Sentence examples for of a jumpy from inspiring English sources

On his original podcasts Mr. Gervais and his colleagues sit around small rooms in front of a jumpy camera.

Picasso's art is made up of a jumpy bundle of influences: art history, ethnology, popular culture, philosophy, contemporary art.

PAGE A27 Business TRYING TO PUT A PRETTY BOW On an Ugly Crisis The marketing departments of major financial institution have a tricky task: trying to assuage the fears of a jumpy public.

Raja Sen was more critical of her character and performance, and wrote, "Her eyes sparkle with the eagerness of a jumpy squirrel, even when they shouldn't.

It is a melange of a jumpy but fairly wholesome hayride followed by scenes of slaughterhouse abuse and malevolent medical experiments and shrieking corn maze exterminators.

I was all too aware of how a jumpy 18-year-old with a machine gun might react to an Afghan vehicle that approached too close.

Pishevar's thinking is that such an app would vastly reduce the number of times a jumpy police officer ends up standing at a window with a gun pointed at the driver's face.

The only illuminated area is its trademarked Wall of Light, a jumpy, computer-controlled LED edifice that throbs discothequishly in ever-changing colors and serves as a backlight behind the open cubbyholes showcasing the shoes.

"End of Watch" is a jumpy and exciting movie about the hazards of working as a cop in South Central Los Angeles, a neighborhood of sullen streets and treacherous alleys overrun by a Mexican drug-cartel gang that kills anyone who gets in its way.

And although Eli Gelb gives a persuasive physical portrayal of Eugene as a jumpy, awkward boy who hasn't quite grown into his 15-year-old body, his artificial speech patterns turn his dialogue into a kind of ornate pidgin.

Powerless to intercede, Stewart can only look on with mounting anxiety and implore her in a strangled whisper to "Get out of there", like a jumpy audience member in a horror film, when he knows that the murderer will be returning any second.