| 单词 | flightiness |
| 例句 | With the secret and implacable labor of a small ant she predisposed the women of the village against the flightiness of their husbands, who were already preparing for the move. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In particular, he suffered from a congenital flightiness that he masked as wanderlust. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z The show doesn't reap big laughs, but – productively combining flightiness and substance – Conaty may soon do so. Roisin Conaty 2010-08-29T21:16:00Z And Jason, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, was flightiness and lightness and passion. Robert and Michelle King on ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The scene establishes that Alix, for all her flightiness, is a stubbornly independent woman who takes pride in her resistance to bourgeois convention. Movie Review: In ‘Just a Sigh,’ an Actress Follows an Intriguing Man 2014-03-20T23:50:26Z There's little of the flightiness of Pontormo, where everything aspires to the condition of a flag, flame or cloud. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z That’s not an easy task, given that its flightiness is contradicted by a formal pictorial style that suggests that there is a meaning. Movie Review: ?Jesus Henry Christ,? With Toni Collette and Michael Sheen 2012-05-03T22:46:26Z The flightiness of maiden aunts is a given. | 'The Girl': A Summer-of-Awakening Fable 2010-09-17T06:06:00Z As if in opposition to her mother’s perceived flightiness, Angel has been steadfastly committed to her rich, guitar-strumming boyfriend, Myles Parrish, for three years. A Thriller Wrapped in a Story of Sisters and First Love 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z She is on the lookout for any sign of giggly flightiness. Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked! 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Charlie’s apparent flightiness manifests in the whirring of her hyperactive mind, agitated by the ceaseless “birds chirping” of people’s constant everyday lies. Review: ‘Poker Face’ Is the Best New Detective Show of 1973 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Nick accepts Mabel’s flightiness, but he frets over whether others do — with some cause. Find Cassavetes Confusing? Start Here 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z A novel about Daisy would only underscore her flightiness; a novel about Tom would only underscore his selfish swagger. Review: The ‘Great Gatsby’ copyright bonanza stumbles out of the gate with ‘Nick’ 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z When we are mindful, some of that attentional flightiness disappears as if of its own accord. The Power of Concentration 2012-12-15T05:00:00Z Another paper which Mr Haldane helped write suggested that shareholders’ flightiness affects corporate decisions: publicly quoted companies tend to invest less than private companies with similar profits and turnover. A new contract for growth 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z That's right, the lady of the sea is a flexitarian — the dietary manifestation of every bad stereotype about the inconsistency and flightiness of women. The Verge Review of Animals: the dugong 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z There is room for flightiness in politics - for loose-limbed men and women of slippery loyalties and sinuous convictions - but of those who hold our purse strings we expect stolidity. A Point of View: Why don't men's trousers cover their ankles any more? 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z To the casual observer, such a wide-spanning career may seem eclectic to the point of flightiness. The boss who likes to box Smarta 2014-03-30T23:02:27Z Imagination operates like hurling the red bird into the bad piggy structure—it is like meeting rigidity with flightiness. Lessons on Innovation from Angry Birds Space, Bird in Space, and the Cloud. 2012-11-17T15:26:11Z But who wants to give up draft choices or a player to sign someone with a reputation for contract-jumping and flightiness? Slap Shot: The Quest for Nash Could Take a Detour 2012-06-09T18:50:51Z Her greeting so differed from that of her daughters that the visitor found himself speculating upon the extraordinary flightiness of the late Mr. Quaritch. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z A tendency to flightiness in speculation on the one hand, and a stolid refusal to speculate at all on the other, are the marks of second century Christianity. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Indeed, he bought a public shell company to maintain a steady capital base for acquisitions and avoid the flightiness of hedge fund investors. DealBook: With F.C.C. Blow, Falcone's Top Challenge Is Time 2012-02-15T18:16:34Z I do not write it from flightiness, but from thoughtfulness. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Doubtless it was his imminent movie engagement that brought on his attack of flightiness. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z But Mrs Norberry wished to engross all his panegyrics to herself, and she never failed to expatiate on Mrs Mowbray's foibles and flightiness as long as the doctor had expatiated on her charms. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z Perhaps flightiness is not the right word; but it is a devil-may-care tone, which I do not like when it proceeds from under a hat, and still less from under a bonnet. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z By a last effort, however, he succeeded in stopping the fugitives, and asked them if they were mad, to display such flightiness. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Denhoff was a man of the old school, and he had already heard of his wife's flightiness. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z The Alliance was not long out before Landais exhibited such flightiness that its passengers deposed him, and placed the ship in command of its first lieutenant. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Everything has its appointed place, and though human beings in their flightiness may stray from their orbit, the great forces that dwell in nature draw them back and hold them. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z There is but one thing I could wish otherwise in them, and that is a certain tendency to flightiness. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z But on the roads around Sukadana, potential health concerns seemed secondary, and swiftlet house owners seemed more concerned with the flightiness of the birds themselves. Sukadana Journal: Housing Boom, if You?re a Bird 2011-07-14T02:18:47Z "Jim" had been going on badly, had been off on another "tear," incited thereto by jealousy of Nelly's flightiness, and of her mysterious admirer. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Angelina, it is true, had helped her to the best of her ability, and had even succeeded in subduing some of her own natural flightiness. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z That you would do some terrible mischief one day with your flightiness! In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life 2011-04-14T02:00:53.733Z Waiting periods, ultrasound requirements and forced "counseling" all make accessing abortion that much harder -- even as each step is dressed up as protection for women against their own flightiness and inability to make good decisions. What's really driving the GOP's abortion war 2011-03-27T15:01:00Z At first she only entered while the patient slept, but after a few days the stupor began to lessen, and the flightiness, with which it had alternated, to decrease. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z His flightiness became versatility; his eccentricity was all originalty; and ere they reached the hotel, they had endowed him with almost every moral and mental quality that can dignify manhood. The Fortunes Of Glencore What Miss Elsa's critics, who were chiefly of her own sex, spoke of disapprovingly as her flightiness, was to Ballard one of her characterizing charms. The King of Arcadia "But I thought you rather distrusted his flightiness." Hempfield A Novel Even if her flightiness were ever so objectionable to her, she would have to keep on good terms with her. Absolution They mixed things terribly, and gave her impressions that took months to right; and they could not understand why she looked distressed at their flightiness. Cloudy Jewel May it not be that just that lack of control that permits "flights of the imagination" is related to the flightiness characteristic of those with mental weakness or defect? Introduction to the Science of Sociology She is a dear girl, for all her flightiness. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice You see none of this offensive flightiness in me. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 And it wasn’t only her flightiness, her smiles at the front boxes, 143 but “my work, my salary, mine” into the bargain! The Bill-Toppers Well; these are direful consequences of Miss Sandbrook’s fit of flightiness! Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster In short they went into the war with the same superficial flightiness formerly employed in the social realms. The Search In the correspondence, however, published by the same journal, are to be found two or three letters well calculated to correct the temporary flightiness of the journal itself. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He stood for some moments looking down into her face, appraising as it were her flightiness, and meditating justice. We Three The girl, unfortunately, springs from a family in whose blood flightiness may be said to have run from the very beginning. A Hungarian Nabob And she was off, leaving her ambitious parents to shake their heads over her flightiness. The Promised Land I do not write it from flightiness, but from thoughtfulness. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Rose, with all her flightiness, was too proud to plead with a servant, and walked out in silence. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Still, a good constitution does mend fast when the flightiness and distress in the imagination leaves him and he cools down to his right mind. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett On and off, hot and cold—and I took it for flightiness. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Thus he had something of the voluptuousness of the Turk, the ostentation of the Hindu, the flightiness of the Pole, the foolhardiness of the Hungarian, and the obstinacy of the Wallach. The Poor Plutocrats In spite of her flightiness and love of pleasure she had a very keen sense of her own interest, and perceiving Colonel Ormonde's decided appreciation, she had made up her mind to marry him. A Crooked Path A Novel So they arrived at the poet's not in the best of humour, for Mrs. Sheldam had quietly chidden her charge on the score of her "flightiness." Visionaries Poor Susan Chirk! it took the flightiness out of her, and made her the anxious, melancholy soul she has been ever since. Queen Hildegarde A man can hardly swing up to extravagant hopes without dropping to sarcastic self-reproaches on his flightiness and vanity. The Summons It were a kind of premium for flightiness, but I for one was glad to get her gone off'en Rose Mary's hands. Rose of Old Harpeth Think of her growing up in such an atmosphere of disunion and flightiness as that weak mother of hers must have given her. The Brimming Cup The essay is chiefly interesting as a monument of Defoe's marvellous force of mind, and strange mixture of steady sense with incontinent flightiness. Daniel Defoe Three graceless sisters in the bond of unity Are lightness, flightiness, and importunity. A Celtic Psaltery Hoarded wealth, whose religion was spotless kitchens and cash down, sat side by side with flightiness and the habit of living by credit on rather more than one's income. Leonora She was eager to redeem herself from the charge of flightiness. Superseded And we see one legitimate result in that flightiness of the feminine mind which, in a lower stratum of current literature, displays inaccurate opinions, feeble prejudices, and finally blossoms into pert vulgarity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 In almost all English histories dealing with this period his steadiness and solid unshowy qualities are contrasted with Essex's flightiness and failure, to the natural disadvantage of the latter. The Story of Ireland Without at all seeming observant—for, on the contrary, she gives an impression of great flightiness—she watches me, I am convinced, with pretty exact observation. The Purple Cloud Sometimes," she added, "I think it's just flightiness—and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for. House of Mirth She hadn't been like the old, easy-going Chrystie; her indolent evenness of mood had given place to a mercurial flightiness, her gay good-humor been broken by flashes of temper and morose silences. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California He is a little withered old man, with a manner so lively as to be on the verge of flightiness. Birds of Prey Perhaps the reason of this remark, which so much offended Beattie himself, was, that, afraid of her capricious flightiness being misunderstood, he was at first reluctant to bring her into society. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes They might think her a little capricious, a little foolish, but that there was intention or purpose in her pallid flightiness passed the bounds of imagination. The Far Horizon It is a curious example of his forgetful flightiness, that when, a few years later, he went to Egypt, he was struck with wonder at the Khedive's refusal to receive him. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 As to finances, they were not making their fortune; far from it; but to Dora's amazement, considering her own inexperience and her father's flightiness, they had paid their way and something more. The History of David Grieve Valentine, who in the innocence of his heart suspected nothing, burst out laughing at this new specimen of Zack's inveterate flightiness. Hide and Seek Besides, her mother went out with her that first season, to whom Miss Newcome except for a little occasional flightiness, was invariably obedient and ready to come to call. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family It was not her fault, but the flightiness and whimsicality of Nature which had contrived to make her the belle of the camp. Tropic Days Frivolity, flightiness and the desire to please are not such terrible crimes. The Precipice His flightiness," said Mr Monckton, "proceeded not from gaiety of heart, it was merely the effect of effort; and his spirits were as mechanical as his taste for diversion. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Gradually the flightiness of his upbringing would wear off down to the steel, the hard-tempered, paternal steel. Over the Pass Her flightiness would have driven any man crazy who had an opinion of his own. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Effie has heart, sincerity, passion, loyalty, despite her flightiness, and her readiness, when her chance comes, to play the fine lady. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 The practical details of his plan, in which it is equally evident that he means to be serious, exhibit the same flightiness of language and notions. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 "Gothic ugly old place!" repeated Mr Delvile, in utter amazement at her dauntless flightiness; "your ladyship really does my humble dwelling too much honour!" Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 But Aunt Rebecca went on, astonishing the other woman more and deepening the conviction that the strange talk was due to flightiness. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites However," he added, after a moment's consideration, "Buckingham is accessible to every sort of temptation, from the flightiness of his genius. Peveril of the Peak All that day and the next the sons wondered what was amiss with their mother, she was so pensive, with starts of flightiness. Magnum Bonum I have not glossed over the flightiness of Ralph's character; but the brotherly kindness and manly generosity which lie beneath it, are as apparent, I hope, in my narrative as they are in fact. Basil Gibbs, the schoolmaster, is a very worthy man, but he has a certain flightiness of manner and disposition. Watersprings Her womanly flightiness was taken in by these words, and what she had formerly thought foul and despicable now seemed to her not only tolerable, but sacred and remrkable. The Deeds of God Through the Franks Clara is growing up—I won't have you encourage her in all that wild flightiness—I didn't want to have had her here at all! Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 "None at all in itself, only remember the harm it may do to the children for you to be heedless of people's opinion, and to get a reputation for flightiness and doing odd things." Magnum Bonum Poor little girl, I hope it will cure her of her flightiness. In the Reign of Terror It was the flightiness of us all; and we have only to be thankful, and to be sobered for another time. The Trial She speaks her mind," said Mrs. Kirkby wearily, "but she means well, and for all her flightiness her head's level. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories He was tall, lean, pale, with a haggard eager look, expressive at once of flightiness and of shrewdness. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Nobody ever thought of preventing these movements, or of checking the poor creature in her innocent flightiness, until the evening of the great event. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Rogozhinsky said that such an action was the height of inconsistency, flightiness, and pride, the only possible explanation of which was the desire to appear original, to brag, to make one's self talked about. Resurrection It seemed to her that she must have been a little flighty; but, shaking her head grimly, she decided that flightiness was not a good excuse. Penrod and Sam |
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