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Anxious in sentence

743 examples of Anxious in a sentence

Being a fan of Marlene Dietrich's films, I was very anxious to see this "documentary."
I was anxious to see if Mike was a chip off the old can't-act-his-way-out-of-a-wet-paper-bag block.
If a puppy is kicked by a cruel owner when, in an anxious situation it has an accident on the rug, do you blame the puppy?
Jackson's character is hugely pregnant and not anxious to give birth in a soon-to-be communist country; she gives an impassioned plea in the third act of this film which presages the naturalistic acting styles we've come to know today from Redgrave, Fonda, & Streep.
Having heard the term 'sleeper' when 14, back then - I was anxious to see one.
I haven't seen a movie with Penelope Crus before, so I was anxious to see whether she is a good actress.
I'm both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now.
I am anxious to see if my decisions are correct.
His work there had instructed me as to his genius, so when 'Hospital' appeared on TMC, I was anxious to see it.
Is the husband really trying to drive his already anxious bride insane?
As someone who was staggered at the incredible visuals of "Hero," I was anxious to see this film which was billed as being along the same lines, but better.
Sometimes directors are so anxious to have their films done (and writers think they have the ability to direct their own works)that they settle for less.
The young woman's sudden flip-flop from being anxious about the marriage to being interested (when it seems like it should have been the other way around), and the aunt's sudden realization of the young man's secret don't make sense -- they're not explained at all.
Pavlov rung a bell a couple of instants before the food was delivered to the dog and, after a while, he became anxious and excited and already started salivating from hearing the sound of the bell.
Scary things won't scare you, sad things won't make you sad, romance won't make you feel warm and fuzzy and you will likely be as anxious as I was to see the end arrive.
This was made even worse by the fact that it seemed to go on forever; I was anxious for it to finally end.
And Kyle Chandler was equally convincing as an anxious newcomer to "the family".
I'm always overly anxious when briefly summarizing gialli because I don't want to risk giving away essential plot elements.
Unfortunately, she also had two greedy daughters who were anxious to get their hands on her money.
She's cute but all the the love stuff is restricted to anxious looks & a little bitty kiss at the end.
And that final freeze-frame on the anxious, concerned, loving face of Ustinov as he asks, "Are you all right?" - has anyone ever made the look and sound of devotion so perfectly and nakedly honest?
Being that I am not a fan of Snoop Dogg, as an actor, that made me even more anxious to check out this flick.
Academy Award winners Brenda Fricker (Home Alone: Lost in New York, A Time to Kill), Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show, Red Dawn), and Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Village) amplify the atmosphere of the movie, drawing in an anxious audience.
The most anxious moment of the show must've been when Max was stuck out in the desert with almost no water or food!
Preston Foster, (Don Gallagher),"Guadalcanal Diary",'43, gave a great supporting role as the leader of the Irish rebellion and was anxious to capture the informer of his group.
Sydney Lassick, immortalized since his role as the overly anxious psychiatric patient Charley Cheswick in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" is truly the ideal choice for the role of Ernest Keller.
If she could do what she did with the budget of this film, I'm very anxious to see what she can do with a major picture.
Out-of-work Julia Ross (Nina Foch) finds a dream job at a new employment agency in London, whose sinister representative seems very anxious to ascertain if she has living relatives or a boyfriend.
I was watching this movie and it came to a point where it had dragged on so long that I was anxious for it to be over, so I checked the time and only fifteen minutes had passed since the beginning of the movie.
I was anxious to see how Norwegians lived in the 13th century.
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