Sentence examples for anxious boy from inspiring English sources

An anxious boy on a high diving board, by Elmgreen and Dragset, is one of the first things visitors see at this year's fair.

He was an anxious boy, worrying that if they argued when he wasn't around he wouldn't be on hand to save their souls.

This painfully shy, anxious boy, rejected, taunted and bullied, finally felt he had found his place in the world, part of a glorious struggle that promised him a heroic identity and spiritual immortality as a suicide bomber in Iraq.

The idea of a foreign refuge was attractive to the anxious boy, fearful, as he endearingly explains, of everything from scuffles in the school playground to a nuclear attack, and he was fortunate in having a mother who not only loved to travel but insisted on going well prepared.

He is introduced as an articulate, somewhat anxious boy (played in the early scenes by Michael Angarano), living with his rebellious older sister (Zooey Deschanel) and their protective mother, a college professor portrayed with glowing intelligence and scary intensity by Frances McDormand.

It's a mark of Lowry's artistry that in their scenes together, even when John is at his most thuggish — whining about the woman's lack of a television or threatening to kill her dog — we never lose sight of the anxious boy underneath.

This temporary hijacking of a princess's tale by her square-jawed love interest seems like a crude commercial calculation, a sign to the anxious boys in the audience that things aren't going to be too girly, or to Disneyphobes that the studio can bring some DreamWorks-style attitude.

"Are they sexual predators looking to sharpen their teeth or are they just socially anxious boys with good intentions who want to find their footing during early-stage courtship rituals?

The Fire Department took off, and we were left with one peacefully sleeping baby, one anxious little boy and our overwhelming stupidity.

In March, he set up an anonymous blog called A Diary of a Depressed Student under the pseudonym Charlie Brown (the anxious little boy in the Peanuts comic strip).

With the arrival of the damaged woman and the anxious little boy in his life, Keely once again has a sense of purpose and a reason to engage with world.