More serious is the way the last half-hour seems to lose pace, then comes to a sudden, jarring halt. |
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The flat of the blade cracked across the back of Lexa's head, knocking her to the ground, the fall jarring her sword from her grip. |
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It can be jarring, though, to watch as a character pulls a clean blade from their woundless body despite the violence implied elsewhere. |
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Still, much of that probably stems from the dialogue, which is full of jarring shifts between period-speak and anachronisms. |
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It's jarring and offensive and leaves one with nothing but repulsive images that linger on afterwards. |
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One jarring element was the sudden appearance of guns towards the end of the play, when previously swords were the order of the day. |
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The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks. |
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The acting in Blackboard is of the stilted, artificial kind that seems so jarring to the modern viewer. |
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The scene continues for several minutes with the jarring clang of the phone bell echoing loudly. |
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But the automatic safety catch was working and he was unable to make the weapon fire by jarring it. |
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Mountain biking is jarring on the low back and is forcing your spine into an awkward, unnatural position. |
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The absolute clarity of the orchestral texture allowed for the sometimes jarring harmonies and raucous percussion effects to be highlighted. |
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Playing the music without bars gives a free-flowing rhythm, devoid of jarring stops and starts. |
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But fans of math rock might not find us as jarring as most bands in the genre are. |
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Perhaps unintentionally these narrative jumps simulate the jarring experience of a mid-movie bathroom break. |
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At 5 am, I was shaken awake from my sleep by the dissonant sound of drumbeats and jarring notes emerging from a defunct synthesizer. |
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With a jarring crash, the owner tumbled into a box of old trading cards, sending bits of collectible cardboard everywhere. |
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Even at low levels ultrasound can cause jarring vibrations and a rise in temperature. |
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Notwithstanding this jarring absence of any thematic unity, each piece itself is worth a read. |
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It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet or unremorsefully jarring in its very density. |
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Angharad gasped and gripped the horse's copper mane as Shadow sprang into a bouncy and jarring trot. |
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To turn up at County Hall looking dapper and spruce would have been to strike a false, jarring note of misplaced optimism. |
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This site will no doubt be jarring to the casual observer more familiar with staid academic websites. |
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The little American is always impassive on his bike, and yesterday was no exception, despite the constant jarring of the hairline fracture. |
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His application of these to Weiss's materials on epigraphy, numismatics, and topography is jarring, but illuminating. |
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The dialogue is frenetic and noirish, the action punctuated by a string of jarring, campy song-and-dance numbers. |
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The one somewhat jarring aspect of the film transfer was the choice to black out areas of the screen where Thai subtitles originally appeared. |
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When Wray slathers one of the large paintings in yellow chartreuse, the effect is jarring and delirious. |
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Its melody, very Middle Eastern in tone, overlies a dissonant harmony that gives it a spooky feel without being too jarring. |
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Ri stared after him for a moment until the door closed with its sharp hiss, jarring Ri back to reality. |
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A dozen sixth-years poured out from the far end, their lanterns swinging haphazardly from their jarring gait. |
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Thus the tense, often jarring interplay between rapid pans or other movement, and stationary close-ups. |
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The performance involved a single musician playing original music, jarring yet rhythmic, on cello and cimbalom. |
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The hedge clippers, meanwhile, were now cutting at the air, jarring her fingers as the handle opened and shut in her hand. |
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Simple self promotion is jarring, far too revealing and far too blunt, gauche, clumsy, and vulgar. |
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For the coherer to be ready to detect a new pulse of energy, conduction had to be stopped by jarring the granules. |
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But the easy music and inconspicuous action is made jarring by the fact that the man is naked. |
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The jump from carefully composed illustration to crudely arranged website was quite jarring. |
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Especially jarring are the pixelated JPEG graphics that are used throughout as illustrations. |
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He proposes this singular, jarring experience as the physical correlative to a spiritual reality. |
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In fact, he's made it worse by a jarring disjunction between form and content. |
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Or else a fall from the pretence, or realization of the true circumstances, may be a greater jarring of the spirits than the status quo. |
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Why is that the most obnoxious, most annoying, the most grating and jarring is the most popular? |
