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  • These forces are not preternatural -- the Serb militias are real enough -- but by the end of the book one does feel that the Sarajevans are being subjected to a speeded-up version of the distress and ill-fortune life ulitmately inflicts on almost everyone.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • The artist's feminist rethink of male power structures can be creepy, as with her horribly speeded-up topless karaoke take on a line from the Beatles' Happiness Is A Warm Gun.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • His mother had bought it from a travelling salesman when her eldest son was about three, and each year an envelope arrived, containing stickers on which were written that year's advances in knowledge; together they pasted them onto the appropriate pages, unknowingly foreshadowing the unimaginably speeded-up way in which Wikipedia now works.

    The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales 2011

  • Doesn't a subversion of the economics of producing new knowledge become intensified as transfer is multiplied, speeded-up and delivered to populations which did not, and could not have paid for this?

    Atoms, Bits, and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Its forms included urbanization, the speeded-up nature of the news and ever more novel kinds of entertainment.

    Making It New in the New World Steven Watson 2011

  • Its forms included urbanization, the speeded-up nature of the news and ever more novel kinds of entertainment.

    Making It New in the New World Steven Watson 2011

  • It is done with acute attention to detail, but in a speeded-up manner reminiscent of the cinema.

    Director Katie Mitchell's Feminine Mystique Paul Levy 2011

  • At each session, he would revisit the original memory after being given the drug propranolol, a hypertension medication that reduces common symptoms of fear, which include a speeded-up heart rate and excessive sweating.

    Can You Alter Your Memory? Shirley S. Wang 2010

  • His performance of "Jealous Guy" (which The Strokes should do in a speeded-up, punk tempo) was excellent, by far the best of the night and the best by him so far.

    Idol Season 9: Top 9 -- Casey James Back In The Hunt To Win 2010

  • His performance of "Jealous Guy" (which The Strokes should do in a speeded-up, punk tempo) was excellent, by far the best of the night and the best by him so far.

    Michael Giltz: Idol Season 9: Top 9 -- Casey James Back In The Hunt To Win 2010

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