Sentence examples for jumpy mind from inspiring English sources
For a tender, jumpy mind, such music could seem soothing, making sense through how it circles and chases and sometimes catches up with the crazy meaning of things.
His rose garden, into which he wandered when his mind got too jumpy.
Not only is the work barren of plot or narrative drama, but Gaddis also deploys a peculiar, disconcerting prose idiom: sentences that use a jumpy splice technique to recreate the state of mind of a dying man who is dosing himself with the oral steroid prednisone.
Time magazine writer James Poniewozik said the filming techniques used in Jesse's party – "which starts off like a rap video then turns into some kind of distorted, jumpy tweak-vision" – effectively conveyed Jesse's frame of mind.
Though Nolan has abandoned the narrative-shuffling that made his name, some familiar-looking disquiet and disorientation is achieved through jumpy, stutteringly edited flashback moments that fracture Dormer's eternally waking mind.
To my mind, there was nothing simplistic, either, about the lead character in Jumpy; as played by Tamsin Greig, she was a complex, rounded portrait of a woman facing a very real crisis in her marriage.
Indeed, he is so busy explaining propositions like "consciousness is itself the event horizon between matter and spirit, wrapped around the singularity that lives at the heart of the mind" that he fails to amend sentences like "Against all expectations, his mother, though jumpy and nervous, does not burst into tears as he expected".
For example, items include "Pictures about the future popped into my mind" (intrusive preexperiencing), "I stayed away from reminders of the future" (avoidance), and "I was jumpy and easily startled" (hyperarousal).
