Word: skittishly
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...that Moonchildren does injustice to the seriousness of the peace movement and other student causes by making too many jokes at their expense--but that is just the point. The more serious an issue the more fiercely these kids try to exorcise it with the uneasy magic of their skittish laughter...
...their seats, shifted their jewels and studied their catalogues. From high on a rostrum center stage, a young man in a tuxedo surveyed the all-white crowd, then once again rapped his gavel and begged for silence. When it came at last, he reverentially intoned the pedigree of the skittish filly in the ring below, then turned the microphone over to the man beside him. "Well-1-1-1 . . ." began the second man in a rolling baritone, "who'll give 10,000 to starta? I got five, six, seven. All righty nowya, who'll give 10,000 fora...
Speedy southpaws, a notably skittish breed, are traditionally either late bloomers or early dropouts. Lefty Grove was 27 before he hit his stride, Rube Waddell 25 before he found the strike zone, and Warren Spahn 25 before he won his first major-league game...
...incomplete are the ways that would most help us to understand the causes of that consciousness and the way to change it. For example Elena, a one-dimensional woman the hero picks up one day, keeps being described as "underdeveloped," unable to sustain an idea or feeling, erratic, skittish-chauvinist cliches which the film gravely takes for a personality condition that fell from the sky. That's the way she acts, period; that's her given personality, not a product of the specific material conditions and social developments which she's experienced all her life. Like the hero's, Elena...
...incomplete are the ways that would most help us to understand the causes of that consciousness and the way to change it. For example Elena, a one-dimensional woman the hero picks up one day, keeps being described as "underdeveloped," unable to sustain an idea or feeling, erratic, skittish-chauvinist cliches which the film gravely takes for a personality condition that fell from the sky. That's the way she acts, period; that's her given personality, not a product of the specific material conditions and social developments which she's experienced all her life. Like the hero's, Elena...