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 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.
The boat moves slowly to minimise erosion of the mangrove-lined Banks, a flitting swallow categorically outpacing us.
Bees were flitting from flower to flower.