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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
adlib .
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I think sometimes … um, there are some scenes like in the phone call, that they did just kind of adlibbed and then we were just probably working with the pace so you would feel that it was really a chase scene and really compelling and urgent.
Twilight Lexicon » Fansites Chat With Catherine Hardwicke 2008
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The interplay between Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt lives up to the legend of their friendship, in scenes like one in which they crack each other up as Bruce bangs out an elusive riff (which would later become "Sherry Darling," from The River) on a piano while Miami Steve yelps adlibbed lyrics and drums accompaniment on a rolled up carpet.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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The interplay between Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt lives up to the legend of their friendship, in scenes like one in which they crack each other up as Bruce bangs out an elusive riff (which would later become "Sherry Darling," from The River) on a piano while Miami Steve yelps adlibbed lyrics and drums accompaniment on a rolled up carpet.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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The interplay between Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt lives up to the legend of their friendship, in scenes like one in which they crack each other up as Bruce bangs out an elusive riff (which would later become "Sherry Darling," from The River) on a piano while Miami Steve yelps adlibbed lyrics and drums accompaniment on a rolled up carpet.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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It seemed like those scenes were adlibbed in some way and they were just throwing things out there.
Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY – Collider.com 2010
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I'm not sure if it was this episode, but Richard Dean Anderson adlibbed a scene in which Teal'c steps through the gate and O'Neill reacts with a "What's with the - uh -?".
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The interplay between Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt lives up to the legend of their friendship, in scenes like one in which they crack each other up as Bruce bangs out an elusive riff (which would later become "Sherry Darling," from The River) on a piano while Miami Steve yelps adlibbed lyrics and drums accompaniment on a rolled up carpet.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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I'm not sure if it was this episode, but Richard Dean Anderson adlibbed a scene in which Teal'c steps through the gate and O'Neill reacts with a "What's with the - uh -?".
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Live, the effect is more random, the lines between Harkin's adlibbed, strangely folky noodling and the band's eventual arrival at a tune becoming even more blurred.
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As I suspected, most is adlibbed — Matthijs even deviated ever-so-slightly from the autocue lead-ins.
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