The delegates got so restive as he droned on — the phrase commentators used — that they actually cheered at the words "in closing".
This is why, Mr. Scheiber suggests, the recovery has been so slow, why unemployment remains high, why the American public has been so restive and pessimistic.
Should the violence spread to Syria's Kurdish-dominated north, thousands might cross the border into Turkey, already home to 14m or so restive Kurds.
You can't always tell where archive footage of the urban turmoil ends and the scripted semi-fictions begin, so restive and so probing is the camera.
See Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 13: "Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive in the Midst of Their Well-Being".
While the productivity payoff for keeping doctors happy might seem obvious, the flip side is less so: Restive or disgruntled docs can cost a chain dearly.
"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".
This grim anniversary falls in Halloween week, when spirits of the departed seem so notoriously restive, and those searching for the insistent phantoms of Penn Station can find them deep in the bustling, claustrophobic warren that has been carved out of the old terminal's subterranean remains.
Judging by the restive sighs that crowned the screening I went to, not everyone is fooled.
The government tour did not stop in Baba Amer or Khalidiya, two restive neighborhoods that have been plagued by violence.
