Where most interpretations of the song focus on its sense of dreamy longing, this one convincingly sounded a note of anxiety.
A piercing note of anxiety about modern relationships seems to be trying to break through, and it's not easy to balance this elegantly with comedy.
After the man had driven off, Shanahan said, with a note of anxiety, "What house was he pointing to?" Did Shanahan worry about how the locals would react to a New Yorker ringing their doorbell?
Jason Taylor, in his rehearsal footage, brought in a tutu that he said his poker buddies gave him when they heard he was going on the show, but this note of anxiety was introduced only to be scoffed at.
As the movie proceeds, the intensity of her affection for Gerri and Tom's family – she has known them for decades – takes the drama in an increasingly painful direction, and yet the film's note of anxiety remains muffled and subsurface until the drama is blindsided by the explicit, violent anger of a sequence late in the narrative: a funeral in Tom's Lancashire hometown.
Mr. Karam and Mr. Paparelli have captured authentic notes of adolescent anxiety and yearning in briskly drawn scenes set in and around the classroom, the gym and the cafeteria.
As a graduate student, I took note of the anxiety and frustration among many postdocs who were finding it difficult to obtain an independent research position.
We also noted lower symptoms of anxiety among girls whose mothers had higher concentrations of DEHP metabolites.
Thus, Pober and Dykens (1996) noted high levels of anxiety, worry, preoccupation, crying and fearfulness, as well as depressive symptoms, in Williams syndrome individuals, and Dykens (2003), Leyfer et al. (2006) and Meyer-Lindenberg et al. (2006) describe substantially elevated rates of anxiety and phobias.
