The style can include broken rhythms, atonal harmonies, and improvised melody.

She closed her eyes and said nothing, looking almost asleep, her awareness obvious only in the broken rhythm of her breathing.

She sat very still, but the broken rhythm of her speech betrayed her agitation.

She heard the rhythm of the voices around her; the broken rhythm of syllables under the words they said aloud.

They gathered and began the sandwalk, gliding over the surface in a broken rhythm that would disturb no maker.

'Sir,' she said, having marked the broken rhythm of his walk, 'I fear you are hurt.'

Her pelvis rose and fell in a broken rhythm, faster and then slower.

He rose somewhat and started jerking into her in a broken drumming rhythm which he knew women liked.

The leather tents were heavy with rain that roared in a broken rhythm as the men slept fitfully.

Friskin states that the piece contains "broken rhythms and slurs which require a delicate hand touch".