Sentence examples for uneasy accommodation from inspiring English sources
By now elderly, Strauss settled into an uneasy accommodation with the regime.
The very seriousness of the consequences of this may yet force an uneasy accommodation but experience – and the peculiar character that is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – suggests otherwise.
The composer Paul Hindemith, who had collaborated with both Brecht and Weill, has been criticised because he managed to maintain an uneasy accommodation with Nazi Germany until he finally left in 1937.
The paradox for Thailand today is that despite its current odd governing arrangement, the country is enjoying what Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University and one of the country's leading political thinkers, calls "a kind of uneasy accommodation".
It grew as an uneasy accommodation between the traditionalists of the Apostolic Creed and Catholic ritual and devotions now known as Anglo-Catholics and the brimstone-and-Bible Protestants born in the chapels of the Reformation, making common cause against the Church of Rome.
Ever since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, Saudi-Iranian relations have ranged from uneasy accommodation to downright vitriolic.
The uneasy accommodations of a corruptible young aesthete to an ambiguous social world might have resonances too with the turn-of-the-century novels of Henry James, with their moneyed but morally seedy milieux.
After years of uneasy attempts at accommodation, Hindemith and his wife, whose father was Jewish, found themselves included in the Nazis' notorious 1937 exhibition of "degenerate art," and they left Germany.
Time and again in these stories, the tension hangs on the need or the wish to conceal from oneself or from others—some explosive truth that, if it were known, would blow apart the relatively uneasy calm of life in a world of difficult accommodations, bungling and small-scale hypocrisies.
(For those uneasy about handing over payment to unknown individuals, for unseen accommodations, a further experience: at an Airbnb stop in Providence, I opened a drawer in search of a corkscrew and found, instead, several hundred dollars. The experience of trust in these transactions goes both ways).
