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Then he was back, and sounding much less drifty.

Like Nick himself, the show is dreamy and drifty.

The song seemed to be all around her, turning her thoughts slow and drifty.

The gunslinger could almost see him looking down into the drifty depths of his own damnation.

"The pictures were strange," his tone was drifty.

The point I was making was that they made a change from the rather drifty tempo of most of the set.

Dirokimes were known for being drifty optimists, but in this case Tirolle wasn't far from the truth.

He's been out in the world and seen a war; by contrast to her crimped small-town life, he offers a welcome if drifty openness.

He sounded drifty, the way he often did when he was jammed or overloaded.

As a result, these stories have a pleasantly drifty, off-kilter feel, with events accreting slowly and then suddenly, sometimes randomly.

A drifty car geared for intermediate drivers.

There were dark, cloaked figures standing back at a slight remove-female, she thought, feeling a bit drifty, though she couldn't quite be certain.

Mr. Ungaro's drifty layers bare the body but seem extravagantly beside the point.

Everybody in the fashion business understands that merchants are glutted with drifty feminine stuff, which will soon start looking dated and silly.

Crisply tailored jackets and soft, drifty chiffon skirts.

Hence the name "drifty" genes, to contrast the positively selected "thrifty genes".

A laid-back, drifty little show.

"Drifty vocals and dreamy sounds, Beautiful."

Boredom, not so much; the city's denizens are far too overstimulated and attention-fractured to approach anything like the drifty languor of this underestimated state.

Not sure if it was the poor staging or their mid-calf drifty skirts that spoilt it for me...?

She felt light-headed and drifty, and she'd caught a hint of the apple-scented shampoo she'd washed Stevie's hair with last night.

I cruised home on the Palisades Parkway, Jersey style, driving drifty as my car antenna pulled in long-lost tunes.

This critique was published back to back with the original 'drifty gene' paper in the International Journal of Obesity in November 2008.

If being lost has a certain drifty feeling to it, one feels lost almost instantly in Venice, where everything - even the parking lots - tends to float.

This theory has received various criticisms, and other evolutionarily-based theories such as the drifty gene hypothesis and the thrifty phenotype hypothesis have also been proposed.