The BBC is neither pinko nor Tory-leaning: what drives it most is perpetual anxiety.

Long-suffering is too mild a term to describe Tom's wife (Frederica Meister), married to a man with perpetual testicular anxiety.

It is also unfair to workers, retirees and dependents to have to live in a state of perpetual anxiety about retirement income.

The fashion press will cover the perpetual anxiety over the proper shape of buttocks: "Is round finally finished?

Kurt Langsteiner peered cautiously around the door, a thin-faced man with an expression of perpetual anxiety.

But perpetual anxiety and fearfulness are another matter.

Again, Owen Davies was a perpetual anxiety to her.

Plot: Sean Goodman suffers from perpetual anxieties and is constantly having to take pills to calm himself.

Ever since that bloodshed, Bangkok has been in a state of almost perpetual anxiety.

Menolly asked, looking about, her narrow, elegant features reflecting her perpetual anxiety for her mentor.