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• He carried the splashy, two-fisted style of great New Orleans pianists like Professor Longhair toward modern-jazz dissonance, then back toward propulsive barrelhouse; he sang the lyrics, but only after he had whooped and scat-sung, from baritone to falsetto. Jazzfest: “Thank God I Made It” - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
• The fulgurator was a sort of auto-propulsive engine, of peculiar construction, charged with an explosive composed of new substances and which only produced its effect under the action of a deflagrator that was also new. Facing the Flag
• And as performance dates drew close rehearsals became almost terrifying in their propulsive, impelling commitment - pianissimos were scaled to a whisper and fortes forceful and triumphant.
• The sound's friendliness to notions of racial integration gave it a progressive edge, but more than that it was boundlessly fun and propulsive, marked by an up-down beat that compelled audiences to jump around. Continental, Experimental
• This happens through a phenomenon called "kipping" where synchronous jumping - jumping at the same time - causes the transfer of kinetic energy to the lightest person causing them to gain greater propulsive force and height. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
• Reed and bassist Josh Abrams lay down propulsive grooves, over which vibist Jason Adasiewicz floats spiky harmonic patterns; this gives alto saxophonist Greg Ward and cellist Tomeka Reid plenty to work with once they break out of their unison melodic lines and turn to improvising. Chicago Reader
• The precise values – the center of the propulsive strokes, the angle at which the caudal fin is held, the point of its two-dimensional visual field at which distant points approach without changing their position on that field – cannot be genetically determined, since there are too many factors involved, including all the factors that determine where the center of mass is. Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books
• Her partners are the engagingly prickly guitarist Nels Cline, the stalwart bassist Todd Sickafoose and the polymorphically propulsive drummer Jim Black. NYT > Home Page
• This limb action would be relatively inefficient compared with that of modern animals such as penguins, whose wings produce propulsive force throughout virtually the whole of the upstroke and downstroke.
• The ability to reduce area and span during the recovery stroke is intimately associated with the design of the propulsive limbs in small animals.