Sentences with phrase «of unease at»

Here, however, this interest has shifted to a sense of unease at a perhaps too readily assumed contextual reading of artworks.

The exhibition's humour steadily gives way to a feeling of unease at the sheer quantity of existential contrivance surrounding us, the viewer — the creation of ideas and objects given meaning through entirely subjective invention; in an attempt to support meaning and therefore social order.

Also on show, at the San Ignacio Mission House, Mm Yu's In Transit (2015)-- a video showing still lifes of the belongings of Manila's homeless — succeedes in instilling viewers with a lingering feeling of unease at being voyeurs on a poverty tour of sorts.

«There is no denying that there is a sense of unease at the moment, largely because of the homeless situation with street people,» he said.

Not exact matches

In 2016, Chris Hoofnagle, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, expressed unease with the third - party evaluators studying another tech giant in trouble with the FTC — Google.

«There's this lingering unease about the stock because Steve is no longer around,» said Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. «The problems last quarter have raised the issue in investors» minds that Apple no longer has a leader of Steve's stature.»

Just some examples of the financial system in an awkward state of unease: Velocity of money has been muted, pension funds have been impaired by burdensome discount rates, insurance companies haven't been able to write business at reasonable levels and savers have been penalized.

I aim to get at some of the theological underpinnings of that unease in language that may seem unfamiliar or even unwelcome, but it is language that is grounded in important Christian affirmations that seek to understand the child as our equal» one who is a gift and not a product.

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

I have the unease of a person who figured, depending on away form, we could drop points in 2 - 5 home games this year, who knows we lost that first game, and who knows that makes it four of the last five times at home we have dropped points.

We all have worries about different aspects of our lives and experience a sense of restlessness, unease, and nervousness at times about things we can not fully control.

Asked during prime minister's questions whether he shared the concerns of anti-gambling groups, Mr Brown hinted at his own unease.

Dr. Craig Spencer had already spent some time walking around the city and eating in local restaurants, which led to unease among fellow New Yorkers that they were at risk of contracting Ebola.

Since his resignation, Mr Kennedy has largely kept out of the public eye, although he has recently voiced his unease at Nick Clegg's decision to join a Coalition Government with the Tories.

However hitherto I have had some unease at the cast of the next government.

About 45 minutes later, one of the robbers who had jumped into a Taxi to escape, was apprehended by eagle - eyed policemen at Central Area district who noticed his unease at a checkpoint.

But labor contracts for the vast majority of the state's 190,000 employees expire on March 31, giving Mr. Cuomo an opening to seek changes at a time of public unease toward government workers» benefits.

My unease is caused by the knowledge that anyone other than Corbyn would be listened to at the present time because of the months of attrition from within and without the party.

The PM yesterday scrambled to try to quell Brexiteer unease over her fallback option by insisting that Britain will be able to strike its own free trade deals after the transition deal ends at the end of 2020.

In August 2014, Hammond said he was surprised at the sudden resignation of Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, who wrote of «great unease» under his leadership of the Foreign office.

That said, it would take a fairly hard heart not to feel at least a twinge of sadness, tinged with unease, at the thought that the moon, collapsing in on itself, will never be quite full again.

Citing McNutt's long record, including teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as chief executive of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California and, later, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Colwell said, «Marcia has the credentials that will alleviate the unease that will occur among some of the more staid and arch-conservative members.»

He and Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, explore what's really at the root of his unease in his own skin.

Due to my background, which included extensive course work in anatomy and kinesiology, it is very hard for me to let go of the unease I feel at not working arms, side delts and forearms directly, as the latter two are weak spots, especially forearms.

Those in British Columbia seem to experience the strongest case of nickname unease: 12 % wince at the thought of using them, while 50 % would use them only in private.

Maybe it's the inherent claustrophobia of the setting, or our natural unease at the undersea environment.

He can barely hide his anger at Ira & Christine's presence, as well as Ira's apparent wealth (unfortunately this is the beginning and end of the film exploring class tensions between the two couples), making his presence add a slight amount of unease to some scenes.

He illustrates the key themes of the narrative, veering between vindictive unease at how he is expected to react to seismic changes in his life through to a comic nonchalance that makes the name switches, sexual confusion and psychiatry visits seem achingly hip.

In the early going, the camerawork and the score, the latter by the director's siblings, Brooke and Will Blair, play up the unease and even the menace that Ruth feels after the burglary, though already there's room for some moments of off - color humor as well, notably involving a foul - mouthed lady's last words at Ruth's workplace.

There's still a certain level of unease in the basic premise of this story, which uses the abuse of a woman as a means of creating some thrills, but at least the thrills of Revenge aren't cheap.

It is ineffably grimy, each shot marred by a patina of unease and an indescribable ugliness that paints every attempt at comedy as vaguely grotesque.

Often shooting the action with sweeping pans a la «Afterschool» (a film more transparently indebted to the clinical approach of Michael Haneke), he tends to keep shots at the consistent level of heads bobbing along back alleys, hands as they hold onto one another, hips as they thrust together, until the routine is unsettled by bodies falling where they ought not to be, with hands grasping at feet and other indications of unease quietly coming to the forefront.

This is daring and rule - bending filmmaking at a minimalist scale, a personal, contemplative horror movie, stripped of observable fright but full of unease.

Dunkirk forces the audience into the traumatic chaos of war and keeps the unease at near unbearable levels for over 100 minutes.

There's an unease at the core of Iannucci's political comedy that gives it bite and purpose.

But at his news conference, Farhadi expressed sorrow and unease at the plight of his countryman Jafar Panahi, who in films like «The Circle» and «Offside» has been a consistently sharp critic of Iran's social policies.

From the moment we arrive at this luminous mansion, something feels just off enough to put the audience into a sense of unease.

Dario Argento's films all address the varying levels of unease intrinsic in the way we look at the world.

Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya, Jon Bernthal Plot: FBI agent, Kate Macer (Blunt) is recommended to a task force taking on Mexician drug cartels, but the shady command of Matt Graver (Brolin) and Alejandro (Del Toro) puts her at unease.

The film is bookended by acts of physical aggression, but there's a lot of passive aggression at play in the middle, glances and comments elicit more unease than the more traditional horror elements, how did you thread that needle?

Perhaps where the score succeeds most (on album at least) is when Shearmur cranks up the suspense, cleverly using electronics to capture a vague sense of unease while keeping forward motion.

Alongside Joe Eszterhas's $ 3m for the script of Basic Instinct, Black's big paydays, which were at the time unprecedented, caused immense unease among producers in an industry noted for its contemptuous treatment of writers, long accustomed to paying them poorly.

Nothing at home happens with action - packed aplomb (though the director sets up tense red herrings to lure the audience into a sense of unease), and yet the stakes are painfully real.

Writer / director Ruben Östlund's ski - resort comedy of social / psychological unease tries to operate at high altitude in more ways than one, aiming somewhere between early Mike Leigh and middle Michael Haneke.

The lighting is lurid, the corridor horribly dark, and when Jesse arrives at her door and the grungy looking lock sticks, an initial feeling of unease rises to panic.

Many at the meeting expressed unease at the appointment of the former head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Unit, Peter Clarke, as an education commissioner to run a separate investigation for Education Secretary Michael Gove.

The sense of unease among Camden residents and teachers over the recent announcement of a state takeover of the local school system was almost palpable yesterday, at a public forum hosted by NJ Spotlight.

[17] Increasing Japan — United States unease culminated with the Japanese government, at the urging of its US counterpart, imposing a voluntary cartel in May 1981 with a threshold for the export of motor vehicles to the US.

And while a purist among the digirati will argue that the e-world should not be forced to match the analog world, at this stage in the game, the more closely ebook procedures can reflect print book procedures, the more progress is likely to be made in these early days of disruptive unease between your local library and your New York publisher.

«Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors — think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott — who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease... there's a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.»