How To Use Downbeat In A Sentence
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This is as dark and downbeat as they come, the occasional lighter moments of banter notwithstanding.
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On the slightly down-at-heels Upper West Side block where the story unfolds, happiness — or the closest Schine's brightly downbeat characters can come to it — is next to dogginess.
Doggy Affections
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Hornby was aghast but answered her questions in increasingly staccato and downbeat tones.
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Both musicians relished the dancing hemiola figures in the third movement, shifts of the downbeat between duple and triple groupings, and played with impressive bravura and accuracy.
Music review: Zuill Bailey and Orion Weiss at the Kennedy Center
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Ranging from the techno-infused uptempo music in Tokyo X to the jazzy downbeats in Chicago, the musical accompaniment to the onscreen action fits seamlessly.
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Downbeat nystagmus is a term used to describe nystagmus with fast-phase beating downward when the eyes are looking forward or down.
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The performance matched a downbeat start to the week for the Dow Jones in the US and reflected cheaper telecom, media and oil stocks in London.
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The actual signing of the treaty was a downbeat affair without any ceremony.
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Barely a negative vibe will be emitted from any of the bidding nations, nor a single quote uttered which might seem remotely downbeat or pessimistic.
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His speeches are often rambling and downbeat.
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The downbeat assessment contrasts with consumers' positive views about their prospective own situations, which improved by two points compared with a year ago.
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Economists were universally downbeat, which isn't totally surprising.
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Excluding tax remeasurement impacts, profit rose to 69 cents from 50 cents, beating the company's downbeat April forecast of 50 cents to 65 cents.
Peabody's Profit, Sales Jump
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The downbeat defeatism or hollow war cries have disappeared and while they made a rod for their own back with the opening-day draw with Aberdeen, the players and management evidently believe all is not lost and time is on their side.
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But he took his defeat on the chin and refused to be too downbeat about his performance in his first major final since winning the 2003 Regal Scottish Open.
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The problem is the story, which seems relentlessly gloomy and downbeat, lacking moments of breakdown and reconciliation that were so crucial to previous successes.
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The actual signing of the treaty was a downbeat affair without any ceremony.
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In the summer both were taking a downbeat view.
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Mr. SANDFORD: A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
Hunting 'Prey' On The Streets Of The Twin Cities
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The award was announced in the May 1997 edition of Downbeat.
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The Squid And The Whale may sound downbeat and depressing, but it is so true to life, it turns out funny and compassionate.
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Perfectly dubbed "folktronica" by Rolling Stone, her hit songs such as "Starry Eyed" and "The Writer" have up-tempo spunk and downbeat sass.
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More than anything the album's failure is that there are too many downbeat ballads that lack anything to get excited about.
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Modern liberal seekers found him unnecessarily complicated or downbeat, while Christians found his theology thin and secular.
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IBM added to the downbeat sentiment by reporting a 13% drop in net income for the fourth quarter of its financial year.
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More than anything the album's failure is that there are too many downbeat ballads that lack anything to get excited about.
The Sun
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An hour spent absorbing the color and black-and-white works provides a great introduction to an inventive artist whose wry sense of humor and smart downbeat attitude are urban adult all the way.
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Still, his downbeat tone has rattled bankers and business leaders.
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This survey of the EU's institutions, like the new institutionalist literature itself, might seem to paint a generally sombre, downbeat, pessimistic picture of modern political life.
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Michael Lerman at indieWIRE: "Sweet, saccharine and stiltedly hilarious, Eagle vs Shark, though downbeat, hits many of the right notes to reach a wide audience and still feel charmingly small in scale despite the fact that it is co-funded by Miramax.
GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Eagle vs Shark.
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Many popular songs have a few preliminary "pickup" notes leading to the opening bar and its downbeat.
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Today, the upbeats will become more downbeat as the trumpet tootles peter out and the sax puts a lid on the headlong rush of demisemiquavers for another year.
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He is a performer - a downbeat and deadpan showman, but a showman nonetheless.
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The song has three stanzas of six lines, carrying four stresses downbeats separated by upbeats.
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As the film progresses towards an inevitably downbeat conclusion, this becomes increasingly problematic.
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Its very casualness, its unfinishedness and downbeat messiness give the affair the feeling of real life, which by a further paradox makes it more engaging than something more obviously dramatic.
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Perhaps the only slightly downbeat note comes when I ask whether she has a boyfriend.
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The actual signing of the treaty was a downbeat affair without any ceremony.
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It takes courage to drop such a downbeat number in the midst of so much crazed jollity.
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For this reason, people often view him as pessimistic and downbeat.
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In New Orleans, the dancers know "what to do with a downbeat, making the old deck jump," while upriver, surlier folk regard the black band with "bovine mistrust.
An Adventure Tale Haunted by Loss
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Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel.
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The more downbeat and slight Lloyd, meanwhile, is the family's lodger, who, while a trifle dozy, at least brings some money into the house courtesy of his job at a local factory.
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He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension.
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What gave rise to this downbeat view of human agency, this ‘fatalistic epistemology’ that recasts people as victims?
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The chairman of JJB Sports was in downbeat mood at the firm's AGM with a glum combination of reduced turnover, lower profit margins and higher operating costs.
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It was Korda's own favourite of his films, but the downbeat story of an artist at odds with society was uncommercial, and with two flops in a row and large new studios at Denham to run, Korda temporarily hung up his directorial hat.
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His downbeat tone might be heartfelt, or it could simply be more mind games.
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Here the mood is decidedly more downbeat. Structural-adjustment reforms have bitten deep into the agricultural extension service.
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A dense cross-rhythmic relationship is thus struck between the bass and drums, with their respective downbeats lining up only once every 24 eighth notes.
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Too many cartoon characters have become cynical and downbeat and it's just refreshing to see something upbeat and good hearted.
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In Irish clog dancing, the wooden footwear is used by striking the heel or toe against the floor to create percussive, syncopated, “off-beat” or “downbeat” rhythms.
A Renegade History of the United States
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With $1.6 million on less than 250 screens after five weekends, this film seemingly fell victim to both its uber-downbeat premise and the fact that there was plenty of quality fare available at the megaplex without having to find a local arthouse theater.
Scott Mendelson: Jackass 3-D Opens With $50m, Setting October/Documentary records, While Red Scores $22m: Weekend Box Office (10/17/10)
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If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded.
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For one significant reason, the jocular Thomson can afford not to be too downbeat about the Fifers' 8-1 mauling on their own patch last month.
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Consumer attitudes in the here and now have remained relatively downbeat.
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Here was a manager who understood the anguish of a support which, in turn, recognised the limitations of a squad but could not understand the downbeat nature of performances.
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The overall mood of the meeting was downbeat.
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His speeches are often rambling and downbeat.
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The downbeat denouement in the media conference suite had followed some dramatic theatre on Centre Court yesterday with a series of subplots thickening the intrigue.
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This song set the tone for the downbeat understatement that the event traditionally displays.
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Another downbeat report comes from the insolvency expert Begbies Traynor.
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In stark contrast to the downbeat results from Kingfisher and Next last week, City analysts expect Tesco to report strong pre-tax profits of £938m in the first half.
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Both musicians relished the dancing hemiola figures in the third movement, shifts of the downbeat between duple and triple groupings, and played with impressive bravura and accuracy.
Music review: Zuill Bailey and Orion Weiss at the Kennedy Center
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The company gave a downbeat assessment for the second half of the year.
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Atop lazy swirls of blues riffs, a voice croaks: "It's what you call a downbeat, it's what you call a downbeat.
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The whole trend of British history since her accession has been comparatively downbeat.
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Success would be historic but defeat would mean his departure would be even more downbeat.
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This song set the tone for the downbeat understatement that the event traditionally displays.
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His writing on the last campaign trail was increasingly dejected but never downbeat.
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The actual signing of the treaty was a downbeat affair without any ceremony.
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But for the most part, the tone is downbeat.
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Though the marketing campaign portrays It Runs in the Family as a big fat comedy, it's rather more low-key and downbeat.
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The former chancellor, Ken Clarke, aptly summed up the downbeat mood when he said in yesterday's Observer that it was hard to be "sunnily optimistic" about the west's economic prospects.
Global recovery's weakness raises possibility of trade war
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And yet beneath the gusto of the narrative, there's a downbeat tone at work.
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The overall mood of the meeting was downbeat.
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Instead of aerial armadas and huge tank fleets on the ground, the military response will also be low-key and downbeat but no less effective for having such a low profile.
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But he took his defeat on the chin and refused to be too downbeat after his first major final since winning the 2003 Regal Scottish Open.
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Can white superstars breathe new life into downbeat Motown?
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Al was surprisingly downbeat about the party.
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Danny was downbeat and self-absorbed, reeling from one personal incident to the next like a ship without a compass, and his friends were a mixed bunch of dipsomaniacs and egotists.
