While audiences, often eager to simply lose themselves in something they've seen before and are consequently at ease with, don't mind these qualities, they work against some of "Pearl Harbor's" aims.
"I wanted to feel at ease with myself, do the right thing, express how I felt about Chelsea.
David Crane's 2005 biography paints a stolid figure, far from at ease with himself but doing a decent job in the most demanding of circumstances.
Erm..., I really think some aspects do, I certainly think being at ease with patients, I don't worry about patients, or difficult patients, or... difficult situations - things like that.' R1 109-112.
"While working on this book I thought much more directly about why I was so at ease with people who don't like schedules, who decide what they are going to do while they are doing it, who are in some sense disorganised although are of course highly organised underneath.
Subjects who preferred the verbal scale, said for example: "I feel more at ease with words; I don't really work with numerical assessments myself", and "I can't do much with numbers; words are much more meaningful to me".
They were terrifyingly at ease with themselves but did not know the meaning of casual Friday.
If you are at ease with yourself, you don't feel the need to call other men cucks.
Vieira is the one who appears to have more comfortably carved out a post-playing career, most at ease with what he does now as football development executive at Manchester City, as well as his TV work.
We resorted to weak arguments in our own defence, because our sector is not at ease with itself – we do have some dirty laundry to air: unpaid interns, nepotism, bullying, some poor governance and management.
Poet John Montague, a close friend of his fellow Irishman in Paris in the 1950s and 60s, tells me that Beckett, who was ill at ease with people he didn't know well, would sit in a cafe moving the objects on the table around, "playing a fantasy game of chess", as Montague puts it.
