On screen the rest of the group nodded earnestly at Gazzer while clearly itching for the moment when they could take the floor themselves.
He has his cuffs out, and is clearly itching to snap them on George Potter's wrists.
They were clearly itching to be pall-bearers, all except for the worm-eater, who was still sitting on the lip of the grave, his feet dangling into the hole.
The Americans, clearly itching for some serious hockey business and Sunday's Olympic opener against Italy in Meribel, came looking for a fight in the remote Alpine town.
"They will try," Verna insisted, trying to be convincing without shouting, which she was clearly itching to do, "but we are prepared to prevent such a thing."
Hammerstone clenched his big fists, clearly itching to batter him insensible.
He left the House in 1995, after 21 years but was clearly itching to return to government and lobbied hard, but quietly, for the job.
His men joined him, clearly itching for a fight.
"We're not asking anyone to do what we won't do ourselves," trilled Susannah, her wayward, milkmaid bosom spilling out of her dress, as she clearly itched to strip.
Soon afterward, a group of perhaps two dozen whites arrived in taxis, clearly itching for a fight.