“Like a gadfly you have been timing your intervention in my sleep routine with uncouth precision.”

“When he is in gadfly mode, as in this new study, he entertains and enlightens about writers including Kant and Ruskin.”

“Where are the shows about gadfly millionaires who rattle about in drafty mansions, and the mundane decisions we must make ev'ry day?”

“The presence of gadflies has the effect of stalling the proceedings and delaying decisions.”

“Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth.”

“Some issues present all the appearances of being designed to separate the gnats from the gadflies, and this is such a one.”