scatter-brain

There were only the three of them left, herself and the youngest two of her children — a daughter, grown into a thirty-four-year-old spinster who preferred the vegetarian meals cooked by her mother, and a twenty-eight-year-old scatter-brain who preferred the company of the Hill people to ordinary Bengali boys his own age.

Sunset in the Hills Rumjhum Biswas 2010

"Dear Mr. Powell, what a scatter-brain you must think me ..."

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

Unfortunately never deemed as good as This is Spinal Tap (a trend I wont buck), but featuring a veritable whose who of comedy actors in its cast, The Rutles combines the scatter-brain comedy of Monty Python (Eric Idle is particularly good) and the rockstar appeal of Saturday Night Live.

All-Time Top Ten Comedy Films About The Music Industry… | Obsessed With Film 2009

“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to laugh at myself,” she wrote Emma, “because it seems ludicrous for me to lecture on Philosophy, I who am a veritable scatter-brain.”

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

The scatter-brain qualities of the normal teenager arise, in part, because neural circuits that control our ability to focus mentally on more than one thing at a time don't finish developing until late adolescence, researchers at the University of Minnesota reported recently in the journal Child Development.

Researcher Contributes 2007

Yes, and the scatter-brain who can ` t ever get anything done and she ` s always saying, "Bail me out."

CNN Transcript May 3, 2006 2006

I can be a terrible scatter-brain, but on the same page, he needs to be a little more patient and not so condemning when mistakes happen.

January 1st, 2002 2002

At this point Mme. Swann joined in the conversation, asking me whether Gilberte had remembered to give me what Bergotte had written about Phèdre, and adding, “My daughter is such a scatter-brain!”

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Okay, scatter-brain, get to it, what did you do last night?

God, I love Tuesdays barbylon 2001

Okay, scatter-brain, get to it, what did you do last night?

God, I love Tuesdays barbylon 2001