| But it had been all over in a breath, just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge. |
| Of course, it's politically incorrect to call out people for such battiness. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Later, as she declined into alcoholism, old age, and general battiness, her genius itself rusted over. |
| The dozen books of Rumpole short stories endure as a gorgeous chronicle of English class battiness and the absurdities of the law. |
