fretfulness

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• Fried potatoes are one of mankind’s greatest inventions, but deep-frying at home can be as fussy and fretful as clipping a frantic cat’s claws.

• Selznick was appropriately fretful from the start about length.

• Calls made by Ishihara for a “new military” are alarming to many Japanese, and the Chinese blogosphere has been fretful about it.

• Like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, the fretful marionettes pondered what life would be like without Sarkozy.

• This strong and capable woman is fretful about what to wear for a dinner freighted with emotion.

• As for the rest of the party, many are growing increasingly fretful over the violence being done to the GOP brand.

• Occasionally he turned his head to watch with keen eyes the fretful movements of a fly hovering above the water.

• Beardsley was watching Arnold's fingers; there was something aimless and fretful as they pushed among the code-sealed tapes.

• “I fear there is an element of the morbid, in all this fretful revolt against the old-established destiny of our sex,” she said.

• Mrs. Tynan's face flushed with sudden irritation and that fretful look came to her eyes which accompanies a lack of comprehension.

• So that night his head was hot, and he was fretful; and in the morning he would not eat, and apparently had a fever.