frenetic


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Synonyms for frenetic

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Synonyms for frenetic

marked by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation

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Synonyms for frenetic

excessively agitated

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With no preconceived plans, just bags of rubbish, the often frenetic improvisation gives her work its energy and edge.
And January's frenetic sales pace bodes well for all quality luxury product in Manhattan, pointed out Dennis Brady, managing director of Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc.
As perfectly polished as these acrobatics were, they were a little too frenetic, and it was left to Gavito to bring back the magic.
Many of the earlier, less frenetic drawings, such as Visan 1 and Visan 8 (both 1992), seem to map a subliminally familiar landscape.
The spinning, which in the Dean piece sometimes had the appearance of irregular turns with a discernable one-two beat phrasing, was repeated later in the program in the frenetic whirling in Pascal Rioult's Wien.
The unbearable suspense and frenetic action implied by the title was reflected in the fact that several elements of the work were either out of place or seemed to be missing.
Shooting some of the sweeping movement sequences in the area's shoulder-to-shoulder crowds was tricky, but Salzer wanted lots of people for background, to capture the frenetic pace and mood of Friday afternoon rush hour.
Each departure or arrival of the train will be signaled by the frenetic agitation of a collection of hanging metallic fish.
The sense of suspension is also created by the choreography; by the dancer who kneels and faces away from the audience in the middle of frenetic activity, by the unisons in which momentary synchronicity feels like breaths being held, or the column of dancers who look monumental as they simply stand and wait before starting a sinuous, garlanding pattern around each other.
The product of a frenetic graphomania, these largely undatable pages extend from 1877, the year of the artist's first institutionalization in Paris, where he learned to be a belated if already haunted disciple of the Barbizon School, to his final, isolated decades in Lund, under the protective roof of his mother and sister.
Perhaps that's because his first dances were made in the 1960s, that frenetic dance history moment when ballet was booming--thanks to a flood of Russian emigres--and the great modern choreographers were producing work that would revolutionize choreography for decades to come.
In this survey of eleven works, the variety of materials suggested a frenetic manufacturing.
The company didn't do so; the film sessions were a disappointment bordering on a disaster (flooring was unsprung and editting was frenetic); and the ballet' was an embarrassment--TV jingles definitely did not inspire Balanchine's best efforts.
Ange Leccia says his work falls somewhere "between Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrian," referring to the former's frenetic energy and the latter's ordered precision.
The delayed flights set the tone for a frenetic start to proceedings, with the Premier League left sweating on City's arrival and the club cancelling commercial and media commitments.