This kind of interrogation style would elicit a nervous response from innocent and guilty suspects alike.

His nervous response: "You mean there were two?"

He stared at her for a moment, obviously taken aback by her nervous response to the simple act of a door opening behind her.

As a body," Carwell said, "it's got perfect nervous responses.

He felt a thin sheen of sweat on his palms, a nervous response to the other's threat.

Out in the open, Lon could feel a strange crawling sensation along his spine-a nervous response to danger.

Overexcitability is a measure of an individual's level of nervous response.

The head is a machine for nervous response, eating, seeing, hearing and smelling - in that order.

The black participants showed the opposite pattern, sustaining a nervous response to the white face but not to the black one.

The inconsistent, hesitant, nervous response to the Arab spring by western leaders eloquently expresses it today.