It was the torturers who were trembling with terror, as they listened to the jagged, broken rhythm and missed a breath with every missing beat.

Despite its jagged rhythms and strident orchestral effects, the work is essentially conventional in its tonality.

The only sound she uttered was the jagged rhythm of her breath.

Leonard's meetings with them have a jagged comic rhythm, since he can never be sure, without rifling through his snapshots, that he's met them before.

He heard the horses before he saw them and knew from the jagged rhythm that something was wrong.

They became still as statues, only to slither into contorted positions corresponding to the music's jagged rhythms.

Colleagues on the force say no one is more attuned to the city's jagged rhythms.

As the author-director has explained, the new piece is an attempt to juxtapose 1940's swing music and dancing with the jagged rhythms of the rock-video generation.

Moderately and elastically paced, the performance did not intensify the music's jagged rhythms or its fierce harmonies.

The dialogue is, as expected, impeccably true to the jagged rhythms and syntactical aberrations of real speech.