— casting nervous glances at her Saint-Moritz gold watch while maintaining her composure toward her children, the cook, the cleaning woman, the gardener, and the German nanny Annaliese.
During a three-song medley of the "Sesame Street" song "Bein' Green"; "Hooray for Tom, Bruce Hornsbyy's child's-eye view of losing a spelling bee; and Maury Yeston's "New Words," Mr. Mitchell became a child singing in a shy, halting voice and casting nervous sidelong glances, before turning into a parent explaining the names of things.
Yet she had taken some comfort in discovering that most of the cast felt nervous too.
The Icelandic chanteuse replied in kind and accused him of reducing his cast to nervous wrecks.
Things do not look so rosy for them at the moment, ranked 14th in the world, but it is Saturday's opponents, France, who have more reason to cast a nervous glance at the world rankings.
Shunted mercilessly between past echoes and present worries, audience members are cast as nervous would-be borrowers in a traditional bank, as successful investors (toasted with glasses of perfectly chilled champagne), and as MPs in the debating chamber weakly trying to regulate the mess.
"It's very tasty," he said, but added, casting a nervous glance at Zucco across the bar and lowering his voice, "It's kind of small".
Casting a nervous glance around the class on arrival I clock both willowy youngsters and white-haired pensioners, wearing anything from ballet pumps to socks and tracky bottoms.
The Republicans who control the Legislature moved ahead today with their plan to appoint a slate of electors, all the while casting a nervous eye on the nine justices in Washington.
