Something as simple as a smile can display friendliness in one culture, embarrassment in another, impatience in a third.
My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.
Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818 Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of.
She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the moment that the prince fell a victim to his impatience, and her heart sank when the first pearl remained fixed in its place.
They waited some time, expecting that every moment he might be seen returning in the distance, but at length the Indian grew frightened, and prostrating himself before the throne, he said to the king, "Sire, your Highness must have noticed that the prince, in his impatience, did not allow me to tell him what it was necessary to do in order to return to the place from which he started.
I am burning with impatience to test its charms.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818 Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of.
Lack of eye contact, distraction, or fidgeting are often signs of restlessness or impatience.
She never rested day or night, and she goaded her husband until in his impatience he revealed that all was owing to a wonderful golden fish which he had caught, and to which in return he had given its liberty.
When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait any longer.
At last the mother was once so overcome with anger and impatience, that she beat her, on which the girl began to weep loudly.
Several times I got stuck behind a slow－moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I was clinching my fists with impatience.
