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  • In their anxiety they knock over a lamp.   (source)
  • I felt sorry for the old man because people just don't go around smiling like that all the time unless they're mentally unbalanced or harboring extreme anxiety.   (source)
  • But as soon as her long tapered back had receded down the hall and out the double-locked double doors, we were overcome by gloom shot through with anxiety:   (source)
  • It took me a moment to overcome my anxiety and to be able to enjoy his humor.   (source)
  • He spoke cheerfully, and if he felt any great anxiety, he did not show it.   (source)
  • Going out to talk to his nervous pitcher, Cesar tried to ease Pepe's anxiety.   (source)
  • I could feel her anxiety strongly; though quite why she should be so worried was not, at first, clear to me.   (source)
  • Her voice had taken on anxiety;   (source)
  • The thought that Malcolm might die in the meantime filled Hammond with anxiety and dread.†   (source)
  • Julian has anxiety issues.†   (source)
  • I have one anxiety, what will it cost?   (source)
  • He looked up, and saw the anxiety on my face.   (source)
  • it was just possible, he thought, that a year without anxiety might save this man's soul.   (source)
  • I have had so much trouble and anxiety of late that I feel I cannot bear more just at present.   (source)
  • Mother was half wild with anxiety when at last the three children turned up at Three Chimneys,   (source)
  • Marguerite tried not to look at Brogard, lest she should betray before him the burning anxiety with which she waited for his reply.   (source)
  • During the first years at Tuskegee I recall that night after night I would roll and toss on my bed, without sleep, because of the anxiety and uncertainty which we were in regarding money.   (source)
  • Swann could not without anxiety ask himself what Odette would mean to him in the years that were to come.   (source)
  • I've two anxieties, though.   (source)
    anxieties = things that cause worry
  • The reason for their anxiety soon became apparent.   (source)
    anxiety = nervousness or worry
  • —a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising.   (source)
  • [Trying to conceal her anxiety.]   (source)
  • a great anxiety will be off my mind if I know the children are safe with you.   (source)
    anxiety = worry
  • Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving,   (source)
    anxiety = nervousness or worry
  • Startled as she was, Alice was more frightened for him than for herself at the moment, and watched him with some anxiety as he mounted again.   (source)
  • I could not conceal my anxiety, and at length determined to follow him.   (source)
    anxiety = worry
  • A new anxiety began to trouble me.   (source)
    anxiety = nervousness or worry
  • You have had every care and anxiety upon yourself alone.   (source)
  • I felt anxious when I imagined all those hours in the wilderness with Shawn, but I pushed the anxiety aside.†   (source)
  • Liesel, naturally, was bathed in anxiety.†   (source)
  • Anger temporarily blocked out my nervousness about meeting the other tributes, but now I can feel my anxiety rising again.†   (source)
  • Everyone was in a continuous state of anxiety.†   (source)
  • But made up or not, the silly dream had lifted some of my anxiety.†   (source)
  • Because there had not been an earthquake in Papua New Guinea that day, my parents were all hyperfocused on me, and so I could not hide this flash flood of anxiety.†   (source)
  • Fang flung himself at the window in his anxiety to get out, and when Harry opened the door, he shot off through the trees to Hagrid's house, tail between his legs.†   (source)
  • The thought of the party brings a sudden and sharp jolt of anxiety that makes him want to scream, so he squeezes his eyes tight and forces that explosive feeling to go away.†   (source)
  • He tried reading it to cope with his anxiety, but it made no sense to him, and he abandoned it.†   (source)
  • "I have caused you anxiety," she said.†   (source)
  • You must understand our anxiety.†   (source)
  • I concealed this anxiety of mine as well as I could, and took frequent baths: I felt I was becoming addled inside, like an egg.†   (source)
  • The third night he woke in a fit of anxiety and he was at the kitchen door, on his way to check Iris, before he decided it was a bad idea.†   (source)
  • My anxiety is only compounded by the fact that I know Gen will be wearing the exact right thing, because she always wears the exact right thing.†   (source)
  • When we were finally asked whether we wanted to marry each other, the groom is supposed to answer yes right away, but the bride is expected to take her sweet time and cause a little bit of last-minute anxiety for the groom and his family.†   (source)
  • Instead, it filled me with a nameless anxiety, like a drowning man wanting to grab on to anything at hand.†   (source)
  • As the scale of the storm became clear, and rumors around the train accident spread, the mood in the apartment had shifted from cheerful to quiet anxiety.†   (source)
  • If asked in advance to imagine what sitting there under these circumstances would feel like, the Count would have predicted a definite sense of anxiety.†   (source)
  • Today, even remembering that period long enough to write it down invokes an intense, indescribable anxiety in me.†   (source)
  • Paul's hands were clammy with anxiety.†   (source)
  • My heart was pounding so hard, I could hardly bear the anxiety.†   (source)
  • For a moment, I thought I saw anxiety in her eyes-the same fear I'd seen in Grover during the bus ride-as if my mom too felt an odd chill in the air.†   (source)
  • As I sat there, all of my anxiety released.†   (source)
  • Above me the sky is bile-colored, and the sight of it fills me with anxiety, my body cringing away from it.†   (source)
  • Instead, Herbert moved even closer to her home in Dothan, which elevated her anxieties.†   (source)
  • I knew the real reason for Dad's anxiety.†   (source)
  • His quick shower and shave had left him looking reasonably presentable but had done little to ease his anxiety.†   (source)
  • But when they reached the edge of town, Tally felt her anxiety turn to something worse: a horrible certainty that no one remained there.†   (source)
  • No one says anything for a moment, and inside Marie-Laure, an old anxiety lumbers to its feet.†   (source)
  • Newt and Frypan and a few other Gladers pushed their way into the room and took seats on the beds, all of them leaning forward, elbows on knees, rubbing their hands together absently, the anxiety and worry evident in their body language.†   (source)
  • After a month of heightened anxiety and double-locking of doors, "A Disturbed Jennifer" materialized as a rock group composed of four green-haired students from the Savannah College of Art and Design.†   (source)
  • But the sheriff was a man of inherited anxieties.†   (source)
  • It said that Wesley appeared to be normal, but needed further evaluation for possible anxiety issues.†   (source)
  • Your mother has had enough to worry her with you and Charles to cope with, and not knowing about your father, without our adding to her anxieties.†   (source)
  • It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was not any one force, nothing independent and external—it wasn't danger to herself or the constant calamity of other people and their problems.†   (source)
  • My own ill-humor vanished and I felt a muscle-clenching anxiety rise in my chest and begin to grip my throat.†   (source)
  • She says I'm taking my anxiety over the fact that this is only our first month in high school and I already have an F in something, and transferring it to anxiety about Mr. Gianini and my mom.†   (source)
  • Hanna had petitioned to let Dot come to school in her oversize Prada handbag—all the girls in Beverly Hills did it, after all—but Rosewood Day said no. So to prevent separation anxiety, Hanna had bought Dot the snuggliest Gucci bed money could buy and left QVC on her bedroom TV during the day.†   (source)
  • You would have thought she had handed him a live armadillo; his little face reflected his devout curiosity and his extreme anxiety.†   (source)
  • Despite their anxiety over Count Olaf's escape, the three orphans must have fallen asleep for a few hours, for the next thing they knew, it was nighttime and they were still on the bottom step.†   (source)
  • And its not a government car—that's still my first anxiety— immigration cops don't come in Toyotas.†   (source)
  • The dreams, the anxiety.†   (source)
  • His anxiety faded, and a tremulous smile crept across his face.†   (source)
  • The danger was past, and somehow the excitement had helped them shed a little of their anxiety.†   (source)
  • The anxiety on his face unnerves me, because I always expect him to be the strongest of us.†   (source)
  • Downstairs, her mother, guilt-stricken by her absence from the family, would be spreading anxiety and confusion all about her.†   (source)
  • Doubts and anxieties sprang to her mind.†   (source)
