Calm, easygoing people may turn anxious and prone to fits of rage.
His new one, The Invisible Life (A Vida Invisível), perhaps inevitably, is about a man paralysed by doubts, unsure of which way to turn, anxious that he may have wasted his life.
Instead of being able to relax into bed at the end of a long day, I toss and turn anxious about all I have left to do tomorrow and feel bogged down by feelings of shame.
The first group turned anxious and silent.
It eventually turned anxious and, finally, ended in shocked silence.
But the cheers quickly turned anxious when, less than a minute into the game, Brian Rafalski scored for the United States.
[Section A.] Mood Turns Anxious for Workers With longshoremen, janitors and Boeing employees threatening major strikes and workers reeling from corporate scandals and rising unemployment, the mood among American workers has turned anxious and even angry this Labor Day.
In "Goodfellas," Ray Liotta's narration revels in the abundant pleasures of criminality, but, as the bad times keep coming, the narration turns anxious and, finally, harrowing.
When she falls in love with Brad, the transformation comes slowly and painfully: at first, a nervous gesture, a smile that turns anxious, and then a golden aureole of beauty, a body in movement.
Now, approaching 80, she is spinning out an irascible, gin-slicked widowhood, tended by her surrogate family: Masood Abdullah, a flirty young man turned anxious father; his mysteriously mute sister, Suriya; and Suriya's beautiful daughter, Lila.
But as I kept in touch with some of the soldiers, and so many of them told me how they were turning anxious and depressed and sometimes suicidal, I realized that a second volume could be done about their coming home.
