"Not joking when I say this, but a lot of us Indians are at a terrible unease looking at the prospects of yet another India - Sri Lanka encounter," writes Achyuta Pitale.
Loneliness, the sense of being caught out, of unease, looking for death as a release — in a concordance to Smith's work, the word "death" would be a leading entry — buzz in these poems, like the chamber music of bees.
In our extroverted culture, you're never supposed to betray social unease or look as if you're trying too hard.
Mr. McConaughey, whose knotted-with-unease face makes it look as if he is cramming for finals, is part of a secret mission to capture a Nazi code-encryption machine and get it back to the Allies.
Although she's in her early 40s and long married to a preening local businessman a quarter-century older than she is (she's his third wife, and not necessarily his last), Catherine still feels "nagged by teenage unease" when she looks in a mirror.
The one constant, she says, is the unease some women feel when looking at the mirror trying to pick the right bikini to hide their imagined flaws - even if she is the only one to spot them.
In a post-September 11th world this fills him with unease: "Everyone agrees, airliners look different in the sky these days, predatory and doomed".
Even when I assure people I won't be backpacking into the notorious Ciudad Juárez and will instead be staying at an isolated family-run ranch in the middle of the Sonora desert, the look of unease doesn't fade.
Thoroughly documented exhibits await visitors, who can look with unease at the unappetizing packets of food that early astronauts took to space, and at the adhesive-edged plastic "Apollo bags" astronauts used to collect their solid waste.
In a break from the traditional scowling sense of unease, Hodgson tends to look chipper and alert, like a capable expat uncle in a safari suit, owner perhaps of a plantation-style timeshare apartment next to a golf course.
