| 单词 | flighty |
| 例句 | Most days, however, we rode our bikes as far away from home as we could get, a flighty brood of the tiny butterflies straggling behind us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “I am a damirep. A very flighty woman, too free in her manners.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence all the flighty spirits of the morning ended between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Wilson is a little flighty like that, which is why she sometimes pays me to go knock on her door and remind her to clean her hamster cage. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Daughter of the Chief’s flighty ex-wife, come home at last. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “This stuff is between you and Byrd and that flighty daddy of yours...” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His job was less flighty than that of district attorney, al- most as permanent and dignified as superior court judge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Pumpkin was amiable to every horse he met and became a surrogate parent to the flighty ones. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Richard Parkers amber eyes met mine, the stare was intense, cold and unflinching, not flighty or friendly, and spoke of self-possession on the point of exploding with rage. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The other horse traders nearby jeered, and a flighty colt reared up in alarm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “It isn’t Nigeria, but it’s close. I know celebrities can be flighty but she seems to be doing good work.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Still, Carmello, as the flighty potential mother-in-law, has a few moments of delightful giddiness delivering her lines in rhyming, greeting-card cheerfulness. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z Here, Anna Christy painted Olympia’s flighty ornamental music in bright textures and had no problem with its difficult filigree. Music Review: Is It Traditional or Modern? Both, With Nods to Kafka and Fellini 2010-09-29T22:38:00Z Mr. Speed and Mr. Shepik articulated most of the set’s melodies in tandem, flighty and fast, with notes spilling over from one phrase to the next. Music Review | Pachora: Cross-Cultural Jazz at Rose Live Music 2010-03-18T21:52:00Z When he is brought to the racetrack to babysit a flighty golden racehorse, she follows, snagging a job as a stablehand. 3 Middle Grade Novels Explore the Bond Between Horse and Human 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It's hard not to develop an aural antsiness when YouTube is there for the flighty browsing, iPods for the impatient shuffling. Sufjan Stevens fans have the right idea: music needs to be precious again 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Compared with the humorless, grimly responsible Claire, Justine is impulsive, self-indulgent and charming: the flighty grasshopper to her sister’s responsible, dutiful ant. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z A flighty detachment seems to be a flaw in Saint-Exupéry’s temperament, one that “The Little Prince” might be reprovingly trying to correct. Exhibition Review: The Morgan Explores the Origins of ‘The Little Prince’ 2014-01-24T00:34:37Z Defeat is flighty, and victory is flighty too. Actor Graham Greene on how fear & golf relate: "It's a game where you get to play against yourself" 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Keaton was blithe and flighty, Farrow more fragile and searching. Blue Jasmine: A Woody Allen Woman Under the Influence 2013-07-25T15:03:54Z And she compares a flighty, overweight female camp counselor escorting her charges to a swimming hole to “a Shredded Wheat Biscuit box rocking on its corners.” A literary mystery: What drew Eudora Welty to detective writer Ross Macdonald? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z In the film, Roberts’ character has left her flighty husband and remains haunted by the heartbreak she’s caused. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z He shrugged, assuming I was merely flighty and walked onwards. Your stories: Circus Horse - Part 1 by HorseLover3000 2013-06-21T11:00:00Z David Annen plays the flighty father in My Dad's a Birdman with a volatility that is at once comic and unsettling. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Catherine toils over the automaton with the help of her brainy but flighty assistant Amanda. 'The Chemistry of Tears': the mournful mechanics of a broken heart 2012-05-16T18:45:09Z Here is Yeats on the flighty mother of an artist friend: “She makes me think of lumpy beds, Russian fleas and ipecacuanha wine.” Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z In the middle of an accelerated jazz version of “It’s All Right With Me” Ms. McKay interpolated a flighty semioperatic riff. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z But Ben Whishaw’s flighty, fragile Norman Scott was a rich wonder, and it elevated the already great A Very English Scandal even further. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z And her flighty grown-up daughter, Jenny, stalks out of what she terms a "midden" to seek a better life. Men Should Weep - review 2010-10-26T23:25:00Z Warham is mature and steady, Swan a little flighty and self-centred. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z She’s an incredible, brilliant performer, earthy and flighty and warm and standoffish all at once. “Lady Dynamite” upends prestige comedy: Maria Bamford’s brilliant new Netflix show is unlike anything you’ve seen 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Lily James, who played flighty cousin Rose, is angling for movie stardom with "Cinderella." 'Right time' to end 'Downton Abbey' next season, series creator says 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z I think last year she was more flighty. "Sex Lives" stars on how their characters are "more powerful" in their sexuality this year 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z His boldest idea: turning one of the central characters, a flighty woman named Daisy, into a gay florist named David. The New Season: New Layers for Broadway-Bound Musical Revivals 2011-09-17T23:00:46Z The hard reality, though, is that Serala, who transitions easily from edgy poet and filmmaker to corporate warrior, is as troubled as her flighty escapades to find drugs suggest. ‘Clearly Now, the Rain’: love and loss in post-grunge Seattle 2013-06-26T22:15:55Z She calms me down when I’m flighty or put up defences, and teaches me to see things from other people’s point of view, and to conduct myself with grace. 'She's 85 and can out-dance me': the joy of the age-gap friendship 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z "Hummingbirds are fun and flighty and strange. It's hard to keep them in one place, and Dad was a bit like that. Keeping a conversation in one moment was impossible with him." Robin Williams' daughter Zelda doesn't question his suicide: 'I don't think there's a point' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Goddard plays a flighty young woman tied up in the bet. DVDs: When Bob Hope, Joe E. Brown and Red Skelton ruled comedies 2010-06-05T01:16:00Z Senna might be flighty, but she is always grounded by Ms. Stone, who understands that this is a character that ought to be sold through presence, not performance. Review: Sharon Stone Stars in ‘All I Wish,’ a Lukewarm Romantic Comedy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The book tells the story of two half-sisters, Liz and Bean, whose flighty, self-centered mother, Charlotte, leaves them in California to pursue a singing career. Nicole & Co: Jeannette Walls — ‘Dysfunctional families are what I know’ 2013-06-20T00:00:07Z He said, “Well, you seem really flighty, I’m not going to hire you.” Max’s Kansas City Reborn for Los Angeles Art Fair 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The fourth magnificence of this, quite probably the best television I've seen this year, is Rebecca Hall as the dreadful, haughty, flighty Sylivia. Rewind TV: Parade's End; The Last Weekend; Funny Fortnight; The Queen's Mother-in-Law – review 2012-08-25T23:05:59Z In one of the longer bits, the pair pretended to audition for the role of the white Diana Ross in a show about the Supremes, but the humor was a little too flighty to land. Review: ‘Too Blondes,’ a Cabaret of Comic Confusion 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z ANAHEIM, Calif. — It seems like a dream as flighty as Tinkerbell and as quirky as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. OC couple trying for year-round Disneyland visits 2012-07-03T18:46:07Z She was perfectly happy with the companionate love he had cultivated with her coworkers around the station, forming a makeshift family with with her cantankerous producer, flighty head writer, and clueless anchor. Office lol-itics: the evolution of the workplace sitcom 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Perhaps an earthier, less flighty romantic partner is just what she needs. Seven things we learned from the new Game of Thrones photos 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The surface-level reading of the flighty pop song is pretty standard: Forbidden young love, the thrills of disappointing your parents, and a boyfriend imploring you to run away with him. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Carrie is flighty; Bushnell has her feet, if not her heels, firmly on the ground. ‘I Don’t Know What a Carrie Is’: Candace Bushnell Works It Out Onstage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Does, our protagonist, perhaps, have another flighty teenage daughter with a Eurorail ticket in her pocket and a shocking disregard for daddy's warnings about hanging out with strange older men? Taken 2 trailer: Liam Neeson is still the daddy 2012-06-22T13:42:00Z What happens next is surprising and touching, and upends your notions about Anaïs and what this love story — with its flighty gamine, its extramarital affair, its routine heterosexual coupling — should be and what it is. ‘Anaïs in Love’ Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The flightiest dish we ordered was grilled antelope with blackberries, balsamic, cherries, faro, pistachios — and even that seemed informed by a place, and that place surely wasn’t the Southwest. Choice Tables: Beyond Brisket and Burritos in Austin, Tex. 2013-12-03T21:04:26Z Feeling unaccomplished compared to her fellow Columbia MFA classmates, Kate follows the lead of a flighty friend and books a one-way ticket to a retreat in a Thai village. Review | ‘Younger’ fans: You can finally read the sexy novel that shocked Liza 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But the new BBC commission Suppôts et Supplications was brilliantly propulsive: instruments bubbling to the surface then burning out, flighty diversions sucked in around single notes like scattered nails to magnets. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z The indelible, spiky piano riff on “N.Y. State of Mind” is played by an acoustic bass and padded by lurking brass; creeping vibraphone on “One Love” gets a lift from flighty woodwinds. What’s on TV Friday: Nas and ‘Strike Back’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z At least one of the characters in City Island – a flighty young aspiring actor, living an elaborate lie – certainly conforms to the cliche. Andy Garcia: the outsider 2010-07-19T06:59:00Z My mother was pretty and flighty, her friend less so. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In a private meeting with Matsson, Kendall casts a steely eye on him and remains unfazed even when the flighty tech billionaire makes a snide comment about Waystar’s sliding stock price. