motoric
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LCD Soundsystem’s first new song since 2017, for the soundtrack of Noah Baumbach’s film of the Don DeLillo novel “White Noise,” is the band’s latest jaunty, motoric complaint about money and mortality.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Even so, Wang’s motoric energy all but set a Frankenstein orchestra in motion, and her sheer élan provided motivation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2017
At the end, in curt, biting phrases, he delivered the line “By far the best life is the one that cannot be lived” over motoric arpeggios in the strings.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
There was a pervasive thinness about the sound that robbed Haydn’s — and Mozart’s — often brilliantly athletic music of much of its vigor, reducing organic drive to nothing more than motoric energy.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2013
"This phenomenon first manifested Nov. 25th in certain motoric organs of The Brain."
From The Brain by Alexander Blade
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