(1) The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy’s jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé’s pipe-and-slippers calm.
(2) "Security forces have been on high alert for the last six days, jumpy, and were concerned that something might happen.
(3) "Jumpy" guards failed to recognise their leader and opened fire on a perceived security threat.
(4) However, Cameron has always been jumpy about highlighting these differences, acutely aware of the history of Downing Street battles, including Blair-Brown.
(5) Lewis was also aware that many in the unionist community were extremely jumpy about Corbyn’s Irish republican politics, and he thought his continued presence might reassure.
(6) The jumpy mood over MPs' behaviour was heightened when Fabricant was suddenly sacked for a series of injudicious tweets, including one saying it was about time Miller was sacked.
(7) Labour strategists were, in private, hilariously paranoid and jumpy, like dogs cowering at a firework display David Hare It was this kind of human weakness and fallibility that, up close, made the Labour party 20-odd years ago so sympathetic.
(8) Jay Pharoah and Shasheer Zamata’s Jay Z and Solange impressions were flawless, as was Keenan Thompson as Jay’s jumpy bodyguard and Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé.
(9) Twelve who retained 72 per cent of the load were normal or small at birth, amply fed on demand, and grew at accelerated rates, increasing from the 50th to the 88th mean percentile by ten weeks, when they were "fat, hungry, jumpy babies," exemplifying the Mg deficiency syndrome of growth.
(10) Arsenal were by turns sluggish, incisive and oddly jumpy as Olivier Giroud scored at both ends, one Sunderland’s equaliser, the other the second of his side’s three goals.
(11) Two-week-old pups of both strains showed good acquisition and retention in learning tests without shock, but the "jumpy" behavior disturbed performance to a certain degree in the SRH strain.
(12) Mauritanian sources said "jumpy" military guards at a checkpoint mistook Abdel Aziz, who was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, after a trip to the desert, for a security threat.
(13) Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.
(14) In the meantime, survivors of major catastrophes who experience acute symptoms of PTSD such as insomnia, nightmares, and jumpiness should be observed for nonresolution of symptoms over time, especially if there is a premorbid history of psychopathology or character problems.
(15) It is guarded by jumpy soldiers who permit no vehicle to stop near it, let alone any photographs.
(16) I get jumpy when someone honks their horn, and occasionally I have bad dreams and wake up at night, my wife asking me: “What’s up?”, and I tell her I’m being chased by Germans.
(17) The Tory scramble for a riposte shows how jumpy they are – and with good reason.
(18) When he affirmed that he did, I said that Tonight's the Night seemed like the inevitable culmination of the path Young blazed with Time Fades Away – his jumpy, nearly-out-of-control live album – and the intensely introspective On the Beach.
(19) Brussels attacker 'caught in Turkey last June', Turkish president says – live Read more On the first of three days of national mourning, the mood in the city was at once proud and sad, defiant and jumpy.
(20) The best new play category is between One Man, Two Guvnors, The Ladykillers, Collaborators and Jumpy , which was at the Royal Court and transfers to the West End this year.
Timid
Definition:
(a.) Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(2) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
(3) Confirming that he would apply to be the next commissioner of the Met, he said: "I do not believe that the men and the women of the Met were timid, which is an accusation that has been levelled at us."
(4) When the police visited Rodger, whom Brown said deputies found “rather shy, timid and polite, well-spoken”, he played down any mental problems, telling police he was having difficulties with his social life and was planning to drop out of Santa Barbara City College.
(5) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(6) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
(7) Free-born animals are very timid and show typical flight reactions.
(8) On the left, meanwhile, we feel our way towards a progressive alliance much more timidly, even when we know we’re sunk without it.
(9) It is suspicious of the SNP's rather timid version of independence, always being described as being about "the full powers of the parliament" – which is hardly a language or outlook for transformational change.
(10) This is an international problem demanding an international response, which so far has been desperately timid.
(11) Like Cameron, who is disappointing Eurosceptics with the timidity of his reform programme, the Swiss have been forced to accede to the realities of negotiating with a much bigger player.
(12) Endogenous depressives were found to have more pronounced changes on measures of dependence and timidity, but when change in mood state was partialed out only one of the dependence measures and timidity remained significant.
(13) This kind of contacts led to a social activation especially by schizophreniacs who had a lack of drive and seemed to be regressive, also caused an increase of drive and self-reliance by formerly timid, reserved girls.
(14) Romney also took several digs at Clinton’s foreign policy record, characterizing her time with the Obama administration as “timid”.
(15) Australia have a patchy squad, but its best elements are valuable and there had been no prospect that they would lose timidly.
(16) In opposition, we were too timid about making these bigger arguments.” He has calculated that government spending on housing benefit will be £120bn over the next five years, almost £50bn of which goes to private landlords.
(17) After only a few weeks in Chile, Pinochet is finding the charms of his native land - the compliant judges, the supportive generals, the timid politicians - are not what they used to be.
(18) The sanctions imposed by western states against Russia represent a timid hope that economic hardship will make Russians resent the regime and nudge them towards active protests.
(19) It is the bold agenda against the timid one; the visionaries against those who believe Labour can limp home with a few safe offerings that can fit safely on the back of a pledge card.
(20) The Liberal Democrats are undecided (Nick Clegg calls it "timid"), the crossbenchers unlikely to co-operate.