In addition to the perceived inadequacy of the sentence is an abiding anxiety about the way it will be carried out.
This has added to what Charles Stafford, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, calls an abiding "anxiety" about sticking your neck out for other people.Huge rural-to-urban migration has strained social networks further.
Protesters were caught between their jubilation at the ouster of Mr. al-Bashir, a ruthless leader who promised greatness but ultimately brought war, international isolation and economic ruin, and their abiding anxiety over what will follow him.
Like the governor, she aims to show that the immigration issue underscores the need for change in Washington; in other words, that the abiding anxiety about the border and illegal aliens can be made to work for Democrats.
When I met him at his home in Garden City, where the doorbell plays "Jingle Bells" and where he works for three hours every morning on a laptop near a large leather dentist's chair, he appeared to be preoccupied by a deep and abiding anxiety about his country.
Similarly, the perennial state of living in chronic poverty creates abiding anxiety for these families, and these stressful environments -- which often cause recurring episodes of child abuse and neglect -- can wreak havoc on a child's emotional and mental development.
The country's abiding sense of anxiety has advanced the fortunes of, among others, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and his stridently nationalist party, Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home).
But that was Thorn and Watt: rules and self-criticism and analysis and the politics of music, running in tandem with excruciating performance anxiety and an abiding desire to reach their listeners' tenderest parts.
In keeping with the porno template, there's no story, just a series of set-ups for naughtiness of one kind or another, though "naughtiness" suggests subversions of order, interesting power relations, an abiding tension between desire and anxiety – all the social complications of traditional erotica, in other words – whereas House of Holes is purely, uncomplicatedly physical.
It loses tone and one's anxiety remains high, making abiding, deep connections difficult.
