US /ˈfræntɪk/
・UK /'fræntɪk/
We have 'imminent', 'swarm' and 'frantic'.
This is from Edinburgh Live: Frantic Edinburgh couple race home from Iceland after travelling despite warnings.
Unlike traditional fighters, Super Smash Bros emphasizes ring-outs over health bars, leading to frantic battles where the stage itself is often your biggest enemy.
emphasizes ringouts over health bars, leading to frantic battles where the stage itself is often your biggest enemy.
At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its course and sprang into its master's lap.
At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its course, and sprang into its master's
[frantic] H-He tried to jump the border, you can't do that,
*frantic Rowena*
*frantic Rowena* mhmhmh, right?
But the river god, confused by his daughter's frantic request, called back, "But I wish to have grandchildren." "No, father, no.
but the river God confused by his daughter's frantic request
Your vision seems too sharp, your thoughts slightly frantic.
Your vision seems too sharp, your thoughts slightly frantic.
We should devote ourselves constantly to trying to shrink the scale of the darkness within us, bringing what was once in shadow closer to the light of interpretation so that we stand a chance of becoming slightly less frantic and rather more joyful, creative, and
We should devote ourselves constantly to trying to shrink the scale of the darkness within us, bringing what was once in shadow closer to the light of interpretation, so that we stand a chance of becoming slightly less frantic and rather more joyful, creative and calm creatures.
A week later, that same court then dismissed Prime Minister Sertar Thaweesin for ethical misconduct in appointing an ineligible cabinet minister, which sparked off frantic and furious backroom negotiations for his successor that culminated in Perthongtan Shinawatra now becoming Thailand's 31st Prime Minister.
A week later, that same court then dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for ethical misconduct in appointing an ineligible cabinet minister, which sparked off frantic and furious backroom negotiations for his successor that culminated in Paetongtarn Shinawatra now becoming Thailand's 31st Prime Minister.
There can be nothing to celebrate in an unheralded, unknown existence. We cannot live quietly and be in bed by nine. We must become someone or else look on with envy and rage at those who have evaded the perils of mediocrity. We used to know almost nothing of what happened beyond our own valley or shoreline. Life went by so slowly that we were often, without appreciating how much this kept us sane, a bit bored. No bloodshed, scandal, upset or peril can occur anywhere on the planet without us hearing of it in minutes and we are as a result in a state of continuous unrest and alarm, unable to set anything negative in context, unsure of how to evaluate our species, terrified to trust or speak to a stranger, constantly feeling that we are leading the wrong lives. We know everything except the less perceptible things that really matter. Our attention is drawn only to our discords, our spitefulness and our cruelty. We have been stripped of opportunities to contemplate older, slower currents, to draw inspiration from dawn, the murmurings of doves or robins or the barks of ancient trees that speak of time measured in centuries. We have been sold the idea that the one solution to our loneliness lies in romantic love. We therefore search with frantic abandon in the lonely, concrete canyons of our modern megalopolises for one very special being who can be everything to us, best friend, sexual partner, playmate, kindergarten teacher, cook, chauffeur and then, when inevitably we cannot find them, we perceive ourselves as having been uniquely cursed. We misunderstand the generality of the problem and miss the solace available in the less febrile and less prestigious realm of friendship. In distributing our needs more equitably among a whole community, none of whose members need to answer to the whole of anyone's longings, we have been rendered exceptionally lonely by the unwittingly cruel notion of a soulmate. We could, back then, stand away from our work and see something substantial and solid that we had made, a chair, some horseshoes, a house. We now occupy ourselves on tasks that have been infinitely subdivided and thereby lost much of their wider logic. We carry professional titles like logistics controller, automation specialist or human resource manager that show us up as minute cogs in endlessly complicated engines.
We may be richer than ever, we struggle to see what difference we could possibly make to anyone else's life. All the while, we lose ourselves in temptations which our evolutionary past leaves us defenceless against. Because we were programmed to eat any sugary thing a rare blackberry or apricot that came our way, we now cannot resist the plethora of satanic confections on offer on every street corner. Because in our old villages we might have seen one or two fertile people a day, we now can't stop looking at ceaseless digital processions of the unclothed. We have no willpower to resist the pitiless delights of the modern world. It's hard to reverse any of the pressures we have been placed under. But even if we cannot, knowing that these exist helps us to locate with greater fairness the origins of many of our troubles. We are not uniquely or personally awful, frantic, greedy or degenerate.