Sentence examples for restless man who from inspiring English sources

It's an awkward spot for Blair, a restless man who frequently proclaims impatience with the status quo and pledges "radical" solutions.

A restless man who traveled a great deal, lived frugally and occasionally lectured or taught to support himself, he spoke and wrote with enthusiasm about life in the world, without failing to acknowledge its terrors and miseries.

Dave Mansfield is the head coach of the team; he is a loud, restless man who happens to love baseball and the kids who play it at this level.

Mr. Friis, a Danish high school dropout, is a restless man who constantly taps out text messages on his smartphone during business meetings, even when addressing others, the former colleagues say.

The story, based on a folk song, follows a restless man who keeps trading one thing for another, always wondering whether he has made the right choice: I had a little knife.

"He was a restless man who had to find out what was going on," said John Robben, his friend for more than 60 years, who added that as far as he knew Mr. McNamara did not miss Oklahoma on purpose.

The heroes of Mr. Van Zandt's songs are restless men who find freedom and self-knowledge only in movement and an exquisite appreciation of experiences -- women, the natural world, music -- as they pass.

He was a restless young man who, by 1934, 21 and married, had already scraped together enough money to start a business.

When Mr. Vann was 13, his father, a restless, dissatisfied man who had bounced around Alaska, opening one dental practice after another and failing as a commercial fisherman, put a bullet through his head while talking on the phone to his second wife, Mr. Vann's stepmother.

As in Jean-Luc Godard's recent films and Philip Roth's novels of the last decade, one has the impression of a restless, prickly man who has things to say about the world that can no longer be contained by his chosen form and who frankly doesn't care if he seems angry, even a little unhinged.

Included in "Everything Together" is the deeply moving "Poor Sailor," his 2003 story of a restless young man who sacrifices domestic bliss for adventure and heartbreaking losses.