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flakily
adverb
In a flaky way.
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Today, self-described face-reading experts turn up periodically on TV shows with flakily earnest pronouncements about public figures based on appearance.
It has been plagued by flakily fallible fielding, while England has taken its chances with ruthless precision.
It can run on a Mac, but flakily.
They are crisp enough, but feel a little flakily insubstantial in the mouth.
In Leveaux's production the scenes that really work are where Simon Russell Beale's crumpled George vainly paws Essie Davis as his flakily neurotic wife, or where he looks on in dismay as the suave vice-chancellor uses her to practise his bedside manners.
We watch with appalled foreknowledge as Ezra Mannon returns from battle only to be poisoned by his adulterous wife, Christine, and avenged by his daughter Lavinia and flakily neurotic son, Orin.
His work so far has seen him operate in epic orchestral melancholia, as an intimate and flakily poetic singer-songwriter, and most recently in slacker rock.
But just when you think the play is about the trials of a naive newcomer, Donnelly pulls the rug by showing Zoe to be a flakily unstable figure who stumbles into a compromising sexual situation with one of her pupils.
He was dropped, along with the flakily unpredictable Harmison, after a poor England performance against New Zealand.
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