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap: Bleed the Swede 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Once again, Johnny Depp stars as the lovably flighty pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow. Dean Richards: More 'Pirates' for Depp? 2011-05-13T14:32:00Z Big American stars are flighty and expensive, and they wouldn’t necessarily enjoy the grunt-work of putting together a weekly magazine show for BBC Two. No host, no hope: is it time for Top Gear to be sent to the scrapheap? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Hauk: I say, I say / You remind me / Of that flighty little gypsy girl/ I shagged 50 years ago. Digested opera: The Makropulos Case 2010-10-01T15:08:00Z Ms. Spalding has grown more confident and less flighty as a singer, though she still writes songs that call for effervescence. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z Jude will befriend her aunt’s daughter — a flighty, blonde actress — who, like everyone else, is ignorant of Stella’s origins. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Reading too much into the wisdom of flighty investors is foolish, of course. Is Apple running out of juice? 2013-03-09T14:00:02Z Harvard University told her they already had too many women in their religion program — Why waste openings on the flighty sex? — but if she were still interested a year later, she could apply again. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z They are given such narrow and precise roles to play — abandoned sister, loyal partner, flighty daughter — and they play them so responsibly, never deviating from their scripts, that repetitiveness and flatness creep into the writing. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Even worse, the hiding place that Scott finds to avoid being stalked and slandered by the media belongs to a flighty left-wing heiress who mostly sees him as a collector’s item. Review: Noah Hawley’s ‘Before the Fall’ Is One of the Year’s Best Suspense Novels 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z He’s sad—about his flighty mother, his absent father, his lack of a support system—but this sadness manifests itself in anger and contrariness, the brunt of which goes towards the ever long-suffering Luke. A Definitive Ranking of Rory Gilmore's Hapless Boyfriends 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z For his part, Mr. O’Dowd said that the media image of Mr. Franco — flighty and shallow and spread almost absurdly thin, with all his different projects — was wrong. James Franco and Chris O’Dowd on Their Rapport in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-03-19T12:00:02Z Still, Ms. July remains regarded by some as a flighty interloper who only dabbles in fiction between other projects. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z "I like hummingbirds. They're fun and flighty and strange. It's hard to keep them in one place and Dad was a bit like that," she said. Robin Williams' daughter speaks out 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The Lacuna tells the story of Harrison Shepherd, the child of a flighty, hopeful Mexican mother, and a faceless US bureaucrat father, who gets caught up in great moments of world history. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z Mr. Spears, again surprising me, gives Mary curiously agitated and flighty music. Risk-Taking New Opera Tells a Tragic 1950s Gay Love Story 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The soprano Susanna Phillips brought touching vulnerability to the role of Birdie, Oscar’s flighty wife, who frets and drinks too much. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Her character Carrie Bradshaw’s refusal—at times principled, at times frustratingly flighty—to settle in the face of several comfortable options was a television milestone. Sarah Jessica Parker Is Turning 50, and She's More Interesting Than Ever 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Lacy, probably best known as Pete on the final season of "The Office," is a solid counterpoint to Slate's flighty, fidgety style. 'Obvious Child' teases the comedy out of the human condition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Like the man himself, flighty and busy, Mr. West showed up for a few minutes via an onscreen avatar on Friday night. Gallery Hopes to Sell Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for $4 Million 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z She's flighty and wild, the film tells us, but with Mom out of the picture she has to rise, and luckily, being pregnant helps her do so. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z More than slightly flighty, she uses astrology to gauge people. ‘Spoor’ Review: Hunters in the Snow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z They’re fun, flighty bohemians, brought down to earth by Adam’s illness, but refusing to be buried by it. Declaration of War: Romeo and Juliette Take on Cancer 2012-01-27T16:28:06Z One of them, a preteen playing a flighty heiress, accessorized with a live chicken. In These Immersive Shows, the Jury Is In (Your Home) 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z CBBC, with its more demanding task of appealing to flighty and ruthlessly channel-hopping primary school children, needs inevitably more expensive drama, comedy, action and entertainment. CBeebies is being woefully neglected by the BBC 2012-05-23T12:46:46Z Memory is a prevailing theme in the play: the aged matriarch suffers from dementia and the grown daughter is flighty. ArtsBeat Blog: A 'Big Love' Creator Takes on a Different Family 2011-08-12T18:30:25Z The flighty, breezy looks are often accompanied by sturdy shoes, balancing a young women's desire to be sure-footed with her more romantic side. Tennis stars Williams, Djokovic take their game to Armani 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Exit the flighty imagination and return to earth. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ? iPad app review 2011-07-22T08:00:01Z We do know that they're a boy/girl duo from Sweden, with wispy female vocals over flighty, flimsy electronic rhythms. New band of the day ? No 764: JJ 2010-04-12T14:37:00Z Would a flighty audience stick around for a full LP full of moody electronic songs with cryptic lyrics, whose singles often approach 10 minutes? Techno music pioneering band Underworld remains ever current 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z 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 She called up the vocal coach and activist Max Margulis, and once she convinced him that she was not a flighty folk singer but a serious person, they embarked on a 30-year course of study. Judy Collins Has a Time Machine 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Oates’s book has more warmth, though it’s also flabbier and flightier. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z Ditto for Mr. Hayes, who played the flighty, foppish Jack McFarland on the hit series and who is now on Broadway in “Promises, Promises.” Cultural Studies: A Celebrity Comes Out of the Closet? So What? 2010-05-21T22:00:00Z I found this dull but I am sure others wouldn't, very flighty and a bit folksy. Sparkle's Song by Samantha Hale - review 2012-11-12T12:00:00Z The “Enigma” Variations are a study in vivid contrasts, from the fluttering and flighty passages to the mighty gravity of the best-known variation, “Nimrod.” Vadim Gluzman delivers power and passion with SSO | Classical review 2013-03-15T16:59:25Z His way with the flighty, delicate final minuet variation is especially beguiling. Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z She was a sailor’s daughter, raised on a farm, clever but flighty in her youth, a pretty, provincial flirt who married a wealthy merchant. Secrets of a power marriage: The Disraelis were the Clintons of their time 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Lily’s mother is flighty, unstable, unreliable, and dies when Lily is 12; Lily’s father is unfaithful and uncaring. From Hollywood ‘Pretty Girl’ to Empowered Novelist 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z In the increasingly fractured world of journalism, editors and writers are turning to new narrative methods to entice flighty readers. RIP “storytelling”: How online marketers and tech bros destroyed the word 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Tristán, vain and flighty, can hardly concentrate on anything but his career. A genre-hopping novelist reinvents the ghost story as a Mexico City horror film 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z It ought to be a great role for her but the movie is too shallow and flighty to do her justice. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The Jan. 6 deniers range from true believers to flighty opportunists, with fevered arguments among them as to who is which. Far-Right Pushes a Through-the-Looking-Glass Narrative on Jan. 6 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The broader crypto market malaise is partly to blame for price drops, according to researchers who said the flighty assets were wilting as investors shunned risk. Cryptoverse: Messi takes on Ronaldo in fan coin world cup 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Sardonic, hard-nosed Jen and flighty, bleeding heart Judy are returning after more than two years, so fans may need a binge-watch refresher on their high jinks. The 20 shows our TV experts are most excited to watch this fall 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The new breed of retail investor has acquired the image of a flighty, speculative day trader just looking to make a fast buck, especially in the riskier, frothier parts of financial markets such as crypto. Column: Stocks rebound shows the devil in the retail 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s easy to forget that movies are often just somebody’s flighty dream filtered through a process designed to make it palatable, only that sometimes the effort deepens the eccentricity. Review: Inspired by Celine Dion, the musical drama 'Aline' is glossy, sincere and weird 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Dorothy’s impatience and crankiness with her husband, as well as a seemingly palpable disdain for him, at first seem rooted in his pie-in-the-sky crusades, flighty job choices and how they barely scrape by financially. Review: Broadbent, Mirren steal the show in Roger Michell's last feature 'The Duke' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Ohio isn’t the only one who has made this flighty error. Wright Brothers, wrong design: Ohio mangles license plate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z She knows it sounds flighty, but the dream has become more poignant in the past six months as she wrestled with whether to speak up on Jones’s behalf. Facing execution, Julius Jones seeks clemency — with help from an unlikely ally 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Her sister, the flighty Princess Margaret, continues to rage against the constraints of royal propriety, often with the aid of liquid refreshment. 'Very entertaining' or 'a lie with a capital L'? Brits love, lambaste 'The Crown' 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z This is, after all, a problem that goes beyond one flighty playmaker and one high-energy pressing game. The absurdity of Mesut Özil’s exile, yet another top talent cut adrift | Jonathan Liew 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s all there: The body in the library; the inspector on the case; the starchy ex-military man of the house; the flighty second wife; the sullen, eccentric children; and so much more. Review: A murder most fortunate: John Banville kills off his own pen name for the better 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z His flighty ways reminded me of the breezes blowing this way and that across the Silver Lake reservoirs. L.A. Affairs: Why my search for love had to start with me 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z There’s a famous producer interested in his band, but he’s flighty, and the band needs some work. Netflix’s The Eddy is a can’t-miss trip to Paris — with one bad detour 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Maybe he just couldn’t trust me anymore because of my flighty past? L.A. Affairs: I was dating a Trojan and a Bruin: Would it end badly? