He flutters around erratically, often upside down, and frequently crashes into things. Sometimes one bird breaks into butterfly-like flight with shallow flutters during display. The female flies to a nearby branch where she flutters her wings. The male flutters, catches her closed forewings with his legs, and spreads his wings. The ticket flutters away in the breeze. Slowly he lowers his arm as the flag flutters up to the mast-head. While foraging, individuals make short flights (small flutters and glides) or run between cover. A dark thought flutters in his head for a moment, but he quickly expels it. She "lowers her head to look calculating or flutters her lips", he says. She spoke of an increased confidence within herself which reduces the nervous flutters she experiences. Christ's loincloth flutters in the wind, indicating the moment of death. Wile E. looks at the camera and flutters his eyebrows as Road Runner races by. Ruby tells them before she flutters them off to meet the fairy king and queen. Small flutters of the pitch hand can be used to produce a vibrato effect. Phaedra, as a bird of the underworld, flutters around the cage, mocking Hippolyt.