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Pacing in sentence

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The funny parts are Alec guinness's eccentricities, Especially the dancing when he is arrested by the police and also his house on the pier itself, So funny to see him pacing up and down in his LITTLE house quite literally up and down.
It's pacing is awful, as it drags on and on with little development or plot structure.
The film is not perfect; there are pacing problems and a series of annoying/confusing flashbacks that break up the narrative; but it also features some strong characters and an interesting plot line with some ideas that actually do hold some weight.
The plot, scripting, pacing and every other facet of this film follow suit.
The script, acting, pacing, effects, just about everything here is terrible.
This one has the luminous Susie Porter reclining, pacing and prancing around nude, with the most fantastic confidence and comfort with her body.
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal.
When I was at the World Bank, the first lesson in policy reform was that sequencing and pacing matter.
But to return to the refrain: sequencing and pacing matter.
Levin meanwhile, in trousers but without coat or waistcoat, was pacing up and down his room, perpetually putting his head out at the door and glancing up the corridor.
Meantime in the church every one was waiting for the bridegroom; while he was pacing up and down like a caged beast, looking despairingly along the corridor, remembering all he had said to Kitty and wondering what she must be thinking now.
Left alone, Vronsky got up and began pacing the room.
She rose, drew herself up, sighed deeply, and with her light steps began pacing up and down the room, pausing occasionally.
He began pacing up and down the room, watching the waiters with pleasure.
Some of them ate, standing or hastily sitting down at the table, others smoked cigarettes, pacing up and down the long room, and talked to friends they had not seen for a long time.
As he was passing through the corridor behind the gallery he came across a dispirited High School pupil with bloodshot eyes pacing up and down.
CHAPTER XIIWHEN HER VISITORS HAD TAKEN THEIR LEAVE Anna did not sit down, but began pacing up and down the room.
Maheu, after staring at him, went on pacing heavily, without a word.
He stood up, pacing in circles like a wild beast in a cage, striking the walls with his foot and fist.
'But what!' he suddenly exclaimed, pacing the floor with a convulsive step, 'am I to allow her, as though I were a man of straw, a mere ragamuffin, to make a mock of me with her lover?
I have no birth, so I require great qualities, ready on demand, with no flattering suppositions, qualities proved by eloquent deeds ...'He spent a quarter of an hour pacing the floor of his room.
Tired of pacing the room in fury, the Marquis, broken by grief, threw himself into an armchair; Julien heard him murmur to himself: 'This is no scoundrel.'
This was the resolution to which he finally came in the garden, after pacing it for fully two hours.
Towards the end of a horrible day, the whole of which he had spent in pacing the floor of his narrow dungeon: 'What a fool I am!' he exclaimed.
He spent these last days in pacing the narrow terrace on the roof of his dungeon, smoking some excellent cigars for which Mathilde had sent a courier to Holland, and with no suspicion that his appearance was daily awaited by all the telescopes in the town.
"Never!" exclaimed the young man, springing from his seat, and pacing the floor rapidly.
He particularly disliked the ambush of the detachment under Lawton, who could be distinctly seen from the windows of the cottage, cooling his impatience, by pacing on foot the ground in front of his men.
exclaimed her brother, springing from the bed, and pacing the floor in disorder.
exclaimed her brother, starting from his seat, and pacing the floor in violent agitation.
Miss Wharton!" exclaimed the youth, springing on his feet, and pacing the floor with a cheek that burned through its brown covering, and an eye that sparkled with wounded integrity.
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