  • Through drift& of snow waist-high, by sleigh and sled and snowshoe, young people and old folks and children gathered in the spacious Peabody house, relieved to shake off the labor and anxiety of the past weeks and to rejoice with the happy couple.†   (source)
  • I asked, trying to control my anxiety.†   (source)
  • Her display showed an incoming message from Adri, and the familiar surge of anxiety that came with it clamped Cinder's throat.†   (source)
  • After six unbearable months of anxiety, to Pappachi's intense disappointment he was told that his moth had finally been identified as a slightly unusual race of a well-known species that belonged to the tropical family Lymantriidae.†   (source)
  • He is speaking reasonably, restraining all his fears, his anger, his anxiety.†   (source)
  • She kept stopping and rubbing her forehead as if she could smooth away the anxiety in her face.†   (source)
  • But if they had been alerted to the plan, their anxiety could have counteracted the sedative.†   (source)
  • My mother was frantic, beside herself with fear and anxiety.†   (source)
  • After some hesitation, and with a great deal of anxiety, I dialed the number.†   (source)
  • Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler's anti-Jewish laws.†   (source)
  • I observed migrants' anxiety as they approached the checkpoint on two train rides through La Arrocera.†   (source)
  • The anxiety in her voice makes my heart skip.†   (source)
  • Again, it causes them anxiety, and for a brief moment the Loric surge.†   (source)
  • Because I could see, for all his anxiety about his elbow, Tommy was touched by all the concern he believed had been shown him.†   (source)
  • I feel a wave of anxiety—everything reappears at some point, even me.†   (source)
  • Eragon knew she was right, yet her words did nothing to calm his anxiety.†   (source)
  • "They should have returned," General Doppelganger said again, pacing back and forth in the tent, an activity that apparently fell short of soothing his anxiety, for he split into the twin figures of Generals Doppel and Ganger and they paced; but this did not ease their minds either, and the generals melded back into one.†   (source)
  • She was so tired she felt quite dizzy, but for the first time since they had set off Mo's face wasn't looking grim with anxiety.†   (source)
  • Ramiro had been placed on punishment, but not for an act of disobedience or the usual outburst of teenage anxiety.†   (source)
  • What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?†   (source)
  • Maybe when he got to the gate and asked to see Sethe, schoolteacher heard a tint of anxiety in his voice—the tint that would make him pick up his ever-ready shotgun.†   (source)
  • I wonder about the Bikura, still far away from here, and a strange anxiety rises in me.†   (source)
  • They were sedatives that would, as he put it, "take the edge off Marley's anxiety."†   (source)
  • While I enjoyed the notoriety, a cold anxiety was slowly growing in my gut.†   (source)
  • It was certainly an uncomfortable arrangement, but my discomfort was nothing compared with the uneasiness and anxiety I felt.†   (source)
  • Our maid was the only person who thought all the anxiety had been unnecessary.†   (source)
  • I hid my anxieties and gave everyone a bright smile.†   (source)
  • I verified, the sarcasm in my voice not entirely masking the slight but genuine anxiety I felt.†   (source)
  • In the audience's laughter and surprised applause, it was almost as if I could hear everyone collectively exhaling their anxiety.†   (source)
  • For the age of anxiety, the age when Blind Faith sang "Can't Find My Way Home," the age of not just Lost Boys but lost generations, "H&G" has to be the preferred story.†   (source)
  • It was the fall semester of 1972, his third year at Juilliard, and Nathaniel had been tormented by months of confusion, anxiety and hallucinations.†   (source)
  • While I paced, Sonja channeled her anxiety into the role of busy caretaker.†   (source)
  • Jen Shinnan and her cousin both spoke Radchaai, so there was no need to translate, nor any anxiety over gender or status or anything else that would have been essential in Tanmind or Orsian.†   (source)
  • The boy proved to have a severe case of test anxiety.†   (source)
  • The blood, the anxiety I felt, the horror of it meant as little to Storm as the blood from the deer on the snow had meant to the wolves.†   (source)
  • I pedaled back to the Beje fighting back tears of anxiety.†   (source)
