"The whole sequence was very herky jerky and bizarre," he said.
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Frank Bruni What a herky-jerky mess our federal government is.
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The stops and starts give the tapes an occasional herky-jerky feel.
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Werdum's striking was herky-jerky, but his constant aggression was a killer.
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This is the state of luxury right now: chaotic, young, herky-jerky.
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Paula's movements as a crack addict are instantly recognizable — so herky jerky.
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It's a herky-jerky combination of spin moves, step backs, and physical force.
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Kyrie Irving was Little Poison, doing his herky-jerky Earl the Pearl routine.
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Sometimes his movements were herky-jerky, as if he were absorbing invisible blows.
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The State of the Union address was a herky-jerky testament to that.
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But if he can't, the perception and reality of herky-jerky chaos will reign.
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Yet it reflects the uncharted, herky-jerky way that Florida came to be Florida.
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Going after Belfort with his herky jerky striking, Sakuraba repeatedly tricked Belfort into eating strikes.
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"I Mind" boasts a staggering amount of vocal loops that envelop the herky-jerky percussion.
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He recalls a herky-jerky system that would beep to prompt him to stop mid-answer.
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It's been a little herky-jerky and sometimes feels like a TV series stuck on shuffle.
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Hence those herky-jerky robots, including three pairs of disembodied legs kicking and flailing above the stage.
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The scenes between him and Ms. Adams are charged, filmed with a patient if herky-jerky pacing.
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Did the herky jerky rhythms of the Big Boys sound anything like the Venice stomp of Suicidal Tendencies?
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Like Kennard, Hood is left-handed, and enjoys many of the same resulting herky-jerky advantages against defenders.
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Whishaw recites the torrent of text with pinpoint flair, his herky-jerky physicality suggesting the young Anthony Perkins.
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The three bond in a herky-jerky plot of low comedy, knockabout combat and a saccharine song here and there.
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The herky-jerky camera and editing he employs isn't just a way of amping up the intensity of the action.
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Not Biden, not based on his debate performance, with his herky-jerky delivery and reflexive glances in the rearview mirror.
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To my eyes, the motocross getups and the herky-jerky descents leached much of the beauty and grace from the sport.
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These two phenomena are related, but distinct, and together they explain why the effort to pass Trumpcare has been so herky-jerky.
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In a hot red mini-dress and flanked by two male dancers, Minnelli commands the stage with Fosse's delightfully herky-jerky choreography.
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Van Rooijen's overreliance on herky-jerky jump scares is a pity, because the movie that exists in the silence is surprisingly satisfying.
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It's an inventive experience in a brand-new medium—but watching the characters with their herky-jerky motions makes it feel almost familiar.
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A company called Utry let loose several eager, if herky-jerky, robots that followed people around on wheels, offering to carry their bags.
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With midterm elections coming, the economy is Mr. Trump's trump card, the most unalloyed note of success in an otherwise herky-jerky presidency.
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The editing around those early scenes feels herky-jerky and confused, with the physical action moving forward at a different pace from the conversation.
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Guiding their minimal electronics more toward the structured putter of techno, they added a herky-jerky locomotion to the otherworldly electronics they were using.
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Rock bios are perfect for being on tour, things you can pick up and put down according to the herky-jerky schedule every day.
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It's all a bit herky-jerky, smoothed out by the engaging performances, with Sawyers conjuring the image of a young Obama without slipping into impersonation.
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"No Stopping Us Now" is a chronicle of the herky-jerky nature of older women's journey to progress in the United States over the years.
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Told by the on-court interviewer that she would remember the match forever, Barty expressed the residual whiplash she still felt from the herky-jerky ride.
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A moving 2000-D billboard, like herky-jerky GIF files or vinyl record albums, has the kind of throwback vibe that just might appeal to millennials.
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The film has a steady look (thanks to the use of a Steadicam and a Trinity camera stabilizer), rather than a herky-jerky, hand-held feel.
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There are millions, tens of millions of workers who are freelancers, contract workers, as independent contractors, temps, and their lives have gotten very herky-jerky, unstable.
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It just has a different flow and feel, and it's kind of herky jerky, and gets into Dave's first real commitment to the DL4 sampling, as well.
