Somebody already addressed this elsewhere stating that the alleged "creakiness" numbers were contrived & exaggerated & mitigated by vehicle processing activity. From Wordnik.com. [The NASA Administrator Guessing Game Continues - NASA Watch] Reference
On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Fireside with Silent Friends] Reference
In IE however, we have almost universally loss of creakiness insted. From Wordnik.com. [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference
Recently there has been an unfamiliar creakiness in Boitano's performances. From Wordnik.com. [Still Carrying A Torch] Reference
Tropylium: In IE however, we have almost universally loss of creakiness insted. From Wordnik.com. [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference
SARS showed the creakiness of their post-Communist authoritarian system of government. From Wordnik.com. [Trade Controversies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Nathaniel R really, really doesn't like Miss Potter: If the tinkly music and biopic creakiness doesn't annoy you. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/13.] Reference
I load them on my iPod and do a 20 minute yoga session at lunch and at night; it really helps with the desk-related creakiness. From Wordnik.com. [Massage is not a luxury « Musings from an overworked translator] Reference
Instead of talking out loud and not expecting a reply or feeling the creakiness of the floorboards beneath the carpet as I pace. From Wordnik.com. [weekends] Reference
However, the rule would indeed be generalized to all phonemes because the change involves the development of voicing not creakiness. From Wordnik.com. [Szemerenyi's Law and Mid IE] Reference
The arrogant creakiness of federal policymaking was never more apparent than in the difference between Rodham-MagazinerCare and TennCare. From Wordnik.com. [Let The States Do It] Reference
Sometimes you do have to make sure youre in the right room where you can capture all that - sounds, you know, the creakiness and all that. From Wordnik.com. [Exclusive First Listen: Norah Jones] Reference
But I can take the creakiness if the movie is as entertaining as some have suggested; the end of this trailer indicates that it just might be. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Full Domestic Trailer | /Film] Reference
Some of the apparent creakiness of the plot turns out to be a bit of a double bluff, and the book rattles along quite painlessly for some 500 pages. From Wordnik.com. [C.J. Sansom: Dark Fire] Reference
There's another possible problem with this version of the hypothesis, namely why the loss of creakiness common in IE affects no Semitic language. From Wordnik.com. [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference
She dropped her mirror, bent down with old-woman creakiness, and splayed the fingers of one hand on the frozen ground while she picked it up with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
If financial creakiness proved an avoidable threat, then one can only hope that similar fragility holds the Progressive in good stead for the rest of this century. From Wordnik.com. [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: A Remarkably Resilient Progressive Turns 100, Eliot Spitzer Gropes to Turn a Corner] Reference
See if the eloquence of her central metaphor, as a way of talking about human connections between sea and land, supercedes creakiness in the nuts-and-bolts representation. From Wordnik.com. [Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009)] Reference
Instead, the whole creaky apparatus of federal election regulation was on full display, and there was no way that any kind of advocacy was going to smooth over that creakiness. From Wordnik.com. ["When the argument turned to such First Amendment horrors as banning books..."] Reference
I would be on Teachout's side, but it's easier just to consider that Arthur Miller is the Eugene O'Neill of his generation -- you had to be there, or the creakiness overwhelmed. From Wordnik.com. [All my sons and all my daughters get naked on stage] Reference
Barry discovered later, at breakfast, Little was sadly disappointed at the lack of polished brass-work, the bareness of the paint, the all-round creakiness of the ancient fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
And Tati (in his 60s) shows no creakiness of age, either in daring stunts amidst zooming cars and busy highways or in the trademark elastic, forward-pointing stride of Mr. Hulot. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
The series shows some creakiness, the first entry written in the "future" takes place seemingly not too long before the second long installment but the technology takes a much bigger jump. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
Single-piece aluminium enclosure (stops creakiness). From Wordnik.com. [Microsoft Watch] Reference
You don't see any of the creakiness in terms of the effects in. From Wordnik.com. [TheaterMania.com] Reference
That creakiness, which can be all too literal, kind of spooks me. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Thankfully, The Sagamore has been renovated and modernized to do away with creakiness. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Perhaps with the creakiness of too many hours spent laying around hotels taking its toll. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The laughs are there, but because Michael Blakemore is so respectful, the creakiness of Noel Coward's script is all too apparent. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
I know in scripts I've written or worked on you sometimes are solving much bigger problems and you just have to live with the creakiness of the plot elements. From Wordnik.com. [Macleans.ca] Reference
"Yes, there are worse faults to a plot than an occasional tendency to creakiness. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
What great engineering expertise can you offer to stop the creakiness of the wheels? ". From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
"breadth" in a painting; and Mr. Quain had been making his way as unostentatiously as the creakiness of his boots would permit towards the door. From Wordnik.com. [A Comedy of Masks A Novel] Reference
The possible creakiness doesn’t surprise me; a lot of people have conveniently forgotten how creaky some of Herzog’s late ’90s / early ’00s films could be. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Full Domestic Trailer | /Film] Reference
Here’s hoping so, because even with some of the creakiness pilots tend to have the musical theater kid in a Marc Jacobs jacket Chris Colfergets thrown into a Dumpster by jocks?. From Wordnik.com. [GLEE “Pilot”: Questioning Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion « TV BACON] Reference
But inevitably, the creakiness sets in. From Wordnik.com. [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference
Measure the decibel level of a wood floor's creakiness?). From Wordnik.com. [Fast Company] Reference
More from Miss Potter: "If the tinkly music and biopic creakiness doesn't annoy you. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
XI, a creakiness emphasised by the fact that in. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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