Polanski at 76 provides a reminder of directors of the past who were raised on craft, not gimmicks, and depended on a deliberate rhythm of editing rather than mindless quick cutting.

The deliberate rhythm of his fingers against her breast was making her burn from the inside out.

His actors stand facing the camera, like performers on a proscenium stage, speaking in a slow, deliberate rhythm stripped of overt emotion.

Seven identified the deliberate rhythm as a meditation.

Its two arms undulated with a spooky, deliberate rhythm, as if tasting the air.

But near the end, he also made a foray into the slower, more deliberate rhythms of hip-hop.

At the stairs, Mr. Power and Mr. Teaman have established a deliberate rhythm.

Mada slowed her metabolism to the steady and deliberate rhythm of the bean-what Utopian could do that?

Though Mr. Parikka's work is prettily photographed and has a sustained, deliberate rhythm, "Plainlands" never goes beyond a glib exposition of this idea.

A certain weepy pitch is set by Stockard Channing's somber introduction, which has the deliberate, soothing rhythms of a relaxation tape, or maybe even a memorial service.