  • Pretending to read her own book but actually looking at Danny over the top of it, she had seen an odd amalgam of the ways she and Jack expressed anxiety.†   (source)
  • My anxiety came out in different ways.†   (source)
  • Only anxiety is oldest daughter who is epileptic and can't talk.†   (source)
  • Don't be my companion now in this anxiety.†   (source)
  • She wondered what on earth about liking someone could possibly have him wound up to such a pitch of anxiety.†   (source)
  • I remember waking that morning filled with anxiety, instantly knowing that something terrible had happened.†   (source)
  • Their anxiety came to be reflected in the pay of left tackles.†   (source)
  • My stomach is too full with anxiety and dread.†   (source)
  • He awoke in a state of anxiety and was grumpy all morning.†   (source)
  • "There must be someone there," said Murph, and I could hear the anxiety in his voice.†   (source)
  • She went into a rage, fueled by the anxiety that had been building up for months.†   (source)
  • With each call, my anxiety increased.†   (source)
  • Four more then had to be released because of "extreme emotional depression, crying, rage, and acute anxiety."†   (source)
  • But once seated, at least I didn't feel the same level of anxiety that I did when I walked through the halls between classes or into the lunchroom.†   (source)
  • Her state of alarm was such that she avoided speaking at the table for fear some slip might betray her, and she became evasive even with her Aunt Escolastica, who nonetheless shared her repressed anxiety as if it were her own.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, the news was received with gloom and anxiety.†   (source)
  • "But the wind, Gabriel," my mother said with some anxiety.†   (source)
  • While there was a mild sense of anxiety over the game itself, we felt that we would have a chance to correct any shortcomings moving forward.†   (source)
  • It's an anxiety attack.†   (source)
  • It was a source of great anxiety to Miss Milhouse that Jane's family was not one of the old New York society families.†   (source)
  • All turned to look the same direction, seeing no sign of the worm, but there was a heavy, charged feeling of anxiety in the air.†   (source)
  • She must have seen his anxiety because she winked at him across Bill and Judy just as he sometimes winked at May Belle over Joyce Ann's head.†   (source)
  • Yet Kai Jing and his colleagues still went to the quarry, and this made me crazy with anxiety.†   (source)
  • At first the phantom presence had creeped me out, but when nothing bad came of it, my anxiety lost its edge.†   (source)
  • It wasn't a pleasant feeling exactly, but it was markedly better than the kind of anxiety he was used to.†   (source)
  • No despair, no happiness, no anxiety.†   (source)
  • He looked relieved, but then anxiety played across his face.†   (source)
  • My arms came up and crossed over my chest, and some mangled mess of anxiety and guilt rose up from deep in my guts.†   (source)
  • It's some anti-anxiety thing I'm supposed to take when I'm feeling jittery.†   (source)
  • Each step was the exercise of some anxiety not provided for by instinct.†   (source)
  • Her new fever, her anxiety which changed itself to anger was even more of a toy to him.†   (source)
  • Janice and Larry didn't talk about it openly, instead shouldering most of the stress themselves—all the anxiety, sleeplessness, and obsessive worry.†   (source)
  • "Such a generous country," Aunt Emily said as she read from the form, " '....This assured assistance from the government as outlined ....will mean, to many who desire repatriation, relief from unnecessary anxiety and it will allow them to plan for their future and that of their children, along economic, social, and cultural lines which they fear might be denied them were they to remain in Canada.'†   (source)
  • The only hint of anxiety or trauma is the way she often pushes her hair from in front of her black eyes, perhaps a nervous tic.†   (source)
  • Anxiety swims up like a giant squid, snakes tentacles around my throat.†   (source)
  • The buzzing in my ears seemed to be better, but there was no relief from the anxiety that had settled over me like a shroud.†   (source)
  • My mom has anxiety.†   (source)
  • And the parallel anxiety that comes with such an impish child.†   (source)
  • Regardless of what his private anxieties might be, she could not believe that Mr. Clutter was finding secret solace in tobacco.†   (source)
