percussive

• The word isogloss, for its part, has a certain sheen uncommon in the typically brutish, percussive, or convoluted classically based terminology of scholarship.
• The stove was thus quickly repaired in the most perfect silence This was, perhaps, the first occasion on which a squeeze or compressive action was substituted for the percussive action of the hammer, in closing red-hot rivets, for combining together pieces of stout sheet or plate iron. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
• I listened for the percussive evidence of flickers. —  ColdCasefull
• And even the normal instruments, like guitars and piano are played in percussive ways; there aren't a lot of banging out power chords on the guitar, it's more little melodies and rhythms. —  ! Exclaim.ca - News
• There was a lot of percussive music from Africa and Brazil or pop music or funk from the '70s, and some early hip-hop, old R&B, rockabilly, and a lot of things from the mid-'80s, which were on the radio when we were growing up, like Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, OMD, Ultravox, very glossy, shiny, bubbly production. —  ! Exclaim.ca - News

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