We were playing whiffle ball, thwacking it across the backyard.
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French cops typically respond with tear gas or by thwacking troublemakers with batons.
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The stinkbugs, attracted to warmth, kept thwacking into their bodies as they worked.
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This is also far from "discreet," since you're thwacking your fingers on the table.
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He stomps on delusions of grandeur, thwacking people over the head with pragmatism and forceful rhetoric.
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The thwacking great dose of booze was still relatively pure, bar the sugar and lime juice.
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In their video demonstration, we see the roboticists thwacking Kengoro with a... piece of something else from the shop?
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Faulkner suggests thwacking the spiders into a jar with a wooden spoon as a nice, easy way to capture the beasts.
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TEL AVIV — Walk south along the Tel Aviv shoreline these days, and you'll hear the reverberations of a constant low thwacking.
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It's the sound of stiletto heels clacking against dancefloor, of a high ponytail's swish, of a tight halter strap thwacking against clavicle.
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Featuring a straightforward arrangement of robotic synths, calming whispered vocals, and crisply thwacking percussion, "Vlaamsekat!" is an experiment in unmediated kinetic energy.
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The distant sound of buzzing and the thwacking of sledgehammers bores into the building's two theaters, two galleries, and its skylit multipurpose room.
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His first exposure to tennis, he said, occurred when he was 6, thwacking a ball against a wall in his paternal grandmother's basement.
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Mr. Bates more or less has a single way of handling the climaxes of interpersonal confrontations: big, thwacking chords, separated by yawning silences.
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There's more sections on the record where drum machines rattle like blinds thwacking against a half-open window than there are real hooks.
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"Here's my solo," Mr. Murphy announced in "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," and started thwacking precise syncopations on a two-headed cowbell.
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From the nosebleed seats, it probably looked like someone dumped out a toy chest full of action figures and set their plastic limbs to thwacking against each other.
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The challenge lies in the ferociously physical steps — an onslaught of thwacking arms, emphatic kicks, dizzying spins, swift somersaults, perilous balances and slippery contortions — and their relentless repetition.
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The main body of the piece began when players started blowing sustained drones on long tubes; thwacking drums; and playing delicate, tinkling riffs on gongs, among other sounds.
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The face-ripping, body-goring, skull-thwacking noise of Skin Crime has been with us for over 20 years, and here it is, celebrated, in a perfectly constructed room.
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As he tells it, the 2808's signature sound of thwacking snares, staccato handclaps and that unmistakable whomping kick was sort of a fluke—the byproduct of a defective semiconductor.
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But when you just need three people for a decent game, the club is a great way to organize a satisfying session of wolves thwacking rabbits with great big swords.
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At half-past 20193 on Friday night, Mickelson was on the range at Pebble Beach, thwacking up a cloud of dirt as he searched for answers in a small bucket of balls.
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SUPER STICKMAN GOLF 3 This is a cartoonlike golfing game for thwacking a ball around unlikely terrain, trying to avoid getting stuck to gooey walls, falling into sand traps and so on.
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These pieces have the sturdy, thwacking power of so much of Miller's drumming — which is equally informed by punk and jazz — and the jostling momentum of an M.T.A. car on the move.
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The track itself marries thwacking drum samples and pounding bass with the sort of plucked guitar line that wouldn't sound out of place in whichever film Jamie Dornan broods his way through next.
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The Democratic contenders see the Mueller report mostly as a way to build their fund-raising and supporter lists and, ultimately, as a 448-page blunt instrument best used for thwacking the president in next year's campaign for his behavior.
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Ms. Shah served as the ballast, hitting notes squarely and staying comfortably buckled to a variety of swing feels (on originals, jazz standards and French pop classics), while Mr. Moutin played with a fierce, lunging intensity, jittering and thwacking and cajoling the bass.
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At a recent rehearsal in the basement of the Met, the bass Matthew Rose, playing the Emperor Claudius — yes, the title character of Robert Graves's "I, Claudius," whom Derek Jacobi played with a memorable stutter on television — began one scene by thwacking golf balls.
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Every clunk sounds solid, grenades thwomping and thwacking around confined spaces; machines whir and buzz with that same practical-effect weight, that industrial build quality, you get in the movies; and the aliens themselves screech with more authentically blood-freezing hostility than in the Sega game.
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Starring a weirdly drum-thwacking IT and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and Terminator: Dark Fate's Mackenzie Davis, The Turning is set in a great big spooky estate in Maine, where newly appointed nanny Kate is charged with the care of two orphans, Flora and Miles.
