This is where the sporadic and hectic handling of the romance in the movies fails.
The chanting—so much a part of protests here for the past 100-plus days—was sporadic through Monday night.
I left Lebanon in June 2012, but we kept in sporadic touch via Facebook.
sporadic riots and fires did break out later during the festival.
sporadic fighting also continued in eastern Ukrainian cities on Thursday.
Under its sporadic breezes, as it turned, the ward was trying to sleep.
Even in New England there was sporadic revolt from the beginning.
To be sure, there are some sporadic efforts, mere reiterations.
And those other, sporadic members of our system, comets and meteors, what are they?
At first resistance to Western encroachment was sporadic and unco-ordinated.
1650s (implied in sporadical), from Medieval Latin sporadicus "scattered," from Greek sporadikos "scattered," from sporas (genitive sporados) "scattered," from spora "a sowing" (see spore). Originally a medical term, "occurring in scattered instances;" the meaning "happening at intervals" is first recorded 1847. Related: Sporadically.
sporadic spo·rad·ic (spə-rād'ĭk, spô-) or spo·rad·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Occurring at irregular intervals.
Occurring singly; not grouped.