"He's more like a master of free-floating anxiety.". From Wordnik.com. [Claude Chabrol, critic and filmmaker, dies at 80] Reference
There are also many species of free-floating plants. From Wordnik.com. [Alvarado mangroves] Reference
Not some high-minded, free-floating, pie in the sky ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy Sheehan: My Response to George as He Speaks from His Vacation Away from His Vacation] Reference
Yet his thoughts seemed free-floating, driven by curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Hayden: Bobby and Barack] Reference
When it dissipated, the Moke could be seen free-floating and inert. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
But what I'd uncovered were more free-floating facts and innuendoes. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something In A Sunday]
SELMAN: There seems to be a lot of free-floating anger here, you know?. From Wordnik.com. [GEORGE AND HILLY] Reference
Amidst the joy and anticipation a free-floating anxiety permeates the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Inauguration: Greetings from the Mob] Reference
So it's very free-floating, but the basic concept of dealing with right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dr. Laura Discusses Her New Television Show - September 6, 2000] Reference
My alcohol and drug specialist said something about me having free-floating anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Lewis: Free-Floating Democracy] Reference
There was a free-floating quality to the captain's anger that Arkady found disturbing. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
LuLing often issued what they considered non sequiturs, as free-floating as dust motes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
A fleet of robot tugs clamped mag-beams on the free-floating globes and hauled them off. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
In BioShock , for example, the audio editors are masterful at generating free-floating anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Gore Is Less: Videogames Make Better Horror Than Hollywood] Reference
But he invented everything about divorce and fatherhood out of thin air and free-floating sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer At Work And At Rest] Reference
In other words, it is us, our personalized sense of self -- the free-floating "observer" in the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Mind An Illusion?] Reference
She fills the middle section with a free-floating collage of 1920s references, like a jazz T.S. Eliot. From Wordnik.com. [Ella Fitzgerald: A Trove Of Club Treasures] Reference
Several laboratories have designed synthetic, free-floating CD4 receptors with just that thought in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Aids The Next Ten Years] Reference
He could still sense the free-floating network of magic behind him, but where he stood, the air was empty. From Wordnik.com. [Searching for dragons]
Aerial leaves are similar to terrestrial plant leaves and are found on emergent and free-floating species. From Wordnik.com. [Macrophytes] Reference
There are places, however, where wide, predictable leads form between the landfast ice and the free-floating pack ice. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic Ocean] Reference
Blithely Zima moved into interplanetary space, forging vast free-floating sheets of blue ten thousand kilometres across. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
In other words, a free-floating disappointment pervaded the week, without ever rising to the point of outright annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [133] -- The Silly Season Begins] Reference
"As a free-floating test for First Amendment coverage," he wrote, the government's argument "is startling and dangerous.". From Wordnik.com. [Court Voids Law on Animal Cruelty] Reference
To Craig, anything seems better than an outside world disembodied by cell phones and the free-floating lies they facilitate. From Wordnik.com. [Teen Draws a New Map In Warm, Tragicomic Novel] Reference
Some approach definitions; some are like free-floating haikus; some are, for all their word-by-word limpidness, impenetrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress] Reference
Aquatic macrophytes may be classified as emergent (e.g., cattails), free-floating (e.g. water lilies), or submerged macrophytes. From Wordnik.com. [Aquatic plants] Reference
Michelle Obama was worried about her husband's safety, but was also seized with a kind of free-floating anxiety, recalled Durbin. From Wordnik.com. [How He Did It] Reference
After years of free-floating propaganda, her colleagues in the Senate are astonished to discover she is collaborative and congenial. From Wordnik.com. [THE SAME OLD (NEW) HILLARY] Reference
There also seems to be almost a kind of free-floating anger this year, and candidates naturally will want to make use of that, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Mosque Fires Up Long Island Race] Reference
We're living with "free-floating anxiety" every day, says psychiatrist Louann Brizendine of the University of California, San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [Attack!] Reference
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