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If you've ever wondered why so much early TV animation (think anything Hanna-Barbera) feels herky jerky, well ... it was probably animated on fours or on sixes.
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In terms of his ability on the feet, Cormier will probably never be anyone's favorite striker but as herky jerky as he looks he is at least comfortable.
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The basic setup is this: A seemingly innocent family goes to the fair and stops by an old-fashioned barrel organ ornamented with a herky-jerky dancing automaton.
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But the attempt never goes beyond the most surface-level homage, resulting in something herky-jerky and listless, incapable of doing anything interesting with its eye-catching premise.
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Three sacks and a forced fumble gave the NFL's most visible humble grinder ample opportunity to show off all the herky-jerky dance moves he learned from the internet.
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Tip "Is the second hand ticking in a herky-jerky-type motion?" asks Paul Altieri, founder of Bob's Watches, one of the largest online retailers of used luxury watches.
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He's herky-jerky in his movement and could cut whole seconds off his punches by sharpening up his fundamentals, but clean form isn't everything and the potential is there.
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The car uses a nine-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission, and you never feel the herky-jerky hiccups as it threads through all those gears, even at full charge.
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And Louis C.K. remains exceptionally skilled at body-horror comedy (likening his chest to the ceiling of a cave) and herky-jerky pivots that blend the sexual and the profane.
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But we should plan for a worst-case scenario — for a Trump who's wounded but not critically or who has managed to hit some kind of herky-jerky homestretch stride.
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Despite the blocky, herky-jerky quality of their visuals, 2014's The Lego Movie and its box-office-ruling spinoff, The Lego Batman Movie, were not actually filmed in stop-motion.
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The result was those herky-jerky androids, created by the artist-inventor Jim Whiting, which took baths and read the newspaper in a warped parody of a middle-class domestic scene.
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The footage had a herky-jerky feel because it had been shot on hand-cranked cameras that produced images at a much slower frame rate than modern audiences are used to.
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Lucchesi has a herky-jerky windup in which the 25-year-old left-hander brings his hands high overhead, lowers them to his chest, pauses and only then rocks and throws.
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"He's hard to stop because he's big, he's got a high release, he's herky-jerky in his movements, so you don't know if he's going to shoot or drive," Enfield said.
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If you or I were driving the car in those same situations we would likely have slowed down or steered to the side of the lane in a less herky-jerky fashion.
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That Indy aerial offense is weird: Andrew Luck is inconsistent but still good, and yet there's a herky-jerky quality that prevents them from being the terrifying attack they probably should be.
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The series' plotting is often herky-jerky — you can tell the show's writers and directors would rather do a plotless ramble but feel compelled to offer something to string the episodes together.
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Titled "Despite Yourself," the episode took viewers to a typically unexplored world (a core Trek tenet) while maintaining the herky-jerky pacing and unpredictability that has set "Discovery" apart from its predecessors.
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Despite Mr. Harris's fluid staging, which has the look of a street corner with folks always passing through, the overall pacing is herky-jerky, hampering the twitchy style rather than enhancing it.
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While these robots may look like us, they aren't built like us—electric motors in their joints drive their herky-jerky movements, whereas our muscles give us more precise control over our bodies.
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It did however usher in a new rhythmical "herky jerky funk" as Byrne describes it, and was a serious declaration of intent, to eschew their white punk roots and embrace black funk wholesale.
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There's no better showcase for their approach than lead single "Green Light," which features a jarring key change and a herky-jerky house rhythm that builds toward an epic, festival-ready sing-along.
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Assassin's Creed is ostensibly an action movie, with rooftop parkour chases and balletic multi-person fights that mimic those in the games, but the rhythmless, herky-jerky editing makes it impossible to follow.
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Liliput's sound — akin to that of the era's post-punk English bands like the Slits, the Raincoats and X-Ray Spex — was skeletal, aggressive and sometimes herky-jerky, suddenly switching speeds and riffs.
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Our avatar is O'Malley himself, who walks through Hudson Yards in the manner of a poorly rendered character from an old open-world PlayStation game: herky-jerky, arms scissoring, with syncopated footstep noises.
