It takes some anxiety away".
In "Body and Soul" and "Gentleman's Agreement" (both 1947), the first-generation American Jewish actor John Garfield captured a certain jittery postwar angst; no girl, it seemed, could kiss his anxiety away.
Jennifer Schmid, for example, who says "exercise took my anxiety away; the more I worked out, the better I felt," became an exercise bulimic whose voracious eating could not keep pace with the calories she burned.
"It took a lot of anxiety away," she said, "and also just to have met the doctor firsthand, who has seen hundreds of children with the syndrome, it made me feel more sure that that's what she had after all".
And then I heard the sweetest sound, that took all my anxiety away... Emilie cried.
"I found that Jericho takes a lot of that anxiety away from me.
All of a sudden it took the anxiety away that I had for five weeks since Sutton Foster said my name at the nominations.
When we resist we put up walls or try to push the anxiety away, but this inevitably leads to unfulfilled desires and further discontent.
It helps me make more rational decisions that I probably wouldn't be able to make when I'm panicking or having anxiety, but my backyard takes all of my panic and anxiety away".
He poured us some ouzo and clouded it with icy water, and within a few sips both heat and anxieties faded away.
