HONG KONG — Amid the toughest airline conditions in decades and financial markets that are still jittery, maybe an accountant-turned-banker is what it takes to restructure an airline saddled with debt and memories of a poor safety record.
That might make you feel a little less jittery and maybe make you feel excited.
Adrenaline and cortisol juice through you like a hit of meth, so you might find yourself still up and jittery at 4 A.M. (maybe even watching something as god-awful as "Waterworld," the way I later did).
In a passage that reflects this book's stubborn stylistic awkwardness, she frees her imagination, "sprinkling the map with an army of my brothers who might at that very second be sticking his thumb into an Indian roadway or sleeping soundly in a faraway neighborhood or maybe even, I thought with a jittery nervousness, marching determinedly toward home".
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.
Maybe the problem was Kate's studied normality, that she wasn't, like Diana, the jittery daughter of an earl?
Or maybe a ball-powered display pops up above your monitor to give you a slightly jittery second monitor.
Maybe he relished the gleam of the supporting cast Holly Hunter, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, and Kevin Costner, with Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jesse Eisenberg as a jittery Lex Luthor, and Jeremy Irons taking over from Michael Caine as Alfred, the venerable butler-cum-weapons designer to Bruce Wayne.
But along with this fear is a kind of jittery, defiant freedom and fun, a feeling that going for broke is now a real lifestyle option, maybe the only option.
Uganda is particularly jittery.
