Example Sentences

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Murray’s twitchiness also helps him stay on schedule even when forced to move early.

From Reuters • Apr. 22, 2019

The willowy Mr. Beard’s Edmund has a Method, 1950s twitchiness and whininess that bring to mind James Dean in “East of Eden.”

From New York Times • May 13, 2018

Dan Stevens’s kinetic incarnation of Dickens is all anxious twitchiness, his youthful energy scarcely held in.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017

Mendelsohn, the "Bloodline" and "The Dark Knight Rises" actor, offers his brand of human twitchiness that perfectly suits a character whose moral radar keeps slipping from view.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2016

Amazon’s example, and the twitchiness that apps and the Internet itself invoke, means that your company’s traditional definition of “fast enough” probably isn’t, anymore.

From Forbes • Mar. 26, 2015