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- The quality of being frantic.
- 1842, [James Malcolm Rymer], chapter LXVIII, in Phœbe; or, The Miller’s Maid. A Romance of Deep Interest., London: […] E. Lloyd, page 407:
- They clambered over fences, waded through ditches, burst, heedless of briars and nettles, recklessly through hedges, and with all the speed and franticity of despair, they urged themselves towards the village, hoping and thinking that there, at least, they should find shelter from what Lord Bacon would have called “wild justice.”
- 1859 May 24, The Daily Delta[1], volume 1, number 43, New Bern, N.C.:
- The Republicans are reaching out their negro stained hands and welcoming to their embrace everything of the whole country who will swear eternal vengeance upon the Democracy; while their offering are grasped by the Southern American-know-nothing-whigs as eagerly and with the same franticity as drowning men are said to catch at straws.
- 1959, Garson Kanin, Blow Up a Storm, New York, N.Y.: Random House, LCCN 59-7838, pages 156–157:
- What I say is how the hell would she know or anybody know, male or female, about if it's ever love that first time out or just a concentrated distillation of all the atavistic desires and needs and hungers piling up for years and painful and then being released at last all at once—now!—thank God oh Jesus what a sweet miracle thank you dearest oh oh that felt good so comfortable so com fort able and the tension gone and franticity less and why not.
- 1961, The Prairie Schooner, page 198:
- He once said, much to the amusement of a more confirmed baroque artist, Edith Sitwell, “We must be frantically frontal”—frontality being the most inveterately classical disposition of space and franticity being, let us say, a romantic disposition of soul, the combination or hybrid being baroque, very like Michelangelo’s titanic struggle with deep and flat, open and shut, explicitude and adumbration, all over that ceiling.
- 1964, Robert Lee, “From Holy Days to Holidays”, in Religion and Leisure in America: A Study in Four Dimensions, New York, N.Y.; Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, LCCN 64-15758, pages 127–128:
- We might add to Stewart’s description that our holidays are often celebrated with the same kind of active franticity or passive boredom which characterizes a good deal of what we call leisure time.
- 1968, The Cutting Edge: 43rd Annual Report, 1968, Board of Evangelism and Social Service, the United Church of Canada, Toronto, Ont.: the United Church House, page 24:
- 3. How can the “rhythm of acting and reflecting, giving and receiving be infused into free time, so that it is not just active franticity or passive boredom, which Big Business is capitalizing on.”
- 1969 November, Grady Nutt, “When You Need Money or Send a Snap Shot First”, in The Baptist Student, page 34:
- There are at the outset several ways to communicate poorly. The majestic example is that of the fellow who did not want to alarm his folks because he had broken an arm in intramural foot- ball. He wanted to break the news gently: “I should get the cast off my arm Tuesday, and the doctor says. . . .” That is as far as Mom gets before fainting, calling Dad at work, or calling you at the dorm in the heat of franticity.
- 1972 May 24, Jean R. Dane, “Kirchner conducts 15 soloists”, in The Boston Globe, volume 201, number 145, page 20:
- There was in the whole piece a sense of enormous frantic hurry that, yes, in some crazy way held the piece together, but also, no, didn’t give things a chance to be heard. This “franticity” may have been augmented by the fact that everybody seemed afraid he wasn’t going to be heard (15 SOLO instruments, says the title page), and the dynamic instructions went out the window - altogether a very noisy result.
- 1973, The Postal Record, page 62:
- If we come up with a favorable contract, a pay raise of some sort, a curb on the current franticity which is sweeping management into all sorts of weird programs trying to save money; a contract in which the managers are moved from the never-never land of eternal profits back to the realities of the need for sense and service—if our negotiators achieve a good contract, I am sure a dues increase could be voted in without too much trouble.
- 1986 October 26, Marie Sadler, “That Ol’ Rocking Chair Gets Another Rest”, in The Burlington Free Press, 160th year, number 299, page 15A:
- How sad today that with all our technology and franticity we move ahead yet are so backward.
- 1991, Journal of Narrative and Life History, page 62:
- I got a feeling that / I’d never experienced before / a certain franticity / frantic feeling / like I was running right on the edge / and I don’t know on the edge of what / I was never able to / put that into words very well / but I had the feeling that / almost something’s got to give / Now nothing ever gave / that I can see / things just sort of backed off and eased out / But I was running / sort of like wide open / ninety miles an hour / down a dead-end street / as the song goes
- 1999 June 18, The Winnipeg Sun, volume 19, number 168, page 45:
- Avoiding the typical herky-jerk and forced franticity of most modern ska, they let old-school Jamaican bluebeat’s tried-and-true flowing rhythms and supple horns provide a solid foundation for their frat-boy lyrical tomfoolery in songs like Super Orgy Porno Party, Surfin’ In Tofino and Kung Fu Master.
- 2011, Marcello Carlin, “Marcel King: Reach For Love”, in The Blue in the Air, Winchester; Washington: Zero Books, →ISBN, page 9:
- When King’s voice first enters – “Girl when I first met you” – we could almost be listening to a better Bros, but he then develops a seamless union between grace (the floating stream of “so strong” in the line “Our love was so strong”) and franticity (the teeth-extracting agony of “feel” in “Now I feel everything’s going wrong,” echoed by the emergence of a high-pitched string synth).
- 2014, Alex Sumner, Taromancer, →ISBN:
- When the doors opened, Tansie immediately noticed the Brownian-motion of production staff buzzing around the place in a state of middling-to-high franticity.
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