Sentences with word «fitful»

The three remaining members of the Union of Amalgamated Pluto Colourists went back to their hotel for an hour or so of fitful sleep.

The oldest, almost 15, often has fitful nights where he gets up A LOT!

The second night passed much as the first night in fitful sleep until I woke just before the sun rose when the bus ground to an unwelcome halt.

Over time, estimates of cost become more accurate, but with long - tailed lines the progress is often fitful at best.

I am linking up again this week with Nicole from Fitful Focus for Fit»n' Fashionable Friday.

Mind you, there has been fitful progress in the last few years.

Gardner nodded into fitful sleep, dreaming he was in a warm shower, only to wake to his frozen reality.

In a world trying to make it on fitful sound bites and the faddishness of seasonal obsessions, is there a better gift we can offer than abiding, he in us and we in him?

And probably my favourite meal in the entire universe is a big «ole burrito bowl — Bigger Than Big Burrito Bowl by Fitful Focus:

After a night of fitful dreaming, Johnson wrote down a name on a pad of paper near his bed — «Nike.»

We recently did a 6 hour car ride and she only slept 1 hour of that, and that was very fitful sleep, and only after crying for a while.

Jack R. Smith, formerly Maryland's interim state superintendent of schools, is slated to take over the top job in Montgomery on July 1, following a long, sometimes fitful search for a schools chief following the 2015 resignation of Joshua P. Starr.

One other note, the forward TIPS curve is showing some life again; perhaps that will be another fake - out, as in August, but there is certainly more oomph in the inflationary effort now than when the stimulus effort was grudging and fitful as it was back then.

Despite fitful interest in spiritual things, he, by his own account, was lazy, lustful, and more interested in theater than theology when he began studying for ordination at Oxford.

So I get up to teach this morning utterly spent, only having had about 3 hours fitful sleep, very little preparation time, and emotionally weak and vulnerable.

Healing — at first fitful and slow — lies in the reforming grace of God, within the wisdom of the Church.

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I've also experienced fitful moments of extreme hunger when I honestly consider throwing the whole detox out the window and instead dive headfirst into that giant Reece's Bar Austin stashed at the back of the fridge.

Ana remains surrounded by terrible men, not only Christian but also ex-boss-turned-hacker-turned-home-invader Jack Hyde (a hilariously bloodshot Eric Johnson), who provides fitful moments of action and suspense to the narrative in the gaps between lavish vacations, petty arguments, and apology fucks.

Some children will respond to being overly tired by not sleeping as well and taking shorter, more fitful naps.

«More than one glass can disrupt your sleep by reducing REM sleep, causing fitful sleep,» Kath warns.

It may be fitting that it is two candidates who call New York home having it out over these final, fitful days.

The first hour is particularly fitful coming across like a high pitched Australian version of Shameless.

Behind all of that, remember my rule: sharp movements tend to mean - revert, slow, grinding, fitful movements tend to persist.

In fact, creating the right sleep environment — considering light, temperature, and more — can be the difference between fitful dozing and a long, full night of sleep.

Picker hopes this eclipse will instead start a conversation about what it means have a grid that's heavily reliant on fitful natural resources.

What bothers me about God things is that they remind me of the cosmic lottery — that sobering dichotomy between the world's rich and the world's poor, between the lucky and the unlucky — which has always been a sticking point in my own fitful walk with God.

Finally, Hartshorne stresses the ethical and social defectiveness of humanism: if the total universe and even human bodies are essentially loveless machines driven by blind forces, «then it is impossible that the conception of spirit or love should have more than a very fitful hold upon us.

Fitful expressions of public philosophy have occurred in our history, perhaps most notably in the twentieth century in the work of John Dewey, but no continuous tradition has developed.

David remains in furtive, fitful love with Keith, a tall, dark, handsome cop with anger - management issues.

Questioning the text, a pretty practical homilitical approach, searching it for something we have not yet discovered, generates for me more wonder and deeper awe than does the submission of the text to an interpreter with an agenda, however fitful and intelligent it may be.

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Sitting behind the children, Earl took a final, fitful drag on his cigarette and doused it in his coffee cup.

The air is thick with robust exhaustion, fitful snoring, the aroma of wool socks, muscles in the making.

Perhaps the graceful forward's goalscoring was occasionally fitful, but he more than paid back the # 4.15 million Arsenal paid Internazionale for his services and earned the adulation of supporters for a 15 - minute hat - trick against rivals Chelsea.

Some babies simply have fitful tendencies when it comes to sleeping, whether it's being easily woken up through sound or being affected by various health and development issues.

Space suits can be uncomfortable, too: After landing on the moon in 1969, Buzz Aldrin reported getting only «a couple of hours of mentally fitful drowsing» due to the noise and the cold.

One reason is that the unstable metals that act as spark plugs for the bombs — plutonium and highly - enriched uranium — bathe themselves and nearby electrical components in radiation, with sometimes unpredictable consequences; another is that all the bombs» metallic components are subject to normal, sometimes fitful corrosion.

By the end of the semester, sleep had become fitful, migraines more frequent and each day seemed to bring a newly discovered trigger point.

Florence and Roger might be kindred spirits only in the sense that she's a sweet, fitful doormat always in search of a good stomping, while he's an often nasty guy with big, heavy boots.

I have so often been assured that I missed the boat on «Napoleon» that I plan to go back and have another look at it; but now here is «Nacho Libre,» which has the same incomplete and fitful comic timing I thought I found in the earlier film.

It's unclear who the intended audience might be for Death Note, Adam Wingard's fitful adaptation of the cult manga and anime series of the same title.

Achieving fitful flurries of emotion amid an otherwise slow, agonizing descent into physical and dramatic paralysis, director Baltasar Kormakur's latest and biggest U.S. studio effort should ride its Imax 3D event - picture status to decent theatrical returns worldwide, aided by a topical resurgence of interest in the movie's subject.

Many could argue it was his over the top foray into Tarantino land, 1995's Natural Born Killers, that warned of fitful inspiration, while others would trumpet that specific film as his greatest achievement.

It might have a typically game performance from Mark Wahlberg at the center, and a few fitful laughs, but the rest of it seemed aimless, lazy and offensive without being transgressive (say what you like about the mostly weak «The Dictator,» but it sets out to hit more taboo subjects than «Chinese people speak funny.»)

Sleep was fitful last night as a result.