For a media company whose sole mission is to sell eyeballs in a world where those eyeballs are flitting from app to app like picky hummingbirds flitting from flower to flower.
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The mystery traveler could be Death, flitting from one assignment to another.
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There are writers who specialize in variety, flitting from genre to genre and reinventing themselves with every book.
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Now, what matters is plot, and the plot's needs require flitting from location to location, just to keep up.
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Even in Jewel, while flitting from store to store, at some point you become aware of a quiet roar.
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The President has tweeted his way through the lasts few weeks looking desperate and angry, flitting from one defense to another.
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After their triumph, the West Indies men will return to nomadic T20 careers, flitting from league to league throughout the year.
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The President has tweeted his way through the last few weeks looking desperate and angry, flitting from one defense to another.
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During one brief but furious stretch, the Devils took two shots that Lundqvist, flitting from one post to the other, somehow stopped.
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Belhasa's show-and-tell ad libs are told with all the enthusiasm of youth, flitting from celeb to luxury item to host.
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Meanwhile, 'runners' like Faith prefer to live off the grid, flitting from rooftop to rooftop as they fill the role of illegal couriers.
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There was the dedication to success, the willingness to live a peripatetic lifestyle, flitting from country to country, rarely settling anywhere for long.
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My noisy internal monologue—usually flitting from school to boys to a laundry list of insecurities—coalesces around one certain refrain: I'm dying.
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We made the most of it, and covered a lot of ground, flitting from Juggalos and dead babies to why he doesn't vote.
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Rather than flitting from artist to artist watching music videos, streaming apps like Spotify make it easier to dive into a musician's whole catalog.
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Her slender, expressive face, flitting from joy to love to fear as needed but never far from tears, became familiar to millions on television.
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He was an awkward soul, flitting from one identity to another both in life and on record, because it was obvious he was in pain.
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At the start of Russian Doll's devastating finale, the two's days start side-by-side, with a fly flitting from Alan's home over to Nadia's bathroom.
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Without bees flitting from flower to flower, spreading pollen as they go, we wouldn't have bountiful harvests of apples, berries, melons, almonds, and cherries each year.
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Trillions of bugs flitting from flower to flower pollinate some three-quarters of our food crops, a service worth as much as $21 billion every year.
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His later decades (despite his toxic "eating" habits, he lived to the age of 74) were a trail of bankruptcy, debt and flitting from lodgings to lodgings.
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Moberly-Holland relied on Majolie's sketches of fairies flitting from flower to flower, which some men at the studio were reluctant to draw, deeming the task too girly.
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But most of the time, the show seemed like it was barely even trying while it was flitting from idea to idea, looking for what would be coolest.
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Hawarden Journal HAWARDEN, Wales — Flitting from the origins of mountaineering to the writing skills of recent archbishops, the bookish talk at the breakfast table seemed to suit the setting.
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She had little shame about flitting from position to position, but that flexibility helped her build a lot of bridges as she moved between essay-writing, reporting, fiction, and criticism.
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Long ago it became a commodity in a culture that thrives on commodity consumption and presumes we are smarter because we are nimble, eclectic, and constantly in motion flitting from taste to taste.
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They are angered by a global elite they see flitting from business to politics and back again, unaccountable to anyone, as economic inequality yawns ever wider (though the picture is more complex than that: see chart 210).
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Here, the president is right: A prolonged investigation, or one that now hints it may be flitting from one subject to another, does harm not just to the president's political reputation but also to the public's business.
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When I saw him flying down Fifth Avenue on his trusty bicycle, flitting from event to runway, like a kingfisher on crack, relentlessly documenting the vanities of New York City, I often used to speculate about his inner dialogue.
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The album's a success in that regard, flitting from pop to hip-hop to festival fare without a moment's hesitation, and yet I find myself yearning for Levitate's concision and perspective after spending an hour with Streten's near-future whizbangs.
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Without some young professionals putting down roots and investing in their local communities, what has historically been the most energetic group of city-builders will become a lost generation of nomads flitting from one shared kitchen to another all over the planet.
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Like a stunned man hastily retelling a harrowing tale of survival in the immediate aftermath of a bad car crash, Dominguez tells his story in a rushed, stream-of-consciousness cadence, randomly mixing English and Spanish and flitting from one point to the next.
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Such an abundance of characters is a bit of a crowd in a 212-page book, and Mazur takes an impressionistic approach to her narrative, flitting from one point of view to the next and cutting between short scenes as the two families uneasily attempt to socialize.
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It is certainly a model example of what makes Da Drought 3 so good, flitting from topical jokes about stuff like the notoriously stupid Eddie Murphy movie Norbit to a comparison between Wayne and Langston Hughes, working in references to topics as far-ranging as Dunkin Donuts and Peyton Manning.
