| 单词 | skitter |
| 例句 | Then, of course, the sheep skittered to safety, making huge leaps as they bounded from rock to rock. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Beau’s claws skittered on the tile floor as he turned with me toward the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z With one long stride he was there, and the four thumbtacks shot off and skittered across the floor as he tore the paper down. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The pitch of her voice sends a skitter of nerves through me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Jam almost laughed through her skittering nerves at the thought of this creature being concerned with what Aloe would call home training and what Bitter would call brought-upsy. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Last night, Joe recalled, the first moths had begun bapping their powdery wings against his kitchen windows; today water skeeters floated on the surface into his field, frantically skittering their legs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nerves still tingling, he led the other two up the hall, half-expecting some new terror to reveal itself, but nothing moved except for a mouse skittering along the skirting board. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He put Seabiscuit into a long, lazy warm-up, sailing past his skittering rival and galloping off the wrong way around the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She skittered and jumped, hopping from this pedestrian’s shoulder to that hot dog vendors cart. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The thing that had skittered across the floor was not a knife, but a plate of false teeth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered how the breeze sent the fistfuls of dirty brown hair skittering across the paving stones, toward the sept where her father had died. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I felt like a hawk watching a prairie dog skittering through the grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He tossed a spare pebble over his shoulder to skitter across the paving stones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Blinking to clear it away, he suddenly caught the red lights again, flickering and skittering about deep in the darkness of the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Something skitters out and sweeps past my hands. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Winchell looked good, setting up with poise in the pocket, throwing nicely, no rushed throws skittering off the hand. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My face must split into two smiling moons, because Garret Charles stands, skittering the plastic folding table out from underneath the team, and whispers: “Wipe that smile away, Anthony.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I looked at her, skittering about on high heels, scrunch, scrunch on the walk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I hit the dirt in a hundred sprawling postures, each time righting myself in an instant and skittering to the safety of a tree, tractor or fence, in case the horse was feeling vengeful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her jumbled thoughts skittered like the marbles Jojo liked to play with as she made a beeline for town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The holophone skittered in front of him as he strode down a passage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It skittered into one of mine, knocking it over. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His stomach swooped as he noticed one strand of the giant web vibrate like a plucked string, and then something large skittered down a tree to his immediate right. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She skittered one way and the other through the air. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z My pulse skitters, and I shake his hand away, unnerved at my own reaction. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Others skittered off Drogon’s scales, lodged between them, or tore through the membrane of his wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He kicked at the little golden spear and sent it skittering across the floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Reynie added with a shudder, brushing away a beetle that had tried to skitter under his shirt collar. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Matt caught them as they skittered down through the bones and crammed them into his mouth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed her wrist, and the hammer skittered across the cement. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The second Mom turns on the light, a dozen roaches skitter and scurry toward the crack in the wall. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There was no response, though; it had been more of a skittering sound than one that a bonobo would make, probably some reptile escaping into the ferns. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She heard none of the usual forest sounds—the chirps of birds and skittering of squirrels and chipmunks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t feel his cell phone shoot out of his shirt pocket, didn’t hear it smash on the concrete and skitter in pieces into the gutter. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z It spoils my day with selfdisgust when I hear my broken voice come skittering out into the open. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up a fork and tried to stab a piece of brisket, but the plate skittered down die table and flew off the end, straight into the coals of the brazier. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It skittered across the thatch and plummeted to the yard three storeys below. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Sparks flew so heavily that several of them skittered and jumped on the sand beneath the rock and he smiled and struck again and again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The mouse skitters close, nibbling from its hands. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Her thoughts skittered between eagles that learned to fly, and men who were scared to jump off that stump, and Moses who said, “Let my people go.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The wall on Kyle’s right swung open, revealing six swiveling sections, each pivoting panel maybe twenty feet long, all skittering sideways and gliding backward to create new walls and reconfigured pathways. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z His glasses leaped from his face and skittered into a corner. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Now he screamed, with the pain and fear, and skittered on his backside up into the comer of the shelter, breathing through his mouth, straining to see, to hear. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z And Winnie, looking down, saw hosts of tiny insects skittering and skating on the surface. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The man moved, a series of skittering twitches like a ghost in a movie, his face inches from Finn’s. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z At Boston’s Suffolk Downs, horses skittered and blew over the track, slower ones making lazy loops around the oval, faster ones humming down the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And he skitters out of there like a scared rabbit. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It barged past the panther lamassu, and its claws skittered on the cracked street as it charged straight for me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He had seen the strands of magic skittering this way and that and launching in long threads over the tops of the trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A lizard skittered across the dirt in front of me, and I jumped back. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Once the fans would descend, I’d skitter off to the sidelines. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed she could see it flying—each sound, each letter, skittering out of her ears and fluttering away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I kick a tennis ball out of my way and watch it skitter across the grass and bounce against the steps. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the house was shut up, the furniture draped with heavy white cloths to keep the worst of the dust off, the skittering sound of mice echoing hollowly whenever Ophie opened a door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And here we were now opening the lid of a sealed jar, and all the anticipation of a tomorrow planned a thousand yesterdays ago came skittering to our feet like slick-shelled beetles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z In the back room of the laboratory the white rats in their cages ran and skittered and squeaked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My phone rings in my pocket, and I ignore it like I have for most of the day, squinting into the distance at Will as he skitters across the pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He skittered between obstacles like a primeval creature who had outwitted the modern world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Somewhere, I don’t know,” he said, his pale glance skittering across my room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I pushed the tiller, and we skittered past a glistening spear of two-by-four, only inches away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Each mountain, each tree, each rock and animal and skittering insect. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Deal,” I agreed, then grabbed Abby’s hands and swung her around until Rayburn barked and skittered across the floor trying to join us. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Her skin skittered at the use of that word, Pet’s word, but Redemption was right, the work was hunting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was oversimplifying here, skittering off there, dodging and feinting. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Beetles skittered like bullets on the surface, or carried a silver bubble of air with them to the bottom. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds, which had shadowed the monument, skittered away to the north, and the late-afternoon sun broke through to bathe the reflecting pool and shine on the gaily dressed Easter crowd. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z And when the waves and the winds smack at them, they spread their wings and skitter around and then they try to come back together again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Jay Oh flicked a bottle cap at me that bounced off my chest and skittered across the table. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As I sat on the concrete, my feet dangling toward the water, she overturned rocks with the stick and pointed out the skittering crawfish. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z As he skittered along the soil, he scrambled to stay on his back, pressing his coarse palms into the ground to avoid turning over and having his face dragged through the dirt and rocks. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Rats skittered over the rubble, blinking evil red eyes at the harsh sunlight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And skittering all around them would be the small, two-man fishing boats—like little water bugs skimming over the surface. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I startle Nutmeg into skittering across Jason’s book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, a branch broke in the wind, skittered across the dooryard of his shed, and slammed against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I glided as we went into the woods again, and stayed close while the trail narrowed and skittered through some thick underbrush. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Ralph, whose weekend had been so long and so lonely, felt such a surge of joy and relief at the sound of school buses that he skittered back to Room 5 in a forgiving mood. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z My dirty fingers skittered across the shiny surface like skates. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They gust down the slope of the roof, skitter across the parapets, stick flat in tidal eddies down on the beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The slender raptor skittered across the trike’s rump with surprising agility, sending both reeling into a sharp turn. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A dead leaf skittered in the moonlight as I wriggled my way through the two-brick hole to the other side. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I jumped up and shouted, and two raccoons skittered under my feet. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the Hephaestus chariot a good shove and sent them skittering sideways while we pulled ahead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Fred skittered out of the doghouse with his tail tucked between his legs. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The baby screecher skittered back and forth in the basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The knife skittered free, and he slapped it out of sight under the bed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I watched falling leaves skitter over the watery surface, which gurgled as it tumbled over the rocks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I started skittering round and trying to search the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I kick a small stone, and we all watch it skitter away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I crawled onto the sand on all fours, invisible creatures skittering away as I collapsed onto what felt like a pile of leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he shook my hand and skittered out the front door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Someone’s foot clipped the edge of the gun, sending it skittering away. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Before Mack can stomp, the beetle skitters away, disappearing through a crack in the wall. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z It hopped and skittered toward him in the mud, then turned itself around and went forward. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He skittered over the top of the gully to the back end of the cart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Immediately, there cascaded from the fluting organ confetti of skittering triplets as the vicar turned to lead the couple down the aisle and the six family members fell in behind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The tree’s dry needles skitter in the hot breeze across the desert like a flock of birds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Clara crumpled to the floor, the scissors skittering away under the bed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Cobwebs trembled and danced as the first of the spiders appeared: no larger than gumdrops, but plump and black, skittering over the walls and the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She was about to ask Percy how he had jumped so far when she heard the skittering of a rockslide in the hills to their left. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I hear the crack of impact as candies skitter across the hardwood floor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There were no bright scratches skittering along its dull grey side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I look up to see a mama barn swallow skitter off from her nest for more food. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And Laika came skittering proudly down the dock carrying something that looked like rope in her teeth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The light of the moon skittered along the madwoman’s bones, from the top of her head to her beautiful boots and back again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The snack platter skittered across the roof and sailed through the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Ruby tried to skitter clear of the cloud, but it pursued her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A chill skittered up Ekon’s bare arm like a spider; his mouth went paper dry. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I skittered and scrabbled, trying to stay upright. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But when Shawn hoisted himself into the saddle, the Yearling merely skittered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He scrambled over the big rocks; a chipmunk skittered ahead of him; he was afraid she would disappear like the echo her voice made. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One circle of fairies spread their arms, and fragments of glass skittered together, took the form of a pair of fairies, and came back to life. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A tiny crab fell out and skittered into a corner. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z As Dill walked home, a brisk wind blew, drying the leaves, which skittered and danced in front of him in the moonlit shadows. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Zane batted at her wildly until she skittered down his neck, across his chest, and buried herself inside the suitcase of loot, where she promptly became entangled in the pricey headphones. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The ball skittered off his hand, underthrown, overthrown, nowhere near its intended target. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It skittered around the kitchen and then careened back toward the bedroom with the twins running after it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Carlyle pushes his mop toward a cowering batch of them, and they skitter away on purple little dendrite legs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was a cluster of old women, and they startled and skittered back from the bedside, clinging together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The mutts fall to their bellies and skitter toward us on all fours. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet, Jake, Tom, and Basil threw themselves to the ground while the rocket hissed overhead and then slammed into the road behind, skittering along until it plowed into a muddy ditch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m looking for a good book,” said Mr. Lemoncello as his hover ladder jerked vertically, then skittered sideways. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The people, thousands of them, crept forward, their limbs stretching, elongating as they limped and crawled and skittered like insects. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her heart skittered when she saw it was Redemption calling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Without warning, he skittered back up the giant web and tugged one of its strings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My sword skittered across the ground and fell straight into the open fissure. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Rishi sighed and kicked a small rock in his path, sending it skittering off into the night. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane and Azareen were deflecting blows, sending kitchen knives skittering over the metal surface of the terrace that was still beneath the sleigh. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Tad kicked a bent piece of metal, and it skittered down the hall and slammed into the door of an open locker. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Even farther in, the silence was broken by a cacophony of strange sounds—the skittering of rats; hissing steam; the hollow, recurring tap of pipes, like the desperate scratching of a premature burial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The marble shot over Jackson’s head, struck the stone floor in the distance with a satisfying click, bounced off the far wall, and skittered around the corner. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I whip it out and tap into my texts, heart skittering in my chest. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Her dagger had skittered a few feet away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her heart skittered into her throat and stayed there. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A chill ran along Ophie’s arms, skittering down her skin and leaving goose pimples in its wake. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Her knife skittered across the carbon fiber and disappeared over the side. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He found himself foaming and frothing at the mouth as he skittered around frantically trying to find water while one of the maids ran down the hall shrieking, “Mad mouse! Mad mouse!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z While most of Nergal's demons milled around warily, one skittered into attack mode. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Dinos of all shapes and sizes should’ve been trundling down the throughway, skittering across intersections, hauling cargo along for a late delivery at some grocer or apothecary. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The others skittered across the floor, wingtips scrabbling on the marble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Jessie's mind skittered like one of those long-legged birds on the beach. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It had skittered away over the edge of the cliff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The tip of his finger grazes my arm, sending a spark skittering across my skin, and I jerk away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There’s this distant slam of the front door shutting and dog nails skittering across the hardwoods—Nora’s home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The discs sprouted thin, wiry legs like spiders and skittered into the crowd, where they affixed themselves to Mr. Flux’s troops, delivering electrical charges that sent them yelping up and out of the fray. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He’s barking round the tree and the squirrel’s skittering back and forth on the tree trunk, taunting him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I reach out to touch one, and they both skitter away. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I felt terrified to be alone and I ran for the door, as though I’d seen a millipede skitter across the rug. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z A breeze stirred and kicked up dried leaves, making them skitter across the sidewalk in front of us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Her nerves were still as frayed as old rope; every sudden skitter and crunch of leaf underfoot rattled her insides. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Toby spun, the piece of wing skittering across the clearing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z On the other hand, if a light particle doesn’t have enough energy to nudge the electron out, then the electron stays put; the photon skitters away instead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It tumbled and bounced across the hillside, scattering rocks; headed upward, it came at last to a grinding, skittering stop. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I was still trying to force back the blackest thought of all; the merest suggestion of it sent the rat’s feet of panic skittering up my spine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His whole body gathered up behind the bit, and he skittered around like a downed electrical wire, begging Pollard to turn him loose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Soil and pebbles skittered across the ground, pulled towards his massive dragon feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The revolver flew from my hands and skittered across the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They skittered sideways and the sled gathered speed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Something small and hairy skittered over her foot, and she shot straight up. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I almost drop the box of tacks and a few skitter to the floor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The figure bolted from beneath her fingers and skittered out on the boardwalk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z High above in the jungle’s rooftop, birds—or tiny winged lizards—skitter between the leaves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Inside, gold and green lights skitter over the ground like tiny fairies. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His eyes flicked back and forth, skitter quick, high and fast, looking all of them over. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes skittered through the mess for something familiar, any clue about where her room might have landed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It hopped; it skittered; it reached; it grabbed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Hazel did not know how long she crouched there, while the bird skittered about the cage and outside the boy chopped wood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She is skittering along ahead, swinging from rock to rock like a trim blonde monkey. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It plummeted straight down from my open hands and landed with a crash, shards of ceramic bursting apart and skittering across the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Her pale, silvery glance skittered anxiously around my room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It skittered back a few yards, and Gregor got his first good look at the arachnid. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He glanced at me for only a second before his eyes skittered away. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If Dad had caught me with a book when I was supposed to be working, I’d have skittered, but Tyler was steady. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Plagued by monstrous visions and furniture that skittered across her bedroom floor, Lucie was in dire need of an understanding bestie. Review: ‘Martyrs,’ a Slashing Remake, Centers on Two Friends 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Blending skittering machine beats with musicians playing harp, bass and strings, “Cosmogramma” is a marriage of 21st-century technology and 1960s West Coast psychedelic experimentation, sounding at times like a futuristic take on free jazz. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z It sounds even better now than it did then, hit after hit laid into a skittering, luscious flow that is pure sex — pure, parent-approved, consensual sex, that is. T Magazine: The Enduring, Multigenerational Appeal of Justin Timberlake 2013-09-12T11:35:19Z But these men seem at times hardly civilized, as they skitter fearfully about the stage, their trajectories leading to violent, often sexual confrontations in which it’s hard to tell apart grappling and coupling. Dance Review: For French Choreographer, a Night to Rattle the Audience 2010-10-22T23:26:00Z A green laser dot skitters across EO’s back, but when gunfire rings out, it’s the wolf that falls. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z The movie may be a comedy, even a satire, but it’s both a crude and scattershot one; its dramatic arc is mechanistically determined from the start, even as its catchphrases skitter at loose ends throughout. “Bodied,” Reviewed: The Eminem-Produced Battle-Rap Movie Is a Confused Satire of P.C. Culture 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z She writes like a painter, imagery skittering off every page, and many of her prose obsessions recur in her visual art. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The poet laureate of this kind of tale is the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, whose brisk, skittering books pounce on everyday experiences, revealing beneath their forensically detailed surfaces pools of risk and doubt. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The pan is first heated until it’s so hot a drop of water skitters and sizzles away. The Smoky Taste of Wok Hei, Without a Wok 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And then, to make things stranger, populate the rest of the scene with some Edward Gorey-style ghosts, skittering across the landscape — at once menacing, comical and slightly tongue-in-cheek. Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The film’s slow-burn magic lies in the many questions it raises as it skitters to a fitful, explosive end. ‘A Banquet’ Review: Starving for a Higher Purpose 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The Bastian team holed up in a conference room; the models skittered off to other shows. Model for a Day: A Writer Struts His Stuff on the Catwalk During New York Fashion Week 2012-09-14T20:07:40Z He rose slowly to his feet, skittered suddenly on the tiles, waved his arms wildly once, and clung to the brickwork in front of him, laughing. Extract: Moon Pie by Simon Mason 2011-07-29T09:59:02Z Brendan Patrick Hogan’s canny sound design sets the mood even before the lights go up, with a skittering, eerie score that returns to haunt you. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z Clockwork effects find furniture skittering around whenever Mayhem does her telekinetic thing. Part two of 'Team of Heroes' is doubly fun 2012-04-26T20:12:13Z As Barnabas Collins, the scion of a wealthy family turned unwilling vampire, Mr. Depp has a face as white as chalk and long-fingered hands that skim the air like skittering spiders. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in Tim Burton?s ?Dark Shadows? 2012-05-10T12:00:01Z But Mr. Defa and his cinematographer, Mike Gioulakis, are united in their disdain for information over mood: as the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation. Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa 2012-02-03T01:37:26Z Flats and curtains moved aside to reveal obelisk-like speaker stacks and skittering strobe lights. Share your theatre memories of 2010 2010-12-29T09:43:57Z Nominally about politics — the author is a former political speechwriter — it’s really a skittering satire about a fissured nuclear family that could be transposed to almost any other power industry. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z But Patrick also has an excess of pride and an explosive temper that occasionally skitters out of control. | 'Lights Out': With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring 2011-01-10T23:08:16Z The babies skitter around in formation, squeaking responses to their attentive mom and dad. For a gardener, wildlife can make life a little livelier 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Sure enough: The unmistakable, chaos-sowing figure of Freud skitters in the shadows. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z She tried spinning one, dreidel-style, but it skittered off the counter and narrowly missed my shoe. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z In a world of noise — ever more noise — he creates the opposite: sounds that skitter, creep and linger around silence. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The tinny little rental car skittered over the pocked surface, shuddering with the impact of every rock. In northern Arizona, ups and downs in the land of canyons 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z For example, about a minute in to the title track, there is what we believe is referred to as a "drop", followed by skittering drum'n'bass rhythms and some buzzing sci-fi bass. New band of the day - Bo Keeney (No 1,406) 2012-11-29T16:14:14Z There’s not much distinctive movement in “O Zlozony,” let alone anything of Ms. Brown’s characteristically slippery, skittering style with its unpredictable impulses and loose, fluid transitions. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z His style is intense, sardonic, philosophical, with a tendency to skitter away from the spotlight even as he places himself center stage. Review: Recalling an Electric New York in ‘Radicals in Miniature’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The rat, now skittering around under my bed, must have crawled up the fire escape to my third-floor window. If a Rat Falls Into Your Bed, Call Your Lover’s Boyfriend 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Dupont looks elated as she skitters across the floor in an arc and launches into staccato hops. Aurélie Dupont, Unbound 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z In that delectable book, Paul was having trouble writing the introduction to an anthology of rhyming poetry, while his mind skittered sideways over multifold topics, notably loneliness. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z This happens on the macro level, in the small groups he juxtaposes in intriguing spatial patterns, sending them skittering across the stage in quick, rhythmic jumps. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Dance in ?Home? at City Center - Review 2011-12-03T00:30:22Z When Mozart skitters, so does the dancer; when Mozart bounds, the dancer does too. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z Mr. Anderson, who also wrote the screenplay, handles this theme unpersuasively, nodding at genocide only to skitter away and return to his embroidered visuals. Review: Wes Anderson’s Bleakly Beautiful ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Lizards and roadrunners skitter across the museum floor. Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In Tan's hands, the inside of the piano becomes a kind of cavernous zither that trembles, skitters, slithers, roars. Pianist Margaret Leng Tan brings her musical 'sorcery' to Seattle 2011-05-18T23:17:12Z In the pizzicato-fest of the second movement, deMaine’s skittering cello and Park’s nimble piano scampered together so precisely they drew an audible chuckle from the crowd. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z We skitter across two lanes of traffic and finally find the Jalopy close to the tollbooths for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Newest New Yorkers at Play 2011-08-11T22:00:11Z The models, apparently thinking a hobo was in their midst, squealed and skittered out of Joseph’s way. | A Brief History of a Legendary New York Art Building 2013-06-20T22:25:55Z In the closing rendition of “Rise,” she skittered across the stage and convulsed on the floor, a suggestion of the “tearing down” she later spoke of. Review: Solange Turns the Guggenheim Into a Sanctuary for Dance 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The general moral and physical rot are visually conveyed by skittering rats, giant pustules, frequent vomiting and a murder at a urinal. Review: In Amazon’s ‘ABC Murders,’ John Malkovich Is a Sad Poirot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Many young, mostly male M.C.s were emerging, adopting the distinctive hi-hat percussion and skittering snares of the popular American trap sound, but rapping in Icelandic. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z We skitter down and pick our way to a promontory that dissects the flowing water. When John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high road 2010-06-20T21:01:00Z He has Tourette’s syndrome, and the novel lingers over the poetry of his logorrhea, how a word piped into his ear will set other words skittering from his mouth: triage, arbitrage, sabotage. In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But as the critters "skitter through a couple of acts' worth of noisy, tediously generic action … you'll have to appreciate what fleeting cleverness you can." 'Minions': Cute critters better off as second bananas, reviews say 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Lizards skittered across the trail, throwing up puffs of dust. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z He has us skittering over rooftops, bouncing off chimney pots. Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-14T12:17:15Z It’s awkward to watch such repurposing of the Cunningham aesthetic, with its skittering feet, impossible balances and quivering muscles under Spandex. Dance Review: Michael Clark?s ?Who?s Zoo?? at Whitney Biennial 2012 2012-04-01T21:00:01Z This is originally a piano solo, yet Sorey’s skittering cymbal work was closely attuned to the score, his floor toms tuned to highlight the densest chordal moments in Tao’s interpretation of the notated material. Long Play Rises to the Top of New York Classical Music Festivals 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z General Hospital, where raccoons skittered through the halls. In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The mind skittered along these allusions linking skin, blackness, modernism, death, and the empowerment of a constructed persona. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z And indeed, within the first hour of the three-hour tour, my wife had spotted one, a football-size bird that skittered into the brush as soon as her red flashlight beam fell on it. Next Stop: In Wellington, New Zealand, a New Life for Flyover Country 2011-09-02T18:17:49Z The entire beach seemed to be in motion, tiny white conch shells skittering across the sand. In Eritrea, a Diver’s Dreamscape 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This approach amounts to a sort of historical pointillism, bringing the manic, skittering mood of the era into focus. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Every time I hiked through the scrub, road runners, fence lizards, kangaroo rats and blacktail jackrabbits skittered under the creosote bushes. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The former Times critic Parul Sehgal noted that Watson covers vast terrain while “skittering back and forth like a sandpiper at the shores of language’s Great Debates.” New in Paperback: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ and ‘Bloodlands’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The little vocal sounds multiply, skittering like rain on a roof. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z Two, three and suddenly dozens skitter up and down trees, swinging from branches, cautiously checking us out before darting off. The slopes, the powder and the prices make Japan a worthy ski trip 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z On Saturday I am woken by what sounds like the hooves of eight tiny reindeer skittering above my head. Tim Dowling: I’m American, I can handle a heatwave. Right? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The work opens with a tramping march, portrayed by dry trumpet tones, short clarinet notes and dusty violin skitters. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z While some of the 14 artists dwell in just one gallery, others skitter here and there. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In his other books, he has skittered through history and across the English-speaking world, from Victorian London to 1970s New York to the early America visited by Alexis de Tocqueville. Peter Carey’s Literary Hack 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In an instant, she becomes the deer, jumping and skittering in intricate patterns across the stage. A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z With a heaving single note or a short, skittering line, he showed a virtuoso naïveté, and a blissfully generous spirit. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The directness of Sinead Matthews's performance matches the engaging writing, which skitters about fearlessly in several styles but is kept tightly in check by Caroline Steinbeis's cinematic production. A Time to Reap – review 2013-03-05T18:18:34Z The raps on "Adventures"'s 14 tracks sprawl and skitter, run back and forth across the beat, work all sorts of dextrous magic. Late review: "Adventures in a Helluvastate" by Seattle's Helluvastate 2011-05-05T19:18:07Z The mice, you remember, skitter through the dream world of Clara, a young German girl who receives a bright red nutcracker from her eccentric godfather at a grand Christmas Eve party. Mice make mischief at McCaw Hall 2010-11-29T22:16:00Z “But we don’t really see it reflected in our storytelling very much. No sooner do you mention the word ‘God’ than a lot of people skitter away from the dinner table, you know. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s a wildly playful album, full of risky production and arrangements — skittering aquatic beats, odd filigrees, punchy power harmonies. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Scores of people skitter around, a testament to the multitude of television and movie projects in which Abrams and Bad Robot have a hand. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z In a cutting-edge anatomical study by the video artist Kate Cooper, the camera skitters through a digital model of a human body, slice by slice, like Leonardo playing with an MRI machine. Computers and Painting’s Identity Crisis 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Technically she is impressive, with a skimming, skittering use of her feet that looks effortless but produces complex, fascinating patterns of sound. Dance Review: Roxane Butterfly Remembers Jimmy Slyde at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:52:00Z More than once I awoke to the sound of mice skittering near my head. In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The perspective shifts almost at random and the plot, about a movie executive with barely hidden vices, skitters away from its author's control. Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unfinished Novel 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But what sets it apart are its rousing timpani, which skitter around frenetically and meet up with Pete Rock and C.L. James Blake Is As Crazy As Ever On His New EP 2011-12-20T18:10:45Z Another jolt of electricity to the optic lobe, and the beetle dropped out of the air and skittered across the tile floor. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z For satire to work well, it has to come from darkness but skitter through that darkness with the lightest of touches. Donald Trump’s modest proposals: His campaign sounded like a Jonathan Swift essay — but who got the joke? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z That even such thin revelations send the dialogue skittering back to familiar laugh-track comforts is a problem both in the script and the production. Review: In Matthew Perry’s First Play, a Chandler Gone to Seed 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Hideous extraterrestrial invaders skitter through the streets or clomp about in bio-mechanical suits of armor, blasting humans with lasers. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z The first single, "Two Weeks," is the most beguiling, a crawling, expansive work of longing featuring bass-wobbles and skittering synthetic high-hats that pan from left to right and back again. FKA twigs takes a leap with charismatic 'LP1' 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Strings skittered and squealed; woodwinds huffed almost inaudibly; a viola croaked as if stretched on a medieval rack; a pianist tried, again and again, to restore calm. Music Review: Contact!, New York Philharmonic Series at Met Museum 2012-12-26T22:31:15Z Her prose skitters along with her own insecurities, becoming thin and abstract rather than rich with the details of her engagement in the gritty work she clearly loves. In France, an American Woman Learns the Butcher’s Trade 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet the clothes skittered across the surface of each. Burn It All Down 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Covering her face with her hair, Ms. Zuerner become less a woman than a creature while skittering across the floor in balletic footwork that called for pas de bourrées and hops on demi-point. ‘Light House’ Keeps Dancers and Audience Moving 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z And yet Mr. Mahanthappa, slashing and skittering through the four movements of the piece, sounds extraordinary. ‘Cuba: The Conversation Continues’ and ‘Live in Cuba’ Expand a Musical Dialogue 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The last time I used it, one of the wheels fell off and went skittering down a squalid city sidewalk, never to be found. Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z After exactly 45 minutes, she was gone, skittering offstage without so much as shaking the moderator’s hand. Diane Keaton neglected her mentally ill brother for most of his life. Now she’s trying to make it right. 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z A skittering violin sound is, I am told, a squirrel - the rhythmic gong, a Scots Pine. Listening to the sounds of the woods 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In the middle movement, “Noise Impromptu,” two notebook computers provided directions for a guided improvisation crammed with exaggerated squeaks, grinds and skitters. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z On the dappled surfaces of this pretty record, the light skitters off trickling, Cure-like guitars. Diiv: Oshin – review 2012-06-30T23:05:39Z Often the women were in unison, and would then separate, skittering from place to place, pointing distractedly, as though lost or trying to regain a memory. Dance of the Everywoman 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Lloyd occasionally turns up elsewhere, since the time span through which “The Imperfectionists” cleverly skitters is more than half a century. Books of The Times: ?The Imperfectionists? by Tom Rachman 2010-05-05T22:48:00Z Drummer Dave Smith and bassist Billy Fuller favored rhythms that skipped and skittered rather than overwhelmed. Concert review: Robert Plant at Taste of Chicago 2013-07-13T03:44:00Z Her skittering silverfish of a play, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002, glints with meaning that refuses to stay put. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z We also got a look into the origins of the skitters. Falling Skies: episode eight 2011-08-23T21:01:01Z Judging from the man-to-man pinball skittering of the characters of Lena Dunham’s “Girls,” not quite. ‘Fear of Flying’ by Erica Jong, 40 Years Later 2013-12-19T00:00:45Z I visualise the pressing of my feet into the floor, as with salsa dancing, as opposed to skittering about, ballet-style, on pointe. Terrified of public speaking? Start with what you really want to say 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Their nocturnal journey takes them skittering across Queen’s Highway, where flashlight-toting Bahamians line the roadway to fill gunnysacks and 50-gallon drums with the tasty crustaceans. Wildlife galore in the Bahamas, where the whole world’s a park 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z She is kept hostage by her father, the island's undertaker, and her mother who is "skittering in madness". Snake Ropes by Jess Richards – review 2013-01-19T19:00:04Z What touched me in “Café Müller” was the 62-year-old Nazareth Panadero as the woman who skitters around bewildered in heels, a role she has been performing for more than three decades. Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Rites of Pina Bausch’s Past 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It begins as a romantic tragedy, unfolds as a melancholy country-house comedy, then skitters back to tragedy again. Review: In ‘Goodnight Nobody,’ a Getaway Goes Awry 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z At dawn I was woken by skittering noises and peeped out to see three deer chasing each other around the base of the tree. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The dancers wriggled in their stilettos and miniskirts, sequins skittering. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Guests gaze, mesmerised, keen to glimpse the creature before it skitters off down to the sewers. World Of Lather: a month in soap 2012-07-13T23:05:00Z Skylarks serenade from above, each scattering their springtime melody, skittering and bubbling, over the arid landscape. After a breakdown, birdwatching brought me friendship, escape and a new love of nature 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z I’m at an elevation of 11,000 feet, skittering across a massive bulletproof slate of frozen snow, my ski edges, knees and best-laid plans surrendering together. At Montana’s Big Sky Resort, a new perspective on skiing 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Even better are solos of ecstatic, concentrated clarity where skittering footwork beats against curving body shapes or where a dancer simply holds the stage in a radiantly unfolding adagio. Merce Cunningham Company ? review 2010-10-27T22:00:00Z Years rush by — sometimes in a single, gasp-inducing edit — as the story skitters from one period to the next. ‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Now the Swedish pop-duo is ready to unveil a complete album filled with their skittering dance tunes. Fall 2013 Music Preview 2013-09-06T09:45:57Z The Dylan family’s previous home, upstate in Woodstock, NY, had been compromised by a steady torrent of unwelcome guests, entreating upon his would-be-quaint homestead and skittering across his roof. Ballad of a Bin Man: A.J. Weberman, the man who says he’s behind Bob Dylan’s Nobel Award for Literature 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Later she skittered across the studio in a series of blisteringly fast backward-traveling leaps; again, the impression was both brilliant and almost frighteningly inhuman. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z They skitter and bounce across the floor like drops of oil in a hot skillet. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Her 16th birthday is the occasion for an Edwardian tennis match – lots of chaps swanning about in white flannels and boaters – through which she skitters barefoot, heedful only of her secret romance. Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty – review 2012-12-16T00:05:50Z He's always skittered between multiple works, though, and sometimes envies playwrights who have a more constant focus. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z “Hi,” the cat-eared girl said, in the smallest voice she could muster, before skittering away. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Possessed of craniums that roll open to expose a pulsing, wet membrane, they’re like skittering ear holes with pointy teeth and clattering appendages. Review: In John Krasinski’s ‘A Quiet Place,’ Silence Means Survival 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Behind everything was Mr. Wilson’s smartly skittering pulse, along with his rummaging sense of invention. Music Review: Matt Wilson Leads His Jazz Band at Iridium 2010-05-20T22:12:00Z Small skittering hops and stamping motifs send the dancers ricocheting across a white, light-drenched stage, composed in the moment within the work’s overall arc, which is set but allows for a great deal of improvisation. Dance Review: No Matter the Country, Boys Will Be Boys 2010-10-20T21:31:00Z These transgressions, shown in a fleet, skittering montage, are hardly grave. Review: New Zealand Comedy 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Has Charm to Spare 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z But in this piece, he is also making full use of ballet’s vocabulary: arabesques, jumps in which the legs beat together in the air, the patter of pointe shoes skittering across the stage. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The dust blows, the wind howls, a scorpion skitters across the desk of a tormented scientist. WGN’s ‘Manhattan’: Hard to build but easy to bomb They laugh, descending into riotous drunkenness and finding connection that both they and Eggers skitter around. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z A little girl kicked a bottle cap through the bandstand; the metal skittering across the asphalt became an extended iridescent tinkle. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Thundercat also skittered around the bass strings with considerably alacrity and invention. Flying Lotus hypnotic and personable at Neptune | Concert review 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s a mostly dissonant score, often understandably emotional and troubled, with long lyrical lines in the first two movements and skittering displays for the soloist in the finale. Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z And then there was the music itself, as immortalized on that infamous record: a fascinatingly dreadful stew of out-of-tune guitars, skittering drums and affectless vocals bleating out naïve, often haunting lyrics. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z Yves and his companion Paulette take to their bikes and leave the city behind while a melodic figure skitters up and down like a set of spoke beads. Readers recommend songs about bicycles: The Results 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z So, as the music skitters and scowls, you'll see images of birds swooping across dark clouds or apparitions roaming bleak industrial landscapes. Click to Download: iTunes festival, Red Bull Studios, Gazelle Twin 2011-07-06T15:30:00Z They negotiate “Saba” at first in a skittering quintuple meter, with an octave-etched melody; then they pull back, slow down and deflate, before snapping back into gear. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z All that enchantment withers up and blows away, skittering with the leaves across Gatsby's dusty lawn. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Brazos Saltwater Dead Oceans There's a lovely, skittering energy to the second album from Brazos, a restlessness that reflects the band's fitful existence. Brazos: Saltwater – review 2013-05-23T21:40:01Z On Something Good, the beat skitters like dubstep, and yet the vocals and the guitar picking reek of folk. New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z Ms. De Keersmaeker appears briefly before each suite, naming it by holding up a number of fingers then skittering away. Review: A Choreographer Finds Her Bliss in Bach 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z I'd been tubing, only moments before pummeling down an icy lane in an inner tube that slipped and skittered from side to side, threatening to plunge into an adjoining lane. Rapture in the Zoom 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The captured skitter stuff was almost all fine; it's a standard routine in science fiction and while Falling Skies offered nothing particularly new, it did reveal a lot more about our alien overlords. Falling Skies: episode four 2011-07-26T21:00:02Z Accompanied by fragments of Stravinsky and nursery songs, her movements seem freighted with autobiographical detail – a skittering war dance of frustration, a halting walk, an ecstatic sprawl. In Pieces 2010-06-28T21:01:00Z "My mind tends to skitter to extremes," he said. Damien Chazelle's wild, crazy ride to the Oscars with 'Whiplash' 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Out here, the scritch and creep and slither, the skitter and croak of being, bee-ing, beetling, of spider, of mouse, of frog. Linda Newbery: following the Walking Man 2010-08-09T15:16:00Z The skittering, discordant We Run Things gave him an excuse to play congas, and a pretty duet with his brother, Ben, swirled around for ages. Jamie Cullum 2010-05-17T20:30:00Z Usually in Bhutan this involves bowing your head to allow some holy water to skitter down your part and into your ear. Modern Love: A Forgotten Prayer, Answered ? Modern Love 2011-12-29T18:34:09Z Patsy Ruth Miller was an insider’s insider, yet somehow managed to skitter lightly upon the froth, to delight in the shimmer, even to catch its reflections while being among them. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Other relationships skitter across Burton and Taylor's narrative horizon: the faintest outline of a doting daughter here, the briefest smudge of a supportive young wife there. Burton And Taylor: pills, booze and divadom 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z Jlin, a D.J.-producer associated with Chicago footwork, played hurtling, skittering tracks that weren’t always tied to dance music’s typical 4/4 time. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Both add up to a language-rhythmed dance that skitters precisely between a range of moods and attitudes, from aggression to invitation. Cabeen's 'Hybrid 2012' plays brilliant mix-and-match in Velocity show 2012-03-23T17:07:03Z “Uncut Gems” jitters and skitters and lurches and hurtles with Howard’s desperate energy. The Mesmerizing Chaos of “Uncut Gems” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Dubstep has been around for more than a decade, an offshoot of electronic music that began in the South of London with deep, sinister bass lines, skittering drums and a distinctly underground vibe. Flux Pavilion aims to inject dubstep with 'emotionally epic' songs 2012-06-14T20:33:00Z In its style, too, the book takes an unusual approach: Sentences sneak up on their meaning, duck aside, then arrive at the point and skitter off. Review: ‘Quartet for the End of Time,’ by Johanna Skibsrud 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Toward the end, the immensely talented Mthuthuzeli November, who is also South African, drums and sings with great power, jumping and skittering in one spot, as the dancers respond, physically and vocally, to his invocation. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But when I reached down to pick her up that day, Stella cried and skittered away. Motherlode Blog: The Dog’s One Big Headache, but My Kids Adore Her 2014-02-16T13:13:10Z Mourning, yet angry and confused, Dorona and her brothers skitter off like Jerusalem’s sophisticated answer to the Scooby-Doo crew, seeking the answers that their mother took to her grave. Review: In ‘The Kind Words,’ Siblings and a Secret 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Yet even when that outside world bears down on Pietro and especially Bruno, the movie skitters away from messy, unpleasant particulars, which makes its painful passages easier to take but also blunts its impact. ‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Her thick, quivering voice rode three-chord rock songs that accelerated as she wailed about desire and power, and sent her striding and skittering around the stage. Music Review: Courtney Love and New Hole Lineup at Terminal 5 2010-04-28T22:45:00Z When a caribou calf stopped to sniff me then skittered away to join the others, I realized I’d found what I was looking for. What the Caribou Taught Me About Being Together, and Apart 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Scuba divers have already placed these microhabitats —- which have little legs and look as if they might skitter across the sea bottom — in endangered reefs. The Lewis and Clark of the Digital Building Frontier 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Conversely, What the World is Waiting for captures the essence of the Stone Roses: hubristic lyrics, loose guitar riffing, skittering drums and lolloping bass. Readers recommend: B-sides ? the results 2011-02-03T16:36:46Z Whether he’s airborne or skittering on the surface, Federer’s motor impulse is continuous; one move rolls into the next. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The women skitter through the space in quick traveling hops that seem both deft and heroic. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z And so it’s the actors who skitter about and push imaginary levers for imaginary food. Whiteboard? Check. Lab Rats? They’re the Actors. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z McKinley High School students skitter across it from the NoMa Metro stop. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Chen grabs our eyes early with a skittering battle between Fung and a victim that takes place on a gargantuan artwork that resembles King Kong’s skeleton. Review: A ‘Kung Fu Killer’ Doesn’t Follow the Rules 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z By now the focus is squarely on the members’ own compositions, which have long since become an insider language of their own, balancing lyricism and counterpoint and skittering, half-broken rhythms. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z You fail to convey the plays’ skittering flow, their pulsing vitality. Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z We skitter across the wind-scoured summit back to the top of the gully. In the Colorado Rockies, going to extremes with legendary skier Chris Davenport 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Maybe you've ineptly thrown your full weight on a delicata only to have it skitter away from you down the counter. Spicy roasted squash, without fear 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The plot is one of those spring-loaded affairs, blindsiding us and sending us skittering into a whole different story. Review | A fresh recording of Katharine Graham’s memoir is among the best new audiobooks 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The towering title track layers intricate guitar work atop skittering percussion before a chorus comes along and sweeps everything into a tidal wave of sound. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z It looks vaguely like Ireland, undulating greens rolling to the sea, webbed by thin footpaths, the only other sign of humanity a Hobie Cat, skittering over the reef. A St. Martin vacation reminds parents they don’t really want to get away from kids 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As she explained in a recent phone call, she was gobsmacked by the result, a dance track that mixes laser squelches, piano chords, a skittering beat and Croft’s wistful vocals. How Fred Again.. Turns Digital Bricolage Into Dance-Floor Weepers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Severed, reanimated hands skitter, “Addams Family”-like, through the bowels of the lab, where Ron has been invited to create a “Christian Companion” sex doll for the evangelical market. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Sunlight skitters across Lake Union like a thousand laser beams. At nautical-themed Westward, bountiful food is the anchor 2013-12-20T19:12:54Z When rapidly twirling it, and dragging the edges of a particular pan against a drumstick, he created a haunting, skittering effect — a restless signal of warning. Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The chimney collapsed and tiles skittered down the roof. FamilyLife 2012-06-01T23:05:08Z On her sophomore album, the R&B talent wanders into headier terrain than her more upbeat 2017 debut, “Tease,” with sultry, low-lit vocals adorning drifting down-tempo beats with skittering percussion and deep bass rolls. Puget Sounds: The top 12 new albums from the Pacific Northwest 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Look at leaves skittering in a breeze of change. Hey, Mr. Critic: A Four-Star for a Special Visit ? Hey, Mr. Critic 2011-09-22T22:00:16Z The art, which is in gorgeous, evocative full color, sprawls and skitters unnervingly across the pages. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z He got in people’s faces, mincing and skittering around the three sets of audience bleachers. Dance Review: An Otherworldly Wildness This Way Comes 2011-01-30T22:12:14Z The skitter is a fighter, sort of spiderlike and skittering, he said. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z But "Thieves in Time" soars when it allows the nimble Sly to do what he does best: skittering up drainpipes, scampering across power lines, bouncing across rooftops. Review: Sony's rascally raccoon Sly Cooper returns 2013-02-20T13:25:10Z The book traces the effects of Teddy's death on a handful of intertwined people, skittering from Lintonburg to New York and back again over the course of 1988. Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson – review 2012-05-25T21:55:03Z Bryan Ferry’s “Love Is the Drug” is more time-appropriate with trumpet wails and skittering drums, although Ferry’s own chortles that are a modern-day development. Gatsby Soundtrack Beats On, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into Failure 2013-05-10T15:25:50Z And if "Swarm" were simply this, it would quickly skitter into a rut. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z On a short summer night, listen and you might hear a war whoop skitter out of the darkness along the riverbanks, followed by the scattering yips of coyotes on Mount Sentinel. Read Your Way Through Missoula 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z There are far too many ominous birds skittering around. Review | With ‘Real Life,’ Brandon Taylor twists the traditional campus novel 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The blast’s expanding cloud skitters across the surface of the sea, swallowing ships in its wake like Noe Peaks disappearing into San Francisco fog. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The effect of uncovering these nearly 100-year-old songs today is thus like shining a flashlight into a cellar: Some things skitter back into the dark but a few things glint with minor promise. Bringing Out the Best of Sondheim, Herman and … Schraubstader? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The demonic subject of murder ballad The Almond Tree is an elusive deer, whose skittering movements are mirrored in the music's shifts from eerie piano to impish bass. Hannah Peel: The Broken Wave - review 2011-01-27T23:40:01Z The camera tracks a concrete sphere as it skitters along the street, making a racket and, inevitably, ending up in a gutter. Art In Review: JAMES NARES: ?1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper? 2012-01-26T23:25:11Z There’s a sense of bizarre creatures skittering through a strange land, of fairy dust being liberally sprinkled — especially over the raunchy romances. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Black lizards covered with white speckles, known as lagartijas Magallanicas, skittered across the ground, and the desiccated corpse of a guanaco, a wild grazer related to the llama, baked beneath the sun. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z As the lithe Ms. Lovette skitters across the stage with tiny walks on point and her hand to her mouth, her shapes somehow evoke the voice’s whispery inflection. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The sleeping skitters were also a great image. Falling Skies: episode four 2011-07-26T21:00:02Z In this age of digital wizardry, Tinkerbell was a big and early disappointment, appearing old-school as a skittering shard of light shaped more like a mosquito than a fairy. 'Peter Pan Live': Neither mess nor magic, but some vintage Walken 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, the rest of the cows were unimpressed and continued to scare us, so we skittered back down the mountain. What a Trip: In the Swiss Alps, fighting cows are just one of many attractions A tear skittered down my cheek and was jerkily wiped away. Perspective | I’ve seen plenty of beautiful artworks. But the Matisse Chapel overwhelmed me. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The dancers, like multicolored gazelles, flit and lope and skitter and spin, each following a distinct and singular trajectory. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, it works best when the pace or intensity drops slightly – Applesauce's bug-eyed prettiness; the woozy, percussive Pulleys; or the skittering rhythms and bending synths of the more downbeat New Town Burnout. Animal Collective: Centipede HZ – review 2012-08-23T14:31:01Z Our experience is instead being shaped — sculpted — by an evocative if incoherent flow of illumined images skittering by. LACMA's exhibition 'Sculpt': Incoherent pretension for an audience of one 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z They take swift, skittering steps backward while leaning forward with an extended arm, so it looks like they’re being pulled by the wind. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The best bit tonight was the skitters cleverly using harnessed children holding automatic weapons, which was very creepy. Falling Skies: episode four 2011-07-26T21:00:02Z In the first section, the youthful figure in white skitters from one group to the next, as if seeking a blessing. Bringing Back the Spirit of Early Martha Graham, Stark and Pure 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Gru’s grand criminal scheme, which involves skittering robots baked into the cookies and then ever larger and more elaborate gizmos and flying machines, is as hectic and desperate as “Despicable Me” itself. | 'Despicable Me': 3-D Animated Feature With the Voice of Steve Carell 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z Amid copious beauty shots of cows and land alike, the movie skitters from the personal to the lightly ethnographic and the quasi-sociological. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z It skittered ahead, curved left, and hopped over the cliff edge. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z Nightmarish fragments and skittering riffs unfolded as Ms. Clayton clawed her way up the ramp and slid down, suffering from flashbacks. Opera Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Performs at a Museum 2014-02-28T00:13:13Z And when she refused to marry Paris, the defiance in how she skittered away on point also seemed a self-discovery. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-06-11T20:59:24Z Dense, skittering strings in the first movement, cascades of tubular bells and gongs in the second and urgent brass chords in the final "passacaglia" created a work of singularity and authority. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z A little fuel and some high-frequency sparking makes the robot skitter across the ground. Combustion powers bug-sized robots to leap, lift and race 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z A funereal organ sounds amid skittering string effects and atmospheric electronics. Nicholas Britell finds the themes for outsized stories in this world and others 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z In the shadowy hold, the count slithers and skitters and pounces and feeds. ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ review: An ill-fated, if easily predictable, final journey 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z If Regan MacNeil were to go skittering backward down the stairs today, would her onlookers scream in terror or whip out their phones — or both? Review: You have to hand it to ‘Talk to Me,’ a gripping thriller about love and loss 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z "It's fun to select from a wider variety of dishes," Yamamoto said at the cozy second-floor cafe, surrounded by insect art and terrariums of skittering beetles, ants and cockroaches. Silkworm sashimi, cricket curry on menu as bugs make a comeback in Japan 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z There are the expected diversionary battles, skittering creepy-crawlies and a fresh reminder of Indy’s horror of snakes. Review: With the messy but poignant ‘Dial of Destiny,’ a franchise strains to keep up with the Joneses 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Still, the candidates were top attractions at the gathering as they skittered around the hallways, trailed by chanting and sign-waving supporters; visited caucus groups to make their case; and hosted parties and meet-and-greets. Senate candidates who hope to replace Feinstein try to define themselves as they court Democratic activists 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Smaller than a mouse and about the weight of three pennies in the hand, the Dorset bats skitter across the cave walls or cling to one another for warmth. Tiny bats provide ‘glimmer of hope’ against a fungus that threatened entire species 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z I love watching the early birds skitter through the brown clutter in our side yard, hopping from one clump to the next, selecting long stalks of dried side oats grama for their nests. Opinion | Last year’s sunflowers save this year’s garden 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Kispert adopted the spirit as well, lunging and reaching for rebounds and skittering about the paint. Kings light the beam (and light up the Wizards) as Washington’s woes continue 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z And then there was Keisha, barely out of her teens, who had skittered around the encampment like a scared cat, wary of everyone, carrying a few old dolls and crying sometimes. A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z In Glendale, apparently, higher prices actually draw people in, rather than sending them skittering away to the mountain states. Column: If people are really leaving L.A. in droves, why is the traffic still so terrible? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Standing over a pool table near the kitchen, he jabbed the stick at the cue ball, which harmlessly skittered off to the side without disturbing the rack. Trippie Redd proves there's life after SoundCloud rap 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Another video posted to YouTube shows a cockroach skittering across the landscape with a grainy filter and ominous music, further suggesting a post-apocalyptic vibe. Last Blockbuster in America planning to run an ad during the Super Bowl 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Fossil-finding outings were a relief — an invitation to crouch, touch, lose myself in evidence of skittering and scrabbling, tethering myself to a past and a future. Why I Hunt for Sidewalk Fossils 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Mikheyev scored with 45 seconds left in the first, unleashing a blast from above the faceoff circle that ricocheted off the end glass, hit Korpisalo’s skate and skittered into the net. Pettersson scores twice, Canucks beat Blue Jackets 5-2 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Irving skittered across the lane juking defenders on his way to 24 points, six rebounds and five assists. Revitalized Nets hand the wayward Wizards a seventh straight loss 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z In the final seconds, Green Bay resorted to a lateral drill, and when the ball finally skittered harmlessly out of bounds, it was, in a way, Washington’s past connecting to its present. Analysis | Commanders deny the Packers with a ‘pretty good formula’ on offense 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z After watching a 2019 Trump news conference live, she demonstrated how journalists’ “necessary” editing of the former president’s “skittering, half-finished sentences” made him sound more coherent than he actually is. Review | Journalists are failing our fragile democracy, a media insider says 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Fetterman is skittering away from inconvenient beliefs he has espoused: Releasing one-third of incarcerated Pennsylvanians would not make the state less safe. Opinion | While Oz campaigns about campaigning, Fetterman sells a synthetic authenticity 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Singleton’s most impressive play came in the fourth quarter when he zipped through a wide open hole, skittered around a second-level block, then slipped the rest of the Tigers to cap a 54-yard touchdown. No. 14 Penn State’s line gets physical, RB Singleton emerges 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z It was Hicks who got the first hit off of Sandoval in the third inning, a groundball that skittered between