Sentence examples for apprehensive man from inspiring English sources

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He ultimately offered a "cleaned-up" analogy that likened it to the frustration felt by an anxious, apprehensive man who spends hours working up the courage to talk to a pretty woman and then is only steps away when another man sidles up and slips his arm around her. "It's like that bad feeling in your stomach," Bennett said.

Sports Illustrated said that "he charges up from slightly to the left of centre with a gait that may call to mind a two-legged camel" and that having flung himself over the bar back first "he extends himself like a slightly apprehensive man lying back on a chaise longue that's too short for him".

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The characteristic social class that American society nurtured, said Tocqueville, was composed of "eager and apprehensive men of small property".

The ocean and the clear sky are allowed to be themselves, and so are the three sensibly apprehensive men who move through this gorgeous setting in search of the beast.

By M. E. Adams and James Thurber The New Yorker, September 16 , 1933P. 17 Apprehensive Brooklyn man got into taxi there, and while being driven to destination shouted out of window "I'm being, taken for a ride.

The New Yorker, September 16 , 1933P. 17 Apprehensive Brooklyn man got into taxi there, and while being driven to destination shouted out of window "I'm being, taken for a ride.

The action takes place on a famous train, on its way from Chicago to New York, and when the play begins we are shown Drawing Room A, occupied by an apprehensive little man and his blond companion, who are genially described as "Romeo and Juliet, hacking away at the Mann Act".

Wallinger's is a modest, unassuming Christ, looking tiny and vulnerable on the edge of his eight-metre plinth, in fact a Christ as we are unused to seeing him, neither a baby in his mother's arms nor a torture victim on the cross, but an ordinary, apprehensive young man.

This can make women apprehensive around men even after they transition out of the military".

According to her second husband, Sheldon Harnick, who wrote the lyrics for "Fiddler on the Roof," the death of May's beloved father when she was ten left her to a future of apprehensive relations with men.

Kirsty, also 26, agrees: "If you're going to have a threesome, then it should be about all three of you… I would feel less apprehensive if [the men] were going to enjoy each other as well.'".

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