Josef Gross, the managing director of a huge but undefined state enterprise, grows unsettled when he discovers that, on orders from above, the existing vernacular is being replaced by a synthetic language called Ptydepe, uncontaminated by the ambiguities, imprecisions, and emotional vagaries of ordinary speech.
Mr. Jacobs, a senior editor at Esquire, had grown unsettled by the encroaching sense that his brain was being made progressively duller as a result of editing too many sentences about Botox for men, and that his Ivy League education was being buried under an avalanche of trivia about boy bands or the film oeuvre of Robin Williams.
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"I'd always been unsettled growing up, as I didn't really fit the typical masculine model," he says.
Overall, markets were unsettled by growing talk of an end to quantitative easing and the start of rising interest rates.
A CBI manufacturing report showed stronger than expected growth, but investors were unsettled by growing confusion over the Bank of England's interest rate intentions.
Pierce was given to bursts of pique, followed by remorse, and, as World Vision grew, his personality and operating style unsettled the Christian enterprise.
At twenty-one, the writer in me was like a fly in the room — alive but insignificant, aimless, something that unsettled me whenever I grew aware of it, and which, for the most part, left me alone.
She found herself growing more attracted to him, which unsettled her.
