The one who has the toughest luck is the hero Ruggero, an innocent who comes to Paris, sings a song in the city’s honour, falls in love with one of its typically flighty female inhabitants, and loses her because she is ashamed of her past.
Michael Tanner, The Spectator, 4 December 2004.
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State law gives a guideline for distinguishing between criminal negligence and flighty parenting, Ms. Dwimoh said: "Is the risk of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe?"
Michael Wilson and Michael Brick, The New York Times, 6 August 2007. New York Times
Her witty portrayal is a whirlwind of flighty intellectual pronouncement.