Eksempler på frantic

• Frantic activity, however, does not of itself produce change.

• The hurried judgements suggest a frantic attempt to find some legal base for what is in effect a moral and personal decision.

• The almost frantic rush to grasp every opportunity, especially during the early months of the war, had led to over-investment in some industries.

• Frantic government attempts to call a special court session to suspend the injunctions failed and as a result the auction was postponed indefinitely.

• Any doubts raised by other historians are dismissed by a frantic wave of the hand.

• They had believed that they were in a frantic race to save the western democracies.

• The air of frantic anxiety was so thick you could smell it, even through the haze of cigarette smoke.

• Despite the natures of the sounds - soft unvoiced, ephemeral - there is a kind of frantic urgency throughout.

• The assessment should not trigger off frantic practising, but the ward sister can arrange for the student to have the relevant experience.

• Up to this point the story has been told in limp and lackluster prose, but now the tone becomes frantic and feverish.

• Their soldiers are bored, the tedium relieved only by seconds of frantic danger and usually futile endeavour.

• Clinicians have noted that much of the cognitive distortion of borderline individuals is a function of a frantic fear of abandonment or rejection.

• Imperialism could not be understood any longer as the frantic search for 'third markets'.

• The lady said, "trying to reconcile the different clocks is like this new burden, something else to get frantic about".

• The ships and docks evoke departures and arrivals ; the cemetery suggests bereavements ; the crowd scenes, frantic searches for missing characters.