| 单词 | clipped |
| 例句 | “I think maybe the surfboard fin clipped it.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of the Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dr. Zinchenko consulted the very advanced smartphone clipped to the waistband of her bright red pantsuit. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He pinches his lips shut for a long moment, and when he finally speaks, his words are clipped and cutting. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “The bell rang,” she said in a clipped voice. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z They were profiled in the New Yorker, and they clipped reviews and answered enthusiastic letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I turned wildly and our tires squealed as we nearly clipped a mailbox, and when I straightened up we went along a curvy road lined with maple trees. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I closed the box and brought it into the living room, where my dad and Aunt Susie were emptying a drawer full of coupons, clipped but never used, into a ten-gallon trash bag. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z One summer when his fur grew matted and mildewed I clipped him to the skin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As he clipped, hair fell on my shoulders, pricking me like needles. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He handed Grace a tape measure, which she clipped to her jeans. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z His mustache in the photograph was clipped and narrow, his chin was chiseled, and his eyes were sharp as thorns. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders of paper which had already flopped out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The rain came almost at the exact spot where the crack was that had clipped her the day before. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Her blond hair is pulled back into a tight bun, and the button clipped to her yellow tie reads “Rae.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The dense bushes along the fences, where many birds lived, had been clipped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It was thinner, without Jesse’s rounded cheeks, and paler, and his hair was almost straight, clipped neatly below the ears. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone sat in rows, holding coupons they'd clipped since printing began. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The left corner of the Nova’s rear bumper clipped the chain-link post, taking the gate with it and knocking down a good part of the fence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her coat was newly clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round her forelock. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In the company of men, Smith was clipped and bristling. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His English was clipped by a faint accent I couldn’t trace. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I clipped Wishbone’s leash to his collar and we set off down the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was now clear he’d been the driver of the car that clipped the Saturn. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Make sure your fingernails are clipped and groomed.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “The power is in your hands,” Balekin tells him in a clipped way that leaves the “for now” heavily implied. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Yes, Your Highness," I say, keeping my answers clipped. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Had he not been clipped in with a jumar he would have certainly fallen to his death. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I clipped the leash on her collar and headed back outside. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Just then I spot two women with name tags clipped to their shirt pockets. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We bend low beneath the neatly clipped bush, listening for the footsteps of concealed security guards. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With clipped wings, they couldn’t fly far but they could still fly a little. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He clipped the stem and buried the top in a thick strand of his wife’s hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There's an ID badge clipped to the open zipper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I thought for a moment that the tenor of her voice sounded like mine in those many months of our trouble, clipped, almost dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He answered questions from Linton and Judge Willmore in clipped language, polite on its face, but distant and just shy of hostile. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When he was out of earshot, Annie turned to Toby and Luke and gave them a clipped smile. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z So Matt described the brown-clad men and women who toiled endlessly over the fields and the gardeners who clipped the vast lawns of El Patron’s estate with scissors. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I hollered as a stone clipped my shoulder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I went out into the cold, annoyed both by his lack of surprise and by the short, clipped manner in which he'd spoken, but I started out, taking my own time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z David had dark hair and olive skin, and spoke in quiet, clipped tones. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z A gunshot from the SUV clipped him in the chest and sent an explosive spray of blood into the air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Jim’s car was clipped by a Tahoe that had crossed the yellow line and sent it into oncoming traffic,” an officer told her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I hope this isn’t another wild-goose chase, Butler,” he said, his voice soft and clipped. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z With a serrated knife, she clipped the fins, then turned the fish over, its underbelly facing her, and sliced it expertly from the tail to the gills. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She clipped one end to Moss’s collar, then snaked the cord behind him and put the transmitter in his back pocket. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The table clipped her backpack, knocking the gas tank clean off. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Marcus McCoy had called me Space Boy so many times that I knew by heart the way his faint Southern accent stretched out the a and clipped the y, but doubt lingered. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My mother looked at foreign magazines and clipped out pictures of dresses she liked, and then she went downstairs to discuss with the tailor how such a dress could be made using the materials available. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Their carbines were clipped to the frame of the bicycles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Lexie perched at the counter, inelegant in sweatpants and a tee, hair clipped in an untidy bun, picking sesame seeds off a bagel. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Her son, she said, who was in the army. How friendly such things make strangers feel, don’t they? She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Something clipped Kendra’s shoulder and sent her spinning to the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The word felt clipped and unnatural on her tongue. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Mother’s letters said, Say your prayers and Don’t wear heels because they make you too tall clipped to a check for thirty-five dollars. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His voice was suddenly clipped, terse, as if what he was about to say made him angry. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It makes him seem even more intense than he already is, with his burning eyes, rapid-fire clipped speech, and slight lisp. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z After that the rocks seemed to be growing impassable so they sat for a time, letting their rags dry and watching the clipped outlines of the rollers that moved so slowly past the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As his rapid, clipped footsteps died away Cockerell, who had been sitting on the steps, laughed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ashima’s initial glimpse, before the cord is clipped and they carry him away, is of a creature coated with a thick white paste, and streaks of blood, her blood, on the shoulders, feet, and head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It had been transformed into a headquarters for the invasion, the long tables filled with portable work- screens manned by Specials, its usual quiet replaced by a buzz of clipped exchanges and commands. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I clipped out flowers from cans of Carnation milk and pinned a wreath around cutouts of the little girl under an umbrella from the salt box and of Mr. Quaker from the box of oatmeal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Another half second, and we would have clipped it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Nel’s plea was clipped off by the slam of the bathroom door. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I made up names for them and clipped their wings and before long they were as tame as their parents. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She clipped it fiercely—now wasn’t the time—but she could still feel the faint stone of guilt in her chest as she continued with the story. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The rest is a blank, or would have been if not for the fact that everyone with an iPhone clipped me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z This was the first time I ’membered that right after the ax clipped Pap, I’d took a fast-fast look at his face and the wound. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She clipped on his new badge as he stood beside her, beaming. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Then Grub clipped him on the elbow with his buzz baton and a thousand volts spread across Butler’s chest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Kamau’s words were clipped as he looked down his nose at the man with only thinly veiled disgust. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The edges of the grass were clipped very short and neat around the gravestones, and the hedge was straight. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Then he said something so rapid, throaty, and clipped that neither of us understood it, turned quickly and strode off across the quadrangle. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The object looked like a silver pen, clipped to her pocket cuff. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The filmy enchantments of mirage could not endure the cold ocean water and the horizon was hard, clipped blue. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "Get up, Uncle Tom," he said, and I clipped him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Egypt,” he says in a clipped voice, and it’s the first word I’ve heard him say that he sounds happy with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I clipped on a microphone and stepped to the lectern. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bike slid round so the back faced front, clipped the Boer War Memorial, and Ross Wilcox got cartwheeled over the crossroads. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The eaves of the Forest behind were clipped, and trim as a hedge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She clipped the wires to the lemons by attaching one end to a nail on one lemon and the other end to a penny on the next lemon. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The gravelly voice spoke her name like a native Spanish speaker would, a light roll of the Rs leading into the clipped A. It didn’t matter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The pills were in a tiny clear bag clipped on top of my real medical chart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Pi jumps and runs in circles, making it hard for me to get him clipped in. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Oscar switches to clipped English, making an excuse about discussing a bill, then says to Luna, in Spanish, “Just think about it.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Henry clipped the article, folded it into thirds, and mailed it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Had he clipped into the rope with his safety tether it would have opened under his body weight and sent him tumbling down the Lhotse Face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They both had electrodes and sensors clipped to their fingers and ears, which measured things like their heart rate, how much they were sweating, and the temperature of their skin. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z After my parents leave, Rachel shows me a binder filled with pages of different kinds of furniture sets clipped out of magazines. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z One of its chains clipped a guard, and he fell screaming to the floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “A group of children were seen along the road this morning,” the wight said, his voice clipped, accent obscure—not quite English, not quite German. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I’d clipped her right wing and she screamed in rage—or maybe it was pain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z One rock clipped the wolf on the hindquarters, another on the back of the neck. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The browning grass had recently been clipped short, and the brick path leading to the graveyard was swept clean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You and Molly are wearing matching barrettes at the front of your hair, clipped just so. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The day they took the magazine picture I wore neatly plaited braids clipped with plastic barrettes trimmed with rhinestones. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "Did you read my letter on Monday?" he asks in rapid, clipped words. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She clipped my fingernails smooth where they had broken every which way while I was grabbing at bushes and trees and Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone’s foot clipped the edge of the gun, sending it skittering away. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The mile marker clipped by, and the tote board flashed the fraction: 1:36%. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He fished some liver out of the jug, clipped a few bits off it, and fixed the bits in plastic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She clipped my hair behind my ear, then left her hand on my cheek for a second more. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z ‘A man came to pick our dates and guavas. Another clipped hibiscus. Yes, there I tasted life. Here I eat my dinner from a rice pot.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was an immaculate and friendly house, grand enough but not pretentious, and it sat inside its white fence, surrounded by its clipped lawn, and roses and catoneasters lapped against its white walls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, at the end of the afternoon, the mirage subsided and the horizon became level and blue and clipped as the sun declined. