impatience

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• It’s not like we’re unaware of how absurdly fortunate we are even as we slog through this second pandemic year with weary impatience.

• I regret putting other climbers at risk, and I regret the impatience I felt.

• Maybe it’s the cold and snow blanketing so much more of the country than usual, or maybe it’s our collective impatience with a slow vaccine rollout as we approach the once-unthinkable milestone of a year under varying degrees of lockdown.

• I know that impatience with corporate voice systems is a tiresome, hackneyed gripe.

• This time, the impatience was evident on both sides of the aisle.

• American women expressed their support and impatience when fighting puritanism and conservatism using Femen tactics.

• I called to her, but she slipped away with a tormenting smile at my helpless hands, and I followed her with some impatience.

• I waited and waited, closing my eyes with fear and impatience, but all was silent as the grave.

• Similarly, how little time Shostakovich spent on his work elucidates the fever and impatience of his mind.

• It was characterized by apocalyptic and incendiary rhetoric, anger, impatience, and revolutionary zeal.

• I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.