Foreign journalists have spent days trudging through Hangzhou's eerie and empty backstreets – anxious Communist party security agents trailing their every step – in a luckless quest to find interviewees.
True enough, but those mean mothers nonetheless offer a glimpse into the larger reality that is one of the film's main areas of inquiry, as it was the novel's: the empty, invidious, anxious feelings that accompany material and domestic fulfillment.
It conveys hope and optimism, but it seems empty, lonely and anxious.
She thinks about her empty cupboards, her anxious mother and her hungry son.
Publishers from nearly everywhere, who before today had never heard of van Meegeren, swarmed the normally empty Dutch hall, anxious to buy themselves a Nobel Prize winner.
Thinking of the difficult apology before me, I wasn't anxious, just empty.
1936 Republicans' Donations Down The specter of an empty campaign chest caused anxious Republican officials to take in canvas on their pre-election plans today, following a series of discouraging conferences over the weekend.
We all know of famous people who look right, have all the right things and plenty of approval and are still anxious and empty.
Under the overall heading of loneliness you might have been aware of feeling alone, empty, afraid, abandoned, isolated, anxious, agitated, confused, sad, angry.
Do they exhibit persistent sad, anxious, or empty moods?
