stroboscopically love

stroboscopically

Definitions

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  • adverb By means of a stroboscope

Etymologies

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stroboscopic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • For the Representative from Minnesota it's "confiscate" this and "take 100 percent" of that... on and on and on... until all of the ridiculous rhetorical tricks that got us into this mess begin to flicker stroboscopically and the rational listener is in danger of having a seizure, like those cartoon-watching kids from a few years back.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality RJ 2011

  • For the Representative from Minnesota it's "confiscate" this and "take 100 percent" of that... on and on and on... until all of the ridiculous rhetorical tricks that got us into this mess begin to flicker stroboscopically and the rational listener is in danger of having a seizure, like those cartoon-watching kids from a few years back.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality RJ 2011

  • For the Representative from Minnesota it's "confiscate" this and "take 100 percent" of that... on and on and on... until all of the ridiculous rhetorical tricks that got us into this mess begin to flicker stroboscopically and the rational listener is in danger of having a seizure, like those cartoon-watching kids from a few years back.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality RJ 2011

  • Played by Tom Hanks in his high minimalist mode, his face stroboscopically snapping from wry smirk to worried squint and back again, Langdon is something of a cipher in his own right, a walking embodiment of skeptical intellect who seems, most of the time, not to have a thought in his head.

    Film 2009

  • They see the individual frames and the dark space between them too, as though stroboscopically.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • They see the individual frames and the dark space between them too, as though stroboscopically.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • The radiation signal flashed stroboscopically while the noxious-gas warning hooted.

    THE WRATH OF KHAN VONDA N.McINTYRE 1990

  • The radiation signal flashed stroboscopically while the noxious-gas warning hooted.

    THE WRATH OF KHAN VONDA N.McINTYRE 1990

  • The radiation signal flashed stroboscopically while the noxious-gas warning hooted.

    THE WRATH OF KHAN VONDA N.McINTYRE 1990

  • The radiation signal flashed stroboscopically while the noxious-gas warning hooted.

    THE WRATH OF KHAN VONDA N.McINTYRE 1990

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  • Stroboscopically jerking

    on a white-flecked screen, suddenly

    we find ourselves mummers in a Keystone Cops...

    - Peter Reading, Stills, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974

    June 22, 2008