One yearns for a full-blooded, sturdy, and capable personality; these are all so many shadows, flitting about, out of touch with the world.
The boat moves slowly to minimise erosion of the mangrove-lined Banks, a flitting swallow categorically outpacing us.
The thrill of seeing my first hummingbird in my upstate New York garden has never left me -- the sight of this unbelievably tiny creature with dazzling plumage flitting boldly from flower to flower.
Bees were flitting from flower to flower.
