hectically

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The transformation of these characters is given short shrift by the hectically layered book, but their truncated scenes of inner growth are a reminder of where the beating heart of this tale resides.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

But with its jumble of clichés, its blatant word-bubble declarations, and its hectically rushed impracticalities, the movie—which is based on a comic-book series—invites an air of antic exaggeration and revved-up stylization.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

It hasn’t always been the most organized experiment, conducted hectically between two parents working full time while raising three boys.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2016

Because the more hectically overworked your are, the logic goes, the better a mother you must be.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2013

"But they don't give you much of anything to eat in typhoid, do they?" she persisted hectically.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell