| 单词 | fluttering |
| 例句 | It fell silently to his neck, one of the nails falling free and fluttering to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My heart was pounding, and my stomach was fluttering like it was full of startled butterflies. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The queen’s hand went fluttering to her throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z "He makes it sound like the hood of a cobra fluttering . . . I don't know . . . I don't know . . ." "We'll have to watch him now," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra struggled up, and with Pantalaimon calling, “This way! This way!” among the other daemon-cries and flutterings, she hauled herself over the rubble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer’s mind, fluttering as uselessly as his fingers, focused suddenly upon the fire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z My heartbeat was fluttering, making me think of trapped butterflies, but did I even have a heartbeat right now? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The aircraft’s final pass pulled all the litter of their lunch out into the field, brown crusts and brown paper fluttering in the blue smoke like the devil’s confetti. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the hill he could see the gray boys moving back, a few flags fluttering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to sit up, his right hand fluttering to his chin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Chips of wood continued to fall like hail, along with fluttering bits of ivy. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She could feel her heart fluttering beneath her breast, and for one long moment she could not catch her breath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That box inside his chest had come down and crumbled away, and he could feel his heart beating between his lungs—a hot, fluttering thing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z From houses back off away from the road there was a waving of flags, a fluttering of white handkerchiefs; women lifted lamps at the windows. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad barrels out of the living room like a battering ram, Mom and Rosemarie fluttering behind him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She reads the card again, and for a minute there are no sounds but the fluttering of papers as I sort them in stacks. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But the house was not deserted, and the best parlour seemed to be in use, for there were white curtains fluttering in its window, and the window was open and gay with flowers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful room, not an office at all, and much bigger than it looked from outside—airy and white, with a high ceiling and a breeze fluttering in the starched curtains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Come back to Mama,” she said in her soft fluttering voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Roz noticed chickadees fluttering through the same flowers and singing the same song every morning. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I turned, and there he was in the night sky, flying in from twelve o’clock with his winged shoes fluttering, Grover, holding a tree branch the size of a baseball bat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Finally, another inmate had gone after the baby sparrow—it almost hopped onto his finger, but then got spooked and went fluttering into somebody’s cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What fun! Who are they from? Didn’t know you had a lover,” cried the girls, fluttering about Meg in a high state of curiosity and surprise. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying nearby were other widows, their soft sighs and turnings like so many doves fluttering around me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Mo shrugged his shoulders and looked up at the ceiling, where a few moths were fluttering around the naked lightbulb. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Major Danby entreated politely, pulling free and patting his perspiring brow with a fluttering motion. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He imagined it circling end over end, its pages fluttering like wings, until it struck, oh, say, Deacon Hurd, just on the side of his nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The Hub is marked by an American flag fluttering fifty feet up in the air, and large black plastic letters above the door: MOBIUS. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Then she saw a few blackened pages fluttering in the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then Chicho paints delicate butterflies fluttering with lacy wings and tiny birds with long beaks that he says are hummingbirds. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Emery is somewhere behind me, fluttering around like the social butterfly she’s always been. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Taking his newspaper with him as he escorted Meggie to the lavatory, he killed three more moths and a butterfly that was fluttering helplessly from wall to bare wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His heart was beating, almost fluttering, his legs were weak, his palms close to spurting sweat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitti plunged into a new story, her voice dipping and swooping energetically, hands fluttering around her face. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her father's hands clutched at hers, fluttering like two frightened white birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From high above, there was a fluttering of leathery wings, and the three Furies swooped down to perch on the back of their master’s throne. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z No one was playing and the flags were fluttering away in the wind. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re in my hair, on my skin, crystalized wings fluttering all over me, trying to crawl across my eyes and into my ears and even up my nose. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I tried to take his pulse, but all I could feel was a fluttering, so faint I could not count it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Where the raiding parties had once streamed along the highways with fluttering pennoncels, now there were merry bands of pilgrims telling each other dirty storks on the way to Canterbury. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only, he had to deal with blizzards, not a tropical storm,” added Nala, her lips fluttering in the blustery breeze. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There was different paint on the walls, a pair of faded yellow chintz curtains fluttering at the open window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.’” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Kids in the school parking lot, American flag fluttering atop a metal pole, cornfields in the distance, blue skies. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She was clothed from head to toe in white fur, and at her right hand a fairy no more than a foot tall hovered in midair, her wings fluttering like a hummingbird’s. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He felt light-headed and weak and had to press his hand against his chest to ease the sudden fluttering inside. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z His bed was empty and his boots gone, so the moths, fluttering with agitation, had no choice but to settle down and wait. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: “The groin. The Earthborn’s groin is sensitive.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Perfect beads of light reveal the cherry red of her fluttering eyes and the gray of her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They look like skydivers, wind fluttering her dress and his jacket. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z First a fluttering as of doves in her stomach, then a kind of burning, followed by a spread of thin wires to other parts of her body. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was grinning broadly, and the sight set off a fluttering in Sarai’s belly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The doves in the cage above him stir with a soft fluttering of feathers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And man, she went all shattered pixie on me then, fingers fluttering to her throat, staggering backwards, sagging against the door frame, all the energy that usually holds her up gone. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z On the morning she awoke after the fairy kisses, when she went to the window, she saw fairies fluttering about. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I hear fluttering, like the pages of a book blown by the wind, but there is no wind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He is like a butterfly fluttering on a rock that stands out naked in the middle of a stream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The large double windows in Beefy’s room were flung open, his white curtains fluttering in the night wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z My eyes scanned the room: there was a wardrobe, a dresser topped with carefully arranged figurines, lace curtains fluttering in a window. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In fact, that explains the police tape fluttering up and down the block between Simpson and Roosevelt. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Besides the fairies fluttering about, the garden looked still. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Tyson ran after them, yelling, “Yay! Yay!” with Ella fluttering around his head. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Haye was sleeping peacefully, his eyelids fluttering, his chest rising and falling. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Four sets of beady eyes gleamed in the shadows, and there was a soft fluttering of feathers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I’d forgotten how they looked—torn by brambles, stained and faded to the color of earth and moss, fluttering in rags and tatters. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The air was thick with butterflies, lifting, fluttering, settling. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The woman gently lifted her daughter so that her shoulders were off the ground and her head lolled, and then Lyra caught her breath and her eyes half-opened, fluttering, heavy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He saw Beatty, a torch, not moving, fluttering out on the grass. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry found the hot drink as welcome as the firewhisky had been on the night that Mad-Eye had died; it seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They pressed up against her, their red and yellow mouths wide open, their wings fluttering. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Tiller felt his heart do its fluttering thing again. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Before I open the door to the usual chaos, I pat the flag fluttering from the porch. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z Delsa’s eyes shimmered, her little hands fluttering in front of her as they drew a picture in the air of a girls’ bike. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The robin continued screeching and fluttering, and then—splat—she splattered her droppings across the robot’s face. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was hard to see everybody, to see how desperately Redemption’s parents held on to Moss, fluttering and fussing over him, none of them looking as if they’d slept in days, which they probably hadn’t. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A pile of notebooks slips from the table to the floor in a flurry of fluttering pages and a sound like the wings of birds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They rearranged themselves in the face of this, panicking and fluttering just a little. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no one in the streets, not even dogs, but he saw white faces at windows, a fluttering of curtains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rebuffed, unhappy at the obtuseness of the very flat, the apple bumps the square and sends him aloft, fluttering and spinning into that mysterious third dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled the wheel hard to the right, and I got a glimpse of a figure she’d swerved to avoid—a dark fluttering shape now lost behind us in the storm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Her big blue hair bow had come undone, and the sundown breeze was picking it up and fluttering it about her head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed a cemetery littered with rock-piled graves and ragged shaheed flags fluttering in the breeze. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z This thought silences me and we’re quiet for a long time after that, breathing in the scent of eucalyptus, watching the leaves fluttering all around us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He panned a faded striped sofa on the sidewalk with a free sign, a Giants pennant fluttering on a rooftop deck. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The entire underbelly of the Wonder Dome had been transformed into a fluttering flock of birds, soaring across an unbelievably blue sky, swooping through a clay-colored desert landscape. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The birdlime had entangled a few queleas and a mouse that had been attracted by their fluttering. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A robin swooped into the tree and began screeching and fluttering around Roz. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Instead, she could only look straight ahead, where the huntress was walking purposefully down the path, her green cloak fluttering behind her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I dropped the shoe and used my knees to stop the sparrows from fluttering around. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not,” said Madame Maxime, fluttering her long black eyelashes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Ron shook his head, but Fawkes the phoenix had swooped past Harry and was now fluttering in front of him, his beady eyes bright in the dark. