Sentence examples for a flutter of nerves from inspiring English sources

In much of Cassatt's best work we are aware of the same crystallisation of tension, described by one male critic as a "flutter of nerves".

There was one more flutter of nerves for Williams when she netted on her first match point, but Azarenka put a backhand over the baseline moments later to send the American leaping deliriously in celebration after two hours and 45 minutes of tension.

A flutter of noise brought her awake.

Once, hearing a flutter of wings, Tuca said: "Vultures.

Not guns, not thunder, but a flutter of clouded drums.

With a flutter of wings, he was gone.

It palpitated steadily, a flutter of purple on a white wall.

There was a flutter of astonished voices: You can't be serious!

A flutter of the hands and you imagine the fingernails.

I could feel a flutter of shame in my shoulders.

A bend, a twist, a slide of foot, a flutter of light.