Adjective, : The book was a choppy first novel. From Dictionary.com.
It came out awkwardly, choppily, but it was more than he'd said about it in years. From Wordnik.com. [Gage Butler's Reckoning]
These Erasers moved more in sync with one another than the others they had encountered, but still awkwardly, choppily. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports]
Wide-eyed, the governor replied, words tumbling out fast and choppily, like an outboard motor loosened from the stern (per Alessandra Stanley). From Wordnik.com. [William E. Jackson Jr.: Sarah Palin's Outlook on the World: Iran and The Rapture] Reference
Madness ensues, most of it for the audience -- whose members are desperately trying to follow the darkly filmed, choppily edited, frenetic action sequences. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq] Reference
It should also be noted that the pre-filmed, choppily edited skits on The Daily Show, which are chock-full of silly graphics and sounds, resemble comic strips. From Wordnik.com. [Ming Holden: Jon Stewart, The Warriors, and My Dad] Reference
While the economy recovers choppily, Kroger, which Thursday reported a 14% decline in fiscal first-quarter earnings, defused some fears supermarket operators face as. From Wordnik.com. [Kroger Posts Lower Net, Higher Sales] Reference
I can't explain what it is like for a writer to wake up and find that his or her work has been heavily editted to make the prose flow choppily and to present the information less clearly. From Wordnik.com. [I am in Now Magazine] Reference
Apparently based on the first season of the acclaimed Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: the Last Airbender, the film is a structural disaster, choppily bouncing from one brief expositional scene to another. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: The Last Airbender (2010)] Reference
The euro also traded choppily against the greenback. From Wordnik.com. [Wall Street zigzags with eyes on currencies - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
Shot naturalistically with a non-pro cast, the choppily edited tale. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
It then kinda 'choppily segued into Morrissey singing "everyone lies ...". From Wordnik.com. [Morrissey-solo] Reference
The euro, for its part, is trading choppily in the upper end of last week's trading range. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Onstage, Harvey reduces the chords to curt, ugly fifths, choppily strummed with downstrokes. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
ABC did make a serious misjudgment by presented the choppily edited, rushed tape instead of the real-time exchange. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog] Reference
It seems to work overtime, moving you through low gears quickly and somewhat choppily until it gets where it likes to be. From Wordnik.com. [Drive Time Review: Porsche Panamera] Reference
A somewhat choppily edited interview (10: 00) with actress Shirley Anne Field is new for this release and presented in HD. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
Ms. Palin's answer was surprisingly wobbly: her words tumbled out fast and choppily, like an outboard motor loosened from the stern. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Yet Ms. Palin's answer was surprisingly wobbly: her words tumbled out fast and choppily, like an outboard motor loosened from the stern. From Wordnik.com. [Faithful Progressive] Reference
Instead, we're treated to a choppily revealed account of a young man meeting, falling in love, then being dumped by an intriguing young lady. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
After trading choppily in a range of 11,367-10,900, the BSE Sensex closed near the day's lows at 10,947, down 337 points or nearly 3\% over the previous close. From Wordnik.com. [IBTimes.com RSS Feed - Politics & Policy] Reference
It's a slippery slope for all involved in "White as Snow," an adequately pitched but choppily executed Gallic thriller that skirts off track as it slaloms toward the finish line. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com]
GBPUSD is still trading choppily after yesterday's negative statement from ratings agency S&P; who have stopped classifying the UK among the most stable, low-risk banking systems. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
I've also found that some videos, particularly. mkv videos in 720p, simply play much too choppily, if not outright freeze up, when using VideoDrive to make them Apple TV-compatible. From Wordnik.com. [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Reference
In Michael Bay’s case, where everything was CGI yet still choppily cut, it’s just worrying. From Wordnik.com. [James Bond movies and the shaky-cam action aesthetic – is this progress? | Obsessed With Film] Reference
Volume 16—choppily edited snippets of the year’s biggest dance songs, from “La La La” to “Fergalicious” with a lot of Justin Timberlake thrown in. From Wordnik.com. [Cheer!] Reference
She hiccupped; the words came out choppily. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
I smiled and reread the choppily written note. From Wordnik.com. [The Payback Club]
'One Missed Call' is also the latest casualty of the "PG-13" syndrome, where all of the film's gore and shocks have been so watered down (and choppily so. From Wordnik.com. [High-Def Digest: HD DVD Disc News] Reference
The water was tossing choppily. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference
His racing stride shortened choppily. From Wordnik.com. [Trailin'!] Reference
I want the videos to play on-choppily in. From Wordnik.com. [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference
Runs pretty choppily on my Late-2006 MacBook Pro. From Wordnik.com. [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Reference
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