panicky Betydning & definition

Eksempler på panicky

• I do not mean, of course, an acute, panicky reaction, but the opinion the woman still has after having discussed her situation with experienced advisers.

• Renouncing search (giving up) manifests itself in freezing, panicky behavior, helplessness, depression, neurotic anxiety; this is maladaptive, regressive, and decreases body resistance.

• The slightly panicky should relax and take a quiet dose of a couple of chapters at a time and pretty soon all should seem much less awful.

• Mass desertions, tactical and operational problems that led to blunders, panicky retreats, and surprise counter-attacks were more than enough to scuttle the plan.

• Lucy's apotheosis as pure woman, then, marks a kind of panicky backtracking; the novel reinstates woman as "natural," and in so doing fortifies the heterosexual system.

• But does not this decision seem rather a panicky one?

• It would be bad business to do anything panicky and to try to act before the dust had settled.

• It should not be received, of course, in any panicky spirit; still, we regret that even such a statement should have to be made.