nd, House Republicans voted in secret to defang the Office of Congressional Ethics; less than twenty-four hours later, following what seemed at the time like a deluge of calls but later turned out to be just that loud patter you hear on your window before the storm really begins, they reversed their decision.
Whether glimpsing a remote mountain peak in an area few have traversed or spending an afternoon at an al fresco café in a busy city while quietly enjoying a latte as the horns and patter of feet fill the air, I reveled in the moments where I receded into the background and the destination I inhabited put on an unbeknownst show before me.
Beth Howland zips through an iconic patter song, "(Not) Getting Married Today," perfecting her breath control and working with Sondheim to make minor but meaningful changes in the spaces between words, all to ensure that this permanent record of the song will be a worthy tribute to every WASP lady who's ever had a panic attack while getting cold feet before her vows.
I mean, I don't like it when I get dumped on with cloud piss to the point where my socks will never be dry again and my soul has darkened, but I like it when I'm inside and warm, when I can hear the pitter-patter and put it in the background—when I can see it and not feel it at all.
The lengthy bulletin teeters tonally between the actually sort of quite nice pitter patter of painless platitudes, and the kind of genuinely terrifyingly megalomaniac business speak adopted by precocious AS business studies students who've watched an episode or ten too many of The Apprentice and have decided that they'll retire at the age of 35 after 14 years at Goldman Sachs.
Without noticing, bit by bit I'd worked my way into the center of the group, so that when suddenly the women began to move in unison, as if in response to some secret signal, I was swept along, down the wide and dim open-air corridor, carried by the flow of silk and the hurried pitter-patter of tiny slippers.
The act broke up in 1956 and from that time onward, Lewis carried into his own persona some of Martin's slick, cool patter, made manifest in what even Lewis' detractors consider his best film, 1963's "The Nutty Professor," in which he played both a klutzy, winsome and lovelorn scientist named Julius Kelp and his alter-ego, a slick, finger-popping hepcat named Buddy Love.
In "The President Visits the Storm," snippets from Trump's remarks after Hurricane Harvey interrupt McCrae: America you're what a turnout great Crowd a great crowd big smiles America The hurricane is everywhere but here an Important man is talking here Ameri- ca the important president is talking The first two lines so nail Trump's rally patter that you can almost hear, as punctuation, the crowd's roars.
I want to lace up my hiking boots and walk through muddy fields and up stony hills and breathe the fresh air until the light begins to fail and the rain finally blows in, its first drops beginning to patter through the leaves as I hurry back to care, which is just a way to get from home to somewhere beautiful in this increasingly fragile world.
It was plant stand-up — slightly blue patter with quick takes on Linnaeus and Darwin; binomial nomenclature (note the shape of the Venus fly trap for cues to how it got its name); detailed care instructions (carnivorous plants evolved in acidic bogs, which means they need distilled water, not tap, and lots of it); and a show-and-tell of Mr. Satch's collection of butterworts and sundews.
His attacks are searing and personal, delivered with the humorous patter of a late-night insult comedian, more reminiscent of 19th-century Federalists denouncing Thomas Jefferson as the AntiChrist — or Confederates calling Lincoln a buffoon and a drunk — than the more conventional Barack Obama advertisement showing Mitt Romney singing an off-key "America the Beautiful" as headlines recounted how Mr. Romney had overseen the outsourcing of jobs to Mexico and China.
Lin-Manuel Miranda kicks off the action not with a bang but with a wistful, Whistler-hued hymn to "the lovely London sky" (which is mostly gray), and that restraint endures, though " Hamilton " fans should not fret; one of his songs, packed with a patter of crispy consonants and delivered in double-quick time, is enough to convince us that hip-hop was born in the music hall.
If you ever feel like the old-fashioned grift has gone the way of fast-talking men in hats and three-card Monte on street corners — the way of Harold Hill in "The Music Man," commencing his 1912 grift with a rousing patter song about moral decay — all you have to do is Google terms along the lines of "elaborate Walmart returns scheme" to witness the American ingenuity still on offer.
Look forward to more of the same in 2017: the patter of rakes against faces growing into a cacophony, thudding across the world—blundering stupidity as the only form of political action from every social sector, the birth of a hideous new evil tearing itself free from the world in a storm of blood, and all because a few Netflix addicts can't admit that they're not as smart as they think they are.
His offbeat between-songs patter — inspired, he once said, by the nights he spent on bills with Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl — led to occasional work as a stand-up comic and acting opportunities on TV comedy shows including "The Cara Williams Show" (1964-65), on which he played a jazz musician, and "Run, Buddy, Run," his first and only starring vehicle, as well as his long-running role as Mr. Griffin's foil.
If the NX has just a couple more big-hitters like Breath of the Wild when it reaches market, more third-party support (Ubisoft and EA appear to be on board), and its sales patter isn't as confusing as the Wii U's was—is this a new system, or something that simply plugs into what we already have, and so on—it'll be a serious contender beside Xbox's Project Scorpio and whatever Sony's Neo proves to be.

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