And Joaquin Phoenix delivers a crushing turn as the balmy inmate; his performance, full of agony and grit, is the best reason to sit through this misdirected, spasmodically compelling study of morality and errant justice.
42.
In " Ash, " nine men form a militaristic corps, digging their feet into the stage, hunching their shoulders spasmodically, and then cooling down to swing an arm across the torso with a breezy softness.
43.
Hummingbirds are like that-- not afraid of me, not afraid even of my cat, Pete, who crouches in the St . Augustine savanna, watching the hummers hungrily, his eyes narrowed, his mouth twitching spasmodically.
44.
It has been shrinking spasmodically ever since _ most visibly this month when 21, 000 NATO forces poured into Kosovo, in effect, shearing it off from Serbia, which is the dominant republic inside what is left of Yugoslavia.
45.
"We've been waiting 16 years for an answer, " said Mark Kauffman, an Amish farmer whose four profoundly handicapped children thrashed spasmodically in wheelchairs and a crib before the watchful gaze of the visiting physician.
46.
While Ruby's professional partner, Julian ( Rick Valenzuela ), dances spasmodically as if he means to throw his limbs out of their sockets, Chayanne's body is easy and loose when he moves to the Latin rhythms.
47.
Perhaps John Cage, represented here by " A Chant With Claps " ( 1940 ), had it right : As the performer claps arhythmically, almost spasmodically, he makes pronouncements about the inevitable transformation of Greek civilization by later cultures.
48.
All three mills were managed by Thomas Harris Busbridge and George Frederick Busbridge from c . 1849 . It is likely that Lower Mill ceased regular production of paper in 1848, being used spasmodically until 1851, and closing completely by 1852.
49.
Its riffs lingered rather than pounded; its singer, Maynard James Keenan, appeared bare-chested, in white face paint and thick-soled shoes, and he writhed spasmodically as he sang xenophobic character sketches and songs of ritual violence.
50.
Since " The Godfather " and " Last Tango in Paris " ( 1973 ), Brando has worked only spasmodically, appearing in movies like " Apocalypse Now " ( 1979 ) for enormous sums of money.
