单词 | propulsive |
例句 | Peoples, why are they so compelsive, no, what is the word, propulsive, no, obsessive, yes obsessive! The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “If there were any way to get asymmetric forces out of that, where you get force in one direction and not the other, you’d get a propulsive force.’ Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Fresh off the success of their third novel, “The Death of Vivek Oji,” Emezi delivers a sharp, raw, propulsive and always honest account of the trials they endure as a person “categorized as other.” Review | Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir is a healing ritual for the displaced 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Conlon conducted a propulsive performance, building the drama in the duets and trios. Domingo in Verdi rarity `I Due Foscari' in LA 2012-09-16T17:51:10Z Moving between poetry and prose, dialogue and history, Robin Robertson’s “The Long Take” is a propulsive verbal tour de force. Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z A unifying, coherent philosophy is possessed by each, and both execute it propulsively and faithfully. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z “Oyamada has great fun playing with the idea of elision, building a propulsive narrative of omission and isolation.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z There are snippets from gems like the hugely popular “In the Upper Room,” a ballet set to the propulsive music of Philip Glass. Twyla Tharp, nearing 80, isn’t slowing down. Next question? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z In the end, “The Healing Sevens” was propulsive, flashy and more than a little contrived. Review: DanceAfrica Excels With Tradition. Why Go Beyond? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z This was Schumann looking forward, particularly from the final movement’s propulsive drive to the Post-Minimalism of the program’s second half. Review: The Violinist Leila Josefowicz at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The slap of one foot against the opposite ankle, again and again, establishes a shared rhythm, a warm-up for more propulsive unison sections to come. Review: From an Eco Art Village, a Dance About Community 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The production, under the propulsive direction of Thomas Kail, seizes hold of the audience from the opening number. 'Hamilton' brings its tale of American idealism to L.A. at a moment when it's needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z There is a galvanic moment in the new Broadway musical “Shuffle Along” when Audra McDonald, playing actress Lottie Gee, is trying to goose a new song, “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” with a propulsive beat. Tony nominee Savion Glover: Go ahead, call me a Hoofer 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z By the time he played with Miles Davis in the late ’40s, Roach had shifted his style to a more propulsive rhythm that emphasized the ride cymbal. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Max Roach 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z He throws propulsive, Stravinskian rhythms at his forces, then urges them to outdo Ravel in lush string writing. Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘L.A. Variations’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Lady Gaga was vehement, too, in a propulsive take on “I Wish” that had her bouncing up and down behind an electric piano like the Muppets’ Dr. Teeth. Beyonce, Ed Sheeran toast Stevie Wonder at all-star Grammy tribute 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “Get Carter” encodes that point-of-view into its very marrow: relentless, propulsive, mean. 'Get Carter' and the birth of British noir 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z A few days later, Presley, Black and Mr. Moore recorded a propulsive version of “Blue Moon of Kentucky” by bluegrass artist Bill Monroe as the B side to “That’s All Right.” Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The tension between propulsive rhythmic precision and individual styles captivated, especially when Mr. Albright dispensed with forced conceptual frames and focused on his dancers’ kinetic intelligence. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z It was propulsive and power-driven, not particularly slow and downtrodden. Ten Years After Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lines, Album Still Shines 2012-12-07T16:30:52Z Like Thomas Mallon’s recent “Watergate” this book is enveloping and propulsive. Books of The Times: ?Truth Like the Sun,? by Jim Lynch 2012-04-08T22:00:45Z Up close, we cannot ignore our present-day complicity with history even as the novella moves propulsively toward tomorrow’s inevitability. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Makes Virginia’s Past Present in ‘My Monticello.’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Though Olive is the book's protagonist, she barely figures in many of the stories, which loosely coalesce around themes of marriage, aging, community and mental illness rather than a propulsive narrative. Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The ceremony requires a propulsive rock score and much cracking of a bullwhip. ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at the New Diamond Horseshoe Club 2013-12-26T21:42:17Z It’s a breezy and propulsive read, a satirical literary thriller that’s enjoyable and uncomfortable in equal measure; occasionally, it skirts the edges of a ghost story. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The delayed entry of the rhythm section makes it more dramatic, and serves to lift the piece into a more propulsive mood. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z The substance of Ill Manors – its righteous storytelling, its propulsive undercarriage – is more gripping than the title track implies. Best albums of 2012: 20–11 2012-11-28T09:00:00Z But it’s not the propulsive gospel that drove 1960s soul music; it’s the tradition of the spiritual, lingering on each extravagant phrase. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z An organic spirit permeated the reading, with momentum that was neither propulsive nor slack but simply natural, patient. Review: After 55 Years, the Helsinki Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z This propulsive launch suggests that, after a muted $134 million for the total run of the third Mission: Impossible film six years ago, Cruise could be rebounding from a long slump with this swashbuckling blockbuster. Sherlock Holmes and The Chipmunks: When Sequels Are Weak-quels 2011-12-18T20:48:44Z Her grip on it was more than firm: it was unrelenting and propulsive. Art Review: Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum of American Art 2012-07-12T21:34:04Z What made his work so captivating, critics said, was its eclectic originality, propulsive rhythmic force, companionable combination of dissonance and consonance and its masterly command of sonorities from the lush to the spare. Lee Hyla, 61, Who Mixed Rock and Jazz Into Classical Works, Dies 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Many readers, however, would argue that the punk movement actually owed a huge debt to the Who’s defiant attitude and brash, propulsive sound. Books of The Times: ‘Who I Am: A Memoir,’ by Pete Townshend 2012-10-09T00:36:11Z If Mr. Stone were Mr. Grisham, these transitions would be more seamless and more propulsive. Review: ‘The Verdict’ Speaks in a Grisham-esque Tongue With a British Accent 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z A high point on Thursday night was their furiously propulsive four-handed reduction of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, embellished with some physical clowning. Music Review | 'Gershwin ... Here to Stay': Gershwin by K T Sullivan at the Oak Room 2010-03-15T21:33:00Z But the actual sound of Without You My Life Would Be Boring – a clattering, propulsive assemblage of sampled voices, woodwind and ritualistic drumming – is so exciting, it bypasses the argument that informs it. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual – review 2013-04-04T14:30:01Z Parks employs a low-key, if propulsive style, making such linguistic detonations all the more striking. Italian Ways by Tim Parks – review 2013-06-22T13:00:02Z The group’s first single, with its bee-like guitar riff, propulsive beat and dissonant harmonies in the chorus, is about a woman who wakes up with her new husband and feels alienated and repulsed. Six Hopefuls Worth Watching at the CMJ Music Marathon 2012-10-15T21:47:30Z Set to propulsive music by Wunmi, “Gatekeepers” is about keeping an eye on others, from one generation to the next. Review: Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Heats Up at the Joyce 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “News” depicts journalists in propulsive motion, clearly legible individual figures, but also a highly abstracted cooperative unit, urging a free press as a pillar of democracy. Ann Gillen: Sculpting in Plain Sight 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z In the end, Mejia, lost in a flurry of grand traveling jumps and propulsive pirouettes, winds up on the floor — both wiping out and wiped out. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z And it is, as you might expect, a propulsive piece, swaying and bobbing as it moves along its musical tracks. La Catrina Quartet fluent in New and Old World music 2010-05-14T20:56:00Z Onstage at Bar Lunático in Brooklyn, performing with a new quartet called Qantar, a smile tended to reign over his entire face as he pushed his band mates into a variety of propulsive patterns. March in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Stark and intricate, propulsive and a little film-noir, “The Echo Drift” is most exciting when it is fast and cacophonous, nearly overwhelming the senses. Review: Without Singing, the Moth Hits the High Notes in ‘The Echo Drift’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z As Salon's Erin Keane wrote last year, the book is a "a propulsive, cinematic page-turner," and I found excuses to continue listening long after I finished exercising. Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z He plays on this one, but for the first time the band utilized an outside producer in Rich Costey, who expanded Death Cab's sound with spacey synth textures and crisply propulsive beats. Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard steps through the fire 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “The Lords of Easy Money” is a fascinating and propulsive story about the Federal Reserve — yes, you read that right. A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z He composed a book about New York with the propulsive syncopation of a jazz musician, trawling the city from Black churches in Harlem to society balls at the Waldorf. Trying to Contain William Klein in One Show Isn’t Easy 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Asher Fisch's powerful and detailed conducting gave the production both propulsive excitement and detailed artistry — from the vivid overture to the joyous finale, which packs the punch of Beethoven's Ninth. A brilliant new voice gleams in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-10-15T00:36:04Z It’s no wonder this propulsive novel was chosen for the Today Show book club and leaped immediately onto the bestseller list. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Hecht and MacArthur were able to translate those rhythms with uncanny exactitude into precision-tooled propulsive theater. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The film, which opens across the country on March 12, stars Matt Damon and reunites him with Paul Greengrass, the director who brought a propulsive visual style to “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” Film: ?Bourne? Team Takes a Chance With Iraq War 2010-02-27T02:51:00Z “Something Wild” is propulsive, tender, frustrating and entirely realistic. When Adult Daughters Realize Their Mother Is Being Abused 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The crystalline Zedd production “Never Really Over” is a propulsive opener, and the bouncy, wedding funk of the title track harkens back to “Birthday,” one of the best songs off Perry’s 2013 album “Prism.” On ‘Smile,’ Katy Perry Finds Purpose (and Pitfalls) in the Past 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Watts’s songs — he uses an effects pedal to sample his own beats and melodies in real time — are as propulsive and smile-generating as ever. | 'Radio Play' : Back to a Time (the ?80s) When Digital Was a Mere Dream 2011-05-16T21:41:52Z Fu, the author of the novel “For Today I Am a Boy,” is a propulsive storyteller, using clear and cutting prose to move seamlessly through time. After a Camping Trip, Five Girls’ Lives Are No Longer the Same 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Set to Jonathan Melville Pratt’s propulsive score, the work uses the dancers’ raw exuberance to its advantage. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z I’ve heard it grander and more propulsive, but never quite so seductive. Review: Jaap van Zweden, Precise at the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The Irish writer’s propulsive American debut follows an alcoholic former actress as she is forced to enter rehab in order to keep custody of her 4-year-old son. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Unsworth’s books, characterized by prodigious research and propulsive narrative force, have long been renowned in Britain and have gained a broad international following in the last few decades. Barry Unsworth, Historical Novelist, Dies at 81 2012-06-08T02:47:19Z Those same fans should be thoroughly satisfied with the faithfulness of Gary Ross' film, with its propulsive nature and vivid imagery: a mix of decadent costumes and architecture and harsh, unforgiving exteriors. Review: `Hunger Games' should satisfy fans 2012-03-20T01:17:12Z Her new novel is suspenseful and propulsive; in style and theme, a sibling to her previous books. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The music, by David Israel, finely connects many devices from mainstream musical modernism into a theatrically propulsive drama. