We exchanged blank looks for an unconscionable time, while others in the queue grew restive, until I recalled that in the course of my talk I'd referred to myself as couple-centric, a writer concerned above all for the conditions, social or psychological, that make love able to flourish or not.
"It was not until years later, with the political critics poised, invective flowing and the national audience restive, that I fully understood all the emotions that had been so familiar to them".
People say Nigerian teenagers are restive, but I am productive.
Having said that, I have no doubt that in Ukraine Russia's goal is the same as in Georgia.It is not limited to the restive regions, and I am fully convinced that Putin is as eager to take over Kiev in 2014 as he was to take Tbilisi in 2008.
It is a shining vision, and, had I been a restive eighteen-year-old, watching that speech, I would have bathed in the glow of its abstractions.
When she explains that under the rules of quantum physics, "a virtual particle can steal the energy of a real particle and become real," Max Merriwell, thinking of the restive Weldon Merrimax, says, "I don't like the sound of that".
She enveloped me in her arms, calming me as if I was a restive animal.
But as time went by, I gradually became restive - restive to write something beyond press kits again.
Before Senegal, some restive, fickle part of me thought I was done finding myself -- that I could carry no more, and that my pack was already full.