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and waited, waited in the darkness while my being filled with a wild, ecstatic fluttering, waited for him to come to me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind picks up, fluttering the pages of my pad, revealing the drawing of that purple flower in my mother’s garden. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When they were quite certain that the meal was finished the birds rose with one grand, fluttering movement and flew round the Bird Woman’s head, copying in their own language the words she said. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z When I wake before dawn, scraps of nightmare stay with me: my face carved and branded; my brother hanging from the gallows, fair hair fluttering in the wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z For a moment he felt a tiny, fluttering hope that he knew was quite foolish. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z When we told Mom and Dad about our reading groups, we paused before the word “gifted,” clasping our hands beneath our chins, fluttering our eyelids, and pretending to look angelic. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She handed Sierra a little flowering bulb of garlic, its crackling paper skin fluttering like broken wings onto the kitchen floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Her eyelids were fluttering, and her breathing had deepened into a snore. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I pictured a nodding head, long blonde hair fluttering, somewhere behind me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z And there on the small screen was the burnt house, and the crowd, and something with a sheet over it and out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Just thinking it made her feel a strange fluttering inside, even though they were not to marry for years and years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On this side of the River they passed forests of great reeds, so tall that they shut out all view to the west , as the little boats went rustling by along their fluttering borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The next minute she was holding her head, her eyes squeezed shut, groping for the sofa, and then crumpling softly to the floor with fluttering hands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart has been fluttering around my chest for so long now that this variety of intoxication almost seems sustainable—but only almost. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “Why do you say that?” said Sif touching her bald head frantically, as if the fluttering touch of her fingers would make her hair return. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “There were regions, open to the sweeping winds and rain, which were yet lighted throughout the night with long, blinking lines of gas lamps fluttering in the wind.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Another of her moths was fluttering in sight of the pavilion where the silk sleighs rested. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There should have been silks fluttering, music in the air, and laughter drifting down from the children on their high wires. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All that fluttering, that color, yellow against blue, the in-and-out movement of their wings. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face A book alighted, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I felt a fluttering excitement at the prospect of a getaway, of time alone with my husband. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She gave a hard violent jerk at the string on the chickens’ legs, and with a squawk and a wild fluttering of wings, the chickens ran back down the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As a warm breeze swept in, Officer Delinko noticed something fluttering at the top of the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That fluttering shadow before my eyes was his jabbing left hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her half-closed eyelids are fluttering, and the muscles of her face look tight. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They stepped off the black road and into the knee-high grass, swishing their legs through the stems, watching the insects hovering, darting, fluttering, skimming, hearing the million-voiced chorus chirrup and scrape. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Five of them were fluttering over the top of the dimes—plump little hags with pinched faces and talons and feathery wings too small for their bodies. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z You saw a fluttering fan before her face and magnolia blooms and sleepy lakes under the moonlight when she walked. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, had already decorated his classroom with shimmering lights that turned out to be real, fluttering fairies. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Swifts chased and chittered, in fluttering pairs, through the sky. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "I have no idea how you dance in all that," she says, her hands fluttering up and down and side to side in arcs so wide I might be wearing a nun's habit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was easy to Know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Things are fluttering back to normal here too, Axel thinks. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Even while he blew, Ralph noticed the last pair of bodies that reached the platform above a fluttering patch of Hack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Tyson came running across the forum, Ella fluttering behind him with a scroll in her talons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Harry made a great swipe for the tiny, fluttering ball and caught it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I saw the rapid, moth-wing fluttering of her lids become the softness of her lips as we were drawn together. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then someone said “Look, look!” and, still running, I swiveled to see a great white bird fluttering high above the street. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Once, when they were in a meeting, he sent a note fluttering down to her: “My dearest—I sit here studying your features. You are perfectly beautiful!!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My eye is fluttering, and I can feel the soft pull to the left. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And in answer they came, every bird in the forest, whether they had been gliding in the hunt on silent wings or roosting asleep; they came fluttering upward in their thousands through the tumbling air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain in me swells, and when I blink, I’m sinking in water, blue and clear, turning gray and brown the deeper I go, bubbles rising and tickling my skin like the fluttering of wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I caught a glimpse of something wispy-white, like a little cloud, fluttering upwards and disappearing out of the window. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A low whistle with a fluttering end sounded outside. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The journey from rooftops to terrace was long for such small fluttering scraps as moths, and she had never been so impatient as in those minutes while they rose through the heights of the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The slightest breath of wind sent the index cards fluttering like huge moths. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The drumming of the rain against the hoods of their cages had the ravens squawking and fluttering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He wore a military pilot’s flight suit, with tiny bird’s wings fluttering on his helmet and his black leather boots. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When she left Bucktown the chickens were fluttering and squawking and she looked for all the world like an old woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, finally, the fluttering coo of a pigeon. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was full of small, jewel-bright birds, fluttering and tumbling all around the room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Once she had seen them fluttering about her head before she went into the movies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If she focused on all the little lives creeping and fluttering and scurrying around her, she wouldn’t have to feel what she was feeling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Swarms of young fishes, fluttering and glistening, moved anxiously away from it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, Ewell nodded in punctuation, his head twitching, his fingers fluttering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never noticed before — your hair has red in it,” he commented, catching between his fingers a strand that was fluttering in the light breeze. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And I swear that ain’t just the fluttering feelings I'm getting from seeing him lying in a bed half naked, either. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A breeze ran through the courtyard, fluttering the leaves of the young pea plants and blowing cool across my cheek where Madam struck me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a tiny, tiny lady, very thin, with little fluttering hands, and her hair was in a gray knot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He flips the book open again, the pages fluttering and settling. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One moment they are there, Celia’s dress fluttering in the wind and the rain, Marco’s hands pressed against her back, and the next they are only a blur of light and shadow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She is wrapped in a blanket, her eyes fluttering in sleep, her little mouth making sucking motions. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He seems content too, ignoring the fluttering birds and the occasional pedestrian. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Constance’s eyelids were fluttering, and still she murmured, so quietly it was difficult to hear her, “No...no...no...” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He brushed his hands across his eyes, hoping to untangle the sensations fluttering in his body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I step into a dark labyrinth of fluttering candles, shadowy nooks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It’s calm, too calm, yellow fluttering birds that don’t belong in this life-bucking tempest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Unlike Cate’s memories, which came and went like fluttering eyelashes, Rob’s thoughts seemed almost lethargic...velvety and murky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Libby turned to Bill and dropped him a slow, fluttering wink. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Silly,” Camilla was whispering—and I caught a glimpse of ragged, fluttering cloth, streaked with mud—“you took the wrong ones. We can’t bring them back like this.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lionstar, read the letters on her stem, beneath a fluttering banner that bore the arms of the boy king on the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing Potter far President over the crowd. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They would touch my hair When I showed Them my library: The fish making jeta, The globe that I dropped, The birds fluttering Their wings at the window. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch David jumping, his shadow hands fluttering. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Another breeze whispers through the windows, fluttering the curtains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My heart has a pair of wings, too—one wing fluttering with excitement because maybe we’ll soon be free! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z As soon as we walked inside, her housekeeper, Hélène, started fluttering around us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After a few more s’mores, we lie next to each other on the blanket, holding hands, gazing up beyond the fluttering leaves into the canopy of stars. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “I’m not leading any tours today. I almost stayed in my room, but then I saw little old you fluttering across the quad all on your own.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Hill open for the first down over the middle but the ball floppy and fluttering and out of his reach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been decorated with hundreds and hundreds of candle-filled pumpkins, a cloud of fluttering live bats, and many flaming orange streamers, which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She had seen so many closed eyes, and eyelids trembling with dreams, and lashes fluttering on cheeks, that she was transfixed by his open ones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I bet your daddy’s up there with Pa and them,” she whispered from behind the palm-frond fan she was fluttering like a house afire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Try as he might to keep calm, his heart was fluttering in his chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He watched the tiny pulse fluttering at Dimple's neck, the way her shoulders were bunched up around her ears. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If Ivy thought her stomach was fluttering at the idea of crushing on June, that was nothing compared to the reality of actually asking June to a dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Kira looked, and saw a green lizard slither into the vines at the sill; behind the fluttering wet leaves a gauntfaced woman was holding a tyke in her arms and looking out. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Next morning, filled with his plan, he had believed it was the fluttering wings of his father’s ba that had half-waked him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It resembled nothing so much as a rippling black cape, the edges fluttering slightly as it slithered up the bed towards me. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Warbeak was beginning to feel the effects of prolonged low nighttime fluttering, through the woodlands, around trees, over bushes; it was not the same as a clear, clean flight through the upper atmosphere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember that she was always fluttering like a big, white bird—around my father, and he too heavy and tired to escape her pecking. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Wind howled through the alley, banging the trash cans against one another and sending newspapers fluttering through the air. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was crazy how just mentioning Manuel got me all jittery, as if butterflies were fluttering around inside of me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A fluttering like a steady motor whirs in her breast. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately, the enchanting woman began doting on us, like a tiny yellow butterfly, fluttering about. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The short, choppy fluttering of wings slapping against wood. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Once there was an article on wood pigeons, and as I read it aloud it seemed to me that once again I was in the deep woods at Manderley, with pigeons fluttering above my head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I spun around, heart in my throat, as I caught a glimpse of a dark shape falling from the sky, feathers fluttering down like black snow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Dana’s face was as red as a pepper and his eyeballs were fluttering in their sockets. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Try telling that to anyone who has heard his mother scream, “Here come the king bats!” followed by the poisonous fluttering of wings. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She blinks a few times, her eyelids fluttering. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t have wanted the Post, the Daily News, Fox News, and Entertainment Tonight fluttering around the building, picking at the details of her life. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The white boards and fluttering silk and canvas remained. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Seven began tapping drumbeats on the closest object, trying to match the beat of her fluttering heart. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Doon clasped his arms together and pressed them hard against his stomach, trying to stop the queasy fluttering. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In a rush of fluttering hands and laughter, the Maidens and I went outside to the central area of the city. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The harbour was a dancing thing, with fluttering paper boats, and the sailors on the quay were jovial, smiling fellows, merry as the wind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Dany was flushed and breathless, her heart fluttering in her chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There are moments it almost comes out, like a flock of fluttering birds in my throat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A current of air slipped through the gym, fluttering the sleeve of her shirt and carrying her sweet peppermint scent my way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “You can leave me, Z,” Kaitlin said, her eyes fluttering open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z At one stage Prosper thought he could hear footsteps behind them, but when he turned around it was just a bird, fluttering out of an overgrown hedge. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he arranged his mouth, gave a small sound as a trial, and then reproduced the sound of the small bright-colored bird, with its trill and fluttering whistle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He would be Mrs. McCormick, their public school principal, pressing his lips together until they almost disappeared, fluttering his eyelids. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats was fluttering around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of carved pumpkins leered from every corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She grabbed my hands and it was like she whispered electricity into me, my insides fluttering in a weird way. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Sadie/Penny, and Marigold are clucking, their tiny wings fluttering as they step lively in the coop. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The Mud Man stirred, the whites of his eyes showing beneath fluttering lids. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But there are only softly drifting feathers and fluttering playing cards. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Blocking out the last letter and fluttering softly in the morning breeze were her falsies. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was the soft fluttering of his father’s ba. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z For standing among the brilliant flowers and fluttering butterflies was a beautiful woman dressed in blue. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Like magic, the butterfly flew into the air, fluttering its wings up and down. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The hall was lit with dozens of torches, dancing and fluttering, casting strange shadows over the hundred feasters, either revealing their true nature or concealing it—one can never tell. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Otto ran around the ice cream shop, his notepad pages fluttering. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Sissy trotted along beside him on her tiny high-heeled shoes and cast a spell over him with her soft fluttering voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, Bailey,” Leon sighed, his voice fluttering with sadness. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The lining of Mother’s coat hung thin, like fluttering cheesecloth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We pass the children’s grave with the overflowing brown and crispy flowers, fluttering in the wind like cockroach wings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind her there was motion: the fluttering of wings, the darting shape of another creature. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Cecilia, looking like a vibrant mariposa in a purple tunic, her hair blossoming with sprigs of lavender, was fluttering about the kitchen looking confused and agitated. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "Why, no, sir! It wasn't addressed to me, so naturally I wouldn't think of opening it . . ." "Of course not, I know you wouldn't," he said, fluttering his hand and sitting erect. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As the strength went out of her, her blows became moths fluttering about his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “But do you think it would attack us?” asked Hazel, watching it drop lower and recommence its poised fluttering. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw its wise face and fluttering wings at the window—then Ultima was by me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I set off for the stream, King George fluttering behind me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The wretched woman dropped him a fluttering curtsey, with one hand clutching at her breast and scuttled past him for the stain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sighing, I stretched out on the mattress I had left to air out on the platform and stared at the night sky, exposed in bits and pieces through the fluttering clotheslines. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z One of Tinker Bell's wings was fluttering frantically; the other was held between Basta's fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She knew there was going to be trouble, she could always tell when it was coming, by the peculiar fluttering of her heart. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She feels the entirety of the circus radiating around her, as though a net has been thrown over it, trapping everything within the iron fence, fluttering like a butterfly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was clothed in a coat of velvet and diamond dust with long, fluttering tails in the shape of knife blades, and his boots were white spectral leather buckled with lys. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Heaven must be like this: Jesus, and his Mother, and the dumb beasts, and angels fluttering ’round like birds. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z As I addressed the envelope, I felt another kind of fluttering in my stomach. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Leaves fell around him like hot fluttering moths while branches withered to embers and ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The bell of an ice cream truck tinkled over the wall, fluttering in the cooling evening air almost like a butterfly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple knew how he felt; the ringtone had doused stomach acid on the butterflies fluttering pleasantly in her stomach. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Xan could see the tendrils of magic fluttering behind her like ribbons. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Tim pulls his fluttering windup bird out of my hair and sends it flying out over the auditorium. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It was bright gold and had little fluttering silver wings. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The birds in the sky, then suddenly not in the sky, only feathers fluttering. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He panned a faded striped sofa on the sidewalk with a free sign, a Giants pennant fluttering on a rooftop deck. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She salutes Grandfather, slender and shining in her ceremonials, her black cloak fluttering lightly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In the morning, Andeg greeted Omakayas with fluttering wings, ducking his head to accept a little scratch, cooing with a sweet and gurgling sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I’m about to rush the stage, thinking she’s having a heart attack, when she suddenly ditches the speech, the page fluttering to the floor, and speaks directly to the microphone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As we exit, I turn my lens to the pink banners fluttering from the lampposts—ads for a fund-raising walk for breast cancer in a few weeks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The sun was shining through the fluttering leaves, which were still green upon the tree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nervously fluttering, she rubbed her cheek—and detached the adhesive disk. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She stood there with the sunlight in her hair, her white skirt fluttering around her legs, a basket of grapes and fresh-baked bread tucked under one arm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He told me that more than once, fast asleep, eyes fluttering beneath their lids as he dreamed. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Colin had never understood this before, but now thousands of strings were fluttering over and around and past him, and they were both tiny broken beams of light and endless, undulating waves. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Many waved—the lifted hand motionless, the fingers fluttering nonstop, like the legs of an insect on its back—and Farmer returned the gesture. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was day's end now and on top of every building the flags were fluttering and diving down, collapsing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Each one was like a bird, fluttering in and out of her mind too quickly to be logical, but she considered them just the same. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It stayed on Zero's face for an amazingly long time before fluttering off to the side. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Taking one of his fluttering hands, I wrap his fingers tightly around a dollar. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z On the quarterdeck, Aly, the ship’s steward, was busy arranging a table for two, laying out fluttering linens and gleaming silverware. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She was behind us, running as only the dead can run, tirelessly, her white hair wild and loose in the wind, her gray dress fluttering. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The snow began to fall—gently at first, but then heavier and heavier, flakes dropping and fluttering all around. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Harry was faster than Higgs — he could see the little round ball, wings fluttering, darting up ahead — he put on an extra spurt of speed — WHAM! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She spoke as though her heart were fluttering. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was washing wool on the bank of the River Kan. Suddenly a noise like the fluttering of the wings of a frightened bird was heard ... and a kind of swell came up the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A child’s swing dangled from a cedar tree; four little steps painted blue led up to the porch, and from the window, between fluttering curtains, came the smell of gingerbread baking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to stop and pant briefly, her little chest fluttering, before she could go on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Everything in the courtyard shudders for a moment, scarves fluttering despite the lack of any breeze, the fabric of the tents quivering. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A hot wind from the street rose up the stairs, fluttering our skirts and causing me to turn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She raised a fluttering hand to her brow and staggered back, pantomiming horror. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The widow and her son rushed after it, but only saw it fluttering in the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z You know, the statue with his coat fluttering behind him like a cape? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I screamed, finally breaking through the last of the darkness, my eyes fluttering open. