nervily

1 "He's signalling us," said Hen, waving back; and she nervily added: "Stop, William!"

2 "The Chronicle has won its great fight," so it nervily said, "against classism in Blames College."

3 They’ve nervily reimagined and remixed both the epic and the intimate elements of this classic narrative and successfully given it a determinedly contemporary tone.

4 And the full-on action sequences, staged with stalking tension in settings as diverse as a grain silo and a bathtub, are nervily potent.

5 For Kidman, “Destroyer” is simply the latest in a long career of fascinating, often nervily risk-taking career choices, in which she submerges her lithe grace and porcelain beauty to inhabit the toughest characters and stories.

6 The passengers were restless and nervy after the long flight.

7 “Is it?” de Spain asked as naïvely as if he had never heard of Calabasas, though Jeffries was nervily stating a fact bald and notorious to both.

8 Mansi Parekh's Heli is spry, fleet and has a sweet singing voice, bringing an appealing playfulness to a role that can sometimes seem nervily obsessive.

9 a nervy film director who's not afraid to take risks

10 a nervy performance in the play-offs

11 She threw down her modelling tools with a fretful gesture and then nervily began to destroy her morning's work, patting the clay aimlessly here and there until once more it became a shapeless mass.

12 The German responded immediately though, reeling off four straight games and closing out the match, rather nervily, on her third match point.

13 The centrifugal forces may have changed over the past half-century, but as “Waves” demonstrates so nervily, they still have the power either to force a family closer together or blow it apart.

14 Meanwhile, the men I’ve asked nervily insist that Ansari has been exploited by a woman who expected him to be “a mind reader”.

15 And when they quickly allowed Honduras to pull a goal back, the stage was set for the US to finish the game as nervily as they’d started it.

16 Everyone here is nervily aware of the success immersive groups have had in making theatre in temporary or site-specific spaces.

17 Moore has the shakier course once her third-act secret is revealed, but by that point Theresa’s hard edges have been chipped away enough that the Oscar winner’s shadings have become nervily affecting.

18 He smiles and his eyes flit nervily round the room.

19 A tiny launch, pulling heroically at a huge tow-barge, attempted to pass between; but the boatman shot nervily across her bow, and just as he was clear, unfortunately, caught a crab.

20 Too much coffee makes me nervy.

1 强而有力

magnipotent hefty

2 神经紧张地

neurotically jumpily

3 神经紧张

fiddle-footed white-knuckled neurotically jumpily jumpiness set on edge