Firstly, it seems to leave out the role commonly ascribed to the so-called motoric part of the nervous system in bringing about bodily action; and secondly, the acknowledgment of the dependence of consciousness on corporeal 'dying' implies that willing is an unconscious activity because of its being based on life processes of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The motoric memory of letters helps in the recognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Writer Who Couldn't Read] Reference
It will be a robot if you give it a motoric sensor or a little bit automotion. From Wordnik.com. [Graffiti Inspired Lamps] Reference
She just doesn't have the fine-motoric skills for manipulating the analogue stick. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Definition of catatonic schizophrenia from the DSM IV: unaware of surroundings, motoric immobility, catalepsy, stupor, mutism, rigid posture, resistant to be moved. From Wordnik.com. [Republicans aren't the only reason we have the inexplicable phenomenon of the George Bush presidency.] Reference
Other Bring It On highlights include Check – a Duplo-simple motoric hammering that sounds all the better for its lack of ambition, 34T – a bass-heavy lump of sleaze that sounds exactly what we wanted the new Kasabian album to sound like, and Audience – which sounds like a broken Spectrum playing something people used to call Electroclash. From Wordnik.com. [Watch The Goose Low Mode Video Now] Reference
Like Hans Zimmer's deeply mediocre score … whose leaden motoric thunks betray the sameness of all the Nolan dreamlands. From Wordnik.com. [whoar.co.nz] Reference
The Toccata, Op. 11 is one of Prokofiev's most brilliant solo piano works -- compact, motoric, driving, dissonant, percussive, and furiously energetic. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Driving with a pet as dangerous as texting on the go] Reference
It's a strange mix of quasi-English pastoralism and motoric neo-classicism which doesn't really cohere, though Ticciati and the SCO made the best possible case for it. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death. From Wordnik.com. [The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Zen] Reference
Ponochevney, who represented Belarus, performed Prokofiev's "Sonata No. 7" with crisp authority, dispatching its swift, motoric passages with precision, and slowing to find the dreamy, dark emotional core of a work composed during the grimmest days of World War Two. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
But current pop has little to do with the music that coalesces in Deerhunter, all of it basic stuff holding opportunities to implode: pounding garage-rock and sprawling psychedelia from the 1960s, motoric Kraut-rock from the 1970s, distorted shoegazer rock from the 1980s and many varieties of introspective, disheveled indie-rock since then. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
9 was, pleasingly, not particularly acerbic, with subdued, motoric playing in the first movement and a sweet, warm opening to the second. From Wordnik.com. [Ionarts] Reference
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