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Despite being wary of Brown’s “flighty” reputation, Prisk said he took the initial meeting with the NFL star and subsequently took him on as a client. Antonio Brown shares text messages appearing to show doctor joking about farting incident 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Despite being wary of Brown’s “flighty” reputation, Prisk says he took the initial meeting with the NFL star and subsequently took him on as a client. Antonio Brown's former doctor makes bizarre allegation about receiver's flatulence: report 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Secret recordings of Daoud first played publicly in court last week revealed him as flighty and immature. Judge sentences would-be Chicago bar bomber to 16 years 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Nick Adams’ Whizzer might be vain, a bit flighty — and not a big fan of monogamy — but he’s a stalwart and compassionate additional father figure. Review: ‘Falsettos’ sings life’s frantic melodies at the Ahmanson 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Moroder’s flighty madness becomes majestic when he’s in the company of eccentrics. Giorgio Moroder – his 20 greatest songs, ranked 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z His brother-in-law Tobias is still homeless and jobless, foraging for food and shelter with a couple of flighty actors, one of whom is his son. Arrested Development’s fifth season undercuts its legacy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Sexy, flighty and vulnerable by turns, Huwe’s layered performance frees Cherie from Marilyn Monroe’s famous portrayal in the film version and justifies her self-styled “chanteuse” title when called upon to sing. Review: In 'Bus Stop,' finding human connection on a lonely road 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But Little’s flighty lifestyle made him hard to track, Roberts said. Convicted of killing 3 women in L.A., a man claims he's killed at least 90 across the U.S. It's up to police to find the truth 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s an absorbing story, involving a flighty collaborator and friendships that were ultimately tested by both the passage of time and a reordering of priorities. New video: 'Sorry to Bother You' is an original, lacerating social satire - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Using homelessness as a background for a flighty comedy about the rise and fall of artists grappling with fame is a profoundly tacky and misguided endeavor. Review: Hollywood satire ‘An L.A. Minute’ offends more than it bites 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z For all its flighty connotations, Gypsy culture can be stifling in its demands for living in line with its hidden rules. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Clearly, the Warriors have had more unfocused and flighty moments than in the past. Perspective | The trouble with the Warriors: They’re content to cruise when they could soar 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z For while India has some of the world’s greatest biodiversity, including 26 primate species from wide-eyed slow lorises to flighty macaques, it has only ever had one non-human ape. Assam's Endangered Apes 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Bangi was too flighty to be helpful, and with no conventional HR or clear hierarchy, there was nowhere to turn when managers crossed the line. How a rock star of Iranian digital activism built a culture of misogyny and fear 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Gonzalez’s $12 million salary might be the most tradable of the group, but however flighty he might seem to those who watch him every day, he is a relative bargain at that price. The Nationals paid competitive balance tax in 2017, and are now positioned to do so next year, too. 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z As for Black, he evinces an unreasonable amount of glee as he channels the flirty, flighty blonde within. ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’: Dwayne Johnson and gang get sucked into fairly clever game 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z She didn’t read as flighty; she didn’t speak in a distant, spooky voice; she seemed upset, but grounded. Into the woods: how online urban legend Slender Man inspired children to kill 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The failure to press Liverpool’s flighty defence at Anfield two weeks ago will still provide a note of frustration. José Mourinho revels in the brutal beauty of sticking to his principles | Barney Ronay 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Makeup lovers are a flighty species, enthralled by millennial pink one day and grungy black-plum the next. We’re Living in the Golden Age of Contouring 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z It was only natural, then, for the more flighty Margaret, throneless and fancy-free, to go in search of company less starchy and more glamorous. ‘Not amused’: Princess Margaret’s misadventures in bohemia 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z "A lot of people just saw a flighty young woman," he says of their first interactions. Can Ardern 'stardust' win in New Zealand? 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z The horse is described as “flighty” by Baffert, even to the point where she doesn’t like anyone to touch her head. Stellar Wind wins thrilling duel in Beholder Mile 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z “When I got her she was a little bit flighty,” Baffert said. Bob Baffert looking to graduate Vale Dori to star status if she can win the Beholder Mile 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But the furious sailing in practice racing so far has been an eye-opener, as crews battle to control the flighty yachts while grappling with reliability problems. Sailing: Team USA face toughest Cup challenge - Spithill 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In times of uncertainty, the slogan suggests, you want a firm hand, not some flighty intellectual. 'Strong and stable leadership!' Could Theresa May's rhetorical carpet-bombing backfire? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Exit the creaky, flighty, high class midweek Carling Cup types – the Carlos Vela Supremacy – who for all their frustrations always seemed to have a brilliant midweek hat-trick against Reading in their locker. Arsène Wenger squeezes sadly into last season’s tactical skinny jeans | Barney Ronay 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The actor brings her air of serious purpose to the role of Lady Mountbatten, giving us a less flighty version of the aristocrat than the good-time girl caricature we’ve been accustomed to. Gillian Anderson: ‘There were times when life was really bad’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z But is there a magic number, one that will make sure you don't stop progressing, but also doesn't make you look too, well, flighty? How long should you stay in one job? - BBC News 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Two eyebrows rose beneath her neatly pleated headscarf as if to signal amusement at the flighty sophistication of Beiruti ladies. Remembrance of tastes past: Syria’s disappearing food culture | Wendell Steavenson 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Plato, one of the earliest to see democracy as a problem, saw its typical citizen as shiftless and flighty: The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z This is an addition to an always increasing emphasis on pricing and convenience to appease flighty consumers and results-seeking investors. Wal-Mart Stores Declares a Price War 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z We all, both men and women, are on occasion a bit flighty, but for the most part I have rarely witnessed truly erratic behavior on the part of either sex. What Our Sons Are Learning From Donald Trump 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Some 72 percent of its balance sheet of 992 billion euros was funded by capital providers such as retail depositors, who are likely to be the least flighty, as of the end of June. Deutsche Bank Has Problems, but Not With Liquidity 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Greenlaw plays Nick, a New Yorker who spends his days working as a producer for flighty young musicians, and his nights partying himself into a stupor. Music producer returns home in indie drama 'Mommy's Box' 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps, in addition to maintaining a personal relationship, you’re concerned about being pegged professionally as a flighty, flaky youngster. When Loyalty Delays a Career Change 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z That gay men, known as flighty, foolish and frightened of their own shadows, would instantly jump off the nearest bridge if given the results of a positive test. Could Women Be Trusted With Their Own Pregnancy Tests? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z I have no doubt that the leaders of our current military, who are far more realistic than many of our politicians, would rather see her as President than her flighty, fidgety opponent Donald Trump. What Made Hillary Clinton's Acceptance Speech Work 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Raising the pitifully low savings rate would reduce Turkey’s reliance on flighty foreigners. Sugar highs 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Lani, the Japan-based colt with a flighty reputation, ran a strong third after finishing ninth in the Derby and fifth in the Preakness. Creator pulls an upset in the Belmont Stakes 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z That will encourage Lending Club and others to turn back towards less flighty retail investors. Membership revoked 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The crisis of 2008-09, when oil prices fell and the world economy stagnated, revealed that the Russian economy was dependent on flighty foreign hedge funds and retail investors. Putin’s right-hand woman 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Jude, however, is less forgiving of her flighty, cavalier dad who, she believes, chose commerce over art. 