Last month's attack in Paris and recent Islamic State-inspired attacks on foreigners in Bangladesh have heightened unease here over whether the Islamic State can be held off indefinitely.
Rare remarks delivered this week by the secretive, high-ranking Iranian commander coordinating the fight within Iraq against the Islamic State have highlighted Iran's role in the military campaign against the terror group — and heightened unease about the authority being exercised by a person US officials accuse of leading a covert war against its interests.
Heightening their unease is the knowledge that Sotheby's is for sale, and Christie's may well be, too.
These partygoers, trailing red food coloring along the walls of my home and half-blind in their pound-shop werewolf masks, would be utterly swept away in a totally immersive, terrifying crescendo of ever heightening audio unease until suddenly...bam!
These partygoers, trailing red food colouring along the walls of my home and half-blind in their pound-shop werewolf masks, would be utterly swept away in a totally immersive, terrifying crescendo of ever heightening audio unease until suddenly...bam!
The obvious political ramifications so close to an election, with Mr. Obama hoping to attract Latino votes, only heighten the unease.
Emerging research on the effects of raised cortisol levels have further heightened parental unease about this subject.
This cultural context heightened my unease about the show's aesthetic: "Dirty John" plays like a thriller.
Joseph Borrelli, the head of the homicide unit for Queens, and peppered with allusions to vampires and monsters, heightened the unease by warning that he would strike again.
The early results of the hearings, in which officials said a surprising number of detainees were found not to be enemy combatants, only heightened the unease.
If the word "saffron" made me feel somewhat ill-disposed to this recipe, seeing the words "olive oil" only heightened my unease.
