Sentence examples for jumpy with from inspiring English sources

In the morning the house is jumpy with light, sudden glints off melting snow.

The work is a mad mythological jamboree as jumpy with special effects as a digitally enhanced Hollywood film.

The rhythms of the silent version are jumpy with Jazz Age syncopations; those of the 1942 version have the smoothed-out glide of the swing era.

It will be immediately followed by last year's hit Jumpy, with Tamsin Greig returning as Hilary, a mother struggling with middle age and an unruly teenage daughter.

The best festivals contain surprises, secret gigs arranged too hastily to appear in the printed programme, but which draw a discerning crowd, jumpy with anticipation.

This makes California's revenues unusually jumpy, with peaks during booms (in dotcoms or housing, say) and big falls during busts (again, in dotcoms or housing).Spending, meanwhile, is much less flexible.

He was a tall, jumpy guy with a couple of nail clippers on a chain around his neck.

So do the parent-child conflicts in Jumpy resonate with her, either as mother to children aged seven, 12 and 13 or as a former teenager herself?

But since the Iraqi Kurds are surrounded by jumpy neighbours with their own Kurdish minorities, they know what can and can't be said.

This time his name was Johnny Webb, a jumpy individual with a lengthy arrest record who would later admit to being "mentally impaired" and on medication, and who had started taking illegal drugs at the age of 9.

The use of hoods during interrogation at a camp run by the British, Umm Qasr, had been quickly stamped out.The Amnesty International report detailed many individual tragedies of the kind that happen all too easily when jumpy troops with automatic weapons are given the job of policing civilians.