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Lelia had already left the apartment for a freelance job, though she’d clipped a note to the front page of the paper: You don’t have to go. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple minutes later, I was clipped into a full suit of goalie pads and hunched down in the net. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Varney entered the ready room a few minutes before 0500 and went immediately into the clipped, faintly Oxonian accent that scraped across Bull’s eardrum like a nail. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The senators read newspapers, jumped up and down opening and closing doors and windows, gazed at the ceiling, sharpened pencils, clipped their fingernails, stretched, and yawned. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The clipped items and slips were turned over to the paster who affixed the clippings to the slips. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As I clipped into a fixed rope and prepared to rappel over the lip, I was greeted with an alarming sight. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z When he is, their talk is clipped and anxious. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Odd vowels, clipped words, and always a hiss on the letter s . . . no wonder it's impossible not to mimic them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z My elbow flew up and clipped him under the chin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Allys sits up straighter, and her words come fast and clipped. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After he has gone through all the forms, he leans forward and addresses Apa in a clear, clipped voice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Instead, a clipped military voice was reading out, with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As she clipped on my microphone, the head librarian told me that some of the officers had arrived two hours early. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It clipped a wine steward on the serving hand, so that his pitcher dropped with a loud clang while he fell backward, cursing, in the dust. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because it was the whole reason why you came here in the first place,” Hideo says, his tone clipped. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And a note, clipped to a business card: Anita will sell these for you when you need money. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Tally touched her belly ring, where Shay had clipped the little sensor. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Dad clipped a dripping photo on the line. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Another shell passed close, fifty yards to the left, clipped a limb, ricocheted up through the leaves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It appeared that Bill Hale’s lawyers—just as his friends predicted—had clipped the government’s tail feathers good,” one writer observed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The poles clipped by, blurring in the riders’ peripheral vision. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z An electrode is clipped to each sticker, which “reads” the electrical activity of his heart and prints out the pattern on a sheet of pink graph paper. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But this was not one of those nailbrush moustaches, all short and clipped and bristly. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words were cultured, exquisite in her mouth, clipped and close and precise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A clipped, insinuating voice spieled words whose meaning I couldn't catch and I was about to pass on when I saw the boy. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the small plastic compass clipped onto the zipper of my backpack I was now heading northeast. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Shining my headlamp on a dime-store thermometer clipped to the parka I’d been using as a pillow, I saw that the temperature inside the cramped, two-person tent was seven degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The unmistakable, clipped cadence of Martial voices carries down the tunnel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I haven’t been in the emergency room since I got clipped by a sled and knocked myself out in the park in grade school. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z There were several pieces of paper clipped to the inside back cover, but I ignored them and flipped it open to the middle. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Joe looked relieved to have an out, and he nodded, grabbing the cell phone clipped to his waist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I clipped it on to Beau’s collar, next to his tag. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And a group of small birds chatted with some clipped formality in the pines on the other side of the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The bell had rung a few minutes earlier, but a straggler clipped us. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He didn’t look very different from any elderly man, close to, and had a clipped gray beard and his coat buttoned all the way down the front. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The warrior ducked and avoided the brunt of the projectile, but it clipped his helmet and sent it tumbling off his head. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The handcuffs clipped to his belt were as shiny and unscratched as the day he joined the force, almost two years earlier. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, somebody had clipped me at the stables. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z His mouth went to the microphone clipped to his shoulder, saying he needed assistance. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A shot took off the limb of a tree nearby, clipped it off cleanly, so that it fell all at once, making a sound like a whole tree falling. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I nodded and clipped closer to his scalp. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Studying the recipe collection that May clipped from magazines and kept taped on the refrigerator. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Scientists can even grow corneas now,” I told him, reaching into my bag for an article I’d clipped from a newspaper. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I had about two dozen, which I had clipped onto a huge key ring that was attached to the outside zipper pocket of my backpack. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He spoke into it in English, then clipped it back on and said, “I’ll head over there now.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z As he clipped his safety tether onto the fixed rope he tossed his ice ax down, then left it lying on the rocks as he embarked on the first rappel. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He had Seabiscuit’s heavy winter coat clipped off and took him to the scales. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He unhooked a pair of handcuffs from his belt; they were clipped on next to his gun. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I was lifted from the cage and felt the plastic collar clipped around my neck. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Then she picked up the kitchen shears that her stepmother had left on the table and clipped away the uneven ends of her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t have my best man getting clipped by some island thug.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Peel a dollar from the stack that Jenkins gives each of us in the morning, the bill clipped to an envelope so they can send in their name and address and family and occupation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in his fifties, I guess, with short gray hair and a clipped gray beard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He gently clipped one onto a flap of metal sheeting that he'd fused to the switch on top of the orb. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His hair was a tufted brown crew cut, as if his mother, Regina, or his sister, Joan, had clipped it one day and a comb hadn't touched it since. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Me and Major Major,” he boasted, in the same tough, clipped tones of the night before, “can beat hell out of any man in my outfit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Inside a small compartment was a rolled-up tube of paper with a yellow card clipped to its end. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Nope,” he said—clipped, final, soft, as though he regretted it but could never permit such a thing. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A middle-aged white man with a clipped, sallow face stood looking up at them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He took a key ring from his pocket and walked over to Newcharlie, undid the handcuffs, and clipped them to his holster. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z While Dozer and Duke bickered, Big Tony reached in and clipped a leash to Duke’s collar. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A tiny white-gold brooch of the Republic seal is clipped on its bodice. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Using his left hand like a vice, he held my head still and clipped away with his right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Tally pulled on a jacket, clipped her sensor to her belly ring, and opened the window. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She almost forgot her belly sensor, but clipped it on just before she left. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The Friedmans clipped the article and saved it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My arm is clipped by bag nine and it nearly knocks me off balance, but I’m just barely able to catch myself. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “If someone were to be texting and clipped your father while he was driving and was—and your father was killed,” he asked, “would you want accountability?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “You’re a caged bird here, Ghalib—this camp clipped your wings. You have much to offer the world. Go and fly.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z With one swift movement, the guard pulled handcuffs from his belt and clipped Cole’s wrists behind his back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The jesses were held in the fingers or clipped to a leash to keep the birds from departing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Who said we were scared?” she shot back at him with a clipped little sneer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was handsome, his beard clipped and short, his brow broad and clear, and his nose straight and sturdy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It doesn’t help that she looks obnoxiously cute—striped shirt tucked into a red skirt over tights, hair clipped back with bobby pins. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I remember him particularly well because his name, Henry, was embossed on a tag clipped to his shirt pocket. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s related to annoy, so think of it as a clipped form of annoy some. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s a junior like me, and he carries a double-spaced copy of the script clipped into a giant blue binder, exploding with pencil notes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I clipped a plan out of a magazine for building a small one. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I'd forgotten about the hair that Uncle Harm clipped before Baba's cremation. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It's a wonderland of palace buildings with golden turrets and glittering arches, fountains full of crimson and ivory fish, topiary mazes of clipped trees, shrubs, and bushes in every possible geometric shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Gritting her teeth, Sefia got to her feet, clipped the padlock back in place, and tapped him on the shoulder to let him know they had to go. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They said their hellos, but conversation was clipped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Holding a cigarette at his hip like a riding crop, he walked with clipped steps into the store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His grey hair was clipped close and he had a neatly trimmed white moustache. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “I’m not mad at Billy,” he corrected in a clipped voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Tally clenched one in her hand as she stood at the edge of the river, wearing nothing but the sensor clipped to her belly ring, shivering in the cool breeze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He inserted a pair of scissors into the monkey and clipped out part of the spleen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The centaur clipped a small cylinder into the accommodating groove on Holly’s helmet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Jem clipped invisible pince-nez to his nose, cleared his throat, and said, “The text for the day, my brethren, is from the Psalms: ‘Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, O ye gates.’ Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The microphone clipped to my lapel is slipping. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner’s head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She was all clipped into the seat so she wouldn’t float away if she jerked. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lon slowed his voice and clipped his words in imitation of the Master Librarian. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z To Bush, the sequestering of knowledge and policy authority had one special virtue: it clipped Lawrence’s wings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I threw on my khakis, put on a button-down shirt, clipped on a red-and-blue tie, and slid my feet into a pair of loafers. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Without any real expectation I reached underwater for the distillate pouch that was clipped to the round buoyancy chamber. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Reynie, for saving me from that dart,” said Mr. Benedict with a wink and a clipped version of his dolphin laugh. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I clipped a chain and the cops came along and caught me red-handed. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z John clipped to a Loyalist and forced to march. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Chevy clipped the side of the Saturn on the driver’s-side door. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One clipped the side and tumbled into the grass. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z With the Hillary Step finally clear, I clipped into the strand of orange rope, swung quickly around Fischer as he slumped over his ice ax, and rappelled over the edge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His neatly clipped black hair, silvery about the temples with scant patches of grayness, reminded me of my father’s head ten years before, those dense shines of hair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucker leaned against the counter and clipped his mechanical pencil to the frames of his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He was a neatly dressed man well along in years, with a Greco face and fine wind-lifted white hair and a clipped white mustache. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z While my twists are clipped and drying, Mrs. Walton has me try on the ivory princess gown we got from Bamberger’s. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “So, what’s going on in the alley?” he asked a young woman in cargo shorts with a walkie-talkie clipped to her belt. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Using a pair of blunt scissors, she clipped wedges out of the liver and pressed them on glass slides. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Who cares if his feet are clean and his toenails are clipped just so? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z In the fading light, the trees along the banks were slowly losing their dimensions, flattening into silhouettes clipped from black paper and pasted to the paling sky. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He clipped his white tail and made Rabscuttle nibble his fur short and stain it with mud and blackberries. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer clung to the rail, clipped to his safety lines and out of the way of the feverish work as the crew fought their ship forward. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He had a clipped, vowel-flattened way of speaking that told me he was from somewhere else but faking a British accent, though not particularly well. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He had peered up my nose with a telescopic flashlight which looked like a thin pen that clipped into the top pocket of his white lab jacket. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The girl has long black hair clipped back with a silver barrette. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We went through a narrow hall and a drawing-room crowded with furniture to a verandah facing a square clipped lawn. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She clipped the leash to Plath’s collar, and we started walking back toward the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Mom looked real again, with her long strawberry-blond hair clipped back and her hands coated with dirt. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The air had a sweet burn of frost, and Charley, moving ahead, saluted in detail a whole row of clipped privet, and he steamed as he went. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My free hand is clipped into the handcuffs that are still hanging off the other wrist. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Then came brick houses set well back from the street, fronted by yards edged in shrubbery clipped into smooth cones and balls of velvet green. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As the carriage clipped along, it passed men and women running crazily in all directions. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Their feet and hands had been shackled, and they all wore iron collars that had been clipped to hooks in the wagon’s roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A wealth of combed and clipped mustache gave him the appearance and attitude of a French rake of the nineteenth century, and incidentally concealed his crooked front teeth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dude clipped a chain lock and rode off on some little girl’s banana seat, handlebar tassels all blowin’ in the wind.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The major had a little toothbrush mustache overhanging small, tight lips that clipped his words briskly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And there, clipped to the door in a spring-clamp, was “Handle H.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z With Mom and Dad’s farewells still resounding in our ears, Alice took out her Swiss Army knife, with all the gadgets on it—from screwdriver to scissors—and clipped a broken nail. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He riffled through and extracted a group of clipped pages. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He still wore a pair of mechanical pencils clipped to his shirt pocket, just as he had in his professor days, but now he wore a white apron too, and a brown pot holder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The one clipped his baton back into his belt. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I clipped out the fist and kept it for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they had it free and the nurse clipped through the belly band and removed the heavy node. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Other bills clipped, bills taped, money falling out to the floor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If something or someone dis-pleases him, his eyes narrow and his speech becomes clipped. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Very conscientiously, he parted the canes and clipped one in the middle, holding the shears at a careful slant, taking care not to injure a larger cane adjacent to it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Most of the black pages are filled with articles clipped from newspapers, but there are also handwritten letters, the dates ranging from only a few years previous to more than a decade ago. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Half the lords in the realm could not tell taxation from tyranny, and would bolt to the nearest usurper in a heartbeat if it would save them a clipped copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nailer took his knife and hacked Bapi’s light crew code above the place where he had clipped the wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland moved his tongue precisely as though he clipped out his words with scissors. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The other guy swerved around us at the last second, but not before he clipped our rear fender. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He has been pondering this ever since the review was placed on his desk, neatly clipped and labeled by his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ibises, with wings clipped to keep them from flying away, stalked through papyrus grass and hunted frogs under the lily pads. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She clipped the receipt for the box of chalk to her ledger book so that she could list it in the column of itemized deductions that always accompanied her income tax returns. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I went out into the cold, annoyed both by his lack of surprise and by the short, clipped manner in which he'd spoken, but I started out, taking my own time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, we pull up in front of a big house with a yawning front lawn of grass that, even in the dark, you can tell is neatly clipped. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Now, she was an astronaut clipped from her vessel, floating endlessly in endlessness, with no possibility of ever returning. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When they walked, their stride quickened; all the peasant hesitancy of their speech vanished as their voices became clipped, terse. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembers when she returned from her honeymoon in Soroa with a white orchid in her hair, one that Jorge had clipped from the terraced gardens high above the sulfur baths. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With a pair of scissors she clipped the fins. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Heavyhearted, Ralph pushed his desk back against the wall, shut the curtain, clipped together his equations and charts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Miss Parkinson,” said Professor McGonagall in a clipped voice. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Well, at the very least, the small fan clipped to my bunk seemed suddenly unnecessary. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z To keep track of his whereabouts, they clipped an electronic bracelet on Dad’s right ankle. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There was a lake of perfectly clipped grass and, across the lake, an ivory-tinted building I vaguely recognized as Greco-Roman. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The note was clipped to our divorce papers, along with a check for ten thousand dollars, signed in the same fountain-pen blue ink on the note. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the ax where it lay, clipped the rope, and followed Stuart down the steep flank of the Geneva Spur. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, without consulting her, he clipped the other end to his own harness and began to pull. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Pris clipped off another leg, restraining the spider with the edge of her hand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They must have gotten the message: I got my wings clipped. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z So I clipped the top and sides, where the outer coat and undercoat were the thickest. You Missed a Spot: How Not to Groom Your Dog During Lockdown 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The story is written in a series of short, clipped sections, sometimes a couple of paragraphs, others no more than a line or two per page. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Grande is a distant part of that lineage now, though on “Thank U, Next,” she leans less heavily on her four-octave range and more on her clipped, soft rapping. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z His execution of clipped rhythmic figures and embellishments is somewhat pronounced, though within the bounds of Bachian style. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z As Emma talks in clipped, accelerated sentences, you sense the same fierce defensiveness Houston often put on like armor in interviews during her career. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Sparkle,’ With Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z Hegarty is an avid reader of the Guardian's environment pages and our conversation is salted with quotes from articles he has recently clipped. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z An arsenal of clipped, rhythmic steps — shuffling feet, scissoring jumps — paraded the dancers along the mirror-flanked runway. ‘Court/Garden,’ an Interactive Work From Yanira Castro 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s probably clipped to your chest or glasses. In the future, will everyone be wearing body cameras? 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z And as Jackie’s own “mum,” Hilary Tones anchors with a rueful awareness of life’s regrets a clipped narrative that seems peculiarly divorced from the decades it traverses. Theater Review: ‘‘Elegy,’’ ‘‘My Mother Said I Never Should’’ and ‘‘The Suicide’’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But salvation arrives in the form of the car’s global-positioning apparatus, which offers solutions to his problems in clipped phrases and a feminine if coolly robotic voice. Theater Review: ?The Navigator,? Eddie Antar?s Play at WorkShop Theater 2012-02-24T23:32:42Z An eccentric loner outside of class, Tobi smokes pot, knits sweaters and keeps a bowlful of his clipped fingernails. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Where a clipped “thank you” would end the dialogue, a joke or confession—“This haircut is ruining my life!”—keeps the exchange in flux. The Hidden Benefits of Not Taking a Compliment 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The original’s road-trip bull sessions and cat-and-mouse interrogations are replaced with clipped lines that play like poster copy: “I welcome judgment.” Review: More Angst, Less Poetry in a Lesser True Detective 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Ms. McMullen has learned to take a big step back when taking food out of the oven, to avoid being clipped by a hot rack. The Joy of Cooking Naked 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Already clipped to a section of cable, I overreacted and lurched for something to grab, lashing my knuckles on the underside of the cable. Between a rock and a high place: Facing down a 300-foot drop in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It was a big party, and it was in Brooklyn, and it was full of writers and agents and men with tie bars and a few women with retro-peacockish things clipped in their hair. “I actually liked your book. I mean, I didn’t end up finishing it…” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z A hulking exoskeleton of clipped twigs sheathed onto a metal armature, it appears human, but only just. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z With his sonorous voice and clipped consonants, Rebney sounds like an old-school anchorman; part of what makes the clip so fascinating is the disparity between his lordly manner and his mounting rage. Fasten your seat belts: Winnebago Man returns 2010-07-08T11:01:00Z With many parents wearing JoJo merch themselves — whether of their own volition or not — the scene resembled a cheerleading camp, a sweeping tide of bows clipped onto ponytails, shirts, high-top sneakers and baseball caps. If you’re 7 years old, JoJo Siwa is the most famous person in the world 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z They are nearly identical except for their clipped beaks. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z A guy opting for the more extreme version of the Darmody — with the sides clipped quite short — should expect to darken the doorstep of his barbershop about every two weeks. Men embrace edgy but tailored hairstyle from 'Boardwalk Empire' 2012-01-30T16:38:59Z The tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith performed in “David Danced Before the Lord With All His Might,” his movements complementing a text sung with clipped austerity by the choirs. Music Review: Six Youth Choirs Sing From Ellington’s Sacred Concerts 2014-03-26T19:59:03Z All these years later and Ivanka has finally grokked the fifth-form passion she was supposed to feel for Plath’s clipped elocution and intimate flair for the personal apocalypse, and she doesn’t want any distractions. Ivanka Trump goes to Washington (and all she got was dumped by Nordstrom) 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Clare, who speaks with a clipped, mysterious precision, is an early indication that Ives’s interests point toward the philosophical, even the mystical. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Talking-head interviews with historians and children of the pair’s collaborators usher us through the decades at a clipped pace that, along with the distance of elapsed time, gives the story an impersonal feel. ‘Lucy and Desi’ Review: Love in the Time of Television 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z I love the first-syllable exclamation in “Oh! Darling,” though: Its clipped agony contrasts with the way Paul McCartney stretches out that “daaaarling” and effectively captures the raw-throated desperation of his vocal. An Exclamatory Playlist! 