Sentence examples for febrile air from inspiring English sources

The cap-and-trade scheme he wanted to adopt to cut greenhouse-gas emissions evaporated in the febrile air of Congress.

While misery is nothing new, there is an atmosphere of chaos and trepidation that gives hope to both extremes of the political spectrum.Other strange happenings in the past few weeks have given politics an unusually febrile air.

The deaths add to the already febrile air surrounding the elections, after veiled threats attributed to the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to postpone the voting, and accusations from different sides of efforts to undermine the transfer to civilian rule.

In the febrile atmosphere of the court, the decision to lead a coalition of Gulf  countries in an air campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels was ultimately Mohammed bin Salman's.

"There is a febrile atmosphere.

In this febrile atmosphere came the referendum.

The irony is it's free speech that suffers in such a thuggish and febrile atmosphere.

As the teams kicked off the stadium was a febrile place, the air inside this low-rise, clattery corrugated arena crackling with lunchtime anxiety.

The forest of cranes and skeletons of half-constructed high-rises signalling Medellín's "revival" lends the city a febrile and unstable air, and there is an understandable wariness about just how robust its newly laundered image as the cultural hub of Colombia really is.

"On the internet nobody knows you're a dog," went the famous New Yorker cartoon – but that was written 20 years ago, the Mesozoic age in internet terms, and not only are hidden canine qualities uncovered frequently on the internet thanks to the general air of febrile hysteria, but the internet brings out the dog in a lot of people.

The atmosphere febrile, penalties seemed certain.