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  • There was a tempo to how stories got told.†   (source)
  • I see Chava hobbleaway, two confused teenagers at his side, and as he vanishes into a flicker of neon, I hear the final tempo of the crazy life leave my body, the last song before the dying, lapsing forever out of mind as Chava disappears, enveloped in flames breaking through the asphalt, wrested into the black heart of night.†   (source)
  • Outside, the light pulsed madly as the tempo of the distant space battle quickened.†   (source)
  • I quickly discovered I could affect the tempo of his wagging by simply touching him.†   (source)
  • After all, there was the Marne — that classic line of defence where everything must come to a standstill, the way it does in the fermata of the second section of Chopin's B minor scherzo, in a stormy tempo of quavers going on and on, more and more tempestuously, until the closing chord — at which point the Germans would retreat to their own border as vigorously as they had advanced; leading to the end of the war and an Allied victory.†   (source)
  • It was a little up-tempo for slow dancing, but that didn't seem to concern him.†   (source)
  • The busy tempo of ops, often done separately, added to the difficulty of getting together with Delta.†   (source)
  • Ramadi had been hot and heavy, with an op tempo that was pretty severe, worse even than Fallujah.†   (source)
  • Jones was the sort who categorized his tapes by their flaws, a ragged piano tempo, a botched flute, a wavering French horn.†   (source)
  • My pulse increased from an andante tempo to a lively allegretto.†   (source)
  • Before Roran quite knew it, anchors had been raised, the gangway was cut loose, and a drum pounded beneath his feet, setting the tempo for the oarsmen.†   (source)
  • Yet there was a tempo of headlong rushing to this place that filled Jessica with foreboding.†   (source)
  • Her body had a number of long hollows, places the hand might stop to solve in the dark, tempo-slowing places.†   (source)
  • Its leisurely tempo feels mismatched to the strenuousness of the exercise, but Shirakawa is subtly controlling his movements in time with the music.†   (source)
  • The tempo of missions in Afghanistan was never as high speed as in Iraq, with its more populated areas and flatter landscapes.†   (source)
  • The words were as ancient as the origin of their misery, but the tempo had picked up threefold in its evolution from the cotton fields.†   (source)
  • The constant tempo of that violence pulsed throughout my body and made me feel small, and weak, and cowardly.†   (source)
  • As Kate watched them dozing or sleeping, caught in a world without time or tempo, a small dim part of her was grateful for the drugs.†   (source)
  • Give it to me in strict tempo.†   (source)
  • She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's.†   (source)
  • It was sung at a faster clip than the usual one in the C.M.E. Church, but at that tempo it worked.†   (source)
  • There were shouts of approval as the music changed tempo to hip-grinding rock.†   (source)
  • Nolan got a funny look on his face and picked up the tempo.†   (source)
  • Around us, the motion of the room has slowed to the lethargic tempo of a music box coming unwound.†   (source)
  • Now the child in the center began whirling, spinning to lyrics sung in a different, faster tempo: "Solomon 'n' Reiner Belali Shalut..."†   (source)
  • Because we stood so far apart from one another, not all could keep a common tempo, and some lost the pitch, so that our hymn became, verse by verse, more untidy and discordant.†   (source)
  • Snow put her arms in the air, swaying slowly even though the music was pretty fast in tempo.†   (source)
  • The tempo of the music, the heat of the room, the hilarity of dancers and drinkers rise through the morning as everyone obeys the motto painted on the wall outside: "Laissez les Bons Temps Router" (Let the Good Times Roll).†   (source)
  • The song burst forth like a rocket to the marching tempo of clapping hands: John Brown's body lies a-mold'ring in the grave John Brown's body lies a-mold'ring in the grave John Brown's body lies a-mold'ring in the grave — His soul is marching on!†   (source)
  • My breathing falls in time with my mother's, with the tempo of the waves outside.†   (source)
  • Though the pounding sound, much like the beat of a kettle drum, was timed to the insistent tempo of the strings, it overrode them.†   (source)
  • I had his tempo and rhythm down now.†   (source)
  • She could not be certain, as yet, that Daniels would solve the secret of the motor; but the destroyer, she thought, was moving swiftly, surely, at an ever accelerating tempo; she wondered whether, by the time she rebuilt the motor, there would be any world left to use it.†   (source)
  • And he possessed great stamina, for the tempo of the tireless dwarves had strengthened his heart and stretched his lungs to new limits.†   (source)
  • He bent his head until his lips touched her neck, and spoke against her skin, his words matching the tempo of her pulse.†   (source)
  • In his head, a tune often played without his deciding which one—"You Are My Sunshine" for one task, say, and "Blueberry Hill" for another—and his work would fall into the tempo of the song.†   (source)
  • He began to control the tempo and flow of the game with the sheer immensity of his gifts.†   (source)
