Jangled

In a decision that jangled the nerves of some elected officials, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week reaffirmed a basic liberty established by the Founding Fathers: the right to be rude at public meetings.

It would also calm the jangled nerves of many in the sector.

Markets were spooked by surprise comments from White House trade adviser Peter Navarro saying the hard-won deal was “over”, though assurances from President Donald Trump later that the agreement was fully intact soothed jangled nerves.

Along the jangled way of multiple discoveries, “The Laundromat” occasionally stops the film to let a pair of Panamanian white collar crooks explain what exactly they’re doing as they talk directly to the audience.

Lopatin is so good at heightening his id-driven, nerve-jangled world.

The clatter of typewriters echoed from every room in the building; telephones jangled without stop.

The resulting adventure is not for the easily jangled or the littlest tots.

We jangled our keys to demand that the Communist Party handed over the keys of power.

In forte passages the poor deaf man pounded on the keys until the strings jangled, and in piano he played so softly that whole groups of notes were omitted, so that the music was unintelligible unless one could look into the pianoforte part.