What had begun as a mild unease had developed into deep unhappiness.
My problem was I could not shake off regret at the impossibility of meeting the real Stevie Smith, coupled with a mild unease, wondering how she would have felt about seeing herself played by an actor ("I'm not very receptive to the theatre"), inauthentically holding forth in the suburbs.
The Fellowes mini-series has been a disappointment from the word go and, anecdotally at least, the general feeling seems to be a mixture of ennui and mild unease that such a vast tragedy is being milked by broadcasters for entertainment purposes.
The realistic gleam of these pearly whites and the layers of miasma coating each tongue adds to the mild unease we feel from Ogawa's sculptures.
Rated PG for jealous older brothers and mild ontological unease.
One can only assume that some mild hint of unease blowing up from Greenwich, or down from Southwold (where Orwell's parents lived in genteel retirement), had appealed to his considerable sense of melodrama.
James Whitaker, who chairs the England selection panel, was in Southport throughout the bowler's extended fitness test, although he may have experienced a mild twinge of unease watching Anderson in action while the wickets were tumbling at Lord's.
And it passes just as a dream does: you close the book and though a few strangely beautiful moments linger ("The flowers stood in a vase and opened slowly, like a choir of little women with curious little heads"), what largely remains is a vague impression, an incoherent sense of something profound, a mild sensation of unease.
In his monologue on Thursday, delivered without any sign of stress or unease, Mr. Letterman made a mild joke about Roman Polanski and his arrest in Switzerland on decades-old charges of fleeing the United States after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor.
"If they observe the Islamic dress code and refuse to drink liquor, are Iranians responsible?" No one approached on the unseasonably mild streets around Tehran University, where prayers are held, confessed to any unease about the sudden ratcheting up of anti-Iranian language in Washington.
After an email exchange in which he disclosed his financial disarray, his cat allergy, his unease in the mornings and moodiness after dark, he emerged into an unseasonably mild afternoon, settling himself at a corner table in a Broadway restaurant with his back to the crowd.
