flightiness

Right mindfulness serves as an antidote to rid the mind forever of the auxiliary disturbing emotions and attitudes (nye-nyon), such as flightiness of mind and mental dullness, that an accustoming pathway mind gets rid of, namely the automatically arising ones.

The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path) 2007

Meilir Rhys Williams captures Dennis's anguished flightiness and Oedipal instincts: he extravagantly dances Kirsten Clark as his mum round the living room and allows himself to be lovingly cradled in her lap.

Over Gardens Out - review Michael Billington 2010

The early two-point conversion attempt with more than 11 minutes to go, the decision not to punt trailing by just three points with two timeouts and the two-minute warning conversion in your pocket, and oh yeah, the decision to bench your starting quarterback on the game's most important drive in favor of a dude renowned for flightiness ... that was all weird.

Redskins-Lions, Best and Worst Dan Steinberg 2010

In many ways, this is an improvement: much of my arrogance has been blunted, my naievity informed, my rigidness relaxed, my flightiness settled.

Hello, Goodbye | Her Bad Mother 2009

Good work too from Pip Carter who plays the accident-prone Yepihodov as a tortured, lovesick soul, from Emily Taaffe who shows both the flightiness and heartbreak of the maid Dunyasha, and from Kenneth Cranham who pins down the sad senility of the neglected servant, Firs.

The Cherry Orchard - review 2011

For all her flightiness, there was seemingly nothing she could not get done by sleight of hand or obtain, if occasionally at shocking black-market prices.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

She is also charmingly open about her faults, such as her quick temper and flightiness: I always expect people to behave much better than I do.

2009 December 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

There's little of the flightiness of Pontormo, where everything aspires to the condition of a flag, flame or cloud.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

For all her flightiness, there was seemingly nothing she could not get done by sleight of hand or obtain, if occasionally at shocking black-market prices.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

"There is a speculative flightiness about her in that film; especially in the breakdown scene in a shower cubicle, she seemed for the first time a human animal touched to the quick."

Susannah York, 72, Oscar nominee for role in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' Emma Brown 2011