Sentence examples for bundle of tics from inspiring English sources

Henry is a bundle of tics.

They are articulate and funny, each one a bundle of tics, insecurities and surprising insights.

Less a fully fleshed character than a bundle of tics doing pratfalls, he is a slapstick puppet manipulated by the screenwriters (Mr. Fleming and Pam Brady).

Onstage, Spielrein (well played by Jodhi May) is an almost psychotic bundle of tics and explosions of laughter and fury, prone to sadomasochistic anal-erotic fantasies about her violent father.

The Palm Beach Post's Kevin D. Thompson wrote that Shannon's performance "displays why she should have her own sitcom", while Cox wrote that she has a "quality in which a tightly bound surface normalcy seems to barely contain a bundle of tics and impulses, and the writers make excellent use of it by having Val try to first steal Grace's flair for design, then cop one of her clients".

Hodges's partner, Holly Gibney, a "bundle of nervous tics and strange associations", subsequently socked Brady in the skull in order to prevent him from blowing up 2,000 children.

Although Ms. Blunt struggles to create a coherent character, Michaela is less a human being than a bundle of contradictory tics.

As one of the quartet of Merry-Andrews whose revue "Beyond the Fringe" (1961) changed the shape of postwar British comedy — and remains one of the few comic imports to survive the transplant to Broadway — Bennett was an owlish bundle of neurotic tics, hiding his wicked tongue behind a show of tentativeness.

The minor players are bundles of irritating tics masquerading as characters.

Tells about Presidential personalities since Truman... Nixon was a bundle of suspicions & tics; Ford kept tripping over things; Carter had that high, twangy voice & a scary way of popping his yees during press conferences; Reagan...well, Reagan has been soothing, but has he been minding the store?

Hirsch, a bundle of senior citizen tics and Yiddish-style mannerisms, aims for realism in his portrait of Al Lewis, half of the Lewis and Clark comedy duo that's being brought out of retirement for a lucrative TV special, if only the men can put aside their mountain of grievances.