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But what we know already suggests that spending our days flitting from one task to the next—checking email while on a work call, or sliding through social media feeds while watching TV or hanging out with friends—may be atrophying parts of our brain that we should instead be working to strengthen.
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They strolled to Starbucks for chai lattes on brisk Sunday mornings while I slept off my hangover and continued to exhibit typical mid-20s behavior: flitting from random job to even more random job without having any clue what the hell I wanted to do with my life, and linking myself to wholly inappropriate men.
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Not only does she seem to be spending her days flitting from one social engagement to the next, whether attending a friend's wedding in a pricey cocktail dress, enjoying a sexy date night out with her husband, or jetting off on a tropical vacation, but she's also managed to successfully transition her career out of early aughts pop stardom into a formidable billion-dollar fashion business.
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It reads: > Roses, lilies, and a thousand scented flowers. Bright butterflies, flitting > from petal to petal. Beneath the shade of ancient trees, a quiet river with > water lilies. In a boat, almost hidden, two people.
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The habitat of the African piculet is mainly lowland secondary forest. It is an active bird often seen flitting from place to place in pairs or threesomes, and sometimes joining mixed species flocks. It forages through the lower storeys of trees, bushes and dense vegetation. It is a relative of the woodpecker, and despite its small size, hammers its beak into branches and splits stems to get at beetle larvae.
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In 2011, DC Comics relaunched all titles under the umbrella The New 52, which rebooted the DC Universe continuity. Catwoman's new monthly title now focused on Selina's earlier days as Catwoman, but not her origins. The series begins with Selina frantically escaping from unknown masked men who are invading her apartment. After flitting from rooftop to rooftop, Selina looks back just in time to see her apartment blown apart by explosives.
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In 1854, she married Hugh Graham Marshall, who was in the service of the West of England bank. The early years of her married life were spent at Wells, Exeter, and Gloucester; and Longfellow, in reference to the continual flitting from one cathedral town to another, called her 'Queen of Summer, temple-haunting Martlet.' There were three sons and four daughters of the marriage. Emma and Hugh had nine daughters, the youngest daughter Christabel Marshall was a campaigner for women's suffrage, a playwright and author.
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If Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... had you open, prepare for another gaping wound." In Spin magazine, Chris Norris wrote "Ghostface wreaks havoc with meaning and narrator reliability, flitting from gangster-film intrigue to grimly prosaic reality." Norris also praised RZA's production, stating "As usual, the Wu's sonic auteur provide awesomely dark and eccentric backdrops for the MC's dark maneuvers, mixing soul horns with horror-film keyboards." The Source took note of the album's "intense emotional moments" and stated, "The RZA does another masterful job, topping himself in terms of sonic diversity.
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Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella naevia) This bird seldom takes to the wing but spends its time scurrying through dense vegetation, flitting from twig to twig or running along the ground. It has a peculiar high-stepping gait and long stride as it moves along horizontal stems, looking slender and tapering. It seldom flies, soon diving back into cover, and when it alights it often raises and flares its tail to show its streaked under-tail coverts. It has been known to feign injury in order to distract a potential predator.
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The tidepool sculpin is a common small fish in pools in the intertidal zone of rocky coasts, flitting from one hiding place to another. It shows great homing ability, returning each time the tide recedes to the pool in which it has taken up residence. It has been shown to have the ability to return to its home pool from a distance of after having been displaced for six months. It is a predator, feeding on small invertebrates such as isopods, amphipods, gastropod molluscs, polychaete worms and barnacles, as well as insects that happen to fall into the water.
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On my left, close to the wall of the house, is an oak grey with lichens. Here I watched the merry ox-eyes flitting from twig to twig, and tapping them with head downwards and the handsome nuthatch, with his loud clear whistle, running up the boughs like a mouse, and hammering at them with all the concentrated force of his powerful body. In the herbage of the park, I heard the mingled tinkling warble of a dozen goldfinches the sweet song of the robin sounded from tree to tree. From the forest arose a few melodious notes of the thrush, and the loud laugh of the green woodpecker.
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Howard explains the album as "a collage of ideas and influences converging on the theme of grief but it's a bit of a hot take on the subject. I don't think I really intended it to be so, but it ended as a linear story of the first three months of grief with, sort of, dreamlike transitions–flitting from thought to thought." The music video for "Dylan Thomas" displays footage of the ocean washing over rocks, the sky, traffic and birds, and was filmed at Shetland Islands, Edinburgh, the coast of Oregon and roads across the United States. Attendre et Espérer contains adapted lyrics and readings from literary works, including "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Manalive by G.K. Chesterton, "And did those feet in ancient time" by William Blake and "If I Should Die" by Emily Dickinson.
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