It is simply a transcription of the sheet music, and like all such "metronomic" rolls, it needs to be properly played.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Universal Technical Institute offers new $45K scholarship program] Reference

"metronomic" rolls, it needs to be properly played.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Universal Technical Institute offers new $45K scholarship program] Reference

The grandfather clock resumes its metronomic advance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory Wall] Reference

Eventually, he falls asleep to the metronomic rhythm of the valve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death's Noisy Herald] Reference

His hair flopped with every breath, side to side with metronomic regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great California Game]

Bits of salad fell from the metronomic spoon as she fed each word to the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flower as Big as the Sky] Reference

It is indifferent to the metronomic synchronization inherent in most digital media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disquiet » Widescreen Ambient Music] Reference

I used to wonder how they could stand a suburban life of metronomic predictability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enemies of the People] Reference

The only sound the metronomic click of the traffic light flashing amber-amber-amber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

“Hogan writes with metronomic precision… This multifaceted author is on a roll.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Town] Reference

I squatted down in the sand, and stared out at the metronomic rhythm of the Atlantic surf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

But eventually such restive noises were superseded by the metronomic sound of him snoring.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union] Reference

Come the session, of course, the tempo was pretty much at the other end of the metronomic dial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Robot on Tenor:] Reference

Against this tendency to repetition, Young sets the “metronomic pulse” of the modern world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference

Our metronomic, restrained "not only, but also" construction has at least twenty Chinese equivalents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Culture and the Chinese Language] Reference

Both find fairways and greens with metronomic regularity and thrive under the pressure of a Ryder Cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryder Cup 2010: Singles matches analysis] Reference

They made them with metronomic consistency and they made them over a colonial period that spanned two centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

To prepare for 3G, the restructuring of the telecommunications industry has been a case study in metronomic gradualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Human Rights in China: What Consumer Behavior Reveals] Reference

Till now though, it's merely been an equivocating grandfather clock in the background, metronomic, at worst nettlesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

Doctors have implanted millions of the devices to take over the metronomic chores for malfunctioning hearts since the 1970s.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pacemaker Without Wires or Batteries] Reference

The metronomic beeping of the pump reminded him of a heart rate monitor -- metaphorically monitoring the health of our planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gillian Caldwell: Following the Lead of a 10-year-old] Reference

Hosea's playing sparkled with metronomic precision, but Eric could sense the other Bard's weariness at the unfamiliar exertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

By 10pm she will be back on a night shift running through to 6am, a sharp reintroduction to the rig's metronomic work patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [A working life: The gas rig technician] Reference

It got a bit better for the more erm, metronomic stuff like Pep and Ol 'Gang (which again sounded superb, any chance of a tape Id?).    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - Riot Grrls fronted by unfit bloke on loudhailer] Reference

The Petrous approved, and they resumed their metronomic dinner stops on the way home to Forest Hills from their Capitol Hill offices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate] Reference

And a metronomic guitarist and bassist played jangly, minimalist grooves that sounded as if they had been imported from 1970s Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [CMJ Music Marathon: White Williams’s Bedroom Sounds - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Basically, he establishes an almost metronomic rhythm of interpersonal tensions that affects the course of events, with real consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-25] Reference

The scherzando passages whisk by, their metronomic accuracy invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Focus, discipline, some kind of tick-tocky metronomic thing going on inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Contention] Reference

Paul Scholes - The metronomic midfielder has enjoyed a sterling start to yet another season.    From Wordnik.com.  [ManUtd.com News RSS] Reference

Davydenko's metronomic accuracy kept Djokovic from taking control early on and the world number six got the first break in the fifth game.    From Wordnik.com. Reference