| 单词 | fitfulness |
| 例句 | I expected maybe an hour’s worth of sleep and a lot of fitfulness. Skipping the airport, saving the planet: My 19-hour carbon-saving jaunt across America 2014-02-18T23:59:00Z Mr. Babbitt varied the instrumental combinations to indicate the poem’s formal boundaries; vocal lines wrinkled and leapt over a constant rustle that could be interpreted as unconscious fitfulness. 2010-01-12T07:08:00Z Cunningham’s big project has always revolved around examining time’s fitfulness. If you can stomach only one COVID closure novel, make it Michael Cunningham's 'Day' 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Some of fusion’s fitfulness is innate to the design of doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors. Fusion power may run out of fuel before it even gets started 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Its inaugural month, March, can have lamb-and-lion fitfulness, sizzle to drizzle and back again. Think of L.A. spring as the pause between California catastrophes — with poppies 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The laughs emerge with stingy fitfulness in “Night School,” and Hart’s overly familiar antics don’t account for many of them. Review: Tiffany Haddish aside, 'Night School' doesn't get high marks - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The trans-Atlantic flight to Miami was uneventful, she said, and the immigration officers whisked them to the front of the customs line after noticing Ben’s fitfulness. Ernie Els’s Inner Voice Was Quieted When His Son Was Slow to Speak 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Many trackers estimate the length and fitfulness of sleep by sensing how much you move throughout the night. Well: The Monitored Man 2014-03-10T23:54:34Z Of late the Tories have taken to praising and courting Bright incessantly and ostentatiously, and contrasting his calm, consistent wisdom with Gladstone's impetuosity and fitfulness. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The life of the forest animal seems reproduced in the fierceness, the fitfulness, the abandon, of each strange series of abrupt gesticulations. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z In split personalities, in genius, in dreams, in sensory and motor automatisms, we find the same fitfulness, the same apparent caprice. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z So neither she nor Mary said anything to Tommy about her fitfulness, and Tommy herself always came back repentant after these little absences, and worked away hard until the next fit of restlessness overtook her. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z If she was less devout than Henry she had however a larger share of fitfulness than even he. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z He however said he would come again in the morning, as there was a fitfulness in my father's pulse which he did not like. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z They are intensely feminine with the nervous fitfulness and spasmodic capriciousness that go with overwrought sexual sensibilities. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z For him these things were no longer beautiful, nor did he see the sunlight, which with a sudden fitfulness had warmed the air. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Evidently she thinks its fitfulness, its gleams of sunshine and its uneasy cloudings over, are just a passing thing and that it soon will settle down again to what it was before. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z Always doing or undoing something 37 Habitual fitfulness 38 Self-importance 40 Henry and Wolsey: Which led? Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Even the dull booming of the cannon far up the valley where Howard and Schofield were advancing on the heavy works immediately in front of Dalton, died down into sullen fitfulness. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign He realized then that as he had slept and, despite the fitfulness of his sleeping, his mind had apparently gone on analyzing the possible reactions to the big deal. The Psilent Partner The rains, the winds and the waves, the complexity and the fitfulness of nature, are always before him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) It is the trembling of the human soul in the presence of death which most of all disturbs the images on the intellectual mirror, and invests them with the fitfulness and ghastliness of dreams. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) His fitfulness and petulance go far to explain his acts of occasional implacability. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z The latter has been well engraved, and may be taken as a standard of the expression of fitfulness and power. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Upon the ceiling of the front room hung silvered stars which shone brightly, and with a fitfulness not all unnatural in the flickering candlelight. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska As an undergraduate, he had been more aware of fitfulness and weariness than anything; only gradually had he become conscious of concentration, sustained zest, intention. Beside Still Waters Rumours of popular conspiracy, fresh discoveries by the police, and new tales of imperial eccentricity, kept the public mind in constant fitfulness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Constant change, whether of ministers or of views or of plans, is in itself fitfulness. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z The drawing of Coventry may be particularized as a farther example of this fine suggestion of irregularity and fitfulness, � 18. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) This accounts for the fitfulness and incompleteness of so much of his literary work, and for the practical, and in many cases temporary, element which runs through even his most elaborate productions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The peril is there always, and the bread turns up with extreme fitfulness. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea His impenetrable reserve chills the warmth of enthusiasm, while the fitfulness of his morals produces constant inquietude. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author But fitfulness is something more than activity: it implies an uncertainty of thought or conduct which forbids calculation or prediction, and therefore forbids confidence; it is an inborn proclivity. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Especially by contrast with a passage of extreme repose.story of tumult, fitfulness, power, and velocity. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) After a little period of respite she let herself out of the door into the rain that had begun falling with a sobbing fitfulness, and went through the starkness of the woods. A Pagan of the Hills Here we have clear recognition of the two great characters of sex impulse, its violence and its fitfulness. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Like Max, he was watching her closely, but his eyes moved unceasingly; they glimmered behind his colourless lashes with a weird fitfulness. The Keeper of the Door In poorly endowed intellects, whether in men or women, fitfulness and its almost constant associate petulance harass many circles and many hearths. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z A conversation which took place between him and one of his fellow-workers gives one the measure of his irresolution and fitfulness. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Side by side they drew out of the current, the man pulling strongly, his companion seconding his efforts with a fitfulness that testified to her failing powers. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories The work has been greatly deranged by the draft, some features of which have not been very skilfully arranged, and by the fitfulness with which the laborers have been treated by the military authorities. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 But now what fitfulness of temper this, to carry off by violence, to rob my soul of one, the choicest jewel of his tribe. Sacred Books of the East Habitual fitfulness, it has already been noted, is not often found apart from habitual petulance, and both these qualities were conspicuous in Henry’s character. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z His remarkable versatility is purchased at the price of fitfulness, his energy displays itself in spurts, and his impulsiveness impairs at times the successful execution of a plan which requires unflagging constancy. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference An immense energy and momentum marked the man; and a strange fitfulness, a lack of concentration, made the sum total of results far too small. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 By spreading our efforts over too large a surface we inevitably weaken our force, hinder our progress, and acquire a habit of fitfulness and ineffective working. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round. David Copperfield Her extreme fitfulness had at least one fortunate result—it saved many lives. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z The curate, who had opened to him the first door of hope and comfort, had in these weeks begun to see that the apparent fitfulness of his kindness had been unsettling. Beechcroft at Rockstone As the clouds came and went, the grey-green, cobweb-chastened, light ebbed and flowed over the walls and ceiling; to watch the fitfulness of its streams was a sufficient occupation. Erewhon Revisited We was still alone, and no feverish words of mine can do justice to the fitfulness of his appearance as he sat at No. 4 table, increased by there being something wrong with the meter. Somebody's Luggage |
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