| As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round. |
| His cadenzas had fitfulness rather than flair, and when he tried to sweeten his tone, it felt ersatz, closer to Splenda than pure cane. |
| But when the women converge for the final trio, their severity — wrists crossed with straight arms held overhead or in front of the body — and their gestural fitfulness are pallid and mechanical. |
