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- adverb In a
jazzy way.
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Examples
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In tracing the ancestry of mumblecore, critics have cited the jazzily improvised films of John Cassavetes, the show-about-nothing comedy of "Seinfeld," and "Slacker" by director Richard Linklater, an Austin resident.
Mumblecore Realism in the Age of Technology Richard B. Woodward 2011
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But then, he will jazzily, subtly hold his arms up, push his back out from the waist, stumble backwards, fall.
Tonya Plank: Company B, Citizen: Dances For Our Troubled Times 2010
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In dense, explicit and yet jazzily lyrical prose, Mr. Ellroy recounts his masochistic voyeurism; his periods of breaking into women's homes to fondle and smell and steal their possessions; his drug and alcohol addiction; his tormented dalliances with prostitutes, fans and fantasy girls; a loving but often sexless marriage; and a shattering nervous breakdown at the height of his career.
Haunted And Confused 2010
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Eden pumped on Albuterol, jazzily sang the chorus of his favorite song: "Follow the yellow brick road, follow, follow ..."
Susan Weissman: Seasonal Allergies Take One Mother's Breath Away 2009
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During a theatrical rendition of “Too Drunk to Fuck,” Miranda jazzily jostles her hair and arms around as her voice billows away.
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Most of Barthelme's stories are, in the way of "The Piano Player," or "For I'm the Boy," "sites of linguistic clustering," cobbled verbal scraps collected jazzily in Joycean fashion from the buzzing urban culture to which he was so alert.
How He Wrote His Songs Moore, Lorrie 2009
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But then, he will jazzily, subtly hold his arms up, push his back out from the waist, stumble backwards, fall.
Tonya Plank: Company B, Citizen: Dances For Our Troubled Times 2008
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The Singers Unlimited Nice version jazzily arranged for a vocal quartet, complete with “doo doo doo” voices.
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The Singers Unlimited Nice version jazzily arranged for a vocal quartet, complete with “doo doo doo” voices.
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DIGITAL-DESIGN GURU KAI Krause specializes in powerful image-manipulation software that's elegantly built, jazzily named (Power Goo, Convolver, Bryce) and easy to use.
Get The Red Eye Out 2008
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