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z “He holds to a relatively conservative repertory of familiar songs, but he imbues them with a fresh, joyously propulsive feeling, much as the big bands of the swing era treated popular songs.” Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Anyone who remembers the agonies and ecstasies of late adolescence is sure to feel a shudder of recognition — part nostalgia, part revulsion — watching this propulsive Irish drama from the mid-1990s. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Sharper editing could have cut a quarter of these pages and produced a more propulsive story. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Vivacious and appealing in its initial form, Mr. Dorman’s piece was transformed here into an exuberant display of vibrant hues and mottled quarter-tones, its propulsive odd-metered rhythms garnished with brilliant metallic percussion and crafty effects. Music Review: Inside Carnegie, Trumpets; Outside, Bullhorns 2011-02-23T22:48:22Z And, because of it, the storytelling is propulsive, as we follow these refugees along a harrowing journey, with danger ever at their heels. Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z This keeps the whole affair fresh and propulsive. Roots remake: seminal slavery narrative still resonates in revamped miniseries 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z He broke it again for the propulsive 71. Richard Dormer: 'Let’s face it, I have the coolest weapon in Game of Thrones' 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z “Forced to Love” is among this band’s most propulsive tunes; “Sweetest Kill” is one of its most wistfully restrained. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z This week, van Zweden presents the world première of Louis Andriessen’s “Agamemnon,” a variously propulsive and meditative evocation of the House of Atreus. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z That explains the latent melodic ache in this effortlessly propulsive music. Review | In 1984, these D.C. Ethiopian expats made a truly rare record. Now the world can hear it. 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The cheerful optimism – and the propulsive groove – of “Don’t Stop” inspired thousands in the audience to sing along. Fleetwood Mac at the Forum: A band reunited, team spirit intact 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Pearl sings about being annoyed that no one asks her to hang out anymore since she had kids, while “Worship the Whip” is a propulsive ode to the dominatrix. After 15 Years, the Nashville Punks Be Your Own Pet Are Roaring Back 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Though Ms. Diller, 65, comes across as calm and low-key, her propulsive career speaks to her ambition and tenacity. Practicing Architecture in a Pandemic 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The brunt of the energy in this “Agrippina” hovered around Ms. Peterson, who conducted the scrappy period-instrument orchestra from the harpsichord, her playing crisp and propulsive. Opera Review: ‘Agrippina’ by Operamission Sees Rome in a Satiric Light 2014-01-22T16:44:15Z There’s a touch of Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad” here, both in the story’s propulsive movement and its touches of surrealism. Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z It is this heartbreaking thread and the book’s relentlessly propulsive story of gender-switching in a perilous time that keep us rapt, turning the pages. ‘The Gods of Tango’: A gender-bending tale of music and love 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The reputation of Steve Reich, the grandfather of American Minimalism, rests on the propulsive, positive energy of his music. Steve Reich’s Minimalist Music, Dark and Bright 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z If Camus’s writing is “capable of giving air facets like diamonds”, as Harun says, Mr Daoud’s prose is propulsive and charged. Stranger and stranger 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But Mr. Davies, as “Doctor Who” fans know, has perfected a style of propulsive, almost manic comic dialogue with an undercoating of melancholy, and there are plenty of hilarious and touching moments in “Cucumber.” Review: ‘Cucumber,’ a Logo Series Starring Vincent Franklin 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z A persistent musical score gave the dueling scenes a propulsive beat while lights bathed them in a dark blue hue. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Prokofiev’s “Sarcasms” contains some of his most pugnacious, grating and propulsive music. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z Mona aren't a studio band, they're a live band whose songs feature pounding drums, ringing guitars, propulsive bass lines and two-part melodies: the teasing verse and the explosive chorus. New band of the day ? No 836: Mona 2010-07-29T16:00:00Z The cubist faceting of both figures and ground gives each panel a density of surface and a propulsive, lilting energy, like swing jazz but with spiked edges. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Chapters have the propulsive thrust of anecdotes; his exuberant excess is the dominant charm. Review | Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The song itself is equally retro, propulsive on polished synths and a wholesome glee. Pop & Rock Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:58:31Z But unlike most others in the genre, he integrated ballet technique into a highly propulsive style. Fred Benjamin, Teacher of Jazz Dance, Dies at 69 2013-12-19T23:46:23Z Tonight's freeloading audience, both actual and virtual, bear witness to Coldplay at their most propulsive and sentimental. Coldplay ? review 2011-07-24T17:27:01Z Many of the new songs felt sparse and aerated, especially with older, propulsive ones like “Little Bit” and “Dance, Dance, Dance” sprinkled among them. Music Review: A Spitfire Onstage, Singing of Young Love and Achy Hearts 2010-12-02T22:43:00Z A thrilling production of "Othello" this winter at the Folger Theatre reminded me just how propulsive that tragedy is. 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z From his death, Ms. Boone learned both to be propulsive and to look around corners. Mary Boone Is Not Done 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; it’s nearly impossible to stop reading. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Like the author’s powerful 2004 novel, “The Dew Breaker,” this book uses overlapping tales to create an elliptical but propulsive narrative. Books of The Times: Edwidge Danticat’s Novel ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ 2013-09-05T20:49:44Z And the way she tells the tale of her mother’s dramatic final night a little at a time makes that story into a propulsive chorus to the song that is the rest of the book. Viv Albertine, Midlife Radical 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z This propulsive thriller, set on the meanest Philadelphia streets, is about two siblings — one an addict, the other a cop. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Thomas Kail’s London production, which retains its top-drawer design team, has the gleam and propulsive thrust of the New York original, and it fits beautifully into the exquisitely restored Victoria Palace. Review: ‘Hamilton’ Conquers London (King George Slays, Too) 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z His fiddle playing had the deliberately rough-hewed sound of rural tradition; his tone could be sweet or scratchy, his phrases songful and melancholy or propulsive and gnarled with ornamental turns and quavers. Dave Swarbrick, British Folk Fiddler, Dies at 75 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z A deftly propulsive bassist, Allison tends to devote his creative energies to original music; he’s the author of more than a dozen albums and a founder of the Jazz Composers Collective. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z And baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts the orchestra in a propulsive, shapely performance. Lustrous cast in Mozart's 'Tito' at Met 2012-11-18T14:03:11Z But really, the words weren’t nearly as important as the remorselessly frenetic beat, the propulsive piano work and the primal, screaming vocal. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Headlining will be L.A.'s own Dengue Fever, whose propulsive blend of psychedelic rock and Khmer song has been filling dance floors around the world for more than a decade. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Colorful, propulsive, and occasionally cinematic, this difficult work got a high-intensity, impeccably phrased reading from Thibaudet, who was utterly in command from the tips of his fantastic fingers to his glittery shoes. Seattle Symphony’s festive concert opens a season with much to commemorate 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In a dark season, sharing the existence of a story as propulsive and transportive as this one is practically a moral duty. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Ebony Magazine to Young Chefs 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The book was such a huge international best seller that Mr. Koch is demonstrably not alone in his fascination with all things loathsome about humanity, and “The Dinner” did tell a propulsive tale. Herman Koch Returns With ‘Summer House With Swimming Pool’ 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z For the occasional propulsive boost in the water, performers wore jetpack-like devices. How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The propulsive vivacity of young Muscadet turns broad and deep over the years, no longer as incisive but more complex. When to Open a Bottle: Aging Wine Without the Anxiety 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z These were period shows of epic sweep, with propulsive electronic scores that force-marched you across decades of political struggle and strife. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z He put out thoughtful, propulsive records both on his own and with The Heartbreakers through 2014's finely honed Hypnotic Eye. Tom Petty’s Wisdom and Will Transformed American Music Forever 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But he also imparted propulsive energy as needed, in the Allegro molto second movement and especially in the composer’s trademark evocation of cascading bells in the finale. Review: Met Opera’s Next Maestro Energizes His Philadelphians 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Bits of “West Side Story” have appeared in Dudamel’s concerts before, but he took up the entire score — with propulsive intensity, playfulness and beauty — for Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film adaptation. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z He kept textures luminous rather than weighty, with propulsive drive and a fine balance of ardent winds and nervous, chattering strings. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-02-11T18:44:00Z The title song, taken from a 2012 album, is a rousing company number that gets the second act off to a propulsive start, and whose elation is characteristic of the show as a whole. These 2 Productions Bring a Jolt of Energy to British Musicals 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The songs it worked on there would become its most pop-oriented and propulsive yet. Muna’s Fresh Start 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Muhly’s opening music is quick and propulsive as concentric circles of dancers exchange places in a dazzling display of formal craft. Paris Opera Shows Off Its Brilliance 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Castillo’s prose is less lyrical than propulsive, driven by rises in cadence. A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z What’s left is a propulsive enchantment that, if you fell in love with the film, as I did, still allows you to fall in like with its follow-up. Review | Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z But while his music can swing hard, he also explored airier, less propulsive realms. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It has the propulsive momentum that runs through most of his music, and playful touches of Americana like galloping rhythms and expansive fifths. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Both “Cruel Sister” and “Fuel” are couched in the rhythmically propulsive post-Minimalist style that drives most of Ms. Wolfe’s music, though both also have haunting dramatic touches. Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z The first and more propulsive half of the musical is devoted to Hamilton's rise from his harsh beginnings and his role in the Revolution. Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z And his ambivalence and internal conflict about betraying Hampton, despite his being the propulsive force behind the film’s tension, lack a clear motivation. ‘Judas’ Is the Latest Political Movie to Punt on Politics 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z At the outset of the three-movement “String Creatures,” country-western “chop” accents — a percussive bowing of the strings that is repeated for rhythmic effect — lent the music propulsive momentum. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Around the eight-minute mark of this intimate live track — recorded before a handful of people in Abbey Road Studios — Baker trades licks with the Afrobeat architect Tony Allen in a chattering, propulsive, throbbing percussion conversation. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The album’s sound is very much still LCD Soundsystem — with its layers of propulsive, syncopated repetition patiently approaching a boil — but the moments of release are less euphoric. James Murphy Wants to Justify LCD Soundsystem’s Existence (Again) 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z This faux “thriller” has a sustained look, an intriguing cast, an entertaining attitude and a propulsive score. ‘Force of Circumstance’: Casablanca in the East Village 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Based on the same book as the 2008 film “Gomorrah,” the show is a brooding, propulsive, totally addictive story of rival gangster clans in modern-day Naples, shot like a Brutalist chiaroscuro nightmare. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z A movie not of propulsive story power but of atmospheric vignettes, Beasts navigates its narrative with a child’s intense and wandering attention. Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Child's Garden of Wonders 2012-06-26T10:45:42Z Focusing on the dancier side of her catalogue, Richard was a siren over propulsive grooves, synthesized melodies and waves of bass. Dawn Richard continues the part at the fringes of electronic R&B at DC9 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Hood is a pioneer of the Muscle Shoals sound who played with Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones and provided the propulsive bass line on the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There." The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Director Justin Lin, best known for the Fast and Furious series, knows how to shoot propulsive cinema. Star Trek Beyond: 10 things we learned from the trailer 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z It was single-mindedly propulsive but also kaleidoscopic in texture and color, going from lush to stark in a single tumble of notes. Music Review: A Lively Jaunt With Medtner, Schubert and Chopin 2014-01-28T22:04:04Z Mattingly has internalized a wealth of musical styles: the gamelan-influenced, West Coast sounds of Lou Harrison; the propulsive cadences of John Adams; the vocal technique and poetic dramaturgy of Meredith Monk. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Squire’s propulsive and often melodic bass playing was a key element of the Yes sound. Chris Squire, the Bassist for Yes, Is Dead at 67 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z This propulsive and creepy thriller from the writer-director Eduardo Rodriguez is more than just a monster movie — it’s a poignant exploration of the limits of compassion and what it means to parent through trauma. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z With propulsive energy, “The Arsonist” follows the case against Sokaluk, a 39-year-old former volunteer firefighter, from the arson investigation’s first frantic hours to the courtroom verdict. Untangling the Story of a Deadly Blaze and ‘The Arsonist’ Who Lit It 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In the final pages, Denfeld speeds up the narrative, creating a propulsive denouement that brings Naomi and Celia together and will satisfy adherents to the conventions of the genre. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The plot is unruly and sometimes hard to follow, but it's propulsive and oddly secondary to Hand's themes and scenes. Elizabeth Hand's mystery series takes on art and death on the way to whodunit in 'Hard Light' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The propulsive meter and guiding framework of sound and action conferred inspiring grace and dignity upon the story. Music Academy in Chennai Hosts Indian Dance Festival 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But in conjuring a fantastical slippery slope in which technology, pharmaceuticals and the entertainment industry co-star in a takeover of our lives, "The Congress" boasts a propulsive image-making pull. 'The Congress' envisions a future dystopian virtual reality 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s therapy, but for an audience of millions, and with a propulsive, ever-enthusiastic host who also helps shapes the narrative, and the placement, of the songs we hear. How Zane Lowe Became Pop’s Unofficial Therapist 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Perversely, some of the novel’s propulsive power comes from the very conventions it fails to abandon. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The Chicago press often praised Mr. Sansano for his audacious work, and justifiably so, if this propulsive piece is a representative sample. Dance Review: Ballet Hispanic Performs Gustavo Ramírez Sansano at Joyce 2014-04-16T21:16:33Z The new work is, like “Silent Night,” direct, effective theater, with a cinematic quality in its plush, propulsive underscoring, its instinctive sense for using music to move things along. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z By that point, Follett had acquired a passionate following through such lean, propulsive thrillers as “Eye of the Needle” and “The Key to Rebecca.” Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z They arrive on stage singly, in a rush of tumbling agitation, and they later, without warning, re-enact those initial propulsive movements, which suggest a violent birth as much as a violent death. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Other songs, like “Your Body Changes Everything,” hint at the moody but propulsive synth-pop of the 1980s. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z As Ms. Thompson ponders this problem she also provides a propulsive narrative, chiefly by ending many of her chapters on Dickensian cliffhangers. Books of The Times: ‘The Humanity Project,’ Jean Thompson’s Latest Novel 2013-04-17T20:28:21Z Complicated in plot, propulsive in its narrative pace, beautifully structured, it is a book you’ll want to read. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Carlos Simon’s propulsive and galvanizing “Fate Now Conquers” nodded to Beethoven, but on his own brazen terms. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z His warning: "hide your kids, hide your wives" became the hook for a propulsive R&B track, which sold more than 100,000 copies, peaking at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100. Youtube if you want to... 2011-02-16T02:52:54Z Yet some of it, especially with respect to the exhilarating, propulsive “Drumming,” is fascinating. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z With the same propulsive, episodic style she perfected in the Neapolitan quartet, she traces how it is that the consciousness of a girl at 12 becomes that of a young woman at 16. Elena Ferrante Returns With ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Group Text addresses the main event: what to read, with a focus on propulsive, thought-provoking, discussion-worthy books. Coming of Age, Whether She’s Ready or Not 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Andrew Litton’s conducting, though it elicited wonderful orchestral playing, was insufficiently propulsive. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z As for that propulsive sigh, it emanates from the title character called Hillary, who spends the surprisingly airy 90 minutes of this show in what might be called a state of angry wistfulness. Review: In ‘Hillary and Clinton,’ Codependence, and, Yes, Camaraderie 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z But, while the production bursts with propulsive energy, it is death that dominates. Romeo and Juliet - review 2011-03-11T00:25:49Z After the melodic and propulsive opener, Neighborhood Watch, and its elegant drum patterns, things lose focus; most of the flashes of grace overshadowed by confusing longueurs. Memory Tapes: Grace/Confusion – review 2012-12-09T00:05:50Z The outer movements are fitful and episodic, with the piano often joining its fellow percussion instruments to create waves of propulsive music, flecked with bright colors and brief lyrical riffs. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z “Sometimes it can be propulsive,” Mr. McLaughlin said of the time he spends writing, “but most of the time it’s just an excruciatingly slow process to write something that moves quickly.” 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z While these conditions are, without a doubt, deplorable, the dogged, surprising, and shifting ways in which artists such as Schneemann navigate them can also constitute the propulsive force of their careers. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z In the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war. ISIS Lost Mosul in 2017, but the Story Began Thousands of Years Ago 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The narrator of this propulsive novel is a light-skinned Black researcher of race and colorism in Brazil. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z From all reports the piece covers a wide sonic terrain from solo cello to subdued choral singing to blazing bursts of orchestral music and much propulsive drumming. The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z Cunningly modelled on business self-help books and written in the second person, it's fast, funny and clever: a propulsive, eye-opening read. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z The storytelling is less propulsive than Mantel’s: Ford labors over scene-setting and, like a playwright, uses speech and action to reveal motivation rather than explicating his characters’ thoughts. Review | Fans of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy will want to read these historical novels next 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z “The Outsider” takes an entertaining and propulsive, if routine, read and renders it with style and savvy but not much of a pulse. Review: ‘The Outsider’ Takes a Stephen King Novel and Makes It Darker 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Of Shakespeare’s tragedies it is more propulsive than most, funnier and more modern, too, an amalgam of sex and death and a masquerade ball that requires little improvement. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Another new one, “Bet You Still Think About Me,” used a propulsive thrum to power a classic breakup story. Review: Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani duet thrills fans in Tacoma 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The Maze Runner has a sly way of seeming propulsive, even if not much happens. The Maze Runner review – the acting's great. Shame about the rest of it 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mostly the additional players maintained supporting roles, thickening harmonies and providing propulsive rhythms, as the primary quartet handled melodies. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z Ms. McCullough’s fiction was prized by readers for its propulsive plots, sympathetic characters and sheer escapist potential. Colleen McCullough, Author of ‘The Thorn Birds,’ Dies at 77 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z His propulsive, deeply musical dances, for his own troupe and larger companies like Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, have confronted issues of police brutality, mass incarceration and other legacies of slavery. ‘A Black Love Sitcom Dance’: Kyle Abraham’s D’Angelo Moves 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Proximity creates a propulsive romance without the aching stops and starts of traditional courtship. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Born in Oklahoma but based for much of his life in Southern California, Cale built his sound from deadpan vocals layered over a propulsive yet unhurried groove. Eric Clapton honors J.J. Cale with low-key style on 'The Breeze' 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Richard Lawson wrote in Vanity Fair that it is “a bracing and dizzying marvel, propulsively pitched and even, I dare say, moving.” ‘Rogue One’ Reviews: Here’s What the Critics Say 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Our reviewer, Lisa Ko, praised the novel, writing that Fu is “a propulsive storyteller, using clear and cutting prose to move seamlessly through time.” New in Paperback: ‘What Are We Doing Here?,’ ‘The House of Broken Angels’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Some of the earlier tales resolve their propulsive frictions rather too neatly, and the sheer versatility in topic and treatment may seem scattershot at first. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z From these writers Household learned the skill of pacing and the propulsive narrative power of the chase. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z With propulsive, high-tension music to match his urgency, Kua Fu runs in place at center stage, as the sun, a rice-paper lantern, moves around him, out of his long arms’ reach. Review: In ‘Book of Mountains & Seas,’ Puppets Embark on Mythic Quests 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The violinist Elizabeth Derham and the violist Jiwon Kim gave a high-energy performance from the outset of the first movement, a propulsive, syncopated race that pits the two instruments against each other. New Juilliard Performs Contemporary Music at Summergarden 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z “State of Darkness,” set to Stravinsky’s sweeping, propulsive “Rite of Spring,” dates to 1988. Seven Dance Stars Take On a Daring ‘Rite of Spring’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Lee Child, praised the novel, calling it a “fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character.” New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z “Shiny One,” a single, is confident and propulsive, while “Stars Align” is unrelentingly sunny radio-friendly pop, whether or not radio friends it back. Belly Would Rather Face Forward Than Navel Gaze 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z For much of the ballet, the stage is a propulsive battleground. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z The summer of 2014 brings “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” a lean, propulsive action-adventure thriller with a raging forest fire as its backdrop and with much more finesse than that description might suggest. ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead,’ a Michael Koryta Novel 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z After tumultuous and prolonged applause, the orchestra and soloist repeated the final movement in another propulsive blaze of color. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z A business reporter, Leonard has written a fascinating and propulsive story about, of all things, the Federal Reserve. