fitfulness

He couldn't blame that for the fitfulness of his sleep.

The stormy first movement had a weird quality of calculated fitfulness.

"The fitfulness of voters is such that, having got the government they wanted, they were now reading nothing but the right-wing press.

So, the basic characteristics of the above doctrine are the flexibility of content and fitfulness of occurrence.

The flute seems to flutter freely, triumphantly released from the stuttering fitfulness that characterized its part earlier.

Another major cause of the fitfulness of the session was Mr. Anderson's announcement that he would retire.

Kennedy, seemingly enthralled by the fitfulness of the work, makes the most of every sudden turn and maximizes the conflict between its luxurious lyricism and restless outbursts.

As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.

She had thought his fitfulness might be a temporary condition, caused by the recent traumatic events in his life, but he had told her, no, this was the way he always slept.

Ruffian as he looks, the first word he speaks--to a lady, at least--places him on a level with educated gentlemen, and his conversation is brilliant, and full of the light and fitfulness of genius.

He calls the emergence of the concept of chaos a revolution in the sense in which that word was used by Thomas Kuhn, the historian of science, to describe the fitfulness of the progress of science.

As she turned in an abrupt twirl to face forward, the fitfulness of her movement due, no doubt, to her state of frenzied hilarity, the soapy contents of her bucket splattered far and wide, showering the front of Julia's fashionable golden brown silk pelisse.

All the same, remembering young Dionysios' fitfulness, I did not mean to put all my eggs under one hen, but called on the consuls of Leontini, Akragas, Gela and Tauromenion, telling them of my visit, and anything else it would do me good for them to know.

A bluish flame shot up from out the depth of the vessel, shed for the space of a second or two its ghostly light upon the gaunt features of the old hag, the squat and grinning face of the negro, and toyed with the will-o'-the-wisp-like fitfulness of the surrounding gloom.