But when the Olympics are brought into the equation, it becomes twitchier.
Her reflexes became twitchy and hyperreactive.
The industrialists have become twitchy about the slow pace of reform under the new government.
Tennis writers, like royal watchers, become twitchy when confronted by an interregnum.
The new rule was widely expected: in the wake of mad-cow mania, Europeans have become twitchy about food safety.
Then, when you wondered if he might become twitchy, he advanced from 90 to 103 in five shots against the left-arm spin of Graeme White, the last two of them boundaries.
It is obvious to us that this plan was the work of a Games Organizer, one of those highoctane figures who become twitchy at the sight of mass inactivity and hurry about trying to recruit enthusiasts for a clam-digging party, a human pyramid or a discussion group.
If they cannot, under their United Nations mandate, restore order fast, it will be one of their biggest embarrassments abroad for many years.The mood had already become twitchier in September and October, when a number of deadlines previously agreed by the government and the rebels, for constitutional and legal reforms and then disarmament, were missed.
A purist section of the London audience becomes visibly twitchy without a daily diet of catwalk craziness.
They employed every animal intimidation technique and, during daily, five-minute periods when the partition was removed, had to be restrained from harming the smaller mice, which, in the face of such treatment, became predictably twitchy and submissive.
