| 单词 | fitful |
| 例句 | There was no need, and fitful sleep took the place, for a while, at least, of the food they had not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The sun was shining in the morning but Kira woke groggy after a fitful sleep. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wake up after a fitful night to the sound of urgent whispering on the other side of the door. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Its dreams were so malicious, so fitful, that Hazel felt herself losing her grip on reality. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The worst part was dragging Mother from her fitful sleep and getting her to sit in the water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My fitful work assignments from the relief officials ceased and I looked for work that did not exist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We spend a fitful night, woken by one another’s nightmares, minds buzzing with the next day’s plans. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Down by the riverwalk, the willow leaves tangled in the fitful wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She was so busy with her own fitful thoughts that she didn’t notice the small fist-size slip of paper that had found its way into her flour bin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z During all its long hours of cloud and fitful sun they hardly paused, now striding, now running, as if no weariness could quench the fire that burned them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The wind freshened and blew in fitful gusts. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she fell into her fitful sleep, and her head dropped upon the pillow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Tidbit fell into a fitful sleep in Amari’s arms, his face drawn. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His speech, once effusive and rapid, was hesitant and fitful; the words emerged with a sudden, surprising force, as if he were spitting out strange pips of food that had been put into his mouth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Jonas was startled out of his fitful doze by a sound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The traffic beacon at the top of a metal scaffold cast a fitful red light as it blinked on and off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His sense of smell returned, and whenever he woke from a fitful doze, he sniffed for Bristle and Runt to reassure himself that they were still alive. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As they set off up the left bank, the wind began to blow in fitful, warm gusts, with a multifoliate rustling through the sedges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we crammed ourselves into a battered little Peugeot taxi that felt like home at last, and came to Elisabet’s house, to fall into sleep or the fitful wakefulness of jet lag. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa drifted into a fitful sleep, then waked with a start about two-thirty and between gasps for breath went to raging at something or somebody, all the time pulling at his whiskers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As Tatterfell moves around the room, my eyes close, and I fall into a strange, fitful sleep. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She had fitful dreams, of Nana’s jinn sneaking into her room at night, burrowing its claws into her womb, and stealing her baby. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He leans up and kisses the underside of his jaw, finding it rough from a full, fitful day without a shave. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Rémy takes his place outside the doors, and I close my eyes to drift in and out of a fitful sleep. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The rigging went slack, tar melted and dripped, the wind died to fitful breezes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything is fine.” i am asleep on a pile of blankets, having been nudged off the mattresses by a fitful child, when I feel a hand on my face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The young dog slept in fitful, uneasy starts, his muscles twitching, constantly lifting his head and growling softly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The next morning, we woke up as if we were coming out of a long, fitful dream. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She fell in and out of a fitful sleep, dreaming of the Wood and the clean, unbroken snow beneath her feet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As I drifted off to a fitful, exhausted sleep late that night, I thought about what was the strangest thing of all that first day of combat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z So she was up and dressed when Tea Cake awoke from the fitful sleep that had come to him just before day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Being recessive, its expression would have been fitful. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Instead, she felt as if the sky were in a fitful slumber and about to awaken in a rage. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He had at least two hours before the Master Librarian woke from his fitful sleep and came padding among the bookshelves to check a cross-reference, a footnote, a scribble in the margins. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A second night came and still the Ents held conclave under hurrying clouds and fitful stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z After a night of fitful sleep on the ground, Scruggs woke up with an eerie premonition he was going to be shot in the back. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Only three small bites of food passed between her lips before she fell into a fitful sleep. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then she seemed to fall into a fitful sleep, although they waited for her to speak further, and once more she roused herself to speak. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z At night, it cast its long shadow over what fitful sleep I was able to get. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s by his own design, mostly, a barricade of charm and fitful monologues and hard-headed independence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z However it was three rather disconsolate creatures that sat down to early breakfast after a few hours’ fitful sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Zeitoun tucked himself into the tent and fell into a fitful sleep. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She makes a fitful gesture, like she wants to hit something but there’s nothing available. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Like he wasn’t war tired and like he hadn’t had a fitful night. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z When Isa finally drifted off an hour later, the brownstone groaned with relief as the last Vanderbeeker fell into a fitful sleep. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My sleep is fitful and scanty, haunted by the Commandant’s threat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The fitful, ghost-powered trolleys were always making unexpected turns, shut- ding her off into unknown parts of the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He cried himself to sleep, when he could muster the energy, but his sleep was fitful and sporadic. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Now the moon itself disappeared, swallowed by a fitful cloud. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z When evening finally comes and the Girl has dozed off into a fitful sleep, I ask Tess to stay with her so I can sneak away to check on my family. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Yes—‘after life’s fitful fever they sleep well,’” I muttered. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She lay back down and presently drifted off into the first of many fitful periods of sleep. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The naked waste, as far as the eye could pierce, even to the distant menace of the mountains, was dappled with the fitful moonlight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The garden behind the bungalow woke in fitful spurts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The mood shifts as the dancers grab onto one another in fitful bursts of wrestling. Melinda Ring’s ‘Forgetful Snow’ at the Kitchen 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Now it feels less like a static, woefully incomplete lesson in art history and more like the fitful story of the city's museum. SFMOMA's expansion offers a deep dive into blue-chip artists' works 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Their arrival has been slow and fitful, the problematic female character apparently being a harder sell, a harder creative leap or both. When the Heroine Is Less Than Perfect 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z McGuinn, 76, and Hillman, 73, took care to explain that the Byrds’ identification with country music was no “foray,” as a critic might lazily put it, but rather a fitful evolution. The Byrds’ ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ was resurrected Monday night, and it was a complete joy 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Still, the nymphs, echoing the characters’ fitful, flighty and tender moods with a delicate range of movement, brought this pastoral setting to life with an airiness in the arms and a lightness in the feet. | New York Baroque Dance Company: When a God Loves a Nymph, and Other French Court Intrigues 2010-09-22T22:12:00Z That self-assurance is why it’s startling to watch her composure crack across a fitful evening that might work better if the production felt less remote. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Even then, it continued for only a fitful, embarrassing six minutes or so, which found Esparza speaking animatedly without sound, before shutting down again. Review: For Sondheim’s 90th Birthday, a Collage of Aching Voices 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z One path of the series tabulated Barry’s body count as he became entangled in the L.A. mob wars, made fitful attempts at redemption and blazed through a series of one last jobs. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Macbeth: Duncan is in his grave; after life’s fitful fever he sleeps well. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But he’ll prove that assurance wrong, and when he does — in Christa Scott-Reed’s fitful production in the Acorn Theater at Theater Row — the forced sundering of their bond will genuinely sting. Review: No Battle of Wits in This Mild ‘Man for All Seasons’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Bach’s is a fitful and tormented performance, marked by intense physical and dramatic control. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z It takes ordinary experience—“everydayness,” Binx calls it—and makes it the subject of fitful philosophical inquiry. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z "So far, so good," said Michael Cohl, who, together with Jeremiah J. Harris, is the lead producer of the $75 million musical that was retooled in April after a fitful launch in November. Strong 'Spider-Man' demand makes producers smile 2011-06-27T19:58:11Z The film’s slow-burn magic lies in the many questions it raises as it skitters to a fitful, explosive end. ‘A Banquet’ Review: Starving for a Higher Purpose 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The film industry recovered significantly from the pandemic in 2021, but despite one of the biggest hits in years in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the rebound has been fitful. The Oscars are Sunday, and change is in the air 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z In Ms. Muskal’s variations, that étude soon becomes fractured and frenzied, setting off a long, expansive, sometimes fitful exploration, with pummeling rhythms, spiky chords and onrushing riffs. Music Review: Benjamin Hochman’s Deep Dive Into Contemporary Work 2014-03-11T20:53:37Z Essentially three character sketches, of Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, with a choral apotheosis tacked on at the end, its structural weaknesses and fitful sense of direction scarcely proclaim a symphonist. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z During many nights of his fitful sleeping his father, a university theater professor, would try to lull him by playing audiotapes of Laurence Olivier’s performances in Shakespeare’s plays. Patrick Page, Onetime Green Goblin, on Playing in ‘Cyrano’ 2012-09-23T04:38:14Z But the churning piano becomes more intense, prodding the violinist into fitful bursts until the piece regains composure and fades away. Music Review: Chelsea Music Festival Features Debussy and Cage 2012-06-17T22:11:49Z New York City’s fitful, sometimes thwarted efforts at tempering traffic — congestion pricing, Citi Bikes — are not addressed. Review: ‘Bikes vs Cars’ Explores the Debate in Cyclist-Friendly Cities 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As Erie natters on in an eager, fitful string of clichés, bringing to mind the sort of garrulous salesman you’d normally cross the street to avoid, Mr. Whitaker quietly breaks your heart. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Comedy, an entertainment zone notoriously dominated by the male point of view, has opened up in the decades since “Kids,” but progress has been fitful. The Baronesses Are Coming! And Filling a Comedy Gender Gap 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Such insights, often evocatively phrased, are the erratic rewards of reading this fitful book. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z They ended with an intense performance of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9, completed in 1964, a fitful, brooding work. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Unfamiliarity presumably accounted for a few isolated smudges, but on the whole the orchestra mastered this brilliant, diffuse and fitful music. