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"fretful" Definitions
  1. behaving in a way that shows you are unhappy or uncomfortable

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Today, NDAs seem to be preferred only by fretful candidates.
I remember Christina as an infant, that fretful tense-limbed creature.
King was fretful about the delay; sponsors were clamoring for posts.
Fretful businesspeople in Northern Ireland are urging the DUP to change course.
Dreher's dance around the issue of race is a fretful, obsessive one.
Board members, with a stock issue at stake, are no less fretful.
Her Sally offers a study in psychic depletion from her fretful arrival.
I just couldn't get real fretful about the supposed risk of eye-drops.
But as the West became more fretful, west Africans were quietly doing the opposite.
Many will appeal to those who have long been fretful about both globalisation and privatisation.
In which case, you could forgive playgoers for looking a touch fretful as they left.
His friend's bichon frisé-poodle mix, Dipsy, sat on the bench beside him, looking fretful.
The only arguments against such an expansion are baseless "What ifs" and fretful hand wringing.
Such an awakening is quite different from the fretful insomnia that accompanied the dire diagnosis.
Israel is distinctly fretful at the sight of an American ally so swiftly thrown aside.
A fretful boy, Akutagawa, "afraid of the dark, afraid of the light," found refuge in books.
In 1967, he received a fretful call from the mother of a bride in Sheboygan, Wis.
Fretful mechanics were draped over humming engines or spread-eagled beneath the rears of inert racers.
No teacher, Edward's fretful wife, Maureen (Maggie Steed), informs us early on, has been so loved.
Since it just made a big investment in Southeast Asia's Grab, many at Uber remain fretful.
Which is why so many British ministers seem so fretful as they pace the halls of Westminster.
Before trying to support a fretful teenager, tense adults should take steps to calm their own nerves.
Back in 1994, stoners were still caricatures, as evidenced by the fretful lush Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda).
The answer is that hardliners are becoming ever more fretful about the direction the Brexit negotiations are taking.
The fretful union of today, dominated by governments that scrap and bicker and backslide, is not an aberration.
A wide range of industries are blighted by overcapacity and businesses, fretful about the future, are hoarding cash.
Desensitize fretful rodent brains by frequently exposing them to different floor surfaces and new features in their surroundings.
You've heard this speech before, but here it signifies the absurdist vision of a pleasurably fretful show. ♦
Lutfi said he couldn't talk about the questions and answers, but was quick to say Britney looked fretful.
Somebody even lent the girth a fretful name: "peak TV" — the "money can't buy happiness" of screen life.
Consider Banyan too fretful, but more than half that time has gone by with little to show for it.
And while that fretful, critical self is in sleep mode, if I'm lucky, something happens to the unwatched writing.
He's uneasy about import regulations, fretful of cultural appropriation, and well aware of his fumbling grasp of Mexican custom.
It is better to live gasping, in my own fretful inadequacy, than sealed off forever in an airless myth.
But the stifling security also felt like the fretful reaction of a leader unexpectedly confronting skepticism and negative scrutiny.
Stressful communications or fretful thoughts arrive this morning, Capricorn, but ultimately, this will help you make some better decisions.
Literally translated from German, torschlusspanik means "gate-closing panic," a word to summarize that fretful sensation of time running out.
Srivastava, who is fifty, is an impassive man, but he looked a little fretful as he talked about the research.
IN HER role as agony aunt and columnist, Lucy Kellaway lectures fretful Financial Times readers on how to behave at work.
Mrs May is against this idea, as are some in other countries who are fretful about an upsurge of populist MEPs.
Because she is inclined to be fretful, to be hard on herself, and we don't want her to linger over mishaps.
Once seated in his anchorman chair, he is fretful, peevishly checking how much of his shirt cuffs protrude from his jacket.
There would be seven fretful days between the detection of this second lump in the same breast and the scheduled scan.
Mujtaba Rahman of the Eurasia Group, a consultancy, reports that on this the mood around the EU is calm, not fretful.
As a mystery drama, "Our Mother's Brief Affair" never acquires much urgency, despite the fretful, fine-grained ambivalence of all the performances.
Star Wars: Luke gets another "for luck" kiss from Leia, Threepio bids a fretful farewell to Artoo, Luke hears Obi-Wan's ghost.
We have a year and seven fretful months before the Democratic Party's national convention decides its nominee for president in July 2020.
The period leading up to the expansion draft in June should be especially fretful for teams boasting depth along the blue line.
Instead of tragedy or Fyre-style cons and catastrophes, Woodstock became the bright spot in American mythologizing about that fretful, fateful summer.
Listen to Mr. Bliss's delivery of the music's most fretful passage: He manages to convey emotional distress while singing with elegant lyricism.
The mood of the nation is reflected in the writers' room, Mr. Bolton said, and the mood at the moment is fretful.
As moral panics about danger and depravity lost traction, popular tech criticism became nebulous and fretful, concerned with vague themes and forecasts.
These days such thinking holds sway in a commission fretful about the rise of anti-globalisation populists, like Marine Le Pen in France.
In other words, among personality trait holders only fretful neurotics are less likely to find themselves in the C-suite than nice people.
But as she goes through the motions, she also seems increasingly detached from everyone and everything in her life, including her fretful husband.
Why would small business owners be fretful about the Warren and Sanders tax plans when the candidates are only targeting the very wealthy?
To fretful European publishers, Schindler argued that Google was a willing partner, not a competitor, touting its recent mobile publishing platform as an example.
Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden offered a fretful and grim assessment Thursday of a dangerous disconnect between his industry and the public.
She paces in frenzied circles, collapses onto the floor in brooding meditation and folds piece after piece of small paper with fretful, concentrated industry.
As sales of Humira rise by double-digit percentages each year, investors are growing ever more fretful because its main U.S. patent lapses in December.
Raymie, fretful and sensitive, hopes to win the crown, become famous and lure her father, who has run away with a dental hygienist, back home.
On the other hand, there are also elements in Pakistan that are fretful about the infusion of radicalism into the ranks of its powerful military.
Rabbi Kaminezki said he had told his fretful congregation in Dnipro's main synagogue that they should welcome, not reject, a Jew running for the presidency.
Giants 22, Bears 16 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A year ago, Landon Collins would stand at the back of the Giants' secondary looking confused and fretful.
They had a little more than three hours before count, and so they worked with fretful intent to set up and scheme a series of shots.
Fretful viewers may have to watch this through their fingers, although it must be said that, as time crawls by, you start to foresee the unforeseen.
A short 45 years ago, the huddle of fretful fiefdoms now known as the United Arab Emirates were a British military protectorate known as the Trucial States.
Since then he has oscillated between embracing or disputing warnings from health advisers, between communicating sunny confidence or sober concern to fretful Americans weighing the challenge ahead.
He has vehemently denied any link to drug traffickers and has hired a team of lawyers to challenge his placement on the list and assuage fretful sponsors.
AT THE START of this year, a fretful Emmanuel Macron grounded his presidential plane and cleared his diary in order to focus on civil disorder at home.
"We're in serious trouble, Spiggy," a fretful Nixon says, applying a powder puff to his 5 o'clock shadow with one hand and holding lipstick in the other.
And Reginald Mobley almost stole the show as Arnalta, Poppea's fretful nurse, who gloats upon realizing that she will actually become lady in waiting to an empress.
Online forums and reviews for various monitors and trackers are littered with complaints of inaccurate or meaningless readings, with concerned parents sharing stories of fruitless and fretful troubleshooting.
By allowing herself a future, Lorna will see another day, but she will also exist in the eyes of the fretful, faith-bound Carrie as a living ghost.
Ms. Froggatt does a variation on her "Downton" performance — darting intelligence beneath a reserved, fretful manner — and the director, the "Downton" veteran Brian Percival, does handsome, competent work.
For a few years he tormented the city's comedy clubs, in character as a fretful failed comedian named Ralph Handel; naturally, the brothers captured these appearances on film.
Yet a whispering ominousness pervades this story, couched in fretful speculations and evasive references to earlier events, that suggests any one of its central characters might eventually implode.
As sales of Humira rise by double-digit percentages each year, largely through price increases, investors are growing ever more fretful because its main U.S. patent lapses in December.
The occasionally fretful Gane, who resembles Thom Yorke's equally rumpled older brother, and the mostly sanguine Sadier agreed that having a son, Alex, in 1998 didn't derail their workaholism.
I had an impulse to reach toward this fretful kid; I recognized him intimately and yet at a cool remove, like an old flame met halfway into another life.
Mr. Dyer, as the surly top thug, and Mr. Freeman, as his fretful second banana, enjoyably elicit the music-hall rhythms of these squabbling criminals, without milking the laughs.
One reason is that, like lots of older rural voters, farmers are Eurosceptic and fretful about sovereignty and immigration (though, ironically, many rely on seasonal migrant workers at harvest time).
Knowing that we'll die makes us neurotic—fearful, fretful, self-conscious—and this is also what makes us human, this is what makes us tell stories, about ourselves among others.
By Wednesday night, Trump had talked to the fretful leaders of Canada and Mexico and stood down on the possibility, deciding against pulling the US from the trade deal altogether.
