Word: frantic
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...calling into base after his first encounter with the enemy: "I stopped moving and tried to slow my breathing. It was my first firefight; I didn't want to sound frantic or panicked on the radio, since how you sound when you call in during your first enemy contact can come to define how you're viewed by those above and below you for the rest of your tour. Frantic-sounding lieutenants lose everyone's confidence immediately...
...debut album, Fortress Round My Heart, Maria opens with the perfect song for her aesthetic. "Oh My God" is basically just a few frantic chords and two repeated phrases--"Find a cure/Find a cure for my life" in the verse and "Oh my God" in the chorus. One lyric is a prayer for control; the other a realization that she has none, and Maria plays the former like someone meditating before a hurricane and the latter like the hurricane itself. She roars from the back of her throat, timing the G in God to the crash of the snare...
...just minerals Beijing is now frantic to buy. On March 3, China National Petroleum Corp. agreed to buy Calgary based Verenex Energy, which has a 50% stake in a huge Libyan oilfield, for $390 million. The China Development Bank and China Petroleum & Oil Corp. last month invested $10 billion in Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company and the prime operator in one of the most promising new offshore fields in the world. The deal gives Petrobras capital to further develop the fields. In return, China will get 100,000 to 160,000 barrels of oil a day over...
...whole would benefit from a paring down of its overly dramatic scenes. Its inherently emotional storyline—compounded by the fact that this is a dramatization, not a documentary—makes exaggeration not only unnecessary, but also detrimental to the film’s power. A frantic escape scene featuring Yong-soo is filmed in slow motion, presumably to increase the tension and drama of the moment. It comes across as overdone and totally lacking in suspense. The film also employs its fair share of flashback-driven montages, a superfluous technique that does nothing to advance the story...
...Burton's" was actually Henry Selick's; he directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...