The phrase "anxious work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe work that causes feelings of anxiety or stress.
Example: "The anxious work of meeting tight deadlines often leaves employees feeling overwhelmed and exhausted."
Alternatives: "stressful work" or "nerve-wracking work".
It was the result of endless, anxious work.
Yes, anxious work, of course, but it's always better than the bought stuff.
Mr. Johnson, tall and fit in a mustard-colored velour hoodie, called it "a fairly anxious work, with a lot of broken bits of mirror".
Smith juxtaposed O'Neill's "Netherland" with McCarthy's "Remainder," describing O'Neill's book as an exemplary, if unusually anxious, work of lyrical realism, and McCarthy's book as "an alternate road down which the novel might, with difficulty, travel forward".
It was anxious work, anyway, night-shift work.
So with hope as well as fear on Mother's Day, I am addressing this open letter to you, my compatriots in the hard, often joyful, often anxious work of mothering.
Another piece, Virgin by EV Crowe, considers what it really means to be connected: the story pits anxious working mum Emily against young digital native Sally, as they are both involved in a project to bring high-speed broadband to a rural community.
"I suppose I can understand getting intimidated or anxious working with greatness but I love it.... it's that thing when acting is not necessarily what's going on between people, you're actually believing what you're doing is real".
__ I frequently find myself feeling irritable, impatient, or anxious at work, especially when work is demanding.
At the beach we're anxious about work, and after long days at work, we read Winton and let someone else dream of our long, lazy beach holidays.
Criminal barristers, especially those newly qualified and anxious for work, and solicitors will be engaged in fighting for less work.
