(n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the day of the procedure, the patient arrives at 7 a.m., is shaved, prepared and operated on by a senior surgeon before impatient operations begin.
(2) The results of this study suggest that TABP and its components are not positively associated with physiological risk factors for CVD; and the impatience-aggression component of TABP is associated with lower levels of atherogenic lipids.
(3) By the beginning of the 1960s the American press began to see Salinger's refusal to engage with the public as a provocation, while critics became increasingly impatient with the spiritual worries of the Glass family.
(4) The Irritation and Impatience dimension was consistently related to task-induced changes in heart rate, both in regression analyses and in extreme group analyses of variance.
(5) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
(6) Immunity does not or only to a low extent influence impatient infections or the migration of reactivated somatic larvae.
(7) These results are consistent with reports that tobacco withdrawal increases difficulty concentrating and impatience but does not increase fatigue.
(8) The equally impatient Conservative MP Stephen Barclay waded in.
(9) Findings regarding the construct validity of Type A behaviour revealed its basic component to be impatience characterized by aggression, a chronic sense of time urgency and competitiveness.
(10) Dozens of fighters deployed at checkpoints outside the town appear impatient to move in.
(11) More than 15 million Egyptians have signed a petition calling for the president's downfall, furious at Morsi's unilateralism and impatient at plummeting living standards.
(12) Among the different components of Type A behaviour, Factor S (measuring speed and impatience) was found to be significantly higher in the study group.
(13) Everything else will be a band aid fix, not a long-term solution... Everything else will be the prisoner of impatience and that has brought us to this unacceptable and unstable status quo,” said Kerry.
(14) Indirect corroboration of the impact of environmental crisis is idicated by the prevalence of requests for this help in impatient cases of abuse (38 per cent) and ingestions (38 per cent) vs. controls (14 per cent).
(15) We present five case reports reviewing various current therapeutic options, including newer pharmacologic agents, and comment on alternatives to impatient management of pain crises.
(16) You can’t say that,” he says with impatient exasperation, when I suggest the Coalition , with its commanding majority in the lower house and its pretty well-known opposition to carbon pricing, is highly unlikely to ever back an ETS put forward by PUP even if the price is set at zero until certain that Australia’s trading partners have acted.
(17) Type A behaviour pattern, characterised by excessive competitiveness, impatience, hostility and time urgency, has been previously investigated as a risk factor for coronary heart disease.
(18) In contrast, subjects with high Hard-Driving scores, high Speed-Impatience scores, or high overall Type A scores did not evidence higher physiological arousal in response to either the cognitive or the physical exercise tasks.
(19) These normal sleep disturbances, combined with teenagers' natural tendency to stay up late, can make them excessively tired, irritable, impatient and depressed.
(20) Were Cook batting well, England would most likely win this match, his dismissal yesterday even more telling than one caused by a technical deficiency; the shot that caused him to drag on evidenced an impatient and frazzled man, precisely what he is not, but now is.
Please
Definition:
(v. t.) To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
(v. t.) To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.
(v. t.) To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.
(v. i.) To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
(v. i.) To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(2) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
(5) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(6) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
(7) I am pleased with that but disappointed with the result.
(8) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(9) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
(10) And he pleased the audience with an acknowledgement that social work is a tough job and social workers only human.
(11) [The prime minister] is very pleased we’ve been able to secure this arrangement.
(12) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
(13) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
(14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
(15) "This has been a challenging time for the BMJ but I am very pleased the panel has taken the view that we acted appropriately," said BMJ editor in chief, Dr Fiona Godlee.
(16) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
(17) • If you have experiences relating to this story that you would like to share, please email us in confidence at inequality.project@theguardian.com
(18) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
(19) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
(20) "Really, really pleased," said the world silver medallist.