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free-floating anxiety |
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free-floating anxiety [¦frē ¦flōd·iŋ aŋ′zī·ə·tē] (psychology) Severe, generalized, persistent anxiety not specifically ascribed to a particular object or event and often a precursor of panic. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| While the camera work is intentionally rough and immediate, the multilayered sound track, with its crescendo of offscreen gunfire and explosions, is the cinematography's perfect counterpoint and has a great deal to do with the feeling of free-floating anxiety that the viewer is left with long after the film is over. There seems to be a free-floating anxiety, like the refined anthrax dust that may or may not be in the air. My favorite charts are by Elizabeth Campbell, who mixes free association and free-floating anxiety to map out various choices in love, career, and diet and to detail their consequences, which range from stardom to extreme weight gain. |
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