What is "frenetic"

Usage examples of "frenetic".

The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds.

It was over a hundred times more likely that the equally charged diplodeviant sperm would lash its frenetic way through the zona pellucida and neutralize the inhibiting effect of the cortical granules.

It was soon borne in upon me that it was the whippoorwills and their frenetic calling in the night which had excited the neighbors.

This was no city of the dead, however dark and grim it might look: it was bursting with secret life, roaring with it, this hidden frenetic underground world.

The hustling crowds flowed to and fro, from casino to motel or liquor store, a frenetic swirl of humanity composed of frontier types in buckskins, Las Vegas residents and tourists in shirts and slacks or shorts, and dapper sorts in three-piece suits.

Busily engaged on his endless harvests, Death casts frenetic shadows among the indifferent redwoods, a ceaseless flickering that dances across their massive trunks with no effect, like the dark equivalent of leaping firelight on hearthstones.

Local space was still frenetic with war craft and fire, but the real fighting had moved far afield of the starliner, out toward where an ovoid Yuuzhan Vong ship was defending itself against an onslaught of laser beams and proton torpedoes.

One was hefty, slicked back and smarmy and the other was skinny, chinless and frenetic.

Not the frenetic bedlamites of the shopping levels, but the solid, quiet, serious-faced factory workers who had just put in a tiring four-hour shift and were plodding homeward.

We disrobed slowly like an old couple, shedding our clothes without frenetic excitement.

But still the dancers spin dizzyingly around the mirrored ballroom to the frenetic waltz.

It was the old Chinese torture of tickling the soles of the feet magnified a hundredfold, only here there were no feathers, only the countless insidious probing needles of Actedron jabbing every screaming nerve-end into a frantic frenzy, an undreamed of pitch of frenetic excitability.

Even the late afternoon sky was caught up in the frenetic activity: spiral, alabaster clouds raced across the expanse of cerulean blue.

He was frenetic to a fault, dashing from phone to typewriter to copy desk in a blur—.

He was frenetic to a fault, dashing from phone to typewriter to copy desk in a bluryet he was different from most of his colleagues.