As an always-on background emotion, anxiety becomes a major energy leech, constantly siphoning off your mental surplus.
All this work was duly airlifted into my production of Iphigenia at Aulis, which played recently at the National Theatre and in which, if you looked closely enough, you might have noticed the constant flutter of the background emotion of anxiety in the chorus, or Achilles's three-metre leap backwards when he is told he is going to get married, or Menelaus's panic attack when Iphigenia arrives.
Finally we explored background emotions, which are feelings operating at a low level, like when you say you're feeling "a bit down" or "under the weather".
Essentially, context can be considered as a formation of many constituents - an individual's geographical location, educational background, emotions, work tasks and situations, etc.
The team also talked with U.S. Marines who were recently in combat to get a feel for the background, emotions, and attitude of Marines in combat.
Rather, the text and the performances also fit snugly into Desplechin's comfort zone a complacently sentimental embrace of his experiences, his background, his emotions, and his actors.
It will consider law from several approaches, including the role of language, the background in emotions and group sentiments, the links to honor and shame, its role in establishing a public realm and forms of group membership, and its links to defining the nature of both the ruler and the philosophical sage.
Factors inducing stress on speakers include workload, background noise, emotions, physical environmental factors (e.g., G-force), and fatigue.
True compassion is most often spontaneous, but more frequently independent as it can exist without any background or support emotion or idea apart from itself and empathy.
To ignore the real ways that our experiences, background, ambitions, and emotions affect us is a recipe for the destructive unconscious behavior -- discrimination, hypocrisy, dishonesty, infidelity -- that so many powerful white men engage in (especially, it seems, politicians).
Every artist, of all nationalities, times, and backgrounds, has put emotion and thought into their art.
