"I don't think I failed," Johnson said, looking genuinely relieved that a race that generated such long and intense anticipation was over.

The prospect had enlivened the whole of the Emperor's banquet with an intense, private anticipation.

The intense anticipation of the Ron Powlus era was being transformed into the loud, rapid construction of a Fighting Irish legend.

Glipkerio wrote of the rats to Movarl, who expressed great delight at the prospective gift and intense anticipation of watching the White Shadows perform.

"All I sense is intense anticipation."

Actually, the audience was in a hurry to be seated and very shortly she felt the air of intense anticipation in the boy.

On September 5, 2007, Kang-in revealed his new hairstyle at a public radio, causing an intense anticipation within the media for the group's second album comeback.

An air of intense anticipation hovered over the Philadelphia Orchestra's concert on Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall - unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.

The intense anticipation of the coming day was heightened by the mysterious presence on the catapult.

To my amazement, the audience scattered around me didn't listen to the orchestra with intense anticipation but just kept on talking as if there were no overture at all.