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z She was cleared of accusations in both Los Angles and New York that she clipped people with her car. Lohan says return to red carpet 'feels great' 2012-11-21T17:28:12Z Whether Tony gets clipped or not has never been the question, of course. Best of Salon: Why “The Sopranos” final scene haunts us still 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z We bought a wireless doorbell kit, mounted the button on a small piece of wood, and clipped it to Mom's bed. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: A widow’s advice for offering help 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The short, clipped words and sentences complement Bloch’s illustrative approach perfectly. What the Shadow Knows: Picture Books on Runaway Reflections 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Philip Franks directs a revival of a play that requires huge restraint if it is not to tip over into parodies of clipped 1950s accents and melodrama. This week's new theatre 2011-07-08T23:09:07Z Similarly, Jai Wolf’s throbbing bass lines from the dance stage clipped the quieter moments of an otherwise illustrious set from post-rock titans Explosions in the Sky, which capped Saturday night. Sasquatch! Music Festival 2018 recap: Artists of all ages made beloved fest feel vital 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z This dashing lad won Maleficent’s love and, ambition overwhelming ardor, clipped and stole her wings to become the king of a neighboring realm. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “For our hogs, we’ll wrap up wool that was clipped from a sheep, and they find it fun to root around for it,” Mr. Piper said. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z It will remain under construction until next April, but the spring mosses, stone gardens, clipped shrubbery and weeping cherry trees will again be open to viewers in time for cherry blossom season. Tour and Resort News: Christo in Italy; Sharks in La Jolla 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It gets shaved, and she also gets her nails clipped. Animal Doctor: Getting to the root of a tuxedo cat’s shabby coat 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z This impression is aided immeasurably by director Michael Dove — Forum’s longtime artistic director — who displays here a superior hand with the play’s clipped, episodic naturalism. Review | 57 plays in one evening? Who’d go to such a thing? You should. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Her hair was upswept, her heels were high, her eyelashes were coated in mascara and she was holding a black “Made in NY” notebook, with two pens clipped to it. Want the Scoop on Team Trump? Pay Attention to Cindy Adams 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z And on that one word, “garden,” her hitherto clipped soprano expands into a voice that stretches and shimmers. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z “With all her little gestures with the cigarette, the clipped speech, the big eyes, the deadpan - I was just as much an actress as she was, even though I wasn’t trained for the stage.” ‘I wouldn’t sit on her toilet …’ Screen revival of Davis and Crawford feud sparks sexism debate 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Over a clipped funk beat and a slurry trombone line, the song flows forward steadily. Jason Moran, Meshell Ndegeocello find their own way to honor Fats Waller Crisply dressed in smart corporate attire, she relates in clipped, unemotional tones the details of an “episode” at a convention in the Virgin Islands that has left her convinced that she has brain cancer. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z Today, he is a brand name, a meme, the mad professor from central casting with his clipped accent, deliberate manner and sudden explosions of Old Testament rage. Werner Herzog: 'I'm fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Loud, clipped chords surged back from the depths behind the altar virtually intact, filling rests and almost comically tripping up the next chords. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Memorial Day Concert 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Not that it would be okay if it were male wings getting clipped. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The ‘Billy Graham rule’ serves only to impede careers, not cheating 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Still, the action clipped along at a pleasantly brisk pace, honoring both the play’s bubbly comedy and its serious themes. Brace for fun in Source Festival’s new plays 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Graves speaks in short bursts and clipped sentences as though he’s slightly out of breath, but he is at his most fluid when conjuring up the landscape of his youth. Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Fagen begins with a woozy piano intro, then some clipped singing. Music Review: Blue-Eyed Soul Veterans Play for Themselves 2010-12-08T20:17:00Z One pound-shop padlock was clipped to the top of the Duga, the giant structure that once scanned the skies over Chernobyl for nuclear missiles. Radioactive ice-cream and penis graffiti: how toxic TV tourists took over Chernobyl 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z His picture frames came with Romanov portraits clipped from postcards and newspapers. Antiques: A Faberg? Exhibition Without ?Fauxberg?s? 2011-06-30T20:30:04Z I distrust writers who are too comfortable with a microphone clipped behind an ear. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Already they are slightly less lush and verdant than freshly clipped bouquets, but the colors, carefully chosen and organized, remain lively. Artist Rebecca Louise Law Brings Flowers to Times Square 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z A therapist opposite her answers in clipped tones, voiced now by a bell, now by the rasping of a saw played by Amy Garapic, another part of a 14-member ensemble above the stage. Review | Opera needs to change. Prototype festival shows one new path. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z All of the fish are adipose fin clipped. Time to take a trip for triploid rainbow trout at Rufus Woods Reservoir 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z In Bostridge’s case, it proceeds from ideas sequentially applied to the music, down to and including his clipped, precise German diction, offered as if he were not so much speaking the language as dissecting it. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The free bird’s wings have been clipped, if not broken. Why "Mad Men" is bad for women 2010-07-23T11:01:00Z On some of the originals here — see the teasing “Cover Me in Snow” and the swaggering “Santa Don’t Sleigh” — Ms. Moore sings in the clipped syllables of Atlanta rap. Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z “This is unwearable,” Ms. Coles said in her clipped British accent. On the Runway Blog: On 'Project Runway,' Judges Steal the Show 2011-08-24T01:13:09Z His most challenging case involves a scurvy 11-year-old boy who wanders up to a school playground and speaks “in the clipped cadence of a POW.” The ten best books of 2014 There are songs like “Blank Space” where Swift sings about changing herself for a man and getting drunk on jealousy with a surprising, stately, clipped sort of grace. This Is Why Joni Mitchell Is Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z And then, ramping up her already clipped vowels to a Penelope Keith level of ridiculous-posh she declares: "You can never be alone with the art of conversation." Mercurial Marling 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z In Potted Elephant’s case, according to Jarrell, one of the specimens clipped by the thief only grows three nodes a year. A growing concern: is it ever OK to steal plant cuttings? 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z When a staff member overheard me bemoaning the fact that Molly never gets her due among American Girl fans, she brought me a Molly doll and clipped her chair to the rim of my table. Dolls and Drinks for Likes and Clicks 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Pat Brodowski, Monticello’s head gardener, saw me eying the round seed pods of the sea kale and clipped off a few of the dried stems. In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z The left wing clipped a light pole, and the damaged airliner sheared the top off a rental car building. Survivor of 1987 Mich. plane crash breaks silence 2013-05-15T07:07:14Z Her earliest project, dating from 1977 and marking her debut as a visual artist at age 45, is a set of collage-poems composed of phrases clipped from issues of The New York Times. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z On May 3, a Sunday, Blaney clipped a leash to Finn's collar, near his orange name tag, and they headed out the door. Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of strangers found a mission 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Arundhati Roy brings her clear, melodious voice and clipped Indian accent to the narration of her second novel, a passionate and compassionate work, 20 years in the making. ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ is one of the best new audiobooks of the month 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The tapes, notable for their subject’s clipped, sardonic replies, form the revelatory backbone of the movie. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Ted: It enjoys the high concept, but its potentially memorable nihilism is clipped by narrative conventionality. Open thread: Who are the best on-screen couples? 2012-08-10T13:14:33Z What we thought for years was my Grandma's own Irish soda bread recipe, for example, turned out to be a handwritten copy of one she clipped from the New York Daily News. A Swedish cardamom braid recipe passed down through several generations 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Just how many whole turkeys will Americans cook this year for a holiday whose wings have been clipped by the pandemic? A Disrupted Thanksgiving Leaves the Turkey Business Guessing 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The Somerset farm where Crisp made his find is clipped by a Roman road, but there is no record of a camp, villa, village, temple or cemetery anywhere in the area. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Close Encounters” offered, at the start, a seething mass of dissonant clusters, which abruptly coalesce into a bright, clipped C-major chord, somehow just as spooky as what came before. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Still, judging by the perfectly clipped hedges that envelop the manicured mansions, residents may be doing with less, but not much less. 36 Hours in Palm Beach, Fla. 2010-03-05T14:42:00Z A mumbled opinion on the Cavs' roster here, a quiet, clipped lament about a recent argument with his girlfriend there. Rapper Boogie puts son Darius first — sometimes even on his songs 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Growing ever more confident, Danielle is now a master of the clipped urban headshake; her muttered "c'mon"s are some of the finest R&B interjections this side of Pharrell Williams. Haim – review 2013-06-02T19:05:01Z Eliot's voice is clipped and sonorous and made a strange accompaniment to the river noise. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z S/he once clipped tabloid articles about h/erself with headlines like “Cage This Evil Monster” and “This Vile Man Corrupts Kids.” The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The band's clipped rhythms, bright jangling sound and good-natured presentation would typically be enough to entertain youngsters. Teatro ZinZanni's 'In Tents' with Recess Monkey is irresistible fun for kids 2012-05-07T21:17:04Z In a tour of the gardens, he had found a single blooming pink rose and clipped it — with permission, he said. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Chewing mechanically on a wad of gum, Ms. Giannotti cycled through clipped, hinging phrases, using small surprising steps to move about a heavily shadowed stage. Dance Review: A Dance Grab Bag at La MaMa 2010-06-13T22:44:00Z Two elements stand out: a long tunnel of clipped, white-flowering crab apple, which Bunny Mellon pruned fastidiously, and an inviting greenhouse-conservatory. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But we are all susceptible to being clipped by a vehicle, to a tire blowout, or to sliding on loose surfaces. World’s longest funeral procession? 2013-06-06T17:30:00Z It had a clipped, precise, syncopated, pin-striped-suit quality, not usually swooping or weeping or sliding. B. B. King’s Inimitable Sound 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The Baltimore dream-pop band Beach House’s sound thrives on repetition: lulling synthesizer drones, flowing guitar riffs and clipped phrases from the lead singer Victoria Legrand. Beach House at Webster Hall: The Art of a Set List 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Climaxes came together magnificently, and clipped endings took the breath away. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z There’s a piece of brown paper, apparently clipped from an envelope, with “J.Q. Adams” in the return address space, in what appears to be the former president’s handwriting. For Sale: Oldest Known Photo of a U.S. President (Socks and All) 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In a nearly two-hour interview, Ms. Wilson was both generous and careful in her answers, alternately clipped and enthusiastic, punctuating replies with sudden, high-pitch chuckles. After ‘The Affair,’ Ruth Wilson Hits Broadway in ‘Constellations’ 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z I also went back through my clippings file, because in those days, there was no internet, so we clipped things out of newspapers. ‘I’m Too Old to Be Scared by Much’: Margaret Atwood on Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I clipped one on my wrist, then the other. How to enjoy an orgy 2014-03-10T22:57:00Z Police said the 41-year-old musician was driving under the influence and speeding Friday night on an interstate in a when his car clipped a pickup truck. 3 Doors Down cancels 4 shows following fatal crash 2013-04-22T20:31:16Z Blaney clipped a leash on his collar, hopped the fence and buried her head in his fur. Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of strangers found a mission 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z But the interviews are fascinating, in their own buttoned-up way, for what the cast and creative team say as well as for the 1960s hairstyles and the clipped accent of the voiceover. Find the road to Alexander Goehr's Promised End on YouTube 2010-09-24T16:06:00Z Pickpocket Julie Andrews clipped my tie clip while talking to me. Biff Liff, Broadway Manager and Powerhouse Agent, Dies at 96 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Combine several English ivy topiaries and a clipped lemon cypress to accent a garden table. Plant Potted Topiaries for Winter 2013-01-08T14:50:06.527Z A taller hedging of yews offers screening from the street and textural contrast to the shorter, tightly clipped boxwood hedges. Laurelhurst garden is a study in grace with subtle color and good geometry 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z We clipped and piled our plump grapes into large plastic bins. The Accidental Winemakers of Mendoza 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Like myself, he returned years later, wings clipped, to Michigan. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Men are wearing them too– as pins clipped to their lapels, the Denver Post reports. Here's Why Colorado Lawmakers Are Wearing IUD Earrings 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Our show is a much more paced-up, clipped kind of thing. ArtsBeat: A Candid Conversation With Alec Baldwin (Is There Any Other Kind?) 2012-04-25T13:18:02Z Pickets of cypress and walls of boxwood clipped into oblongs capped with half-globes lead the eye down a series of “rooms” into the untamed expanse of field and mountain. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z Clouds stack and shift on the horizon, slate-grey and a mild deceptive rose; leading them from early afternoon is a slivered moon as mean as a clipped coin. The Year in Novels So Far; Plus, Hilary Mantel! 2012-05-16T15:37:58Z The most valuable stamp in the world is an ugly, faded morsel with clipped edges. ‘The One-Cent Magenta’ is a brisk tale of ‘the most valuable stamp in the world’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “Am not politician, but exponent of German music, which belongs to all humanity regardless of politics,” Furtwängler wrote in 1936, in clipped telegram style, withdrawing under pressure from the New York Philharmonic post. Putin’s Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Instead of the clipped stuffiness of James Lipton, the frontman of Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” Mr. Rash chooses a grating, irritating approach; but when he keeps his mouth shut, his guests are generally engaging. Critic’s Notebook: TV Shows at Moments of Creation 2013-07-28T19:05:05Z The tone is confident and clipped, but beyond the gleaming exterior, you sense pain. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The clipped, clenched-teeth phrasing that strangled later duds like "Scream" is rarely heard. The New Michael Jackson Album: Not Bad, but Pretty Good 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z A stray bullet fired by cartel gunmen shooting at a Mexican military plane as it landed at the airport in the state capital, Culiacán, clipped an Aeromexico plane preparing to take off for Mexico City. Is It Safe to Travel to Mexico? Here’s What You Need to Know. 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Most revealing throughout this recording is what a liability for this music is the colossal resonance of the modern piano, when even a clipped staccato note can’t fully decay before the next one sounds. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Ezra speaks like a throwback from 1920s New York: clipped, nasal, articulate. Vampire Weekend: 'People tried to pretend we were rich idiots' 2013-05-03T10:30:00Z Your stories tend to be lightning quick, clipped, compressed. This Week in Fiction: Amelia Gray 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z You let out a clipped chuckle, then paused, took out your pocketbook, your brow pinched, and recounted our money. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Ford and his passenger were uninjured when the plane clipped the runway. Harrison Ford in plane crash near-miss 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z And she is allowed some clipped humor in exchanges with Mare’s disgruntled mother, Helen. Review: Kate Winslet Returns to HBO, Now as a Small-Town Cop 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Though saturated in classic soul signifiers – call-and-response vocals, tambourines and handclaps augmenting slinky bass lines, guitars that played accents and clipped grooves more than long lead lines – Saadiq took some detours. Raphael Saadiq makes soul music feel like new 2011-06-05T18:19:13Z “Spiel” conveys both the toylike quality and jittery anxiety, the sweet tones and clipped tapping, of the glockenspiel. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Then he was drafted and sent overseas, his pompadour clipped. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Teyssier was the compelling soloist, singing Maria Maddalena, in the Sciarrino piece, which over 30 taut minutes tries to evoke the scene of the mystic nun issuing her clipped bursts of words. Review: Cantata Profana Captures the Death of a Saint 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Meetings were clipped; havoc, routine; graying hairlines, a melancholy performance bonus. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Then I saw her, heading toward me in a dark dress and sandals, her long curly hair clipped in a loose twist. As the Ball Dropped, Our Life Fell Apart 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Bout.That – with those clipped/clipping dots seem designed to reflect their uptight, neurotic vision. New band of the day: Clipping (No 1,448) 2013-02-08T11:20:36Z In the early years they brought their own lawn mowers to the park to keep the grass clipped and commissioned a master plan for capital improvements. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z After a medical procedure that year she thanked her doctor with a gift of a homemade valentine: a multipage collage-poem composed of phrases she clipped from the Sunday New York Times. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z In 1955, his “Goldberg” recording, played with breathless tempos and an uncannily articulate, clipped touch, won him an international following. Review: Lars Vogt Offers His Intensely Probing Take on Bach 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Babylonian documents normally use full sentences, with a verb, and it's hard to prove how they might have clipped them. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z But his album's finest turns come from guests – in particular, newcomer Lola Monroe's clipped contempt on Initiation. Wiz Khalifa: O.N.I.F.C. – review 2012-11-29T21:44:01Z “I’m not a politician,” Ms. Mac Low begins in clipped tones. Dance Review: Dinosaurs, Politicians, Oil and Water 2011-01-28T22:44:42Z Every song cleaves to a format of clipped guitar chords and drawled vocals laid over electronic percussion. Darwin Deez: Darwin Deez 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z For a project at a London townhouse, yews clipped into massive rectangles are lined up colonnade-style, framing an impeccable tapis vert that is reached by ascending a broad flight of limestone steps. Rooms With a View 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But on the way from Paris Charles de Gaulle to their idyllic retreat, a truck clipped their rental car. How to avoid a $50,000 vacation medical tab 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Some of the phrases in the Mozart felt clipped, and on some exposed entrances the intonation was tentative. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “So as I’m jumping over the bench, it clipped my shin and I went sprawling. Everyone turned to look and I looked up at him and I said, ‘It was a masterpiece!’ Greta Gerwig: 'I'm at peak shock and happiness' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z In clipped sentences, he told her the truth. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z At the railroad station, “the long black hand of the clock on the wall clipped off another minute. . . . Above them, the vault . . . lifted like the dome of a huge cathedral.” A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z One week, there was a torn slip of paper clipped onto the rejection slip, which said, in an almost unreadable scrawl, “Holding one.” How I Became a New Yorker Cartoonist 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. van Zweden provided consistent backing, but sometimes rhythmic details sounded rushed and clipped. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z They strike attitudes of ballet swans in a forceful, clipped fashion. Review: Dada Masilo’s ‘Swan Lake’ Offers Ill-Fated Love With a Twist 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Whereas the old Theodora ranged through Antioch and Alexandria as well as her beloved home of Constantinople, now her wings are clipped. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy - review 2012-07-20T21:55:01Z When I was a kid in Honolulu, we clipped coupons and mostly ate at home. Before They Closed, Restaurants Opened Doors for Us 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z I drafted my first novel in the first six weeks of my son’s life, balancing him on a nursing pillow clipped around my body like a cigarette girl’s tray. Mothers and monsters: On writing through the terror of parenthood 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z “This was a war zone,” said Kavalier, as he led me into the Ellipse, famous for its aerial hedge of clipped hornbeam and central fountain. The vaunted garden at Dumbarton Oaks reopens after some major surgery 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z I clipped a copy of “High Flight” from somewhere and pinned it up at my desk. When the world’s in crisis, we need ‘grief leaders.’ Here’s how to be one. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z These four words — spoken in a clipped, lilting rush over a pitch-black screen — are the first thing you hear in “The Godfather” after a short moan of music. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z We clipped our carabiners to a safety line as the balloon descended to a few hundred feet, and sailed toward a date palm plantation owned by Sheikh Butti. In Dubai, Flying With the Falcons 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z She clung to his hand as the paparazzi swarmed, stared at her lap and clipped her answers during an uncomfortable Diane Sawyer interview. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Usually “Betrayal” – which traces a relationship from 1977 back to 1968 – is performed with the kind of clipped restraint-with-a-tremolo we associate with British works about infidelity, as if it were a latter-day “Brief Encounter.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z Ms. Ukeles clipped the review and sent it to the department. An Artist Redefines Power. With Sanitation Equipment. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z As for her transition to novelist, that news article she had clipped in 1977 about the man with the disfigured face sat in her files for several years. Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z With his latest book, Whitehead explores the dark American chapter of slavery, writing a story that reverberates down generations with the clipped tones of unstinting factual rage. Why I love author Colson Whitehead 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z It is not, I realise, that Nyong’o is haughty, more that she is atypical of her peers; she isn’t on a charm offensive, just businesslike: articulate and smart, clipped and polite. Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Art is political in whatever way you slice it’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z What you are left with are the same clipped tones and breathy, awe-struck commentary that entertained and educated the viewers of grainy black-and-white nature programs in the 1950s. David Attenborough Still Has Hope for Our Future 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z These two cycled between a gentle, unhurried, taking-in-the-scenery trot; a clipped, nervous, we’d-better-get-a-move-on canter; and a determined, loping gallop, exhibited only when capture seemed truly imminent. The Running of the Llamas 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z While the largest Parade Grounds stage sat atop a bluff overlooking Puget Sound, water views were mostly clipped by fences, buses and trees, blocking what might have been Western Washington’s most spectacular festival stage backdrop. THING review: How successful was the first year of the intimate festival created by the founder of Sasquatch? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The buzzworthiness of a reality television star seems to soar depending on her cup size or clipped waist. Hollywood to Actors: No Surgery, Please 2010-04-23T21:40:00Z On the hangers are clipped bags of potato chips. Plastic bag ban in Thailand has shoppers finding bizarre alternatives to carry groceries 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Known for her interest in healthy eating, O’Keeffe clipped and collected recipes throughout her life which she would frequently cook for family and friends. Carrot soup, chicken enchiladas and brownies: cooking with Georgia O'Keeffe 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z We clipped into our skis, and Greg showed me how to use the heel elevators, a stepladder-like device on the bindings that lifted the back of my foot as if I were in stilettos. Skiing as It Was Before Chairlifts 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Property Values: Gracing the one-and-a-half-acre parcel is a pool surrounded by clipped boxwood hedges. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Many folks, not to mention homeowners associations, cling to that model of the American yard as one of clipped foundation shrubs, groomed lawns and trees with mulch circles. Why manicured lawns should become a thing of the past 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Her advice: Restrain your dog in the back seat with a harness, with the leash clipped on, in case Dash decides to dart out of the car during a pit stop. Alternatives to flying with your pet — and how to stay safe when you can’t avoid it 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z With a final, clumsy motion, I clipped the rope that was tied to my harness into two carabiners at the route’s end. Rugged Country, Rugged History in California?s Owens Valley 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z DJ Clock produces a slick, clipped style of the new kwaito. How Kwaito became a global force 2011-08-11T21:30:02Z In faithfully rendering the clipped rhythms and natural cadences of the language, the music taps into the deeper meaning of the words. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z English boxwoods, planted to follow the curve of the walk, and clipped 'Oakland' hollies, which anchor each corner, offer a nod to the traditional forms found in Colonial gardens. Atlanta Cottage Garden 2013-05-13T15:50:05.423Z Effective August 30 through September 1, all Chinook must be adipose or left ventral fin clipped to be retained. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Starting in his 20s, Armstrong frequently clipped newspaper articles about himself and bundled them into scrapbooks. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “I understand why it looks like that, some of the ways that stuff gets clipped, but it doesn’t feel like that in the room.” Bully Pulpit No More: Jen Psaki’s Turn at the Lectern 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z He knelt and clipped away some extraneous growth around the foot of the vine. Jim Law of Linden Vineyards: The Virginia wine industry's oracle marks 30 years And then practice saying “girls” with her precise, clipped intonation. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The video shows bags of food that are clipped onto a conveyor belt on the ceiling of the restaurant, moving from the kitchen to the drive-thru window. Chick-fil-A uses conveyor belts to transport food at some locations, viral TikTok shows 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The music suggested the influence of hip-hop as much as pop, with its rumbling bass tones, clipped drums, and a drizzle of keyboards. Lorde reigns at Aragon 2014-03-19T05:37:00Z Especially when, as temporary kings in a fallen world, they get to ritually humiliate a cowering bunch of humans who fear that they’re next to get clipped. The Walking Dead season seven premiere: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Winslow's style here is clipped, brash, smart and vulgar. Thrillers roundup 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Mr. Dishy’s amiable nudging and Mr. Grenier’s clipped, chilly denials are a combustible comic pairing. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z As a director, he favors speed, impact, clipped dialogue and specialized technical information. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Even as Gabby Douglas was performing the routines that would earn her the all-around gold medal in gymnastics, a few Twitter users were criticizing her ponytailed clipped coif. Noted: Social Media Speeds Up Criticism of Olympians - Noted 2012-08-10T20:34:30Z Listening as her performance took on the clipped, robotic tones of a dance vocal, she said the result "exposes every nuance". Pitch perfection? Auto-Tune's rise 2013-05-17T10:04:05Z On brittle aged paper in the family album a tiny article clipped from The New York Sun bears the unemotional headline “Another Negro to Die.” Antiques: Documents of the Civil Rights Era; All About Rich Dogs 2012-02-16T23:01:59Z From August 30-September 1, Chinook must be adipose or left ventral fin clipped to be retained. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Her way of dealing with more personal topics is to respond in a clipped manner that suggests either tenseness or her simply keeping things brief. Keira Knightley: ‘I used to try to be sensible and good and professional’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The storm clipped the corner of a residential neighborhood and demolished a strip mall before jumping a retention pond and heading straight for Brady, in the southeast corner of town. Harrisburg aftermath: 1 street, 5 deaths 2012-03-02T03:40:00Z Others were businesslike and clipped in their speech. My job at the abortion hot line 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z But this story of female wings clipped, distant horizons and soaring ambitions is delivered with such ingenuity that you forgive the failures and the fact that the final astonishing image is not quite earned. The Vanishing Horizons 2010-08-18T09:26:00Z Alongside recipes for pork chops smothered in caper-lemon sauce and hot toddies, Ms. Tipton-Martin often provides a vintage version clipped from an old cookbook. The 13 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z But it was a stiff and hurried motion, and the ball clipped the top of the net and fell—his third double fault of the game. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z His feet start to vibrate — faster, wider — until the others, with their elbows bent at right angles, enter the stage marching on their toes in clipped steps. Review: Joanna Kotze’s High-Speed Chase at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z "We were being forced to perform the scene … I had worried about my voice wavering, so I overcorrected and the words came out clipped, like I was reading a stock report." Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny 2013-05-01T18:14:56Z If Jocelyn is supposed to be the town’s representative, she doesn’t look too happy about it, shrugging off all small talk with clipped replies. 'Broadchurch' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: It Takes Two 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z So I clipped from tip to toe with nothing but the clipper itself — it was particularly good at demolishing mats — and it took half the time. You Missed a Spot: How Not to Groom Your Dog During Lockdown 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The relative weakness of these stories is surprising, given that Pelecanos is adept at the clipped and precise observations that make for great short fiction. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Back in the Gobi tent Foals proved that they are becoming an ever-funkier proposition, their playing way more clipped and intense than on record. Coachella festival 2013 day one: Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Blur - review 2013-04-13T13:27:34Z I read them for inspiration but for some reason Megan's was one I clipped out and stuck in on the wall and stared at it for many years, every day. Trailer Trash 2013-06-15T23:05:33Z And, at this point, watching dancers walk onstage and off between sections with clipped, assertive steps is beyond hackneyed. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z There are websites dedicated to the practice of extreme couponing, and many of them provide detailed notes on how to get the most use out of clipped pieces of paper. Extreme couponer reveals hacks to lower your grocery bill 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z To this day, Burnett remembers the coach’s simple message to him, delivered in clipped English: “You are number one Olympian.” Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z Making energetic use of split screens, the writer-director Ricky Tollman shows a gift for staccato cutting and clipped dialogue, as in a spirited discussion of terminology at city hall. ‘Run This Town’ Review: What Happens When the Mayor Smokes Crack? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In the next class, did we sense her enthusiasm slightly clipped? Joe Dunthorne short story: The Shapes We Made 2012-12-23T00:06:34Z From the local parks, with their carefully plotted plantings and neatly clipped trees, to the turrets and spires and bridges along the Seine, Paris certainly can be inspiring. Stroll, Sip and Dance Through Paris, in the Footsteps of Artistic Giants 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Above Mr. Johnston’s bed are dozens of photos of naked women, clipped from magazines. Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z His work sounds influenced by the English dance music called grime — clipped and abrupt beats, Antillean rhythms, a puzzle of disjointed parts — but isn’t ever fully beholden to it, and doesn’t use rappers. New Music: Albums From Wye Oak and Sd Laika 2014-04-28T21:13:32Z But Mr. Cooper isn’t the only CNN correspondent with a self-conscious taste for form-fitting charcoal T-shirts, accessorized with a tiny microphone clipped at the neck. 2010-01-22T00:02:00Z The British-born Hill, with her clipped accent, delivered a brief opening statement, but when it was time for questions, each of her answers was a mini-TED talk delivered in a that’s-the-end-of-that tone. Perspective | Their testimony was pointed. Their clothes were reassuringly dull. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z West is sly and clipped, describing someone as "striped like a zebra/ I call that jungle fever." Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? track-by-track review 2011-08-02T16:29:41Z Thank Zeus they clipped Bubo's wings – Ray Harryhausen's pathetic mechanical owl from the original movie only gets a tiny cameo here. Clash of the Titans rules US box office | Jeremy Kay 2010-04-05T10:08:00Z But on “Taban Ahwak” and some of the others sung in Arabic, the clipped guitar and hovering horns clearly reflect the influences of traditional Sudanese music, and the Ethiopian funk of the 1970s and ’80s. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Determined to get hold of its remains for his all-new Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, he clipped out the cutting and scribbled a message to museum director William Holland in the margin. Independence Day fossil: Dippy the star-spangled dinosaur 2013-07-04T14:28:00Z The budgets he’s working with may be smaller than in the past, and the opportunities for outlandish demands clipped, but beauty will prevail, he said. Can Fashion Photography Survive the Pandemic? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The rapping on "Go Far" is characteristically Pinder: clipped, nimble pronunciation with no wasted syllables, the effect being that he punctures the beat more than raps over it. Friday Favorites: J. Pinder, Freeway and Jake One, Last Night's Mixtape 2010-04-09T20:04:00Z She also drew from a personal archive of images clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted into notebooks that she has kept for years. For Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Arnold, a hard worker, is the least distinguished, but she captures some of the friskiness in the clipped bebop cadences. Dance Review: Jason Samuels Smith at Joyce Theater 2012-07-04T21:26:01Z We clipped together in silence for a few minutes. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The babel of voices and accents, their snarls, their drawls, their short, clipped phrases or long, flowing rambles, their clarity or muddle, their eagerness or depression, reveal their regional origins, their class, their temperament. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Buchwald was never shy about soliciting praise, laboring over letters and sending his friends thoughtfully inscribed books and clipped copies of his columns. Art Buchwald’s archives are bound for the Library of Congress. He would have been thrilled. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z During my visit, one unsmiling sister of indeterminate age and a certain severity gave a clipped tour in English. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z Although the crisscrossing plots echo "Hill Street Blues," the black humor, clipped pace and dearth of sentiment is all Brit. Witty, fast-paced 'Babylon,' set in Britain, hits home in U.S. 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z An old allee of clipped Norway maple — a tree popular in the 1930s but now unloved for good reasons — will be replaced with native littleleaf lindens. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z I clipped my iPod Shuffle to my mesh shorts and jogged past Italian delis with dry-cured sausages in their windows and along a pier that hugged the Hudson. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In light of the war in Ukraine, their costumes — khaki tops and bottoms — and their clipped rigidity felt militaristic, as the lead couple in white searched for relief or, perhaps, any means of escape. Review: At Fall for Dance, Resilience Takes Center Stage 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Joseph Gerard, a retired furniture industry lobbyist, said he recalls Sparber sending him an inches-thick binder filled with copies of the same Associated Press story clipped from newspapers across the country. Big Tobacco wins fire marshals as allies in flame retardant push 2012-05-08T05:00:00Z As if trying to outrun high anxiety, her clipped speech rushes and doubles back, reeling and sliding around in the verbal equivalent of pratfalls. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z And I think he would have liked Dennison’s writing style, lush but clipped, with such phrases as “the ubiquity of caprice” and “buoyant with slang,” full of a reader’s zest. A Rosier View of Roald Dahl 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z In place of the clipped moustache that Wilfred Owen modelled in countless tattered school anthologies, PJ Harvey wears a headdress of black plumes. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-03-06T00:09:25Z And, while in person her accent is pure California, on screen in Tolkien, her clipped, turn-of-the-century English consonants and vowels are flawless, as are her more working-class ones for Fantine. Lily Collins: ‘I want to dig deep, tell the truth and be more brave’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z In the movie, guards shouted orders in Polish and German at dozens of razor clipped, shoeless, naked women scuttling into a concrete-floored room. My search for the Nazi who saved my mother’s life 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The fall of this champion was a long one, and he clipped every branch on the way down. Books of The Times: ‘Cycle of Lies’ Details the Fall of Lance Armstrong 2014-03-11T19:43:21Z It’s hardly surprising that when Coleman launches into his solo, with an extended wail that trails off into a series of clipped phrases, it plays like an eruption of joyous laughter. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z For his part, Mr. Williams offers affectless collages consisting of pictures of vintage cameras clipped from old European photography magazines. Art Review: ‘What Is a Photograph?’ Opens at the I.C.P. 2014-01-30T23:57:35Z As to whether she had personally been subject to abuse, Ms. Thurman gave the clipped response, “I’ll discuss it when I want to discuss it.” Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The actor would adopt Milne’s clipped voice from the moment he woke up until the director called “cut” at the end of the day. Domhnall Gleeson Proves Once Again That He Can Do Anything 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z As I speak, I’m aware that students are surprised that my voice slips from neutrality to a more clipped, urgent tone. I’m the ambassador of murder weapons 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “There isn’t that kind of pressure to be time-efficient in theater that there is in television and film. Yet I think a lot of plays may benefit from being a little more clipped.” British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The artist clipped news photographs of the event, zooming in on a Jackie Kennedy dazed by grief. The tricky art of a state funeral 2013-04-10T13:59:23Z When I told the story about my inspiration for the piece, my clipped mid-Southern dialect tumbled from my mouth. Road Back to Russia, Paved With a Play 2011-08-21T03:30:33Z She is absolutely elegant, and completely isolated — a documentarian, microphone clipped to her chest, talking to an unseen camera about the last time she hugged someone. ‘Out of Time’ Review: Once Sidelined, Now Taking Center Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The gardens of the Brazilian bourgeoisie were full of roses, geraniums, clipped hedges and other floral markers of Western “civilization.” This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z They pulled the worn canvas cover up where it dragged on the ground and clipped it back into place, like giving the ride back its dignity. Can This Amusement Park Be Saved? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The six-year-old Chinese crested would get her nails clipped soon enough. Worst in show: how the world’s ugliest dogs get competition ready 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Then come graphic pictures clipped from dirty magazines as models for paintings in runny pigment. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z As he progresses with clipped, shuffling steps, his lean body takes on an odd and eerie shape. Review: Ballet Rakatan Delivers Sizzling Cuban Moves 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z "Yellow, pink, blue, lavender and green, clipped the wings so the chicks won't fly away. What once took 27 hours only takes six minutes today, and the bunnies are just as popular." The science and spectacle of microwaving Peeps 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Years later, studying for a Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Iowa, she adopted a similar strategy, reading short stories clipped from The New Yorker as she did lab work. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z Also on exhibit are the vintage magazine pages from which she clipped the spokesmodels and products. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Campbell, dragging Ms. Cao across the floor, lowers her into a seated spin with more effort than vitality, as Mr. Bahiri’s clipped movement — a jump there, a lift here — has no seamlessness. Review: Ballet NY Presents a Premiere, Medhi Barati’s ‘What Ever’ 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z During one section, the soprano voices soared in a long line over the clipped notes that swelled and ebbed in the lower voices. Review: Roomful of Teeth, Making Nerdiness Cool 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “This will likely be the fastest stretch today,” Mr. Webb told me as we clipped along at close to 14 knots and I grinned like a kid on Christmas morning. Journeys: Sailing San Francisco Bay Like a Pro 2012-08-03T17:03:29Z He offered shots to his bewildered guests, taciturn farmers who drew their brows together and managed a clipped “nope” in response. Why this small South Dakota town started the International Vinegar Museum 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The elegant bleached white oak floors set off the pale palette of furnishings including Gustavian-style sideboards, French daybeds and clusters of perfectly clipped myrtle topiaries. Can a basement really be beautiful? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Interesting artistic choices, such as delegating extended choral passages to the soloists, were refreshing, though some clipped phrasing in the Kyrie and Gloria seemed slightly mannered. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center The face is essentially the same, but the eyes are too friendly and the voice is smooth and mellifluous where Roy’s is a clipped growl. Brett Goldstein Faces Life After ‘Lasso’ 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z “I come from order and structure,” he says in his clipped British accent to a bunch of people with tattoos and blue hair. Should you watch Cameron Crowe’s TV show ‘Roadies’? Let’s talk it out. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It delivers the sensations of Edna O’Brien’s rural Irish world by way of Harold Pinter’s clipped dictums. Review: ‘Pond’ Makes Misanthropy Compelling 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It's slickly done, recreating the clipped tones and frantic behind-the-scenes activity in a radio studio where the actors also have to provide all the sound effects. The Fitzrovia Radio Hour ? review 2011-01-14T21:50:01Z I clipped my roller to the zip-line, took a running start and flew high above the canopy as the forest plummeted below. Treehouses on top of the world: Zip-lining to lodgings in Laos 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Surely, she clipped it out of the newspaper, as she did so many other recipes, or copied it off the back of a bag of Lay's potato chips at some point. My grandmom’s potato chip cookies are just as quirky as she was 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Shakespeare was rigorously clipped, so as not to bring blushes to maiden cheeks. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Hemingway uses clipped speech to great effect; his characters rarely talk for long enough to start sounding unnatural. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z Repeatedly, a plot-thread will start coming to life, only to be clipped short as the action skips backward or forward 100-plus years. Jonathan Evison's 'West of Here' spans a century of Olympic Peninsula history 2011-02-10T00:25:03Z The British actor’s comic wings are clipped in this sincere but unwieldy film about an abrasive radio personality whose heretofore-unknown African-American teenage niece shows up at his fancy New York City apartment. ‘Hot Air’ Review: A Right-Wing Radio Host Learns to Love Again 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z While he was prime minister of Malaysia between 1981 and 2003, Mr. Mahathir detained opponents, fired top judges, controlled the media, clipped the power of Malay royalty, fired one deputy and pushed another to resign. A Malaysian Art Scene, Under the Radar 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z He is asked what that spider plant, which he clipped without much thought so long ago, means to him. How the Fonz takes care of a plant smuggled out of Nazi Germany 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z After a transitional moment in the piano with soft, hymnlike chords, the lilting main section, almost a gentle dance, begins with a slightly clipped yet tender melody on the words “Pigeons on the grass alas.” A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Much of the dialogue is composed of clipped shards of language that include few proper sentences, giving the characters’ exchanges an arch and artificial sound. Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z The story revolved round the setting: a botanical garden with a clipped hedge, ripening tomatoes and green apples. Special Report: Fashion: Let It Rain! The Dark Side of Summer 2011-06-24T17:09:53Z His guitar evoked the sounds of an aluminum factory, with clipped chords hissing like drill presses and fragmented notes functioning as abrasive shrapnel. Gang of Four turn back the clock with vital, aggressive show 2011-02-12T11:21:00Z Deep in a fresh crisis, Linda laments that “sometimes I don’t think we’re born women at all — it’s like our wings get clipped and then everyone’s so surprised when we don’t know how to fly.” In ‘The Pursuit of Love,’ Looking for Liberation, Too 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Juliet Stevenson brings her lovely low voice and grace to the narration, ranging easily in accent through Britain’s social classes, from plummy British consul, clipped headmistress, refined Miss Benson down to Enid, a feisty cockney. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The movie begins with a faux-archival video from a decade ago that extols Don’s discovery of the shears that clipped Samson and salutes his resulting worldwide renown. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He seemed pleased with what he had accomplished, though he left his sketch clipped to the easel. Christian Slater Is a Still-Life Artist 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a lot of work to keep them washed, dried and clipped and getting them fit,” he says. At the state fair, it’s showtime for two kids 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z A man was walking in the Venice neighborhood when he was clipped by a vehicle and fell, Los Angeles police department Brian Wendling initially told local stations. Veteran actor Orson Bean hit and killed by car in Los Angeles 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z He was barely able to say hello when his paramour deftly tied her silk waistband into a noose, clipped it to a rope, and signaled her accomplice, Michel Eyraud. ‘Little Demon in the City of Light’: a hypnotic murder 2014-03-26T19:48:46Z Yet, even there, the clipped montage of the moments leading up to Dibs’s erotic experience and fantasy eliminate the banal, even potentially comedic, mechanical aspects that risk breaking or foreclosing the mood. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The film is about a plucky young woman who runs off to the circus, only to find her wings clipped by the show's handsome but arrogant superstar. SKorean film festival to feature NKorean comedy 2012-09-10T11:58:17Z She brings an emphatic urgency to her character — she moves with clipped efficiency — yet her production suffers from uneven pacing. Review: A Reimagined ‘Giselle,’ With South African Roots 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z They probably defy rational explanation, better understood via a clipped electric guitar chord or the fold of a shirt-collar than any text. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z The seeming fragmentation of the clipped phrases was intentional: Rachmaninoff wanted to keep you guessing. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Blazes Out a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In the 1960s and ’70s, she often worked in a somber monochrome, painting images she clipped from newspapers, often focused on military themes or destruction. Perspective | Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Iwuji’s clipped Nigerian accent evokes the novel’s African setting and a village storyteller’s impious wit. Book World: 5 stories to relish even with your eyes closed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z A lot of gray hair is clipped into regulation cuts with deep side parts. Perspective | Trump’s Situation Room photo is straight from a war movie — just how he would want it 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z About 15 seconds after it left the ground, the plane dipped slightly below its path, clipped an unlit house, and plunged into the village of Paray-Vieille-Poste. A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Effective October 1 any Chinook, adipose fin clipped or not, may be retained. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Surely also the model for Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondley-Warner, he may not be familiar by name, but the voice is instantly evocative: the clipped precision, the jauntiness, the terrible puns. Mirror to the Soul: from Barbados to Basing Street 2013-04-19T06:00:12Z Any Chinook, adipose fin clipped or not, may be retained effective October 1. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Goodman’s words want more flexibility and lyricism, and too many stretches of Mr. Adams’s vocal writing are rendered in clipped, intoned lines. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z His singing was precise, clipped, mesmeric, and you couldn't take your eyes off him. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In service to a gleefully malicious tone, Mark Mylod’s direction is cool, tight and clipped, the actors slotting neatly into characters so unsympathetic we become willing accessories to their suffering. ‘The Menu’ Review: Eat, Pray, Run! 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z She constructed three-dimensional collages from pictures of food she clipped from magazines and some of her own photographs. Laura Letinsky’s Food Photography 2012-10-09T22:53:17Z Not being clipped to a line, she was swept away and never found. Blue hole, black hole 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A good example of this need for grass is the picture of a garden in Spain with blobs of clipped shrubbery and lavender. Forget the perfect trophy garden. Today’s finest landscapes are positively wild. 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z In the solemn second movement, the strings played the unison thematic statement with emphatic sound and clipped articulation, almost like a Baroque oratorio. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Hair extensions are usually clipped, glued or sewn into natural hair. ‘Bad Hair’ movie explores Black women and hairstyle messages 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Vann's famously clipped language creates tension in the most mundane situations, as when Galen's mom serves him tea early in the story. 'Dirt': A loner's twisted family unravels in David Vann's novel 2012-06-13T20:35:05Z The chorus, with its clipped keyboard phrases and enthusiastic handclaps, ranks alongside Weather Report’s main “Birdland” theme as one of the catchiest moment in fusion history. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He is clipped rather than effusive, hinting at rather than wallowing in acts of emotional or physical violence. Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review 2012-05-25T21:55:10Z When the clipped and costive British voiceover finally delivers the GPO's message, it seems like the final surreal touch. MoveTube: there's a pot of gold at the end of this Rainbow Dance 2012-11-30T09:54:00Z VanderMeer’s style here, marked by an archaic syntax and clipped sentences, is cumbersome for a reader trying to gain a foothold in this strange, new world. Review | In Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Dead Astronauts,’ time travelers try to rescue a ruined world 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z If the other person is clipped and abrupt but accepts your apology, say “thank you” and mean it. How Not to Apologize 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z I became cold toward him, answering him only with clipped, short sentences. The voice told me to end my life: This love quieted the voices better than any pill 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The first two-thirds of the book, subtitled “Shankly Among the Scousers,” is a clipped account of every game the team played during those 15 seasons, complete with stats and attendance figures. Review of ‘Red or Dead’: Liverpool’s Bill Shankly, the Odysseus of Anfield Then she pushed down his cuticles and clipped the offending skin away. Connor Jessup of ‘Locke & Key’ Gets His Nails Done 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z They make it their own – it's clipped and machine-like, the absence of cymbals making it feel even more remote – while still retaining some of the abandon of the Beatles' original. Readers recommend: songs about monkeys and apes – results 2012-05-31T11:46:47Z Bare-trunked up to eight feet, these deciduous trees with beechlike foliage are clipped to form an encircling hedge on its own stilts. After a winter restoration, the famed Hornbeam Ellipse is almost back 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Some of these compositions of herbaceous plantings exist within traditional frameworks of clipped hedging, and some are much freer. Marking the gardener’s path through history 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z With his tight stovepipe pants, clipped hair, and cowboy boots, he is a man behind the hip, shaggy times, a liquor drinker rather than an acid dropper. The Brutal Logic of Stardom in “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The formal front garden was marked by an aerial hedge of clipped lindens. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z So many family recipes, some clipped from papers and magazines, many handwritten. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Heloise’s Peking Roast 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z And her clipped replies to his relentless questions imply a decision to embark upon this vigil in solitude, thank you very much. Theater Review: ‘The Vandal’ by Hamish Linklater, at the Flea Theater 2013-02-01T03:00:00Z All that British comedy is, I don't know, uptight and clipped or something, and socially awkward. Nate is a "troubled soul": "Ted Lasso" star Nick Mohammed on his character's dark turn 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Her struggle, in Mr. Maksik’s clipped, rhythmic and repetitive prose, is an exhausting street fight against relentless foes. Books of The Times: Alexander Maksik’s New Novel, ‘A Marker to Measure Drift’ 2013-08-22T19:58:56Z And his facial hair is far from consistent: It varies from nonexistent to full and scruffy to a clipped, square goatee. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z I don’t remember her name or her face, but her hair was twisted into dozens of tiny braids, each clipped with a plastic barrette. Why We Travel: Readers Share Their Stories 2011-04-29T18:55:17Z “Everything is late,” he said in his clipped, speedy cadence as he glanced at the clock. 43 percent of internships at for-profit companies don’t pay. This man is helping to change that. