noun
definition
The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
Examples of impatience in a Sentence
She leaned back, unwilling to let her impatience show.
She stamped her foot with impatience.
The impatience of the king and his wife gave the minister no time to mature his plans.
Impatience prompted me to telephone Ethel Reagan before the allotted hour was up.
The cousins met after an interval of twenty-three years, and Lady Hesketh was to be Cowper's good angel to the end, even though her letters disclose a considerable impatience with Mrs Unwin.
The key demands reflect growing impatience at a lack of change for Black communities.
He'll work with you to get rid of the Others, she said with some impatience.
In the interval Aristobulus provoked him by his display of a certain impatience.
These measures, and the excitement which followed the arrival of the radicals from Zwickau, led Luther to return to Wittenberg in March 1522, where he preached a series of sermons attacking the impatience of the radical party, and setting forth clearly his own views of what the progress of the Reformation should be.
He visited privately many of the leading citizens of the city, statesmen, divines and merchants, and besought them to take the lead in a national movement against slavery; but they all with one consent made excuse, some of them listening to his plea with manifest impatience.
The jealousy of France and the impatience of Queen Christina were the chief causes of the inadequacy of her final recompense.
Fleurys inclination was not to misuse Frances traditional policy by exaggerating it, but to respect his sworn word; he dared not press his opinion, however, and yielded to the fiery impatience of young hot-heads like the two Belle-Isles, and of all those who, infatuated by Frederick II., felt sick of doing nothing at Versailles and were backed up by Louis XV.s bellicose mistresses.
He looked like a corporate chairman ready to give an annual report as he rolled his eyes with impatience at his brother who dominated the conversation with laughter and silly stories.
Rhyn turned to peer at her through silvery eyes, flicking his tail in impatience.
My brother's wife uttered an exclamation of impatience.
A few of our students have shown an impatience to move from simple drills to advanced drills to swimming to swimming fast.
Thus we feel some impatience in Hal's behalf.
But even then he had a passionate impatience to become a powerful magician.
Over lunch one day, he expressed a certain impatience with " victim nationalities " .
I felt ashamed, until I remembered my own impatience as a driver.
And, up to a point, such impatience is understandable.
We waited therefore with the greatest impatience, for the return of Edward in order to impart to him the result of our Deliberations.
It was an answer that characterized equally the revolutionary impatience of the masses and the counter-revolutionary character of the Soviet moderates.
He is also a lawyer who suffers acute impatience with the processes of the law.
The girls ' explosions of impatience with official pomposity may have been a safety valve for his own.
Perhaps the Chancellor is becoming a little slapdash in his impatience to move next door in Downing street.
He attributed to his early discipline in this logic an impatience of vague language which in all likelihood was really fostered in him by his study of the Platonic dialogues and of Bentham, for he always had in himself more 6f Plato's fertile ingenuity in canvassing the meaning of vague terms than the schoolman's rigid consistency in the use of them.
For this criticism he has himself constantly been reproved, and Tennyson (whose impatience of anything like censure was phenomenal) continued to resent it to the end of his life.
In his early writings, for example, more particularly those making up Naturphilosophie, one finds in painful abundance the evidences of hastily acquired knowledge, impatience of the hard labour of minute thought, over-confidence in the force of individual genius, and desire instantaneously to present even in crudest fashion the newest idea that has dawned upon the thinker.
The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience.
He seemed in better spirits than usual and awaited his son with great impatience.
Raevski, twitching forward the black hair on his temples as was his habit, glanced now at Kutuzov and now at the door with a look of impatience.
His zeal for the total and correct application of the Sharia and his impatience with unjust and venal scholars is thus understandable.
If the presenter thinks you are just waffling, it invites impatience and sudden abbreviation of your offering.
Neither you nor your baby will benefit from impatience or frustration.
Care should also be taken to control anger or impatience to prevent re-injury in the future.
These claw clips help to ensure that your hair stays off of your face, which helps to lessen any impatience you may feel during the blow drying process.
You're prone to outbursts brought on by impatience.
Their impatience to look fit and trim outweighs the dangers associated with losing weight drastically and too quickly.
The arrival of the emperor had been awaited in the capital with an impatience which is expressed by Pliny and by Martial.'
The failure of these negotiations, for which he was only in part responsible, led to the universal movement of indignation and impatience, which ended, in France, in the declaration of neutrality (1408), and at Pisa, in the decree of deposition against the two pontiffs (1409).
While sympathizing with the ideas and aims of the "Young Turkey" party, he was anxious to restrain its impatience, but the sultan's obduracy led to a coalition between the grand vizier, the war minister and Midhat Pasha, which deposed him in May 1876, and he was murdered in the following month.
Impatience of Johnson's criticisms and infirmities had been steadily growing with Mrs Thrale since 1774.
But Conrad hoped to attack sooner than he eventually did; his troops were ready in April, but the snow caused a delay which gave rise to much impatience at Austrian headquarters.
A scarcely less important service was rendered to the ministry by his Letter to the October Club, artfully composed to soothe the impatience of Harley's extreme followers.
In the pleasure of doing this, I did not stop to look at my own gifts; but when I was ready for them, my impatience for the real Christmas to begin almost got beyond control.
And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.
He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them.
To her impatience and pining for him were now added the unpleasant recollection of her interview with Princess Mary and the old prince, and a fear and anxiety of which she did not understand the cause.
His keenly logical intellect, and his impatience of authority where it clashed with his own convictions, quite unfitted him for that unquestioning obedience which the Church demanded.