The Saturday Profile BEIJING — These are quiet but fretful days for He Weifang, who has spent two decades at the forefront of struggles for the rule of law in China.
Mr. Kushner, an observant Jew, spent the Sabbath in fretful seclusion with his wife, Ivanka Trump, at his father-in-law's resort in Bedminster, N.J., unplugged, per religious custom, from electronics.
The president's advisers could be so "overly fretful" about her appearance that her staff felt the need to consult with the West Wing when she decided she wanted bangs in her hair.
" Here are some movies to add to your queue: "Cléo From 5 to 7" (1962), "in which a pop singer spends a fretful two hours awaiting the result of a cancer examination.
The mission of the four charmingly fretful performers onstage, should they choose to accept it, is to create the world — or at least the human consciousness that allows a world to be perceived.
The five pitch-perfect cast members assembled here often suggest how Homer and Marge, or the fretful souls of a Roz Chast illustration, might function if they were translated into flesh and blood.
The future of the Democratic Party, and by extension the country, may well depend on whether the party is finally willing to ditch its fretful posture of peacemaking and give war a chance.
The GOP elite might be worried about how Trump's racist smear looks, and fretful about all the other blow-ups to come, but there is no indication that Republican voters share this concern.
" And in The Bulwark, a publication founded for and by this very audience, Richard North Patterson wrote this week, "Trump has left us weary and fretful, a nation of people ceaselessly on edge.
JANICE GEWIRTZMOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. To the Editor: Your article on Jared Kushner, implying he is a "princeling" and saying he was in "fretful seclusion" this weekend, crosses the line from news to opinion.
Meanwhile, the proceedings also highlighted correspondence from within Alphabet that showed that the company was fretful about losing its lead in the driverless car space as it bled talent and faced new competition.
But, Mr. Harrison added, the budget workaround may not succeed in reassuring fretful Eastern European allies because it leaves the decision on what do about future military spending in Europe for the next administration.
Business groups and Philip Hammond, her chancellor, were growing increasingly fretful over the urgent need to agree a "transitional" deal to avoid a regulatory cliff-edge once Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.
Although Mr Johnson has required all his ministers to sign up to the possibility, several are known to have been fretful about the consequences, including Michael Gove, who is in charge of preparing for it.
The opinions expressed here are his own.) By Harold Evans Dec 26 (Reuters) - We have a year and seven fretful months before the Democratic Party's national convention decides its nominee for president in July 2020.
"Whatever you say, I'll be," he says to appease his fretful mother, leaving the audience to ponder a playwright's first steps, which here make for a kvetch-filled evening that frustrates more than it fascinates.
That plot twist aside, though, the show put bipolar disorder mostly on the back burner in Seasons 5 and 6, keeping Carrie on her meds and painting her as more fretful and anguished than erratic.
"We just want to make happy faces," he said, trying to put on his best in the midst of the upheaval — including the fretful evacuation of his son, a freshman at Rice University in Houston.
Drew and his team appeared to enjoy a complicity with Kennedy that never developed with Humphrey; Kennedy's eye catches the camera with seeming winks of recognition, whereas Humphrey's glances into the lens are fretful and wary.
Trayvon Martin and 12-year-old Tamir Rice are something else altogether, heart-rending combinations of both Tills, père and fils, doomed man-children in the fretful, trigger-happy imagination of American vigilantes and law enforcement.
Its far from certain what will emerge from Chair Jerome Powells framework review initiative, but it is clear that Fed officials are fretful of losing the confidence of consumers and markets in their ability to steer inflation.
It's far from certain what will emerge from Chair Jerome Powell's framework review initiative, but it is clear that Fed officials are fretful of losing the confidence of consumers and markets in their ability to steer inflation.
As worries about a US or even global recession have emerged over the past 12-18 months, Wall Street analysts economic pundits, and fretful economists have been looking for data that might suggest a downturn is coming.
In an encouraging sign for a booming but ever-fretful industry, the Broadway League reports that the average age of the Broadway theatergoer last season was 22.9 — not exactly adolescent, but the lowest it's been since 231.
On Soccer LIVERPOOL, England — In those last, fretful minutes in Rome, when every second felt like an age and the final whistle seemed as though it would never come, Liverpool's fans sang to stave off the nerves.
Until then, fretful politicians had postponed confrontation with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani offshoot of the militant Muslim group that ruled Afghanistan until the American invasion of 2001 and threatens its government to this day.
Credit... On a brisk Saturday morning, one uncommonly cloudless and bright for late autumn on England's moody North Sea coast, the filmmaker Michael Apted paced a sloping headland of mud and stubble with an air of fretful preoccupation.
