hectically
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The transformation of these characters is given short shrift by the hectically layered book, but their truncated scenes of inner growth are a reminder of where the beating heart of this tale resides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
But with its jumble of clichés, its blatant word-bubble declarations, and its hectically rushed impracticalities, the movie—which is based on a comic-book series—invites an air of antic exaggeration and revved-up stylization.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 8, 2019
Graves adds a desperately needed dash of bravura in an otherwise rather hectically staged “I Am Easily Assimilated.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2019
With their hectically activated Cubistic gestures and turbulent illusory atmospheres, Marin’s watercolors and oil paintings of landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes follow Whistler’s in their efforts to embody perceptual experience in paint.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2015
When either of them invented something to say they started chattering with guilty haste, and each agreed hectically with any opinion the other advanced.
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis
