Sentence examples for nervous attention from inspiring English sources

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I live in Brooklyn, much too far from danger to warrant such nervous attention.

The citizens of London, New York, Berlin are paying close and nervous attention.

But what is striking is the nervous attention to college admission -- fed by misinformation -- in schools elsewhere.

From what must have been an overwhelming amount of footage, a few story lines were chosen: the mostly shambolic efforts of protest groups to get themselves near the action, the nervous attention paid to them by the police and the mayor's office, and the work of the frazzled staff members of The Denver Post to cover a major national news event in their hometown.

Mapping this out ahead of time can help refocus your nervous attention and energy to specific and measurable parts of your performance that you have control over.

Michiko Kakutani notes in a review for The New York Times that Kafka's letters have the "earmarks of his fiction: the same nervous attention to minute particulars; the same paranoid awareness of shifting balances of power; the same atmosphere of emotional suffocation combined, surprisingly enough, with moments of boyish ardor and delight".

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Those who reported their main long term health condition as mental and behavioural disorders, dementia, schizophrenia, phobic and anxiety disorders, nervous tension/stress attention deficit disorder/hyperactivity, and other mental and behavioural disorders (ICD codes F00-29, F40-99) were categorised as 'other mental health conditions' for this study.

As a result, she worried about "being caught out in some way or not being right" and became nervous about public attention.

Rockstar banking analyst Richard Bove certainly doesn't get nervous about media attention, and the defamation lawsuit pointed at his head isn't likely to make him sweat either.

Hassan, 26, was born blind, and she was nervous about attracting attention or losing her way.

CNS: Central nervous system; ADHD: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; CBC: Complete blood count; ALT: Alanine aminotranferease; ALKP: Alkaline phosphatase; PT: Prothrombin time; aPTT: Activated partial thromboplastin time; GC-MS: Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; DIC: Disseminated intravascular coagulation; LD50: Median lethal dose.

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