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I moved past Mother, looking at the piece of paper tacked up, fluttering next to the dead man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On his way across town, with the helicopters fluttering like torn bits of paper in the sky, he phoned the alarm at a lonely phone booth outside a store that was closed for the night. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I trembled like a baby leaf fluttering in the wind as I moved toward my mother. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Please be serious for a moment. Stop fluttering around here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward the end she jumped off a railway overpass, into a river, her dress fluttering like a window curtain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Streaming forth into the night, the darkness fractured into a hundred fluttering bits like windblown scraps of velvet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “He is not your opponent,” Hector says with a dismissive gesture, the lace cuff of his shirt fluttering like a moth. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Familiar flutterings of panic were starting to disturb Harry now, and he was finding it difficult to concentrate in class again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Only a gentle noise on the edge of hearing, a soft fluttering as of a song half whispered, seemed to stir in the boughs above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I fear he may already have done so, Papa. I may have seen the fluttering of wings as I awoke this morning.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z His attention was briefly drawn to the fluttering canvas ahead of him. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After him there came more birds, until the bowl could not be seen for the fluttering of wings about it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Her dæmon was fluttering around her head now, moth-formed in the bright sunlight, whispering anxiously. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He could feel a fluttering in his bowels, a queasy liquid feeling; he hoped he was not going to die sick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He waved a bamboo pole with long paper streamers fluttering from the tip. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Indeed she could see it flying—each sound, each letter, skittering out of her ears and fluttering away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She swept the floors, beat the cobwebs fluttering in the corners of the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The photographs move so fast, like book pages fluttering in the breeze, that I get only impressions of horrors. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The cheers and applause sent birds from the Forbidden Forest fluttering into the darkening sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s like a party in Ms. Dale’s office, and things feel like they are fluttering back to normal. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But it's the fluttering cape made of streams of orange, yellow, and red and the matching headpiece that define this costume. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Petey grinned and backed away, gauzy wings fluttering against a wall of corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “God, you scared me,” I said, holding a hand to my chest as if to stop my heart from fluttering out of it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z As Jonas watched, a snowflake drifted down and was caught briefly for a moment’s sparkle in the tiny fluttering eyelashes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Nathan looked up and saw a butterfly with rainbow wings fluttering. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As Obama spoke, compassionate and cadenced, American flags fluttering behind him, Blaine shifted, sighed, leaned back on the couch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She lives on or near the ground, fluttering about among low vegetation or creeping up tree trunks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In one hand he held a fluttering torch. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Lola’s fluttering about the garage—shifting, opening, plucking things from boxes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Presently a grass blade trembled and Miyax saw a young bird fluttering its wings as it begged to be fed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran—wings open, pantaloons fluttering—and jumped up onto the stone table. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The leaves fluttering against the bright sky dazzled him, and he toppled over, lying where he fell upon the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Below Him—on the altar—stood the fat tallow candle, whose constant fluttering flame shed some light upon the white walls of painted lime. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the tub, my heart fluttering against my breastbone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They flittered up into the air, dancing around the light, thousands and thousands of them, fluttering together, dancing to our song. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Veturius crests the cliff and ducks beneath the clothes fluttering on the line, heading down the slaves’ corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z With her other hand she removes the dagger, the bloodied playing card fluttering down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She was dressed like a stewardess, complete with that little angel-food-cake-shaped hat, pinned at a tilt in her fluttering hair. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But Roger had whipped behind the palm again, was leaning against it breathing quickly, his eyelids fluttering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z My heart was fluttering like a trapped bird. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look! This is what white people look like,” I said as I held the fluttering magazine out to her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The bees were a colony of fairies, fluttering busily around their queen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “I like this word,” June said, her hands fluttering around while she talked. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They arrived one morning, in a great fluttering cloud, and settled themselves on trees around the fields. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But when she arrived in the new country, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He left the classroom with his unfashionable blue rayon jacket fluttering as he walked. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His naked eyes shrank to fluttering little dots as he went down to grope around his feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z An old piece of newspaper fluttering in the breeze. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I'm walking down the street toward the car when I see a black plastic bag on the sidewalk, fluttering in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Mesmerized, he put down his suitcase and felt himself pulled into the room, like a moth fluttering helplessly towards the light. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “You can put the horses in there, I suppose,” sighed Gwystyl, fluttering his hands in the direction of the gallery. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Clair de Lune,” a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Royal & General occupied a tall, antique-looking building with a Union Jack fluttering from a pole about fifteen floors up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Captain Cat shoved her way past Reed and into the sick bay, where she fell next to the body, her hands fluttering uselessly over his withered limbs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the dark, I could make out the outline of her face and her large, round eyes blinking down at me, her eyelashes almost fluttering against my forehead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Behind my closed eyes thin white dancers flit gracefully among the trees, their legs fluttering like the wings of held birds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved like a bird: flickering, darting, fluttering. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As twilight edged from grey to purple there was a noise in the spire, like a fluttering of heavy velvet, and Silas left his resting place in the belfry and clambered headfirst down the spire. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Amid all this are tepid daubs of period detail: fluttering lace curtains, torn crinolines, crackling fires. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Sudden bursts will take off, sometimes inciting a fluttering tremolo or gnashing percussion volley. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Others belie their weighty payloads with a veil-like fluttering, shunning complex characters and precise details in favor of less fixable quantities like mood, movement and texture. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The beat is a solid but unobtrusive four-on-the-floor; above it are pulsing, bustling, fluttering electronics and airy voices in a production that rebuilds itself differently with every verse, never settling for repetition. The Playlist: Prince’s Own ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ and 12 More New Songs 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z He had a facial tic, a nervous fluttering under one eye, that got him called “the rat” as a child. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The execution — photos fluttering briefly over a Coldplay track — however, was rather botched. VMAs play strange 23-second tribute to Robin Williams, Twitter responds with outrage 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z He was good too in “Killer Queen,” which he sang while reclining on a purple velvet settee, his eyelashes fluttering with lovable mischief. Queen + Adam Lambert are overcome by Freddie Mercury at the Forum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Driving out of town, I saw Bob Evans, Shell, Best Western and a fluttering Stars and Stripes in my rearview mirror. I vacationed at the East Coast’s quintessential rest stop. It’s more inviting than it looks. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The wives maintain their attitudes of subservience by singing a mantralike chant of “Keep sweet”: music of fluttering harmonies and muttered words. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z With its bright yellow and red walls, plate-glass windows and fluttering World Cup country flags, La Feria brings a taste of Spain to Detroit. In Detroit, Revitalizing Taste by Taste 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The other: Lallone, wearing a diaphanous white gown with winglike sleeves, wafts and whirls in the lights like a silken moth fluttering around a multihued flame. Voil?! A Tune-tooled trip to Paris in ZinZanni show 2011-10-11T00:00:06Z Watts is particularly brilliant at articulating a character’s inner being; she brings out what lies beneath so clearly and persuasively that you can see every thought and emotion fluttering into existence. ‘Infinite Storm’ Review: Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Extreme 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There were so many of them — fluttering clouds of wings poised on plants — that we lost track of time doing nothing but watch them. A backcountry refuge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z While the larks are never illuminated with Messiaenesque clarity, the harmonically rich piece evokes images of fluttering wings and soaring birds. Music Review: Lark Quartet Performs a Jennifer Higdon Work 2010-04-23T22:46:00Z Her face is animated not only by the fluttering play of shadow but by the movement of her eyes. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The actress, who has had a successful career on both the stage and screen, said: "My heart's fluttering." Poirot actor Actor David Suchet collects CBE 2011-06-22T15:02:36Z “Le Corsaire” opens with Conrad onstage with his pirate crew, aboard a ship bobbing atop fluttering silk waves. The Washington Ballet let Brooklyn Mack go. He landed at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z And the gaping jaw of his earlier novels, capable of swallowing a vast body of cultural trends and commercial ills, has been replaced by a laser-eyed focus on the flutterings of the soul. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But the fluttering can cause blood clots that lead to strokes, necessitating the use of blood thinners in many patients. The Most Promising New Heart Devices 2010-03-24T21:20:00Z Her voice, in real time, is a reedy soprano that hints at a higher register Stevie Nicks, seizing attention a with fluttering vibrato that sharpens the emotional peaks. CMJ 2014: Make That R-Y-N Weaver 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z When he says “Here,” he places a pale and long-fingered hand on his heart; for “Eternity,” the hand slides into the air, like a fluttering phantom dove. Review: Love Among the Shadows in Edgar Oliver’s ‘Victor’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “I am there,” he writes, “with my notebook and a fluttering heart.” Books of The Times: ?Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,? by Richard Fortey 2012-04-12T19:42:43Z Women with arms outstretched like branches, the wind fluttering through the drapes of their veils, draw allegorical threads to tales of woodland nymphs in rapturous dance. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Parsons speaks the words of Titania, but her winged, incandescent fairyness is evoked by a team of fluttering, humming others standing behind her. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a mesmerizing performance, and when it finally ends, Mr. Ware removes the instrument from his lips but leaves his eyelids shut, lightly fluttering. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z And stays that way, like a groggy mole, mildly smiling, eyes squeezed shut or fluttering open. Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Thanks to the slushy halfpipe he publicly derided as “garbage,” Mr. Davis finished out of the medals and never got to hoist one beneath a fluttering national banner. Fashion Diary: At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Opening Ceremony Uniforms Looked One and the Same 2014-02-12T21:58:09Z That poem is about the physicality of erotic torment: the fluttering heart, the fire on the skin, the buzzing in the ears, the trembling all over. Review: Breathing, Dancing Art at the Met Museum 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z He uses a full bow stroke to dig deeply into the strings and produce a uniformly wide, fluttering vibrato. Sitkovetsky, Qian show their talent and enthusiasm at Phillips 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Especially memorable were the chirping clarinet and fluttering flute figures, set off by zesty writing for the brasses. A steady 25-year-old hand leads the L.A. Phil and Hilary Hahn through a riveting Disney Hall concert 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Little leather T-shirt dresses were molded in a windblown state, their skirts forever fluttering to the side. The Gangs of Fashion 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Visualize fluttering birds flying about with wings flapping realistically, and more. Review: 'Pulcinella Vendicato' is puppet opera at its magical best 2010-04-27T00:45:00Z The scarred wooden checkout counters, and the librarians’ desks, as big as boats, and the bulletin board, with its fluttering, raggedy notices, were all the same. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In long white tutus with garlanded hair, the dancers looked diaphanously at ease, first in an entwining quartet with continuously linked hands, then in fluttering, voluminous solos. At Fall for Dance, Flamenco, Clowning, Classical Moves and a Bit of Homicide 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Shot in 35 millimeter by the cinematographer Robert Maly, “Preparations” manifests its protagonist’s uncertainty through fluttering reflections and slinky shadows, and images that conceal and obscure the full picture. ‘Preparations to Be Together’ Review: Mysteries of Love 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Nora begins by fluttering but eventually flies: her overbearing husband is stripped of authority. A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; St John's Night – review 2012-07-14T23:04:21Z One afternoon last July, Cosette was outside examining the plants when she spotted them for the first time that year: two bright orange butterflies fluttering around and into each other above the garden. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:09Z More speakers than ever, attendances booming, and book readers from across the south-west flocking to its fluttering standard. How readers will take control in the new age of print 2013-07-01T12:11:03Z There were trompe l’oeil tweeds and little black dresses composed of beaded organza and jersey, a “feathered” baby blue gown with fluttering organza petals. Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The most recent work features textures that appear feathery, as though the intricate overlaps were still fluttering. Review | In the galleries: In two exhibitions, three painters put aside their brushes 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Obvious Child goes further than fluttering protectively over Donna’s problems; it provides a large support team to advise her. REVIEW: Obvious Child: Do Not Abort This Movie! 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “It’s just a fluttering feeling you get in your chest when you’ve been looking at the same person for six months. It wasn’t really chest pain but a fluttering.” An Unexpected Path Leads to a Fresh Start 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z All fluttering hands and wittering humility, she takes her place primly next to the piano player for the remainder of "Hometown Glory", the capital ballad that ended her first album. Adele ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:21Z A crumpled and flagellated Christ, his lacerated back exposing bloody ribs, stares straight out to meet a viewer’s appalled gaze, even as a cherub fluttering above him covers his eyes in squeamish horror. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z There was such vociferous opposition to Lin’s memorial that an alternative one was built nearby, figurative with life-size statues of soldiers and fluttering flags. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Through the use of unorthodox techniques, including fluttering hand gestures inside the bells of instruments, Mr. Perocco created arresting sounds, including buzzing drones and ululating vocalizations. Music Review: TILT Brass Offers Five Premieres at Concert at Roulette 2013-06-28T21:47:24Z There’s no impudence, no wit, no fire and little fluttering understanding, despite the ostentatious science, of how human minds really work. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Even if her dancing falls short of grandeur, she uses her delicate build to evoke a rare sense of vulnerability: a quicksilver shiver of pirouettes, a tremulous fluttering foot. English National Ballet ? review 2011-03-24T22:00:02Z The birds flap and croak and challenge one another in fluttering displays of machismo. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z With brow furrowed, mouth twisted into antic leer, and the Chicago flag as his fluttering cape, Robinson offers a portrait of a Daley in final mayoral motion that lands somewhere between Woyzeck and Count Dracula. Second City's 'South Side' ★★★½ 2011-04-11T20:53:31Z A fluttering canopy, pulsating above like a jellyfish and lit pink, filled the ceiling of the space, in which seating was arranged on four sides like a diamond. A Dance Without Dance, and a Harbor for Stormy Souls 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The Virgin of Fatima is venerated by Catholics around the world, a following underscored by the many national flags fluttering in the huge crowd, estimated at more than half a million. Pope canoness Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Then those magnificent puppets appear — the slinky cheetah, the lumbering elephant with its baby in tow, the birds fluttering above like kites. Perspective | ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wicked’ return to Broadway — and it’s the heart that sings 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z That’s especially true of the tableaus of a woman, presumably the younger Luce, standing naked in silhouette before various men, her hair fluttering. Review: In ‘Let the Corpses Tan,’ Bullets Fly. People Die. But a Story? No. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “I come fluttering in from Neverland,” she rapped in “Consideration,” the intro track to her eighth album, “Anti.” Instead of a New Album, Rihanna Drops a Book 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Body and Soul emerged in fluttering runs against Amendola's brushes, a Thelonious Monk quote turned to blues and then rockabilly. Charlie Hunter ? review 2011-04-07T17:23:12Z Whether her eyes are rolling or her eyelashes fluttering, we don’t know. For DJ Khaled, Snapchat Is a Major Key to Success 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The way a phrase will end, a mood shift, brings Rachmaninoff fluttering into mind. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “Bountiful evening, bountiful evening, a New Year’s carol,” went the original Ukrainian verses, which centered on the fluttering innocence of a bird and the hope it brings. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z This concerto wanders, dreamlike, fluttering and — in the second part — dancing, its energy infectious. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes she embellishes my moves, fluttering her fingers like a silly ballerina. Doing ‘The Washing Machine’ With My 84-Year-Old Mother 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Lollobrigida does her best, all heaving bosom, see-through dresses and fluttering lashes, but Brynner's relentlessly leaden performance as Solomon kills off any spark of sexual chemistry. Solomon and Sheba: Take Bible, add ninjas 2010-07-15T08:06:00Z Finally, Time is ushered in by the poignant twinkling of a children's instrument and tremulous synth that captures – apologies for the fanciful imagery but Granger-Howell will do this to you – the fluttering of a heart. New band of the day ? No 758: Lonely Galaxy 2010-03-31T15:58:00Z “Rookie Blue” is accordingly a little saucy, but not at all cynical, and the pilot episode takes a serious, even warmhearted look at the fluttering anxiety of the first day on the job. | 'Rookie Blue': Missy Peregrym Plays a Sexy New Cop on ABC 2010-06-24T00:03:00Z When the rest of the ensemble lay defeated on the ground, they walked slowly through the human wreckage, Ms. An’s arms extended, hands fluttering. ‘Monte/Buglisi/Muller Live!’ at New York Live Arts 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z At moments, I couldn’t tell: Was that a fluttering from Messiaen or a fluttering from the robins? Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet the album is full of lovely little touches, like the fluttering flutelike sound that agitates the plaintive “Leave It Alone,” or the gauzy sway of “Lazy Wonderland.” New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z The first half of the Snow dance was the most unusual I’ve seen, with the Flakes shimmying their hips, arching in backbends and fluttering hands voluptuously down their bodies: snow as luxurious sensuousness. Critic?s Notebook: The Smallest Dancers Steal Their Own Show 2010-12-22T23:06:19Z Twenty feet in front of us, a white ibis, hunting in the shallows with its long curved bill, squawked and took flight, fluttering out of sight. Six Days Afloat in the Everglades 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z At one point, a solo French horn played a stark motif, joined in sequence by fluttering clarinets and a woodland stir of flutes and oboes, before the cellos brought in an anchoring line. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Nearing the final peak, I recognized the sound of fluttering and flapping fabric, like laundry blowing in the wind. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z And this play on fluttering wings and iridescent colors was jaw-dropping in its casual brilliance. Fashion Review: Gaultier Stretches His Wings 2014-01-22T18:30:51Z Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z Then she's off, flouncing here, fluttering there, leaning in and giving this or that imaginary friend a squeeze before something shiny catches her eye across the room ... like Vice President Joe Biden, for example. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z The final dance starts with a thrilling drum duet, hands flying, and when Ms. Shivalingappa appears, in silhouette, one of her hands is fluttering again, representing Shiva in destructive form beating a sacred drum. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa’s ‘Akasha’ Finds Physical Precision 2013-06-27T22:18:30Z But then as it progresses, there is that building of the silence to voice that becomes a lighter voice, the voice of birds, a fluttering and flourishing. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z At moments of passionate lyricism, he tended to switch his baton to his left hand, leaving his right free and a bit fluttering, like a more precise Valery Gergiev. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z But the show needed less fabric drowning the body and more of the fluttering prettiness that the label once stood for. Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z Soothingly comedic but with a halo of sadness, “In the Courtyard” hovers around its central characters with fluttering concern, nurturing their friendship but going nowhere. Review: In ‘In the Courtyard,’ a Neurotic Retiree Bonds With the Janitor 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Every so often, you see each running along a street alone, her clothes fluttering and body straining with effort. ‘Lingui, the Sacred Bonds’ Review: Love, Ferocious and Limitless 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Directed at the fluttering pace of an anxious heartbeat, this production for Mr. Donnellan’s Cheek by Jowl company dispenses with literal scenery and even props in unfolding the story of Macbeth’s headlong slide into corruption. | 'Macbeth': Ambition Doth Curse All Makes of Men 2011-04-06T21:38:26Z In person, her bright eyes, smooth skin and famously fluttering voice — restrained in conversation, though the occasional vowel sound answers a higher calling — project youthful tenderness. Erykah Badu Helped Define ‘Wokeness.’ Now She’s a Target. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Instead of strumming his guitar, he’s busy pumping fists and fluttering fingers, as if singing “The Beaches of Cheyenne” is just something one has to do while waving to the good people of Section 327. When Garth Brooks sings, America still sings along 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z A few sheets of colored tissue paper, weighted down by a trinket to keep them from fluttering off. Review: ‘A Song of Songs’ Makes a Sacrament of Remembrance 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Resolving the two were metallic floral jacquard dancing dresses with a skirt-side hint of panniers, winking at historicism and once again fluttering feathers. What Does ‘British’ Style Really Mean? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Uppsala is gorgeous, set high on a hill in the woods with bright, fluttering flags on the path. Ritual love of “Vikings: Valhalla” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z A so-called "sail dress" in bright yellow was just that, fluttering nicely down the runway. It's the season of newbies at NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T20:56:12Z Daphne, as she runs, becomes more beautiful, “her garments fluttering, and her soft hair streaming.” How a Woman Becomes a Lake 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z There’s a fluttering, quavering quality to her voice that manages to convey confidence instead of timidity — Weaver hovers gently above the track, always ready for lift-off, never struggling to grab ahold of where it’s going. Hear the Title Track from Ryn Weaver's 'The Fool' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z In the future, no director will confuse such flutterings with actual power. Does Andrea Arnold's experience on Big Little Lies suggest that auteurs are doomed? