Sentence examples for suspicious mood from inspiring English sources

But the country, mired in Vietnam and descending into Watergate, was in a sour and suspicious mood, and Nixon, despite an overwhelming reëlection victory, was not the man to summon it to starry adventures.

While the three dismissed criticism that they were holding a "summit meeting" the fact that the criticism was voiced at all suggested something of the suspicious mood in Europe months after the union was sharply split by the debate over the American-led war in Iraq.

If the ambient mood is suspicious, doggedly skeptical, then waste no time in giving out your conclusions unless you have extraordinary diplomatic balance wheels.

When I meet Roseanne Barr in LA, she seems to be in a bad mood: sharp, suspicious, and complaining that her coffee isn't hot enough.

The Respect candidate in Bradford West is in characteristically combative mood and suspicious about the presence of this newspaper's representative in the once rock-solid Labour seat which he wrested from his former party's grip in dramatic fashion three years ago with a 36 per cent swing.

The mood in Colombo is suspicious.

She didn't, but her brooding, suspicious father sure knows how to kill a mood.

Those melancholy dirges capture the exact mood of Aleppo in summer: muted, suspicious and two years into a grisly civil war.

Those melancholy dirges capture the exact mood of Aleppo in summer: muted, suspicious, and two years into a grisly civil war.

"The mood on the street is changing," says a Libyan businessman, sounding suspicious of outsiders' motives.

He was suspicious of religious innovation, and his action was consistent with the increasingly orthodox and rigid mood of his last years.