hyperawareness

She supposed the hyperawareness was some sort of survival instinct.

He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person.

The state of passive hyperawareness made for a bad case of introspection.

I tried deep breathing but, instead of relaxing, worked myself into a state of wide-eyed hyperawareness.

Was she really a positive, or did her newest, bestest friends have a guilty conscience prompting this new hyperawareness?

The mental effort had lifted him to a hyperawareness - relaxed, yet ready, aware of his entire vascomuscular state and emotional tone.

Now Alberich entered that singular state of hyperawareness that a fight put him into; he saw everything, but was affected emotionally by nothing.

Alpert said that she felt a sense of hyperawareness surrounding her and she felt happy and fearful at the same time.

Terry's rounded nudity didn't bother him, but his hyperawareness of the Warriors' guns was driving Glenda Ruth nuts.

False stories of threats of violence were circulated, and the combination of her writing and authorities' natural hyperawareness following Columbine led to her being suspended.

Jack, still in that state of hyperawareness that he now recognizes as a kind of Territorial residue, knows the essential truth of the man at a single look.

Mr. Rouaud's narration is an exercise in hyperawareness; it is a vision of a world magnified in the dewdrops of an extreme sensibility.

When combined with their analytical abilities, this "hyperawareness" makes the Bene Gesserit capable of divining secrets and arriving at conclusions that are invisible to everyone else.

Atticus slung the backpack over his shoulder, and they beat a hasty retreat then, the drugs weighing heavy on Atticus's back because of his hyperawareness of it.

As the boat carries us to the dive zone, I am in a state of catatonic hyperawareness, fully aware of my surroundings, but incapable of physical action other than following orders.

The latter novel also reveals that Susan possesses a sort of hyperawareness of the world around her, in that she is "aware of every step of the rocks beneath [her] feet and the stars overhead."

But following a somewhat dour, therapeutic spell of semantic hyperawareness, a chatty confusion seems to have again settled on the art world, making possible an easygoing show like Western Artists-African Art, now at the Museum for African Art in SoHo.

It took an uncomfortable attentiveness, a hyperawareness that was tiring, and she knew she'd have to go through it all again--and again--seeking the bits of information that would stop her, make her think, cause that little click of apprehension in her mind.

Overwhelmed by the foreignness of the Ivory Coast, awed by the beauty of the performers he found there, exhausted by a hyperawareness of being black, resistant to change but desperately desiring it, he was ready in March to begin what he called the "breakdown" process.