This aspect of Bangladesh — fitfully functioning, charitable, and progressive — doesn't see too much media daylight, in part thanks to the shadow cast by its giant neighbor to the west.
For "Garden," Ms. Buchanan has created a lush stretch of lawn, with a fitfully functioning fountain at the center, an ivy-strewn stone stairway at one end and an overgrown bush at the other, within whose leafy expanse several characters have occasion to hide.
Since 1990, when its own civil war ended, Lebanon has maintained a fitful but functioning democracy, one that relies on a delicate balance of power among its main sectarian groups: the Christians, the Sunnis, the Shia, and the Druze.
With its 16-day shutdown finally ended, the federal government roused from slumber Thursday morning, a colossal bureaucracy fitfully beginning to function again as hundreds of thousands of smiling workers returned to offices and cubicles.
The fitful spurts and earth-lunges functioned like Freud's endopsychic perception: Was this merely a projection of inner turmoil or suppressed rage?
After five years of work -- patient, brilliant, solitary work during which McClintock sometimes spent the fitful nights sleeping on a cot in her lab -- she was led to the unorthodox conclusion that genes are not fixed links in the chain of a chromosome, but instead can change positions, rearrange themselves, and in doing so alter their function.
But progress has been fitful.
Its later use was fitful.
His performance was fitful, an escape routine.
But efforts to police the park have been fitful.
