John Robinson plays the first of a half-dozen students we meet early on and, as the story's inevitable climax draws ever closer, the one we worry over most with intensifying anxiety.
Plagued by what he describes as health problems and an intensifying anxiety about acting before a live audience, the actor, who happens to turn 60 today, lost the courage to perform on a stage.
Now the prospect of Attorney General Martha Coakley of Massachusetts losing on Tuesday in the special election to fill the seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy the longtime champion of a health care overhaul is intensifying anxiety among Democrats who were already worried about the 2010 midterm election environment.
Data from China showed once-booming manufacturing contracted for a third consecutive month, while the euro zone's dominant service sector shrank in September for the first in two years, intensifying anxiety about another global setback.
Associated with intensified anxieties about sin and damnation, these experiences thrived in times of recurrent and inscrutable disaster, such as the Black Death.
Companies reported "intensified" anxiety in the runup to the referendum.
Other children express intensified anxiety nonverbally, said Dr. Ronald Raymond Jr., a Ridgefield clinical psychologist and consultant to several private schools.
This crushing competition has intensified anxiety for those at the top, who over three decades have seen the game shift from one where they competed mostly against one another to one with many new players.
This competition has intensified anxiety and thrown those lower on the economic ladder into a contest that offers them a good deal if they figure out how to navigate the system. 1 Chess 50 Weather 52 Cong.
"Shutting it down will likely lead to more confrontation between the two Koreas, which will further intensify anxiety among South Koreans over national defence, not to mention the economic toll on our companies," Cheong said.
