Finally I found myself at a zikr among 80 or so dervishes in a hidden tekke, and they began to chant, rhythmically, the name of Allah. |
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The temple blocks and claves echo each other with a rhythmically identical pattern. |
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A lead singer acts as cantor, while the human chain behind joins in the chorus as everyone stamps the floor rhythmically in this mantric ritual. |
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Dragging himself upright, Sarr straightened his belt and his bandolier, checking the holstered weapons rhythmically. |
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For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls. |
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I managed to get a hand hold before he jumped into the air, his wings rhythmically beating. |
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The finale burns down the barn with sennets and tuckets from the trumpets, echoed rhythmically by the timpani. |
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The veins extend perpendicularly from the thrust fault across the skarn and pinch out in overlying rhythmically bedded limestone. |
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My 5-year-old giggled aloud at the silly premise of a tone-deaf and rhythmically challenged bird, Igor, who sets out in search of music lessons. |
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Homer speaks of a flute player piping a tune to which men rhythmically stomped grapes. |
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Her hands went into her coat pockets, and her fists clenched and unclenched almost rhythmically against the fabric of her pockets. |
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He didn't make life easy for himself by choosing a selection of rigorously unmelodic, rhythmically thorny music by Ligeti. |
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We held our drinks with our other hands and danced together rhythmically and sultrily to the music, in full view of the young guys. |
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Colors meshed on the dance floor, where couples danced rhythmically to the music. |
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Once inside of the parlor, she could see that the rain had begun to fall, light sprinkles tapping rhythmically against the window glass. |
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The nudibranch Melibe leonina swims by rhythmically flexing its body from side to side at a frequency of I cycle every 2-5 sec. |
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She went on her way, her grass skirt swinging rhythmically, resembling one of those steatopygous statues in anthropological museums. |
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So I can say that Led Zeppelin's music, while often harmonically simple, is frequently rhythmically complex, and often wildly experimental. |
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Stare until columns of tiles oscillate rapidly back and forth, chaotically at first, but more rhythmically in passing. |
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Hydromedusae swim by rhythmically contracting the circular swimming muscles located in the subumbrella. |
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Their surrealness is contained within a careful continuum in which the lyrics play off one another both rhythmically and melodically. |
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Now the camera is looking up at the man, focussed on his crotch as he rhythmically rotates his hips to keep the hula hoop in motion. |
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When the motor is dragged by peripheral leads, its head circumrotates, with the base vibrating rhythmically. |
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Her knitting needles clicked and clacked rhythmically as he pulled the wool from the ball. |
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Mostly, he saw Bert's fists moving rhythmically, seeming inexorably drawn to Marlon's cleft chin like magnets drawn to metal. |
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And Maazel achieves all this while conducting from memory, even when the score is an obscure, rhythmically tricky, and coloristically subtle one. |
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Between meals, a mammal's intestinal muscles normally contract rhythmically to sweep out bacteria and waste. |
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His performances are irresistibly vivacious, dramatic, and rhythmically compelling. |
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When she forays into Kentucky and the eastern mountains, both she and the Consort give the music a slight bend and loosen up a bit rhythmically. |
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In even more advanced forms the proboscis rhythmically moved from one side of the trail to another. |
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A large proportion of the rhythmically regulated genes also directly respond to environmental stress. |
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This movement occurs rhythmically during inhalation and exhalation in regular quiet breathing. |
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The heavy rain drummed against the windows rhythmically, making dark music that only the heartbroken could enjoy. |
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They rhythmically clapped in an attempt to distract and drown out the speakers. |
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Thousands of floating, flickering lights, rhythmically carried forward by the slowly moving waters of the holy river, are an unforgettable sight. |
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As evening approached, the rain persisted, streaking the windowpanes and drumming rhythmically against the rooftop. |
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Feeding behaviour was most interesting, the bird rocking its body rhythmically up and down like a woodcock and as if on springs. |
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Doreen picked up her knitting once more, the needles flashing in the lamplight and clicking rhythmically. |
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Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts. |
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When baby latches on, he will take a few quick sucks and then begin to suck a bit more slowly, deeply and rhythmically. |
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The final main section features a rhythmically buoyant interlude between stanzas with choral sections in dialogue. |
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The monologue continues at a rhythmically controlled pace with no emotion or tension in his voice. |
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The tenor gave a masterful performance of the rhythmically tricky role of Harlequin. |
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It's a typically intense, focused drama, filmed in the director's characteristically muscular, rhythmically disorienting style. |
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He strode briskly through the dark corridors of his fortress, his sword clicking rhythmically against his left leg. |
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There wasn't room to dance expansively, so we shuffled rhythmically with arms above our heads. |
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It was rhythmically dropping debris for the duration of at least a minute, every two seconds. |
