He'd started seeing a new-ish girlfriend and was anxious what level of present to buy her: too showy would look over-keen, he thought, but he had once been given aftershave by a now-ex and wanted to give some hint of thought and effort.
With Downing Street increasingly anxious about levels of support for leaving the EU, particularly among Labour voters, the prime minister says people need to focus on the "cold reality" of what Brexit would mean to their everyday lives and what they value most.
They said Mr. Obama, who held a similar session last week with Senate Democrats, sought to reassure lawmakers anxious about the level of spending and rising deficit projections.
Indeed, polls suggest that many voters are anxious about high levels of immigration, and the pressure that incomers bring to congested cities and overstretched services.
Late on Friday, it emerged that he was once turned away from a firearms academy by an instructor who recalled finding him "weird" and "a little bit too anxious" for high-level weapons training.
Our findings here are consistent with prior suggestions that, in order to maintain performance levels, anxious participants compensate for impoverished attentional control by reducing speed (Eysenck and Calvo 1992).
Uptake receptor growth causes a chemical imbalance in the brain which make the user feel depressed and anxious when nicotine levels are low.
We don't allow ourselves not to have another panic attack when we apply such a high level of anxious scrutiny to every breath, heartbeat or adrenaline surge.
The level of anxious or amused interest was sustained to such an extent that in 1956 Hamish Hamilton reproduced the article in a short book, entitled Noblesse Oblige.