'One More Time' with Christopher Walken plays a simple tune 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z This is not a gift for the flighty. Holiday Gift and Gadget Guide “Organizing creates a durable, engaged group of supporters that aren’t going to be flighty,” said Michael Halle, Clinton’s Iowa caucus director. On the ground in Iowa, Clinton tries to fix her 2008 mistakes 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z But the Yogi-isms testified to a character — goofy and philosophical, flighty and down to earth — that came to define the man. Yogi Berra, Master Catcher With a Goofy Wit, Dies at 90 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z First, the report says that stakes in larger funds are more likely to be held by those flighty investors, often in a so-called fund of funds—an investment that holds stakes in other funds. In Chaos, Small Hedge Funds Do Better 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Just like China's stock markets, the country's futures exchanges are dominated by retail investors, who are more flighty and likely to borrow from shadow lenders which demand high levels of interest. Former teenage soldier hatches millions from Chinese egg futures 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Yet it is likely to get cheaper still, reckons George Papamarkakis of North Asset Management, a hedge fund, because of its exposure to raw materials and because lots of flighty foreign investors own Malaysian bonds. A few dollars less 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Those changes include a commitment to increasing overall bank capital levels, replacing flighty but cheap short-term financing with costlier long-term debt and equity, and a minimization of guarantees between parent companies and subsidiaries. Banks Promise No Lehman Moment By Relying On Unfinished Derivative Rule Change 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z He was a brother of actress Rebecca Schull, best known for her role as the flighty Fay on the sitcom “Wings.” Ben J. Wattenberg, writer and television commentator, dies at 81 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Set in Long Island in the late 1950s, High Society tells of a flighty socialite, Tracy Lord, who finds herself torn between three suitors on her wedding weekend. High Society musical ends Kevin Spacey Old Vic tenure - BBC News 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Can the art market at this lavish level be as flighty as this season’s fashions and pop trends? Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z More than anything, that somber story will be an antidote to Biden’s current flighty image. Forget Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden Is the Democrats' Best Bet in 2016 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z With his sometimes flighty personality, Bowe became a fan favorite in Kansas City. Chiefs release former Pro Bowl WR Dwayne Bowe 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z One thing the basketball committee doesn’t like is flighty; as much as another quality victory, the Bruins need to show they’re stable down the stretch, winning the flip-a-coin games. Is the Pac-12 becoming (gulp) a two-bid league? 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z A little elf named Sunny, who loves Marianne’s flighty kid sister, Dawn, accidentally trespasses into the Bog King’s realm and all heck breaks loose. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Strange Magic,’ ‘Black or White’ and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z And it should get a GM with experience in the job who can deal with a flighty owner. With three firings on Monday, there are a handful of NFL coaching openings to fill 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z This game’s reputation as a flighty distraction belies the mastery of its gameplay. Why am I still playing Bejeweled? 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Regulators are keen on the idea of transferring risk from outfits with flighty, government-insured funding, such as deposits at banks, to ones with more stable, loss-absorbing backers, such as the shareholders of BDCs. Shadowy developments 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But in the months to follow, they got the full complement of their neighbor - from the high energy and determination to the woman who was at times flighty but always particularly thoughtful. Sioux Falls suicide brings Guard under scrutiny 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z To thrive it must attract flighty technical talent and get along with partners. Waiting in the wings 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A combo more frat house than State House, they are the new fine-feathered fellows in the aviary of flighty men. Mark Sanford’s pathetic saga with himself So instead, learn to live with the fact that the market is flighty and the knowledge that every now and then it’s going to tumble. These 3 Simple Steps Will Protect You If There's a Market Meltdown 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In a week of flighty waves, there was a significant increase in swells for the closing events Sunday. Filipe Toledo's aerial skills give him big win at U.S. Open of Surfing 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Yet time is a flighty character in the film. Review: Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' Projects a Spellbinding View of Memory “We tend to see people in a very flighty and shallow way.” Have You Read The Latest Startup Thriller? 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It is precisely because that friend seems so new, young, fresh and perhaps flighty that you don't mind so much when it makes a hash of things and loses your precious data. Internet giants wooed us, but the honeymoon is over 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z That makes them less flighty; escapes are harder to execute alone. The lesser escape 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Koum spoke English well enough but disliked the casual, flighty nature of American high-school friendships; in Ukraine you went through ten years with the same, small group of friends at school. How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby 2014-02-20T00:58:00Z A mother and child giving flighty residents of Minsk, capital of Belarus, their stale daily bread. Day in pictures: 7 February 2014 2014-02-07T14:04:55Z After all, iPhones and Androids might be catching the eye of flighty consumers, but businesses were not going to change from their secure and reliable if slightly dull Blackberries in a hurry. Blackberry’s 'bring your own' blues 2013-09-24T08:07:10Z First, while people rarely move in response to tax changes – flighty financial capital does move. Heard that countries should 'compete' on tax? Wrong 2013-04-18T09:07:55Z It also means putting less flighty creditors in the line of fire, by adopting an EU-wide resolution regime requiring banks to issue bonds that absorb losses before big depositors do. The Cyprus bail-out: This septic isle 2013-03-27T09:47:58Z Their government kept its debt low, and their banks, though large relative to the size of the economy, weren't dependent on flighty wholesale money markets but were rich in stable deposits. Crisis Won't Hurt Euro Zone---Unless Cyprus Leaves 2013-03-21T21:26:46Z Early on, he’d share his frustrations with flighty girlfriends, editors, and supers. Are You Only a Wannabe? 15 Ways to Tell 2013-02-25T13:34:49Z One might pose a similar question of Zero Dark Thirty, which portrays its intelligence-gathering Americans as variously savage, dedicated, flighty, monomaniacal, generous, blinkered, amoral and hollowed out. Oscar Countdown: Kathryn Bigelow's Art of Darkness 2013-02-21T21:35:22Z But I fear he wouldn’t be succeeding without his evil twin, in the same way that Specter, one of my favorite science writers, is not as famous as the far more flighty Malcolm Gladwell. Dr. Oz And Mr. Hyde: What Medicine Should Learn From Mehmet 2013-01-29T13:09:23Z Never mind the substance, feel the internal politics - this plays to the stereotypes backbench traditionalists and Cameroon loyalists hold about each other: flighty metropolitan liberals v social dinosaurs. What to watch out for in Parliament in 2013 2013-01-01T10:00:13Z On the one hand, cloudiness may cause our thinking to become more flighty. 3 Ways Chromebooks Will Alter Your Mind 2012-12-14T16:53:31Z A nation is a difficult thing to grasp: unpalpable, mythic, flighty. Euro 2012 Hero Mario Balotelli: He's Black, Italian and Proud 2012-06-29T08:35:32Z He writes Berlioz that he wished to make the acquaintance of the principal Italian cities and really could hope for no benefiting influence from these flighty stops. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The difficulties and happiness of a very sober-minded girl among her more flighty companions are brightly described. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z She has a great deal of inner life; she thinks a great deal; she is not like the other flighty women that you see in the circus. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z That would cut the external deficit and allow for lower interest rates, deterring some of the flightier forms of capital. Turkey?s economy: Istanbuls and bears 2012-04-04T15:00:00Z Younger drivers are flightier, he said, like the one a few years back who left a cab on the Brooklyn Bridge, jumped off — and survived. Character Study : Want a Cab? Stanley Wissak, 84, Owns the Keys 2012-03-24T05:43:53Z Sometimes young players are a little flighty or they don’t concentrate, but he never changed. With Robin Ventura as Manager, White Sox Do a 180 2012-03-19T19:19:02Z "Oh, miss, so you'll follow Miss Howe, will you?" she sneered, alluding to a tale of scandal that still furnished the text for many a sermon to the young and flighty. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z For suddenly she recognised, with a feeling nearer terror than her flighty nature had ever experienced before, her complete dependence on him. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z He said the Sultan was building a fortress on the ice when he entrusted the fate of the Hungarians to such a flighty youth as Emeric Tököly. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Outside of the Latin, the Curetonian is the sole ally, the Lewis being mutilated, of the flighty Old Uncial under consideration. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z This attack is said to have profoundly modified his nervous system, perhaps providing the neuropathic basis for traits shown later in life, such as awkwardness, restlessness, flighty attention, distractibility and general sensori-motor deficiency. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z She was gayer, prettier, more heedless, more flighty than of old. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z For me, flighty, frivolous girls are so uninspiring. India Ink: A Conversation With: Prabal Gurung 2012-02-15T07:55:00Z She glanced round the well-remembered hall--the hall once smart, now shabby--in which she had seen the flighty girl play many a mad prank. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The dream-soul is, to put it very mildly, a silly flighty thing. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z One might have expected that the mental processes of Poincaré, which were shown to be flighty, uncontrolled, spontaneous, unstable and spasmodic, would have particularly fitted him for the activity of the romancer. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z For once no notice was taken of her, and she quickened her pace with a flighty toss of her head.... The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Hence he was probably looked upon as "indolent, flighty, and unpromising." Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z That, under her aloofness, she was a woman like the others, as vain, passionate, flighty, as jealous as other women. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Fly′away, flighty; Fly′-bit′ten, marked by the bite of flies.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z I have not mentioned the tenor, who only makes his chief conquests amongst romantic and flighty women. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Much of this flighty cash finds its way into banks through lightly regulated vehicles like certificates of deposits or repurchase agreements. Op-Ed Contributor: Bring Back Boring Banks 2012-01-04T03:32:30Z "If I bin a missis," she would say, tossing her flighty head haughtily, "I bin a missis." The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Much less did such reflections trouble her on whose flighty mind they should have rested so heavily. