Sentence examples for best uneasy from inspiring English sources

The factory owner, Mr. Bascombe (William Youmans), offers to give the girls a ride home, but Julie stays behind, knowing that she'll lose her job for a man who is, at best, uneasy with intimacy.

The relationship between ballet and modern dance is at best uneasy.

Although phrases such as "patient and public involvement" suggest a comfortable relationship between private and public participation, currently the rapport between these two elements is, at best, uneasy.

Roosevelt and Donovan could not have been more different, Douglas Waller writes in this entertaining history, and it was, at best, an uneasy alliance.

Out here, the villages and farms I pass manage, at best, an uneasy truce with the tall weeds, gnarled vines and saplings that line their peripheries.

She claimed that "the most precious and inviolate of entities" is, in fact, a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems… we cannot know each other.

The idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equanimity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities — personal relations — is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems.

It is our firm belief that a combination of civil servants opposed to the loan and the failure of Brown and Vadera to openly support the proposal sent signals to the Chinese that the UK government was at best deeply uneasy about supporting Rover.

In suggesting that alcoholism was a chemical condition marked by irresistible craving, he anticipated the transformation of our understanding of addiction from a defect of character into a disease, and recognized the reason that it would remain, at best, an uneasy hybrid of the moral and the medical.

The contemporary observer who best captured the uneasy coexistence of credit and fraud was not an economist but a novelist.

It sounds like a slight, but I mean it with some admiration: Miller at his best was our uneasy literary conscience, the hangover Clifford Odets never had.