Sentence examples for apprehensive state from inspiring English sources

Behrman, the playwright, in a letter to this magazine which was published in the Aug. 3rd issue, seems to protest against a suggestion of mine, made in review of June 29th, that such works of Oscar Wilde's as "The "Birthday of the Infanta" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" may be reflections of Wilde's apprehensive state of mind as a victim of incurable syphilis..."....

One year later, I arrived in New York City in that apprehensive state of mind that might be typical of most green postdocs just starting out.

At a time when many Americans are apprehensive about the state of the economy and uncertain about the nation's long-term prospects, Mr. Obama delivered an upbeat speech that offered a glimpse of a broader overall vision and a practical way forward on the crucial issues of energy and jobs.

In any case, he's terrific at summoning the dazed, apprehensive and hopeful state of an actor who suddenly finds himself in the deep end of his profession.

His aides are apprehensive about Secretary of State Haig's highly visible profile.

The other players were apprehensive about Kyrgios's state of mind, but when he arrived in Melbourne, he was fully committed.

The Tamils, who speak the Dravidian language of India's southern Tamil Nadu state, had been apprehensive before.

You had the sense he had seen too much not to be — that is, he knew that apprehensive was the only prudent state of mind.

The dictionary defines it as "a state of being uneasy, apprehensive or worried about what may happen".

Those events – followed by the 1994 and 2010 Republican landslides – stunned Democrats from Republican-leaning states, making them apprehensive.

Yet Egypt, like Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states, is deeply apprehensive about a "Shia bomb," and in January, 2010, when a nuclear scientist named Massoud Ali Mohammadi was assassinated in Tehran, Egypt's largest-circulation newspaper, Al Ahram, published an article calling Dagan "Israel's superman" and "the brains" behind the killing.