The terseness of the message lent itself to the sort of anxious speculation that keeps psychotherapists employed.

Although I stood in blackness, through my mind spun bright pinwheels of anxious speculation.

They spent the mornings in anxious speculation.

If you can, increase your focus on the positive aspects of what you need to do, then you'll have less mental space left for anxious speculation.

But that line was significantly smaller than the offer made on Thursday, and the public nature of the announcement helped avert anxious speculation.

Secret Soviet Cities Ten previously unknown cities that made Soviet nuclear weapons now face anxious speculation about their future.

Disney's wooing of theater talent has prompted some anxious speculation that Hollywood might steal away New York's brightest talent.

Predictably, the e-mail messages provoked a wave of anxious speculation throughout the research department, where the wounds from an earlier round of layoffs were still raw.

I pushed aside these anxious speculations, trying to occupy my mind instead with counting the number of coughs from the men around the fire.

What her next move was to be must be a matter of anxious speculation to the bishop, even in his own city.