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The texture, for example, even in the pool hall, was the texture that I used as inspiration for inside the trailer, and the wind — the sound of the wind, the thwacking of the screen door, that sort of empty, desolate feeling of that part of the world.
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Inoue has won world titles in the pros in three weight classes since, and almost never fails to put on a show of efficient, supremely-torqued power, thumping and thwacking opponents in such a way that everything sounds different, his hands heavy and volatile like leaking car batteries.
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Or maybe it's more accurate to say they've soaked up a specific version of that decade which has been made accessible – one consisting of synths, thwacking power ballad drums, bright neon colours, keyboards and all those classic movie scenes we've been brought up knowing all the words to like religious scripture.
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At home in Brooklyn, a few days after the group's two-night New School stand, Mr. Weiss showed off a battle scar: a patch of raw, red skin between his left thumb and forefinger, the result of thwacking his snare with peak force while using a jazz drummer's traditional stick grip.
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The Dolphins appear to be going through an open revolt right now, with the team's 59-10 thwacking at the hands of the Ravens last week prompting reports that multiple players had asked to be traded to avoid what appears to be the most blatant tank job the league has ever seen.
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And now, after CEO Stumpf received a thorough and bipartisan thwacking as part of testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last week, the company, which at first sought to shift the blame for the mess to relatively low-level employees, has rightly agreed to claw back some executive compensation, from Stumpf and the head of Wells' consumer banking division.
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You watch, in October, a naked woman emerging from Berlin's Krumme Lanke lake to the hissing of a swan, watch swans' wings thwacking the water in the struggle to get airborne, listen to the rhythmic clack-clack of hikers' polls on the paths in the dark woods — and it is as if you are being allowed to glimpse some secret.
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Hear some smooth, color-soaked synth, electric piano lines, and soft thwacking drums, and the U.K. musician and producer probably had something to do with it (recent years have seen him work with everyone from Carly Rae Jepsen to Debbie Harry, Mac Miller to Empress Of, not to mention his own records.) But his second album under the Blood Orange moniker, 203's Cupid Deluxe, was what really cemented him as not just an artist, but an auteur.
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I love slumping in front of Trisha (now known as Trisha Goddard and aping Jerry Springer-style antics since the early 00s) on a sick day with some rich tea biscuits and a tinned soup as much as the next Gogglebox nan, but answer me this: how does one theme tune contain so many different components—at least three melodies, layers of horn sections, all those ferocious, thwacking drum beats—and still come out sounding like… well, nothing?
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Instead, after a falsetto verse or two, the band starts to improvise, the horns start aggressively honking over the beat, the drums start relentlessly thwacking down, the keyboards start spraying out ribbons of glitzy confetti, and Prince proceeds to holler, shriek, speak in tongues, improvise a whole array of inarticulate animal cries and repeat the Winkie chant from The Wizard of Oz. The heavy, sticky, hyperactive kick of the second horn solo could quack through steel; the warbly wail of the third sounds a piercing alarm call.
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Another characteristic of the Combo was Reggie Young thwacking on the guitar with a pencil.
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An editor of Pro FM listed the recording in their list of "16 hits with which Inna made history". The Times of India Gavin Rasquinh found "Inndia" was "another passable track with a thwacking snare sound". Commercially, the song reached number ten on Romania's Airplay 100 on 21 January 2012, becoming her ninth top ten hit in the country.
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Pickard said that upon Jacqui discovering Tony's one-night stand with Theresa she "storms round and starts thwacking him, screaming he's slept with her 15-year-old cousin! What's worse is that Theresa is making out Tony practically raped her". Pickard explained that Theresa wants a relationship with Tony but Tony tells her a relationship won't happen. Pickard explained that Tony is arrested and "his life goes into freefall".
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"Everything I Need" is a song by the Australian group Men at Work. The song was written by Men at Work singer/guitarist Colin Hay and the recording was produced by Hay with keyboardist Greg Ham. It was released in 1985 as the lead single from their album Two Hearts. The tune has a mid-tempo pop/rock song, and is marked by a loud, thwacking drum rhythm and a prominent slide guitar solo.
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Grand Slam Tennis 2 received "average" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The game was praised for its presentation, HD graphics and control system, but was criticized mainly for its difficulty- changing career mode. New Game Network said that "GST2 has solid ball- thwacking mechanics and some killer drop shots, but in other areas the game feels a distant second best to Virtua Tennis 4". In Japan, where the PlayStation 3 version was ported for release on April 12, 2012, Famitsu gave it a score of three sevens and one eight for a total of 29 out of 40.
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