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fretfulness
noun
The quality of being fretful.
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The commissioners' concerns reflect a public fretfulness evident on the many websites and forums that air disputes between neighbours.
Echoing Margaret Thatcher's push in the 1980s for a more innovative, less hidebound culture, the prime minister sought to revive the idea of an "aspiration nation".A truce in the class warSome fretfulness still showed.
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At seventy-four, Atwood is no pussycat or pushover – "infuriatingly dogmatic", one interviewer called her; "famously scary", said another – but she does seem admirably immune to this sort of self-regarding fretfulness.
As young infants, they show high levels of motor activity and fretfulness in response to stimulation.
Nice, though not as devastating, in its mortal fretfulness, as the line that he fired off a few years ago, when he was the solo host.
Both Sander and Mann have the spectral gift of looking at a face and seeing a secret history: the anxieties that lie behind (the pulling of that tooth), and the landscape of fretfulness and waste that may stretch ahead.
There was the quiet undercurrent of emotion, the genuine charm and ingenuousness, and a lack of competitive excitement, a kind of comic-book Zen detachment from the usual overheated art-world fretfulness.
The answer, for Sondheim, is dexterity: the unstinting sophistication of his wordplay and his flirtatious harmonies — forever hinting at the sweeping show tune, only to duck away into discord and off-key fretfulness — is a riposte to his silly plot.
Linklater looked after her, and then at the producers with paternal fretfulness.
Reback is a 48-year-old Tennessean with a lean frame and hair that is starting the shift from pepper to salt, and his demeanor when he is talking about Microsoft--which is pretty much always--is fretfulness punctuated with blind outrage.
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