Much later, when she is "skidding" through the memories of her life while waiting to die in hospital in the 80s, she remembers how her variety of fierce maternal anxiety led her to think, watching her tender child tottering into the world, that she should really get "a spare".
And yet deepening relations between New Delhi and Washington, symbolized by a landmark nuclear accord whose details were made public earlier this month, have stirred such fierce political anxiety here that it now stands as the biggest challenge for the coalition government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
I imagine that the universe is a body, and I have the strength to become as fierce as an anxiety disorder within it.
My separation anxiety was fierce.
If he wore a mood ring it would shatter; he can vacillate in seconds from whopping anxiety and insecurity to fierce determination, thorny to sunny and back again.
A mindbending production, it so boldy touches upon the topics of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and other fierce, yet tricky mood-swinging themes that are often considered taboo to explore -- especially in a tale set to music.
Or will economic anxieties at home and a fierce disapproval over the direction of the country be of higher concern to voters?
The mainstream news media, stoked by his fierce, sometimes inflammatory rhetoric and its own anxieties around race, afforded little more than negative and sensationalistic coverage, much like the Life article featured in Flora's photograph.
Stray moments convey, with few words, the everyday struggles, the triumphs and frustrations, the fierce pride shared by teachers and students, the anxiety that besets parents.
Reading the script, it's the play's fierce contemporaneity that hits: the way it confronts depression and anxiety, the terrors and fears that drive families to the brink.