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z One is lean with dark hair; the other stockier, his gray hair clipped close to his skull. When a Boyfriend Joins the Marriage 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z When I asked where she first learned the recipe, the woman shrugged and said she thought her sister had clipped it out of a magazine. The history of "better than sex" cake, a sweet dessert with a sinful reputation 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Fishing is allowed seven days a week and anglers are required keep all clipped fish until they reach their limit. Outdoor writer Dave Graybill's east side fishing report 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Two Southwest Airlines planes clipped wines at Newark Liberty International Airport early Saturday morning; no one was injured in the collision. 2 Southwest airplanes clip wings at Newark airport 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Wearing a pale blue shirt under a dark blue jacket and jeans, Jacobson’s dark beard is clipped short and he’s sporting rectangular rimless glasses. Shane Jacobson: 'I feel I’ve got to constantly prove myself' 2013-07-26T04:43:04Z Why would you be religious?” parried Dean Shaw, in her clipped British accent. The Bay Citizen: Mixing Art and Religion With Anna Deavere Smith as Grace Cathedral?s Artist-in-Residence 2012-02-10T06:05:55Z I was temporarily intimidated by the fact that he was wearing shoes that actually clipped into the pedals, but I got over it. Los Angeles on $100 a Day 2010-11-15T22:21:00Z The musical rhetoric sounded clipped and uncertain, and she so often used her expressive device of not playing the hands exactly together that it became tiresome. Filipina pianist Cécile Licad in recital at Dumbarton Oaks She painted images clipped from magazines in slightly fogged-in grisaille, as if suffused with tragedy. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z “Clip, clippety, clip, out of the newspaper, I clipped things,” she told Rebecca Mead, in a recent New Yorker Profile. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Katharine Hepburn, helplessly luminous, plays Mary with the clipped consonants, straight-backed posture and limited emotional range of a Boston debutante. A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Did I mention that everyone in New London speaks in clipped British accents while the Savage Lands dialect is strictly American? ‘Brave New World’ Arrives in the Future It Predicted 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Her kinky curls are clipped short at the sides and longer on top. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It was that kind of soulful clipped patter common to black folk. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Thelma's top beak was crudely clipped just below her nostrils, causing the bottom beak to jut out partially exposed, resembling an underbite. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Next, she turned to images she clipped from magazines, showing totems of war: fighter jets, atomic explosions, a view of Hiroshima after the bomb. The Artist Vija Celmins Conjures Sea and Sky With a Brush 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z She’s like a haiku poet, wringing meaning from the least gesture, able to summon heartbreak or dry humor from the same clipped “Thenkyou.” Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In 1990 I illustrated the second issue of my magazine, The Baffler, with preposterous home designs clipped from a local realtor’s catalog. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z “Full Stop” clipped along like it was trying to race ahead of its competition, while Jonny Greenwood draped ghostly keyboard sounds over the top. Concert review: Radiohead at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-11T06:27:00Z It begins: "Traveler waking. Journey begins," and the prose continues on in the mode of these fragments, these clipped near-sentences. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z That’s what Schnabel’s accounts of these sonatas achieve: breadth and sweep, even when the tempos he takes are so rushed that passages turn muddy and phrases gets clipped short. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z And David Alderson, who remains physically whole but psychologically clipped after a career spent detonating bombs. The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review 2013-07-12T09:00:01Z She takes us to the Cornish sea – waves projected on the windscreen cover, a breeze blowing from a fan clipped to the handbrake – and, momentarily, the festival fades from view. Latitude festival roundup: my theatre highs and lows 2011-07-18T15:40:33Z The characterizations and dialogue — clipped, noir, corny at times — seem just right. 'Sutton': conscience-ridden bank robber becomes a national hero 2012-09-19T21:10:11Z R. Kelly believed he could fly, but it will be justice to see his oppressive wings clipped.” As R. Kelly’s Trial Begins, Here’s a Timeline of the Allegations 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Littlefeather, who was 26 at the time, cut a regal figure — wearing moccasins and a tasseled dress, her long, dark hair parted and clipped with intricate beadwork. Sacheen Littlefeather may have lied about her identity. Does that matter? 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z A Fire Department spokesman, citing preliminary information, confirmed two Delta planes were backing away from loading gates when they clipped wings, and no injuries were reported. 2 planes clip wings at O'Hare Airport 2011-07-30T02:05:00Z For small edging box you used younger English box and kept it clipped, or you planted miniature varieties that might grow a foot high after 30 years. Boxwood gets a makeover 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z He invented a clipped style of filmmaking that is immediately identifiable, and whose influence has reverberated over time. Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Gary Troy, who offers the clipped accent and urban snap of North Dublin, and Ms. Donnelly supply a bracing astringency. | 'The Irish . . . and How They Got That Way': A Frank McCourt Revue Is Revived 2010-08-04T21:33:00Z Productions of Coward plays were hobbled for years by performers consciously or self-consciously imitating the creator's clipped diction. Authors in search of a character: when playwrights stage themselves 2013-02-11T16:09:45Z With his clear brow, curling beard, and large, amused eyes, he is regally dressed in gold and green and immaculately groomed, right down to his cleanly clipped nails. Art Review: Stained Glass at the Cloisters 2014-02-28T00:07:01Z As he turned my son around to face the front of the table, Jack reached for the doctor’s ID badge that was clipped to his shirt pocket. Motherlode: When Adults Call Children Names 2011-04-15T15:32:17Z As their world expands, the clipped straightforwardness of events becomes almost mesmerizing, the reading compulsive and the direct language a guard against sentimentality. Jane Smiley’s elegiac look at an American family in ‘Early Warning’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Throughout the school year, e clipped coupons for military families and collected toiletries and baby supplies for a local woman’s shelter. Youths honored for giving to their communities 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Fabolous, wearing a bowtie clipped to his T-shirt and backed by a live band, was pleasant but perfunctory. Music Review: Axis of Hip-Hop Brings a Crowd to the Stage 2011-06-06T14:32:30Z His clipped alien-speak notwithstanding, Williams played him as all emotion: delight, confusion, warmth, amazement, glee. Memories of Mork: Robin Williams, RIP 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z These chapters sometimes feel clipped and compressed, as if he’s wedged the data in his heart onto a thumb drive. Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir: Riding Shotgun With the Boss 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The Trump Organization confirmed Wednesday that the president’s private Boeing 757 was involved in an accident at LaGuardia airport after a corporate aircraft clipped its wing while trying to maneuver into a parking area. President Trump's private plane clipped by aircraft at LaGuardia Airport 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z She clipped recipes from magazines or wrote them on whatever happened to be at hand. A Mother’s Cookbook Shares More Than Recipes 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Maybe they seemed familiar because when my mother made lasagna she used Franco Harris’s very own recipe, clipped from the local newspaper. The NFL machine grinds on: I love football, but I can’t watch Super Bowl 50 — or the game, ever again 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z As he enthuses about directing, Slattery's clipped Boston accent further asserts itself. Rogue male 2013-04-07T17:00:01Z The plucky music is driven by pummeling, often blasting bursts of clipped phrases. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z I picture a clipped nail flying through the air and landing in the shrimp cocktail. Ask Amy: Infidelity gets in the way of anniversary These grow up to be sinister blond children, speaking in the sinister clipped manner which only English child actors of that vintage could manage, who show every sign of being a fifth-columnist alien invasion force. Why I'd like to be … George Sanders 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Last month, Creed's band took their clipped post-punk to the Swn music festival in Wales; they have supported the Cribs on the indie circuit, too. From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world's love affair with pop 2012-11-14T18:23:09Z Novel touches were plentiful in the group’s reading of this popular concerto, starting with its clipped rendering of the three rising chords that introduce it. Music Review: Proving That Early Music Can Contain Startling Shifts 2011-03-08T22:00:11Z His voice retains the clipped cadence and flattened vowels of his Bronx upbringing, and he is given to frank disclosure. Arts & Leisure: Richard Price and CBS?s Harlem Crime Drama ?NYC-22? 2012-04-05T16:11:57Z His clipped, effective prose did not rise to those heights, nor did his ideas about art have the generous scope and grandeur of Ruskin's cultural vision. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z “She chose,” that sister says at one point, her speech as clipped as Dawta’s is loose. | 'Born Bad': Unspeakable Truth, Unspoken 2011-04-08T23:43:43Z And, in the show’s most economical gesture, Jeffrey Tranchell frames a photograph of a pretty young woman clipped from a magazine. Art in Review: ?PERFECTLY DAMAGED? 2011-07-07T21:00:05Z To protect your floor, he suggests that you focus on keeping your dog’s nails clipped and rounded over. How to protect a dark hardwood floor — or at least hide the damage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Why the "Glass" prequel "Unbreakable" holds up, nearly 20 years later 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The energy tends toward the clipped and fragmented, with what could be single sweeping movements broken down into their component parts. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Only then did I remember those clipped pages from Ladies’ Home Journal. My brush with the Holy Grail 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Lines like that are abundant, one-liners dropped in that clipped speech way by residents who talk about the small things while standing over corpses. ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Making Way for Marge and Lester 2014-04-16T16:19:16Z Most of these were of little interest, but one caught my eye — a few pages clipped from an old issue of Ladies’ Home Journal. My brush with the Holy Grail 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The clipped, modal exchanges of Angus and Malcolm Young's guitars, Cliff Williams's bass and Phil Rudd's drums lay bare a fat-free unit whose forward propulsion is effortless. My favourite album: Back in Black by AC/DC 2011-08-05T15:23:28Z In Mary's Cherries, a long, red nail is clipped and passed through a line of labourers in beauticians' uniforms, where it is pummelled and then rolled to form a glossy glacé cherry. Artist of the week 191: Mika Rottenberg 2012-05-24T11:40:15Z On those tapes, she reveals little, but her clipped, rushed manner, so offputting to some, seems reasonable after a lifetime of being underestimated. Review: ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict,’ Portrait of an Heiress With a Cause 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z According to one reviewer on Publishers Weekly, Fey's narration of her memoir was so funny "that I clipped a cement highway divider driving to work". Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z The American writer Marianne Moore began a poem about poetry with these clipped words. David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z When the expensive but poorly reviewed “Marco Polo” got clipped in December, it qualified as a surprise to the TV industry. ‘Sense8’ Cancellation Is Netflix’s Second in a Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Egan even disparages the modern Columbia River as “flaccid, clipped by more than a dozen big dams.” Books of The Times: ‘Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher,’ by Timothy Egan 2012-11-11T23:33:07Z And throughout the pandemic, she collected the cigarettes she had inhaled, strands of hair she had lost and fingernails she had clipped as a way to mark the passage of time. In Hong Kong, a New Exhibit Creates a ‘Space for People to Feel’ 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z There's a new dude on the show, Simon Davis, a business entrepreneur – fabulously clipped and polished and posh. TV review: Country House Rescue 2012-06-14T20:00:06Z He was immaculately dressed in a suit, his dark hair clipped short, his brown eyes penetrating. Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Stephen Jones, a London-based milliner, said the contemporary incarnation goes back to at least the early 1960s, when women clipped them atop bouffant hairdos. Noticed: The Perched, the Frothy, the Fascinator 2011-05-06T17:34:29Z Dorothy tries to mask some unexplained mania with her too bright smile and clipped, quaking enthusiasm. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The range was at the back of a gun shop, soundproof rooms with stalls facing paper targets clipped to a metal bar. The National Rifle Association’s Telegenic Warrior 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z One of the cars the wrong-way driver clipped lost its rear-view mirror and its driver called police after witnessing the collision moments later, police said. 2 hurt in wrong-way crash on Kennedy 2012-02-22T11:21:00Z “Emeralds” requires dancers with subtle power and perfume, and with her occasional brittle smile and clipped approach to movement, Abi Stafford, partnered with Jared Angle, was miscast in such a romantic setting. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z A medieval abbey and manor farm clipped only a corner of the site; today, it remains open farmland surrounded by spectacular ruined Roman walls, still 20ft high in places. Relic of Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence, found at Silchester 2010-07-16T13:06:00Z The stacks behind Room 100 contain rows of recently acquired books and periodicals that will soon be clipped by librarians to supplement the folders. Hands Off the Library’s Picture Collection! 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Prowling through moldy basements or the stale-smelling racks of castoffs at the Salvation Army takes work and an unexpected degree of passion and also possibly a hand-hewn clothespin clipped to one’s nose. The Gimlet Eye: Flea Market Vendors Take Stock in Things of Others 2010-05-12T22:10:00Z |
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