staccato speech

Even over the radio they recognized the staccato speech rhythms of Corporal Feretti.

In his soft, staccato speech he interspersed Yiddish expressions with a favored line: "There's no question about it."

"I'm in trouble," David said, falling into Bowser's own staccato speech pattern, sans introduction.

Charcot's neurologic triad is the combination of nystagmus, intention tremor, and scanning or staccato speech.

Only the rapidity of his staccato speech suggests a man forced to talk his way out of complicated situations of his own making.

In this case, however, the characters are all women rather than men, and their coded staccato speech reeks of rose water instead of cigarettes and beer.

Even Wilson, with his staccato speech and love of porter, was proving reliable, and the Tritons liked working with him.

As if in answer, Sss-kaa-twee gestured down the cavern, toward the chamber that housed the ancient geothermal tap, accompanying the gesture with a staccato speech.

'Richie Marston,' Benjie's voice was strangely unemotional, almost normal; frightening when you were used to his unintelligible grunts and staccato speech.

Even his nervously staccato speech patterns will sound familiar to fans of "Meet the Parents" and "There's Something About Mary."

Over by the wall of creatures, McCoy rolled his eyes and interrupted the Vulcans' staccato speech by saying, "Let's get on with it, shall we?

The resultant graphic CV was instrumental in convincing an employer (who had difficulty in understanding Joseph's curious, staccato speech) that he was capable of responsible work.

The pickup bumped ground and rolled gently; Langdon's fingers moved delicately on the radio panel, and he made a brief report in staccato speech while Brian unsealed the door.

One aide thought it might be a deference to the candidate's staccato speech patterns, but another argued that in Dolese, the slogan would really have read "Bob Dole - Better Man - 'merica."

Her staccato speech patterns and blindingly fast changes of subject often bewildered those unprepared to keep pace with the speed of her thoughts; he was deliberate and disciplined to a fault in his own.

The word "Dalek" has been put into the Oxford English Dictionary and other major dictionaries; the Collins Dictionary defines it rather broadly as "any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech".

And Mr. Stack, retaining the glare and deadpan staccato speech pattern that had previously seen him through several seasons of "The Untouchables" - and would later get him through years as host of "Unsolved Mysteries" - wrote for Howard's Crime magazine.