| She was bats and contrary, but she seemed to be self-aware and have a genuine sense of humour about her own battiness and contrariness. |
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| The dozen books of Rumpole short stories endure as a gorgeous chronicle of English class battiness and the absurdities of the law. |
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| She is an eccentric in the fashion of a good many English women who have taken to the East, i.e. a mixture of battiness and extreme practicality. |
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| Later, as she declined into alcoholism, old age, and general battiness, her genius itself rusted over. |
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| And not just from John, but also from his sister Joan Cusack, who plays his secretary in the film with an explosive battiness rarely seen. |
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| Of course, it's politically incorrect to call out people for such battiness. |
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| While Steve Carell is extremely good at times, his character doesn't always fit easily with the general battiness of the Hoover clan. |
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| The right is growing fonder of Iain Duncan-Smith, the party's defence spokesman, another Eurosceptic but unencumbered by Mr Portillo's complicated baggage or the battiness of Ann Widdecombe. |
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| Amid the hi-res, day-glo battiness of Tim Burton's Lewis Carroll adaption, De la Tour's Chekhovian turn as Aunt Imogene felt rooted in real-world tragicomedy. |
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| This confirmed we were in safe hands for this very British tradition of seasonal battiness. |
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| And L'Engle invests the science-fiction novel's witch-angels, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which, with a disarming battiness that metamorphoses into Miltonian grandeur when the story calls for it. |
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