creakiness

Throughout, there is the mysterious fogginess and creakiness of early film.

Thankfully, there's no such creakiness in most of the descriptive prose.

Fridays after the game are often filled with creakiness and sore spots, but not on the heart.

What great engineering expertise can you offer to stop the creakiness of the wheels?"

It feels bigger, tighter and even more audacious in its calculated creakiness.

But the creakiness of this plane became apparent.

Despite creakiness and age, Vubben had to come alone.

The creakiness and sexlessness of those words made Evans cringe.

One had to look past a certain technical creakiness to get at Mr. Wilson's celebrated images.

Mist filled Shea Stadium yesterday, and every weekend warrior in town felt a little bit of creakiness.

Talk about creakiness - or in this case, exclusivity and the dusty chill of academia, why abide by the designation "conference"?

A touch of creakiness has made its way into Mr. Kraus's technique.

In the case of a 37-year-old institution, the cost can be creakiness, burnout, fatigue, a falloff in attendance at events held for the public.

Rolling Stone calls it "a sci-fi song suite that now suffers from concept-album creakiness but at its time boasted an experimental edge".

In deference to the creakiness of the nouveaux undead it spun at a mere fifth of a gee, but it was just warming up.

He was bald, his scalp mottled like a bird's egg, and when he spoke the creakiness of his voice could not disguise a thick German accent.

Minimally they have simple vowels vs. some kind of laryngealization or creakiness; see Quioquitani Zapotec, for example.

Terry's story is so old that there is a creakiness to the slang - as when Terry boasts that he's "livin' large" and looking "dope."

Mr. Macy was taken with Mr. Miller's writing: "Some of the old phrases, some of the creakiness of the language was great.

Jamieson does not describe a creaky/breathy phonation distinction but instead describes vowels interrupted by glottal stop or aspiration corresponding to creakiness and breathiness respectively.

Underscoring the creakiness of the melodies is the score's bald appropriation of familiar sounds and tune fragments, which are re-used in much less interesting ways than in their sources.

Cruising beyond Jupiter and Saturn, the spacecraft survived the creakiness of old age to swing by the other two outer giants, Uranus and Neptune, in the 1980's.

MRS. KLEIN Despite the play's creakiness, you can't stop watching Uta Hagen's portrait of power.

I myself, like any used car, have been in regular attendance for oil change, odd noises in the transmission, creakiness in gear shift and suggestions for getting more mileage with less fuel intake.

Also, as baby boomers have started to hit the age of creakiness, they have pressed for more medical news, and the billions of dollars of advertising by the pharmaceutical industry has fed that demand.