Sentence examples for full of anxious from inspiring English sources

Awards ceremonies inhabit a strange universe full of anxious bonhomie and voyeuristic splendour.

Here was a way of speaking that was spare, restrained, distortedly lyrical, full of anxious repetitions and hesitant tics, and almost overwhelming in its cumulative force.

It was a queer, blank day, full of anxious watching of the pie and beans and of waiting for the evening.

"I frequently get told I'm a nature poet living in a rural idyll, but just like the city, the country is full of anxious, savage people," she tells the audience.

Today, on the other hand, such a claim would sound not only ostentatious but redundant: CanLit, as we often call it, having flailed in the nineteen-seventies through an adolescent phase full of anxious self-definition, is now generally thought to include any work by a Canadian citizen.

Why does it always seem like comics are full of anxious wimps who can't deal with bad reviews?

The symphonies are full of such anxious, often abrupt juxtapositions.

Dwan focuses on five of the original pieces that explore a no man's land between life and death, between being and non-being and that are full of an anxious indeterminacy.

2. 12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet's classic film from Reginald Rose's script boasts an amazing star turn by Henry Fonda as the voice of reason in a sequestered jury room full of men anxious to wrap things up and go home, even if it means sending a teenage boy, accusing of stabbing his father to death, to the electric chair.

Their side, although huge, was packed full of young men anxious at the heritage they had inherited with their recently awarded Springbok jerseys.

Dmitri Podushkin had been anxious, full of trepidation, since the Ukrainian troops left.