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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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 . ".
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.
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.
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.