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the solicitude
noun
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety.
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She alone, he said, "could manage me, and spare me the solicitude of managing myself".
"The solicitude of Congress for veterans is of long standing," Justice Alito wrote.
The solicitude of the Democrats for Catholic sensibilities is especially remarkable.
But it is formal, and underneath the solicitude, there are rules.
She's grateful for the solicitude, but determined to maintain the barrier between her and those she calls "these people".
Just as useful was a reputation for treating captives well if they coöperated — thus the solicitude toward Snelgrave.
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"After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets," Prufrock muses elsewhere, much as Walcott writes: After the museums and the sunlit streets, and after the awning with its uniformed porters and the excessive solicitude of the concierge...
Roos, another of Russell's groupies, was once married to a policeman in Corpus Christi: "She floated around the border with the dreamy solicitude of beaten wives".
The churches were soon to feel the burden of imperial solicitude: the "secular arm" (i.e., the government) was placed at the service of a fluctuating orthodoxy, for the emperor was impressionable to arguments of various coteries and became quite lost in theological subtleties.
Kingsley's best scene is when he must lean in to Oliver and murmur into his ear, with the grotesque solicitude of a father-figure, that if the boy does not co-operate with the felonious plans in progress, he will have to frame the boy on a trumped-up capital charge.
Amy endures the condescension of her successful brother and his wife, the undermining solicitude of old friends and her mother's brutal candor with an air of weary melancholy, as if aware that these ordeals belong more to screenwriting convention than to actual life.
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