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But along the way, it didn't quite know how to stretch out what story it had set aside for this season, which resulted in a very oddly paced, herky-jerky sort of season.
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While the iconic fantasy themes were a nice geeky thematic fit for the Floppotron, "The Final Countdown" and its herky-jerky staccato really does work perfectly with the devices particular brand of musicality.[YouTube]
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Mr. King tells a slightly garbled, herky jerky story with intermittent excursions to events at other large public hospitals in the South and Midwest, including Cook County, Miami's Jackson Memorial and Charity, now closed.
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Given the slowdown in China and a herky-jerky stock market, Wall Street has been betting that the Federal Reserve will put off any interest rate increase at its next meeting later this month.
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There's Britney as you missed her—with those herky-jerky, choreographed arm flails so sharp and so fierce it seems wholly possible her limbs might dislocate from her body and blast off into space.
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Formed ten years ago by guitarist Bryant Williamson, bassist Joel Hatstat, and drummer Mike Albanese (also of Maserati), Cinemechanica straddles the thorny divide between spazzy math rock, angular post-hardcore, and herky-jerky experimental metal.
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But there's a herky-jerky aspect to "Detroit" that goes beyond the camerawork, as the narrative careens among its characters without fleshing them out, before becoming a horror movie once the claustrophobic motel encounter begins.
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Here, the taller walls seem to rise in the herky-jerky rhythms of the city's skyline, evoking the New York paintings of Piet Mondrian as well as the Metaphysical street scenes of Giorgio de Chirico.
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Ball gets a lot of hate for his herky-jerky shooting motion, but when it comes to taking flight ... well, let's just say the ZO2's might be making an appearance at the dunk contest next year.
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Last year, CEO Kyle Vogt told reporters that Cruise wants to nail safety before it can focus on smoothing out the herky-jerky behavior that might leave riders a bit queasy, and fellow road users a bit confused.
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But the power delivery of the 3.6-liter V6 is linear rather than turboed herky-jerky, so once you grow accustomed to modulating the throttle in your preferred drive mode, you can engage in some smoothly spirited driving.
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It was predictable that Rubio and Cruz would portray Trump as someone whose campaign contributions over time, comments from yesteryear and herky-jerky swerves in the present all call into question how committed and trustworthy a conservative he is.
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The frantic "Who Made the Man?" is the musical equivalent of that stiff-armed herky jerky robot dance move, and over the course of five minutes, it transforms from a wild garage rocker into some tense post-punk agitation.
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It's always a relief and a joy to see a distinctive cinematic vision working itself out on screen, and even if the results feel a little herky-jerky by the end, it's refreshing to see a filmmaker go for it.
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But every piece of Where'd You Go, Bernadette seems to be lifted out of a different kind of movie, and the result is muddled and herky-jerky, never letting us really settle into the narrative, in ways that hamper the film.
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He scored behind the three-point line, he scored on baseline fadeaway, he scored at the free-throw line, he pulled up above the key, he took fellow big men off the dribble with a massive, herky-jerky, goofy-looking dribble.
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Scratchy ancient audio seemingly beamed in from another planet gives voice to many of the town's mechanized denizens, whose jaws and limbs look like they're going to break off as they move either glacially slow or all herky jerky like 19th-century tweakers.
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The herky-jerky nature of app use, much lamented by marketers, has an upside, too: There are now many more times during the day when consumers are engaging in discrete activities, between which they may be primed to see a related message.
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What may look like a nice smooth line of steady improvement in per-capita G.D.P. growth in the chart above looks a lot more herky-jerky when you look at the same data in terms of percent change over the previous year.
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While such a list is by no means comprehensive, it's illustrative of television's track record in prying open what a 1990s documentary called the "celluloid closet" -- a history perhaps best defined less as a steady march than a herky-jerky series of steps forward.
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On "Phase," the lead single from the band's forthcoming album, "Marigold," he's vividly detailed — "There's brambles scratching at the window/And there's silver shining on the thorns" — pulling and pushing his voice herky-jerky while the rest of the band grounds him in rootsy emo.