third baseman Matt Duffy and shortstop David Fletcher. Shohei Ohtani’s 30th homer delivers powerful closing argument as Angels beat Yankees 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z A few drops of water flicked on the surface should skitter and evaporate immediately. How to make your best omelet yet 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Wall was the wall nearest my childhood bed and, other than the occasional stray bang or muffled skittering, a nonverbal communicator. The Power of Talking to Yourself 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z They navigated woodlands, grasslands, scrublands, farmlands, scrambled over steep escarpments, skittered down mud-slicked gorges and traversed the legendary East African Rift three times. The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Tremolos are everywhere, in luxuriant strings and piquant winds and skittering percussion. Review: The environmental impact of composers Ellen Reid and Gabriela Ortiz, indoors and out 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z She buries the pots in her garden so the tops are just 3 or 4 inches above the soil to prevent skittering lizards from falling inside. We’re in a megadrought. Here’s how to keep your veggie garden alive this summer 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z After breakfast, I frantically scrubbed pans with icy hand-pumped water while violent winds sent clean bowls skittering across the sand. I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z From there, he chipped on and watched it race, then skitter, then hurry, then bang itself into the flagstick and dunk. Scottie Scheffler caps his remarkable rise with a dominant Masters victory 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Republican questioning skittered over a variety of social issues that are animating conservative voters ahead of the midterm election season, including antiracism and critical race theory. Ketanji Brown Jackson Survives a Final Bruising Day of Questions 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Twigs, street debris and the remaining fallen leaves of autumn skittered across the ground. Winds gust above 50 mph, whip up whitecaps on the Potomac River 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z She leaves a 4-inch gap at the top so there’s plenty of room for mulch — and to stop skittering lizards from falling into the pots. 12 drought-resistant plants to add to your garden if you're tired of succulents 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z There were robots everywhere, in fact: Across the room, they stacked burgers and wrapped them neatly in wax paper; around the corner, they simmered dumplings; others skittered overhead, lowering plates of food from the ceiling. In the Olympic Bubble, a Small Taste of the Food Finds of China 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Moreover, these volcanic leftovers rise from the big, empty, underappreciated middle of California, where farms, ranches and vineyards blanket the valleys and hills, where tumbleweeds skitter and scraggly old oaks stand beside sagging barns. Why are so many people heading to California’s newest national park? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z He also taped some of the cast speaking, including the charged word “Candyman,” and then stretched and manipulated that into an unrecognizable, freakishly skittering sound that haunts the score. How 'Candyman' score pulls you in — and gets under your skin 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The snow in the bucket pressed into the snow in front of it, which pressed into more snow, which compacted and hardened and hardened and … the 20-ton machine skittered, slid and stalled out. Leavenworth is running out of places to put its record-breaking snowfall 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet even then the hush under water, where these creatures lived, was probably punctuated only by the skittering of arthropod feet across sand or the faint grinding of a cephalopod breaking a shell. Fossils Reveal When Animals Started Making Noise 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z If that weren’t icky enough, one skittered through the restaurant shed as she left. N.Y.C. Rats: They’re in the Park, on Your Block and Even at Your Table 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z And it had Ridder then faking to Ford so that half the population of South Bend massed in the middle, whereupon Ridder skittered outside all carefree for a six-yard parade to the left pylon. Cincinnati silences Notre Dame and stakes its claim as a playoff contender 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z When he finally whacked his attempt, he had to skitter back down the hill to retain his balance, so far he seemed he might end up tumbling into the lake. At Ryder Cup, next generation of U.S. golf has a heady Friday and a promising future 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z He slid down the embankment and skittered hard onto his backside. Europe takes a tumble, faces historic deficit at Ryder Cup 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Given today’s ubiquity of such always insubstantial but sometimes commanding pictures skittering across countless screens — phone, TV, desktop monitor, laptop, tablet — this is no insignificant feat. Review: Forget about 'immersive' Van Gogh. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA show is the real thing 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z As the Flying Fortress touched down, the right landing gear collapsed and the plane “ground looped” — skittering for more than 1,000 feet, sweeping to the right, its wing digging into the ground. Perspective | In 1948, one demonstration of a ‘hands-off’ B-17 fight landing almost went very wrong 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z It skittered along the undersurface of the water as if in a parallel world, the kneeling Dr. Gould beneath him. You Won’t Believe How This Beetle Walks on Water 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z So the Chicago-based artist converted projections about the killings into a mournful, skittering tune designed to conclude in 25 years, when all wild African elephants are likely to be dead. A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Blackouts in Texas and California, with prices skittering dizzily up and down, are evidence that the system needs attention. America’s electric grid has a big, looming problem: Getting power to where it’s needed 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z In normal situations, the click beetle skitters around like any other beetle on six tiny legs. Scientists capture the inner workings of the click beetle’s explosive jumps 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The young man complied, releasing the bystander and tossing the gun, which skittered across the city street and then into the hands of police. US military guns keep vanishing, some used in street crimes 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Let the green stalks spurt and skitter across the skillet just until they turn bright green with a few spotty blisters. Seared steak and asparagus donburi take that bowl of rice to new heights 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Blasting from a greenside bunker, Cantlay skittered a shot that ran 12 feet past the hole, but his right-to-left par putt tracked into the center of the hole. Patrick Cantlay Wins the Memorial Tournament in a One-Hole Playoff 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z This week, the old, skinny last-quarter moon scurries under Saturn on Monday, and then skitters under Jupiter on Tuesday and Wednesday. Skywatch: What’s happening in the heavens in May 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z “One day, when I was young, a cockroach skittered across my feet while I was doing laundry, causing me to scream, drop the laundry, and run for help.” Cicadas, snakes, mice — phobias of insects and other things can shrink people’s lives 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Animals skitter between parked motorcycles and piles of debris. India Battles a Second COVID-19 Wave and Vaccine Skepticism 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Ter Borch is known by people casually acquainted with his work as “the Master of the Silk Dress”: His ability to capture interior light skittering off crinkled silk was unrivaled. Perspective | To look at ter Borch’s ‘Horse Stable’ is to fall into a kind of meditation The tiny Florida grasshopper sparrow, on the other hand, merely hopped out of an open screen and skittered along the ground, says Blackford, a U.S. Bringing back the ‘most endangered bird’ in the U.S. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Little black-faced monkeys came skittering in over the fence to try to steal the morning carrots. The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Center Lloyd Cushenberry III’s low snap skittered past Lindsay and Kwon Alexander was headed for the end zone after scooping it up. Hill leads Saints to 31-3 rout of QB-challenged Broncos 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Or they’d fit at first, then pop off and skitter across the floor like an air hockey puck when someone actually sat in the chair. Perspective | The only flame in town: We step on the gas to face the winter outside 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Ter Borch is known by people casually acquainted with his work as “the Master of the Silk Dress”: His ability to capture interior light skittering off crinkled silk was unrivaled. Perspective | To look at ter Borch’s ‘Horse Stable’ is to fall into a kind of meditation He skitters forward dangerously but his shot from 25 yards is wild and wide. Southampton v Newcastle United: Premier League – live! 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z There are no leads on his whereabouts — until his mother and friends begin to glimpse the boy’s skittering shadow, and disturbing pages from his journal scatter themselves on the floor at night. 50 States, 50 Scares 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z We also skittered across a variety of potholes, sinkholes, and other pockmarks that are the hallmark of NYC’s streets. Driving the 2021 Volkswagen ID 4, VW’s first all-electric SUV 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Mice generally seem to enjoy running, and those with wheels skittered through multiple miles each day. Exercise May Make It Easier to Bounce Back From Stress 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It skittered across Hacker’s feet, head and torso for more than 45 seconds. Swept up in the federal response to Portland protests: ‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’ 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The team couldn’t get them to skitter along the walls, though, so they switched to something that looked better floorbound. As Amnesia: The Dark Descent turns 10, let’s appreciate its hissing cockroaches 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Then Sir Drew began skittering back and forth near the door, brimming with enthusiasm, Hoyt said. For dogs, the pandemic means more walks but new anxieties 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z But after the plane skittered off the runway and down the hillside, he said, “There was a thud. And then a complete silence. I could smell death.” Air India Crash Investigators Focus On a Dangerous Runway and a Pilot’s Actions 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Protesters were soon ducking and dodging tear-gas canisters flying through the air and skittering off the pavement. A violent send-off on feds’ final night at Portland courthouse 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z O.wendtii, on the other hand, skitters to the nearest shelter. The Brittle Star That Sees with its Body 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave Desert, fluffy white motes skitter like tumbleweeds across the sand. How a Velvet Ant (Which Is a Wasp) Got Its White Fluff 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z But if you owned high-yield bonds in March, when their value sank on pandemic fears, you got a rude reminder that, in times of stress and panic, these bonds can skitter and dive like stocks. High-Yield Bonds Have Been Behaving a Lot Like Stocks 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “There!” one of the men on the boat yelled, pointing toward a spot 20 yards away where a catfish skittered across the surface. Researchers use ‘shocking’ method to capture catfish 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But instead of skittering to hide, the roaches just linger and stare back defiantly. 