The remark by Mr. Uva was greeted with nervous laughter from the audience members, either because they did not understand what he said — or because they did.
Ken was then quite happy to re-enter Sterling Cooper etc and greet their nervous queries – "You're going to fire us?" – with a magisterial "It's way worse than that.
As with any challenge to authority, this was initially greeted by nervous comments from our peers such as "You're brave!", and while many backed it privately they were not so keen to go public.
When an American banker announces, "If people lose confidence in us there could be a big recession", the line is greeted with appropriately nervous laughter.
Nervous cheers greet the master of ceremonies as she steps out onstage ahead of the evening's comedy show.
But the part that most likely triggered traumatic memories came before all of that, at the very beginning, when the audience was herded onto the stage and greeted by a nervous-seeming man in a sweater vest and tie.
He wasn't nervous when he greeted the family, Beverlie and Morris Marks and their son Andrew, who was 5. "I had a big smile on my face," Mr. Perkins, now 22, recalled recently.
But the matter was still on delegates' minds, and so when the 76 final resolutions were read out on Saturday, it was tough to hear the contents of the 39th because of all the nervous laughter that greeted it.
On August 31 , 1987 a "very nervous" White was greeted by school principal Tony Cook, school system superintendent Bob G. Carnal, and a handful of students who had been educated about AIDS and were unafraid to shake White's hand.
When he greets me, it is with a nervous laugh that punctuates his carefully polished accent.