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The blood rhythmically alternates from red to blue, moving away from the lungs then back again. |
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Their feet step rhythmically on wooden floorboards in time to the beat, their eyes fixed on each other. |
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I passed by at least five incredible women who almost compelled me to remove my shoe and rhythmically smack my head with it. |
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The male flash code involves a single flash repeated rhythmically every 0.6 to 1.0 second, depending upon temperature. |
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It is a marine gastropod that swims by rhythmically flapping its wing-like parapodia. |
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For inside the mill, the shelling stones began to turn, the riddles rhythmically shook and the millstones ground round and round. |
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The rhythmically spaced silver-brown slabs of gel evoke fish scales, while the surface bubbles reinforce the aqueous appearance. |
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Until the 1970s artificial respiration meant a nurse would have to stand at a patient's bedside rhythmically inflating a bag by hand. |
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Stolidly they sat, the serried soldiers, clean-shaven, square-jawed, looking slightly bored and, in at least one case that I spotted, rhythmically chewing gum. |
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Not too top-heavily and very rhythmically and cleverly elaborated passages grab you and with the oriental touch BEFORE EDEN sound quite independent. |
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The taps and trills sound like the evocations of a stoned beatbox supremo, yet this is a highly scripted, rhythmically structured and technically complex genre. |
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Breaking the offending sentence into two sentences is grammatically correct but often rhythmically wrong. |
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As the 16-member ensemble launches into a particularly romantic song, local high school mariachi teacher John Contreras rocks rhythmically nearby, a small vihuela at his side. |
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Painting re-entered his art in the 1980s, initially via assemblages of paint tubes with their contents squeezed out in rhythmically arranged blobs. |
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Because the strathspey rhythm has four strong beats to the bar, is played quickly, and contains many dot-cut 'snaps,' it is a rhythmically tense idiom. |
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The music is rhythmically urgent yet laced with aristocratic lyricism. |
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The unit is composed of rhythmically bedded marls, horizons of laminated organic-rich black shales, rare marly limestones, clastic turbidites, and penecontemporaneous slumps. |
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Knife and fork push against one another rhythmically on the plate, like oars on a boat. |
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I put my head on the table and began to rhythmically bang it. |
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On the north-east side, the stand thrusts out at a precipitous angle, like the hull of a ship, rhythmically articulated by broad ribs, each of which contains a staircase. |
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On the anniversaries of the martyrs' deaths, young men gather and work themselves into a frenzy, rhythmically thumping their chests and lashing their backs with metal flails. |
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The battering ram crashed rhythmically against the doors, and as the pins slid out one by one, the doors weakened and groaned in their hinged sockets. |
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The ability of fretted instruments to play chords and drive a piece along rhythmically has done a lot to change the range of sound in Irish music over the past 30 years. |
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Despite, or perhaps thanks to, the U.S. embargo of that rhythmically rich island, Cuban culture has flowered into exotic fruition in an isolated hothouse. |
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He was wearing a blue plastic cagoule with the hood up, pulled tight round his face, his paddles rhythmically hitting the cold water, constant as clockwork. |
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Another service, more tapers and hymns, more speeches and, in front of the coffin, white-robbed choristers chant and rhythmically shake silver rattles. |
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The larva probably possessed the scraping mouth parts and the branchial filter seen in most extant anuran larvae, and likewise probably also pumped water rhythmically. |
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Singer Roberta Duchak is more sensitive rhythmically yet awfully bright and unsupple on the high notes. |
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The quick variation for brass is tensile and rhythmically propulsive and the ensuing grazioso could not be more affectionately done. |
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His portly middle section, rising beyond like a small hill, heaved rhythmically. |
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Like the button key accordion, a new playing style has emerged with a dry tuning, lighter style of playing and a more rhythmically varied bass. |
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Play together rhythmically from the very beginning of a piece, managing rubatos, ritardandos and endings. |
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In basket stars, the arms are used to rhythmically sweep food to the mouth. |
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Male azyine ladybird beetles have distinctive pairs of hairy bulblike structures, called parameres, that remain outside the female's body, tapping rhythmically against her. |
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Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds. With the balled end of the other, he rhythmically rolled over her kernel. |
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While all that herky-jerky mathcore in your collection might not fit the bill, put some Portishead on your Pod and the attached OhMiBod will respond rhythmically in kind. |
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Many metal musicians when performing live engage in headbanging, which involves rhythmically beating time with the head, often emphasized by long hair. |
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Generally speaking, the pipers deliver the melodic and harmonic material, while the side drummers provide a rhythmically interactive accompaniment part. |
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The next phase is the amarg, or sung poetry, and then ammussu, a danced overture, tammust, an energetic song, aberdag, a dance, and finally the rhythmically swift tabbayt. |
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The striking segmented pattern of the spine is established during embryogenesis when somites are rhythmically added to the posterior of the embryo. |
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I think that I respond to the Caputan appeal to a poetics of the impossible, because it modulates regularly and rhythmically into the poetic possibility. |
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