He has a lean, crackling energy about him, a sense of dramatic flourish, a resonant voice that is not unaware of its own music.
They danced to music pounding from the crackling speakers, sipped beers and then parted.
Zosia Mamet is spectacular in the second episode on premiere night, showing off some crackling comedic timing.
The subsidiary fair, Volta, was crackling; there, I ran into Katelijne de Backer of the Armory.
And over all was a constant hum, a crackling, a whining of spinning parts.
His voice was almost a scream, shrill and crackling with excitement.
The linen was crackling between his fingers, and splinters of ice were breaking off.
"'As the crackling of thorns under a pot,'" he quoted soberly.
The badger kept on, until he heard the crackling of the burning twigs.
"I am sorry that we have to part, my men," he said at last in a crackling voice.
mid-15c., crackelen, frequentative of cracken "to crack" (see crack (v.)). Related: Crackled; crackling. The noun is recorded from 1833.
