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• r  in a fitful manner
  he slept fitfully

• For a while, Batman Begins is fitfully entertaining.
• Something About a Soldier, by Ernest Kinoy, proved fitfully amusing, fitfully poignant, and fitfully provocative.
• Think health care, which is booming as boomers grow fitfully into old age.

News & Articles

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• Obama relying on untested oversight board on NSA
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency's secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of low-profile existence, stymied by congressional infighting and, at times, censorship by government lawyers ...
  June 19, 2013 - Boston Globe
• World stock markets mixed ahead of US Fed meeting
  TOKYO (AP) — Global stock markets traded fitfully Tuesday as investors watched for signs of a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Federal Reserve.
  June 18, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Waiting for word from Bernanke, stocks move higher
  In this Monday, June 10, 2013 photo, trader Edward Landi check a screen in a booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets traded fitfully Tuesday June 18, 2013 as investors watched for signs of a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Federal Reserve.
  June 18, 2013 - Washington Examiner

Quotes

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• David Petraeus in Reuters
  Success will emerge slowly and fitfully with reverses as well as advances. Inevitably there will be tough fighting, more tough days and more tough weeks, but fewer of them, inshallah (God willing),Petraeus said.
• Mahavira in Times of India
  Mahavira said: "If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such...
• Manohla Dargis in New York Times
  In The New York Times in March Manohla Dargis called it "a fitfully funny comedy that owes much to Judd Apatow, the king of such sublimated man-on-man affairs."