offbeat
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The choreographer’s wide-ranging and sometimes offbeat musical choices have regularly led to our seeing him as a music man, which has been borne out during his dancemaking career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Its brand of gently offbeat Americana is pure comfort-watching.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
In this week’s episode of The Envelope podcast, we kick off Emmy season with Carrie Preston, who plays an offbeat investigator in Robert and Michelle King’s “Columbo”-inspired comedy “Elsbeth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
His dancing career didn’t really start until he started playing for the Bananas — whose offbeat and entertaining brand of baseball incorporates dancing and other shenanigans — in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
This one happened to be an economist who, instead of thinking grand macro thoughts, favored his own list of offbeat micro curiosities.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
“I’m so sorry, so sorry,” Verlaine sings, offering a desperate apology amid a crossfire of guitars and drums — knife-edged single notes, barbed lines, implacable offbeats — that don’t promise any forgiveness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Danalogue uses 1980s synthesizers for plump bass tones and upward swoops; Betamax mixes drums and drum machines, constantly accenting different offbeats.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
They had a taste for the kind of syncopation that perpetually discovers new offbeats in tracks like Negoleiros do Ritmo’s “Lemba” and Elias Dia Kimuezo’s “Chamavo.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2013
Bass lines lope and skulk, the drums sputter with offbeats, and rhythm guitar and keyboards share a flippant, cackling cross talk, like wiseguys in the back of a high school classroom.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2013
Cycling rhythm is pace of life Beats in peace, offbeats facing strife.
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan
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