Anxiety
Unease about uncertain outcomes; the body and mind braced for what might come.
43 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Anxiety sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Anxietyfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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43 tagged passages
- EW-RC-065From Educated (2018)
That was how it felt the first time the director spoke to me, like he was speaking from another dimension. All he said was, “Go find FDR.” I didn’t move. He tried again. “President Roosevelt. FDR.” “Is that like a JCB?”…
- STAC-RC-5717From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
On the fourth point: those gifts of the Holy Spirit which relate to the moderate use of worldly things, or to abstention from them, such as modesty, continence, or chastity, do appear to correspond to the gift of fear. …
- AHB-RC-2097From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
10 For even while we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is b not to eat, either. 11 Indeed, we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined and inappropriat…
- ANTB-RC-010From The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales (1909)
The emperor of Persia was more enraged this time against the queen than before, and she had felt the effects of his anger if the grand vizier's remonstrances had not prevailed. The third year the queen gave birth to a p…
- DL-RC-146From Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2014)
The company can do whatever it wants.” A week later, on September 2, the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend, Trotsky forwards me an email that Cranium has sent around to everyone in the marketing department. We’re all …
She looked very much like a boy, only she wore a drawstring blouse and bright yellow pants, one of two pairs that she owned in her sparse wardrobe. In two years Sara would be sixteen. Did that mean she might end up marr…
- SSJ-RC-216From Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Marianne got up the next morning at her usual time; to every inquiry replied that she was better, and tried to prove herself so, by engaging in her accustomary employments. But a day spent in sitting shivering over the …
- HGJ-RC-086From Holy Ghost Girl (2012)
He and the evangelistic team speculated on whether the Klan might be driving the problems with law enforcement. Mama said under her breath several times that it sure would be good if they knew what was on that paper he …
- AVM-RC-202From Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin (2017)
Out of desperation, I hit on a trick I that I’ve used many times since to deal with my stage fright. I make believe that I’m someone else going up on stage. I have been, at different times, Tom Wolfe, Hillary Clinton, a…
- DCD-RC-283From The Divine Comedy (1950)
There do I abide with the innocent babes, bitten by the fangs of death, ere they were exempt from human sin. There dwell I with those who clad them not with the three holy virtues, and without offence knew the others an…
- SWLT-RC-237From The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction) (2016)
Eighteen hundred years ago Christ answered this question by saying that the end of the present world, that is, of the pagan structure of the world, would come when the calamities of men should be increased to their fart…
- GC-RC-143From Going Clear (2013)
Taylor had to figure out a way to get a print of the film from Travolta without having to explain why she had failed to pick him up at the airport and then disappeared from his life for months, without a word. A couple …
- TRM-RC-217From The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
In the last chapter, I said that belief in gods and costly religious rituals turned out to be crucial ingredients of success. But let’s put religion aside and look at other kinds of outside-the-mind stuff. Let’s assume …
- HCC-RC-3258From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Gregory XI. foresaw the confusion that was likely to follow at his death, and sought to provide against the catastrophe of a disputed election, and probably also to insure the choice of a French pope, by pronouncing in …
- 2CRO-RC-326From 250 Contemporary Romance Outlines: Complete with prompts, settings, blurbs, conflict, character development and story arc (2024)
- Mason grapples with the fear of his past catching up with him and potentially ruining both his career and his chance at love. He is torn between opening up to Sophia about his past and keeping it hidden to protect wha…
- CSV-RC-022From The Commonitory of St. Vincent of Lérins (1823)
Even in the memory of our forefathers an instance of this kind took place in the upper and lower Pannomia; where Photinus attacked the Church of Sirmium. First he was raised to the priesthood with the good will of all, …
- G2-RC-140From The Girls (2016)
I tried to pull Suzanne aside, hook my arm through hers like the old days, but she just smiled, low burning and unfocused, and shook herself loose, intent on following Russell. —I learned that Russell had been harassing…
- LCY-RC-107From Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop (2023)
Praise be to Gesù Cristo, there were multiple shelves of sex-related items. Okay, Italy! A boxed bullet vibrator, condoms, a cock ring (?), and … gel lubrificante!! Four bottles, all the colors of fruit snacks. I survey…
- HCCP-RC-3905From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
A German translation from the original languages was a work of colossal magnitude if we consider the absence of good grammars, dictionaries, and concordances, the crude state of Greek and Hebrew scholarship, and of the …
- VBV-RC-135From The Vagina Bible (2019)
I personally believe that cosmetic procedures and surgery for a health indication should not be done by the same surgeon at the same time. It’s one thing to plan a hysterectomy for your patient, have her seek out a cosm…