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Discover LudwigThe phrase "jittery hands" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a physical state of nervousness or anxiety that causes one's hands to shake or tremble.
Example: "After drinking too much coffee, I found myself with jittery hands, making it difficult to type."
Alternatives: "shaky hands" or "nervous hands."
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He hovers over the players, snaps his wrist at them as if he were fly-casting, kneads the air with jittery hands.
That is the only way to look at the way the Sox stayed alive last night after the Oakland A's had fumbled away their chances with jittery hands and addled minds.
Mr. Guirgis's play, set in a trio of time-worn Manhattan apartments of similar cramped dimensions, depicts the frantic efforts of the ex-con Jackie, played with searing intensity by Bobby Cannavale, to keep his life from unraveling in his jittery hands.
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Unlike most of today's indie directors, he shows no interest in jittery, hand-held compositions.
He can move the virtual camera in any direction, simulating pans and tracking shots, and even a jittery, hand-held effect.
If this were a movie, this would be the scene in which the background sound suddenly drops out and the action jumps to jittery, hand-held shots of me and my wife, Susan, trying not to show our alarm.
"Over the course of their brief reunion, Hannah and Annie reveal the present while they talk about the past, and the film explodes with jittery, hand-held flashbacks to match their buried emotions".
Maury obliges and we cut to a jittery, hand-held shot from backstage, where the invariably halter-wearing or tube-topped youngster is either slouching, pacing, standing confrontationally with arms akimbo or gyrating in an overtly, dare we say, provocative manner.
The audience peers down at her, sympathetically observing her thought process, made palpable by the room's warm lighting, as well as Streep's tense facial expressions and jittery hand gestures.
He might be equally at fault for the playa tech sound that gets so many Burning Man faithful into a lather, having been one of the earliest DJs to bring jittery hand drums and sunny synthesizers to the previously bass-saturated Black Rock City.
The arts and intoxication have gone hand-in-jittery-hand for centuries – so perhaps it's no surprise how many stars are making their own booze.
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