Sentence examples for it is jumpy from inspiring English sources

It is jumpy and syncopated at every level, starting with a constant clave pattern emphasizing offbeats -- three taps, then two -- and layering it with controlled explosions from congas and other percussion.

Filming in 2003 (the movie was eventually completed by a Helsinki production house), Mr. Neuvonen captures amazing moments — burglaries in progress, a stoned friend tumbling several stories from a balcony to the sidewalk — and a coherent story emerges about Jani's downward spiral, though it's jumpy and episodic, stitched together with intertitles.

It was jumpy and jarring.

It's jumpy as hell and succeeds in being uncomfortably creepy in between scares.

This was my first operation this year beyond the bases and combat outposts - outside the wire, as soldiers call it - and I was jumpy as hell.

The picture is jumpy, at half the frames per second of regular TV, but it's early.

It was bad enough for us lobstermen trying to forget jumpy people at Bar Harbor; now every fish is jumpy.

Nearly everyone is jumpy.

Everyone is jumpy.

The system is jumpy.

IN THE arts Germany is jumpy at the moment.