Sentence examples for anxious attention from inspiring English sources

Her entries in reference books show the same anxious attention to detail.

His principal business was the writing of the Life of Johnson, which he worked at irregularly but with anxious attention.

Lord Keynes, though a lesser mathematician, wrote that the state of confidence "is a matter to which practical men pay the closest and most anxious attention".

Away from Boyd, Greta could find herself resenting him; you might have thought he was a tyrant, from Kate's anxious attention to his opinions and judgments.

When an animal's genes become "dedifferentiated," to use the science journalist Christine Kenneally's word, unstressed enough to slouch in casual pleasure, rather than standing at anxious attention, the traits associated with those genes get "dedifferentiated," too.

That column received the most careful and anxious attention in Washington, D.C., and other Western capitals.

Sometimes children are labeled as stressed, anxious or attention seeking.

But she also remembers an age when the rich served as "exemplars"; now they were "as anxious for attention as any scullery maid".

Giving his ruling, the judge said: "I have given this case my most anxious and closest attention.

Seemingly anxious to shift attention away from the country's domestic woes, Maduro's government was quick to focus on border-related disputes with neighbours Guyana and Colombia.

A communist sympathiser, she was anxious about FBI attention, telling Fischer never to speak to the authorities should they approach him.