Most Indians exist in a state of uneasy compromise: eager to embrace the future but also reluctant to let go of the past.
Mr Gould could not get the notion of New Labour taken seriously until the rise of two politicians as hungry to modernise as he was, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.He found Gordon warmer than Tony, whose intensity made him uneasy; but the eager new party leader connected with voters in a way that defied rational explanation.
Automakers are concerned and uneasy about this group, eager to grab a piece of the new demographic.
Kim Carson seems a less refined actor than Mr. Bedford, and she chiefly portrays Miranda's shifting emotions with a wide variety of smiles ranging from eager to uneasy.
A succession of authoritarian central governments, uneasy with pluralism and eager to shore up their nationalist credentials, discouraged its use outside the private domain.
Though "Live at Lunch," his new, thrice-weekly program expressly for an Internet audience, is being sent from the controllable confines of home, computers give him anxiety jags, and he's both eager and uneasy about doing nine more hours a week of his signature aural painting with music and monologues.
Khoury headed to his office in Nazareth, and Oz walked along the streets of Jerusalem, moving quickly, uneasy in the city of his birth, eager to get back to his home in the desert.
For evidence of what happens when biographer and subject don't click so perfectly, compare Mr. McDonough's sweeping yet uneasy portrait of Neil Young, "Shakey," an authorized book eager to please its subject, with his freewheeling approach in "Tammy Wynette" to the late, lamented, conveniently elusive "Tragic Country Queen".
Trick-or-treating in neighborhoods has fallen out of fashion as parents grow uneasy about safety concerns, and retailers are plenty eager to cater to nervous families.
It is more uneasy and bemused about the coming political showdown than eager and excited.In fact, even the customary vagaries of the British summer have this year been peculiarly disorienting.
