Sentence examples for frantic way from inspiring English sources

Martinez lives on the Amite River in Denham Springs, and thousands of people in every direction worked in the same frantic way.

Or perhaps one should see desperate sublimation in Hart's choice of profession -- or in the manic, frantic way he pursued it, driving himself harder than his friends or his health or common sense itself would have advised.

Because they always had legal and high-quality spirits, Europeans had little need to mix them -- especially in the frantic way we tried to cover up the foul bathtub gin of the Prohibition era.

As she chopped herbs and sliced asparagus and poured boiling water and added the magic dash of brandy to the mixed soft meat, she kept thinking, but not in a frantic way at all, about never seeing two more people again … All she wanted to do was make them full of her love, her food, but they could not swallow it.

Best of all, the minimalist results in no way bely the frantic way in which they were created.

So this is an opportunity to reflect on how we all do our business in this frenzied era of instant communications – Facebook and Twitter serve to show that some non-journalists behave in just as frantic a way.

True, as they work their frantic, fumbling ways through narratives of their lives, these unlikely, reluctant bedmates sometimes choke and gag on the words that spew and sputter out of them like blood from a freshly opened vein.

He had witnessed a choked, spluttering display from his players – Allardyce blamed it on nerves – and Sunderland had played with none of the adventure that might have been anticipated from a side embroiled in a frantic, three-way battle to stay out of the Championship.

Usually deployed as a centre-back under Zaccheroni, Japan's versatile answer to John O'Shea scored the decisive goal in a frantic five-way title race in 2005 when his equaliser for FC Tokyo demoted Cerezo Osaka from first to fifth in the final minute of the season and allowed their local rivals, Gamba Osaka, to steal glory instead.

(And by the way, "frantic and dispiriting" is pretty high praise for a romantic comedy in these lovelorn times).

Satan's frantic music gave way to more placid tones, and gradually the other dancers seemed to awaken; in a striking series of sculptural tableaux, they travelled slowly upstage, moving from shape to shape, from contortion to release, intertwining their bodies as they stretched toward a distant light, signalling the poets' emergence from Hell.