By Betsy Morais August 29, 2013 One of the more pernicious effects of constant communication through technology is the magnified anxiety over a system failure when people manage to talk face-to-face: a limp handshake, a joke that doesn't land, an awkward pause, a collision with a doorway.
Sometimes in a democracy, people so magnify their anxieties they lose all sense of perspective.
These sorts of limitations and frequent pharmacy trips make it that much harder, and they magnify patients' anxiety about running out of insulin and getting seriously ill.
Since my tolerance for alcohol was pretty low, I was drunk, which magnified my anxiety.
As the disease progresses the symptoms magnify to anxiety, confusion, agitation, delirium and hallucinations.
With his tense hunch, herky-jerky gait and nervous watchfulness he's a modern-day everyman who personifies and magnifies the anxiety all around, should you care to look.
One potential danger of including extensive statistical computations in first-year biology courses is that students might focus more on "getting the math right" than on understanding the biological concepts that the statistics are intended to inform, a phenomenon that could be magnified by anxiety about mathematics in general.
Still, there is something unfulfilling about pianists' tendency these days to play Schumann in a way that magnifies his fevered anxieties.
For first-timers — especially those who are unsure about trying these kinds of drugs — sense of doubt during psychedelic use may magnify into extreme anxiety.
Writing at a time when the spread of the disease cast a shadow over the search for sexual bliss that is the perennial prerogative of youth, Mr. Korder captured the magnified sense of anxiety that attached itself to casual encounters.
And that anxiety — magnified by major layoffs in the past year at companies like Hewlett-Packard and General Motors — has a lot to do with why, despite brisk economic growth and low rates of unemployment and inflation, most Americans remain pessimistic about the economy.