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Movie critics are hailing the film as a propulsive entertainment and a return to form for Reeves as an action star, even if it breaks more bones than new ground. Keanu Reeves is on fire in 'John Wick,' reviews say 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It also means that the book inevitably loses some of its propulsive bite when the Games end and the action moves out of the Capitol. A ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Focuses on an Unlikely Character 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The trauma of Benjamin’s crash anchors her new album, “Phoenix,” out Friday, a vast, labyrinthine set of arrangements that opens with “Amerikkan Skin,” a propulsive song that features the wail of emergency vehicle sirens. A Car Accident Couldn’t Halt the Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s Rise 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The final part is set to “Runner,” a calmly luminous orchestral piece with the pulsating, propulsive rhythms that animate much of Mr. Reich’s music. Review: A Decade On, Wayne McGregor Continues to Energize the Royal Ballet 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Most of the songs based their arrangements on the album tracks, propulsive and bustling. Review: Janet Jackson, in Virtuous Mode, Plays Vancouver on Unbreakable World Tour 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Trainor has her family join her for some songs — cousins and her dad — and Earth, Wind & Fire stop by to help on an old-school, propulsive funky “Holidays.” Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Some critics praised Branagh for nailing Johnson’s propulsive gait and peculiar diction. Britain Wonders, Is It Too Soon to Dramatize the Pandemic? 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The film fits into a rich American tradition of basketball drama: it’s perhaps the most propulsive of all sports on screen. Streaming: great basketball films to watch after The Last Dance 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Amadi’s journey, which is fueled by familial duty, quickly morphs into a propulsive detective story. ‘Shine Your Eyes’ Review: Reimagining São Paulo 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Some plays gain enormously from acquiring a propulsive force: others depend, structurally, on a break in the action. Theatre intervals: is it curtains? 2011-03-01T16:45:47Z It is a warm and generous portrait, but the film lacks its central organizer’s propulsive shrewdness. ‘Not Going Quietly’ Review: Into the Long Fight 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Conducting without a score, Dausgaard and the ensemble delivered enough propulsive dramatic intensity and warm lyricism to brush the cobwebs off this concert hall staple. L.A. Chamber Orchestra's impressive guest conductor leads homage to Tim Burton, 'A Freak in Burbank' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z That should feel at least as propulsive as gathering potion ingredients. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z It's a propulsive, cool-looking ad, but it doesn't answer how or what separates this spy flick from a run-of-the-mill action adventure. Super Bowl movie ads: Grading 'Tomorrowland,' 'Furious 7' and more 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But working within those limits, Mr. Soderbergh constructs a seamless, shimmering, restlessly propulsive visual narrative that can fairly be called poetic. ‘The Knick’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Tied Up in Knots 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z I wish I could say this debut was it, but instead it’s just a solid introduction to his spiky, propulsive comedy. Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But the animations were consistently responsive to the warmly propulsive music. ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Uses Projections in Cleveland 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The single Otis boldly samples Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness, an idea that veers wildly from inspired – at one point the ballad is manipulated into a propulsive sweaty grunt-a-thon – to a clubfooted mess. Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne - review 2011-08-11T14:30:01Z Her singular voice, with relentless momentum and emotional switchbacks, is propulsive. Marlon James' views of a crime in 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z For his part, Gaffigan kept the orchestra enthusiastically propulsive in the concert and in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Miller, stars in a propulsive 20-minute experimental music video, “Left of Reckoning,” directed by Stipe’s art school professor James Herbert. Michael Stipe, Another Outsider at the Art Fair 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The movement itself, derived from Mr. Naharin’s Gaga technique, is extraordinary: dislocated, explosive, propulsive yet precise, bodies as calligraphic curves in space. Montpellier Danse Offers Globe-Trotting Via Choreography 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Expect a packed house to for the band’s yearning 1970s singer-songwriter melodies that get enveloped in the band’s propulsive, sterilized electronic framework. Pop Music Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z It's a fine template for future releases, with its propulsive bass and shimmering synths, but it runs out of steam, ideas-wise, after the second chorus. New band of the day - Atlas Genius (No 1,423) 2013-01-03T16:03:48Z The fitfully propulsive opening track, “Dreamt Twice,” features rich writing for the EOS players, starting in the third minute. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It was another fine performance, intense and powerful one moment, singing serenely or in propulsive torrents the next. Technique, musicianship: Daniil Trifonov has it all | Classical review 2013-04-10T17:00:37Z The heroic opening heralded a propulsive interpretation, guided by hemiola rhythms but emphasized in mighty sforzando accents and thrillingly veering dynamics. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z This propulsive, energetic work for string quartet, flute and clarinet/bass clarinet pits the instruments against each other, as well as in occasional harmony. Seattle Chamber Music Society debuts an ear-boggling piece by a ‘Dark Knight’ composer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z After such an airy start, Borodin's propulsive, moody Quintet for Strings in F minor seemed to possess the physical heft of an intricate tapestry. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z Like its opulent visuals, the soundtrack — a propulsive hybrid of samba, Brazilian hip-hop and Hollywood lushness — is a bit too much of a good thing. Review: Stephen Daldry’s ‘Trash’ Is in the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Vein, With Sugar 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “The propulsive parts of the book come as Cowan uncovers the past that her mother was so intent on hiding.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As their feet tap propulsive train rhythms, their bodies convey cramped discomfort, the determination and the arduous journey. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z There were electronic pulses and hints of India and Africa in the songs of Young Magic, an Australian band aiming for the propulsive and the hypnotic. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z The propulsive first movement opens with barbaric repeated piano octaves and chords, engulfed by snide brass and woodwinds. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z In the eerie, propulsive “Qasim,” an isolated life hacker performs a set of rituals that only slowly develop a pattern. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Perlroth writes in the propulsive prose of a spy thriller to offer an intricately detailed, deeply reported — and frightening — account of the gray market for digital weapons and the worldwide cyberweapons arms race. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s a strangely paced song, halting and propulsive from one moment to the next, and after four minutes of chug-a-lug, the band needs to stamp it with an exclamation point. Perspective | Chris Cornell’s singular voice soared above the gloom of grunge 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z There are other similarities between Zeitlin’s two films, including sumptuous cinematography and a rousingly propulsive score, a rabble of charming children and nods at our environmental crisis. ‘Wendy’ Review: Where Playtime Goes On … and On 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z On the instrumental track “Bells Burp,” the album’s opener, a chorus of mellifluous default Ableton bells explode into propulsive waves of synthesizers. A Glimpse of Alternative Russia Through the Music of Kate NV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s well executed and propulsive, but its unalloyed viciousness makes it a tough read for the moment. A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z This version, taken from live performances in 2014, is freer and more propulsive with no loss of accuracy. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But for all of that terse emphasis, he rarely saw fit to thread his points into a propulsive arc. Music Review: Christian aTunde Adjuah Brings New Sound to a Jazz Festival 2014-05-09T21:40:13Z “Pipeline” begins with a series of plummeting bass notes then continues with a catchy guitar riff over propulsive keyboard, bass and drums. Brian Carman, Surf Rocker, Dies at 69 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Who, indeed, when you can have a siren in German Expressionist eyebrows and madcap designer outfits, crooning to propulsive backing tracks? Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Yet, with all of that swirling around the central, eternal story of Rick and Ilsa’s war-torn romance, the movie still has an utterly coherent, propulsive vibe. The Best Movie of All Time Turns 70: Here’s Looking at You, Casablanca 2012-11-23T10:40:25Z Ellsworth’s book begins by recreating the bloody events of 100 years ago in a propulsive present tense. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z At the other end of the scale, the Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 – composed in 1944, during World War II – uses the mighty power of the full orchestra to re-create the propulsive energy of its milieu. A high-wattage evening: violinist Hilary Hahn with Seattle Symphony 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Neither slick nor propulsive, “The Loneliest Whale” gently combines aquatic adventure and bobbing meditation on our own species’s environmental arrogance. ‘The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52’ Review: Sea Hunt 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z You’ve written screenplays for movies and television series, and I found a previous novel of yours, “A Conspiracy of Tall Men,” propulsive in a cinematic way. ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z Of all of Cage’s films, this tender and dramatically propulsive story is perhaps the simplest: He plays a once-hotshot chef who sets out to recover his abducted foraging pig. Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z For the hero of Joseph Finder’s propulsive novel “The Switch,” this innocent mishap puts him in the middle of a dangerous scenario involving lies, leaks and threats to our liberties. Lies, leaks and threats to our liberties: A new thriller captures the moment 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Finest of all, perhaps, was the briefest: the Mozart overture, warm and propulsive, with dreamy colors. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z On the topic of structure, there’s a question I’ve been dying to ask you about "The Altruists": how did you keep the book moving forward so propulsively while weaving back and forth in time? Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “Tulsa Time,” a line-dancing favorite that hit No. 1 on the country chart in 1978, was evidence of Mr. Williams’s facility with more rhythmically propulsive material. Don Williams, Singer of Plain-Spoken Country Songs, Dies at 78 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z What most impressed, perhaps, was Ferris’s keen eye for the many textures of modern American absurdity and his gift for propulsive, entertaining prose. Joshua Ferris’s Ode to the Hapless American Everyman 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It was a bold, gripping performance, full of propulsive drama if short on balletic grace. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z These awards and associations substantiate Simon’s most visible personality traits: ego and the propulsive pursuit of his art. Review | Paul Simon: The musical genius who gave voice to the sound of silence 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z This cheerful show invites children to learn moves like a propulsive pirate number — and, of course, shout “Aargh!” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Their contending voices alternate in the novel’s second half, when Hoffman’s propulsive drama of a woman defying convention deepens to include a rueful assessment of the ways in which we resemble our adversaries. Alice Hoffman’s compelling tale of the artist Camille Pissarro and his mother 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z His signature propulsive synthesizer music, which has become perhaps his most influential aesthetic contribution to the current vogue of horror, is playing as the breathing of Michael Myers gets louder. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z As the novel progresses, it picks up a propulsive energy, the kind that compels you to keep reading straight through to the end. In Northern Ireland During the Troubles, a Secret Romance 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The novel draws its true enchantment — and its immense power — from the propulsive, wide-ranging intelligence of our narrator as he Virgils us through his latest descent into hell. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In her propulsive latest, Crystal gets a message on a mysterious app that her young sister has been kidnapped. Books for hard-to-shop-for tweens and teens, from Star Wars and Harley Quinn to gothic horror 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Bayard is a muscular, propulsive writer, and the novel, elegantly translated by Adriana Hunter, feels urgent, immediate. Psychological Thrillers That Will Mess With Your Head 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The sailor-cameramen chose the propulsive music, mostly Hindi-film songs whose lyrics speak of longing, loss and a life at sea: “There is a road, no destination.” | Film: New Home for a Festival 2013-12-06T21:47:27Z After an intermission Mr. Heath and his band played a gleaming set infused with the propulsive drama of a big-city soundtrack. Music Review: Jon Hendricks and Jimmy Heath at Rose Hall - Review 2011-09-25T22:00:26Z This 20-minute work in three movements explores circular patterns in which spiraling, sometimes frenzied violin riffs coalesce into long spans of breathless, propulsive orchestral wildness. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z But the music wins less plaudits, with the Hollywood Reporter describing it as "non-descript", "inessential" and "rarely propulsive". Rocky makes strong debut on Broadway 2014-03-14T10:12:48Z Not all the musical performers are Sephardic or even Jewish, although many nod to the peoples’ legacy in some way, often incorporating the heady, propulsive rhythms inherent in much Middle Eastern music. Sephardic Music Festival in New York 2011-12-15T22:29:55Z Drummer Ruthie Price laid off the cymbals while working lean, propulsive combinations on the snare and toms. Concert review: Van Hunt at Schubas 2011-10-08T17:13:00Z He obliged with “Praying Mantis Rag,” a propulsive nod to his early studies of ragtime piano in the 1960s. CD reviews: Diana Damrau, ‘Fiamma del Belcanto’; ‘ZOFO Plays Terry Riley’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This is just a small fragment of Lai’s extravagant narrative, whose charm and fascination lie in its countless subtle details and improbable propulsive thrust — as in “A Thousand and One Nights.” Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z And there is the undeniable way his propulsive movement crosses beyond the stage. Review: A Sophisticated Journey Continues 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The retrospective narrative—who is this woman, and why is she there, alone?—is interwoven with a propulsive, often harrowing account of the physical demands of labor in all its irresistible, unimaginable inevitability. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The vividness of Whitehead’s book, and its propulsive sense of thrill and adventure, spring directly from this literalization—from the fearsome puffing trains that carry Cora, the novel’s enslaved protagonist, toward freedom. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Megha Majumdar’s propulsive debut novel, set in modern-day India, begins with a terrorist attack and then follows the lives of three characters. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “Beijing Payback” is a propulsive first novel that aims to entertain. A High-Octane Revenge Novel That Rips Through the Chinese Underworld 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The start of the finale of the Concerto No. 17 was modest, propulsive, fluent: qualities that also characterized the Philharmonic’s performance, between the two concertos, of the overture to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z During a propulsive episode of this forceful piece, one girl who appeared to be about 3 became so involved that she started clapping and singing along. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z In “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” the melody of a workers’ folk song is gradually engulfed by music as ruthlessly propulsive as an industrial engine. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But although many books with that kind of propulsive energy vanish from memory once the last page is turned, O’Farrell’s complicated men, women and children stay with us. A marriage based on secrecy is threatened in ‘This Must Be the Place’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z At times “Words Without Music” reads the way Mr. Glass’s compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z For director Ridley Scott, it started a run of enervating historical action-dramas that included Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood and Exodus: Gods and Kings, none of which had the same propulsive kick. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Indeed, the ensemble’s sound was so propulsive that it continually called attention to the most crucial thing the show lacked: a dance floor. Rumba artist Pedrito Martinez gets the party started at Kennedy Center Jazz Club What sets The People's Key apart from Oberst's prodigious output over the past 15 years isn't its lyrical density or conceptual assurance, but the taut, bright, propulsive vitality of its musicianship. Bright Eyes: The People's Key - review 2011-02-10T22:20:01Z The song’s propulsive glitter is rooted in personal desperation. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z And what a sound it was: The orchestra, propulsive and spirited from the start, was led by Oksana Lyniv, the first female conductor in the festival’s history. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z These energetic portraits of modernity were directed by Godfrey Reggio, but they relied on the visual standards set by Mr. Fricke in the first installment and propulsive scores by Philip Glass for their full splendor. ‘Samsara,’ Ron Fricke’s Cinematic Portrait of the Globe 2012-08-17T20:13:02Z Firm of tone, sure of intonation, round of phrase and rhythmically propulsive, they let Mozart speak for himself. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Also, because the story is told in stand-alone stories, “Red Island House” has less propulsive power than Lee’s stirring 2006 novel, “Lost Hearts in Italy.” Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Regardless of how emotionally satisfying they find the resolution, though, “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” remains one of the most propulsive, compulsive and captivating novels in recent memory. Review | V.E. Schwab delivers another compulsively readable novel with ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z What’s more, it is narrated with the most magnetic, propulsive voice. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z With "Not Afraid," Eminem stuck to an inspirational narrative, telling troubled listeners to "come take my hand" over a propulsive Boi-1da beat. Eminem, clean and sober, draws on new inspiration 2010-06-25T23:23:00Z Though composed in a formal structure, the piece unabashedly draws from seemingly disparate styles: the tango, propulsive jazzy dance rhythms, Oriental-tinged melodic writing and even explicit references to the sacred Latin hymn “Dies Irae.” Review: New York Philharmonic Explores Israeli Musical Identity 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z As part of a continuing jazz series at the Miller, Oh, a young bassist, will lead a quintet, showcasing her sturdy, propulsive original compositions, likely drawing from her fine 2017 album, “Walk Against Wind.” 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The concerto's mixture of feisty, acid-edged harmonies, propulsive rhythms and bouts of jazzy yearning – the slow movement is a set of variations on the standard Sweet Lorraine – still suits MacGregor perfectly. Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review 2012-07-27T11:11:44Z Serving as guest curator for the occasion is the drummer Antonio Sanchez; joining the effort are the Villalobos Brothers, a propulsive trio of violinists from Veracruz. Jazz Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Deep Water” showcases each at his best — it’s more propulsive than almost anything on Mr. Lamar’s recent album, and still an accommodating home for his dexterous verse. Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z He walks carefully but propulsively, which is the way he talks, too. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z It was a bizarre world – Noon says he is more interested in "subject matter and atmosphere than character and plot" – yet an exuberantly propulsive story ran through it. Jeff Noon: a life in writing 2013-04-20T07:29:01Z “I feel like something is drumming inside,” he said, likening the sensation to Steve Reich’s minimalist, propulsive composition “Drumming.” What Does a Dancing Body Feel Like in Ukraine? ‘I Am a Gun.’ 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z In the Book Review, Laura Lippman wrote: “I have little patience with literary novels that claim to have the propulsive momentum of a thriller, yet Millet pulls it off.” Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z There's a lovely Beach Boys-circa-Cabinessence middle-eight before a return to the gently propulsive groove – definitely one of the tracks of the year so far. New band of the day ? No 810: Sunbirds 2010-06-17T15:24:00Z Bay unplugged the actor's iPod, LaBeouf says, and replaced it with his own, cueing up the propulsive, orchestral "The Dark Knight" score. Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z And so we have two politically savvy, cleverly plotted murder mysteries — the kinds of books that invite the ravenous language of binge reading: compulsive, propulsive, addictive. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z When the scene cuts to the woman, now in an airy pink dress lurching and swaying in slow motion to K.Flay’s propulsive, raw track “Sunburn,” it’s as if her mind has been set free. Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Stylistically, the show, like the movie, goes all in on technique, with lots of zooming, quirky cuts and such, as well as propulsive music. Review: ‘Snatch’ and ‘Jack & Dean,’ Rich in Clumsy Criminals 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z But the new BBC commission Suppôts et Supplications was brilliantly propulsive: instruments bubbling to the surface then burning out, flighty diversions sucked in around single notes like scattered nails to magnets. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z The third "X-Men" is a stinker, the second propulsive and stylish, the original awkward but also funny and sincere. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z In another chapter, steely, propulsive Ligeti études frame an elegantly intricate piece from Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.” A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Mai Dhai, a female singer and drummer from a rural desert region, has repertoire dating to the era of Alexander the Great: ecstatic, propulsive music that was both devotional and visceral. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Its 4/4 time signature all too apparent, the music was less immersive than propulsive. Review: The Philharmonic Journeys From Ocean to Desert 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Despite its dramatic opening, the bulk of the story is far more immersive than propulsive. Review | Is the end of an American dynasty a real tragedy? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z I thought of this propulsive, demanding novel as I read an essay by Kevin D. Williamson over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal. Perspective | Twitter is no place to consider abortion — but a novel might be 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Because he also remembers everything, and is pleased to share it all, the 90-minute conversation sped by with the grace and propulsive force of a Kenyan marathoner. Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock's Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur 2012-05-26T23:41:42Z The ensuing Britten quartet drew much of its propulsive dynamic from the way that unity was exploded and reconfigured, with demanding solo passages thrusting individual players into the limelight. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z It sounds as though human beings handled the funkily propulsive bass, and it's all the better for that. New band of the day – No 1,285: The KDMs 2012-06-11T15:37:56Z Nearly as successful is the haunted "Yellow Moon," and guitars tumble and tangle on the propulsive "Swallowed Whole." Pearl Jam fights for relevance 2013-10-11T20:14:00Z The King influence is clear and not yet fully digested, but Deady’s novel has its own unique virtues: a compelling sense of character and place, an underlying warmth and a propulsive, steadily increasing narrative drive. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Some rough spots aside, the orchestra — conducted by Richard Tang Yuk, the festival’s artistic director — kept the infectiously propulsive score’s energy high. Music Review: ‘The Flying Dutchman’ at the McCarter Uses Video Projections 2013-06-27T22:08:24Z Someone far more sophisticated than the palm-print brigade sketched glorious images of wild animals — lions, wolves, bison, bears — many extinct, and all drawn with a sophistication that reveals their contours and propulsive power. Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Werner Herzog's 3-D Trip 2011-05-01T05:50:00Z Scalding and propulsive, Ms. Fuller always seems to be testing the limits of her own power — as if seeing if she can single-handedly overload your ear’s switchboard. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Readers will find Jones’s fifth work of fiction “provocative and propulsive,” Lyall declared, even when they suspect the author of “over-egging the pudding.” New in Paperback: ‘The Nickel Boys’ and ‘Confirmation Bias’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The Roustom was the more propulsive, colorful and immediately appealing creation. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The author’s acuity does not make the stories equally propulsive, but this, perhaps, is to be expected in the shellshocked atmosphere of the collection. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In his muscular performance, Goodyear emphasized tension and intensity, with sharp accents, propulsive rhythms and a taut sense of drama. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z But here, propulsive energy sometimes took precedence over detail. Marc-André Hamelin – review 2013-06-28T15:45:01Z The last movement again sported more energetic sforzandos, including one so propulsive that it made Ms. Kavafian jump. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, With Works for Strings 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Collectively, they testify to Warp’s aesthetic: largely but not exclusively electronic, full of loops but welcoming interruptions, blurry at the edges, more moody than propulsive but not ruling out an occasional dance beat. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, she and Naughty Boy worked on her debut album, with an array of genre-busting styles: from the propulsive, Massive Attack-like electro-soul of “Heaven” to the raw acoustic “Breaking the Law.” Emeli Sande a neuroscientist with pop-star talent 2012-05-16T22:35:00Z “Private Lawns” and the blissed-out, propulsive indie pop of “Little Whiskey” were other early highlights. Angus and Julia Stone rock the Showbox | Concert review 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Bass lines are absent, and the music is no less propulsive without them. Review: ‘Electronic Africa’ Pushes Dance Rhythms to a Breakneck Speed 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z A propulsive collective memory play — about a shooting at an international school and its long tail of trauma — “Innocence” is a ripped-from-the-headlines opera for our time. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Lee Child, reviewing it, calls the book “a fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character. … Kennedy rises to the challenge and succeeds.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Zach Browning’s 2008 String Quartet provided just what was needed to end the program: a propulsive, giddy, rocking piece, a rush of cyclic riffs and fractured meters. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z In these propulsive pages, Walker draws us right into the mind of an ordinary young man beset by his own and his country’s demons. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Chanting in propulsive rhyme, for instance, comes naturally to very few of them. Theater Review: ‘Venice,’ by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax, Teems With Action 2013-06-14T03:18:01Z Plus he's got the benefit here of a lean, propulsive script by playwright Gregory Burke, whose stage production "Black Watch" won 22 prizes worldwide, including Britain's coveted Olivier Award. ''71' delivers 100% tension amid 'the Troubles' in Ireland 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The music itself is propulsive, rolling, repetitive in deliberate ways, and insomuch as it conjures a single image it’s of smooth and endless blacktop, receding in a rearview mirror. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Set to INXS’s irresistibly propulsive “New Sensation,” the sequence so effectively conveyed the energizing effect of Elliot’s new sense of purpose that I almost missed how bogus much of it was. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 2: Elliot Hits Undo 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z This Argentine writer’s stories are propulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque and the darkest humor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z His phrasing and touch in the Un poco adagio opened up worlds of expression, and his bumptious, off-kilter accents in the Hungarian-themed Rondo never disturbed the flowing, propulsive stream of notes. Conductor Mario Venzago energizes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z He begins casually and disarmingly, building up to a propulsive tour de force of sound and movement. Dance Review: ?theRevisitation? at New York Live Arts 2012-03-16T21:12:29Z Readers will be inspired by her dogged determination and propulsive curiosity to generate and nurture their own sparks of creativity, leadership or passion. Books to Ease the Transition to Middle School 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Alsop led a tightly coiled, rhythmically propulsive account that exhibited the orchestra’s muscularity and energetic commitment. BSO, Marin Alsop usher in new year with flashy, energetic concert at Strathmore 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The adult actors are also fine, though the film forfeits a smidge of its charm and propulsive force once Oliver struggles to become his family's savior. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z “His descriptions are sharp,” and “in the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The propulsive force with which this Manon responds — not daintily plucking but brutishly hurling the Bible off the bed — is more than mere camp delight. Anna Netrebko May Be Extra, but That’s Why We Love Her 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Drums, guitar, and piano kick in, propulsive and encouraging, and his singing gathers strength. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Mahanthappa, the alto saxophonist, lived in Chicago for several years in the early 1990s, earning his master’s degree in arts at DePaul University and developing his complexly constructed, urgently propulsive music. Chicago News Cooperative: Two Jazz Greats, Tightly Bound by Chicago 2010-09-24T04:45:00Z Pas de deux and solos, both delicate and propulsive, offer the elegant, evanescent tracery of bodies in space. Dance Review: Collaborations Bring Cascades of Motion and Emotion 2011-07-07T22:06:58Z In something of a coda, the ensemble recedes, then returns with its fullest sound yet, propulsive like a plane in takeoff — and ending just as it takes flight. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z It manages to be deliberative and propulsive at the same time. Review: ‘Homecoming’ Is Military, Industrial and Complex 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z “I don’t think there are many hyper-intellectual writers who are so obsessively propulsive in their own way. You look at his writing and you say, ‘Oh my God, these long sentences.’ Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In six novellas that pay explicit tribute to forebears from Raymond Chandler to Elmore Leonard, Winslow shows his range and verve as a writer of propulsive crime stories. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Playing through the “Russian Dance” movement from Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka,” which begins with a giddy riot of propulsive parallel chords for both hands, Mr. Trifonov kept repeating passages, even though they sounded flawless. Fleeting Fingers and Red-Eye Flights: A Pianist Is a Study in Stamina 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z An alert data hoarder, a shrewd analyst, and a propulsive stylist, Davis views the hot-air balloon called the art world in a broad political context. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But despite a structural conceit that establishes the action as an exercise in deterministic tragedy, the show, directed by Joe Mantegna and marred by a mawkish underscore, lacks propulsive energy. Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The story combined emotional sincerity with a propulsive poppy feel. The Young Queer Writer Who Became Greenland’s Unlikely Literary Star 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z There is a propulsive rush to their songs. New band of the day (Ballet School 1,559) 2013-07-23T14:40:00Z In several other works, Mr. Litton isn’t always quite right with tempo or as a propulsive accompanist to dancers, but here his contribution powerfully enriches a patchy show. Review: ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ a Movielike Ballet in Need of Better Direction 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of propulsive action modern movies are woefully missing today. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Regardless of the slack in other plotlines, their propulsive force is sufficient reason to stick around and see where this season is going. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Dahl distantly suggests Pat Metheny's lilt and melodic sense on Stork, but with his own grainier sound and propulsive movement. Mats Eilertsen: Radio Yonder 2010-06-10T22:40:00Z The propulsive jazz that bassist and guimbri player Joshua Abrams makes in this awesome Chicago ensemble continues to feel like a living, breathing, growing thing. Perspective | Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z He was a propulsive, complicated artist; few performers have exacted more control over their art. What would Prince want? Two years later, his estate is a mess and his legacy unclear. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z These characters’ intersecting fights—against H.I.V./AIDS and trans homelessness, for citywide health care and marriage equality—form a panorama that is at once chaotic and propulsive and didactic, much like activism itself. Dustin Lance Black, the Screenwriter Behind “Milk” and “When We Rise,” on Coming Out As a Gay Activist 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Hamish Kilgour, a founding member of the New Zealand band the Clean, who was celebrated among fans of underground music for his propulsive drumming and his countercultural approach to life, has died. Hamish Kilgour, Whose New Zealand Cult Band Had Reach, Dies at 65 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z At the end of the fifth song, a propulsive number in which Swift exhorts a departing lover to stay, another young woman wiped a tear and confessed: "We've all gone through it!" Taylor Swift connects with fans via 'secret sessions,' media blitz 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z For those who agree to take it, the journey in “The Sky Is Falling” isn’t as propulsive or as fun as in Biskind’s other books. What Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z This process is achieved through a propulsive plot that never stops churning forward even as it keeps looking backward, conjuring a cyclical nightmare of history from which no one escapes. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The novel begins with a string of joltingly different episodes from an author whose usual style is much more propulsively linear. In Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell,’ a Troubled Woman Seeks Answers 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The story Sunny “tells” using the tools of journalism is propulsive, often funny and thought-provoking. A Musician’s Daughter Faces His Music — and His Choices 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The technique creates both a narcotic effect and a certain propulsive energy, not unlike the ragas of Indian music or even the electronic dance music of today. Music in Review: Music in Review: Early Music New York 2012-11-11T23:13:23Z Mr. Miranda’s Hamilton, a propulsive mix of hubris and insecurity, may be the center of the show. Review: ‘Hamilton,’ Young Rebels Changing History and Theater 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Simon’s score is a delight, propulsive and charming with a swishing jazz number and a lullaby ripped from Brahms. Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The show’s second half, which focuses more directly on Columbine, is fresher, brisker and more propulsive. Review | ‘Columbinus,’ re-creating the 1999 Colorado high school shooting, remains disturbingly relevant 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Henke’s music and light show were crisp, bright, geometric and propulsive, a calibrated barrage. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z Kinky, the Mexican band that headlined a Central Park Summerstage concert on Saturday afternoon, was more ominous but no less propulsive. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z From the propulsive opening of “Dreaming of Vermont,” by Joshua Lopes, one of the group’s members, the stage was set for an evening of sophisticated, hard-driving and stylistically omnivorous music making. Review: Dither Delivers an Electric-Guitar Master Class 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The same propulsive energy infuses this revival, which also hilariously features Andy Karl as a young Hollywood he-man in Lily’s thrall, and Mary Louise Wilson as a crazy old lady with a checkbook. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the plot of this propulsive, engaging novel is not about the corruption in South Carolina or the crisis of conscience that catches up with Andre. Review | Steven Wright’s ‘Coyotes of Carthage’ pulls back the curtain on how democracy works. It isn’t pretty. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer. Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But Hannaham, a former editor at Salon, is an even more propulsive storyteller. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z A propulsive mystery mixed with a moving coming-of-age tale and a touch of romance, “Beasts of Prey” asks: When we go into the jungle, who will we be when we come out? 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z As "The Mother" whipsaws the characters from Alaska to Cuba and back, the story struggles to find its groove because the propulsive action is at odds with the more sentimental moments. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “Greeks Bearing Gifts” is a propulsive spy novel that moves swiftly from Germany to Greece. Review | The late Philip Kerr’s left behind a colorful new novel. It won’t be his last. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Starnes’s sound design, full of propulsive pop music, ratchets up the suspense. Review | Two plays set at the intersection of race and violence in America 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z In keeping with O’Neill’s play, the propulsive staging packs more of a visceral than an intellectual punch. Eugene O'Neill's 'The Hairy Ape' is a rallying cry for the Bernie Sanders crowd 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s a sadly quiet ending to what has been a transformative tenure for this conductor, captured with propulsive vigor in Mr. Adams’s brief but mind-bogglingly dense piece. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But it was not until its propulsive, rhythmically and texturally fluid performance of the Debussy that you could see how technically polished and interpretively insightful this quartet is. Music Review: A String Quartet?s Nod to Debussy at Angel Orensanz Foundation 2010-03-16T21:59:00Z It is all moodily effective, and it suited the Met orchestra’s warmly powerful, propulsive performance under the conductor Patrick Summers. Music Review: In Dark Temple, Antiquity?s Sober Doings 2011-02-14T05:11:48Z But those with anxiety issues surrounding audience participation need not fear for their nerve endings at Mr. Malloy’s romp, directed with propulsive sweep by Rachel Chavkin. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z If you’re hungry for more, “Country,” by the Irish actor and author Michael Hughes, is a propulsive, blood-flecked homage to the “Iliad” told against the backdrop of a fragile truce in 1996. Love and War in European Fiction 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s gross, but propulsive, and also — in the case of a graphic miscarriage during her ferry commute, to which her boss displays a stunning but all-too-believable indifference — brave and poignant. For a Woman on Wall Street, Crude Jokes Weren’t the Worst of It 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z She shows a genuine connection with British and American traditions, and she has the guitar virtuosity for arrangements that are resonant, intricate and propulsive. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z With Mr. Gilbert conducting, it took off only in the propulsively messy “Multiplicity” and in the dissolved, ethereal “Infinity.” Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z On the recording, propulsive, shifting arpeggios come off as sluggish, with lapses of legato phrasing. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z In both books, she plays with genre in a slippery but propulsive way, fusing together fantasy, crime fiction and a hint of social critique. A serial killer haunts Lauren Beukes' riveting 'Broken Monsters' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Maybe he welcomes the death Benno promises him — in a 22-minute final act that includes the speech I quoted at the beginning but has no propulsive power or threat. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z During the moments showing the translunar injection maneuver — the propulsive push that sent Apollo 11 toward the moon — Miller used a shot from Apollo 8. Piecing Together the Visual and Audio Puzzle of ‘Apollo 11’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Have I enjoyed The Fighter the most today because it's actually a good movie, or because it had a great soundtrack and a propulsive energy at a time when I needed some propulsive energy? AMC Best Picture Showcase: Dispatches from the Oscar Endurance Test 2011-03-20T06:50:00Z Here was Irish rap’s acceleration in its distilled form, a propulsive release of energy. Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “The way that we treat people is linked to our connection to the planet,” she said while discussing its second single, the propulsive “Purge the Poison.” Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The novel is “suspenseful and propulsive; in style and theme, a sibling to her previous books,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z A group of 20 soloists — including principal players and vibraphones, as well as two pianos that keep time throughout the piece — begin with propulsive 16th notes that recall the opening of “Runner.” Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Every so often, he identifies a speaker with onscreen text or adds a time stamp; occasionally, he slides in some propulsive electronic beats. Review: ‘The Force’ Follows the Oakland Police From Crisis to Crisis 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “The School of Athens,” the most celebrated work in the Stanze, has the propulsive tension of a film paused at its climactic scene. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z But even by retrograde Hallmark holiday movie standards, it's a blizzard of poor writing and empty schmaltz devoid of propulsive tension or profound resolution, but with 500 percent more scripture references. If "A Christmas …Present" shows what Candace Cameron Bure means by tradition, she can keep it 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z And as such, it is a work of written-through drama, rarely pausing for reflection and moving propulsively toward its tragic climax. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The band’s politically minded music is danceable, generous and casually propulsive: It’s easy to happen upon it at a festival and like it. The Best Live Jazz Performances of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z "Playing With Fire" will make readers drop everything to immerse themselves in its propulsive dual narrative. Tess Gerritsen's 'Playing With Fire' is a well-plotted thriller 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z At the fourth performance on Wednesday, the subtle, moody score, at war between its propulsive and serene impulses, felt more than equal in quality to the festive occasion. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z To kindle the moment of fleeting magic when the traffic in your brain stops, ceding to big, propulsive horns. Normani and the Work of the Pop Princess 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z There are affairs, deaths and doomed romances aplenty but, as in a telenovela, the effect is less poignant and more propulsive. Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “Vargas Llosa has constructed a compelling and propulsive literary thriller, deeply informed by his experience as a public intellectual and a practicing politician,” Hari Kunzru writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It shows Ulmer in a "Citizen Kane" mood, relishing the energy of pure propulsive melodrama that was one of his strengths. Director Edgar G. Ulmer gets his due at LACMA 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Following this gambit is a series of familiar McDonagh elements: airborne body parts, unexpectedly sensitive killers and a propulsive, outlandish plot. Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z But the most revealing performance came in Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 6 in A. Completed in 1940, this nearly 30-minute work channels some barbaric, propulsive, harmonically brittle outbursts into a formal four-movement sonata structure. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z The renowned Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite has a knack for finding the propulsive poetry of large ensembles. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Its ominous but propulsive score ranges from the chamber-operatic to the electronic and semiabstract. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “Reaching high but not getting nowhere,” he sings on “Getting Nowhere,” his trademark propulsive riffing replaced with understated strumming. The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli Gets a Solo Career, 50 Years Late 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The trilogy is propulsive pulp fiction with literary heft, a hybrid of “The Godfather” and “War and Peace.” When American Filmmakers Try to Cross the Border 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Hindemith’s Suite “1922” is Neo-Classical in form but subversive in content: a group of fractured, propulsive dances thick with parodies of 1920s pop music, played dazzlingly here. ?Evgeny Starodubtsev: Piano Recital? ? Review 2011-12-04T16:37:56Z But, as it is, the performances are notable more for their sharp edges than for their propulsive warmth. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Richard Strauss 2013-12-13T22:39:30Z The crowd-pleaser on the program was Philip Glass’ “The Light,” a shifting confection of propulsive cadences and timbres. Seattle Symphony strikes somber note with pairing of ‘4’33,’ ‘My Beautiful Scream’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z “She put poison in the well, poison in the well, poison in the well / And I drank it,” Bell sings, backed by a propulsive groove and elegant guitar licks. An Underrated Soul Singer Returns 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The slow, wavering tones, played without obvious melody but filled with richness, lack the forward propulsive quality of Western music. In Search of Japan’s Hidden Culinary Revolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z An intricate, layered narrative told with literary precision and propulsive sound effects, “Shenanigan” feels less like his stand-up or solo shows than something entirely new. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Or she is sketched into the background of a plot, her absence lending a protagonist a propulsive origin story. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In any case the music is thrilling: charged with urgency, rich in memorable melody and propulsive rhythms that sometimes evolve midsong. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z The soundtrack is propulsive but unsurprising, familiar hits by the Spinners; Donna Summer; Earth, Wind & Fire; and the Trammps. ‘The Get Down’ Is ‘West Side Story’ With Rappers and Disco Queens 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Unlike so many pieces of music theater, “Weightless” has a well-crafted form, and its spoken dialogue melds beautifully with the propulsive score. Review: ‘Weightless’ Finds Lovely Moments in a Grim Greek Myth 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z In “The Handmaid’s Tale,” strong echoes of Alban Berg are thrown into a turbulent stew spiked with propulsive passages of minimalism, bits of dated pop-song styles, and much more. Revisiting “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Opera 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z In the second section, set to a propulsive, ticking, machinelike rhythm, the women sit on chairs placed in a diagonal row. Dance Review: Repetitions Build Drama With Rhythm and Gesture 2011-06-14T23:56:46Z There’s nothing to be done, though, with the mini-monologues in “The Steam Train,” which intrude on a catchy, propulsive number with ghetto clichés. Review: Joyously Rediscovering ‘Songs for a New World’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z He also knew when to shift gears, using the spare, propulsive force of “Roll the Bones” to create a rocking moment that helped build momentum. Shakey Graves offers something new to nu-folk | Concert review 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Jiang directs with great vigor, serving up plenty of blood and a lot of laughs as he turns his picture into a propulsive blast. 'Let the Bullets Fly': Chinese actioner is a propulsive blast 2012-03-08T22:00:06Z But in recent years the propulsive, repetitive themes that seem to already be playing before you notice them, which then bleed into the next scenes, are everywhere at the movies. Have we reached peak Hans Zimmer? 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z This propulsive structure works in tandem with what seems to be Porter’s ultimate subject: the tribulations of parenting — those moments when everything a mother or father works hard to prevent actually comes to fruition. Review | Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ is a lyrical look at the tribulations of parenting 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Rare Essence was part of the original wave of go-go bands that emerged in Washington in the 1970s, stringing together songs, chants and percussion workouts around the unhurried but steadily propulsive go-go beat. Review: At Globalfest, a World of Cultural Keepsakes With a Dance Beat 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Far from boring, “Spotlight” was lean, taut and urgently propulsive. The best film won: 5 ways ‘Spotlight’ beat the Oscars odds 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “Believe” is an emotionally yearning, rhythmically propulsive synth-drenched number that puts it closer to the camp of such British brethren as Coldplay and Snow Patrol. First impression: Mumford & Sons 'Believe' single 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Comedies, like The Simpsons, create immersive worlds rather than propulsive narratives. Time Is a Round Donut: The Graze-Watching Possibilities of Simpsons World 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z "Your Love is Calling My Name" is a propulsive krautrock groover and one of the highlights of the War on Drugs's second album proper. The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:23Z The new novel is suspenseful and propulsive; in style and theme, a sibling to her previous books. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z He isn’t aided by the score, which begins well — all ticking, chiming sonorities, building to propulsive rhythm — but arrives at a sustained bombastic intensity and stays there. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Petrenko milked the score’s modernism and led it with a propulsive energy that gave it more madness than sentimentality. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Despite its echoing, propulsive beat, it’s not the sort of song that should ever be played to rile up conservative donors. A Springsteen Cover Band Is a Fitting Choice for Trump’s Inauguration 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z These passages have a crackling, propulsive energy that most other books about the Lusitania — often written for disaster buffs or steampunk aficionados — sorely lack. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z While it’s tough to single out one Stewart song as my favorite, I always find myself coming back to “Awakening the Masters,” the propulsive opener of his 2020 “Exposure Quintet” album. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z What animates “Lunatic” is not only its propulsive, chronological story — we are treated to only one image per page and yet move quickly through the stages of the character’s life — but also Mazur’s careful rendering. An Artist Whose Comics Tell Us What It’s Like to Be Depressed 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Harris, like Mr. Brown, is adept at fluidly combining styles, letting particular steps flare and freeze for a moment within a propulsive flow. Dance Review: Philadanco at the Joyce Theater 2012-10-05T23:25:20Z With crisp dialogue, a winning protagonist and a propulsive plot, the tale is enormously entertaining. New Fantasy Novels for Kids (and Adults) Ready to Go Beyond Harry Potter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Nor do he and his co-writer create a propulsive narrative around all the individual stories of mishaps, trap and rap. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s propulsive narrative traces the aftermath as residents bury and mourn, organize rallies, and field the onslaught of national media and “trauma tourists.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z How easily those lyrics, and the propulsive drive of discontent within that melody, might fit the supporters at a rally for Donald J. Trump, whose ascendancy to the American presidency few people anticipated. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Was it the music thrumming in the background, a gently propulsive Michael Nyman riff on Purcell? New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z There is an enormous amount going on onstage, much of it propulsive. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z This is a novel of aggressive introspection, but Greenwell writes with such candor and psychological precision that the effect is oddly propulsive. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Spears has the rare gift of artful plunder, knowing how to pluck stylistic elements from earlier centuries and weave them into a sleek and propulsive score that is accessible but unmistakably modern. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It unspools like a roll of film — raw, visceral and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty. A Former Soldier Tells His Grandson: ‘I Wasn’t a Nazi.’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Beneath its extravagant plot and typically propulsive prose, the book is animated by a central concern that could not be more relevant: the inhumane treatment of children. Review | Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ turns our political moment into gripping horror 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “The production,” he writes, “under the propulsive direction of Thomas Kail, seizes hold of the audience from the opening number.” Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z These scenes are all executed with panache, as well as rapid-fire editing and a roving camera that adds to their propulsive nature. Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Now on view at Studio Theatre, this propulsive drama chronicles several years in the life of a female American fighter pilot. ‘Grounded’ at Studio Theatre: A new view of drone warfare A slick marketing campaign: "Lucy" first popped up on many moviegoers' radar courtesy of a sleek, propulsive trailer showcasing the movie's high concept, Johansson's newfound action chops and Besson's deft touch for mayhem. 'Lucy': 5 reasons the Scarlett Johansson film ruled the box office 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The pulsating rhythms of the drums and chorus are contagiously propulsive, and they feel more organic than many synthetic beats. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The chosen composers’ approaches are anything but lock step in nature: Pascal Le Boeuf’s “Forbidden Subjects” makes the most of the group’s propulsive qualities, while Jenny Beck’s “Go in Secret” revels in more ambient realms. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The song itself is a huge, modern, propulsive thing, but the whole Khaleesi thing has probably sewn it up for her. Eurovision song contest 2013: the key songs to watch out for 2013-05-17T15:03:09Z The "Two Minutes To Late Night," version, meanwhile, tapped into the original's propulsive underbelly, swapping keyboards for jagged guitars and adding theatrical metal flourishes. The enduring resonance of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill," 35 years later 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “Beirut” is a slower moving and less propulsive distant cousin to that series; Mason isn’t a spy, for starters, and he talks rather than fights or motorcycles his way out of trouble. Review: In ‘Beirut,’ a War-Torn Backdrop for American Spy Games 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Then, at the meatpacking district club Catch, disc jockeys from the Waveform collective in Tunis wielded laptops and mixers in music that moved from molten and experimental to crisply propulsive. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z Mr. Brown quickly discovered a career-long writing partner in Mr. Bruce, whose fluid and propulsive playing provided counterpoint to Mr. Baker’s explosive drumming and the guitar pyrotechnics of Cream’s third member, Eric Clapton. Pete Brown, Who Put Words to ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ Dies at 82 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The propulsive, sweat-inducing beat slipped under its “Stranger Things” synth line, greeting the full house like the warmth of your dance partner’s breath hitting your neck in the middle of a crowded dance floor. Review: Dua Lipa turns Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena into a sweaty nightclub 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The narrative is as propulsive and anxious as the feverishly strummed guitar theme. ‘Run’ Review: A Rail Romance Turns Train Wreck 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z He is a writer of elegance, rich imagination and propulsive plotting. Review | An irresistible tale of early cinema makes for perfect summer reading 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The songs are bumpy, hard-nosed and propulsive, battling for every small triumph. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen, now a senior writer at Time magazine, repeats himself early and often, which suggests that the basic outline of a propulsive story eluded him. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z In this third installment of the Gray Man series the story is so propulsive, the murders so explosive, that flipping the pages feels like playing the ultimate video game. New Books by Jim Harrison and Howard Jacobson 2011-10-19T22:58:24Z "Undiscovered Country" is ultimately a propulsive emotional soap opera and action-packed series which explores different aspects of American values and ideologies through an extreme presentation of them. "Trump's wall is based on a ridiculous fantasy": Scott Snyder on how reality is scarier than fiction 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z That influence suffuses the entire record: There is the throwback thump of “Verde Menta,” which lands like a propulsive revamp of an Exposé track. Rauw Alejandro’s Cosmic Reggaeton Takes Flight 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z All the young people we meet are trapped by forces larger than themselves; yet Mantel’s writing makes even the bleakest narrative propulsive and urgent. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Though there is a nearly propulsive quality to the book—it is focussed on reinvention, reëmergence—certain words and phrases deliberately repeat, like a needle stuck in a groove. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Many conductors treat the third-movement scherzo as an exercise in dance rhythm; here, the energy was certainly propulsive, but Thomas also coaxed out a riot of colors and textures. Michael Tilson Thomas Revels in the Present With the New York Phil 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z In the work's compelling opening movement, "Prophecy", the propulsive, lurching low brass and searing broad string theme pushed forward with the force of a digger churning up the world to expose its molten core. Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Dudamel; OperaUpClose ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:50Z With a mix of shots, including close-ups of sculpted body parts, there is a propulsive energy in these scenes that the movie as a whole lacks. ‘Addicted,’ a Cautionary Tale About Lust 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Five Reasons to Go Mod The British band the Dave Clark Five was among the most successful pop groups of the 1960s, combining catchy tunes with a propulsive beat. Film: Five Reasons to Go Mod 2013-07-26T20:13:29Z It was devastating, but the loss turned out to be propulsive. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z My favourite is slightly less ubiquitous: his propulsively cinematic but oddly mournful clip for the Chemical Brothers’ Elektrobank, starring his then-wife Sofia Coppola as a star gymnast. Streaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The elegant score, spare at times and more propulsive in others, also included sound recordings by Bernie Krause, which brought to mind trains and rumbling distant traffic. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z It was not the most propulsive “Fledermaus,” but under the Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer the Met orchestra played with honeyed tone and bright muscle. Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z Stylistically, the work is kaleidoscopic, the binder being its propulsive energy. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Before that, however, came an opening scene that was, perhaps, the purest reflection of Mr. Soderbergh’s presence as director — strange, both propulsive and claustrophobic, slightly hallucinatory. 'The Knick' Recap: Sins of the Flesh, With a Kick 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Back story is where novels often sag, but in this case it’s where the book hits its propulsive stride. One Part Gangster, One Part Philosophical Clown 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Wiening, a young drummer, plays original music with a planar, modulating harmonic language and a propulsive drift. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Rivulets of teen pop, pop-punk, screamo and club music all feed these songs, which are propulsive and cheerful even when the subject matter is grim. Playlist: New Music From Breathe Carolina and Widowspeak 2011-09-03T00:14:47Z Group Text will address the main event: what to read — with a focus on the kinds of propulsive, thought-provoking books worthy of discussion. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The Indonesian music pair Senyawa contributes a pounding, propulsive score inspired by the Javanese tradition of using dance to access a trancelike state, which members of the North Queensland-based company Dancenorth achieve with manic abandon. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Its bass line is propulsive, urgent sentences that build momentum and volume until they pop with hard consonants. Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z If the “before” chapters provide the book’s propulsive momentum, the “after” strand provides its psychological insight and resonance. A Plane Goes Down, Killing 191. Only a 12-Year-Old Survives. 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z As with the Mahler, Petrenko kept the playing full, but airy and propulsive enough that the Korngold’s 50 richly scored minutes never felt too long or heavy. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z "Mallet Quartet," performed by So Percussion on vibraphones and five-octave marimbas, is intricate, ebullient, propulsive, sublime. Composer Steve Reich remembers with 'WTC 9/11' 2011-09-07T20:43:04Z Big, operatic feelings — mostly having to do with loyalty, honor and professionalism — are both heightened and lightened by propulsive speed and overscaled action. ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s propulsive, driven on a chugging guitar riff, and it shifts into its chorus deftly on the back of a bright, schizophrenic synth line. Britney Spears’ “Most Personal” Record Lacks Personality 2013-12-05T10:45:38Z In the first movement of the violin concerto, after a spare introduction, the violin soars with propulsive vigor over a rich orchestral fabric, with introverted passages alternating with fiery outbursts. Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z Recorded March 6, 1940 — the first Ellington recording session with Ben Webster’s tenor saxophone and Jimmy Blanton’s propulsive bass completing what I would call the greatest band in jazz history. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z He still remembers singing along with his siblings to the propulsive “They Keep Coming” as they drove to summer camp. A Buoyant ’70s Musical About Black Lives Lands in 2018 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Wearing white unitards adorned with blue and red stars or a stripe down the side of the leg, the young dancers bounced on their feet before tilting forward and back to the propulsive beat. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z But it is also a propulsive, positive and persuasive mode. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In “Gwana,” midway through, a group forms a dense circle near the back of the stage as first one dancer, then another and another is lifted high into the air to the propulsive, percussive rhythms. Dance Review: Proceeding Nacho Duato-Style, Like Fish Darting Through Water 2011-04-03T22:00:04Z The smoldering, propulsive track was part of a burst of songwriting more than two years ago that Cox says resulted from "very dark" things that he declined to explain further. New Deerhunter written during 'very dark' time 2013-04-30T14:47:10Z Then I read “Presidio” and — review spoiler alert — found a fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive narrative, wonderfully lit from within by an intriguing main character. Lee Child Reviews a Debut Novel That’s Vintage Texas Noir 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z With the creamy, earthy, assertive flavors in this risotto, you need an equally assertive white wine that penetrates the richness of the cheese with propulsive acidity. A Chef’s Advice for Relaxation: Stir Some Risotto 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The ebb and flow of the propulsive closer, “Flood,” is a fitting capstone to another strong effort from the savvy Seattle songwriter. Puget Sounds: The top 12 new albums from the Pacific Northwest 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z His line was fluid and supple, his touch light, so that even the thwacks of the bass drum in the “Dies Irae” were forwardly propulsive and part of a bigger picture. Review | Noseda gives new lightness to powerful and familiar Requiem 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z For those disheartened by the lack of resolution in the third novel, "Brisingr," "Inheritance" offers a propulsive plot and plenty of answers. 'Inheritance': a boy and his dragon grow up 2011-11-25T18:55:06Z But Shakespeare's propulsive dramatisation of the heart of darkness is radically different from Dante's deeply Christian vision of a structured inferno. Macbeth 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z |
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