单词 | flibbertigibbet |
例句 | When I have to type out everything I want to say, I come off as less of a flibbertigibbet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At least, that’s the way Onofre himself liked to tell the story when he had an audience of children and other gullible creatures who believed in werewolves, flibbertigibbets, and miracles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That it was the Owenses who had got involved in this nonsense, rather than some flibbertigibbet johnny-come-latelies, counted for a lot, for the Owenses were respectable and respected. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The authors seem to be saying, “I couldn’t think of a more dignified way of putting this, but please don’t think I’m a flibbertigibbet who talks this way; I really am a serious scholar.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “My sister’s been painted as some flibbertigibbet socialite floating from party to party and leading a gilded life,” he said. Ghislaine Maxwell’s tawdry fall from grace — and her new PR push 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z This raucous descendant of “Roman Holiday” supports the popular perception of Elizabeth as poised and responsible and Margaret as a mischievous, risk-taking flibbertigibbet. Review: After the Terrors of the Blitz Comes ‘A Royal Night Out’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Pixies and flibbertigibbets haunt the budding woods: Puck and his train of midgets are busy in town and country.” The merry month of May 2012-05-21T09:31:23Z And shame on those who dare dismiss her as just a flibbertigibbet. Theater Review: ‘Harrison, TX,’ Three Plays by Horton Foote 2012-08-15T02:27:25Z Magnet ends his book with a gratuitous, even racist assault on Barack Obama, in which the former president’s mother is trashed as a “Kumbaya mother” and a “flibbertigibbet white mother.” How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The suggestion, by supporters of some of his rivals for the Poet Laureateship, that he was a "flibbertigibbet" and "too popular" did not rob him of his habitual gentleness of manner. From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him 2012-10-11T06:30:00Z Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs. The White Queen: a brief guide to television's period pot-boilers 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z She'd never had much confidence in her art – fellow students thought of her as a flibbertigibbet – and Larry did little to encourage her. Amateurs in Eden by Joanna Hodgkin ? review 2012-02-10T22:45:01Z "I don't like the girl and I'm not going to marry her!" huffs Lord Walderhurst, puffing his privileged cheeks and dismissing another crestfallen flibbertigibbet with a swish of his widower's handkerchief. The Making Of A Lady is preposterous and proud of it 2012-12-15T00:05:00Z Where Mr Bower gets it wrong, however, is in casting Mr Blair as a feckless flibbertigibbet incapable of the serious analysis required to think through and implement complex policies. The shredding of Tony Blair 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z As Orlando, Duke of Oxford and the spy agency’s founder, Fiennes might read more cuddly than studly, but he lends a surprising gravitas to this flibbertigibbet feature. ‘The King’s Man’ Review: Suiting Up and Shooting Down 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Nearly every character is a 1950s cliché, or an idiot: the flibbertigibbet matron of the house, the clueless neighborhood pastor, the racist nerd who represents the outraged neighborhood association. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z A flibbertigibbet: it arrives with a twinkle in its eye, but little else between its cauliflower ears. King of the Travellers – review 2013-03-28T22:15:01Z “You couldn’t be a child of Robert Maxwell and be a flibbertigibbet socialite. That was not the way she was brought up.” Ghislaine Maxwell’s tawdry fall from grace — and her new PR push 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Invariably described as a Renaissance man, Mr. Miller preferred terms like “flibbertigibbet,” once telling People magazine, “Things are always best when there has been a careless abandon about them.” Jonathan Miller, British polymath who restaged theater classics, dies at 85 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z That left Jonathan with lifelong feelings of guilt, which led him on several occasions to announce that he was abandoning what he once called “this footling flibbertigibbet world of theater.” Jonathan Miller, Acclaimed Theater Director and Writer, Dies at 85 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Salinger-like disavowals of public life and the simmering cult interest of writers and scholars are typically the province of Serious Literary Figures, not flibbertigibbets and fun L.A. Newsletter: The return of Eve Babitz 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z A certain type of man would no doubt gleefully seize on this coda as evidence that women are fickle, self-dramatizing flibbertigibbets whose recall and accusations can’t be trusted. Opinion | America’s War of Stories 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Laura is a bit of a flibbertigibbet with a poor grasp of colloquial expressions. Light on laughs, TV Land comedy 'Nobodies' offers up familiar show-biz premise 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The bird’s critter colleagues are a pack of dithery flibbertigibbets, including a nearsighted goat and a tremulous tapir, among others. ‘The Wild Life’: Animated tale leaves us stranded with a klutz 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The story’s description of Maria is about as far from the film’s flibbertigibbet as possible. Behind 'The Sound of Music': Why the Real Maria Went to Live With the von Trapps 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z "You wouldn't be a guest," said Leicester, teasingly; "no well-conducted summer hotel would take a flibbertigibbet like you to board!" The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z Though how you can feel spiritual in that flibbertigibbet dress is more than I know! The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z In the flibbertigibbet world of Sepp Blatter, the vocal cords act first, and at some later time the vestigial reasoning and social conscience portions of his brain are engaged. Sports of The Times: Blatter Draws Attention FIFA Can Do Without 2010-12-17T20:06:30Z We arrested one or two for the burglary, as a warning, but the little flibbertigibbets escaped from the police like rats, and we let them go with the fright they had had. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them And ne'er was man or maid worse named; for to call such a flibbertigibbet "Patience" were as though one should name a frisksome colt "Slumber," or christen a spring brook "Quiet." A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Arthur's supernatural nature doubtless suggested the second movement, with its elfin airs, its flibbertigibbet virtuosity, and its magic of color. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions He was a lean, nervous flibbertigibbet of a man, with something the look of an actor, and something the look of a horse-jockey. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Because a Paris flibbertigibbet disposes with a joke of creeds, from which Pascal, with all his reasoning powers, could not shake himself free, it must not be concluded that the Gavroche is superior to Pascal. Recollections of My Youth There are certain women who are a form of insurance to a man; and Anne gave a poise and solidity to Julian's presentation of himself which his own flibbertigibbet manner made particularly necessary. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The last was one of the old Cotton-Petticoats, and in her younger days had been a flibbertigibbet. Ptomaine Street But they are all flibbertigibbets, every one of them. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations Too many a minister of to-day is, intellectually, something of a flibbertigibbet. The Warriors Hence the boys of Eastern cities, who are perfect imps and flibbertigibbets, always raise the cry "Majnún" when they see a man naked whose sanctity does not account for his nudity. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] He shut himself in his room like some venomous kobold or flibbertigibbet, whining, complaining, cursing, accusing. Heart of the West Pixies and flibbertigibbets haunt the budding woods: Puck and his train of midgets are busy in town and country. Whirligigs |
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