battiness

If you attempt to please everyone all the time, you'll drive yourself to badgery levels of battiness.

My God, It's Full Of Tweets! 2009

The hooks are never lost, but a sense of claustrophobia and general battiness remains as Coleman sings about a bizarre array of topics -- the lousy driving of Christians, cops hitting him on the head, the joys of playing basketball -- and still manages to find moments of clarity.

Really quick spins: Garage rock edition with John Wesley Coleman, Limes, Spider Bags, Last Year's Men and the Parting Gifts David Malitz 2010

Middle can be good, but these times inspire battiness.

Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 15, 2006 2006

He calls concern about climate change “millenarian battiness.”

Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’ 2006

But it had been all over in a breath, just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

The best on-camera taste of Ryan's spastic battiness was, of course, during Tim Urban's dagblastit-the-kid's-actually-getting-kinda - good performance of "I Can't Help Falling In Love," when Ryan randomly grabbed a beefy member of Lee Dewyze's official cheer squad and proceeded to dance with him through most of the song.

PopWatch Adam B. Vary 2010

A different kind of film would signal Big Edie's irretrievable descent into battiness with a scene of her drinking before cocktail hour.

Slate Magazine 2009

It could be the growing battiness of the right made him suddenly feel justified enough to take his anger a step further, or it could be dementia, but as it is, it looks like one lone crank with a long history of simmering in hate.

MetaFilter FatherDagon 2009

You know, in spite of the battiness and the guile, I believe that old man possesses a sense of humour.’

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977