| Tristram Shandy emerges bumpily into the world as an Enlightenment child who must learn, as in Kant's famous dictum, to dare to think for himself. |
| They tend to end, bumpily or inspiredly, with ecstatic dancing, a song, an expressionistic poem, or a surreal dreamlike image. |
| The official policy of Her Majesty's Government, however bumpily arrived at, was consistent, cautious, and almost shockingly cold-blooded. |
| But although the pace of reform may seem ponderous to the impatient young, the country is still heading steadily if bumpily in the right direction and is on course to emerge as the first solid multiparty Arab democracy. |
| We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum. |
| It has been trying, bumpily, to crawl back to profit since then. |
