They will glance in your direction, feeling helpless that they can't do anything to ease your pain, except perhaps, get you to drink a cup of water and eat a bite of anything at all.
It was frustrating for her daughters to see this, knowing that in the end it drove up her Medicaid bills without doing anything to ease her suffering.
"We're willing to do anything to ease the F.A.A.'s concerns," said Mike Nolan, a helicopter reporter for KFI-AM and KOST-FM in Los Angeles.
Every few weeks, he would totter into his doctor's office and beg for something, anything, to ease his intractable headaches.
Talking on the cellphone to friends about most anything can ease the stress of having to head down a street that might appear threatening or just mentally taxing.
She was backed by the new Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View, Johnny Mercer, who urged the Chancellor to do "something, anything" to ease the harshest effects of the cuts on the vulnerable.
So, if you are trying to enter the workplace, or even if you have a secure position but happen to be dyslexic, can you or your boss do anything to ease the situation?
The PSOE, which came second in both, had vociferously refused to do anything to ease Rajoy's return as prime minister, until its leader Pedro Sánchez was ousted in an acrimonious uprising that has torn the party apart.
One got the sense that there would be hundreds of such events in the coming years for Hillary Clinton, and one wondered if they would do anything to ease the sense of failure, the anger at all the forces she could not begin to control.
Has the ECB's cheap money fix done anything to ease the fears hanging over the real economy?
