fitfulness

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Some of fusion’s fitfulness is innate to the design of doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 22, 2022

The laughs emerge with stingy fitfulness in “Night School,” and Hart’s overly familiar antics don’t account for many of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018

I expected maybe an hour’s worth of sleep and a lot of fitfulness.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2014

"Flirting" also echoes the "twirling" of the leaf, suggesting a similar playfulness and fitfulness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2012

It is the trembling of the human soul in the presence of death which most of all disturbs the images on the intellectual mirror, and invests them with the fitfulness and ghastliness of dreams.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John