flitty

A third-person narration that tries to immerse readers in the perspectives of too many characters will probably feel flitty.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Common Problems with Third-Person Narration 2008

All the little flitty, lisping, arm-waving, derangement of it all.

Imagine the reaction if Bush had given some world leader a set of DVDs that would only play on American DVD players. Ann Althouse 2009

Tree frogs do their flitty dance on spotted mushrooms and copper ferns.

PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen 2009

I liked the way she subtly worked the contrast between her bubbly, flitty exterior and the bittersweet emotions underneath.

A Prairie Home Companion Ed Howard 2008

I'm especially impressed that you captured a flitty Yellow Warbler!

For the birds.... Gumbo Lily 2008

Hermes/Mercury was the messenger of the gods, had little flitty wings on his feet and was notoriously light in his Greco-Roman loafers.

Think Progress » House passes prescription drug reform. 2007

Arrioso's flitty, touchy-feely investigation is dated and stereotypical but also affectionate, and the scene in which he runs afowl of a hypodermic loaded with some kind of luminous blue poison that exists only in the Argento apothecary found in the same outré universe as the Argento library and Argento airport is surprisingly poignant.

Archive 2006-02-26 2006

Yeah, those little brown flitty-twits that like to hang around shopping malls and fast-food parking lots.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

Arrioso's flitty, touchy-feely investigation is dated and stereotypical but also affectionate, and the scene in which he runs afowl of a hypodermic loaded with some kind of luminous blue poison that exists only in the Argento apothecary found in the same outré universe as the Argento library and Argento airport is surprisingly poignant.

Whither FOUR FLIES? 2006

It's possible that his large strides and massive clodding was meant to add some gravitas to the rather flitty business going on about him.

Fucking Articulate 2004