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Most of the reformers or pretended reformers that I have known have been flighty men, flying about after everything without solidity to rest on, and accomplish anything. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Then, in the flighty manner of youth, she changed the subject. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z But his brother Thomas, who moved along in the old rut, had small sympathy with all this experimenting, and thought Josiah flighty and full of fancies. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z It expressed his dissatisfaction with her airy, flighty propensities, her love of gaiety and gadding. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He was considered flighty, and was not looked upon as being of any importance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Brazil imposed a tax on the flightier sorts of foreign capital to stop the real from appreciating too much. The euro crisis and emerging markets: Drought warning 2011-11-10T09:32:56Z Mrs Mowbray, poor woman, had good intentions; but she was too flighty. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z She was only a little flighty at times, and Mrs. Hickley was too busy, what with breakfasts at different hours and some liking one thing and some another, to pay much attention to her. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Arnold is very flighty, and I fear also very imprudent. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:24.180Z Hitherto the girls he had met had been dressed to the very utmost of their means, and had behaved in a flighty, loud manner which grated on his feelings. Mother Meg or, The Story of Dickie's Attic 2011-10-13T02:00:40.380Z The minister was nothing abashed by the doctor's flighty tone. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z And we're neither of us so young, nor so flighty that we wouldn't know our own minds. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Snipe thought he "must have been flighty a few days," but people had been very kind to him. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z Countess Denhoff was not tall either; she was gracious, and played the part of a melancholy person, although naturally she was flighty, and burned with a desire for gaiety. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z In the Carriage.—The seats are now occupied: the Lady of Family is in one corner, next to a Chatty Woman with a basket, and opposite to an Eccentric-Looking Man with a flighty manner. Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z She was always a flighty thing and never looks after it properly. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z She had no sooner sat down than she began to ask Angelica, with an agreeable though flighty animation, if she had seen somebody since he had come back from his wedding trip? The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Something frisky, flighty, fantastic,—yet panting, blushing, dying with love for me!—' The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z It is only the small men who laugh in the face of genuine enthusiasm, however wild and flighty it may seem. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z There were those who even went to the extent of regarding her as flighty. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z There are other things which a flighty young person should know and which I shall write her at length later. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z Suddenly, in the dull silence, Mrs. Colfax began asking, in her flightiest manner, about Angelica's family. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z This luckless prince was married to Marguerite Louise d'Orleans, niece of Louis XIV., a young lady of flighty fancies and obstinate willfulness. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z He was still flighty and had no idea of his whereabouts. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z Here the women are different—less flighty, more serious, and as occupied as the men. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z She bore another son after G. F. who is extremely flighty and unmanageable. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z Johnson, like many before him, was never going to be inclined to gamble on flighty youth. Riki Flutey set to miss out on England Rugby World Cup squad 2011-08-21T16:32:38Z "I don't like such flighty talk, Ruth," said Mrs. Pryor reprovingly. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z First, French banks are particularly reliant on potentially flighty short-term wholesale funding, rather than on stickier deposits or long-term debt. Fears over French banks: Panic in Paris 2011-08-18T09:02:44Z I liked you a sight better when you were flighty and frivolous. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z They stopped at the gate by the New Sea, over whose smooth surface slight breaths of mist were curling, and stood kicking the ground and the stones as flighty horses paw. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z “I missed my box o’ red pepper last evening; but I had no idee what that flighty gal took it for. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z I could not sleep until I got the following limerick out of my system: The Human Fly Our Mary, an actress so flighty, Scaled a wall in her very best nighty. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z "Now that's the way to behave," said Mrs. Caldwell, smiling, with motherly approval; "I see you'll know all you've got to do after a while—girls is flighty at first, Mr. Johnson." Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z I liked her better when she was flighty and flirty, that I did—a deal better. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z They may be, but they are flighty and nervous, and they hae no experience. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Hence had arisen a humorous, flighty, rhapsodical way of thinking about all things, or, rather, of uttering the immediate impressions they produced on him. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z "I did not expect anything more from these flighty maids and the yard boy,—they have only been here five or six years,—but Milly and Jasper!" A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z He was one of these flighty mortals whom it is extremely difficult to have fix their minds upon any one idea for a definite time. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It seems that the child is rather wild—er—flighty, as it were. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z He ain’t exactly asleep, but he’s stupid and flighty; get into the wagon, Mr. Parks, and see how he is for yourself. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z I see at once that the Kernel was flighty. Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia 2011-05-22T02:00:13.943Z When his fever came on he got "flighty" and horrified the widow with talk about an angel on a clay root and a sweet little "hoss thief" from whom he had stolen the "picters!" Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The slashing rope-work of the old hands had already left the horse herd nervous and flighty, and something about the way Bowles whirled his wide-flung loop seemed to drive them into a frenzy. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z His head's running wild over that flighty Bridget, as ain't worth her salt. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Then there's the other kind of "flawed" candidate -- the one whose personality and/or ideology is so flighty and extreme that nominating him/her would have potentially serious general election consequences. The two types of "flawed" Republican presidential candidates 2011-05-11T16:48:00Z "Yes; but by more than a promise; by an oath," he said, flightily; "and she is not the only woman who is infatuated with me," he added, chuckling at his companion's discomfiture. A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z Mrs. Mackay, an energetic person with a strong will regulated by abundant common sense, was one among the few people of whom her flighty sister Julia stood in awe. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Lucy Davidson was pretty, and, I understand, vain and flighty, while she disappeared, I think, a little too suddenly. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Well, mother, I fear I have written you a flighty kind of a letter—I write in haste. The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion 2011-04-01T02:00:42.513Z I rarely bet on horse racing, believing racehorses to be flighty creatures capable of capricious behaviour that it is folly to try to predict. My bad luck at cards paid dividends at the Cheltenham Festival 2011-03-21T00:05:04Z Mrs. Mynors had been warned that the nurse was flighty, but had taken no notice of the caution. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z But these flighty children took care not to say such things in the hearing of their mothers, who had been treated for Gineral Wakeness. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z This old woman, from long solitude, I suppose, talked to others as if she were talking to herself, and rambled on, flightily and vaguely. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z But be it how it might, they could not afford to quarrel with Mr. Dingwell; and Mr. Dingwell was a man of a flighty and furious temper. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z Maybe this is metaphysics again; if it is, I'm sorry for it, but the German Diet must take the blame of it,—a course of sauerkraut would make any man flighty. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Imagine yourself endeavoring, through the flighty visions of a wandering intellect, to find out the subjunctive mood or the past participle, and almost forgetting the torment of your gout in the terrors of your grammar! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Having as his companion a man so flighty in his notions did but increase the flavour of whatever he engaged in. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Nice people in Limerick, but a trifle flighty, don't you think? Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z He said it was all the fault of that flighty lass, Kitty, an’ that a lot of fuss was bein’ made about nowt. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Really, my dear, if I had felt disposed to accept any advances on the part of Mr Tregenna, his conduct with that flighty creature would have set me against him.” The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z Your daughter’s conduct has given Mrs Saint Ray great cause for anxiety from the first, as it has been flighty, and not at all lady-like. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z But somehow these flighty, imaginative, speculative men have very often a wonderful persuasiveness about them, and can give to the wildest dreams a marvellous air of substance and reality. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z It is a slippery, flighty thing; but, properly pounced upon, lends itself fruitfully to squeezing. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z She was a flighty, vain little creature, and flattered of course by his being so madly in love. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z There was a point beyond which it was unwise to provoke the baronage or the commons, and, unlike his flighty and thriftless father, he knew where that point came. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z After that he made ardent, headlong love to her at every opportunity, with a flighty recklessness which began by amusing her. