motoric
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Grazyna Bacewicz’s motoric Overture for Orchestra, which opened the program, felt thick, too.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
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
And Staar indicates in his program note that the lyrical passages in the 22-minute Modernist score were inspired by Bychkov, but the motoric rhythms and Latin American dance elements have Dudamel written all over them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
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
Most ominous of all, why had The Brain concealed from him the work which must have been going on for months, for years in this mysterious "Thorax", seat of motoric organs....
From The Brain by Alexander Blade
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