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Some of them are still crowned with an ancient watchtower, from which lookouts anxiously scanned the sea for pirate ships and signaled warnings to the next point along the chain.
They try to act as if they're right but suggest by their behavior that they might well be wrong--akin to a person who turns one way at an intersection and then keeps glancing anxiously at the rearview mirror.
Democrats may even go on the offensive-Democratic campaigns are waiting anxiously on poll results for a Washington State candidate whose commercial attacks his opponent's participation in the impeachment proceedings.
With the exception of Bullmore's ghastly Rezia (her accent is pathetic), the rest of the actors are treasurable: Michael Kitchen as old Peter Walsh, who melds so perfectly with Alan Cox, the young Walsh, that I wondered if Gorris had got hold of a time machine and used the same actor twice; Selina Cadell's rough-hewed missionary Miss Kilman; Sarah Badel's stout and effulgent Lady Rosseter (the aged Sally Seton); Oliver Ford Davies' lockjawed twit Hugh Whitbread; John Standing's anxiously settled older Dalloway; and the lyrically foolish Lady Bruton of Margaret Tyzack, full of liberal schemes for helping the unemployed by shipping them off to Canada.
("Even as I was pleasuring him I'd see his eyes flicking anxiously over my head towards the door!"