A bright Iraqi flag flew over the sprawling compound for the first time, fluttering under a laser-like sun.
Over a few hours, the new butterfly will pump up its wings and let them harden in the sun, and then it will flap a few times and flutter off.
There was a fairy-tale quality to what he said, and at times, the fluttering swallows had a way of talking about things that seemed invented -- or filtered through some strange lens -- but were uttered with such conviction that no one challenged their veracity.
Like, can we stop having Maggie turn into a screaming wacko every time Jim flutters towards her?
Kathryn Kelley gives the whole production a delightful lift each time she flutters onto the stage as Lady Bountiful, the self-proclaimed doctor with a tendency to reach for the saw first, ask questions later.
"It doesn't have as much time to flutter out of the zone," Dickey says, shrugging off his precision.
By Ben McGrath "It doesn't have as much time to flutter out of the zone," Dickey says of his knuckleball.
One at a time, the fluttering swallows had told me that the best thing about their newfound freedom in South Korea was that they weren't always looking over their shoulders, that their paranoia had transmogrified into a state of cautious well-being.
A century and a half after its first appearance, it was one of the best-known lyrics in the language: still apparently brazen in its simplicity, and therefore a handy target for poetry-haters - but at the same time a fluttering shorthand for most things meant by the term "Wordsworthian".
The existence and prediction of the time to flutter is the key, original contribution of the theory because no other method is available to predict the time to flutter.
