Sentence examples for anxious toward from inspiring English sources

It's a natural human reaction to feel uneasy or anxious toward otherness.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS and Long Island's business community are casting anxious glances toward the empty chair of the director of the Long Island region of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Three of the four had reason to cast anxious looks toward home as they entered the White House: a fresh assassination attempt in one case; reports of coup plotting in a second; and a marauding soldiery in a third.

— That Americans are angry and anxious heading toward the Nov. 2 elections has become a truism, an assumption built into candidate calculations from the lowest local alderman on up.

Without effort or Google, I suddenly brought back to mind Ronald Colman as the fashionable eighteen-nineties British painter Dick Heldar, in Rudyard Kipling's (via Paramount) "The Light That Failed," when he pauses beside his easel and throws an anxious glance toward his skylight, where the flow of useful sunlight has inexplicably dimmed.

While the company is expected to come in with earnings of about 91 cents per share when it reports its second-quarter earnings tomorrow, investors are looking with anxious eyes toward the future.

But both Mr. Hugill and Mr. Carr said they were sympathetic toward anxious parents who want to monitor their children.

Fed members will be anxious to more toward a more normal policy regime as soon as economic conditions seem strong enough to withstand it.

As Monagan was being wheeled into the emergency ward, he held up his hand toward anxious teammates and friends and told them he would be all right.

Seen together, for example, Picasso's "Accordionist" (1911) and Jackson Pollock's "Enchanted Forest" (1947) embody the 20th century's obsession with the body and disintegration, while the spiritual aspirations of modernism -- its anxious, defensive impulse toward wholeness, you might say -- are evoked in poetic arrangements elsewhere.

Am I anxious or desperate toward my relationship partner?