All 24 Uses of
anxiety
in
The Idiot
- The expression of her grey eyes was merry and gentle, when it was not, as lately, too full of thought and anxiety.†
Chpt 1.8anxiety = nervousness or worry
- Nina Alexandrovna gave a little cry of anxiety; Ptitsin took a step forward in alarm; Colia and Ferdishenko stood stock still at the door in amazement;—only Varia remained coolly watching the scene from under her eyelashes.†
Chpt 1.9
- He awaited the reply in deadly anxiety.†
Chpt 1.10
- They were both highly amiable, but both appeared to be labouring under a half-hidden feeling of anxiety as to the result of Nastasia's deliberations with regard to Gania, which result was to be made public this evening.†
Chpt 1.13
- He had kept but one idea before him all day, and for that he had worked in an agony of anxiety and a fever of suspense.†
Chpt 1.15
- I won't again," said the master of the house his anxiety getting the better of his temper.†
Chpt 2.2
- He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second (it was never more than a second) in which the fit came upon him.†
Chpt 2.5anxieties = worries
- It seems hardly necessary to remark that her family worries and anxieties had little or no foundation, or that her imagination increased them to an absurd degree; but if you have a wart on your forehead or nose, you imagine that all the world is looking at it, and that people would make fun of you because of it, even if you had discovered America!†
Chpt 3.1
- With regard to her eldest daughter, Alexandra, the mother never quite knew whether there was cause for anxiety or not.†
Chpt 3.1anxiety = nervousness or worry
- But the mother's great and continual anxiety was Aglaya.†
Chpt 3.1
- But, thanks to Mrs. Epanchin's invariable fussiness and anxiety, there could not be the slightest hitch in the simplest matters of everyday life, but she immediately foresaw the most dreadful and alarming consequences, and suffered accordingly.†
Chpt 3.1
- What then must have been her condition, when, among all the imaginary anxieties and calamities which so constantly beset her, she now saw looming ahead a serious cause for annoyance—something really likely to arouse doubts and suspicions!†
Chpt 3.1anxieties = worries
- Had he been more careful to observe his companion, he would have seen that for the last quarter of an hour Aglaya had also been glancing around in apparent anxiety, as though she expected to see someone, or something particular, among the crowd of people.†
Chpt 3.2anxiety = nervousness or worry
- Now, at the moment when his own anxiety became so marked, her excitement also increased visibly, and when he looked about him, she did the same.†
Chpt 3.2
- The reason for their anxiety soon became apparent.
Chpt 3.2 *
- Noticing his anxiety to catch them up, she smiled ironically, and then looked back no more.†
Chpt 3.3
- "What have you got there?" asked the prince, with some anxiety.†
Chpt 3.5
- The impatience of Lizabetha Prokofievna "to get things settled" explained a good deal, as well as the anxiety of both parents for the happiness of their beloved daughter.†
Chpt 4.6
- But the Epanchins, one and all, believed that Muishkin, in his simplicity of mind, was quite incapable of realizing that they could be feeling any anxiety on his account, and for this reason they all looked at him with dread and uneasiness.†
Chpt 4.6
- The prince jumped to the conclusion that Aglaya, too, was nervous about him, and the impression he would make, and that she did not like to admit her anxiety; and this thought alarmed him.†
Chpt 4.6
- Arrived home again, the prince sent for Vera Lebedeff and told her as much as was necessary, in order to relieve her mind, for she had been in a dreadful state of anxiety since she had missed the letter.†
Chpt 4.6
- All his late anxieties and apprehensions (after his conversation with Lebedeff) now appeared like so many bad dreams—impossible, and even laughable.†
Chpt 4.6anxieties = worries
- She went away in great anxiety about him, but when she saw him in the morning, he seemed to be quite himself again, greeted her with a smile, and told her that he would very likely be back by the evening.†
Chpt 4.10anxiety = nervousness or worry
- It was possible that she might have spent the night there in her anxiety to conceal herself.†
Chpt 4.11