Our
scatterbrain syndrome makes it more difficult for individuals and communities to understand and solve problems -- and to bring meaning to life.
In any event, one wonders why, if James had intended the sense of
scatterbrain, he did not use the Scots `cude', `cuide', or `coyd', all variants of the same word, meaning hairbrained or deranged?(4) The Craigie translation, then, only adds to the confusion surrounding the term `Candle'.
Scatterbrain GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips once walked home from the shops, completely forgetting she'd travelled there by car.
Poor Richard Cordery - the Malvolio, and a good reliable actor - comes on in yellow and black biker skins, which is how this
scatterbrain design interprets the well known cross-gartering.
He's sound, but keeps running off at every bend - I don't know why; perhaps he's just a
scatterbrain. He'll be given an easy time of it until the end of this month, and then we'll train him for the Derby when the warmer weather will suit him more - he hates cold winter days.
"I have been a bit of a
scatterbrain in the past but I am now keeping my concentration.
Fforde's heroine, a shapely
scatterbrain called Thursday Next, slips smoothly from her own eccentric reality into the pages of a well-known book and back again in the time it takes to turn a page.
Scatterbrain Fabian De Freitas actually forgot to nominate anyone.
She's thrilled to be given more meaty material that shows Audrey is so much more than just a
scatterbrain.
Pithy portrait of an irresponsible and free-spirited
scatterbrain who's alternately endearing and exasperating, pic pokes fun at both bourgeois coupledom and the swinging singles scene.
1949) had been a student of drama, a singer, and a playwright is evident in the manner in which she builds suspense and uses imagery in her intriguing tale, "
Scatterbrain," a tender story about a not very bright but gentle woman living in a poor country area and the subservient and painful position she holds in the household.
Such titles, or others like Young Widower, 1987, The Charming
Scatterbrain, 1990, or Limits of the Ego, 1989--behind which one divines a dour laughter--apparently suggest psychological readings, but the images thwart the very anthropomorphic conversion they solicit; rather than things seeming more "human," the implication is that people are more like things.