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.
