Sentence examples for apprehensiveness from inspiring English sources

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apprehensiveness

noun

The state of being apprehensive

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Jews find themselves out of step with most of world opinion, which heightens a widespread sense of apprehensiveness.

The first signs to arise are usually behavioral changes such as general apprehensiveness and nervousness.

While she was at the convent & for many years afterward, the sight of a nun would fill her with apprehensiveness & dislike.

Their results do not provide much support for idea that apprehensiveness about regulation and taxation is holding back the recovery.

Robert J. Yanal argues that repeaters mis-describe their own emotions; they might feel apprehension or fear in relation to a foreknown event, but they mistakenly report it as suspense: "apprehensiveness is not suspense, though the two often occur together" ("The Paradox of Suspense," British Journal of Aesthetics, 1996).

The young cop's conflicted emotions generate an unusual sort of suspense, a heightened apprehensiveness.

The vigilant apprehensiveness that was an uncomfortable part of Hawthorne's private character, given a comic edge by the scriptwriters Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynne, made him ideal casting for Sir Humphrey, who was often battered to a temporary standstill by Paul Eddington's personable but floundering Hacker.

Joyce, according to Fairfax Media, has played down the move, saying that while there may be "apprehensiveness from some... we're not asking people to move to Kathmandu or Timbuktu".

Against Portland, in March, once the game started, Curry took a while to get going, and you could feel apprehensiveness building in the crowd.

The show is about apprehensiveness of the unknown".

Their apprehensiveness had two sources: first, the militant groups who are prone to protest Indian rule with explosive devices, and second, the Indian security forces who are prone to treat the masses as if they were the militants.

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