How To Use Flightiness In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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Such apparent flightiness belies a solid build-up of professional experience.
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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
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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
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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
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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?'
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He is even honest about their flightiness, describing the band as ‘constantly running from one drama or another.’
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He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.
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Smith's version in The Old Manor House plays with this expectation by transferring the typical heroine's flightiness and love - sickness to the protagonist, even as it also satirizes his virtues as a romance hero.
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Right mindfulness serves as an antidote to rid the mind forever of the auxiliary disturbing emotions and attitudes (nye-nyon), such as flightiness of mind and mental dullness, that an accustoming pathway mind gets rid of, namely the automatically arising ones.
The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path)
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He just couldn't handle Aubrey's flightiness and her diva tendencies, so he settled things quickly, efficiently, and most importantly, quietly, in divorce, back when Kaitlyn and I were tiny tots.
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I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory
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But she says her need to perform springs from more than mere flightiness.
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But even the brightest of its terraces are admonished for their flightiness by stern brick churches.
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Her acting was rather disappointing, lacking the impulsive flightiness of my ideal Dorabella, but it will be interesting to see what becomes of her voice.
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The Leo Moon stabilizes the Sagittarius flightiness and inconsistency, but since both signs are ruled by fire, these individuals are enthusiastic, ambitious.
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She is also charmingly open about her faults, such as her quick temper and flightiness: I always expect people to behave much better than I do.
2009 December 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Good work too from Pip Carter who plays the accident-prone Yepihodov as a tortured, lovesick soul, from Emily Taaffe who shows both the flightiness and heartbreak of the maid Dunyasha, and from Kenneth Cranham who pins down the sad senility of the neglected servant, Firs.
The Cherry Orchard - review
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He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.