Who was this uneasy man and what was he doing on such a rain-drenched day?
In "The Dead", Joyce evoked the soul of one uneasy man, and by implication he drew a portrait of a society.
But there is an underlying optimism to "The Glass Closet," not least in its account of how a buttoned-up and uneasy man — someone who worked more than he lived — stumbled upon what appears to be a more balanced and happy life.
Set in the gold rush town of Hokitika, the book begins on a stormy night when a seasick, spooked traveler stumbles upon a secret meeting of 12 uneasy men.
The genre built uneasy men into heroes; it ignored women (the wife in both versions of "High Noon" is a stiff, not a real point of view); it nearly eliminated American Indians; and it laid down many erroneous ideas about how a new nation evolved west of the Mississippi.
He seemed uneasy, a man under vague orders.
I described him in the book's opening pages: "He had the best spoken English in the college, but he was an uneasy young man in a new position of authority".
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the great president of Morehouse College, who shaped so many of my generation including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said: "I am disturbed, I am uneasy about men because we have no guarantee that when we train a man's mind, we will train his heart; no guarantee that when we increase a man's knowledge, we will increase his goodness.
In doing so, she seems to draw you directly onto the stage, into uncomfortably close proximity to the bloody events unfolding, and to force you into identifying with these uneasy hollow men, whose instinct before violent displays of emotion is divided between the urges to stare and to turn their heads.
As such a Greek departure risks creating an economic schism between the rich north of Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland, and the poorer south and east - with France in an uneasy no-man's land.
