Word: nervously
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...wear a tie now,” he told the Globe. “In Los Angeles, ties make people nervous, you wear one and everyone asks, ‘What’s the occasion?’ When I lived in L.A., I only wore ties at funerals...
Dark days are upon us in the world of sports. With new drug busts every month from Belgium to China to Baltimore, large investigations finally coming to a head, and new names leaking out seemingly every week, there are certainly some very sweaty brows forming on some very nervous athletes. The annoying background noise that was performance enhancement drug (PED) use in sports has now become a deafening roar...
...scenes in “The Mineola Twins” are especially guilty of speechifying first and dealing with plot and character development second, and as a result the characters’ emotional shifts are at times confusingly erratic.Steinemann has the actors portray these transformations from casual chatting to nervous breakdown with mixed effects: Hecht does quite well with these extremes, especially as Myrna; as Jim, Havard is much stronger in quieter, more serious or desperate moments than at these points of excitement or panic...
...lady from church has syphilis?" Of course, we couldn't put a bag over Johnny's head, and he wouldn't have wanted that. He seemed happy for everyone to know him. The slow, cheerful deliberateness with which he acknowledged each of his new admirers shone warmly, calming the nervous air of my stressed-out suburbanite waiting room...
...upbeat mentality at the end of its road trip. “It was a lot of fun,” captain Suzie Trimble said. “We were pretty relaxed, and you can tell by our play that that we weren’t tight or nervous.” After taking the first game, 30-23, the Crimson raced away from the Lions with a 6-0 lead at the start of game two. Though the Lions made attempts to close the gap, they remained unable to seize the lead, allowing a 30-18 Harvard victory. Weiss...