Side conversations and restless table hopping among the audience are a constant irritation to musicians making their way up through the coffeehouse circuits.
Jeff Wall's big light-box photograph, "Dead Troops Talk," hangs next to Alexander Sokurov's "Spiritual Voices," which includes the conversations of exhausted, restless soldiers taped, surreptitiously it often seems, in battle stations and guard posts around the globe.
Campaigning last weekend in New Hampshire, he was his old restless self, never alone, craving contact, conversation and fun.
"I get restless," she said in a recent phone conversation.
After a sleepless night, Mr. Wilson seemed decidedly restless, but he gradually relaxed into a conversation that circled his life and his career.
Wallis, often restless and bored, was intrigued by his salacious conversation.
I am restless and absent-minded, unable to follow the conversation.
There is a restless freedom to their playing, as if the dinner-party conversation of chamber music were about to break down into altercation, demonstration, or confession.
She became disoriented, restless, and agitated; had difficulties in naming common objects and following conversations; and both short and long-term memory were impaired.
Maron's conversations with them often reveal interesting shades of that same restless curiosity and insight.
