Sentence examples for jittery world from inspiring English sources
This is a jittery world, and increasingly so, and complex beyond understanding, and at times it all seems stitched together by the barest of threads, and this feeling only gets worse as you get older.
Maybe Philip Roth and your reviewer don't read much speculative fiction; but in a jittery world alternate-history fiction seems to be popular, and the best in this kind is very good indeed.
MADRID — With Spain having spent weeks in the cross hairs of jittery world markets, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero went on the offensive on Wednesday, defending the country's solvency and saying his government had "the will" to reduce its fast-growing deficit.
Separate data showed a sharp fall in new loans issued by Chinese banks in May compared with April.A jittery world economyAmerica's headline inflation rate, including food and energy, rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in May from April (or by 3.6% from a year earlier).
Although the need to evacuate subway trains because of fires or other problems has always been a part of travel underground, the training that goes on here has taken on newfound importance in a jittery world of orange alerts and terrorist threats.
It is the rare kid who doesn't know Harry's back story: his parents, attractive husband-wife wizards, were murdered by a wizard so spectacularly evil that in the jittery, gossipy world of wizards, witches, trolls, ghosts, goblins and their apprentices he is known as "He Who Cannot Be Named".
Members of the class of 2002, who entered college in September 1998 during a booming economy and with the world generally at peace, are graduating into a jittery reality.
But if it seems surprising that the thought police have left Kubrick's film alone in this jittery post-Yewtree world, in retrospect Lolita seems surprisingly future-proof.
So it's not likely -- in the jittery, offend-lightly world of modern awards-show hosting -- that he'll be given the gig again any time soon.
A harrowing, stylized psychological drama, "Spider" climbs inside the tortured memories of the title character, a jittery young man (Ralph Fiennes) who has been released from a mental institution into this harsh, unaccommodating new world.
Christie's point to the fact that the sale was held on a particularly jittery day for the world stockmarkets, and the art market is notoriously sensitive to the first whiff of recession.
