Sentence examples for a state of anxious from inspiring English sources
The other characters live in a state of anxious idleness, vacillating between depression and seething, impotent anger.
Mr. Scott says the film "throws you off balance in the very first scene and keeps you in a state of anxious disorientation right up until the end".
Mr. Shyamalan manipulates us into a state of anxious terror before announcing that such manipulation is not only his method, but also his theme.
The empty expanses of the West become a nightmarish landscape, relieved only by the occasional outcropping of native-grown oddness: motel night clerks, irate traveling salesmen, aggressively folksy Wyoming state troopers -- small David Lynchesque touches that keep us in a state of anxious amusement while we await the noisy, bloody climax.
He is enjoying the game of power and taking pleasure in hiding his cards, leaving the whole world in a state of anxious suspense.
In 1978, approaching my late 20s, I was in a state of confusion: anxious to find a new direction as a historian, keen to get stuck into something big and try to make it my own, but wholly unclear about what it should be.
Moreover, we know little about reinstatement of contextual anxiety, a state of general anxious apprehension and chronic worry.
And no blockbuster could match the slow-motion, real-life disaster epic of a collapsing economy, a horror show that has kept most of us queasy, riveted and in a perpetual state of anxious suspense.
The press––particularly the mainstream outlets the White House finds most irritating––is in a collective state of anxious transition, hurt by scandals (Congressman King was quick to mention Jayson Blair, the Times serial fabulist), by the appearance of a blizzard of new technologies and ideologized alternatives like Fox News, and by a general sense of economic, even existential, worry.
But it was the nervous laughter of fleeting relief that only confirmed the new state of anxious coping now sweeping the land.
"People are anxious and in a state of fear," he said.
