Anxiety is entirely absent, and in its place there's a cheerful ease with being a semi-reconstructed, wanking, cowardly, affectionate, middle-aged male that, more often than not, is fun to submit to.
Many of his photographs do indeed show a city at cheerful ease (as, for example, this widely discussed image of three stylish women enjoying a sunny day in the park).
VATICAN CITY — From the cheerful ease with which the newly minted president of the Vatican Bank fielded questions on a recent morning, it could be easy to forget how the bank has long been a mystery wrapped in an enigma, tangled up in some of the most opaque scandals in Italy.
They are young and cheerful, at ease in each other's company.
"It has to be genocide, rape, genital mutilation, really cheerful subjects, things to ease you into sleep," he says, sardonically.
Next, they ease into cheerful, energetic traditional songs, with their harmony-singing backed by traditional instruments such as the xianzi and qinqin lutes, along with bass, guitar and drums.
In thick eyeglasses (which she has been wearing since she suffered a concussion and blood clot) and bundled up in a trademark jacket, she spoke standing at the top of a stairway, leaning on a banister, appearing casual and at ease, by turns cheerful and forceful, upbeat and sentimental.
Ms. Bovell has a breezy, cheerful way that puts teenagers at ease, and she uses it to great effect each weekend as she cruises Westchester's cities -- Peekskill, Yonkers, Ossining, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon -- looking for teenagers to help.
Responses are rated on a 4 point scale (hardly at all to most of the time) and include items such as: "I felt tense or wound-up;" "I enjoyed the things I use to;" "I had worrying thoughts go through my mind;" "I felt cheerful;" and "I could sit at ease and relax".
But to really set my mind at ease, I spoke to the game's cheerful, personable director, Hajime Tabata, at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.
Almost as dapper as Mr. Berg is grizzled, Mr. Goldsman is at ease in a sport coat and delights in playing the cheerful provocateur.
