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  • adjective comparative form of pacey: more pacey
  • adjective comparative form of pacy: more pacy

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Examples

  • It's extraordinary how you restructure a film and make it better, pacier and still keep story sense.

    Oscars 2011: Will the Brits win big in the technical categories? 2011

  • Chanaka Welegedara will most likely take the new ball with him, though Dhammika Prasad, a surprise pick when India were thrashed at the P Sara Oval in Colombo two years ago, and Dilhara Fernando offer pacier options.

    Injury-hit India look to Ishant Sharma to step up the pace 2010

  • It makes for a tighter, neater narrative structure and a pacier escalation towards the conclusion.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

  • It makes for a tighter, neater narrative structure and a pacier escalation towards the conclusion.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Tim Stretton 2008

  • The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.”

    Archive 2008-10-01 Push Jelly 2008

  • The unfortunate thing about this film is it's length, it does feel very long and I do feel that it could have done with several cuts to make the story somewhat pacier.

    Filmstalker Review: El Aura (The Aura) 2006

  • I'd sit behind Brian Bendis and Ed Brubaker with a cattle prod, and every time they turn in two issues of script, I'd force them to distill them down to one pacier script, all the while cackling madly and screaming, "Strunk and White say 'Omit Needless Words', b****es!" as I zap them in very uncomfortable places.

    Name Some I’ds of Your Own! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.”

    God Blamed For Cutty Sark Fire Push Jelly 2008

  • I think many folks looking for a pacier, more accessible read will judge it to be slow and depressing.

    Some Further Thoughts on Banville's The Sea Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Of course, the more linguistically complex the prose, the more opaque it can become for many readers who prefer their prose pared-down for a pacier narrative, and the less likely they then are to find that pay-off.

    What Is Style? Hal Duncan 2005

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