Sentences with phrase «ill at ease»

But the concept of handing over the steering wheel to a computer is making some people ill at ease.

Introverts, often find themselves ill at ease and uncomfortable.

Students were often hyper aware of their age and were ill at ease with their professional standing.

Real propellerheads may be ill at ease with this system, but it's great for the average home user.

However, it isn't a true all rounder, and while it should feel perfectly at home in the boardroom, it might just feel ill at ease in the pub.

There he is, the enigma himself, with cropped platinum hair, piercing stare and pursed - lip smile, in full business attire as he confesses through glints of humor to an audience of academics how ill at ease he feels.

Together they have seen the Bar, previously ill at ease with the concept of law as business, be dragged kicking and (occasionally) screaming into the modern world of legal business.

Rand didn't fit, was remote from students, and was ill at ease and isolated.

Born and raised in the metropolis of Tokyo, Inomata was motived to become an artist due to feeling ill at ease with highly digitalized society and her lack of feeling truly alive as a living creature.

I think abstract paintings are always confrontational in the sense that people have to make sense of them, so while you can see it on just a formal level and appreciate the colors and the shapes and so forth, at the same time you have to think about what they may signify, which always makes the audience ill at ease.

She seems ill at ease with formalism and yet happy at not having found something to dispel its charms.

Sharon Lockhart shoots couples hopelessly raking hay, Amy Cutler sketches a campground all but waiting for a summer movie stalker, and Katy Brannan's photos look equally ill at ease, while videos from Jack Goldstein and Peter Hutton alike depicts patterns of soft light rippling across water.

mario's overalls seem big on the skinny mann; his mario, who had been prepared to live out his days in peace with the princess, is ill at ease with the role that is forced upon him: hero, killer.

El Salvador would probably be the country I felt ill at ease.

I was a shy child then, and I grew into a shy adult, ill at ease with people, lonely but most comfortable alone.

But it's not unusual for a rescued dog to be anxious and ill at ease in his new home — pacing, vocalizing and the like.

Cats fear being trapped and will be ill at ease trying to get to a litter box that could leave them vulnerable to what they perceive as a potential attack from another animal or predator.

There are some obvious and not so obvious reasons for your cat to feel ill at ease.

I felt ill at ease, and left without buying.

The dictionary defines an introverted person as tending to be shy and quiet, or ill at ease in front of a group and fearful of public speaking, In addition to — or perhaps as an explanation — the writer person is often perceived as being self - absorbed and uninterested in other people and events happening in the world around them.

Simic's poems are populated by observers and outsiders - solitary figures who are ill at ease in the world.

Though he was later released, Kahneman's family spent the rest of the war years ill at ease in their surroundings.

But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That's what things look like in our cities at present

The tension about which Andy is ill at ease may not lie in the reform impulse but in striking a balance between the equally important private and public functions served by schools.

Dave Van Ronk, singing in his playful, gravelly baritone about a poor man's 15 - cent dinner, «The little man felt ill at ease, / «Could I have some bread, sir, if you please.»

Stoll: In my visits to schools, I don't find children who are ill at ease behind a computer screen.

In Sheridan Morley's biography of James Mason, practically all of his co-stars described him as a quietly unhappy man, restless, ill at ease, indecisive, a skittish pacifist, and a classic loner.

Making it to the small shop, Minnie's Haberdashery, just before the blizzard sets in, Warren is immediately ill at ease.

Garlin has his moments, though he seems ill at ease with an uncharacteristically large part, while Zahn typically aces his typecast slacker role.

Chris is ill at ease, plagued by a dread that this environment is unique to him: In Connecticut, no one can hear you scream.

ALONG CAME POLLY (Grade: B --RRB-: Risk - averse insurance man Ben Stiller, eternally ill at ease and gritting his teeth in the desperate determination not to let it show, discovers there's something about Polly (Jennifer Aniston as a free - spirited whirlwind) in this amiable if predictable comedy.

Leguizamo fares slightly better, but English director Beeban Kidron appears to have been so distracted in her handling of the actors that even veterans as talented as Blythe Danner and Stockard Channing seem ill at ease.

You are ill at ease when Heck (a Nazi officer and zoologist, played by Daniel Bruhl) touches Antonina, but you know nothing bad is going to happen.

They all appear in a few scenes, look thoroughly ill at ease and embarrassed, and are dispensed with.

Better to be lost in a party where you feel ill at ease than to experience what follows.

Uma Thurman also impresses as Mia, the coke snorting gangster's moll who seems ill at ease with all the violence and whispers that surround her no - nonsense kingpin husband Marsellus Wallace (a brilliant Ving Rhames).

Ronit is an uncomplicated exile from patriarchy, and demonstrably ill at ease among the Orthodox.

That's more of a diabolical slither, occupying the cranium and leaving it ill at ease.

Keaton doesn't play Wayne as a brooding neurotic; he's more of an eccentric, distracted, socially clumsy and ill at ease with his wealth.

I don't know if it was the black eyes of the people watching me or the way everything looked dark and overused in that city, but I was ill at ease, as if Yoga's history has many places of obscurity and uncertainty due to its oral transmission of sacred texts and the secretive nature of its teachings.

Ill at ease, uncomfortable, over - dresses / under - dressed, shabby, fussy.

If not, she would look ill at ease and self conscious.

Chances are your heart rate was elevated, your breath was short or rapid and you were restless or ill at ease.

Next time you're feeling slightly ill at ease, and yet at the same time exhilarated, knowing that you are going for it, going after your dream, moving into that realm of seldom realized effortlessness, consider that being uncomfortable is a sign of expansion, a sign of moving into your highest potential, and lean in.

Speaking to the well - heeled audience at ABNY, de Blasio's sought to strike a difficult tonal balance, between showing compassion for the homeless, and concern for the New Yorkers ill at ease when they see someone camped out on the street.

While Corbyn appeared to be performing well in TV appearances, May seemed ill at ease.

But today I find myself ill at ease, because I've got both emotions to show from last night's defeat, after we had played so well and yet truly «Arsenaled» it up in the last 20 minutes of the game.

But today I find myself ill at ease, because I've got both emotions to show from -LSB-...]

Watching him on stage, I can't tell if it's Petrino the mind that's visibly ill at ease with the large public forum, or maybe that's the regular nature of Petrino the person, whom we know so little about.

They had accepted what had been told them, but had remained ill at ease.