Choppily

This is one slop pile of a movie, choppily directed with Madeleine Kahn and Bruce Dern completely wasted in the leads. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many regional stock markets fell and then traded choppily after China reported its January consumer price index was up 4.5% from a year earlier, exceeding expectations that the rate would hold at December's 4.1%. ❋ Wei-Zhe Tan (2012)

It is, I'd say, more or less exactly as choppily evocative, as wrongfooting and vivid, as it needs to be 'ribs of light from the lantern on the ceiling made it seem as if they traveled down the gullet of a great beast' 331. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

As the Countess, Virginia Tola offered a rather bland soprano and an uneven performance: Her opening "Porgi amor" was choppily phrased and not very good, but she managed a far more successful "Dove sono." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It should also be noted that the pre-filmed, choppily edited skits on The Daily Show, which are chock-full of silly graphics and sounds, resemble comic strips. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In “Ribbon in the Sky,” he flaunted possibilities, improvising a series of melismas — smooth or choppily rhythmic, curving up and down in unpredictable combinations — and then got the audience to sing in two-part counterpoint. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Apparently based on the first season of the acclaimed Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: the Last Airbender, the film is a structural disaster, choppily bouncing from one brief expositional scene to another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While the economy recovers choppily, Kroger, which Thursday reported a 14% decline in fiscal first-quarter earnings, defused some fears supermarket operators face as ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ending, with it's "all hell breaks loose" motif found in practically every story of this kind from the period from Burnt Offerings to The Shining to Poltergeist is choppily edited and shot with an eye towards the language of the disaster film rather than that of the ghost story. ❋ Arbogast (2009)

Madness ensues, most of it for the audience -- whose members are desperately trying to follow the darkly filmed, choppily edited, frenetic action sequences. ❋ Moriarty6 (2007)

The most common complaint seems to revolve around poor Flash performance, whereas videos play back very choppily and appears to cause CPU spikes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wide-eyed, the governor replied, words tumbling out fast and choppily, like an outboard motor loosened from the stern (per Alessandra Stanley): ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm not quite as down on this as some of the other reviews I read, many of which sounded to me like critics who complain about choppily edited musicals with too many close-ups where you can't see the characters' feet now complaining about this for having too many wide shots where you just see everyone dancing. ❋ The Brillig Blogger (2008)

These Erasers moved more in sync with one another than the others they had encountered, but still awkwardly, choppily. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2007)