squirm

In the first episode, Carr was panicked, sweating and generally squirming over being a traitor.

Elsewhere, the audio drops out completely, replaced by the noise of a ticking clock that lingers just long enough to make the viewer squirm in their seat.

Though the reaction from delegates was largely muted, some were visibly squirming in their seats as the US president addressed the UN for the first time since he began his second term.

He knows that we know where this is going — the title gives the game away — so his job is to goose the inevitable in ways that make us squirm and gasp.

Footage showed the horizontal equine squirming and struggling as a firefighter and a veterinarian assisted him.