  • They started singing a new song, its tempo faster and faster, the movement of their hands paced to the rhythm of the song, and the sound of the rustling of the husks of the corn like an accompaniment.†   (source)
  • The tempo of business life was slowing down and this was a help to them; the 5:03 express train from the city had been cancelled and a 4:17 put on to replace it.†   (source)
  • For with local accent will disappear local tempo.†   (source)
  • The tempo of the music increased abruptly, and the girl responded like a dog to the whistle, scampering back and forth.†   (source)
  • Frantically Jim worked on the filter while Mark tried to keep the boat from the rocks, and when the filter was cleaned and the engine caught, he knew that curious change of tempo— one moment every breath a prayer and the next moment, the tension gone, and the two of them joking.†   (source)
  • On the water, aboard the Proteus, the crowding, the activities, the tempo, of life in the cities, on the land, are muted, slowed, fictionalized, by the metaphysical distancing a few meters of water can provide.†   (source)
  • (Almost impassioned, speaking at writing tempo, so all the reporters can get it down) But I say that if my own brother challenged the faith of millions, as Mr. Drummond is doing, I would oppose him still†   (source)
  • One of the most noticeable changes had been a slowing-down of the mad tempo that had so characterized the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • At first the tempo of the victory dance was slow and measured: stylized.†   (source)
  • Then a set of rhythmic kicks against the floor to communicate the tempo.†   (source)
  • Their mental exchange took exactly thirty seconds in the lightning tempo typical of telepathic talk: Well, it's Reich for Demolition, Jax.†   (source)
  • His breathing was even — like the fixed tempo of a marathoner.†   (source)
  • One step at a time, I told myself as we began to descend to the slow tempo of the march.†   (source)
  • And the bandleader hasn't the slightest sense of a Latin tempo.†   (source)
  • There seemed an extra tempo of urgency to them.†   (source)
  • Go tell Bonden to lower the tempo a bit; I don't want them fainting at the oars if'n I can help it.†   (source)
  • His tempo was increasing; he flashed from the door to Carmen and back again every second.†   (source)
  • By marrying American tempo with Soviet aims, we are on the verge of universal literacy.†   (source)
  • With a struggle, it resumed its previous rapid tempo.†   (source)
  • The music swells, the tempo rises, and the dancers' long skirts float out like bells.†   (source)
  • A ripple went through the crowd, a quickening of tempo, a sweep of suspense.†   (source)
  • They can't be allowed to upset the tempo of the master plan.†   (source)
  • It would feel unbearably slow after the tempo of this human place.†   (source)
  • The tempo increased, the volume moved toward a powerful crescendo.†   (source)
  • Each of them flapping at a different tempo, Saphira and Glaedr sped over the rolling forest.†   (source)
  • Let the Song of Tempos foretell the death of the goblins!†   (source)
  • Her heart felt as if it were keeping pace with the manic tempo that assaulted her ears.†   (source)
  • "Tempos is watching!" he yelled at them.†   (source)
  • He roared to Tempos and launched the hammer.†   (source)
  • Abruptly, the Song of Tempos resounded from within its depths.†   (source)
  • "The androids look unreal at that tempo," De Santis snarled.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (With increasing tempo, closing in) Is that the way of things?†   (source)
  • They were like twin batons controlling the mood and tempo of an orchestra.†   (source)
  • The nature and tempo of Soviet operations did not indicate a backing off, as seemed to be suggested by a pair of recent articles in Red Star and some intelligence sources inside the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • The dance increased in tempo.†   (source)
  • The tempo of the ops had slowed quite a bit over the past week or two; it looked as if things were slacking down, at least for us.†   (source)
  • At the beat of an ox-hide drum, accompanied by Bonden's rhythmic chant as he set the tempo, the oars arched forward, dipped into the sea of green, and swept back across the surface of the water, leaving white streaks of bubbles in their wake.†   (source)
  • They also suggested that, since the mission tempo was practically nonexistent and we were only a few weeks from going home anyway, it made sense for me to go home.†   (source)
  • "I don't know if I get more than just this one dance," he said, and he began pulling me around in a slow circle that didn't match the tempo of the music coming from behind us.†   (source)
  • The jazz ensemble in the corner, which was charged with setting the tempo, was scrambling to keep up with the eruptions of laughter and the slaps on the back.†   (source)
  • In the second movement, the sonata transitioned to an andante tempo more in keeping with Sofia at seventeen, when she would welcome thunderstorms on Saturday afternoons so that she could sit in their study with a book in her lap or a recording on the phonograph.†   (source)
  • There was a brief moment in one of the pieces, after passagework of mellow recollection, when something dark seemed to enter, the soloist's left hand urging the tempo, and it made her raise an arm, slowly, a gesture of half shock, thoughtful and fraught—she'd heard a boding in the bass notes that startled her.†   (source)
