Her stock persona (a fretful, flustered, worrisome spinster) made her instantly recognizable and was often imitated in cartoons and other films.
The wear and tear upon their nerves and their muscles, and the loss of sleep make them peevish and fretful.
An occasionally fretful, attractive homebody, known for her cooking.
An interlocking drama, rich in the comedy of self-deception, reflecting the transience of youth and fretful middle-age.
As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality.
But, of course, we all know that much must be conceded to the fretful impatience of reforming zeal which could not be tolerated in the process of normal politics.
Relations between the press and politicians in democracies are, all over the world, always uneasy, suspicious and fretful.
There is a real danger that impatient and fretful men, swept off their feet by indignation and enthusiasm, may destroy more than they build.