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And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any. |
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That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events. |
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Very dimly he could hear men roaring at each other, the cacophony of their voices jarring discordantly against each other. |
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If this seems like a jarring blend of dot-com-era excess and 1960s-style do-goodism, well, so be it. |
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A ball of fire erupted out, shattering the susurration with a jarring war cry. |
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I jumped from the tree, jarring my knees with the impact and ran for the stables. |
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However, before it could complete its circuit, his arm was brought to a sudden halt, jarring his entire body. |
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The train lurched again and I was slammed against the train side, jarring my body. |
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He pulled out of the Scotland squad for tonight's friendly game against Turkey in Dundee after jarring his knee in training. |
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She stumbled on the stairs, tripping and hitting the ground painfully, jarring her arm under her body. |
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While the air system is good, it fidgets badly over sharp intrusions like potholes, jarring and jolting the passengers. |
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There shouldn't be anything disturbing or jarring in a bedroom, even if you're using the most modern style of design. |
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Finkelstein applies jarring color notes reminiscent of the beautiful acidity of Bonnard, and he arrives at vibrant passages. |
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The only jarring note in all of this is that while Dublin has prospered, the regions have been almost starved. |
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After the lush greenery of that beautiful country, the starkness of northern Namibia provided a jarring contrast. |
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Likewise, editor A. Shreekar Prasad has skillfully interwoven the three plot lines and the film unwinds with great lucidity and no jarring notes. |
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There were a few jarring notes in the production, though, which stop me from hailing the series as a work of genius. |
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As for the Old Vic material, it's in jarring contrast to the steely professional polish that characterised Who's Next. |
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And because the script has wisely avoided writing them as stereotypically American, there are no jarring notes in the casting mix. |
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They basically cut out an entire scene from one episode in a really jarring manner. |
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Their subject matter, though, makes for a jarring and unsettling experience. |
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Apple trees serve as posts for a construction which presents a jarring contrast to the organic forms of the meadow. |
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Occasionally, the text makes jarring jumps from one subject to another without smooth transitions. |
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Only ears attuned to the metre will hear it, but the shock of recognition is matched by a jarring discord. |
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It is a jarring shift from the fluff I post about to an issue of deadly seriousness. |
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His outburst blaming the vandals on the estate for frightening his wife to death, was a jarring moment of realism. |
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Exhibits are dimmed whilst fantastically big projections of rarely seen war photographs cover the jarring, angular interior walls. |
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Although there are a couple of jarring transitions, the bulk of the movie unfolds with organic clarity. |
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A very fine soundtrack shifts from a winsome romanticism in the early moments to the jarring untuned piano notes in the latter fraught stages. |
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The rather jarring songwriting style is noteworthy more for its ambience than its catchiness. |
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The most jarring element of the disc, however, has to be the director's choices. |
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We are ready to concede that life is the only jarring note in this otherwise perfect symphony of matter. |
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That is a more viable option to pass time than to watch this jarring take on a surge of youthful passion. |
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There's no way it can roll over a flat, smooth road without a sequence of jarring bumps. |
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Runners rarely need pure rest on their days off, just a break from the jarring effects of running. |
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The faces in the end zone are a jumble as the noise envelops him with each jarring stride. |
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He does not attempt to jazz things up with cloying camerawork and jarring technique in an effort to be stylish. |
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Routine safety labeling must have adhesives strong enough to withstand wear, jarring and abuse. |
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He also shook off a clean right hook and a jarring left uppercut in a first round as the Londoner prevented the home favourite from making much of an early impression. |
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If a series is telling a story that matters to us, the loss of a main character can be jarring but generative. |
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It was slightly discomforting and jarring, especially for a nation clinging to the last vestiges of amateurism and praying for the return of the Corinthian spirit. |
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Here there can be twain no longer, for all jarring, frowardness, and opposition being removed, the oneness is established, wherein the true peace consists forever. |
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Leila weighed the question, then favored Nika with that jarring grin. |