Read more " _____ • The editorial board of The Columbus Dispatch: "Americans are fretful about the future of health-care costs and coverage, and a sustainable solution won't be found amid the obstructionism of which both political parties are guilty.
"It's a huge problem, and it makes your generation of money managers have way more difficulties and causes a lot of worry and fretfulness, and I think the people who are worried and fretful are absolutely right," he said.
" Another paper put it this way: "An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.
It was fun to watch the fidgety Hansel (the mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught) and fretful Gretel (the soprano Lisette Oropesa) trading nonsensical taunts, dancing together and skipping their chores while their parents are off working, like mischievous siblings everywhere.
This one challenges the reader to find the meaning, or some sense, in its loosely strung episodes, fragmentary encounters with border crossers and agents, clippings from books Cantú has read and the surreal dreams that haunt his fretful nights.
By the end of the section, the bully named Smurf seems less like a real person and more like a spectre: the personification of old racist ideas, come to life in the imagination of a fretful future scholar in Queens.
Larry Sanders's greatest recurring theme was the naked need for approval that so many Hollywood celebrities have, expressed in the way that Larry feels fretful and anxious about nearly every aspect of himself — from his appearance to whether people like him.
Briarcliff Manor, New York (CNN)Donald Trump on Tuesday night sought to calm fretful Republicans bolting from his side over his latest controversy, laying out in measured terms his campaign platform and recasting himself as a "fighter" prepared to take on Hillary Clinton.
The news of the week was earnings-themed, unsurprisingly, including Amazon's big revenue beat and profit miss, Alphabet's slightly fretful growth and losses on its "Other Bets," whatever the hell happened to Twitter during the San Francisco dawn, and Facebook's continued triumphal parade.
They will parse every glint in the fretful yet forthright performance of Lupita Nyong'o, and thrill to the scene in which Zora, needing to mash the life out of her enemy, deploys not a gun or a knife but a golf putter.
Liverpool, ahead by 5-0 at the 80-minute mark, was through; five minutes later, it had conceded twice — through an Edin Dzeko effort and a penalty, conceded by James Milner and converted by Diego Perotti — and Anfield, previously almost delirious, seemed anxious, fretful.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the bull market gets a new lease on life, Wall Street is growing less fretful of a U.S. growth slowdown and betting on shares of companies in sectors that will benefit from the economic up-cycle, such as industrials and financials.
Using a solid doubled cast that includes Nigel Gore, Jesse J. Perez, Linda Powell and Laurie Kennedy (who's marvelous as the fretful nanny in "The Father"), Ms. Arbus makes sure that we can hear — but really hear — what everyone in each play is saying.
As they keep talking, occasionally directly to us (which feels fully earned here), and with increasing frustration at the lack of a receptive audience among their nearest and dearest, these fretful souls begin to acknowledge the extent to which they have set their own traps.
That was never the story anyway, from Jamie Vardy's racial abuse of a Japanese man on the eve of last season to the cynical streak that ran through Ranieri's team in those anxious, fretful games that needed to be endured to claim the title.
Instead, we're told that she was a "sickly, fretful, ugly" baby, and that "by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived"; she bullied and slapped her ayah, her nurse, who disliked and feared her.
If it is well below 100, there will be hope that a few more weeks of debate, and further pressure on Brexit-backing MPs who are fretful that delay could frustrate their goal altogether, may allow Mrs May to get the deal through on a third or fourth attempt.
News that the bill had been pulled before a final vote was greeted initially with a small sigh of relief by U.S. equity investors, who earlier in the week had been fretful that an outright defeat would damage Trump's other priorities, such as tax cuts and infrastructure spending.
In recent days, too — with huzzahs, gun salutes and the lighting of beacons to fete the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II; celebrations in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death; and commemorations of St. George, the patron saint of England — the debate has inspired fretful musings about the nature of Britain's identity.
Even as the first George Bush administration paid some lip service to the specter of climate crisis back in the early 1990s, oil interests had marshaled a complex of PR outlets and dubiously credentialed authorities to push a denialist line on global warming, and to keep the terms of debate in Washington mired in a state of fretful paralysis.
The subjects of her reveries include a dashing guitar-strumming gaucho (Yurel Echezarreta), who runs off with an uptight virgin (Kenita R. Miller, who doubles as Bella's fretful mom), and a sexy Chinese cowboy (Paolo Montalban), who strips down to a gold thong to strut his stuff in a number inspired by a traditional Chinese folk tune.
During her decade-long tenure as the editor of French Vogue — she left in 2011 — she upended convention with a string of firsts: She was the first mainstream fashion editor to dedicate an entire issue to a black model, in 2002, and first to put a black transgender model on the cover, in 2007, over the fretful objections of her publishers.

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