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A fair amount of the dialogue is in Gaelic (and the surtitles are not visible from all seats) though their gist is usually clear enough until the play's downbeat final moments - ironically one of its finest passages.
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Day of unity Yesterday's rather half-hearted celebration of a century and a half of Italian unity—a national holiday observed over the misgivings of the regionalist Northern League party and the outright abstention of the German-speaking region of South Tyrol—has left an appropriately downbeat memorial in the new Museum of the Roman Republic.
A Nation of Racing Drivers Speeds Ahead
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Especially in the first half, they tend too much towards the downbeat, melancholy and densely produced to the point of murkiness.
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It seems some of the Scottish press didn't like the decidedly downbeat conclusion of the feature.
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There is a great deal of soul-searching, it seems, but not to the detriment of the listeners' enjoyment, for the music is far from downbeat.
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But economists remained downbeat about the outlook for the construction sector.
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It may be part of the character of the British to offer a downbeat assessment of how content they are with life.
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For this pianist rushing and slowing down in the cantabile sections while drawing attention to the downbeats over the barlines is a measure of profound expression.
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Straightaway, one feels Schubert's love of the theatre from the solemn opening measures, the sforzando downbeat setting in motion curving string lines to explore different key textures, visionary and remote for their period.
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Nouvelle Vague really changed things," explains Reid, "they covered well-known tunes in a quirky, downbeat style.
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Obviously Weitz filmed something like the book's ending, but in concurrence with New Line studio cut those final scenes to make the movie shorter and less downbeat.
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The president, C Parker, set a downbeat tone in his speech.
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It's a great string-soaked leap on from XO, his debut for the Dreamworks label, and a different kind of record from Elliott Smith, Roman Candle and Either / Or, his downbeat and unpolished earlier work.
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Instead of aerial armadas and huge tank fleets on the ground, the military response will also be low-key and downbeat but no less effective for having such a low profile.
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After our somewhat downbeat assessment last week of the new season's trends, we turn our thoughts this week to those we can actually work with.
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Until last week it did seem that the market was ignoring the 'bad news' factors," such as downbeat economic data and oil-demand forecasts, said Mike Sander, an analyst at Sander Capital Advisors in Seattle.
Crude Climbs as May Contract Ends
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They are not "downbeat" -- perhaps even when they should be.
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After a proper CD-length release a couple of years ago, Hiss Golden Messenger as he is professionally known has adventured down a slightly more overgrown track, with the recent Bad Debt EP downbeat and conversational but rewardingly and tuneful.
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And the downbeat mood seemed to extend to her performance itself.
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For example, the downbeats of measures 13 and 14 represent clear rhythmic arrival points and should be played with a full-arm gesture, while the previous three measures clearly lead to those downbeats.
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The mood in the trade has been downbeat in the recent past, which is why producers and distributors are nervous about scheduling the release dates of their films.
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The mood is more downbeat, the settings acoustic, but the high quality songwriting remains.
The Sun
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Can white superstars breathe new life into downbeat Motown?
Times, Sunday Times
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The overall mood of the meeting was downbeat.
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The fifteenth episode of season 3 kicked off the weirdest cycle of episodes in WKRP's run: almost every episode from this one through the end of the season was kind of downbeat and even depressing in spots.
WKRP Episode: "Ask Jennifer"
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The acoustic guitar's melody is pretty and downbeat and the percussion is interesting, almost dirge-like.
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Stopping before a bar line inhibits the central nervous system of the student who could otherwise tend to take over and encourage rushing over bar lines into downbeats.
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It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section.
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Her blend of downbeat, melancholic indie-tinged rock isn't custom-made for the sunny climes and plastic features of LA, so what prompted the sudden move?
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The series had a robust energy but was just too sour and downbeat to really work as a sitcom.
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This practice technique establishes the student's security in starting a work on downbeats of measures.
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Expectations for public construction remained particularly downbeat given government spending cuts, he said.
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Here the mood is decidedly more downbeat. Structural-adjustment reforms have bitten deep into the agricultural extension service.
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The song has three stanzas of six lines, carrying four stresses downbeats separated by upbeats.
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On the contrary, the evidence of the postcrisis depreciation points to a more downbeat conclusion.
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In addition, the film's relentlessly downbeat tone creates a dark emotional backdrop.
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Certainly, the presentation of the nine bills was downbeat to the point of self-parody; the measures themselves apparently ultracautious and uncontentious.