Type of attack

Usage examples of anxiety.

The experience of hearing other women relive abusive experiences gave this patient acute anxiety attacks.

On a burning evening in May I rode out beyond the city gates along the banks of the Orontes to meet the small group so worn by anxiety, fever, and fatigue: the ailing emperor, Attianus, and the women.

It came from the alcoholism, the anxiety and the fear, and I could never get enough.

When I had allayed his anxiety, he left us on some business of his own, saying that he would return at night-fall.

Under any other circumstances, the latter would have tried to dissipate the increasing sadness of the young girl, who said no more to him after he repulsed her amicable anxiety.

While he was answering with much wit some jokes of the count, I kept looking at him with some anxiety, but he came up to me and embraced me warmly.

We moved then to the question of how her aphonia, which I had wrongly thought at first to be connected to her anxiety about speaking a foreign language3 while temporarily removed from the company of the man she loved.

This undergraduate certainty of success gives rise to anxieties, foremost being the autobiography or apologia pro vita sua the poet someday has to write.

So he and the Armorer, despite their worry, anxiety and anger, tucked into the luncheon in the private room of the stern-wheeler.

Underneath he seethed with anxiety about the mysteries of destiny and Arneis, which seemed to be where they were bound to go.

Robert Gottlieb, for critical judgment and extended endurance of auctorial anxieties on the telephone.

When Auntie, not without anxiety, asked him whether he had delivered his speech and what the reaction had been, Vasily Petrovich could not restrain the proud smile that flashed radiantly beneath his pince-nez.

Perhaps it was the sudden, dramatic change from agonising anxiety to peace and security which had been too much for Ellen--yes, that was what was the matter with her, that and the universal excitement about these Avenger murders, which were shaking the nerves of all London.

The boy squatted in front of his master in the shade of the awning and watched him eat with a tender anxiety.

There was more waiting to banditry than Cathan had thought, and his restlessness grew to anxiety, even with the training at arms his fellows gave him.