Example sentences for: choppy

How can you use “choppy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Deemed particularly offensive are the skewed camera angles and choppy editing--"the Big Fat Over-Produced and Over-Directed Oliver Stone treatment" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). The plot--which has Sean Penn stranded in a bizarre desert town and caught between a real-estate mogul (Nick Nolte) and his stepdaughter/wife (Jennifer Lopez), each of whom asks him to murder the other--is called "a primer in hard-boiled clichés" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Exempted from the general drubbing is Billy Bob Thornton's funny turn as an unhygienic redneck mechanic.

  • Abrupt shifts in sympathy like this result in choppy filmmaking . Shall We Dance?

  • There's only so much a director can do with the most ironclad formula in movies, but Apted's documentary instincts give the eastern European locations more personality, and the dialogue scenes aren't as choppy as usual: Brosnan and his co-stars actually get a rhythm going.

  • Beatty doesn't spend much time setting up the premise--or making it psychologically plausible--and the opening plays like choppy notes for what follows: Sen.


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