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Newark - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:25Z On Friday there were fitful bursts of magic, enough certainly to keep those pages turning. Yoshiko Chuma, ?ngel Corella and Joseph Webb 2010-03-21T20:53:00Z The funeral march that opens the work was restrained, visceral and pervasively tragic, and Mr. Gergiev captured the vehemence that Mahler demands in the fitful second movement. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z Mr. Dudamel kept the scattered choral declamation and fitful orchestral stretches in sync, while making the episode seem utterly spontaneous. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Delivers a Seething ‘Otello’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Noseda, an Italian-born conductor who has worked extensively in opera, boldly draws out the score’s operatic elements, as in his stunning account of the fitful Dies Irae, while vividly conveying its overall organic structure. Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ by Gianandrea Noseda 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z The physical distance between Lerma’s mural and Kuri’s sculpture is fitting for the sprawl that characterizes both the raw desert and its fitful development since the 1960s. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But during the industry’s fitful comeback — with its pandemic-fueled moods of terror and celebration, defiance and wariness — we knew it in our bones. Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Pape’s anguish is always raw, fitful and on the surface. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z Hunter, who had a singular, awkward singing style, pursued a fitful career as a solo performer, too, and collaborated with other ace songwriters, including Jim Lauderdale and Bob Dylan. Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Though written in one movement, the concerto is episodic and fitful. Music Review: Conductor Makes Philharmonic Debut With Sufi Poetry and Celestial Yearnings 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z Ms. Armitage’s extreme physical juxtapositions transform the dancers into fitful, feral beings. Dance Review: Armitage Gone! Dance at New York Live Arts 2013-02-03T22:20:41Z But even during moments of agitation — with fitful stretches of tangled lines and sneering bursts of brass — the playing, however exacting and incisive, was impressively relaxed. Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z I liked Mr. Cilluffo’s music the most whenever it turned modernist and fitful, as in the early scene when the boy is seized: a tormented, complex ensemble pulsing with highly charged, spiky music. Music Review | Dicapo Opera Theater: Boy Is Ensnared in 19th-Century Papal Politics 2010-02-26T22:20:00Z This fitful Australian import, which opened on Sunday night at the Barrymore Theater, chronicles the bad behavior at one ill-fated birthday celebration. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Fortunately, the acting, in spite of the fitful American accents, is good. The Crucible 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z But knowing how the story would turn out made me a fitful student. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Two nights in a bed unaware of the previous months of fitful sleep. What’s it like to go on vacation during a pandemic? I went to a newly reopened resort to find out. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z “You embraced them!” she sings with stinging outrage, as the orchestra breaks into fitful leaps and shrieking chords. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a fitful amalgam of bouncy and slack laughs mixed in with some blasts of pure physical comedy and loads of yammering heads. Review: Melissa McCarthy Takes Charge in ‘The Boss’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z What Mr. Franco does have is Mr. Haze, whose mesmerizing performance gives the movie its ballast and its fitful, nervous energy. An On Screen Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child of God’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert emphasized the myriad colors and fitful agitation of this inexorable 45-minute score. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Despite the sheer quantity of sounds, the work never felt chaotic, even as it progressed in fitful tumbles, creaking and cracking. Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z In Act IV, when they can no longer constrain their illicit attraction and confess their love, Mr. Rattle brought out all of the music’s teeming intensity and fitful shifts. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z Sure, it was pretty dark, and I was still a little groggy from a fitful sleep, but during the pandemic, time means nothing anymore. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Who cares about a little unexplained blood these days? 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Inspiration is given, fitful, and nothing without effort and patience. Nick Laird on the fitful nature of inspiration 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Mezzo soprano Sishel Claverie peeked through the purple-black shroud of a faraway galaxy and swung around the frame of her square in a fitful dance. Perspective | Covid-era opera is getting more intimate, accessible and experimental 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Twitchy electronics and a fitful beat underline the anxieties; wordless voices offer partial solace and solidarity, but nothing is guaranteed. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z This is a world in which Cyrano can say “my role/is bare my soul/then crawl back into my lonely language-hole,” making you hear his hopelessness in its fitful line lengths. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z There seems to be a fitful, fruitless search for the perfect "anti-host", someone who can enliven an awards ceremony – one of the most moribund forms of television in existence – with a little danger. Golden Globes 2011: who'd be an awards show presenter? 2011-01-17T20:30:01Z It is early in the production’s life, and the rehearsal is fitful. Art, Reagan and blackface: Edgar Arceneaux examines controversial performance by Ben Vereen 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z This thorough integration is all the more impressive when you think of how awkward and fitful most of Mr. McPherson’s dialogue sounds. Review: ‘Shining City’ Is Brighter With Matthew Broderick 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Yet the calm was deceptive, for just below the surface the ominous stirrings and fitful mingling of inner voices told a deeper story. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-12T22:06:00Z What you get is an eerie journey through an empty office block at London's eastern extremity, but also a fragmented, fitful experience that lacks the emotional intensity of a linear work of art. The Duchess of Malfi 2010-07-14T11:57:00Z First it stole my sleep, replacing a peaceful slumber with fitful snoozing, tossing and turning in the sheets like a hostage in a bag. Hell hath no fury like the adult hangover | Coco Khan 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Waterston’s Lear is only a fitful flame, always on the verge of being extinguished for good. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z The Bach continues to permeate the work, which evolves in passages that swell and subside, the orchestra heaving with modernist sonorities and fitful inner voices. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z This 10-minute duo is filled with passages in which either the cello or the violin provides insistent accompanimental figures as the other breaks loose in elegiac, fitful melodic flights. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z Regardless, "Green Lantern" was canceled in 1972, and made fitful restarts over the next few decades. Comics: Let's shed a little light on Green Lantern's backstory 2011-06-16T19:19:04Z The first movement, a fitful funeral march, began stunningly. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z One intense section was all frenzied, fitful music, an evocation of swarming wasps. Review: JACK Quartet and Jennifer Koh in the NY Phil Biennial 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The whirling figures that evoke the spinning wheel in Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade” are pumped up by the orchestra and delivered in fitful phrases until the music reaches a hysterical pitch. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’s Ojai Festival Riffs on ‘Tristan’ 2012-06-10T21:47:09Z Unaccompanied for long stretches, his clarinet sang, purred and growled ornate soliloquies during the fitful work, as strings murmured and a percussionist punctuated the flow. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z A High-Tech Mole Living the High Life The fitful spurts of energy that emanate from “Paranoia,” a sleek, silly corporate thriller, are supplied by Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford playing dueling titans of technology. Movie Review: In ‘Paranoia,’ a Spy Infiltrates a Rival’s Business Empire 2013-08-15T22:26:22Z The laughter during this sequence at the performance I attended was faint and fitful, spiked with question marks. Theater Review: Tim Crouch’s ‘I, Malvolio,’ at the Duke on 42nd Street 2013-01-15T23:15:07Z That event threw a pall over Boston’s fitful opera scene, which has always struggled to gain traction in a museum-and-symphony-focused cultural landscape. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z While Connell is playing variations on his major theme – one shock following another, Mrs Bridge's fitful reflections, a distraction, oblivion – something darker and more compelling is going on in the minor key. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z But I am still thinking about that fitful polonaise. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz at Zankel Hall 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s a sound cycle of fitful synthesizers making a dense but simple sonic tableau. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Drake played commandingly, including a piano solo depicting the consummation of this impulsive love — fitful music of hurtling chords and steely harmonies. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Her approach to their experiences is similarly fragmentary—full in its approach to detail but dramatically gappy and fitful. “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia” and the Question of the Substance of Style 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The increasingly elaborate occult games include fitful alchemical conjurings replete with bursts of flame, and the actors’ performances—and the cinematography, by Bernard Daillencourt—match their expressive flash. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Is this strange, fitful landscape meant to evoke a dream or a nightmare? Dance Review: City Ballet Dances 3 Works Set to Violin Concertos 2014-02-14T22:37:35Z “A Song for You,” the Leon Russell anthem of a musician’s prideful self-pity, wraps an overelaborate post-facto arrangement around a fitful, scattered vocal from 2009: shards of musicianship, straining to cohere. New Music: From Amy Winehouse?s Archives, ?Lioness? - New Music 2011-12-05T17:04:29Z He also begins a fitful transition to becoming a nature writer and a biographer of Edward Abbey and Wallace Stegner. New Harvard graduate tells dad: ‘Now, I want to play Ultimate Frisbee’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy, composed around 1605, we see a kingdom entirely in thrall to the fitful mentality of its leader with his “unconstant starts.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Their fitful attempts to comfort each other are poignant. In 'This Wide Night,' friends try to transcend trauma to forge new lives on the outside 2012-05-24T20:27:07Z That means our fitful luck in connecting with his characters is determined to a frustrating extent by where we sit. Review: In ‘At the Table,’ a Menu of Identity-Based Arguments 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z These days, our iPhones and flashing screens deliver less reconciliation and resonance than nano-second reminders of fitful things we cannot calm and news that at once numbs and enrages us. Shining a light into the political chasm of America through Scalia and 'The Originalist' 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Brazos Saltwater Dead Oceans There's a lovely, skittering energy to the second album from Brazos, a restlessness that reflects the band's fitful existence. Brazos: Saltwater – review 2013-05-23T21:40:01Z It’s the kind of fitful presentation that suggests too many cooks, an impression reinforced by the credit list. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z An atmospheric, mysterious first movement is followed by a fitful, squirrely second. A Guide to the NY Phil Biennial From Our Critics and Reporters 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Bunny Christie's design and Paule Constable's lighting create a world of fitful illumination. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z Instead, I work as long as my laptop battery lasts, watch a bad movie, then alternate fitful 10-minute snoozes with strolls down the aisle until breakfast. Frugal Traveler Blog: Cramped in Coach, or the Science of Sleep 2011-09-27T17:52:17Z Do you find yourself desperately willing to invest in any product — from the wacky to the absurdly expensive — to prevent tossing, turning and fitful nights? An expert weighs in on 6 products that promise a better night’s sleep 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The singular "fitful gust" would not be nearly as effective. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z The music is fitful and dense, with militaristic brass flourishes and driving dotted-note rhythmic riffs. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z Mr. Masur was an alert accompanist throughout; still, the music felt fitful at times. Music Review: Kurt Masur Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-09T23:40:08Z Some prime-time series about doctors, police and other emergency workers made fitful efforts to depict Covid, but their mask discipline sagged over time. Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z In his best Mahler performances Mr. Levine is uncommonly good at revealing the musical architecture of these teeming, fitful symphonies. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Opens Tanglewood 2010-07-11T22:38:00Z But these moments were fitful, and the interactions, trying for playfulness, often took on the character of an unfunny clown routine. Dance Review: Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud at the Kitchen 2014-05-07T21:57:36Z Mr. Gilbert drew gripping playing from the Philharmonic in the opening Allegro maestoso, which hovers between a fitful funeral march and an elaborate sonata-allegro movement. Music Review: Mahler?s ?Resurrection? From Philharmonic - Review 2011-09-11T22:08:40Z The first day’s big draw was Drake, whose fitful performance was spared the fat, cold drops of rain that fell earlier in the day. D.C.’s Landmark Music Festival: Mallapalooza it wasn’t 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z These scenes plant the seed of the film’s tenuous narrative: a strange, fitful story about a woman who returns to her Métis Nation family in rural Manitoba after an unexplained four-year disappearance. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z His singing was an uncanny amalgam, at once elegant and wrenching, intelligent and fitful. Music Review | Metropolitan Opera: At the Met, What a Piece of Work Is This Man 2010-03-18T00:00:00Z The Vietnam War, the explosion of white backlash and ghetto violence, and the fitful collapse of the New Deal coalition receive extremely short shrift. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The work ends in a fitful release of coiled energy that achieved all the more visceral power here for the precise rendering of every offbeat accent and rhythmic twist. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z The outer movements are fitful and episodic, with the piano often joining its fellow percussion instruments to create waves of propulsive music, flecked with bright colors and brief lyrical riffs. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z The elusive, fitful first movement, an apotheosis of a heroic funeral march, was at once exactly executed and inexorable. Music Review | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Carnegie Hall Concerts Mix Mahler and Kissine 2010-03-29T04:39:00Z The spell cast by Michael Mayer’s production, which runs through July 17, exercises only a fitful hold. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z The Temazepam slowly works its magic and after hours of fitful and uncomfortable sleep I find we are landing in Madrid. “It’s starting to sound like Luna up in here”: Dean Wareham’s reunion tour diary 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The first full day of this year's Guardian Hay festival brought highs and lows, fitful sunshine and a lot of rain. Hay festival 2010: yesterday at Hay 2010-05-30T11:01:00Z “Caprice” is all runs and riffs and fitful chords. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z We had spent two fitful nights in a hotel room fighting intense fevers, chills, aches and extreme exhaustion before admitting to ourselves that we did not have just the flu. We survived the bubonic plague 2012-07-15T13:00:00Z The first movement is a fitful, the second a theme and variations. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z During this period of fitful work Christie was given some measure of financial stability by the writer and actor Simon Callow, a Drama Centre graduate himself. Gwendoline Christie: ‘Playing Brienne of Tarth changed my life. I feel emotional’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In the first movement, “Fragmented Time,” the violin plays a near-continuous line of buzzing, fitful notes, riffs and chords. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z In a fitful burst of dramatic recitative, Idomeneo, washed up on shore, describes the pledge he made to Neptune: If the god saves him, Idomeneo will sacrifice the first man he encounters. Review: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ Shows the Met Opera at Its Best 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Given the current national conversation about sexual consent, it is scarcely surprising that the laughter this encounter elicits is fitful and uneasy. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Still, the eccentricity of the music, with its fitful chord progressions and askew melodies, could be daunting for audiences to fathom and for Loud to sing. Lance Loud Was an Early Reality Star. He Was Also a Gay Punk Pioneer. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z In a story the length of a novella, such overbearing repetition turns into caricature and slapstick, making any dramatic turn or fitful heartbreak seem unwarranted. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek If the night's other awards were a mixed-bag, that, again, reflects the fitful, faltering state of the festival at large. Amour's love is justified, but why cold-shoulder Cosmopolis? 2012-05-27T19:46:59Z By 7 a.m., after a fitful sleep, one of the girlfriends realized we had a problem. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z She patiently, persuasively built that symphony’s fitful first movement, and the whole work had a feeling of straightforwardness, lightness and modesty; neither tempos nor emotions were milked; the performance was more lovely than intense. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Interaction among all them all is fitful, graceless and sometimes potentially violent, as if the rules for social behavior have been long forgotten. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Ax was commanding in the difficult piano part, which is full of leaping chords and fitful, keyboard-spanning runs. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z With the fitful sun shimmering through wisps of mist and on the space-age construction of the Westfield shopping complex, she is literally, as well as metaphorically with her online business, in the “cloud.” British Fashion Gets a Web Dynamo 2013-02-04T11:43:14Z But the imagery, backed by Mr. Rihm’s hazy, fitful music, overwhelmed my reticence. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the compelling piece came across like a series of frustrated attempts at cohesion and peace, with fitful starts, hazy chords and driving yet irregular rhythmic figures. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Finn’s music, a compendium of 1970s Broadway, relates the show’s harried psychology with a fitful ebullience that’s darkened with observant ironies. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The piece is all spurts of fitful, spiraling music. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z In this midcentury masterpiece, dancers, with wildly teased-out hair and a more fitful, broken melding of modern movement and ballet, embody female fury and domination in insect form. Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z It was more fitful than elegant; in “Prelude,” set to ominous music by Galen Bremer, Ms. Zuerner was choppy and emphatic: a body turning into a storm. ‘Light House’ Keeps Dancers and Audience Moving 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The Trisha story line aside, “How We Died” is sorely lacking in momentum, and it is hard to maintain interest in the play’s fitful bursts of spoof and whimsy. One play’s weirdness has meaning; the other just seems to be fooling around 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Cooper made the film on a fitful budget; after each shoot, he had to raise money for the next. “Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Old Faithful starts with a fitful series of hiccups, then shoots water up to 180 feet high. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Terrible fights in the dressing room with my mother – how I bawled openly, in some kind of fitful panic, at the thought of getting dressed up. The boy I used to be: The world would look at me and see Leslie — they don’t know I’m really Peter Pan 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z That, in turn, can make alcohol-induced sleep fitful at best — making the flight seem even longer. He was dreading his 13-hour flight. So he asked experts for some tips. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Progress is fitful along the color line in America. From an Iowa classroom in 1968 to Donald Trump: Educator Jane Elliott on the legendary “Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed” exercise 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z On the plane, Neanderdad quickly and serenely plummeted into a fitful nap. Motherlode: Dad Travels for Work 2011-03-23T21:48:09Z The messy, fitful process of mutual understanding takes virtually all eternity. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In early 2005, after a fitful spasm of vodka, a crack dealer named Happy and an emptied bottle of sleeping pills, his life imploded. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z And in staging his big battle sequences, he brings Fury to fitful life. Review: In Fury, Brad Pitt Wins World War II, Again 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Feldman made his solos into fitful confessions, one voluptuous sighing phrase at a time. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z Not Fade Away, as Doug’s kid sister clues us early in the film’s fitful voiceover narration, is about a group that became a no-hit wonder. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z Her voice was small and occasionally her arms flung themselves in unexpected directions during fitful sleep. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z There are long monologues, especially from Mr. Butler, to fitful laughter; antlers suspended from on high; and, as you might expect, a stag head worn by actors at times. Review: ‘The White Stag Quadrilogy’ Hits the Way Back Machine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Naomi’s crusading is crafted to feel simultaneously sincere and self-serving, fitful and inconsistent. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons’s style on the podium on Saturday and Sunday was endearing, if also a bit fitful and awkward-looking. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Keegan-Dolan's treatment of the underlying issues is fitful and, at times, awkwardly symbolist. Julius Caesar – review 2012-10-02T12:38:45Z The production is never more affecting than when the erotic chemistry that first brought them together flickers into fitful flame. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z It was an arresting realization of action depicted in the only through fitful orchestral music. Opera Review: A ?Walk?re? Still Obsessed With Its Big, Expensive Toy 2011-04-23T18:40:58Z After a fitful night’s sleep, haunted by scenes from my book, I awoke early to bright sunshine and decided to explore the surroundings on a run. Going Off the Grid on a Swedish Island 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Sullivan-Smith’s face shows small signs of grief — eyes red and tired, maybe from fitful sleep — but otherwise she is calm and composed, serene even. A loving mother grieves for her son, the gentle giant. And a killer. 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The reedy woodwinds, mellow brass and velvety strings have such distinctive colorings that strange inner voices and fitful contrapuntal crosscurrents in the music emerged anew. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z I have been bored through stretches of these shows during the last 15 years of reviewing them, battered by repetitive phrasing in fitful grooves. Music Review: A Most Satisfying End of the Road for Allman Brothers 2014-03-08T23:59:44Z The first act was fitful: either manically fast or, in lyrical passages, lethargically slow and drained of drama. Music Review: ?Tosca? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-12T23:36:27Z After all of these years, this seems like the kind of scene Waterston could play in his sleep, or a fitful doze at the very least. Sam Waterston Is Still the Face of ‘Law & Order’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z I had this fitful conversation with him by letter: he was encouraging to me and I thought I'd found a mentor, but just a few months later, at the end of 2001, he died. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z This was a start, but a fitful one. Where Can Men Buy Higher-End Vintage Men’s Wear? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z These works took the sonata genre to a new dimension: multi-movement, episodic and often fitful, yet also ingeniously integrated. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Although defeated in 1865, this dark strain was never destroyed; indeed, if the Confederacy lost the Civil War, Meacham remarks, in important ways it won the peace following the white South’s fitful overthrow of Reconstruction. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “Stride,” unfolding in a series of fitful episodes — thickets of glassy strings, declamatory brass and contrapuntal juxtapositions that evoke Charles Ives — is both solemn and celebratory. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z That perfectly reasonable possibility seems to be the catalyst for Alex Roe’s revival at Metropolitan Playhouse — a regrettably fitful, stilted staging that muffles most of the humor and humanity of this creaky, peculiar play. ‘Thunder Rock’ Review: A Beacon That Fails to Light the Way 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z After a quizzical opening and a strong statement of the main theme there are stretches of fitful counterpoint, brass chorales and ruminative passages that take you by surprise. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z But the backdrop and underground textures are alive with fitful figurations, rhythmic shards and thick-textured, pungent harmonies. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z Mr. Meltzer captures the ambiguity of Wright’s attitude in his fitful music. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z Most of the lines are delivered in sputtering low chants or fitful, screeching high sopranos. Music Review: Lera Auerbach’s Opera ‘The Blind’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T18:30:40Z By rendering "fitful" as "fitfull" he refreshes a literary adjective: the wind is made more alive, somehow, by being fitfull – full of fits and starts. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z Gradually the intensity level grew, with fitful drum riffs, gongs and wailing sirens. Music Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Inuksuit’ at Ojai Music Festival 2012-06-08T21:08:54Z Disconsolate harmonies reminiscent of Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra" offered fitful interest, but the work lost its way amid superficial brooding. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z When we first meet Segismundo, dressed in rags and chained to his tower, he sings a fitful and tormented soliloquy. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z The music flows in episodic waves, with sustained brassy harmonies that are like cosmic chorales, bursts of fitful instrumental writing, spans of jagged counterpoint, and — a Messiaen trademark — skittish birdcalls. Music Review: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette 2012-01-25T00:10:49Z The solo is a fitful illustration of Darwinian evolution. Review: At Met Breuer, Dancers Try to Be Like Life, Too 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The music unfolds in charged, fitful stretches: clashing chords, orchestra blasts, riffs that start up and get stuck in place. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z “Powers” shows occasional, fitful signs of that kind of life, though in the long run it may be just too threadbare to get there. Review: In ‘Powers,’ Bad Guys With Superhero Status 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons brought dark colors and edginess to the brooding, fitful first movement. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The central section of the piece grows almost fitful with anguish before the music slowly devolves into fragments and broken phrases. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z The ballet, however, cast only a fitful spell on Sunday. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z But where Wayne advances through dedication and Grant seems to relax gradually into his personality, Bogart’s development seems fitful and erratic. Dvdsdave Kehr: Here?s Looking at Bogie, Kid 2010-10-08T20:53:00Z Overall, China’s recovery from the pandemic has been fitful, though recently activity has revived, leading many economists to upgrade their estimates for growth this year to above the government’s target of about 5%. China’s economy shows sparks of life, despite persisting weakness in troubled real estate sector 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The whole cycle began again - nil by mouth after 23:00, a few hours of fitful sleep, awake at 05.30 eager to go - but with the same result. 'My NHS hell waiting for surgery and information' 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z If Paul and Angus’ mutual loathing is spelled out with grating obviousness, their moments of genuine bonding and fitful reconciliation are too often pushed to the margins or relegated to a glossy acoustic-rock montage. Review: Bah, humbug! 'The Holdovers' is a clunky, phony white-elephant gift of a movie 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Since then, the two South Caucasus countries have both declared a willingness to sign a peace deal, though progress has been fitful and regular border skirmishes have continued. Armenia's PM Pashinyan says he hopes for Azerbaijan peace deal 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z For more than a decade, there have been two competing efforts underway on nuclear waste, both fitful and incomplete—and unsuccessful. Nuclear Waste Is Piling Up. Here’s How to Fix the Problem 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z A few scrubby trees offer fitful shade, videos taken by migrants show, and border guards from neighboring Libya and Tunisian aid workers occasionally drop off water and a bit of bread. Stranded in a Strange Land, and Waiting for Death 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Black holes are messy, fitful eaters—and trillion-degree gas can go down less like a smooth milkshake and more like chunky peanut butter. Time Flowed Five Times Slower Shortly after the Big Bang 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z And, at first glance, their fitful sleep-flashes resemble the adorable twitching of a snoozing dog chasing rabbits in its sleep. Do octopuses dream of electric eels? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z After fitful starts, Mr. Biden has presided over the easing of the Covid pandemic and accompanying restrictions despite vaccine resistance among many, especially on the political right. Biden Is Running on His Record (and Away From It) 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Sudan was once a symbol of hope because of its fitful efforts to transition from decades of autocratic rule to democracy. Fitful start to new 3-day truce in Sudan; airlifts continue 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z After a dismal 2020, a trying 2021 and a fitful comeback last year led by “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” optimism abounds that movie theaters have weathered the storm. Movie theaters and streamers may end up friends, after all 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Hundreds of people nationwide would start dying daily from COVID-19 complications as local NHL leaders spent that fitful spring pondering their place in a world where people feared leaving their homes. Kraken have ‘great opportunity’ to clinch playoff berth at Climate Pledge Arena 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z In teasing out Tetris’ convoluted Soviet-era origins, it tries, with only fitful success, to fit a series of disparate, fast-moving parts into a pleasingly coherent shape. Review: ‘Tetris’ will just really make you want to play Tetris 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z She was easily reelected in 2021 but has since faced numerous problems, including violent crime, fitful progress on major street projects and unreliable garbage collection. Effort to recall New Orleans’ first female mayor fails 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z But that second term has seen numerous problems, including stubborn violent crime, fitful progress on major street projects that have left some city streets a mess, and unreliable garbage collection. New Orleans mayor fights lowered recall signature threshold 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z After a fitful start, the Trump operation is now actively preparing for the possibility of a drawn-out 2024 primary. Eyeing DeSantis, Trump Readies for a Long Primary Battle 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z The Commons' fitful hibernation continues into another week of low-key law-making and ritualistic debates that few MPs will bother to attend. What's happening in Parliament this week? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Cantrell’s second term has been plagued by myriad problems, including stubborn violent crime, fitful progress on major street projects that have left some city streets a mess, and unreliable garbage collection. New Orleans recall drive demands newspaper pay for petitions 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Her second term has been plagued by myriad problems — among them stubborn violent crime, fitful progress on major street projects that have left some city streets a mess and unreliable garbage collection. Foes present signatures, seek New Orleans mayor recall vote 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Many seven-day workweeks and nights of fitful sleep ensued, challenges even more difficult than Doctor acknowledged in his columns about the startup. Santa Cruz 'news desert'? An industry guru's digital startup challenges local rivals 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, progress can be fitful: A new Ebola outbreak is slowly being brought under control in Uganda, and neighboring nations have watched it with concern. Epidemics That Weren’t: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Francis now regularly speaks out against war, but it has taken him a long and fitful time to find his voice. In Christmas Address, Pope Bemoans ‘Grave Famine of Peace’ 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z In it, Panahi rents an apartment from which he, with a fitful internet signal, directs a film with the help of assistants. An Iranian masterwork opens with its director behind bars 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z High-income nations rushed to lock up the supply of vaccines when they were still scarce, and donations were fitful. Global Partners May End Broad Covid Vaccination Effort in Developing Countries 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Over the years, he has had only fitful success in achieving them. John Roberts’s Early Supreme Court Agenda: A Study in Disappointment 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z That the role of women had changed profoundly over the course of the 20th century and that new possibilities were opening, but opening up in fitful ways. Q&A: Tony Kushner on playing therapist to Steven Spielberg 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z By 1938, however, Freud had started to view "Moses and Monotheism" as his swan song, and focused intently on perfecting what had once been a more fitful endeavor. Freud was dying of cancer, the Nazis were closing in — and his last book challenged Judaism. Why? 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Living up to that moniker proved difficult at times over the next three years as Pickett and the Panthers found fitful success. Kenny Pickett’s 1st start is final step of an unlikely rise 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z She served as a living link to the glories of World War II Britain, presided over its fitful adjustment to a post-colonial, post-imperial era, and saw it through its bitter divorce from the European Union. Queen Elizabeth’s Death Comes at Moment of Great Uncertainty for Britain 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The delays and cancellations translated into millions of travelers with stories of missed graduations, fitful nights on airport floors or vacations all but ruined. It seems everyone is mad at airlines. Fall could bring calmer skies. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Borrell said Iran has asked a few adjustments to the EU proposal - which was not made public - that follows 16 months of fitful, indirect U.S.-Iranian talks with the EU shuttling between the parties. Most countries part of nuclear talks with Iran agree with EU proposal - Borrell 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z She does just that over the course of a year, describing her fitful progress month by month via tales of the dishes she cooked and the people for whom she cooked them. Review | ‘The Year of Miracles’ is a welcome reminder to savor the small stuff 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Despite fitful moves toward reform in recent years, Saudi Arabia remains one of the most repressive places on the planet, disguised only by the trappings of wealth and the illusion of modernity. Biden’s Fraught Saudi Visit Garners Scathing Criticism and Modest Accords 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The fitful nature of the post-pandemic climb could be seen from Israel to India. After two pandemic years, a summer travel bounce — and chaos 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Russian power, it’s worth remembering, has gone through fitful cycles of stagnation, decline and resurgence; it would be wise to avoid triumphalism and complacency. Opinion | Russia Is Down. But It’s Not Out. 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z A pair of rectangular glasses sit somewhat aslant on his round face, which after weeks of frantic travel and fitful sleep showed signs of enervation. How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The project — an expansion of Interstate 49 — has been debated for decades, forcing the neighborhood into a paralyzing limbo as officials weighed plans and made fitful starts without achieving significant progress. Struggling Louisiana Neighborhood Sees New Highway as a Perilous Exit 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z After a few hours of fitful sleep, I awakened to find that my face mask had slipped below my nose. Perspective | Is it possible to sleep comfortably on an overnight flight? 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Huddled in basements and subway stations, mothers soothe their little ones, and people wait for fitful sleep to come. Hungry and terrorized, Ukraine's second-biggest city suffers relentless bombardment 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The concept of collaborative police reform has a fitful history within the Justice Department, however. New Justice Dept. effort will ask local police agencies to voluntarily take on reforms 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Eleven months of fitful talks to revive the deal - which then-U.S. Russia says it has written guarantees on Iran nuclear deal 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The case of China demonstrates that the creation of democracy can be a slow, fitful, and incomplete process. