Sentence examples for hidden anxiety from inspiring English sources

Trott's pursuit of perfection caught up with him, exhausting his energy and revealing a hidden anxiety.

What Semmelweis had managed to expose was a hidden anxiety within medicine itself, doctors' "horror at the possibility that they had been killing their patients for years".

I wonder whether many who worry about not reading enough find life itself poor by comparison with their books — and that this, more than anything, is the hidden anxiety.

And that tolerance will have a limit, because of the hidden anxiety against which you must protect yourself.

I'm interested in that kind of emptiness, which I feel has a hidden anxiety or an atmosphere of crisis.

These questions bring on a sort of hidden anxiety that my day-to-day life never forces me to confront.

What you might normally consider confidence is nothing but a false bravado used to mask hidden anxieties and fears.

Addiction experts say that true workaholics may be trying to hide anxiety and low self-esteem.

But the bravado could not hide anxiety about the fate of a movement until recently considered by the orthodox right as a possible partner.

No, the real give away was that he tries to hide anxiety in exactly the same way that I do - by conscientiously attempting to lock his frame and spit out responses as fast as humanly possible in the hope that no one will notice.

Whether this is down to Dr. Benenson's biological theory or, as Carl suspects, the legacy of his Dad's generation, humour has long been used to hide anxieties and fears.