The word "flutter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb, noun, or adjective. Examples: Verb: The butterflies in my stomach fluttered in anticipation. Noun: Her heart did a flutter when she saw him. Adjective: She had a fluttery feeling in her chest.
It's all about getting the moisture in the eyes to look right, getting the eyelids to flutter correctly when someone blinks, the corner of someone's lips to turn up a little just before they smile, because it's those subtle signal and movements that make a great performance by any actor.
While a flutter of consenting sexual experimentation is inevitable (though of course forbidden) the commission heard evidence that some boys had been punished by prison staff for masturbating, even though they thought they were masturbating in the privacy of their own cell.
There is a marvellous moment in the film when Turner looks directly at Mrs Booth and tells her: "You are a woman of profound beauty", and you can see this makes her twice-married, 60-plus heart flutter, although she knows enough about the world to stay steady.
A girl may flutter her lashes, presumably to see whether I am really concentrating on my book.
For a year motor racing has remained stunned, all involved unable to erase from their own heads that silence only interrupted by the dread flutter flutter flutter of the ambulance helicopter.
I become aware of other sights and sounds – the orange flutter of a heath butterfly, the flick of a lizard's tail in the grass – and, just for that one moment, time stands still.
"Well," you get to say with a smug eye flutter, "you have to be very disciplined".
Had they conceded again, it would have been a defeat to rival the heartbreak against Chelsea or even the final in 1999, when Manchester United reduced them to wrecks, but the almighty flutter passed.
So, in reality, the row over how many days the UK's flag can flutter on top of the green dome of City Hall in Belfast is more about an inter-communal squabble over symbols strictly within the confines of Northern Ireland.
Hundreds of red, white and green flags flutter on monuments.
But compared with far-right parties in France, Germany, Italy and parts of Scandinavia, the BNP are marginal agitators.In this section Rambo's parting shot Women beware women Top grade Socialism in one country Not yet airborne The London effect The mayor's £5 flutter Alone, together Tilting too far?