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Written by a veritable horror-crime dream team — Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective"), John Sayles ("Lone Star") and Chase Palmer ("It") — and directed by the British TV-drama veteran Jamie Payne, the finale nevertheless hurtles herky-jerky toward a too-knowing and noirish anti-resolution.
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These episodes, with their curiously unfinished and sketchy figuration of witches and warlocks—like if Egon Schiele drew an edition of The Dungeon Master's Guide—aren't exactly the highlight of the film, but no worse than the old herky-jerky Marvel cartoons from the 60s.
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What a weird record: eccentric English pretty boys fashion a herky-jerky electropop groove, keep the groove going for over an hour, drop in a power ballad or two just to lighten the mood, plus scattered ambient instrumentals like they think they're David Bowie or something.
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In the season premiere of the HBO series "Crashing," on Sunday, Young-White plays a version of himself, a precocious comic with a herky-jerky delivery whom the star, Pete Holmes, persuades to come to New York, where he helps him gain entree to the club scene.
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At The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America 3 Finale in Mexico City on Saturday, Sanchez took a unanimous decision over Marcin Held, a 24-year-old submission specialist and Bellator transplant making his UFC debut, by outworking him with better grappling, herky-jerky stand-up, and Energizer Bunny steadiness.
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Let's talk about first the colorization of it because one of things that's very shocking is to see the colorization, and not just ... I understand the herky-jerky element that you remove, and so you get it to be as if they're walking through movies you would see now.
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Still, the movie allows time for the camp enchantment that is Irene Ware's dance interpretation of "The Raven" or the scene in which Karloff, confronted with his new face, staggers around a mirrored room reprising the growl and herky-jerky gestures he developed to play the Frankenstein monster.
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The music cues were chosen for their temporal specificity — mainly, unruly hits of the early 2010s, when the film is set — but also their unique clangor: the narcotized boasts of "The Morning," sung by the Weeknd; Rich Homie Quan's herky-jerky yelp on "Type of Way"; the stuttering Maybach Music Group drop.
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More rhythmically attuned to straightahead bounce than the elegant glide of retrodisco, he must have been delighted when the giant inflatable hooks currently bursting all over the radio came into fashion, and if this album doesn't reach the instant grace of 2015's Realness, it compensates with its own herky-jerky style of angular keyboard momentum.
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Because this is really a technical challenge, what you were trying to do with this film in terms of restoring it and making it real, because you're right, the herky-jerky, the idea that it's a Charlie Chaplin movie and things like ... That kind of look is ... What was your goal artistically and technologically from your perspective?
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Though Bon Iver's musical evolution doesn't seem predictable or even logical (just imagine time-traveling to 2008 to show a "Skinny Love" fan the herky-jerky bloops of 2019 "10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄"), i,i is the culmination of Vernon's whims and inspirations throughout his career.
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For every Denis Bermudez or Rafael dos Anjos who he catches with that one big punch or crazy flying knee, there are the Max Holloways, Cub Swansons and Yves Edwards who can force him to chase them and punish his herky jerky, telegraphed swings—getting them better of him with crisper work in the pocket and longer kicks against his wide swings.
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I say herky-jerky because it was six or eight or maybe 10 speeches in one, caroming without warning from a plea for unity to a tirade about the border; from some boast about American glory under Trump to some reverie about American glory before Trump (yes, it existed!); from a hurried legislative wish list to a final stretch of ersatz poetry that read like lines from a batch of defective or remaindered Hallmark cards.
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There was a multi-panel work featuring a hot-pink pillow by Robert Rauschenberg ("Rose Pole Spread," 1978, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac), which might have looked too sweet anywhere else, but here felt muscular and grounded; a chunky yellow-green sculpture adorned with a pair of earbuds by Rachel Harrison stood out among the fair's more polite offerings ("MD827ZM/B," 2016, Greene Naftali) for its herky-jerky, elbows-and-knees movement and look-at-me color; and among the many El Anatsui knock-offs at the various Miami venues, it was thrilling to see the knockout aluminum-and-copper-wire "Shared Roots" (2014, Jack Shainman Gallery), with its ribbons and clouds of red, yellow, blue, and gold against a silvery ground — all made from bits of scrap metal, in accordance with the artist's longstanding practice.
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