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Arianna Huffington is some sort of genius, no doubt, but she is also a goofy, flighty rich person, with odd ideas and ... shifting conceptions of what the point of the Huffington Post is. AOL HuffPo buy signals news, ads push 2011-02-08T00:14:00Z Arianna Huffington is some sort of genius, no doubt, but she is also a goofy, flighty rich person, with odd ideas and... shifting conceptions of what the point of the Huffington Post is. AOL eats Huffington Post, Arianna to rule over all content 2011-02-07T14:45:00Z Behind the apparent stolidity hid something that danced and sang; something almost flighty. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z His is not one of those flighty romantic natures which are easily assailable by such temptations. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z En Route The seats are now all occupied: the Lady of Family is in one corner, next to a Chatty Woman with a basket, and opposite to an Eccentric-looking Man with a flighty manner. Mr. Punch's Railway Book 2011-01-23T03:00:16.120Z She was too flighty, and this escapade of hers in the desert stamped her as a woman of loose morals, who would bring only sorrow to a man of Daniel Lane’s temperament. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z I am a prose laborer," Warrington said: "you, my boy, are a poet in a small way, and so, I suppose, consider you are authorized to be flighty. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z Voters can be flighty when it comes to closers. Will Trevor Hoffman make the Hall of Fame? 2011-01-12T20:31:15Z William Tecumseh Sherman was reputed to be flighty in the head. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z I think my talk became a little flighty, as I watched his face, so brave and so white. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Philip Falcone, the embattled manager of the hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, bought a public shell company to avoid the whims of flighty investors. DealBook: For Activist Funds, a Long-Term Approach to Investing 2010-12-21T00:45:00Z Zuckerman is the poster-mogul for a flighty class of New York billionaires with an exceptionally limited grasp of governing and policy and an outsize role in shaping the debate. No. 15: Mort Zuckerman 2010-11-23T18:01:00Z Anxious to wean themselves off flighty foreign funding after the crises of the 1990s, many emerging-market governments sought to build up local-currency bond issuance. Emerging-market debt: A run for your money 2010-08-26T10:50:00Z After moving to New York, however and being suddenly bombarded by not only inconsiderate locals, but flighty, slower-than-molasses tourists, I was rudely awakened to just how agonizing midday transactions in Manhattan can be! | Abusive Customers 2010-06-18T18:27:00Z The first is that, unlike banks, they are funded by premiums rather than flightier forms of debt. Europe's insurers: No time to relax 2010-04-22T10:36:00Z All it takes to cause chaos is for one of the flighty youngsters to ditch its rider and hare off towards those from some other stable. Clive Brittain's dark horses learn to shine as creatures of the night 2010-04-16T20:22:00Z She was flighty herself, when young; she was, no doubt; and now I suppose she likes others to be the same. Rachel Ray We got you up here and brought you around, though I don't suppose you remember anything about it, for you were kind o' flighty. The Man from Jericho How this enmity began I do not know, but it increased daily and finally reached the boiling point when Torcas ran off with the flighty young wife of his enemy. The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico He rallied the artist upon his flighty heart, which, instead of dreading the fire like a burned child, wanted to singe itself in this new flame; all of which Rosenbusch received with a quiet sigh. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. He was very flighty, had a wild look in his eyes, and was very quarrelsome. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document The little bedroom which Alma and Nancy shared together wore a gaily topsy-turvy appearance on that memorable night—quite as if it had succumbed to the mood of flighty joy which was in the air. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Ayala was little, and flighty, and like an elf,—as she had remarked to her husband. Ayala's Angel And if the flighty French maid was disappointed in her preposterous aims with regard to himself—well, a little palm-grease would effectually staunch the bleeding of her fickle heart. A Traitor's Wooing She's a good woman, if a little flighty, and will be the last one in the future to beg me to put more confidence in her. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life As a girl Mrs. Bindle had been pleasure-loving, some regarded her as somewhat flighty; and the course of gradual starvation of pleasure to which she subjected herself had embittered her whole nature. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Mr. Max Müller translates thus: ‘When I, the mortal, threw my arms round those flighty immortals, they trembled away from me like a trembling doe, like horses that kick against the cart.’ Custom and Myth New Edition The reason probably was that Lavinsky was in the state known in prison as bughouse—that is to say, at least flighty if not temporarily out of his mind. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York The diplomatic intrigue failed, largely through the flighty intervention of the princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, a clever but very injudicious woman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Was her state of mind so apparent, then, that even affectionate but flighty Olive had divined it? Shadows of Flames A Novel She denied that she was guilty, sometimes with hysterical passion, sometimes with a flighty levity; but not, so far as her words are recorded, with the clearness of conscious innocence. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII And yet she had a ready sympathy for the girl's troubles and humoured her without stint, though she sometimes declared that Nan was queer and flighty. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction She is so thoughtless and flighty, and might do harm without meaning it.... Windyridge The root of all the trouble is this young friar, who is flighty, and vain, and extremely scandalous. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Women were flightier, more happy-go-lucky creatures, when the solemnities of eating were in question. Shadows of Flames A Novel Like a boulder grown agile and flighty, the ship leaped from the landscape, and arced outward toward the stars, to curve around the asteroid and disappear behind the scene's jagged brim. Asteroid of Fear "Well, it was a mere fancy, perhaps, on my part; but her manner to-day struck me as occasionally strange,—almost flighty." A Day's Ride A Life's Romance "He has gone in to Rome to see you," said Nelly, whose face was still crimson, and who felt flurried and agitated by the flighty impetuosity of the other. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly The next morning he had fever and was flighty, but he wouldn't consent to have a doctor. Helen Grant's Schooldays She kept up the fiction that Sairy was a young and flighty miss; but even ’Phemie could no longer laugh at her for it. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks "You think she is too flighty, that she has too little power of concentration," suggested Lady Dashwood, with a sting in her voice. The New Warden A flighty old lady was foolish enough to imagine me a prince of the Orleans family—" "You,—a prince! A Day's Ride A Life's Romance "Oh, well, never mind," said the young master, "if none of you saw any one, there's no use in talking, but I know what I saw, and my head wasn't light or flighty, either." Maid Sally Jane, the younger sister, was rather flighty, and plied Helen with innumerable questions about North Hope. Helen Grant's Schooldays When she was regarded by everyone else as without a moral equivalent for her artistic temperament, Garrick steadfastly refused to regard her simply as a vain, flighty, and vacillating person. Women of England Shells burst around her, churning up the sea, but the gunners were unable to guess where the flighty PT would be at any given moment, so they never hit very close to her. A Yankee Flier in Italy I had often gone motoring with him while in America, and I was young, and rather flighty: a foolish person altogether. Lord Stranleigh Abroad Harcout is a little flighty, but a noble fellow though, after all. The Spiritualists and the Detectives Hitherto, partly from my own indecision, partly from his flighty and volatile bearing, I never had an opportunity either to explain my real position or my political sentiments, much less my intentions for the future. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I But, dear father, upon what grounds are you so opposed to belief in dreams, when singular changes, and flighty, unstable nature, are at least worthy of some reflection? Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. “There!” she said to herself, “it will be a while before they find that, and when they do they can call it Mary Ann’s flighty way of redding up a room.” McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 He is, he is," returned Summerfield; "but like all artists, he's flighty. The "Genius" In the morning she had a violent fever, and seemed to be very flighty. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles “Beetles, though apt to be flighty, are otherwise dull creatures,” he said. The Silent Barrier Hum�y�n was flighty, versatile, and unpractical; as a general of but small account. Rulers of India: Akbar All these men are a trifle debauched, talky, futile, and their companions are flighty, intriguing little women who chatter incessantly. Contemporary Russian Novelists "And as for this girl you speak of, I hear she is, as I say, very flighty." Rossmoyne Her foreign policy was flighty to the verge of foolishness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" We girls don’t want to be flighty, and have ‘mads on,’ as Frank says, for no real reason. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club His character, flighty and unstable, and his abilities, wanting in the constructive faculty, alike unfitted him for the duty. Rulers of India: Akbar I felt as if I must rush in and hurl the flighty hero of the boards out of the window, but I restrained myself. Weird Tales. Vol. I "But I fear she is flighty and wild, and not at all domesticated in any way." Rossmoyne Let us now return to the dear flighty creature, and the sentence which she passes upon the Poets. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) Some are trifling and flighty, some are positively bad-principled, some are altogether good in their influence. Household Papers and Stories He's a flighty customer and not to be trusted. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories Across the prairie, Matthews was following after the flighty cayuse; not trying to catch her, only striving to get her out of the way. The Plow-Woman Burke’s style is airy, flighty, adventurous, but it never loses sight of the subject; nay, is always in contact with, and derives its increased or varying impulse from it. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature For instance, that dear flighty creature Lady G. is nothing else but a second edition of Madam Howe’s lively daughter. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) Frielinghausen, though an active and agile young fellow, seemed to be constitutionally flighty and superficial. Jena or Sedan? And 'tis a moment That sobers e'en the flightiest, remember. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature He was a friend of mine; a young man like others; generous, flighty, as variable as youth itself, but always with some high motives and on the search for higher thoughts of life. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Her husband was a soldierly Scotchman from Forfarshire, but she herself was English—a flighty little body with a perpetual giggle. Miss Cayley's Adventures Thus if her flighty Ladyship would be impartial in the execution of her sentence, we may easily conjecture what would become of Samuel Richardson, at least of his works. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) In what antics of agony, in what fits of flighty resolution, in what collapses of despair, Gideon consumed the night, it would be ungenerous to inquire too closely. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) "It always pays in a contented mind," remarked Jack, who admired this positive trait in Herbert's nature, so different from George's flighty ways. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida Others rolled and moaned in their sleep, and the talk grew unstable and flighty. In the Heart of a Fool The truth is, she was a flighty young person, noways equal to the parson. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 He catches up a phrase which Harriet applies to her, “dear flighty creature,” and derisively repeats it several times. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) Both his head and his legs seemed flighty and precarious. The Pines of Lory Carlyle writes vigorously, quaintly enough, but almost always speaks when he says something; on the contrary, our flighty friend Ralph speaks vigorously, yet says nothing! The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes “She’s always had a tendency to be flighty in any illness,” he said, speaking of Miss Hope’s disorders. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune She plainly knew very little of her own mind, and, in spite of a deceptive manner, was as fickle and flighty as the rest of them. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) In rather less than a fortnight of stubborn fighting we had displayed a strategy that was flighty rather than brilliant, and lost a whole battery of guns and nearly twelve hundred prisoners. The Passionate Friends But now, after this morning’s efforts, his legs were weak and his head was flighty. The Pines of Lory The lady's journal records her impressions; which, it would seem, strongly resembled those of a tradesman getting rid of a rather flighty and imprudent partner in business. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) A light woman with money is a flighty combination. Money Magic A Novel He never particularly addressed me, and it is my belief he had as good as forgotten his confidences; but his temper was more flighty, and, allowing for his bodily weakness, more violent than ever. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) The weak, transient, flighty, so-called intellectual life which she saw about her sent no call across the calm currents of her thought. Carmen Ariza Before he left, a new and exquisite idea came into my head—some people may think it a little flighty, but you will understand all the poetry it contains. Phemie Frost's Experiences Some are prosy and reasoning fools, and make excellent butts for stinging sarcasms; others are flighty and imaginative fools, and can best be ridiculed by burlesquing their folly. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Her talk was obscene, at times flighty, at times definitely scattered. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type The birds are very curious both in appearance and actions, being very "flighty" and restless, and apt to remain to breed on any of the mountains. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. I have talked and laughed, and been amused, if that means being flighty. Is He Popenjoy? In Vermont the minister would have rebuked his congregation—especially the flighty females around me. Phemie Frost's Experiences Iron Heart frowned and sneered, wondering what he could have seen, twenty-two years ago, to admire in this flighty woman. The Princess Virginia The man didn’t come back, of course; and then she got––well––flighty. The Cruise of the Shining Light It's my sister's fault, really; she's such a flighty little thing--unpardonably careless. Nobody Everybody is not so flighty as you are, my dear. Is He Popenjoy? And she tossed out of the room, being in one of her flighty humours then. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Bob's last adventure, in particular, had wrought upon him most painfully, so that he was ten times more careful over his young and somewhat flighty charges than he had been before. Among the Brigands It's no use to tell me Polly Clark's only young and flighty, and that she's got a good heart, and she'll be all right when she gets older, and all that kind of thing. Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They lives in the deserts so much they gets kind of wild and flighty, ma’am. Louisiana Lou A Western Story I know you don’t mean it so, and you think I’m a little flighty. Divided Skates Jonathan is none of your flighty, bowing footmen that whip in upon you with the spring of a fox. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago Old men in blankets and feathers sat near it, listening to young Cheschapah’s talk in the flighty lustre of the flames. Red Men and White Marguerite, on her part, was very fond of her father, but it was a fondness which considered his love of speech-making and his flighty enthusiasms with smiling tolerance. With Hoops of Steel Struthers, on the other hand, has become too flighty to be of much use to me in my packing. The Prairie Child In every primitive society is to be found the flighty, the staid, the energetic, the indolent, the cheerful, the morose, the even-, the hot-tempered, the unthinking, the philosophical individual. Introduction to the Science of Sociology She is well enough, too, in her way, but a little flighty, and rather too pretty, perhaps—” but here a laugh from Archie grated on her ear. Not Like Other Girls A visit in Germany is not the flighty affair it is with us. Home Life in Germany Hints dropped in my presence by some of our less flighty looking customers revealed to me the fact that there were those who predicted for him a fall as rapid as had been his rise. A Romantic Young Lady It was always what he expected of Joan, he declared, she was flighty like her mother. In Orchard Glen And from the little basket phaeton behind, Miss Gordon, watching her charges, wondered what foolish thoughts were passing through Lizzie's flighty little head. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Christmas Eve, the old man's constant chatter grew flighty and incoherent. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others He does not see that the whole nation is slowly and patiently girding its loins for that mighty effort; he believes it is blind, weak, and flighty. Home Life in Germany Naturally he is inconstant and flighty, desiring one thing and another, now liking what he formerly disliked, without firmness nor stability in anything, without knowing many times what to like, nor what befits him. The Legacy of Ignorantism Henceforward she would be branded as flighty, irrational, not to be depended upon. Juggernaut Faith, yuh're as flighty as one o' them girls with the pink silk petticoats. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 There’s no worse dinner before a contest than one of flighty thoughts. A Victor of Salamis I really pitied her, for she was a light-hearted, flighty, little woman who loved gaiety, and, without an evil thought, had no doubt allowed her friends to draw her into that round of amusement. The Seven Secrets “Ah, Seth, boy, I hated to darn when I was young an’ flighty.” The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies The great Cond� and the famous Turenne showed military talent of the highest order, but a want of principle and a flighty frivolity of character counterbalanced all their virtues. Political Women, Vol. 2 Not like Laura, of course, for I don’t believe there is another woman anywhere just like Laura, but Kitty is not the ordinary flighty girl. The Cheerful Smugglers They would let him in, and beyond the peradventure of a doubt, they would understand what seemed to be beyond the ken of flighty and excitable underlings. The Life of the Party She is about forty, flighty, and a little affected. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux I was a silly, flighty girl and fancied myself in love with everyone, whereas, really, I never cared at all, not until I met him. The Rider of Waroona Might have expected it, I suppose, with a flighty youngster and a smooth talker like Pachuca.” Across the Mesa Artémise, always curious and flighty, ran out and overheard a word or two as the three men again conferred and fled back to the house, shrieking as she went. Ringfield A Novel After she went abroad in 1814, she travelled widely, but her English attendants soon retired from her service, and she incurred fresh suspicion by her flighty and undignified conduct. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) I had thought the man a fool and witless, flighty in purpose and shallow in thought, and yet he seemed to speak of great mysteries—and of death. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Nurse says he was flighty and feverish and I don’t wonder. Dorothy on a Ranch Fickle, flighty, always determined and fixt by the first impression, he attempted everything, had a plan for every emergency; no undertaking was too arduous for him, no obstacles could deter him. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck "But she, my sister, she is so flighty, so excitable—she may have told a thousand times!" Ringfield A Novel My lord, being a flighty lad, although a marvellous fine scholar and well-disposed, did agree with my wife in the matter of the ghost; while my lady was of a like mind with myself. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Some flighty, irresponsible girls, under the influence of the school, develop into strong characters, and leave there to do good work. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall He began to talk in flighty sentences, and she listened—his mother—his sister—and yes, she was sure as she bent nearer—a little sweetheart who lived next door. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan He was a real benevolent-looking old fellow, the kind that understands young people, and he'd know that it was just that Christmas has gone to our heads, and made us a little flighty. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation But the flighty generosity, and deep though inconsistent feeling were precious, and the proud relenting of the message at the end touched Honor with hope. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Imagine attempting to photograph an obese and flighty Spheroid who spends her time pirouetting round in a circle with all her might and main. This Giddy Globe "There was," says Kennedy, "nothing flighty in his manner with me, and nothing which showed any desire to laugh at religion." My Recollections of Lord Byron There's no mistake about his being a good soul, and that's why I don't mind his notions; and, oh, I'm so glad he's got that flighty child under his wing. The Opened Shutters "A pack o' tawdry rubbish, I have no doubt," was her aunt's reply; "only fit for flighty young girls, not for gentlemen's servants." Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Consequently, they thought her a bit flighty, an' needin' o' some restriction. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road The doctors say he is too ill to be disturbed, and his side of the story is hard to get at, as the boy is too flighty to talk sense. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Phyllis hath a roving eye, Palest blue—a candid feature Which informs the passer-by Phyllis is a flighty creature; Golden locks and fair complexion Also point in that direction. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 A rush of a lass, spare and bright-eyed, with a changing, hectic colour, hysterical, and full of fancies, fickle as the winds, now flighty and full of praise and laughter, now peevish and languishing. Emily Brontë He makes many grave charges against Lancaster, whom he regarded as hopelessly flighty and impracticable, if not worse. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill "Thought, and done!" is the general motto; for, as Macbeth says, "The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it." The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. He had only two more days' work before him and he had gained the unenviable reputation of being a fire-and-tow young fellow, who was flighty enough to make a martyr of himself. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Quite a keen observer is my flighty little niece, in spite of all her nonsense; and bless her heart! Dorothy's Travels Such persons are frequently more or less erratic, and are considered as "flighty" by their friends. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers She is sweetly pretty, though they say rather a flirt, and flighty in her ways. Wood Magic A Fable One was self-confident, flighty, generous; the other prudent, thoughtful, and thrifty. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life A little flighty and fanciful, as boys will be, but no harm in him. Comedies of Courtship I’ve noticed you were getting a little flighty, along back, and setting more store by your clothes than you used to, or that a girl who’ll have to teach for her living had ought to. Dorothy's Travels The comparison is as flighty as Lady Hester's remarks usually were, though the passage may depict with truth the air that Pitt assumed when walking with her. William Pitt and the Great War So he ought," said the squirrel; "but the truth is, people are weary of the rule of the magpies; nor is this young and flighty prince capable of taking up the reins of state. Wood Magic A Fable I don't wonder her belongings dislike the notion of anything so pretty and so flighty going off to live by itself. Robert Elsmere "She's a flighty young dame, with a new notion for every minute," he told himself. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Of course many people had dreams which were of no consequence, and these could usually be traced to gluttony or a flighty inconstant imagination. Mary, Mary This flighty damsel has one lover after another, although she really loves Marcel alone. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas My dear mother, I cannot express to you the anxiety I have that you will not think me flighty nor inconsiderate in this business. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) The next morning, he was feeling almost flighty. Dead Giveaway Well, well; if I’d known that, I shouldn’t have thought you so strange and flighty. Romola The note was very kind, certainly, but it was as flighty as her manners. Valerie But the Countess and Susanna have prepared a little punishment for the jealous husband as well as for the flighty lover. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Betty will be so flighty when she comes back there will be no getting along with her. A Little Girl in Old Boston Their minds will get flighty, and they will lose all taste and desire for solid things. A Little Girl in Old New York She tried to put her arms around the flighty young thing. The Squirrel-Cage “Wal, he come along, an’ said it was the worst case of collapse, whatever that means, that he ever see—her lips an’ hands an’ chin all a-tremblin’, an’ flighty as a loon. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic His flighty temper exulted in being the arbiter of Europe, in weaving fanciful alliances, in marshalling imaginary armies. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Winthrop Adams would make a flighty, useless girl out of her. A Little Girl in Old Boston Next, when our boys are old enough to be put into the hands of tutors,11 great care must be taken that we do not hand them over to slaves, or foreigners, or flighty persons. Plutarch's Morals “Melton has one of his flighty notions that the man is something wonderful.” The Squirrel-Cage She had keen, black eyes and nervous, flighty ways. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills As far as one can judge, the prince appears to have been fickle, inconsiderate, and flighty rather than deliberately bad. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Girls are very flighty, nowadays, and are in the street half the time, and dancing and frolicking round at night. A Little Girl in Old Boston Ena was flighty, too; it irritated her to have me close by—highly strung. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Yet her flightiest moods were her most alluring moods. The Black Feather From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The light in the alcove flaring in a draft, and the fire flickering, kept the shadows and penumbra perpetually shifting and stirring in a noiseless flighty dance. The Red Room She wasn't one of them flighty ones neither. Orley Farm For those she held in the highest esteem were elderly like herself, and the young people were flighty and extravagant and despised the good old ways of prudence and thrift. A Little Girl in Old Boston "I wish other women were as faithful to their husband's memory, that flighty little Mrs. Martin, for example." Doctor Luttrell's First Patient If Miss Holland knew what a flighty, inconsequent infant you are, she wouldn't waste a thought on you, let alone a whole evening. An American Suffragette He found her remarkably bright and sensible and not at all "flighty." Frank Merriwell's Cruise He slept much of the night, but is flighty, making many wild, incoherent speeches. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 His fever was very high through the night, and he was flighty, and now he seems to be in a sort of stupor, with a very feeble pulse. A Little Girl in Old Boston The corn spilled in a golden shower, and the doves, fickle as all flighty things are, deserted Merrihew for the moment. The Lure of the Mask They said she was "caselty," which means flighty, haphazard, excitable; but she was popular, nevertheless, and had many friends. Bessie Costrell If they're not flightily mad with eccentricity and brandy, they are morbidly mad with solitude and sentiment. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida She was very pretty;—but a flighty, inconstant little girl. Kept in the Dark Some always pretended to doubt the reality of it, and insisted that Rip had been out of his head and that this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The Short-story But anyway her young and flighty affections got round to him at last, and fastened to him. We Three Then, after reading it, she was absent-minded, flighty in conversation, and at last listlessly uneasy, moving slowly about from one thing to another, in a kind of restless inability to take continued interest in anything. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen He then, with flighty eagerness, wanted to know who this last person was, and where he was, and whether he could be trusted with money to treble it. The Confidence-Man She was rather silly, flighty, and irresponsible, but she had always been truthful and honourable. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Ah, poor Molière! the best man in the world; but flighty, negligent, thoughtless. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Nothing had given Manabozho half the trouble and vexation of the flighty, defying, changeable and mischievous Paup-Puk-Keewiss, who eluded him by jumping from one end of the continent to the other. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians "She's a little flighty," said the nurse in her matter-of-fact tone. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen She said she had seemed excited and somewhat flighty—was restless at night, and started off early, having paid a shilling for her lodging and breakfast. A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune On the other hand, though Tristram's faithfulness is proverbial, it is an entirely different kind of faithfulness from that of Lancelot—flightier, more passionate perhaps in a way, but of a less steady passion. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) If you have not been a good friend to me yet, you will—I know it, sir; you are not like the other flighty young gentlemen. Rattlin the Reefer Well said Mr Salteena peevishly I dont know if I shall like it the bow of the ribbon is too flighty for my age. The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan The former he found there prostrate and actually flighty, so much so that he could give no coherent answer to questions propounded to him. A Wounded Name I am not so flighty as I seem to be, you know. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) As the summer lengthened it seemed to Betsy Butterfly that the Skipper grew more flighty than ever. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales Kate was not a very wise girl, but she was less flighty and foolish than Jenny; and she had a kind heart, which made her always wish to help anyone in trouble. The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender In their walks with Miss Grey it was with a thrill of pleasure that they sometimes saw the well-known flighty figure approaching, for there was always something worth looking at in Miss Barnicroft. Penelope and the Others Story of Five Country Children And a nice set they are, giggling flighty things with nothing but their ribbons and their sweethearts in their heads.” White Lilac; or the Queen of the May It is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in, and flighty, rushing wheresoever it listeth: a tamed mind brings blessings. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Cornelia was flighty enough already; the only chance of keeping her in order was by introducing her to friends who, by their quiet decorum, would exercise a restraining effect on her demeanour. Flaming June Did he hate her then—think her altogether flighty and contemptible, or had the letters been by chance good specimens of their number, and did he like them, and think her “nice”? Betty Trevor The flighty Arthur does not appear to be much cast down by our troubles. The Master of the Shell “Where are you off to?” asked Fairbairn, with due monitorial solemnity, of that flighty youth; “don’t you know it’s nearly eight?” The Willoughby Captains They were all remarkably faithful, except pretty Rachel, the housekeeper's daughter, who was rather gay and flighty, and had been something of a trial to her mistress. Prudy Keeping House He was always a flighty, irresponsible creature, and I fear Cornelia has taken after him.” Flaming June I am sorry to see you lowering your dignity, by being so silly, and flighty, and ridiculous! Betty Trevor "Suppose they say of you what they say of her, that you are a frivolous, flighty woman?" A Hungarian Nabob You are a flighty and fanciful girl, but you have sense enough not to trouble either yourself or me on a point of honour, save when there is some good reason for it.” St. Ronan's Well Flora was a snob; she was only seventeen, but her mother was a foolish, flighty woman, who allowed her daughter to think that she was already grown-up. Madge Morton's Secret |
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