HE HAS always been a restive type, but now Salam Fayyad's words come in agitated, freewheeling floods, as if he has drunk about 15 cups of coffee.
Boyle has always been a restive director, starting in Scotland with "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting," before diverting to such noted hot spots as Thailand ("The Beach") and outer space ("Sunshine").
But restive has always suggested restlessness, and for the striking reason that a supposedly stationary quadruped (in particular a horse), when refusing to be driven forwards, is liable to dance about sideways and backwards instead.
But without changes at all levels of society, and with a restive military always standing too-ready to step in to rule after pushing civilians out, those changes were not enough to hold back a coup in 2006 and then again, with greater restrictions on civil liberties and freedoms, this year.
See, in our part of the world, prison walls and thick inviolable doors are all too overt, obvious, over-bearing, choking; this is why we remain restive, rebellious, agitated, and always in preparation for our day of freedom, of light, when we gather a critical mass of people power enough to cross all the hitherto categorical red lines.
Thanks to this, she grew up to be that most rare of creatures: a restive, questing woman who seemed always to be in search of a means of assuaging her loss, yet was also wholly herself, as easy in her skin as in her breeches and gardening boots.
She still had a restive nature; Mitt later recalled that, "It always seemed that she wanted something a little more for herself".
The restive north Caucasus republics in the Russian federation are always in the news.
You can't always tell where archive footage of the urban turmoil ends and the scripted semi-fictions begin, so restive and so probing is the camera.