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z As well as the extraordinary business of going from leaf-chomping caterpillars to fluttering fliers, these are also species that often lead weird and wonderful lives, documented here with the aid of close-up photography. TV highlights 26/07/2013 2013-07-26T06:00:02Z “What happens,” Riley asks them, raising her hands and fluttering her fingers like fronds in a breeze, “if you allow the space for something to become?” Dance Place’s Deborah Riley, moving on: ‘It’s been my family’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z And there's dark beauty, as a dispatched demon turns before our eyes into tatters of grayed paper, fluttering weightlessly away in the cold night air. Harry Potter: 'Deathly Hallows ? Part 2' brings magical spectacle to a full stop 2011-07-14T05:29:54Z But not everything in the show is so obviously violent; Ms. Bopape’s flickering, fluttering installation, for example, offers quieter, ghostlier diversions with wires, mirrors, fans, swaying white tassels and videos of a mysterious blaze. Kara Walker Is Curator of ‘Ruffneck Constructivists’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In the “Sweet Bird” section, Haarmann, with fluttering feet and trembling fingers, was almost angelic while gliding through passages of choreography. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He gazes through the fluttering curtains at the view of his divided city and recalls a time when Jerusalem’s children did not encounter one another as enemies. The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z He was right about the sweating; we did a lot of it — both from muscle movement and from nerve fluttering. Waterfalls, Rivers and Rain Forest on Dominica 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Now look at it, with its tragic, fluttering stalls and cider drinkers and filth and betting shops and Costcutter. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z During this stretch, Voyager limited its contributions to fluttering, high register filigree. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z He’s not the fluttering, shimmering creature this choreography is about; he’s a golden eagle in the wrong role. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Returns to Lincoln Center 2013-07-02T21:29:12Z It’s easy to see if shoulders tighten or if the swift and fluttering footwork is imprecise. New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Door No. 3 reveals blood-stained jewels and gold, with fluttering flutes and the tings of a celesta. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z The role seemed distant, “like a beautiful star up in the sky,” she said, fluttering her slender fingers toward the ceiling of the press room at the Metropolitan Opera. The Poetic Justice of Stella Abrera’s Juliet 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z While Camille works as a clerk, Therese helps Madame run the shop below their apartment, the young woman’s pale face fluttering in the dark. Movie Review: ‘In Secret,’ Directed by Charlie Stratton 2014-02-20T22:51:13Z Those first two lines, with the fluttering rhythm and the favourite "i" sounds of "rises" and "reminds" convey premonition and sighing loneliness. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z The orchestration, rich with harmonium, celeste and harp, and aglow with fluttering woodwind and solo string writing, displays Massenet's hunger for throwing every musical meat, fish and fowl into his recipe, with uneven results. Cendrillon; Rinaldo ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:30Z Her fluttering hands, shaking as if she were heavily spicing a dish, represented the moonlight and also Krishna’s attraction, which transformed from a worldly power to a spiritual one by the end. Dance Review: Malavika Sarukkai at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-11-18T23:04:26Z Instead, sports fans are finding themselves watching video of classic hoops action among men in those little shorts fluttering a few inches over their four-foot-tall legs. Style Invitational Week 1377: Make your own March Madness 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Hands fluttering to the blemish on the chin. Never show them your back 2012-11-24T01:00:00Z In his final years, after he had kicked his heroin addiction, he was a familiar and striking figure plying the streets of Melbourne atop a mobility scooter, an Aboriginal flag fluttering on the back. Jack Charles, Grandfather of Aboriginal Theater, Dies at 79 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Sometimes he holds one hand high and then softly brings it slowly down, fluttering it. Flamenco by Israel Galv?n - Review 2011-09-22T15:59:55Z FOR years, Scott Murdock was haunted by a cinematic image fluttering at the periphery of his memory. Cultural Studies: Something About a Witch 2011-05-13T19:25:50Z He compared the mood created by fluttering flames to the tremolo of a voice singing in a church choir. A Panorama of Design 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z What caught my eye then were fluttering ribbons in the red, white and green colors of the national flag. On horseback through the symbolic heart of Hungary 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But it is the larger impression — of quavering, fluttering surfaces, of the surfeit of detail, of painting actively overtaken by collage — that holds the eye. Art in Review: VIK MUNIZ: ?Pictures of Magazines 2? 2011-09-15T21:15:09Z When they are in action, the curtain, made of a lightweight silk twill, rises and dips, and the air is stirred, causing further billowing and fluttering. Art Review: Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory 2012-12-06T23:27:44Z Strips of burnished silver lame served as frames, separating out the patchwork panels of brocades, fluttering silks and zebra-striped satin. Pilati speculation overshadows YSL show 2011-10-04T00:46:04Z His voice is deep and dank and baleful, an exotic cousin of Vincent Price’s from-the-crypt baritone, and his pronunciation stretches syllables into fluttering shadows. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z He's just spent eight hours at Little Woodfords, his coffee shop, which is easily identifiable by the rainbow flag fluttering above the peachy-pink front door. "For the morning gays": The importance of LGBTQ-owned cafes as sober, queer spaces 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The piece began with fluttering violin drones that suggested beginnings and awakenings. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The text beneath it begins, “Time is the duration of everything, and life is an event, a fluttering of wings … the moment is the interval between now and then and, then, again.” Duane Michals Searches the Morgan and Finds Himself 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Just fluttering away and leaving the good stuff behind. John Malkovich's disturbing short film, "Butterflies" 2011-05-12T18:13:00Z In Ellie’s first appearance in this episode, she is curled up in a patch of grass, bathed in sunlight, with a butterfly fluttering by. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 2: Exit Through the Gift Shop 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z It all passes like the fluttering of moth’s wings, and there is no forgetting it. Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z There’s more to their struggle than fluttering capes and face-contouring masks. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z They combine the tensely fluttering, flickering quality of his instrumental music with a remarkably varied approach to the human voice, sometimes speaking, sometimes keening, sometimes as pure-toned as a boy soprano. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Once hatched, the fluttering white contents of that cocoon steal the show in “The Echo Drift,” a visually and aurally layered chamber opera about time and punishment at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Review: Without Singing, the Moth Hits the High Notes in ‘The Echo Drift’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z He grabs her ankles as her arms move forward, mixing the sweep of a breaststroke with a swan’s fluttering wings. Dance Review: Armitage Gone! Dance at New York Live Arts 2013-02-03T22:20:41Z The winter was harsh and the guitars remind me of the fluttering snow. Six Songs of Me: John Burns of Juan and Only 2012-08-24T08:55:00Z Opening with the very Lynchian image of fluttering red curtains, it concludes with Jackson’s head in a floating bubble. David Lynch on Michael Jackson and That Crazy Frog From ‘Twin Peaks’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Though Griffin's vocal arabesques in Duke Ellington's "Come Sunday" pointed to an obviously polished singer, her fluttering fingers, quivering vibrato and heroic stage poses proved a tad narcissistic for sacred music. A flawed celebration of Mahalia Jackson's centennial 2011-05-21T14:55:00Z In the next moment, money fell from the ceiling—a shower of thousands of bills—fluttering into spectators’ outstretched hands. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Cheryl seems to be doing all of the heavy lifting, fluttering around like a bird in heat. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Bad music edition 2010-05-11T12:12:00Z The LED displays — several large flat screens and two floating contraptions that looked like upside-down wedding cakes — also re-created scenic elements like the show’s leviathan ice wall and a “weirwood tree” with fluttering red leaves. ‘Game of Thrones’ Live: Winter is coming to a stage near you — KeyArena, actually 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z But inside a tent tucked into a rear corner of Lincoln Center Plaza, a poodle is tooling around in a miniature sports car, his sequined scarf fluttering. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, Discs Fly and So Do People 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Watch the moths dart above the brasses and bows, fluttering up to the lights. Without Music, Tanglewood Is Empty, Eerie and Beautiful 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z He let the microphone catch the huffing as the bag filled with air; he unleashed fierce trills and sustained, fluttering dissonant tones. Music Review: Basel Rajoub and Saeid Shanbehzadeh at Asia Society 2013-12-08T21:42:02Z Today anybody can still see avian stillnesses, flutterings, wingspreads and formations here. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z The three of them huddle together, fingers fluttering, as if a chorus of teeny wings were taking flight. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty I found her lying on the dingy store carpeting, propped up on one pencil-thin arm, eyelids fluttering, trying to focus on me. I Wanted to Love Her, Not Save Her 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z I saw, too, abandoned factories immersed in weeds and bleak prefabricated tenement housing with laundry fluttering from balconies, legacies of Communist urban planning. Fauna, Flora and Freighters in the Danube Delta 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Moving through the fluttering fabric suggests an encounter with ghosts as much as a walk in the genealogical woods. Review | In the galleries: Circles of life at annual benefit for people living with cancer 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z They share interlocking fingerpicked patterns and, with moments of dissonance, nudge one another toward new ones, very gradually making their way from quick, fluttering interplay to tolling repose. Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z And it didn’t advance the cause when he seemed to evoke the fluttering notes of the sax with an undulating arm. Review: Spinning and Toiling, but Not Finding Coltrane’s Sacred Love 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Weerasethakul recorded the sound himself, and at a point the bugs’ fluttering seems to merge with scratchy spoken words. ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ Review: Home Movies 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Once, her father-in-law finds fluttering at his feet a laminated A4 page from the research report her husband was writing when he was killed. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review 2013-04-03T07:00:01Z Even when someone is injured or dies on screen, it seems gentle, a trickle of blood, some fluttering eyelids and murmurs of “I’m getting dizzy” or “help me black Jesus.” High-Flying Red Tails Stalls Before It Even Gets Off the Ground 2012-01-19T18:18:20Z Doctors rushed in to examine the patients find them with eyelids fluttering, a sign of REM sleep. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The guitarist Pat Metheny sounded at once relaxed and expeditionary on his fluttering anthem “Minuano,” delivered with an assist from Ms. Reeves. Global Flavors and Asides to Obamas at White House Jazz Gala 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z There's something almost spiritual about watching someone cook with fire: the glowing red charcoal pulsing with energy; the slow, controlled breaths sending ash fluttering into the air. A brief history of the American cookout 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The celebration on the rooftop was filled with flags bearing his silhouette and fluttering as if in a sea breeze. The Life Aquatic Catches the Olympian Mood 2012-07-30T11:37:03Z The clap-clap of his fingers on the keys evoked the fluttering crow in one song; a high throaty whistle conjured the will-o’-the-wisp that torments the narrator. A Renaissance for an Instrument of Melancholy Magic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z With American flags fluttering overhead, a wiry announcer in a plaid cap and tight blue T-shirt lifted the mic. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z Theirs is a gentle whir that reflects the delicate nature of Gordon’s designs — bodices shaped like bows, silken polka dots fluttering from a skirt, a dress shaped like a giant blossom. Perspective | Designers made New York fashion week happen. Sort of. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The shapes were big and bold, with voluminous draping and long, fluttering skirts that nearly tripped up a couple of the models, all perched on towering heels. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z Ben Brantley, the New York Times theater critic, recently described it as “deep and dank and baleful, an exotic cousin of Vincent Price’s from-the-crypt baritone,” but with a diction that “stretches syllables into fluttering shadows.” Edgar Oliver, Actor and Raconteur, Hews to His East Village Past 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z She felt “a fluttering feeling” as their eyes met. How we met: ‘He was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen. I asked him: “Are you single?”’ 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z We meant fluttering, trembling, a quiver of sighs and chanson tones. New band of the day ? No 1,073: Anna-Anna 2011-07-29T16:35:00Z The Renoir, one of the world’s most beloved paintings, shows a lively gathering buzzing with bonhomie and fluttering, sun-kissed physical proximity. Perspective | We’re all alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Why does he stare at his hands fluttering in front of his eyes, and always during English class and recess? We have autism all wrong: The radical new approach we need to understand and treat it 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Her burden is treated as grist for comedy, notably in the repeated images — fluttering like a flip book — of her enduring a lonely maternal crucible as she feeds and diapers the newborn again and again. Review: In the Comedy ‘Tully,’ Mom’s Struggle Is Real 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “Take this as seriously as you want,” Mr. Raheem said, “but there is a fluttering piece of consciousness inside of it. I do think it gets nervous when the attention is on it.” Don’t Call It a Magazine 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Her answer was already in the air, fluttering all around them. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Braxton stayed fully engaged, rocking as he played, nodding to his internal sense of the music’s motion; he played soft, fluttering patterns and loud alarms. Music Review: Anthony Braxton at the Kennedy Center 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z They share loops of material — a drift of loose-swinging arms and twisting torsos textured by stumbles, elbow jabs and fluttering hands — but not in a form as clearly defined as a canon. Jodi Melnick Unveils ‘Moment Marigold’ at BAM 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Past the fluttering flags and over the high security fence lies the Lea itself, a river system often as polluted as the Ganges, according to a body set up to safeguard it, Love The Lea. Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics 2012-06-23T18:00:01Z Ms. Vreeland’s book is historical fiction, an account of Renoir’s relationships with the 14 people gathered around Maison Fournaise’s outdoor table on an ironwork balcony below a fluttering red and white awning. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z The LED displays — several large flat screens and two floating contraptions that looked like upside-down wedding cakes — also recreated scenic elements like the show’s leviathan ice wall and a “weirwood tree” with fluttering red leaves. ‘Game of Thrones’ Live: Winter Is Coming to a Stage Near You 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The work begins gently, with seemingly stray plucked pitches, hushed sustained tones and fluttering figures. Review: 19 Female Composers Start to Mark a Century of Suffrage 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In “Cobbler,” there’s a sudden key change, a fluttering of bass clarinet and flute way down in the mix, and Kelis proclaiming in long tones, “You — make me hit notes — that I never sing!” New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z She said: “I was very excited to meet him. I remember my heart fluttering — this sounds so cheesy — when I was walking to our first date.” She Said Yes Every Time He Asked 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z After fluttering figurations from the woodwinds, a final flourish from Nathan Cole's violin ended the piece on a giddy note. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The danger was worth it: I saw the unibrow fluttering in the breeze, and it was a spectacular sight. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z There were also feminine dresses with tufts of feathers fluttering on the surface and papery fabrics ballooning as blouses above shorts. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z Digital screens encircling the room showed an animation of a diamond-encrusted bird fluttering across the New York City skyline. The New Tiffany, Unboxed 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Spying Hiroko fluttering around the outside of his sphere, he tried to reach her — with no luck at first. Review: Daffy humor and high artistry kick off Butoh festival 2011-06-04T16:45:05Z You’ve had sole before, and so have I — this was more like a creamy feather fluttering down my throat, leaving me in a kind of fugue state. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z She quickly pierces her discovery with a homemade flagpole fluttering with the family coat of arms and shouts, “A mighty leviathan, I have claimed it,” to amused fishermen in the vicinity. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Wet yellow leaves were fluttering against the room’s darkening windows. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Not once but twice Mr. Morrison illustrates mention of the fluttering of butterfly wings with flutter-tonguing in the flute. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z From its quay in early summer, Whitby was a sun-scrubbed idyll, fluttering with the trimmings of a typical English seaside holiday. Where Dracula Was Born, and It’s Not Transylvania 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z But that evening, looking at him, I felt a fluttering in my gut, a stir of mortal awareness, as if holding him in our gaze was the only thing tethering him to the earth. Two Open Marriages in One Small Room 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z On Currents, Parker wanted to use the guitar “in the way someone who is writing a classical piece would use an oboe — suddenly fluttering in from above as opposed to some driving force.” Tame Impala Gets Funky on New Album 'Currents' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z In this account, it was a mercurial fantasy, rich with fluttering cello bursts, alternately stentorian and whispered sung passages, skittish piano flights, and sliding riffs for electric guitar. From Harlem to Italy, Sounds of Gay Subversion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “Uh-uh, no fighting! Come on, you can come up and see Mommy,” she says, her gray-blond bob fluttering as she plops both pups on her lap and covers them in kisses. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The fluttering woodwinds that break in came across like rustling, slightly ominous sea birds and mists. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z I recognized Sanskrit on some of the fluttering ribbons. On a Remote Siberian Island Asking, Was It Just a Dream? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z No special ballerina fingers and no flutterings of grief or protest: just a boy swan on the floor, head down, arms over his extended leg, finding a final stillness. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z Every time I’d see those flutterings of white, I thought of the effort and devotion that had gone into covering this landscape in so many acts of love. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The score includes unusual touches: musicians hum and hiss, the conductor intones a text, string players create wind by rhythmically fluttering a page of their music. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Why is it so difficult to read a book without fluttering over to social media? The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But that title these days goes to phalaenopsis, the moth orchid, fluttering in every supermarket florists’ and big-box aisle. A cubicle is an awful place for a plant. Here’s how to keep one alive. 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Ada’s psychological tumult is captured in intimate close-ups and fluttering camera movements, while the absence of a score complements the film’s uneasy mood of pent-up rage and stifling despair. ‘Unclenching the Fists’ Review: The Cost of Freedom 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The resulting motif image could be a Barnett Newman reject, but it also evokes fabric fluttering in the wind. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z In some places, these appear like the fluttering horizontal lines produced by an old television tube, as if we are getting a distorted picture beamed over fickle airwaves. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z There is no mystery about who wins the movie’s final bout, but it is never less than thrilling to watch Yen’s fluttering limbs in action. ‘Ip Man 4: The Finale’ Review: Head Punches and Heart 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z A thick layer of Tiger Beat precipitate is now fluttering down atop that, which, given enough heat, pressure and millennia, might at least compress itself into a useful fossil fuel. How to Win the Clutter War 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z And it looks “almost as if the frames of film in a projector were stuck and fluttering,” writes Knight, “somewhere between imminent annihilation and furious clawing to endure.” Essential Arts & Culture: The new MacArthur winners, Gehry's Bilbao effect, Springsteen on Broadway 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Wyeth’s miraculous rendering of the main body of the fluttering curtain disintegrates into mere streaks of white paint; it is not a representation of a fraying curtain, but a frayed representation of a curtain. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in "Corruption, it's all corruption," she told her children, fluttering her hands like two birds taking flight. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z As trailers go, this could not have been more generic if it had just been a close-up of a flag fluttering in the breeze. House of Cards's Spacey-less final season trailer: Netflix plays it safe 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Explosive drum tattoos are answered by fluttering winds, trumpet fanfares and a full-throttle cascade of strings. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Her Azucena is a creation of soaring high notes, fluttering trills, seductive legato, chilling low tones. Review: A Surprise Star Steals the Met’s ‘Il Trovatore’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Dancers, while fluttering one leg in the air, suddenly and softly contract their torsos. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z Slowly creeping uphill, we stared at the fluttering butterflies — some as large as small birds — as their numbers multiplied. Overnighter: Valle de Bravo, an Upscale Refuge Near Mexico City 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z She was the fluttering heart inside the algorithm — wacky, seductive and full of fallible humanity. On ‘Smile,’ Katy Perry Finds Purpose (and Pitfalls) in the Past 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Soon a woman dressed as a monarch butterfly arrives, enormous puppet wings fluttering beside her. Part circus, part technology trade show, Cirque du Soleil's Mexico-themed 'Luzia' opens in L.A. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The back panel features the logos of DC Brau and the Washington Blade, next to four fluttering rainbow flags. Beer of the Week: A local brewery steps up for Capital Pride 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The track’s steady percussion is a heartbeat, and the cyclical turn of notes is nervous eyelashes fluttering. Our Favorite Songs of 2018 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Otherwise, performances are jazzed up with video overlays and mirror-image effects, drenched in jewel-tone light or rendered in black-and-white filters, through which you might notice a living-room sofa or the fluttering of window blinds. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z In compositions such as “The Night Wind,” which depicts fluttering flowers in a dark palette, translucent fragments overlap to yield new hues, a sense of depth and an illusion of movement. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Engawa is a fluke’s dense and chewy outer perimeter, the muscular edge that sends the rest of the fish fluttering along the ocean floor. Swimming Against a Tide of Expensive Sushi 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z We marveled at the fluttering prayer flags and spinning prayer wheels everywhere we turned. A breathtaking Himalayan journey to ‘the rooftop of the world’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z There’s a ladybug infestation in the house; our stillness is made more noticeable by their motion and endless proliferation, by the constant fluttering of wings. In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z A gorgeous stylist, Tóibín captures the subtle flutterings of consciousness better than any writer alive. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z From a distance his work Blind Gate, included in his current show, seems no more than two large sheets of white paper, fluttering against the wall they're pinned to. Artist of the week 100: Jorge Santos 2010-08-11T14:54:00Z She often introduces a melody by landing firmly on each note, then returns to toy with it in sliding, fluttering phrases, not for vocal display but to convey a sense of freedom. Review: Lianne La Havas Sings of Love and Identity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z No matter what's happening in the world, on screen or in our own, these actors convey the bliss of feeling breezes fluttering on skin or achieving some kind of oneness with whatever surrounds them. HBO's skate show "Betty" grows up, and not even a pandemic can break its momentum 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s a difficult task in an era when fluttering fingers on smartphones can give away all the surprises. ‘Salinger,’ a Documentary Film 2013-05-08T21:24:06Z The work hauntingly combines her keening, fluttering flute lines with electronically processed fragments of her own playing, as well as prerecorded music, played by the flutist Camilla Hoitenga. Music Review: Jean-Baptiste Barrière in Concert at Miller Theater 2014-03-31T21:41:56Z The center also promises to delight guests by surrounding them with fluttering butterflies and immersing them in the creepy beauty and industriousness of insects. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Her expansive, episodic melodies felt lulling until a coiled bass line and fluttering brush stroke on the snare drum suddenly galvanized a rubato section, pushing the piece in an unexpected direction. Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z To my left, a fluttering wind cone planted in the middle of the vineyard had been torn to shreds. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z They erect huge section-covering canvas banners — called tifo, an Italian word for choreographed fan support — elaborately painted fluttering billboards, some of them covering 16,000 square feet and weighing more than 1,500 pounds. Soccer as Spectacle in the Pacific Northwest 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z His reputation, however, resides in earthly paradise, with two blockbuster exhibitions this year, drawing tens of thousands to admire his slavering, fluttering, waddling abominations. For Hieronymus Bosch, One Helluva Homecoming 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The butterfly confetti fluttering down at the finale on light white apron dresses told the story. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z He beautifully captures Curly’s facial contortions and vocalizations — woo-woo-woo — and, as important, the delicate physicality, the fluttering fingers and flapping feet. Movie Review: ?The Three Stooges,? From Peter and Bobby Farrelly 2012-04-12T18:27:53Z “DON’T BE SHY,” Mr. Girard says quietly, sounding like a soulful host of a midnight jazz show while talking to a new singer with a fluttering vocal moan. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z We had flirted, but I remembered from Facebook that he’d gotten married, so I flew back to California at the end of the conference with a wistful “what-if” feeling fluttering in my chest. Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The look, almost as if the frames of film in a projector were stuck and fluttering, is somewhere between imminent annihilation and furious clawing to endure. In Gary Simmons' hands, classic film titles ooze with racial history 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z His shirt is, for unknown reasons, unbuttoned, its tails fluttering as he dances. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Yakushev played with both energy and brash humor, and in Schumann’s “Carnaval” collection, he was febrile, ready to pounce but delicate in the gently fluttering “Reconnaissance.” Music Review: Keyboard Festival Presents Andrew Tyson and Ilya Yakushev 2013-07-16T21:51:58Z By the time we reached Warren Island, our first anchor site, my fingers were fluttering, too. On a Windjammer cruise in Maine, passengers knit a seaworthy yarn 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z In a nearby painting she is both a reclining nude and a weightless sculpture hovering above a plinth, whose fluttering brushwork seems almost finger-painted. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z Wearing a red dress while making gurgling and fluttering sounds with her mouth, SU-EN took on the mannerisms of a bird with quivering legs and hands held in loose fists. Review: ‘The Nordic Body’ Moves at 92nd Street Y 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But ever since HBO released the first three minutes of the premiere, I can feel the butterflies of my intense love/hatred with this show already fluttering in my stomach. A sneak peak at "True Blood's" season four premiere 2011-05-31T20:32:00Z And though there are French flags fluttering and boulangèries selling baguettes, one thing is quite un-French: the near total lack of public transportation. To the Cup, the Long Way Round 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z All the while, the pageboy Cherubino keeps the household in a fever state, fluttering around every woman in sight. Another Tale, or Two, Of That Operatic Figaro 2011-06-03T18:19:59Z Tucson-based Yolie De Leon felt a fluttering in her chest before she was about to take a walk back in June, she told FOX Television Stations. Apple Watch saves Arizona woman's life 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z When, fluttering a union flag, she expresses her thrill at finally playing in London, you buy it. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z But there was not much new here: Mr. Glass’s signature fluttering arpeggiation was plentiful, as were his characteristic modulations from major to minor, with their abidingly melancholy undercurrents. Music Review: Cross-Cultural Parade of Partnerships 2011-03-10T22:38:25Z Meanwhile, Sunshine Village boasts double-black pitches — the steepest, most extreme runs in skiing — on Goat’s Eye Mountain that send the pulse fluttering. The search for pure, untouched powder at three Canadian ski resorts 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z On track after track, Weaver and her fluttering trill glide over verses, soar over swooping chorus and chirp high notes at the heavens. Review: Ryn Weaver Won't be Pinned Down on 'The Fool' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Maybe it was the wine again, but a skeptical reporter found himself focusing on the tree in question, a tall, skinny fan palm, and concentrating on movement: swaying trunk, fluttering fronds. All Souls Trilogy: Harry Potter for Grown-Ups? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z His sisters borrowed our phones to photograph the insects that seem to pose obligingly on banana leaves, fluttering their wings only slightly. Francine Prose on Montreal in the Spring: The Time of the Butterflies 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z I would throw out, through the jeep window, bundles of crisp naira notes and watch the money fluttering about in the air, the cattle-herders scrambling like chickens to grab the deluge of alms. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z The Nigerian superstar Burna Boy juggles regrets, justifications and resentments as he sings about a romance wrecked by career pressures, drawing nervous momentum out of a strumming, fluttering sample from Toni Braxton. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The arrangements, with trumpets cackling and clarinets fluttering above a droll sousaphone bass line, laugh their way through songs full of romance and heartbreak. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z Before fluttering off, Mike reminded us to keep our hands to ourselves. In Florida, should the manatees swim alone? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z She recently suggested, fluttering her hands in the vicinity of her ears, that I get just a very little trim. The Mirror: Why Can?t Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair? 2010-10-21T22:44:00Z The brio with which the fluttering angel is drawn is worthy of the greatest 18th-century masters. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z Weight in Gold is a dead ringer for Planet Earth and on Club Scene Norris even manages to replicate that 1981 single's fluttering guitar-as-flying-craft sound. New band of the day ? No 928: Starlings 2010-12-10T16:54:00Z Out of the studio, her voice was bright and strong, with an urgent, fluttering vibrato at emotional peaks and more than a hint of Stevie Nicks. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z And they were borne aloft on a fluttering flag Monday, the first day of Paris Fashion Week, in the last Off-White show Mr. Abloh ideated before his death. Virgil Abloh’s Last Show 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z So what happens when the butterfly in Brazil, whose fluttering wings are creating wind-power in Texas, dies off because of pollution or deforestation? Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z Conceive of nature as basically the charismatic mammals and plants, plus a few pretty fluttering insects, and perhaps it's hard to see our place in it. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z SHE arrived like a modern-day Cleopatra, smiling and waving down at her adoring masses from the top deck of a trolley, her blown-out tresses fluttering in the wind. J. Lo: The Sequel 2011-05-13T23:19:29Z Overnight, his photograph and early video footage of other falling bodies were replaced on our screens by sheets of office paper fluttering out of the shattered windows of the twin towers. Photography's bodies of evidence | John Perivolaris 2010-04-04T14:00:00Z Some of them stay on, like the bright, fluttering, raw artichoke salad dressed with yuzu juice, only to be replicated at other Nobu locations. At Nobu Malibu, Dream Time With the Famous and Almost Famous 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z His tiny output overflows with tender rhapsody, each song wistful and airborne like a fluttering kite. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z The movie opens with a rush as she arrives at a launch site astride the roof of a carriage, her peacock-hued frock and feathered headdress fluttering gaily. ‘The Aeronauts’ Review: High Anxiety 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z 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 She remains slim and vibrant, with finely molded cheekbones, fluttering lashes and a corona of strawberry blond hair. Georgia Engel, a ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Sidekick, Takes a Star Turn 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z They became her fellow dancers, twisting and fluttering the sheets into three-dimensional shapes. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z My heartbeat quickens, and I get that nervous fluttering in the belly. Sex, drugs and superheroes: Our 10 best personal essays 2013-12-31T12:45:00Z Clocks will not be kept in action, but video monitors will play footage of some of them, with acrobats twirling and birds fluttering. Magnificent Obsession Morphs Into a Stained-Glass Museum 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Butterflies are hard to pin down: they're always flittering and fluttering. Butterfly keeper Mark Tansley on Damien Hirst: The Souls 2010-10-10T21:15:00Z The train tracks underfoot and the tattered fabric fluttering in the breeze, you must grudgingly admit, only add to the charm. Sarah Larson: A Charming Rooftop Garden, at Gallow Green 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr Gehry’s best projects are almost uniquely, engagingly lyrical: the fluttering surfaces and gorgeously ballooning spaces seem unbound by either gravity or the limits of construction technology. A life in shapes 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The settlement is strewn with monasteries and nunneries, with rows of fluttering prayer flags everywhere. A glimpse of little Tibet in southern India 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “But we’re going from one huge thing to another,” she added, her silken voice fluttering with disbelief. Cynthia Erivo Is One Step Closer to the EGOT Club 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The motor emits a gentle fluttering sound, like a playing card folded and stuck with a clothespin onto a kid's bicycle-wheel spokes. Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Claire is just as bad as Frank, nine days out of 10; on the 10th, she feels a slight fluttering of conscience. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z An herbalist’s staff trails a flock of tiny, fluttering, tissue-thin iron birds. 3 Knockout Art Shows to See in Los Angeles Right Now 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Pliant and warm in the play’s opening moments, before the doctor has come, Ms. Oh reveals a fragility in the character’s psyche, expressed in her fluttering terror when those headlights strafe the room. ‘Death and the Maiden’ in Chicago, Starring Sandra Oh 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “It was really powerful. I just burst into tears, my heart started fluttering.” ‘We were sexually frustrated’: did it work out for people who texted an ex in lockdown? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z As their duet builds, she rises and falls in a series of fluttering lifts. Royal Ballet triple bill ? review 2011-03-20T00:05:21Z As for the notes Sanders sings, they appear roughly a dozen minutes into the album, his voice quietly fluttering and babbling at first, then yawning melody from the back of the throat. Perspective | Two saxophone masters delivered resonance in pandemic times — but one of them sounded a bad note on vaccines 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, there’s little that Gerhaher does onstage that isn’t deliberate, apart perhaps from the fluttering of his left hand where it hung by his side, like a repressed plea for even more expression. Review | Christian Gerhaher’s Mahler recital stabs listeners in the heart 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Beneath an industrial skylight and fluttering flags from the United Kingdom, France and Israel, well-heeled patrons pumped their fists and posed for purse-lipped Facebook photos, racking up huge tabs every Saturday. The Brunch Party Takes Over Clubs ? Partying Like It?s 3 A.M. 2011-11-16T22:29:28Z “He said, ‘Come, come, come to me,’ ” Green says, softly fluttering his fingers. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone There’s comedy in that desperate fluttering of emotion — and truth, too. Anne Enright draws a rich, Irish family saga in ‘The Green Road’ 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z “Let’s live in the present,” Ms. Marrero said, fluttering a hand dramatically upward to clutch her chest. Why Holiday Windows Still Matter 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The sly, light “Pillar V,” with its cascades of chimes, leads to “Pillar VI,” more ruminative than the others; the shadowy tangle of “carTogRAPh”; and the fluttering hush of “Pillar VII.” One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Or how the fluttering of Sakthivel Muruganantham’s drumming matched the flutter of Ranee’s fingers to whip up the sensation of a storm even as we sat in the rainless heat. 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