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.”

  Fictionaut: Sunset in the Hills

• “Dear Mr. Powell, what a scatter-brain you must think me ...”

  Fictionaut: Wild Dreams of Reality, 5

• ““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.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Last Empress

• “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

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Researcher Contributes

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  God, I love Tuesdays

• “She knew she was a scatter-brain and she didn't in the least want to be head of the form.”

  The Second Form at Malory Towers

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