nerve-jangling

• “For battle-weary hedge-fund managers that survived the crisis an d the nerve-jangling volatility of the past few years, any pickup in deals will come as a relief.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hedge Funds' Long-Awaited Deal Feast

• “For supporters more familiar with administration, talk of ground freeholds and nerve-jangling flirtations with relegation from the Championship, Palace fans will be pleased with the progress their team has made under club hero and managerial novice Dougie Freedman.”

  The Guardian: Manchester United v Crystal Palace

• “But installations can be dazzling, even nerve-jangling affairs, pushing what noise and image can do with kaleidoscopic effects and disorienting soundtracks.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “While the U.S. military has vowed to keep the strait open, doubts about the safety of future oil shipments and worries about a potentially unending, nerve-jangling crisis involving Washington, Tehran, and Tel Aviv have energy experts predicting high oil prices for months to come, meaning further woes for a slowing global economy.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael T. Klare: Danger Waters

• “Seedcamp London – to give this nerve-jangling day its formal title – has become a landmark occasion in the tech scene's calendar.”

  The Guardian: Seedcamp London: the other Dragons' Den

• “California is the third-largest state in the USA, and you could easily spend weeks navigating its blue highways and rural byways, safely distant from the nerve-jangling, always-jammed interstate system.”

  The Huffington Post: PHOTOS: The Prettiest California Road Trips

• “The film's nerve-jangling climax, set at a carnival, is a particular highlight.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Hitchcock, In Sinister Shades Of Gray

• “In 1976, with his career in red-hot mode, Dustin would re-group with his "Midnight Cowboy" director John Schlesinger for a nerve-jangling thriller called "Marathon Man" (1976).”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies

• “Director Nichols builds a gradual sense of dread, culminating in a nerve-jangling conclusion.”

  John Farr: Thoughts on Haiti, And the Spirit of Activism in Film

• “But then the contractions came and the Camerons had to undertake one of those nerve-jangling dashes to the hospital that expectant couples know so well? though not many have a police escort to clear traffic out of the way.”

  The Guardian: Camerons' baby brightens up their summer holiday in Cornwall

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