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The band’s later discs were more fitful, although Mr. Brooker prided himself on the fact that none were much like the others. Gary Brooker, singer-songwriter of ‘Whiter Shade of Pale,’ dies at 76 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In a sense, the alliance of democracies had fallen into a fitful sleep. Opinion | In their excesses, Putin and Xi might be unwittingly saving the West 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The Americans, held back during this tournament by a surprisingly fitful offense, lost only to Canada in the preliminary round. Elliott: U.S. vs. Canada once again set to determine Olympic women's hockey supremacy 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z When the ceremony concluded, his team showered, then headed to a hotel where the players spent a fitful night. Joe Burrow’s Last Playoff Loss Was in High School. He Still Thinks About It. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The fitful pacing is also due in part to a diffuse focus, as Taute keeps cutting away from Theo to spend time with the detectives and the hired goons who are on his tail. Review: Weight of exposition drags down the strong premise of South African thriller 'Indemnity' 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z So he pulls in for the night and climbs into the bunk at the back of his cab for a few hours of fitful sleep. The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Enough Truck Drivers 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But even if you thud into dreamland, there’s a good chance that too much alcohol will mean a fitful night of sleep. Why Does Alcohol Mess With My Sleep? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z But its fitful journey did not stop in Homo sapiens. Animals That Infect Humans Are Scary. It’s Worse When We Infect Them Back. 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The arrival of coronavirus vaccines and the nation’s fitful efforts to emerge from the pandemic meant more Americans traveled on roads and in the skies than in 2020. U.S. emissions surged in 2021, putting the nation further off track from its climate targets 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z After a fitful start, there is ample vaccine. Undertakers, rabbis join global fight promoting COVID shots 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z A second reason is the economy’s fitful recovery. The Year in Review: Confessions of an Incurable Optimist 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z You’ll also probably have more vivid or stressful dreams and — because fitful sleep means that you’re waking up more regularly — you are more likely to remember them. Why Does Alcohol Mess With My Sleep? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Some countries appear to have struck a fitful balance between freedom and public health. Vaccine Mandates Rekindle Fierce Debate Over Civil Liberties 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The next morning, after a few hours of fitful, fretful sleep, the women went through the events again. Truth Is Elusive in Attack on a French Soccer Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z To complicate matters, the continent’s fitful progress in securing vaccines has prompted public health officials to focus first on elderly patients. Did a collision of COVID-19 and HIV forge the Omicron variant? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Neither player was listed on Friday’s injury report, clearing the way for their return after they spent last Sunday on their couches watching a fitful 41-37 loss on the road to the Chargers. Steelers eyeing return of Fitzpatrick, Watt vs. Bengals 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The border with Pakistan is sometimes closed and sometimes open, a fitful pattern that antagonizes the Afghan pomegranate farmers and buyers to no end as they try to time their harvests, sales and exports. In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z But it has made only fitful progress toward organising the vote and repeatedly suggested it might be delayed, in part because of an ongoing insurgency by Islamist militants. West African bloc imposes sanctions on Mali leaders over stalled vote 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z But the fitful economic recovery from the pandemic has eroded management’s advantages. How the COVID pandemic has added to labor unrest 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z It has also rippled through the literary establishment, which, as in many other countries, has undergone a fitful reckoning over gender equality in recent years. Behind a Top Female Name in Spanish Crime Fiction: Three Men 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Retail sales have proven fitful, recovering and ebbing with waves of the virus. Why China Is the World’s Last ‘Zero Covid’ Holdout 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But he remained a fitful student and at age 17 forged his father’s signature to join the Army, leading to a stint testing missiles in the New Mexico desert. Gary Paulsen, who wrote the beloved young-adult novel ‘Hatchet,’ dies at 82 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Time is growing short for the president on his signature domestic policy initiative, which has consumed much of his fitful first year in office. Progressives warn against ‘false choice’ in Biden bill trims 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Time is growing short for the president on what has been his signature domestic policy initiative, first unveiled in March and now having consumed much of his fitful first year in office. ‘Difficult decisions’ as Biden, Democrats shrink plan to $2T 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It would also be something of a public statement at a time when many in the space industry have lamented Blue Origin’s plodding, at times fitful progress. Quiet and secretive Blue Origin hopes to start new chapter with Jeff Bezos’s space flight 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Early last century, there were fitful attempts to cater to Muslim soldiers’ religious needs, including the appointment of a Muslim chaplain, though for only three years, Mr. Settoul said. In France’s Military, Muslims Find a Tolerance That Is Elusive Elsewhere 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Watching Beth relentlessly pursue her own goal sparks Alma’s soul back to fitful life. Director Marielle Heller had no intention of acting again. Then came 'Queen's Gambit' 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z KABUL, Afghanistan — The Asadi family was up before dawn Tuesday after a fitful night’s sleep. ‘Find Him and Kill Him’: An Afghan Pilot’s Desperate Escape 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The pace of change here is fitful, and that has not changed during this pandemic. It's been one year. Here's how our readers feel about L.A. now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Decimated during the pandemic, it is taking on an even more outsized role in how U.S. officials at the Fed and elsewhere assess the economy’s fitful recovery. Analysis-Billions for bar service? Fed bond buying now tied to service sector rebound 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z It not only cuts troops available for counterterrorist operations; it reduces U.S. leverage over the Taliban in their fitful peace talks with the Kabul government. Column: Trump's Afghan plan could snatch catastrophe from the jaws of defeat 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z They spent a fitful night in a nearby hotel room they couldn’t afford. Column One: The Nepali man who came back from the dead 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Despite fitful efforts at bipartisan talks, Congress has not acted since — ignoring pleas from economic leaders such as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell that more help was needed to boost the nascent recovery. Trump predicts massive stimulus deal after election, but negotiations have mostly ended 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Despite fitful efforts at bipartisan talks, Congress has not acted since — ignoring pleas from economic leaders such as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that more help was needed to boost the nascent recovery. Push for pre-election stimulus checks fails as lawmakers head for the exits 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z That night at the bus stop, Fong collapsed into a fitful sleep, his heart strained by the punishing heat of summer in the desert. Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z After a fitful night caring for Wilson, Grayson wrote a letter back to Washington to inform the White House that the president was very sick. Of presidents and health, history replete with secrecy, lies 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z But to the frustration of Republicans, his attempts to define Mr. Biden have seemed fitful. An Unexpected Struggle for Trump: Defining an Elusive Biden 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The pandemic, and the country’s fitful, often self-centered lack of readiness, exposed “a failure of character unparalleled in U.S. history,” Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University, wrote in Foreign Policy. America’s Enduring Caste System 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Those two episodes bookend nearly a century in which civil rights progress has been fitful, hard-fought and unfinished. George Floyd died right before the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. This photo essay spans the current protests — but the quotes paired with them span 100 years. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Inside Twitter, dealing with Mr. Trump’s tweets — which are the equivalent of a presidential megaphone — was a fitful and uneven process. Twitter Had Been Drawing a Line for Months When Trump Crossed It 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Despite the pleas for calm, the nation seemed anything but as a fitful week drew to a close. Former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death as protests continue nationwide 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Monday’s move is the latest in the Trump administration’s fitful attempt to roll out an effective, comprehensive testing strategy. FDA to rein in flood of coronavirus blood tests after lax oversight 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z And the slow and fitful distribution of payments points to the antiquated information technology that many states still rely upon for unemployment payments. More states finally paying $600 extra in unemployment aid 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z We’ve dwelt too long with the dark and fitful shadows of our febrile times. Opinion | What the gift of this unpleasant infection has helped me understand 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z That’s probably why President Trump has seen his approval ratings rise, even though he has had a delayed and fitful approach to this pandemic. Opinion | The U.S. is still exceptional — but now for its incompetence 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Usually, I’m listening through a scrim of fitful sleep. Opinion | I probably have a ‘mild to moderate’ case of covid-19. I don’t think I could survive worse. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z That is as true for the players — fitful and reluctant in the opening stages — as it is for the fans. Manchester United Beats City, Turning the Tables for a Day 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Friction over India’s purchase of a Russian-made missile shield system hangs over Trump’s visit, atop frustration on both sides that months of fitful talks failed to produce a final trade pact. Trump’s India trip mixes politics with policy, and offers the promise of his biggest rally yet 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Meggs allowed the disconsolate players to go home, where they spent a fitful day commiserating with friends and family, coping as best they could with their grief. ‘Instant disbelief’: UW baseball hit hard by death of junior-college coach John Altobelli in helicopter crash 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z That’s been possible, in part, because past efforts to hem in such behavior at the state level have been fitful at best. Perspective | It’s not just Trump. Governors are keeping their businesses while in office, too. 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Do you find yourself desperately investing in any product — from the wacky to the absurdly expensive — to prevent tossing, turning and fitful nights? Need help sleeping? An expert’s picks for products that work (and don’t) | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z As in the letters, Lowell’s guilt makes fitful appearances in his poems: Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin” 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Trump’s campaign and White House staff have launched fitful efforts to reach out to suburban voters around issues including prescription drugs, student loans and teenage e-cigarette usage. Democrats extend their dominance of the suburbs, with an eye to 2020 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Progress was fitful, messy and often unevenly distributed, sowing the seeds in some countries for the recent rise of populism. 'This is the golden age': eastern Europe's extraordinary 30-year revival 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Biden’s extensive involvement in the country’s fitful march toward reform has highlighted the political risks of becoming so deeply enmeshed in another country’s murky domestic affairs. Inside Joe Biden’s brawling efforts to reform Ukraine — which won him successes and enemies 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Her singing was fitful and jagged, soaring one moment and sighing the next, all of it matching the flickers and moans of her electric guitar. Vagabon Goes Her Own Way 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z That night, she laid down on top of the blanket on her bed and fell into a fitful sleep, waking to the screams of another patient in the ward. Free to check in, but not to leave: Patients seeking mental-health treatment in Washington have been held against their will 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Her sleep had been fitful, and to this day she knows she may have anxiety-dreamed that ringing phone. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The maneuvers have the potential to cause further delays in an already fitful prosecution. Legal questions loom as Harvey Weinstein case nears trial 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Even for a president known for contradicting himself, Mr. Trump’s divergent statements were particularly head-spinning and underscored his fitful responses to the report issued by the special counsel. Trump Accuses Mueller of a Personal Vendetta as Calls for Impeachment Grow 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In geoscience and beyond, machine learning is changing the nature of scientific inquiry, as big-data crunching continues its fitful march across the disciplines. The Hidden Seismic Symphony in Earthquake Signals 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z This can cut both ways, especially on issues like immigration where his fitful threats to close the southern border may cast him as more of a crisis instigator than mitigator. With Polls and Private Meetings, Republicans Craft Blunt Messaging to Paint Democrats as Extreme 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The prisoner release is the first of five agenda items negotiators plan to tackle after several fitful weeks of meetings to establish ground rules for talks on resolving Nicaragua's political divisions. Nicaragua government, opposition to discuss prisoner release 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The prisoner release is the first of five agenda items negotiators plan to tackle after several fitful weeks of meetings to establish ground rules for talks on resolving Nicaragua’s political divisions. Nicaragua government, opposition to discuss prisoner release 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z I look at myself aghast, silently concluding that my slightly fitful New Year diet regime clearly needs stepping up. Would a 'digital you' make buying clothes online easier? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z At times the state would fight back, making a few arrests in fitful efforts to roll back the changes, but never for long. The Iranian Revolution at 40: From Theocracy to ‘Normality’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z U.S.-China relations are fraying on several fronts despite fitful progress in trade negotiations. U.S. Senate revives bill that could sanction China over treatment of its Muslims 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The impacts of the shutdown were widening after a weekend of fitful staff-level negotiations at the White House yielded no result. Congressional Democrats turn up the heat on GOP over shutdown 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The city lacks a mass transit system, and most travel involves long, fitful journeys by private car or minibus taxi. Baghdad at 10 million: fragile dreams of normality as megacity status beckons 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z LONDON—Gatwick Airport late Friday again suffered a shutdown because of another drone sighting but was able to quickly resume flights, as one of Europe’s biggest airports made a fitful recovery from Thursday’s full-day closure. Gatwick Resumes Flights Once Again After Drone Scare 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Or if not exactly fun then fitful, tedious and wreathed in a familiar sense of entropy. Mourinho in Manchester ended up feeling like a loveless celebrity marriage | Barney Ronay 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z His funds dwindled, his sleep turned fitful, and he started rationing his food. After a Surprise Layoff, ‘I Didn’t Have a Safety Net’ 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z “What if they find you only sleep a fitful five hours a night?” You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z You can only hope that Olympic and perhaps Ernst & Young officials had some fitful nights of sleep. Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z After months of fitful negotiations through intermediaries and lower-level officials, U.S. and Chinese officials hope that a meeting of the two presidents on the sidelines of the Buenos Aires summit will yield a breakthrough. White House downplays progress with China on trade, sinking markets 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It comes together incrementally and sometimes haphazardly, in a fitful and imperfect process of discovery, the way every story and every city does. Alessandro Michele, Fashion’s Modern Mastermind 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Luckily for us, despite fitful attempts to impeach other justices, the broader conservative movement largely rejected their extremism, and "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards are a humorous memory. Opinion | The left shouldn’t assail the Supreme Court’s legitimacy 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The scientists behind the work concluded that fitful sleep could be an ancient survival mechanism designed to guard against nocturnal threats. Sleep: how much do we really need? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Thanks to Louis C.K. and others who’ve tested the comeback waters, there’s already been much fitful discussion of how, when and whether men might redeem themselves after allegations of sexual misconduct. Julie Chen and other spouses caught up in the #MeToo era face a difficult decision - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z So was Seattle’s cost advantage over the Bay Area, which would lure here some high-end offices of leading tech outfits after the economy began a fitful expansion. Ten years ago, WaMu’s failure crushed Seattle’s last banking giant 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Despite its fitful performance on the economy, the BJP remains robustly Hindu nationalist, which plays well among many voters. Where are the 'good days'? Challenges mount for India's Modi 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z That said, one can only hope that the single standard of behavior that should be applied to all players would’ve still ensnared Williams, who was inconsolably fitful and verbally abusive of the umpire. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z And then there's the one about, "Nor, seeing his fitful approach"—that could have been the stork again—"did one turn back / to flip the window latch for the lifeform nearly breaking himself on glass." Nick Flynn Reads Zoë Hitzig 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z With Trump’s fitful attention span, out of sight is out of mind. Review | Bob Woodward’s meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The two had spent a fitful night fearing that another storm was brewing that would thwart the expedition. ‘God, we’re going to get the mountain.’ 40 years later, K2 ascent that included Seattle’s Jim Wickwire remains magical 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z But as the conflagration consumes the church’s moral authority, I’m left to wonder what comes next for regular Catholics — good ones like my mother and fitful ones like me. Perspective | Catholic bishops and priests, I need to know how you’ll fix the church you broke 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z A fitful loosening and tightening followed – 10 journalists and media executives were imprisoned in 2014, for example. Special Report: Dangerous News - How two young reporters shook Myanmar 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z They find love, after a fashion, though she seems a fitful presence, and it would have been no surprise to learn, late in the film, that he had imagined her all along. Gus Van Sant’s Semi-Surreal “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But three decades later, when Mr. Goldblatt returned to photograph some of the same people, he was welcomed as a chronicler of South Africa’s fitful social evolution. David Goldblatt, penetrating photographer of South Africa under apartheid, dies at 87 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Between the end of the original “Roseanne” in 1997 and the start of the reboot last May, there were fitful periods of calm. The battles of Roseanne Barr and why a spinoff show could lead to another epic fight 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z After inheriting a nuclear program that was fitful and making little progress, Kim poured socialist North Korea’s limited money into developing a nuclear-armed missile capable of hitting the United States. North Korea's Kim lands in Singapore, on cusp of making history 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z North Korea is on the cusp of the largest step yet in its budding, fitful engagement with the outside world. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Ideological debate, it seems, evolves in a fitful relationship with personal experience. Opinion | Sex and Gender on the Christian Campus 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z The alternative is to accept that the fitful advances in the laws of war – contradictory and permissive as they remain – are optional and reversible. The taboo on chemical weapons has lasted a century – it must be preserved | Peter Beaumont 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z I like the teasing and the joking that goes on, the shy asymmetrical conversations, the fitful moments of mutual bewilderment and curiosity. About the boys: Tim Winton on how toxic masculinity is shackling men to misogyny 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z A fitful season ended on an encouraging note. Dodgers still mulling roster decisions as Cactus League season ends 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z But surely Verstappen must have doubts when he is struggling in a fitful car. Max Verstappen: ‘I’ve never doubted myself. I just drive as fast as I can’ 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z They seem to "oscillate" between the urges to sleep and stay awake, in a much more fitful, stop-start entry into sleep. The mysterious moments before falling asleep 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z It's not a forgiving course for an uncooperative driver, and Woods' club acted like a fitful 5-year-old. Tiger Woods grinds his way into the weekend at the Farmers Insurance Open 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z And through it all, Metro plugged along in its slow and fitful march toward safer and more reliable service. Perspective | From a urine attack to an Oval Office meeting, Metro’s most notable moments of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z We are also learning something about the relationship, in our age, between the political show and movement, however fitful, on the nation’s business. Understanding the Trump Show 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Now, after a fitful night and a morning spent furiously juggling 15 foster cases, Rachael Stark is splashed with coffee and running late for a meeting when her phone rings with yet another request. Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z In recent years, the Moro Front has been engaged in fitful peace negotiations with the government. Liberated Philippines city lies in ruins, and its people seethe 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z The trip initially was intended to endorse the country's fitful transition to democracy after a half-century of military rule. In first papal visit to Myanmar, Pope Francis faces a dilemma: What to say about the Rohingya – LA Times 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z But, like Florida State, Miami is hoping to move forward Saturday after a fitful start to the season. Once the focus of national hype, FSU-Miami game is a chance for calm in the storm 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The collection hinted at fitful dreams and cathartic nightmares. Review | In dark times, fashion grapples for the next right look. Will these styles get us there? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But Cutler is a fitful leader, prone to errors, so it was no great surprise when his pass intended for Julius Thomas in the end zone was picked off by Ken Crawley. New Orleans Saints beat Miami Dolphins in Wembley stinker 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Untethered to a beat, the song moves in fitful gusts of melody, as Björk’s voice sets off flurries of flutes, of choir, of subtle electronics. null 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z As Congress returns this week from its summer recess, Washington and its press corps are stirring from what has been a fitful August slumber. 20 Years of Covering Checks and Balances 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In the second half, a series of fouls slows the match to a fitful pace. I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z If nothing worked and you’ve had a fitful night, you can at least be woken up more gently. Under the covers: Sleep technology explodes 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Los Alamos’s progress in improving its criticality safety since the shutdown began has been fitful, and the dissonance between safety experts and its top managers has stubbornly persisted. Safety problems at a Los Alamos laboratory delay U.S. nuclear warhead testing and production 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z At 4 a.m. after a fitful sleep, Becky woke up and took David’s temperature. A dog bite sent him to the ER. A cascade of missteps nearly killed him. 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z This reaction, for me, has been painful, causing me many nights of fitful sleep. Losing a Father and Husband to AIDS, and Finding Him Again 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Bachelet is due to leave office in November, and I spoke to her during a recent visit to Santiago about Chile's fitful progress and demanding future. Q&A: Chile's Michele Bachelet on Where the Country Goes Now 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z This fitful watching is caused, at least in part, by the informational clutter that accompanies every baseball telecast. Where Did the Great Hollywood Baseball Movie Go? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Trump will hope for positive headlines around the world, but at home, exhausted Republicans will have fitful nights fearing the next Trump missteps. Trump kicks off first international trip after a rollercoaster week of revelations 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The Trump Presidency represents a rebellion against liberalism itself—an angry assault on the advances of groups of people who have experienced profound, if fitful, empowerment over the past half century. A Hundred Days of Trump 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Although jarring dissonance and fitful rhythms play a prominent role on “It’s Hard,” nothing ultimately overshadows the trio’s affection for the tunesmiths and artists represented. The Bad Plus at Wolf Trap: Great pop and rock hits, deconstructed by a jazz trio 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The fatal shooting not only silenced one of Myanmar’s most prominent legal experts, it exposed the dangers lurking below the surface of this former military dictatorship’s fitful transition to democracy. A brazen political killing shakes Myanmar, already teetering on the path to democracy 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z This, obviously, would include Trump, whose fitful Twitter tantrums tend to overtake any noble aspirations he might pretend to. Opinion | President Trump’s sanest decision 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It was Kentucky’s fourth consecutive win — a run that grew to five in a row with a rout of Missouri on Tuesday — but the fitful play of his young players again left Calipari exasperated. In a Twist, Kentucky’s Seniors Are the Ones Getting It Done 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Golf is not the only activity that the administration keeps under wraps in Florida, where Mr. Trump is still making a fitful transition from the proprietor of a private club to president. Trump Uses His Tee Times for a Mix of Diplomacy and Recreation 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z There have been fitful signs of Republican resistance. How Trump Tests Congressional Republicans' Beliefs 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z After weeks of fitful grumblings about the long-shot maneuvers that might obstruct Mr. Trump’s path to the White House, the proceedings on Friday appeared to close the book. ‘It Is Over’: Democrats’ Efforts to Deny Trump Presidency Fail 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The death of Shimon Peres removed a last link to the very founding of Israel and conjured decades of growing military power and fitful strivings for peace. Among Deaths in 2016, a Heavy Toll in Pop Music 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In a fitful and contentious year, it is perhaps no surprise that this year there were more bad grades than good. Grading the Big Deals of 2016: Low and Incomplete Marks Abound 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z I sat near her in the fitful February sun and watched her closely. In India, it’s not easy to report on rape 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z So he has taken a few fitful steps to improve relations with prominent residents. Donald Trump Loves New York. But It Doesn’t Love Him Back. 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z That night, I drifted into a fitful sleep, but Margot stayed up. The History of Southern Africa, by Train 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Evolution is a fitful process, and some of the mutations found by the research teams made strains of Ebola virus less virulent. Ebola virus mutations boosted its deadly spread, studies say 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The fitful movement of the boundary seems to be driven mostly by Russia’s desire to align what it sees as a state border with this old Soviet map. In Russia’s ‘Frozen Zone,’ a Creeping Border With Georgia 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z He will face strong resistance within his own government and military, where senior figures have consistently contradicted their President’s fitful threats about severing ties with the U.S. Duterte's Bold Moves in China Spell Trouble for the U.S. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand has had a fitful experience with popular representation, largely owing to its weak institutions of government. Thailand Bids Farewell to King Bhumibol Adulyadej 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Instead, after just a few days of a fitful truce, both Syria and Russia stepped up their bombing attacks in Aleppo and elsewhere in the country, including the destruction of an aid convoy. U.S. abandons efforts to work with Russia on Syria 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The results have been fitful, most obviously in the Middle East. A New Cuba 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Starting for the first time in a month because of a blister, Anderson finished five fitful innings. Dodgers and Yasmani Grandal have a grand time in Brett Anderson's return 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Manufacturers across Asia and Europe showed few signs of returning to health in August, as demand remained fitful at best, although British factories bucked the global trend, surveys showed on Thursday. Manufacturing falters as global demand weakens 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The report showed fitful growth in Asia’s second largest economy: Gross domestic product barely budged in the quarter to June, increasing by 0.2 percent in annualized terms. In Japan, Strong Growth One Quarter, a Snail’s Pace the Next 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Federal Reserve in raising interest rates later this year—and represents a setback for a fitful global economy. Bank of England Cuts Key Interest Rate to New Low 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The fitful global performance was clearly on the mind of William Dudley, a top policy maker at the Federal Reserve, who used a speech in Indonesia to urge caution on raising U.S. interest rates. Asian factories face fitful activity as world sputters 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet his rather fitful display against Wales in Lens prompted derision from the stands as the teams left the pitch at half-time, and he was replaced at the interval, as was Kane. England recall Raheem Sterling in six changes against Iceland 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z On a late night, Chile did their most important work early on, sealing a place in the Copa América Centenario final with two quick goals and defending well enough to frustrate a fitful Colombia. Chile beat Colombia after long weather delay to set up final with Argentina 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Scates said that 399, appearing fitful, refused to leave her cub’s side, eventually dragging the youngster from the roadway into the brush. Famous Bear Cub Killed in Hit and Run in National Park This round has gotten off to a fitful start, if for no other reason than the skepticism aroused by the late-term push of an outgoing administration. Robots, swarming drones and ‘Iron Man’: Welcome to the new arms race 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z After a trio of fitful outings, Urias appeared on the verge of a small masterpiece. Julio Urias' gem undone by Brandon Belt homer in Dodgers' 2-1 loss 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z But your body breaks down and metabolizes alcohol very quickly, and once it’s finished with that chore, your sleep becomes fitful. You Asked: Why Do I Always Wake Up at 3 A.M.? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z A minority turn to crime or end up fighting in Libya's fitful conflict. Dangerous migrant smuggling routes flourish in lawless Libya 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But I didn’t focus on why until the next day when, after a fitful night, I awoke exhausted, did another long walk and swim, and cycled to an appointment four miles away. Dehydration: Risks and Myths 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It was a long, fitful and, at times, frustrating process. Why outgoing U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was willing to bet big on a climate change deal 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Iraq is beset by political infighting, corruption, a growing fiscal crisis and the Shi'ite Muslim-led government's fitful efforts to seek reconciliation with aggrieved minority Sunnis, the bedrock of Islamic State support. U.S. gathers allies on next steps in Islamic State fight 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Iraq is beset by political infighting, corruption, a growing fiscal crisis and the Shi’ite Muslim-led government’s fitful efforts to reconcile with aggrieved minority Sunnis, the bedrock of Islamic State support. US navy Seal killed in 'direct fire' from Isis, Pentagon says 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z They note that Jefferson championed those who till the soil as the most virtuous of people, yet he found farming deadly dull, and his fitful agricultural efforts were largely unsuccessful. Thomas Jefferson: master of all and of everything 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z With consumers and businesses turning cautious, the U.S. struggled to grow in the first three months of a presidential election year that is shining the spotlight on the economy’s fitful recovery. Business Highlights 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z And: “Beauty is momentary in the mind— / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal.” The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z His speech, once effusive and rapid, was hesitant and fitful; the words emerged with a sudden, surprising force, as if he were spitting out pips of food that had been put into his mouth. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Army physician named Walter Reed helped prove more than a century ago that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, humans have waged a fitful war on the tiny disease carriers. Zika is the latest battle in a long war between humans and mosquitoes 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In the 2008 Democratic primary, Barack Obama made a fitful promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, but it did not move votes in Ohio. Voters skeptical on free trade drive Sanders, Trump victories in Michigan 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z On the one hand, the nation’s commitment to democracy is reflected in a long, albeit fitful, drive to expand the franchise to meet the ideal of equal voice upon which democracy’s legitimacy is premised. One person, one vote in America? The ideal is often not the practice 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The move by Riyadh threatens not only to reshape the politics of the region, but to undermine this tiny nation’s fitful economy and delicate political balance. Saudi Arabia Cuts Billions in Aid to Lebanon, Opening Door for Iran 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Obama aides said they have always recognized that progress in a region long neglected by the United States would be fitful and uneven. Obama welcomes 10 Southeast Asian leaders to California summit 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The troubled waters at Mærsk, the world’s largest container shipper by volume, underscore the fitful, uneven recovery in the global economy since the crisis. How Maersk Is Coping With the Trade Slump 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Other times, he wakes up before dawn from fitful dreams about his grand undertaking, bright chinks of doubt lodged in his mind. EXCHANGE: Illinois surgeon making glass mosaic for hospital 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z But even as the administration seems to be trying to speed up its fitful effort to winnow down the Guantánamo population, the military is taking steps that will curtail journalists’ access to the wartime prison. 17 Guantánamo Prisoner Transfers Said to Be Pending 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z In the years that followed, the economy mounted a fitful recovery, constrained by lingering damage from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. AP PHOTOS: How the world looked: Changes since the Fed last raised interest rates in 2006 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z For the past five years, Burma has been taking fitful steps toward democracy, encouraged by the United States and other countries. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party predicts landslide win in Burma elections 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Saborio had been working diligently to track back and help out his midfield in the first half, but had begun to wane in influence to become a more fitful irritant in the second. MLS playoffs: DC United 0-1 New York Red Bulls 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z He couldn’t help frame the choice—a major one, to say the least—in fitful, faintly procedural terms. Why Biden Didn’t Run 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z After many years of fitful negotiations, Iran is expected within days to start dismantling parts of its nuclear facilities and reducing its uranium stockpiles under international supervision. Why this Sunday is a significant day for the Iran nuclear deal 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Simple continuation of the policies of the past is likely to bring us only slow, fitful progress,” he wrote in the journal Science in 1995. William E. Paul, immunologist who shaped HIV/AIDS research, dies at 79 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z After a fitful early college education studying journalism and pre-med, he attended an art school in Boston in the hope of becoming a cartoonist. John R. Galvin, NATO commander at the close of the Cold War, dies at 86 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z My sleep was fitful and I woke often, but I always knew that the challenge to my ever achieving deep sleep would be the people around me. World premiere sends audience to sleep - BBC News 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The work into visual learning at Stanford illustrates how complex just one aspect of creating a thinking machine can be and it comes on the back of 60 years of fitful progress in the field. The search for a thinking machine - BBC News 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Attempts at recovery were only fitful, a team radically reinforced over the summer lacking any real cohesion and forced even to endure Andy Carroll’s first-team return after a seven-month absence for the final few moments. Dimitri Payet scores twice as West Ham ease to win over Newcastle 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Against Brazil it was Yedlin who caught the eye, as he and Cameron combined at times in the fitful US attack, and the current Sunderland player constantly showed willing to attack. What we learned from USA's friendlies with Brazil and Peru 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z All told, more than 1,800 people died from the storm, and New Orleans is still in the stages of a fitful recovery. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The situation helps explain why many workers remain frustrated with what has been a fitful recovery. Job Growth Steady in July, Possibly Easing Path for Fed Action 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The three remaining members of the Union of Amalgamated Pluto Colourists went back to their hotel for an hour or so of fitful sleep. How Pluto's most spectacular image was made—and nearly lost 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The New York Times reported this morning that the administration’s “fitful effort to shut down the prison is collapsing again,” in part the result of ongoing Pentagon resistance. Guantanamo plan in its 'final stages' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The administration’s fitful effort to shut down the prison is collapsing again. Obama’s Plan for Guantánamo Is Seen Faltering 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z In the second, societies begin a long, fitful convalescence, often under dictatorial rule, as the “mad religious energy” subsides. Inside the Iran Talks 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z And after more than five fitful months of negotiations, the bar for reaching an agreement is high. Greece submits last-ditch request for a bailout 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Lack left the news division in 2001 and thus began a fitful period of his career where the big victories he enjoyed became increasingly elusive. Andrew Lack, Circling Back to News and NBC 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z As with Ukraine after the orange revolution of 2004, Georgia’s fitful progress westward was hampered by the Kremlin’s determination to keep it in Russia’s orbit. Misha’s moment 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z In government hands, the revival of banking is likely to be fitful. Terms of Indira 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z After a fitful few hours of sleep, Kari Brandenburg reads a note every morning on a bulletin board in her closet, written to herself: "Being a hero is enduring for one moment more." In Albuquerque, police killings divide law enforcement agencies 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Levie faced hurdles and some fitful progress but ultimately reached the point many entrepreneurs only dream of: Box conducted an initial public offering in January that raised more than $500 million. Box, Provider of Cloud-Computing Services, Faces Make-or-Break Moment 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The era of Xi Jinping has defied the assumption that China’s fitful opening to the world is too critical and productive to stall. Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Work on the show was fitful and then threatened by the release of “Shakespeare in Love,” the 1998 film with Gwyneth Paltrow that portrayed a young Shakespeare stealing many of his best lines. How 3 Broadway novices wrote ‘Something Rotten!’ 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Work on the show was fitful and then threatened by the release of "Shakespeare in Love," the 1998 film with Gwyneth Paltrow that portrayed a young Shakespeare stealing many of his best lines. How 3 Broadway novices wrote 'Something Rotten!' 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The country has emerged from decades of military rule, but its transition remains fitful and incomplete. Today in Politics: Republicans Set Sights on First Primary State 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Because of the fitful and uncertain recovery following the deep recession five years ago, many consumers are still curbing spending. A Bruised American Express Turns to Its Core Customers: The Affluent 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z To outsiders, Xi has been a fitful subject. Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z He also published a darkly revealing memoir about his addictions and his fitful struggles to overcome them. David Carr, candid memoirist and N.Y. Times media columnist, dies at 58 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z David R. Cleveland, a law professor at Valparaiso University in Indiana who has written extensively on unpublished opinions, said that Justice Thomas’s recent criticism was characteristic of the Supreme Court’s fitful attention to the issue. Court Decisions That Set No Precedent 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The president had been cautious over the past two years not to gloat over news of fitful economic growth, mindful that the economy remained tenuous and public confidence uneasy. Obama’s State of the Union address sounds like a victory lap but sets up conflict with Republicans 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z I was bemused that a person who lived by his eyes lived in such a nondescript place, but Obrist’s interest in anything outside high culture is fitful. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Curator Who Never Sleeps 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The assault, which killed cadets from several ethnic groups, came as the KIA and the Burmese army had been holding fitful peace talks, even as skirmishes had proliferated across the state. Inside the Kachin War Against Burma 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Officials admit little success in wooing new Sunni allies, beyond their fitful efforts to arm and supply the tribes who were already fighting the Islamic State — and mostly losing. Iraq and U.S. Find Some Potential Sunni Allies Have Already Been Lost 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z He learned how to lull the fitful baby to sleep on his chest and then to sit very still for an hour to avoid waking her. Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z For we have awakened from a long, fitful slumber. Cornel West was right all along: Why America needs a moment of clarity now 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z But on the economic issues he's most associated with — the fitful recovery from the Great Recession and his health care law — the American public is not with him. Obama wants an election about the economy, not him 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z One post on Thursday called him “the terrorists’ friend;” another pictured him with one of the occasional food deliveries allowed into to Al Waer, the city’s only remaining insurgent-held district, amid fitful cease-fire talks. Protests Erupt in Homs Over Bombings That Killed Dozens of Syrian Schoolchildren 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z That would be the extravagantly gifted but infuriatingly fitful Hatem Ben Arfa, with a loan season at Hull in which to prove his critics wrong. Sex toys and Manchester United’s soul: deadline day and the lessons learned 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z In February 1978 he gave a speech urging patience with the often fitful efforts by Latin American nations to improve human rights. Terence Todman, an Envoy to 6 Nations, Is Dead at 88 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z After a fitful night, he awoke at 4am and went to the kitchen where he was surprised to find a kitchen staffer already there. Nixon in his own words: forgotten 1983 Watergate interview to be released 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z But the audit has had a fitful start, marked by fundamental disagreements over what constitutes an invalid vote and which officials make the final decision to discard faulty ballots. In Kabul, vote recount delayed in dispute over what constitutes a fraudulent ballot That night was fitful — the house furnace ran too hot, the dog yipped unpredictably. A Sleep Apnea Test Without a Night in the Hospital 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z It has been nearly three years since Muammar Qaddafi’s regime collapsed, after months of fitful combat between his militias and a patchwork army of students, shopkeepers, and jihadis who gathered to depose him. A Death in Benghazi: Salwa Bugaighis 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z And if I couldn’t, I realized during my first fitful night, how could she? Moving On by Moving Around 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Susan E. Rice, the president’s national security adviser, spoke a day after years of fitful negotiations had finally yielded the release in Afghanistan of the prisoner, Sgt. Administration Defends Swap With Taliban to Free U.S. Soldier 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Left unsaid, but obvious to everyone in the ornate Benjamin Franklin room, was the Obama administration’s fitful response to the great humanitarian tragedy of this era: the Syrian civil war. U.S. Envoys See a Rwanda Moment in Escalating Syrian Crisis 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The twins chose Kentucky and, after a fitful few months this season, they have returned to Texas for the Final Four as the Wildcats’ starting backcourt, playing perhaps as well as they ever have. Andrew and Aaron Harrison, Finding Their Way, Together 2014-04-05T01:41:19Z The deal, a long-anticipated breakthrough after months of fitful negotiations, solves a problem on only one side of the Capitol, however. Senate Reaches Deal to Pay for Jobless Aid 2014-03-13T22:28:53Z It is seen by many as a symbol of the country’s fitful but continuing recovery. Lawyers Prepare for G.M. Suits With Novel Strategies 2014-03-13T01:19:42Z The main light in my cellblock eventually turned off, and I fell into a fitful sleep, awakening every time a toilet flushed or an officer yanked on the doors to determine they were secure. Op-Ed Contributor: My Night in Solitary 2014-02-21T00:39:08Z This house on Backus Drive in the suburb of Bowie, Md., went through a fitful plunge after falling into foreclosure, but its most recent sale price was sharply higher. Home-Price Economics: The Tale of a House, and an Entire Market 2014-01-25T17:55:52Z Hutchins was sleeping two fitful hours each night. Australian Open: Doubles Specialist Back on Court After Beating Cancer 2014-01-14T16:45:29Z Finally I got some fitful sleep by sleeping halfway down the bed with my feet dangling in mid-air. Gout: Why I don't find it funny at all 2014-01-02T00:57:09Z Thomas slept again but it was a fitful sleep and he complained of visions. Who was to blame for Dylan's death? 2013-11-08T17:23:47Z Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, spoke fearfully about the disruption and uncertainty, warning of a “risk of tipping, yet again, into recession” after the fitful recovery from 2008. The Spending Stumbling Block 2013-10-14T01:35:26Z This house on Backus Drive in the suburb of Bowie, Md., went through a fitful plunge after falling into foreclosure, but its most recent sale price was sharply higher. Home-Price Economics: The Tale of a House, and an Entire Market 2014-01-25T17:55:52Z Over two series, viewers were left to wonder whether his predicament was real, or a fitful by-product of his coma. Breaking Bad: TV's top 10 endings 2013-09-28T00:17:00Z Following a fitful night's sleep after winning her fifth U.S. Serena lucky in love on the tennis court 2013-09-09T20:59:07Z But this is no basis on which to launch anything but a fitful recovery and weak investment. Ignore the hype: Britain's 'recovery' is a fantasy that hides our weakness 2013-07-20T23:09:00Z No immediate solution appeared, so after a fitful few hours of sleep, I began my quest to find my phone. Bits Blog: Following Public Dots to a Missing Phone 2013-07-19T14:32:12Z There is no air-conditioning, the beds sag and the electricity is fitful. As Mystery Illness Stalks Its Young, India Intensifies Search for a Killer 2013-07-14T00:04:40Z I wanted to alert the whole cabin to the extraordinary spectacle that was going on just outside the window, but they were immersed in the movie or fitful sleep. A decade of not reclining my seat 2013-06-23T00:29:20Z Even when he manages a little fitful sleep he knows, without checking, exactly what time it is when he wakes up. How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive 2013-06-18T23:43:30Z Rafael Benítez must be used to that by now: one debatable team selection, a questionable substitution or fitful display is all it takes for the mood to turn sour again these days. Southampton 2-1 Chelsea 2013-03-30T17:05:25Z They looked sluggish for periods, perhaps grateful that Steaua had not torn into them from the outset, but their own head of steam was belated and rather fitful. Steaua Bucharest 1-0 Chelsea 2013-03-07T21:10:28Z The North exploited a decade of fitful diplomatic efforts to make progress toward a weapon. Iran could use U.N. talks as cover to build bomb, Ban Ki-moon says 2013-02-14T23:00:10Z |
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