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Infants who showed a combination of frequent, vigorous motor activity combined with frequent fretting and crying were classified as high reactive (22% of the sample).
The stressed fretting and scratching and the iterative jumpiness in motion become less marked without slowing down, be it remarked.
Infants who showed the opposite profile of infrequent motor activity and infrequent fretting and crying were classified as low reactive (40% of the sample).
Aggressive children spent less time attending to the task and more time fretting or throwing tantrums, and they engaged in fewer putative regulatory behaviors than did the control children.
The videotapes of each infant's behaviors were coded reliably for the frequency of motor activity (movement of the limbs and arching of the back), fretting, and crying.
Jealousy can anxiously awaken; away with fretting: we'll joke and laugh.
I hasten to assure him about the point that was worrying him, lest he overload his heart fretting about it.
To do something means to do nothing, and to do nothing means to be fretting because there is nothing to do.
I fear, and fear greatly, the idea of boys and girls sitting and fretting at their desks when they could be out helping others.
Others are fretting about not being able to benefit more from the protective shield provided by the euro.
The objective is also to strengthen the new bourgeoisie, fretting about its sovereignty as people become more and more aware of what they lost along with socialism.
Then there are the families who cannot afford the soaring rents, relying on benefits that do not pay the whole rent; fretting about how they will cope.
Furthermore, he used the injured fingers predominantly for fretting chords rather than single-note solos.
He used the 18:17 ratio for fretting the lute (although some adjustment was necessary for pure octaves).
This allows the broadly defined notions of galling, fretting, sticking, stiction and adhesion to overlap in some instances.
