Conversely, the critic is a flightier creature, a flibbertigibbet whose changeability can be charming.
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It was exactly the type of flibbertigibbet thing one of her rom-com characters would have done.
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Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
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Bonus: When Axios' Erica Pandey uploaded a photo of herself, the ImageNet experiment classified her as a "flibbertigibbet," which is disrespectful but a great word.
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You are in a relationship with a fidgety flibbertigibbet who can't sit still, who will always be late, who is completely incapable of finding her keys.
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A cute sea creature called a "Flibbertigibbet" helps kids stay focused and encourages them to calm their thoughts and be more mindful in their actions through breathing exercises.
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Ms. Goodwin stays true to her conception of Victoria as a combination of coquettish flibbertigibbet, tough proto-feminist and compassionate, perhaps too-good-to-be-true liberal humanist.
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Because we've previously seen Sierra only as a rich hippie flibbertigibbet or an extremely pregnant mom-to-be, her anguish as a terrified young mother is a revelation.
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Victor Navasky Publisher emeritus of The Nation She knew everybody, she was very beautiful, very sexy and appealing and cheery and seemed to be a flibbertigibbet, but wasn't.
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Where Mr Bower gets it wrong, however, is in casting Mr Blair as a feckless flibbertigibbet incapable of the serious analysis required to think through and implement complex policies.
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" Magnet ends his book with a gratuitous, even racist assault on Barack Obama, in which the former president's mother is trashed as a "Kumbaya mother" and a "flibbertigibbet white mother.
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Despite my previous flibbertigibbet approach to school, I was bound and determined to change my ways and excel academically—a goal that was perhaps fueled by the astronomical costs of my tuition.
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In the documentary, one of the things that I really like, although it's very painful for me to watch, is that Susan showed me in all of my early flibbertigibbet, numbskull, shallow personage.
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Try as she might to escape, people think she's a flibbertigibbet, blowing in and out of people's lives, sailing in on a headwind of chaotic charm and leaving a wake of destruction behind her.
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Throughout this long book, Mr Bower skates over the political constraints that Mr Blair had to contend with, preferring to cast him as a feckless flibbertigibbet incapable of the serious thought required to think through and implement complex policies.
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Much of "Party Going" is taken up with the saturated love life of the wealthy flibbertigibbet Max Adey, who, in going on a holiday that he has proposed, will be spending time with a girlfriend he's lukewarm about, Julia Wray, at the expense of the society beauty Amabel, whom he thinks he may worship.
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Gradually they step to the front and stand like dolls in a row: in ballooning brocade Scarlett O'Hara ball gowns and shrunken little-girl velvets with big white Peter Pan collars; in faded, ripped jeans and smocked velvet; in crucifixes and leather harnesses; in granny sweaters and peasant florals; in all the flibbertigibbet, eccentric, everything-goes finery Mr. Michele has become known for — as the stage begins to rotate like a merry-go-round and, in the middle, a big neon metronome ticks backs and forth.
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Flibbertigibbet is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a young woman. In modern use, it is used as a slang term, especially in Yorkshire, for a gossipy or overly talkative person.
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Ch. 14 (39): Elizabeth is entertained with a spectacular pageant. The resumed duel is interrupted by Flibbertigibbet, who presents Leicester with Amy's letter and tells how he acquired it. Ch. 15 (40): Elizabeth elicits the truth from Leicester and dispatches Tressilian and Raleigh to apprehend Varney and Alasco. On the way they find Lambourne dying of a bullet wound.
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Shakespeare read it, and King Lear contains the names of devils, like Flibbertigibbet and Smulkin, taken from Darrell's book. Darrell himself maintained that there was no fraud in his activities. What he wanted to prove was that Puritans were as capable as Roman Catholics in the matter of dispossessing evil spirits. Darrell was deprived of holy orders and sent to prison, but released in 1599.
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They take cover with Holiday's troupe of amateur entertainers (including Holiday and Flibbertigibbet) bound for Kenilworth. Ch. 13 (25): Having separated from the troupe Amy and Wayland arrive at Kenilworth. Volume Three Ch. 1 (26): Flibbertigibbet persuades the porter to admit the party to the castle. Amy asks Wayland to deliver a letter to Leicester, and Wayland resolves to tell Tressilian of her arrival. Ch. 2 (27): Tressilian finds Amy placed in his chamber and agrees to wait for 24 hours before taking any action. Ch. 3 (28): Tressilian encounters the drunken Lambourne. Ch. 4 (29): Wayland confesses to Tressilian that he has lost Amy's letter to Leicester. Lambourne expels Wayland from the castle with the help of the warder Laurence Staples. Ch. 5 (30): Elizabeth enters the castle with great ceremony. Ch. 6 (31): Elizabeth thinks Tressilian is mad, and Raleigh and Blount confine him in Raleigh's lodgings.
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Ch. 9: In the Vale of Whitehorse, Tressilian's horse loses a shoe, and a schoolmaster, Erasmus Holiday, arranges for Dickie Sludge to conduct him to Wayland Smith, the former attendant of a quacksalver Demetrius Doboobie. Ch. 10: Wayland shoes Tressilian's horse, and they enter the underground chamber at the smithy. Ch. 11: Wayland tells Tressilian his story and agrees to act as his guide. After they have left the smithy Dickie (Flibbertigibbet) blows it up.
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With nothing to lose, Joe accepts. Joe spends a day and a night out on the town in New York City, where he solicits advice on everything from style to living life to the fullest from his chauffeur Marshall. He also purchases four top-of-the-line, waterproof steamer trunks from a fanatically dedicated luggage salesman. Joe then flies to Los Angeles, where he is met by one of Graynamore's daughters, Angelica, a flighty socialite who labels herself a "flibbertigibbet".
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Bell caught the attention of television writer Jane Espenson when she discovered his pointed dissection of Carrie Prejean's public response to a question of marriage equality, during the 2009 Miss USA pageant. Speaking to Out in August 2012, Espenson said, "I was curious – who was this person who had at his age accumulated writing skills that had taken me 20 years?" A friendship developed between them eventually resulting in creating the newlywed sitcom Husbands. The first season of Husbands was shot in August 2011, and premiered to critical praise, including The New Yorkers first ever review of an online series, in which Bell was hailed as "the standout, a confident flibbertigibbet who regards himself as a modern Blanche DuBois".
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