motoric
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But the momentum shifts, the odd meter turns into a motoric 4/4 and then recedes into un-metered, breathy spaces.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
The rhythmic energy is motoric; meters are Stravinskyan in their complexity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
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 Blade, Alexander
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