Sentence examples for jittery of from inspiring English sources

In an exercise in wish fulfilment, she makes her hero into the sort of working class radical about whom it was possible for even the most jittery of middle class householders to feel safe.

Far from diminishing the impact of the part however, his status as a subject of speculation heightens the paranoia of of a jittery cabal of senators who seem to be plotting to do away with a chimera.

Trying to improve the morale of jittery residents of Israeli border settlements who fear that the withdrawal will leave them exposed to guerrilla attacks, Prime Minister Ehud Barak today announced a government aid package for their communities.

His lowly and usually skint executive, Gerald Garvey, in that other popular television series, Beggar Thy Neighbour, which began in 1967, was a masterpiece of jittery jealousy of his better-off - if working-class - neighbour, played by Reg Varney.

It's the result of a jittery round of cost-cutting that's been going on in anticipation of a labor action threatened by both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.

But Schultz's flaws are mostly ones of exuberance, the jittery overcompensations of an academic in search of an audience.

Throughout this somewhat lackluster fashion season, the overall mood has had the fevered aspect of a jittery bunch of troupers doggedly going through the motions.

They had come to check out the stage, full of the jittery excitement of the young and callow.

Raymond Pinto and Christopher Kaiser were touchingly understated in their duet, capturing the bravado of two young men, the surges of longing, the jittery compound of hormones and fear.

The discovery that the statistics could not be relied upon has undermined efforts to convince jittery markets of the credibility of the Greek government's deficit-cutting plans.

But the bloodshed in the Middle East has startled a United States market already jittery because of lagging stocks of heating oil and crude oil.