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The quality of being spasmodic and irregular
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jerkiness
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n. the state of being jerky
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n. the quality of being spasmodic and irregular [syn: fitfulness ]
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Jerkiness , sometimes called strobing or choppy , describes the perception of individual still images in a motion picture. Motion pictures are made from still images shown in rapid sequence. Provided there is sufficient continuity between the images and ...
Usage examples of jerkiness.
With a jerkiness that seemed at odds with her natural grace, Pilar turned out of them and took a quick step away.
Barenna, who made this remark, heaved a sigh and sat back in her canework chair with that jerkiness of action which in elderly ladies usually betokens impatience with the ways of young people.
Señora Barenna, who made this remark, heaved a sigh and sat back in her canework chair with that jerkiness of action which in elderly ladies usually betokens impatience with the ways of young people.
Her companion, with a stylized jerkiness that's appropriately Chaplinesque in nature, brings his left foot way up behind him and boots her lightly in the rear, an act so neatly conceived it makes her laugh in mid-yawn.
He looked wildly left and right, then pushed through the crowd that had formed around the table, shoving and elbowing toward the broad aisle between rows of gaming tables, moving away from Regine, a desperate jerkiness to his movements.
Waterhouse blurts, and lunges forward with a jerkiness born of passion blended with hypothermia.