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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a certain anxious" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words, as "anxious" typically requires a noun or a different structure to be grammatically correct.
Example: "She had a certain anxious look on her face."
Alternatives: "a certain level of anxiety" or "a particular anxious feeling."
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The boss's wife (Yan Ni), fed up with his boorishness and sexual sadism, is carrying on with Li Xiao Shenyangg), one of his employees, who dresses in pink and blends skittishness with a certain anxious decency.
Shopping for shoes, comparing diamond rings, doing yoga exercises, tending their children, her subjects visibly enjoy the privileges of their class yet one senses throughout the series a certain anxious ennui (Johnson).
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The Origins of Anxiety If it's difficult to understand why you are plagued by certain anxious thoughts, don't take it personally it's a phenomenon that still eludes scientists.
Stojan Cerovic, a journalist, wrote in the current edition of the weekly Vreme, "The memory of the previous pestilent pathos, and the knowledge that it is gone once and for all, gives me a certain feeling of anxious pleasure and serene indifference toward all debates and conflicts happening today on our political scene".
There was a certain amount of indignation among anxious feminists.
"They're anxious to promote a certain concept with all of you," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass). said at the time.
Discussions with my partners on the subject contained a certain friction, as people are always anxious and suspicious about issues that involve change, money, and trust.
When Cousin Mathilda offered the writer something from a group of family heirlooms, he asked for a certain lowboy, though he was not especially anxious to have it.
The idea might have reflected a certain gun-shyness by a justice not anxious to get back into the line of judicial fire.
If a certain type of situation makes you feel anxious, it's OK to simply avoid it.
"All these things contribute to a certain dread of Ebola, which makes it understandable that people are anxious or nervous".
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