When a deadline loomed, Bangs would take speed and lock himself away for long, frantic spells.
She would immerse herself in other lives, other historical periods — "Anya" (1974) was about a Holocaust victim from Poland, and "The Snow Fox" (2004) explored the lives of lovers in medieval Japan — and then, once the information and emotion had been digested, would write in a long frantic dash, her husband recalled.
Gove and his predecessors have long been frantic to seize schools from local control, convinced that councils are incompetent or ideologically unsound.
Nicky, with his sneering smile, scrambles all night long in frantic terror and comic wrath; Mikey suffers savagely from his own conflicting loyalties.
Loud snore; long silence; frantic gasping for breath.
Great occasions do not always produce classic games but England will long remember this frantic thriller.
In the end, after a long hour of frantic talks, Mr. Medina pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter.
Open sections of the field were not gaps to be traversed with long passes or frantic runs forward; rather, they were areas to mount an organized, well-fortified attack with keen passing and combination play.
His working life (long seen as frantic and interruptive) now seems impressively efficient: a very long series of what he called thoughts in solitude, each conceived, clarified, worked up, and rolled through the pecked-at manual typewriter and then posted (by U.S. Mail, that is) to his publishers and correspondents — a Kerouac-style scroll of self-expression, subdivided into several thousand parts.
His working life (long seen as frantic and interruptive) now seems impressively efficient: a very long series of what he called thoughts in solitude, each conceived, clarified, worked up, and rolled through the pecked-at manual typewriter and then posted (by U.S. Mail, that is) to his publishers and correspondents a Kerouac-style scroll of self-expression, subdivided into several thousand parts.
He recalled: "They got a bit more threatening and said: 'I am ordering you to come down to the office.'" He complied and, despite a long night of frantic calls to the prime minister's office and others, was told to leave on the first plane out, at 7.20am today.
