Sentence examples for anxious figure from inspiring English sources

she was an awkward and anxious figure, her socks trailing round her ankles.

Hodgon was an anxious figure at Stamford Bridge for Liverpool's game against Chelsea.

Wenger cut an anxious figure on the bench at times in the second half, apparently concerned his players felt the job was long since done.

Where Dolly, a kind, pious, modest, anxious figure, the mother of five living and two dead children, belongs very much to the old Russia, Stiva Oblonsky, her husband, is recognisable as the caricature of a modern man.

Oppenheimer appears meek, a shrunken, anxious figure lost in a leather chair, a deeply unflattering image for a corporate mogul, but not a simple one, because if you don't know who he is you may look at him with pity, almost sympathetically.

McCall cut an anxious figure on the touchline as Hibs started strongly in the Edinburgh sunshine but the home side lost much of their momentum after 20 minutes.

Anxious to figure out what was going on, she inquired next door at UCSC's aquarium, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, which also draws its water from Terrace Point.

Despite the oppressiveness of the last dozen years, black residents such as Lovett are probably more anxious to figure out how to stay in Harbor Gateway than how to leave it, mostly because they're running out of places to go.

The mean differences we report between affective responses by subject type (healthy vs. COPD) is virtually nil at moderate stimulus, and at most 14% FS at high stimulus for anxious (see Figure  3).

Ed Miliband is being warned by anxious Labour figures that he needs to adopt sharper tactics towards Nicola Sturgeon in their next television debate.

In another piece an anxious, seemingly female figure wearing a pink dress and holding a flower turns out to have stubble; the title — "He Likes Plants" — doesn't mention an attraction to female clothing.