The phrase "a note of anxiety" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a subtle indication or feeling of worry or concern in a situation or a person's demeanor.
Example: "Her voice carried a note of anxiety as she spoke about the upcoming exam."
Alternatives: "a hint of worry" or "a touch of concern."
A piercing note of anxiety about modern relationships seems to be trying to break through, and it's not easy to balance this elegantly with comedy.
As the movie proceeds, the intensity of her affection for Gerri and Tom's family – she has known them for decades – takes the drama in an increasingly painful direction, and yet the film's note of anxiety remains muffled and subsurface until the drama is blindsided by the explicit, violent anger of a sequence late in the narrative: a funeral in Tom's Lancashire hometown.
Jason Taylor, in his rehearsal footage, brought in a tutu that he said his poker buddies gave him when they heard he was going on the show, but this note of anxiety was introduced only to be scoffed at.
A note of attenuated panic, of watchful paranoia — anxiety and boredom and fear mixed into a kind of enveloping fog, covering the guards as much as the guarded.
But it finds an interesting comic register in Margaret Thatcher, a note of distress and self-pity, loneliness and anxiety.
And the inexhaustible Brian Murray finds intriguing notes of anxiety as well as the usual malevolent sternness in Deputy Governor Danforth, who presides over the trials.
IF you spent a lot of time this year reading and writing about movies — as opposed to watching them, which is more fun — you might have detected recurrent notes of anxiety, trepidation, even dread.
As a graduate student, I took note of the anxiety and frustration among many postdocs who were finding it difficult to obtain an independent research position.
