syncopation

• The blinding red and blue beacons of the pair of patrol cars swirled in jarring syncopation, weirdly strobing and coloring the crowd on the sidewalk, paradoxically festive in the grave silence. —  AHMM,October2007
• He was lionized in society and he wrote to Titus that his heart beat in syncopation, so exciting was all this adulation, social excitement and rapid gait of living. —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
• Tell me from how far the base note resounding in those Ibiza nights could be felt through the felt pulse of that hollow at the base of your wrists white and flashing as birds in my hair: the syncopation, the stutter concordance of a pulse overlaid on a pulse as if they have invented their own patois within this speech. —  GUDMagazineIssue0::Spring2007
• There remains in the text the disciplined cadence; the ear for the syncopation that slips up the cliché; the joke that arises even from within the darkest of meditations; the determination to carry an autopsy of the cancerous body through to its end; the bravery, courage, strength to see in all its bloody outline this fallen world, and to say it, with his own blooded music.
• Maybe you called it electro house because you paid more attention to the syncopation, but this syncopation is what makes prog trance a popular genre now.

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