The phrase "about a malaise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a general feeling of discomfort, unease, or dissatisfaction, often in a broader context such as societal or personal issues.
Example: "The article delves into the reasons behind the growing concern about a malaise affecting the younger generation."
Alternatives: "regarding a malaise" or "concerning a malaise."
(He blames the old Washington hand Clark Clifford, then 72, for telling journalists before the speech that Mr. Carter was worried about a "malaise" in the country).
But, even though "Mystic River" is about a malaise overtaking a community, one can see intimations of ordinary life in it.
Some of the fascination that racialized, sexualized violence attracts surely rubbed off on the story — it became clear from photographs and from other outlets that Genovese was white and attractive and that Moseley, a repeat rapist, was black — but the gist of the piece lent itself perfectly to Sunday sermons about a malaise encompassing all of us.
When I saw a training session recently, as I wrote about last week, there was a malaise and a sloppiness about their work that I found shocking.
It also found the IPCC had a "malaise" about racial issues and that its investigation was too soft in challenging police accounts.
"Go into cubeland in a tightly controlled corporate environment and you immediately sense that there is a malaise about being tied behind a computer screen seated all day," he said.
And the whole team were poor in the first 40 minutes, when there was a malaise about their play that they only started to shake off when the substitutes started to come on.
"I know huge efforts are being made and homelessness is falling in Norwich, but I think among the general public there is a malaise about this," Humphrey said.
Droste sings about a "routine malaise" but pledges, "I told you I would stay".
However, a combination of the market overhyping the revenue benefit of the London Olympics and increasing concern about a wider malaise among TV advertisers has led to a fears of a summer slump after June.
Droste sings about a "routine malaise" but pledges, "I told you I would stay". The voices rise higher, as though the song were making itself giddy, and Droste follows his promise with a plea for what Mary J. Blige called "no more drama": "Would you always, maybe sometimes, make it easy?