  • But instead I found myself gritting my teeth, riding the wave of my natural anxiety, because this wasn't permanent, me and him, and to think so would only hurt both of us.†   (source)
  • I tried to sleep but the anxiety stayed with me.†   (source)
  • Yesterday after school he tried to explain this swelling anxiety and his desire to meet it head on.†   (source)
  • I reckon the anxiety wore him out.†   (source)
  • She went into the kitchen with Mavity Bence, and the two women worked there at the dishes, and washing out the towels, till after nine o'clock, Johnnie's anxiety and distress mounting with every minute of delay.†   (source)
  • His voice floats back to me, high pitched with anxiety.†   (source)
  • I have been in a continual state of anxiety and expectation ...it has been said 'tomorrow' and 'tomorrow' for this [past] month, but when the dreadful tomorrow will be I know not.†   (source)
  • She felt a surge of anxiety.†   (source)
  • I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time.†   (source)
  • Like most self-pitying people, I had very little pity for my relatives' anxiety.†   (source)
  • I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.†   (source)
  • The high-cheating holidays are fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones.†   (source)
  • Censoring the envelopes had serious repercussions, produced a ripple of anxiety on some ethereal military echelon that floated a C.I.D. man back into the ward posing as a patient.†   (source)
  • I guess she heard the anxiety in my voice, because she laughingly told me that he didn't do it often, maybe a couple of times a year.†   (source)
  • Today, I was in a different school and it was ten years later, but I was still suffering from a flashback anxiety attack.†   (source)
  • Helen frowned, unhappy that I wanted to pursue this possibility, but I was becoming more and more frustrated with the absence of official power, and she could see the anxiety and desperation in my face.†   (source)
  • Despite his anxiety, he exercised patience and retraced the grooves, ensuring the mark would be obvious if he crossed it again.†   (source)
  • I had been living on room service, exoticism, and anxiety for a long time.†   (source)
  • Raleigh held me until the anxiety had slowly melted away.†   (source)
  • Jackie reported back to the doctor that the sex with JFK had improved, and whatever anxieties she had had about her own performance were gone for good.†   (source)
  • When I look at Raffe with anxiety in my eyes, he says, "It's the only way."†   (source)
  • When she went into the hospital, it was a time of great anxiety in our family.†   (source)
  • Casey must have noticed my anxiety.†   (source)
  • The rabbits' anxieties and strain in climbing the down were different, therefore, from those which you, reader, will experience if you go there.†   (source)
  • Anxiety is blue; failure, gray.†   (source)
  • Her anxiety and panic was infectious, making every moment twice as long and twice as hard when she was under their sway.†   (source)
  • Mary met us at the door, flustered with anxiety and, it seemed, embarrassment.†   (source)
  • Don't be so sure," Tom said, careful to keep anxiety out of his voice.†   (source)
  • The sudden wave of uncertainty in the Pacific, so hard upon the triumphal news from Europe, created a sickening anxiety.†   (source)
  • For all Mortenson's anxiety about calling him, Jean Hoerni had been surprisingly kind about writing him a check for an additional ten thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • She could feel the pressure of his fingers through the fabric of her thin T-shirt, and despite her anxiety, her skin thrilled at his touch.†   (source)
  • We address the controversies and issues, anxieties and assumptions, some highly emotional, provoked by language today, and our findings will be news to many.†   (source)
  • I feel some anxiety about this, which I realize is irrational and try to get rid of by talking about the road to the others.†   (source)
  • A little maple tree in the swamp heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.†   (source)
  • It was as though he had not died at all, his words caused so much anxiety.†   (source)
  • Anxiety was uppermost; what had happened at Number 37 could happen at 32 or 40 or 53.†   (source)
  • There was great excitement among the tribesmen, but also a measure of anxiety and fear.†   (source)
  • If this meets his eye, he is earnestly requested to communicate with his friends, who are in deep anxiety....†   (source)
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