Sentence examples for twitchy place from inspiring English sources

Faisal al-Mikhlafi, a college professor, was gunned down in broad daylight, providing stark evidence (if it were needed) that Taiz, like so much of Yemen, is a twitchy place.

"I always joke that Google's a really twitchy place".

Worse, you may not actually manage to bring Congress around; even our newly expanded Democratic majority is twitchy about placing extra burdens on the economy just now.

Were you exhausted one morning from your own personal motherhood battles and my son brought you an origami lily, placing it on your desk in a twitchy peace offering?

Twitchy and out of place among the designer handbag-swinging shoppers in Beijing's Taikoo Li shopping village, my new acquaintance unfolded a crumpled menu.

The rapper eventually enters the room as the girl falls asleep, caressing her and writing a note on her mirror while spitting the song's first verse; "I finally got the courage to ask you on a date, so just say yes and let the future fall into place," a "twitchy Tyler asks the girl -- before the cops show up and arrest him".

Lethem found it natural to place his obsessively twitchy protagonist within a crime-novel plot.

But then you listen to his  music collages of samples collected from Haitian voodoo rituals, placed over a lattice of twitchy footwork and juke rhythms.

But the dominant sound comes from that twitchy ensemble of oboes, trumpets, strings, and bongos, dancing enigmatically in place.

SCIRI officials sometimes say that the Baathists see negotiations as a tactical ploy to get the Americans out after which they will try to recover their old place as Iraq's top dogs.The Shias are particularly twitchy about the prospect of direct talks between the Americans and the insurgents.

"You mean the white-padded room?" She described a place where the swimmers sit on metal folding chairs looking twitchy, ashen, zoned out — or vaguely threatening, as Van Dyken did before the 50-meter freestyle at the 1996 Atlanta Games.