It moves along at machine-gun speed, re-creating the high-powered babble of trading floors and the hectic wheeling and dealing involved in major takeovers to breathtaking effect.

Spock to Enterprise Three to beamup Mr.Scott," Spock slipped the words out with machine-gun speed.

Those automatics had blasted with machine-gun speed.

"Quicksilver" and "Repeated Notes," like "Ostinato," are demonstrations of machine-gun speed and clarity.

The station plays music 24 hours a day, interrupted only by newscasters who have already adopted the machine-gun speed of their AM counterparts in America.

I asked with machine-gun speed.

His voice is a blur of pops, bops and throat catches, squeezing syllables into beats at machine-gun speed.

Jake asked him questions with machine-gun speed.

The features of the mask were, of course, immobile, but Claire thought she could detect a faint hint of building panic as the question and comments continued at machine-gun speed.

Captain Leeth snapped orders with machine-gun speed as the men swarmed toward the elevators.