You know the type: urban, and usually urbane, neurotic guys who always seem to be recoiling slightly before the winds of life (and hurricane-strength women), their bodies on the bias and their faces a combination of tickling fear and anxious hope.
Unfortunately towards the end of the first movement something unravelled, first some skipped notes in a fast arpeggiated passage, then several entire lost bars in which he turned in anxious hope towards Thielemann, then eventual recovery and a resolute rush to the finish.
With each new shock people freeze and wait, anxious - hoping the movements don't presage something bigger.
However, Ed Griffith, chairman for the Northeastern Broome Landowners Association, told HuffPost that his 178 members are "quite anxious, hoping that Cuomo will in fact decide to release the Southern Tier".
Long lines to reach buses outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal have formed with anxious passengers hoping to get home and Twitter is alighting with mob scenes like this: Commute in NYC is an exercise in patience 2nite.
And while Zigler has cast the show with a number of adults — including the fine film actress Brooke Adams — it is ultimately a high-school production, amateurish and gleaming with anxious, doomed hope.
Typically, banks in Russia are open on Saturdays, but they have been closed lately as banks have had to contend with snaking lines of anxious depositors hoping to withdraw their savings.
President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday at a juncture of opportunity and peril for his presidency, and his anxious allies hope he will show he has the ability to do something he has not done before: bring the country together.
A camera swoops over the cheering audience toward an anxious contestant hoping to win a prize.
If such responsibility makes you anxious, I hope this blog post will help you relax.
