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As his preparatory drawings reveal, Hopper often conflated many accumulated observations into a single image, but his paintings can seem so specific about time, place, social stratum and more, that they can approach the stop-time realm of photography or the fictive reality of cinema.
A Peek Behind Those Paintings Karen Wilkin 2011
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In a stop-time moment of joy, Jesse taught me that if I worried about who was looking at us, or worried that he was behaving “inappropriately” or maybe—worst-case scenario—about to have a seizure, I would miss the moment I was in with him, the moment in time when he was trying to sing the Hallelujah chorus.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Basically, Stewart and Busta presented the "Best Dance Video" Award to the Spice Girls after trading really awesome recipes and conducting an in-depth discussion of Busta's stop-time flow.
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In a stop-time moment of joy, Jesse taught me that if I worried about who was looking at us, or worried that he was behaving “inappropriately” or maybe—worst-case scenario—about to have a seizure, I would miss the moment I was in with him, the moment in time when he was trying to sing the Hallelujah chorus.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Braxton lays out concepts you'd mine for decades, slipping in ice rhythms, complicated stop-time beats for bass and drums, pulsing horns and minimalist repetitions.
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If your meeting has a hard stop-time rule and a clear objective, it will most likely go much faster and more efficiently.
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Now they imagined themselves in the stop-time of a photograph, their flaws etched, their lucent eyes alighting on some future viewer, a grandchild in an attic, a bereft widow, and they were taken, if only for a moment, with their own mortality and the residue of a human life.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Now they imagined themselves in the stop-time of a photograph, their flaws etched, their lucent eyes alighting on some future viewer, a grandchild in an attic, a bereft widow, and they were taken, if only for a moment, with their own mortality and the residue of a human life.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Now they imagined themselves in the stop-time of a photograph, their flaws etched, their lucent eyes alighting on some future viewer, a grandchild in an attic, a bereft widow, and they were taken, if only for a moment, with their own mortality and the residue of a human life.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Co-Stars Who Pass at the Border These are no longer the dog days, the silly days, the stop-time days of movies.
Co-Stars Who Pass at the Border ��� Brendan Fraser Really Blows It 2001
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