Sentence examples for drawn nervous from inspiring English sources

Towards the end of the book, buckling under the burdens of responsibility, the teenaged hero suffers one of the most convincingly drawn nervous breakdowns in English literature.

The best of America was the best of the world … France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered.

And for a moment or two, watching poor Reddie innocently swimming in his low-rent bowl, I did think I could see an evil gleam in his small fishy eye, a startling resemblance to Anthony Perkins in his drawn, nervous excitability and long-simmering rage.

Then sexual innuendo draws nervous chuckles.

He's worthless!" — draws nervous giggles.

Movie theaters near the roadway are promising free popcorn to draw nervous patrons through the door.

That helpfully glossed over the bloody episodes of the Anglo-Afghan wars, and drew nervous titters from the crowd.

Harvey's comment drew nervous laughter from other Burning Man staff and members of international media at a press conference before the Guardian's interview.

His line drew nervous laughs, and Kashua quickly reassured the crowd: "It's my fervent hope . . . the boys will be back home, safe and sound".

Mrs. Clinton also spoke at Liberia's national legislature, telling lawmakers, "I know some of you in this chamber bore arms against each other," which drew nervous laughter.

"She insisted she is going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt," he said, drawing nervous laughter from the otherwise hushed crowd.