Like Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro's overstimulated psycho in "Taxi Driver," Okwe never really sleeps, though his restlessness is not propelled by loathing, the way Bickle's is; he's a good man, even a fanatically good man, which makes him a possible fool and victim as well as a hero.
But she had grown restless with her restlessness.
"This really came out of a kind of restlessness, the feeling that art forms are too often segregated, music played in the same clubs and art shown in the same galleries and museums," Mr. Aitken said in an interview.
Desperately Seeking Paradise draws on an old Muslim literary tradition in which a man sets out from home and friends, ostensibly to make his pilgrimage to Mecca, but really to indulge his mental and spiritual restlessness.
Sharpless remarks on Pinkerton's restlessness and asks if he is really in love.
They are a restless bunch physically – which mirrors their restlessness overall.
Many of the pieces collected here are curios really, like exotic snowshakers or paperweights, mementos from a lifetime of restlessness.
Christina Widyaningsih, 24, a university student who is a Christian, said: "I don't really understand the Islamic movement, but I can definitely sympathize with their restlessness, their feeling that they have to do something.
The problem is that, on the whole, the types of programs being offered up aren't really developing our ability to engage or truly relieving us of our restlessness.
The acting had to be really detailed and precise to withstand the audience's close scrutiny, and, in turn, the tiniest movement or restlessness from the audience would impact back on the actors, instantly modulating the choices they made.
