Sentence examples for nervously exciting from inspiring English sources

Polanski has a knack for casting women who are nervously exciting (Faye Dunaway in Chinatown is a blinking, twitching mess), and therefore dangerous to desire.

In 1920, Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz wrote that The Times had missed the real story of the Bolshevik Revolution because its writers and editors "were nervously excited by exciting events". That could have been said about The Times and the war in Iraq.

He became nervously excited.

All of this was exciting, for sure, but I nervously watched Schmidt's two cars throughout the race.

Nervously stirring.

RK: Yeah (nervously).

My parents laughed nervously.

Nervously evasive?

"What tradition?" she replied nervously.

"I'm nervously optimistic.

Everyone laughed, nervously.