  • I heard my feet hitting the sidewalk too quickly, as though they were trying to match the tempo of a dance song.†   (source)
  • The tempo of the roll call had broken.†   (source)
  • The tempo increased.†   (source)
  • The bells soon reached a manic tempo where one note clashed against another, at which point the young man thrust a hand out behind himself.†   (source)
  • He did not pounce upon the food; he fought to keep his movements slow, to unfold his napkin, to pick up his fork in tempo with hers, his hand shaking-as if he still knew that this, no matter what indignity was ever forced upon them, was the manner proper to men.†   (source)
  • Of course the film was strange at first, elusive in its references and filled with baroque apparitions and hard to adapt to—you wouldn't want it any other way Overcomposed close-ups, momentous gesturing, actors trailing their immense bended shadows and there was something to study in every frame, the camera placement, the shapes and planes and then the juxtaposed shots, the sense of rhythmic contradiction, it was all spaces and volumes, it was tempo, mass and stress.†   (source)
  • I would never see my friend again, never hear his voice...Tears splashed on the stone beneath me, and Jamie's pats increased in tempo.†   (source)
  • When he had gone, she felt as if the motion of time were an oppressive weight in the stillness of the house, like a stationary, half-solid mass slithering slowly into some faint elongation by a tempo that left her no measure to know whether minutes had passed or hours.†   (source)
  • If, I thought, one could slow down his heartbeats and memory to the tempo of the black drops falling so slowly into the bucket yet reacting so swiftly, it would seem like a sequence in a feverish dream ....I was so deep in reverie that I failed to hear Kimbro approach.†   (source)
  • It was a different roll call this morning, a new melody, a new tempo, as if Brother Leon were the conductor and the class the members of a verbal orchestra, but something wrong with the beat, something wrong with the entire proceedings, as if the members of the orchestra were controlling the pace and not the conductor.†   (source)
  • She read the story of the party he gave at an Algerian desert resort; he built a pavilion of thin sheets of ice and presented every woman guest with an ermine wrap, as a gift to be worn for the occasion, on condition that they remove their wraps, then their evening gowns, then all the rest, in tempo with the melting of the walls.†   (source)
  • And beneath the swiftness of the hot tempo there was a slower tempo and a cave and I entered it and looked around and heard an old woman singing a spiritual as full of Weltschmerz as flamenco, and beneath that lay a still lower level on which I saw a beautiful girl the color of ivory pleading in a voice like my mother's as she stood before a group of slave owners who bid for her naked body, and below that I found a lower level and a more rapid tempo and I heard someone shout: "Brothers and sisters, my text this morning is the 'Blackness of Blackness.'†   (source)
  • Following her advice, Eragon began to consciously inhale and exhale, taking care to maintain a steady tempo and to expel all the air from his lungs with each breath.†   (source)
  • Even through the clatter of weapons, the sound of the dwarves joining in the Song of Tempos could be heard.†   (source)
  • "What right, by valor or by blood, does this weakling southerner have in the mead hall of Tempos?" the red-bearded king demanded.†   (source)
  • Knowing well the tactics of his rival, he was not surprised in the least when the first notes of the Song of Tempos rolled in from the night.†   (source)
  • And may Tempos find a place in his field for your bones!" deBernezan tried futilely to match the iron gaze of Heafstaag.†   (source)
  • The Tribe of the Elk asks leave to enter Hengorot and share mead with you, that we might join together in toast to Tempos.†   (source)
  • Let the keen ears of Tempos alone decide, though the god himself will be hard-pressed to make such a choice.†   (source)
  • Here the warriors sang at crescendo pitch, for the challenge of the song was to determine whose call to the God of Battle was most clearly heard by Tempos.†   (source)
  • The fishermen of Ten-Towns followed the words of the Song of Tempos, tentatively at first, until the foreign inflections and phrases easily rolled from their lips.†   (source)
  • He had been raised and nurtured among passionate warriors, fighters whose entire purpose in life was the pursuit of battle-glory — fighting in praise of Tempos.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar was beginning to tire as well, so he started to sing an old tundra war song, the Song of Tempos, its rousing notes inspiring him into one final barrage.†   (source)
  • The tribesmen called it Hengorot, "The Mead Hall," and to the northern barbarians this was a place of reverence, where food and drink were shared in toasts to Tempos, the God of Battle.†   (source)
  • "Tempos!" they shouted in unison.†   (source)
  • This verse was taught to every barbarian boy from the time he could speak his first words, for the Song of Tempos was actually considered a measure of a tribe's strength.†   (source)
  • He had clung to the brutal code of his people, which defined capture as disgrace, during the first year of his servitude, reciting the Song of Tempos as a litany of strength against the insinuation of weakness in the company of the soft, civilized southerners.†   (source)
