(1) It is speculated that 'fidgety' movements may be related to a postnatal calibration of the proprioceptive system.
(2) The transformation of GM from a 'writhing' character into a 'fidgety' character was related more closely to postmenstrual than to postnatal age.
(3) When all these factors were entered into a final model, only five remained: fidgety, abnormal behavior, and three measures of family disruption or disadvantage--crowding, family problems, and being removed from the family and placed in the care of the local authority.
(4) Only fidgety character movements occur earlier in preterm infants.
(5) Even though he was restless and fidgety, he smiled at her.
(6) He was slightly less fidgety than usual, only doing his ostentatious callisthenics once a minute rather than every 20 seconds.
(7) But the world's most popular man was getting fidgety beneath this heavily gilded Foreign Office ceiling.
(8) "Drugs, guns, girls: it's not a bad package," grins Jorge Medina, a rake-thin, fidgety 17-year-old gangster.
(9) But when I was chatting with Susan Cain backstage I was the one so nervous and fidgety I destroyed my TED ID badge.
(10) I was never super-depressed, but at one point I thought it was coming.” At this point she dispatches Marcel, fidgety and bored, to his nanny.
(11) Vladimir Putin was uncharacteristically fidgety as he spoke to supporters at the United Russia headquarters, as polls showed that voters had delivered a harsh blow to his party in parliamentary elections that were widely seen as a test of his personal popularity.
(12) All too often, restless, fidgety children who do not sit still or pay attention at school, and who may be disruptive and difficult to manage, are labelled 'hyperactive' by their teachers.
(13) Dornan has a natural, fidgety intensity – "a doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system" – and in The Fall he showed that he could twist the same pent-up fervour that was sexy in a Calvin Klein campaign into something deeply unnerving.
(14) During the first 2 months general movements (GM) change from movements with a so-called 'writhing' character, which have a tight appearance, a relatively slow speed and a limited amplitude, into GM with a 'fidgety' character, which consist of an ongoing flow of small, elegant movements.
(15) There was only a suggestion that naltrexone reduced fidgety and hyperactive behavior and tended to alleviate overall symptomatology in older children.
(16) It's a perfect little two-hander, Schwartzman strange, fidgety and sad, Portman enigmatic, elegant and sad.
(17) The 'writhing' character of the GM is gradually broken down into a so-called 'fidgety' quality.
(18) But Jack is fidgety: "I shouldn't rightly be hanging around here," he says, truce or not.
(19) Police officers thought that De Menezes looked suspicious because he changed buses and looked fidgety, which is apparently how a well-trained terrorist would behave.
(20) • Doodle I'm very fidgety, and I seem to work best when my hands are occupied with something other than what I'm thinking about.
Restive
Definition:
(a.) Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
(a.) Inactive; sluggish.
(a.) Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.
(a.) Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Egypt's army has announced a full-scale assault on militant areas in the restive northern Sinai desert, in what a senior Israeli official has approvingly called Egypt's first-ever serious counter-terrorism campaign in the region.
(2) The bombings shattered more than two months of relative calm across the restive country.
(3) Security in the restive North Caucasus region has long been a concern.
(4) Another view would propose that the restiveness of some current and past theorists to claim the mantle of "science" continues to lead to premature and awkward attempts to couple psychoanalysis with putative neighbors rather than stick to its last of shaping its own findings into a language reflecting a coherent theory capable of validation.
(5) In 2012 insurgent commanders in the restive tribal areas of North and South Waziristan banned polio teams from their territories in what they said was retaliation for US drone strikes.
(6) Seoul and its allies now face the dilemma of how to respond, as the South Korean public becomes increasingly restive over what many see as the North's immunity from reprisals.
(7) The effects of high rates of stimulation on the internal longitudinal restivity (Ri) and conduction velocity (theta) were studied on rabbit papillary muscle preparations using a silicon-oil chamber.
(8) And you have to have certainty.” The crowd was restive.
(9) • Restiveness seemed to grow in the US with the government of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki , but it was unclear whether the Obama administration would publicly call for Maliki's exit.
(10) As the Guardian's Golnar Motevalli reported : "The Afghan government has ordered US special forces to leave one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces, Maidan Wardak, after receiving reports from local officials claiming that the elite units had been involved in the torture and disappearance of Afghan civilians.
(11) This made it desperately hard to carry credibility with MPs — crucial in a coalition parliament where all votes matter and the partners are increasingly restive.
(12) We see him moving forces in the south in a position where he could take the southern region over to Moldova.” Nato officials are concerned that Putin could have designs on Transnistria, a restive Russian-speaking region in western Moldova also known as Trans-Dniester, where separatist leaders have demanded to be allowed to join Russia following the annexation of Crimea.
(13) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
(14) At least 74 people have been killed in three weekend attacks in Nigeria's restive north-east, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since 2009.
(15) China says it faces a serious threat from groups such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which operates in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years.
(16) Several months on, Piano appears still to be grappling with the idea that he – the son of a builder from Genoa, the architectural rebel who came of age in restive 1960s Milan – is now a fully paid-up member of the establishment.
(17) It sent troops to neighbouring Bahrain to crush unrest that pitted the Shia majority against the Sunni al-Khalifa regime, partly out of fear of the "contagion" spreading to its own restive eastern provinces.
(18) He was invited to the remote base on the restive border with Pakistan after offering urgent information to help locate Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, Associated Press reported.
(19) The usually more restive southern regions, the Taliban's birthplace and spiritual heartland remain largely calm.
(20) Russian authorities have insisted there will be no security threats to the event, despite the city lying just west of the restive North Caucasus region.