Scenarist Andrew Kevin Walker and director Fincher veer far from " buddy cop " clichs, leaving the actors to bring their characters to terms by fits and starts.
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Like countless other regions around the country, Henry County, an area south of Roanoke near the North Carolina border, is moving toward the future by fits and starts.
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Hello, I'm a journeyman level editor and I edit by fits and starts depending on when the spirit moves me so I haven't really advanced in skill level.
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It proceeds by fits and starts, but mostly by what Sterne calls " progressive digressions " so that we do not reach Tristram's birth before the third volume.
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But Wenders has been plagued by fits and starts over the last decade, and this lack of consistency has resulted in his last few movies'getting spotty releases at best.
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And time, you have to believe, is running out for what remains of a peace process that a year ago seemed to be moving, if by fits and starts, irreversibly forward.
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That it was written carelessly, hastily, and by fits and starts, was not always his fault, but it seems clear he never read what he sent to the press . ".
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It is doubtful that Mrs . Clinton has done any real damage to her candidacy with her comments, but she has probably started a conversation that will progress by fits and starts for months.
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Niles Eldredge's study of the " Phacops " trilobite genus supported the hypothesis that modifications to the arrangement of the trilobite's eye lenses proceeded by fits and starts over millions of years during the Devonian.
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Because by fits and starts, from these too-short profiles, single images and sometimes too-glib axioms, emerges a consistent theme of life as process, as a movement from expectation toward realization, containing disappointment, hope, sorrow, pleasure and knowledge.
