Word: anxiously
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...anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk.' RUPERT MURDOCH, chairman of News Corp., on U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, predicting the Democrat's victory in November...
...made extremely conservative and meticulous decisions to stay true to the original intentions of Michelangelo’s ceilinged masterpieces. The 1994 revision of Fair Harvard, however, completely departed from Gilman’s original meaning. It seemed that the fair alums of Harvard were so anxious to adopt a politically correct alternative to the first verse that they overlooked the artistic integrity of the piece as a whole...
...it’s hard for me to come to terms with that utter lack of agency, especially when it pertains to the people and places I love the most. My fear and shame at my inability to control the changes that confront me only make me anxious at a time when I should be celebrating...
...remembers the meeting a little differently. Blair, he writes in his diaries, said debt relief was like Mount Everest. Bono replied, "When you see Everest, Tony, you don't look at it, you f___ing climb it.") I had breakfast with Blair in his hotel room the next morning, anxious to know how the talks on Kosovo had gone. In hindsight, I'd missed the key point of the weekend; in its Cologne communiqué, the G-8 countries committed themselves to debt relief, proof that a new and powerful alliance had been born...
...died, began his career, and he did a lot of it in recent years - usually playing strong, sardonic, occasionally self-deluded men. A wry worrier, he once said to me that the responsibility for directing big-budget studio pictures had begun to weigh on him, making him tense and anxious; he directed only about a half-dozen films in his last 20 years. He became a much more prolific producer, with the pictures he made through his Mirage company tending to be smaller in scale, more eccentric, more personal than his studio pictures had been and he enjoyed godfathering them...