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My classmate had such a gift for asking jarring questions out of the blue. |
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The absence of the Twin Towers in the skyline was jarring, as was the sight of tanks and humvees posted along Park Row. |
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Is it somehow jarring to some people that the father who spoke these words is not black but white? |
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There are other passages of this sort, many others, but the most jarring aspect of the judgment is its incoherence. |
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It's a jarring transition for a band originally known for its raw, youthful and raucous inflammability, but a nonetheless fitting and increasingly natural one. |
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Tacklers are trying to knock the ball loose with jarring hits. |
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Again it was an extremely hard and jarring landing, but a successful one. |
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Every step I took was having a jarring effect on my shoulders. |
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Having an outside force influence him was a jarring superfluity. |
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Still, there are jarring moments, such as the author's assessment of the effect on the counterculture of the expansion of America's war in Vietnam. |
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An enormous pair of hands shoved my side jarring my entire body. |
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Hobson was always doubtful after jarring his knee in last week's friendly with Manchester United while Jones suffered bruised ribs in Tuesday night's game with Middlesbrough. |
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Often, the birds are simply in shock after such a jarring accident. |
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The film's segues into the seedier side of Austria are always appropriately shocking, and Erika's steadfast resolve in these environments is an utterly jarring anachronism. |
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In those first weeks, I tore around my new home on various borrowed bikes, electrified by this unbeautiful city, as thrillingly jarring as a Dada cut-up. |
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The simple trick of leaving the destruction of bombs to the imagination while focusing on the strange chemistry between the two men is jarring and frightening. |
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Since none of the campaigns intersect with each other, this can be quite jarring to your feeling of progress, especially with the limited amount of gameplay. |
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It's not a perfect movie as it runs a little too long and the cinematography is jarring at times, but this is a movie with strong believable characters in the lead. |
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Levitt is clearly a whizz with numbers, great long strings of them, as he demonstrates during the book following this slightly jarring, self-deprecating introduction. |
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Thirlwell uses a probing and unique narrative voice which, although jarring at times in its smug omniscience, takes us to the very centre of his characters' anxieties. |
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As with that earlier book, he rivets the reader to a plot of jarring contradictions. |
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In fact, one of the most jarring realizations that dutton comes to is that functional psychopaths walk among us. |
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He felt the familiar faint jarring of a strata overlay and immediately the Matriarch stood facing him in the sunlight that shone through the trelliswork above. |
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From the quiet strains of a young Henry Mancini to the jarring sibilant tones whenever the monster makes an appearance, it is a piece of movie history. |
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The electronics are jarring, perhaps even misplaced, but one must remember that this piece is a requiem for a 16-year-old boy, not a 65-year-old man. |
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His apparently sincere desire to help me deal with my problems made his transition to exorcist Bob all the more jarring. |
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The juxtaposition makes the variation in quality all the more jarring. |
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As a neonatal physician trained in the United States, it is a jarring process for me to practice medicine here. |
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Against jarring juxtapositions of Chopin melodies, he tackles stereotypical female images such as coquette, bride and mother with a gaggle of flying baby dolls. |
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Opponents say it would have a jarring effect on the skyline. |
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While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear. |
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Stress Fractures caused by repeated jarring of a bone are called stress fractures. |
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The sole jarring note in the report was the decline in orders for non-military capital goods. |
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Grey was chosen for Madeleine's suit because it is not usually a blonde's colour, so was psychologically jarring. |
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Small caps are sometimes used to make the run of capital letters seem less jarring to the reader. |
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The noise itself is a klaxon of repetitive, high-pitched xylophonic notes, and it's among the least jarring sounds in the iPhone's default set. |
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Peterson, whose orange button-down shirt was soaked in black tar, described his experience as jarring. |
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That throat slit is so real, so jarring, and so matter-of-fact. |
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A jarring parrotlike voice assaulted me from the racks of leggings. |
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Others worry that uniform, rectilinear blocks of conifers will have a jarring effect on tourists, who account for one-third of Ireland's gross national product. |
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It's a jarring mix of the amusing and the downright harrowing. |
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