flightiness

1 Imagination operates like hurling the red bird into the bad piggy structure—it is like meeting rigidity with flightiness.

2 Charlie’s apparent flightiness manifests in the whirring of her hyperactive mind, agitated by the ceaseless “birds chirping” of people’s constant everyday lies.

3 Astronomers aren't exactly sure why this happens, but the flightiness of the SEB is actually not unprecedented.

天文学家并不知道这一现象发生的具体原因，但是南赤道突然消失并非史无前例。

4 The girl, unfortunately, springs from a family in whose blood flightiness may be said to have run from the very beginning.

5 Another paper which Mr Haldane helped write suggested that shareholders’ flightiness affects corporate decisions: publicly quoted companies tend to invest less than private companies with similar profits and turnover.

6 Doubtless it was his imminent movie engagement that brought on his attack of flightiness.

7 “Taking a nuanced look at sexual awakening and, to a lesser extent, class distinction, the movie has a charming flightiness that builds to an unexpectedly touching climax.”

8 John saw no reason for this change, and set it down to that flightiness of purpose which—as he had read in books—is common to all savages.

9 Waiting periods, ultrasound requirements and forced "counseling" all make accessing abortion that much harder -- even as each step is dressed up as protection for women against their own flightiness and inability to make good decisions.

10 In spite of her flightiness and love of pleasure she had a very keen sense of her own interest, and perceiving Colonel Ormonde's decided appreciation, she had made up her mind to marry him.

11 But who wants to give up draft choices or a player to sign someone with a reputation for contract-jumping and flightiness?

12 Denhoff was a man of the old school, and he had already heard of his wife's flightiness.

13 At first she only entered while the patient slept, but after a few days the stupor began to lessen, and the flightiness, with which it had alternated, to decrease.

14 That's right, the lady of the sea is a flexitarian — the dietary manifestation of every bad stereotype about the inconsistency and flightiness of women.

15 In particular, he suffered from a congenital flightiness that he masked as wanderlust.

16 Perhaps flightiness is not the right word; but it is a devil-may-care tone, which I do not like when it proceeds from under a hat, and still less from under a bonnet.

17 In this era characterized by too much pettiness and flightiness, it is really a miracle that we should find such imposing forcefulness and artistic excellence as shown in his works.

这个时代有太多的萎琐，也有太多的浮躁，如此大的气势和境界，实在少之甚少，是一个奇迹。

18 In the correspondence, however, published by the same journal, are to be found two or three letters well calculated to correct the temporary flightiness of the journal itself.

19 But the basic flighty nature of those uninsured deposits–and the consequent fragility of the U.S. banking system–remains.

20 They mixed things terribly, and gave her impressions that took months to right; and they could not understand why she looked distressed at their flightiness.

1 轻佻

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2 疯颠

batchy flightily