1.   But beneath the yearning for order and respectability, there is palpable anxiety over how the elections will go.

2.   But on Sunday, just under the sunny surface was a palpable anxiety.

3.   For all of the anxiety still palpable, there were indications that audiences were hungry for cultural fare.

4.   Gone are the ubiquitous checkpoints, the white noise of hovering army helicopters, the palpable anxiety, the daily litany of arrests, mayhem and murder.

5.   There is no rush on stores, but there is a palpable anxiety.

6.   In the face of palpable anxiety in Algiers and elsewhere, the authorities said every measure had been taken to ensure that electoral activity was undisturbed.