bundle of nerves
Example Sentences
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Mira is broke and a bundle of nerves; she has feral qualities but longs for a rural authenticity she senses she lacks.
From New York Times
Widdrington paid tribute to his partner and said she had made great progress since week one when she was a "bundle of nerves".
From BBC
Gardiner’s supporting cast lays a buoyant foundation for the evening’s entertaining dynamics: Bobby Smith’s Sipos, the shop’s supplicating bundle of nerves; Maria Rizzo’s Ilona, serial dater of all the wrong men; Emmanuel Elliot Key, portraying Arpad, the eager-beaver delivery boy; Jake Loewenthal’s Kodaly, the office roué.
From Washington Post
She can be a foul-mouthed, meanspirited bundle of nerves, but we understand why: Her family is too clueless and self-absorbed to see what she’s dealing with, beginning with her oversharing idiot of a husband, played to perfection by Greg Kinnear.
From New York Times
Kaczynski was his own bundle of nerves as a self-styled David fighting the Goliath of a technology-ruled society.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
