Scraped raw by her job, sustained by a talent for brutality and a trust in the culture of Mother Russia, she is strung out, impatient to the point of operational sloppiness.
She seemed eager to the point of impatient to get on with it.
"Physical gestures are different, you're not making connections, and you become so annoyed, and impatient, and missing the point.
"Here they come, fellas," Louis Thanksgiving said quietly, and beside him Theodore snorted with disgust and folded his arms across his chest as if he were impatient to prove a point.
Their wimpy trucks don't do well on the steep grades — "This has got five more horsepower than my snowmobile," Mr. Yemm says at one point — and impatient motorists are speeding past them constantly, usually on blind corners with a killer drop-off on one side.
Privately, American officials admit they went along with the scheme to appease impatient congressmen.The sceptics have a point.
But at the same time his accounts were often tedious and circular and without any "point" that an impatient New Yorker could discern.
But Syrians are impatient for real change and point uneasily to signs that having a young president does not guarantee more freedom.
When conversing with such an individual, they can sometimes seem impatient, sometimes even to the point of rudeness.
She quickly established herself this week as a significant force in Supreme Court arguments, asking clipped, pointed and sometimes impatient questions.
