flightiness

How To Use flightiness In A Sentence

• For all her flightiness, there was seemingly nothing she could not get done by sleight of hand or obtain, if occasionally at shocking black-market prices. A Covert Affair
• A diva-like flightiness is central to her character, a loving but scatty single mum who had her first child in her mid-teens, works as a cleaner, and swings unpredictably between snappish burnout and little-girl fragility.
• There's little of the flightiness of Pontormo, where everything aspires to the condition of a flag, flame or cloud. Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
• Such apparent flightiness belies a solid build-up of professional experience.
• In many ways, this is an improvement: much of my arrogance has been blunted, my naievity informed, my rigidness relaxed, my flightiness settled. Hello, Goodbye | Her Bad Mother
• Meilir Rhys Williams captures Dennis's anguished flightiness and Oedipal instincts: he extravagantly dances Kirsten Clark as his mum round the living room and allows himself to be lovingly cradled in her lap. Over Gardens Out - review
• The early two-point conversion attempt with more than 11 minutes to go, the decision not to punt trailing by just three points with two timeouts and the two-minute warning conversion in your pocket, and oh yeah, the decision to bench your starting quarterback on the game's most important drive in favor of a dude renowned for flightiness ... that was all weird. Redskins-Lions, Best and Worst
• There is a speculative flightiness about her in that film; especially in the breakdown scene in a shower cubicle, she seemed for the first time a human animal touched to the quick. Susannah York, 72, Oscar nominee for role in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'
• He is even honest about their flightiness, describing the band as ‘constantly running from one drama or another.’
• He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.