  • Upon sighting this feline, who moved with so much grace and speed that it appeared as no more than a cat's spirit, the Tribe of the Tiger, instead of giving chase, fell to their knees and raised their hands and voices in thanks to Tempos.†   (source)
  • Five years before, proudly carrying the standard of the Tribe of the Elk, the younger Wulfgar had marched to a similar gathering, singing the Song of Tempos and sharing strong mead with men who would fight, and possibly die, beside him.†   (source)
  • Her voice constantly yelled out commands to her charges; it would rise in tempo and volume, until finally, as an adjunct to her voice, the strap against flesh would sound, followed by the scream of the child.†   (source)
  • From here cm, the tempo mounts.†   (source)
  • There was a change in tempo, and Sir Grummore's horse could be definitely seen to be cantering.†   (source)
  • 1 His extended foot swung slowly up and down in the tempo.†   (source)
  • As the years passed, the tempo of his quest accelerated; it had the tone of panic.†   (source)
  • By their labor the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up.†   (source)
  • Those who had jobs went about them at the exact tempo of the plague, with dreary perseverance.†   (source)
  • Gail Wynand noticed a kind of lingering tempo in every action around him.†   (source)
  • Suppose that we quicken the tempo of human life till men are senile at thirty.†   (source)
  • The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and whispered through the mangroves, and the little waves beat on the rubbly beach with an increased tempo.†   (source)
  • I have recently pointed out how quickly the tempo of modern warfare could bring into our very midst the physical attack which we must eventually expect if the dictator nations win this war.†   (source)
  • All we have done and can sometimes do is to slacken the tempo of this brief interval that is called life.†   (source)
  • I cleaned acres of glass shelving, changing my tempo now to work faster, holding every nuance of reality within the focus of my consciousness.†   (source)
  • But the South was aflame with war, events roared along as swiftly as if carried by a mighty wind and the slow tempo of the old days was gone.†   (source)
  • They, all of them, all of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable.†   (source)
  • Behind the human voices another noise went permanently on: it was like a small machine, an electric belt set at a certain tempo.†   (source)
  • The jerkers moved in ragtime tempo, juggling the drinks, tossing scooped globes of ice-cream into the air and catching them in glasses, beating swift rhythms with a spoon.†   (source)
  • — even while he was thinking it he fell in with her rhythm he strained to her touch his heart pounded to a faster tempo and he forgot everything in the world except the motion and the sudden pumping of his blood ....There was a girl named Ruby and she for him was the first.†   (source)
  • Then beginning in a low voice Uncle Pio would talk for an hour, analyzing the play, entering into a world of finesse in matters of voice and gesture and tempo, and often until dawn they would remain there declaiming to one another the lordly conversation of Calderon.†   (source)
  • The rain began with gusty showers, pauses and downpours; and then gradually it settled to a single tempo, small drops and a steady beat, rain that was gray to see through, rain that cut midday light to evening.†   (source)
  • "Would you mind telling us," said Archimedes, "since you know so much about it, how many various things we birds are able to express by altering the tempo and emphasis of the elaborations of our call-notes?"†   (source)
  • Once I've succeeded in rendering perfectly the picture in my mind's eye, once my words have the exact tempo of this ride-the horse is trotting, one-two-three, onetwo-three, see what I mean?†   (source)
  • It was not dance tempo.†   (source)
  • The patient at the far end of the ward, whose little broken cries had gone on without a break, now quickened their tempo so that they flowed together in one unbroken cry, while the others' groans grew louder.†   (source)
  • At the front on the right was a device like the dial on a clock for regulating the turntable's tempo, to its left, the lever that started and stopped it; at the rear on the left, however, was the sinuous, club-shaped nickel tube that had pliant, movable joints and ended in a flat, round sound-box equipped with a screw into which the needle was inserted.†   (source)
  • Maggie could look at Stephen, which, for some reason or other she always avoided when they were alone; and he could even ask her to play his accompaniment for him, since Lucy's fingers were so busy with that bazaar-work, and lecture her on hurrying the tempo, which was certainly Maggie's weak point.†   (source)
  • "Oh no, I shall not respect an Adam who drags the tempo, as you will," said Lucy, beginning to play the duet.†   (source)
  • I don't want Richard, my name ... (Laughter) QUAKERLYSTER: (A tempo) But he that filches from me my good name... STEPHEN: (Stringendo) He has hidden his own name, a fair name, William, in the plays, a super here, a clown there, as a painter of old Italy set his face in a dark corner of his canvas.†   (source)
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