Word: flitting
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...only thing that can change people's minds is organization," she argued. "Without it, people will just flit from issue to issue as the government seduces them into believing that the problem they are presently concerned with will be solved...
...this way; he is sure this is the way it must be run. His eyes are old and they know very much; they know more than mine, have mine thoroughly whipped (I tried to stare at him for a time but could not). My eyes are frightened, flit around the room, unable to gather it all in and not wanting to, wanting to get out of this jail cell...
...dark dance hall -- too packed, obviously, for dancing -- the younger boys and girls are remarkably adept with each other. They must learn at high school to flit around casually and effortlessly...
...very magnitude of their first-round success made the Gaullists worry that their supporters might grow complacent about the final round of balloting. In an effort to persuade them not to flit off to the country and the beaches on vacation instead of staying around to vote, the Gaullists kept up the pressure. "Do not relax! The battle is not yet won," exhorted Pompidou. "Finish them off; yes finish off those who are in the camp of revolution and negativism." At weeks end, in a final appeal for support Charles de Gaulle spoke to the French on television and radio...
...first novel, she operates good-naturedly in the postanalysis, guilt-free era. God is not only dead, there never was a birth announcement. The book is a catchy packaging job of the familiar semi-exaggerations about how the super-rich and super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to pleasure in ever-tightening circles that lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo...