The ships and docks evoke departures and arrivals ; the cemetery suggests bereavements ; the crowd scenes, frantic searches for missing characters.
The lady said, "trying to reconcile the different clocks is like this new burden, something else to get frantic about".
Imperialism could not be understood any longer as the frantic search for 'third markets'.
Clinicians have noted that much of the cognitive distortion of borderline individuals is a function of a frantic fear of abandonment or rejection.
Their soldiers are bored, the tedium relieved only by seconds of frantic danger and usually futile endeavour.
Up to this point the story has been told in limp and lackluster prose, but now the tone becomes frantic and feverish.
The assessment should not trigger off frantic practising, but the ward sister can arrange for the student to have the relevant experience.
Despite the natures of the sounds - soft unvoiced, ephemeral - there is a kind of frantic urgency throughout.