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Example sentences for: fitfully

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Critics pour the love on thick: "Fresh as a Twinkie right off the assembly line, more welcome than a power failure during the State of the Union speech, fitfully 'Seinfeldian' in its pure, crazed hilarity … [it] could very well be the best new sitcom of the season" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). No laugh track, cinematic single-camera shooting, and an appealingly daffy family all add up to a fresh-feeling show.
He ponders the hopeful predictions of Francis Fukuyama that Western civilization is moving gradually, if fitfully, toward greater individual freedom.
When this is not the case, public opinion tends to react fitfully, with many starts and stops.
I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.
Your mother has a computer; I don't, though I use hers fitfully.