25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, none of the other Arboretum fauna reacts at all to the mournful cry, not even the wee gaggles of fuzzy goslings, skittering about their mamas in photo-op adorableness. Column: With California reopening, L.A. Arboretum charts a safe path for people and peacocks 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z An eight-inch putt can be missed, if we think hard enough about it, and a single twitch of anxiety can skitter a 20-foot downhiller 20 feet past the hole on the other side. John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Her first two albums had hopped around sounds, trying things on and shrugging them off, but Homogenic settles into an epic orchestral feel that marries itself to skittering, aggressive beats. Björk: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z His instincts and athleticism still allow him to skitter to any coverage assignment. Tyrann Mathieu knows exactly what you’re planning to do next 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z “Liar” and “traitor” skitter across the internet and even rained on Schiff at what was supposed to be a friendly event last month in his district. Adam Schiff takes on Trump, calling him an 'erratic hothead.' Now he's feeling the heat 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z With the protection breaking down, he skittered forward. Perspective | Joe Burrow showed an engineer’s precision and a wizard’s magic as he went out a legend 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He skittered in and out of the pocket, flicked darts down the middle to wide receivers and fed Kelce, who finished with 10 catches for 134 yards, everywhere on the field. Patrick Mahomes erases huge deficit vs. Texans, leads Chiefs back to AFC title game 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The supposition is that remembering something objectively bad and frightening might take my mind from the abstractions of anxiety, might alert my skittering heart to the good fortune of being safely in bed. ‘It’s as if I’m falling from a 50-storey building’: a year without sleep 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z In the earlier pieces at Jenny’s, fish darted among the heaped costume jewelry in one aquarium tank and crustaceans skittered across tangles of women’s lingerie in the other. Review: Welcome to Max Hooper Schneider's disturbing dystopian extravaganza 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “This ain’t nineties revival / It’s earlier / It’s tribal revival,” Wiki rapped on “Protein,” a frantic, skittering track from “So It Goes.” Wiki Goes from Young Rap Star to Grizzled Veteran 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z He skitters into a corner of her bedroom and urinates as she looks on, humiliated and paralyzed. “Evil,” “9-1-1,” and the Appeal of the Network Procedural 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z After a scoreless first period, Barzal got the Islanders on the scoreboard at 4:58 of the second when his shot managed to skitter past Vasilevskiy for his sixth of the season. Lee helps Islanders beat Lightning 5-2 for 8th straight win 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Oklahoma’s week got off to an auspicious start when the ol' Sooner Schooner took a corner too tight, sending the pep squad skittering across the Norman turf. The College Football Playoff Hope-O-Meter: The high-ankle sprain heard round the world - Golf Digest 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Partly, that’s because the markets are small, compared with those for stocks and bonds, and prices in smaller markets tend to skitter here and there, said Mr. Bloom, a former commodities trader. Agriculture Funds Aim to Harvest Profit, Along With Corn and Wheat 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z You register the clutter of their apartment with its discarded clothes, mildewed tiles and skittering stinkbugs. Review: Thrilling and devastating, 'Parasite' is one of the year's very best movies 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In the album’s skittering opener, Sketch Artist, the lyric “dreaming in a tent” refers to LA’s homeless population. Kim Gordon: 'There's a wall of faceless men I have to climb over' 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z A few sheep come into view, but, startled by the trucks, they skitter away through the unruly vegetation surrounding a network of solar panels. Hawaii Wants to Lead the Renewable Revolution 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z I’ve edited skittering, half-finished sentences to present them in some kind of consequential order and repeated remarks that made little sense. As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference | Lenore Taylor 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z His latest, “Ad Astra,” skitters across the solar system like a stone skipped through space. Review: A space odyssey with Brad Pitt in ‘Ad Astra’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Within the first 20 minutes, the demon dormant inside the sculpture is skittering around Walter’s mansion, biting humans and laying eggs. Review: Ben Kingsley makes 'Spider' special; John Travolta in 'The Fanatic,' and more 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z As Koehler says this, a small papillon dog skitters across the waiting room floor. Python wars: the snake epidemic eating away at Florida 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z One video showed hailstones skittering across a sidewalk, and another showed them bouncing down a Metro station escalator. Evening deluge pelts the District with hail 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z A foot-long alligator lizard skittered in front of me, pausing to pump out a couple of quick pushups before vanishing into the brush. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z A spirited free-for-all, and sometimes a theater of the absurd, as when those beach balls skitter through the crowd in idle moments, one of my least-favorite Dodger traditions. Postcard From L.A.: A classic ballyard that feels like home, even in the nosebleeds 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z If he didn’t get to it, the ball would skitter into no-man’s land. Angels are no match against Chris Sale in loss to Red Sox 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As we stared, trying to get a grip on its movements, it skittered hither and yon, standing still and scanning the horizon for no more than a pharynx beat before hurrying off again. Breadcrumbs for an alien 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z You will be surrounded by bay laurel and sage, and may see lizards skittering on the ground and hawks circling above. L.A. Walks: Explore an old winery site on a La Crescenta ramble 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z On “Nautical Mile,” a Fender Rhodes keyboard traces a winding melody while drum-rolled snares skitter nervously. California Sounds: New music from Amon Tobin, Chelsea Wolfe and Salaam Remi & Terrace Martin 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In others, the marks skitter sideways, entangling the columns with one another. Timelessness in Works by Thomas Cole and Brice Marden 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Employees shared stories of flea bites and rats skittering down hallways, over official documents and into ceiling panels. LAPD officers may have been exposed to highly infectious MRSA bacteria 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z But not deep in this clammy gorge, where the wild things grow amid the skittering grouse. Murky mornings and big family feasts: Has poetry come in search of me? 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Most landed on the other side of the trunk, away from us, then skittered around to the front and their dinner. Perspective | Squirrels that fly and squirrels that jump round out Squirrel Week 2019 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The mother nudged a bedroom dresser and more roaches skittered away as her 2-year-old son stomped on them. Inspections show deterioration of US-funded housing for poor 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z He spent the remainder of the round and the next two skittering like a rabbit. “The Match” 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The missives formed the unofficial soundtrack for official Washington on a chilly but sunny weekend, as cellphones buzzed and skittered with every fresh thought or grievance. Fifty-two tweets in 34 hours: How a Trump Twitter frenzy defined a weekend 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Watch the shadows skittering in the background of Peele’s beautiful widescreen images, the way he uses razor-sharp cutting and an elegantly swerving camera to keep the worst just out of view. Review: The evil is ‘Us’ in Jordan Peele's smart, relentlessly scary follow-up to ‘Get Out’ 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The whistling nearly takes the roof off as he skitters down the inside-left channel. Atlético Madrid v Juventus: Champions League last 16, first leg – live! 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Kyle Palmieri, who picked off the pass, missed an attempt to jam home a shot, but the puck skittered to Hischier, whose shot sailed into the open corner of the net. NHL roundup: Devils score final 4 goals, top Wild in OT 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Some strode onto the sidewalk and some skittered across the carpet. Westminster Dog Show Photos: Who’s a Good Dog? All of Them 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Her eyes tilted to acknowledge him, and he placed his hand on the intake pad and saw his name in blue skitter across the desktop. An artificial life form carries the seeds of humanity to a new world 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But variation of movement is important, too: such an ankle brace holds you back if you try to skip, gallop or skitter. Make robot motions natural 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z They’re also folded into the body of the film itself, such as when a valise goes skittering down a flight of stairs at a train station. Review | You almost won’t recognize Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly in this delightful homage to Laurel and Hardy 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z This geological gust was enough to send Earth’s magnetic North Pole skittering across the globe. The North Pole is moving, and the shutdown means we aren’t keeping up 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s causing the magnetic North Pole to ‘skitter’ away from Canada, towards Siberia. Something very strange is happening to Earth's magnetic North Pole and no one knows why 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The microbot AIs — being used for research and development on this planet — skitter along the pockmarked surface in search of biodiversity to absorb into their tiny bodies. Tomorrow, the sunset will be blue 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z They slap their tails so loud a sound like falling dice skitters the smooth, unfrozen surface of the pond. “Etiology” 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It struck the bottom of the far post, and skittered along the same white line. In a World of Fine Lines, Manchester City Tightens the Title Race 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Tiny fish dart among heaps of cheap treasure in one aquarium, and little crustaceans skitter across a kelp bed of lingerie in the other. Awful aquariums, a dollhouse of horrors: One artist's disturbing worlds, in miniature 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z His goal was to turn samba, skittering and off-kilter, into a propulsive force — a reaction, in one regard, to the way bossa nova had softened it. The Lounge Pianist Who Invented Samba Funk 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z During a power play in the second period, the puck was skittering out of the offensive zone when Carlson managed to keep it in at the blue line. Matt Niskanen scores on rebound, lifts Caps past Rangers in OT 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The testimony skittered from cringe-worthy sexual details to accusations and denials of drunken debauchery to one juvenile exchange over flatulence. Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford Square Off in Emotional Hearing With Court in Balance 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z |
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