Sentence examples for uneasy subject from inspiring English sources

Indeed, her son's failure or inability to see her clearly as a character may be the book's real, uneasy subject.

For her it was a symbol of togetherness; during Communism, she added, she had worked for a workers' co-operative, which employed the rainbow as its emblem.Gay rights remains an uneasy subject for many people in this devoutly Catholic country.

These are the tidy politics of a movie like Philadelphia: It provides an easy frame of reference for an uneasy subject.

Whenever I feel uneasy about subject matter, I come to a clear decision to tackle the material and, hopefully do it justice.

Even articles about this staging have given in to the misperception that the play has fallen out of favor because audiences are uneasy about its subject.

After studying ancient Egypt for more than 20 years Mr. Wilkinson says he found himself growing "increasingly uneasy about the subject of my research" — increasingly aware of "the darker side of pharaonic civilization," which has often been glossed over, he says, by the "misty-eyed reverence" that many scholars have shared with tourists.

It would seem that the power the law bestows upon and channels through them, for all its apparent ubiquity in the alterative reality Young conjures, is nevertheless uneasy, fugitive, still subject to the probative gaze of the camera/viewer.

That uneasy relationship was the subject of Pro Bono: Good Enough, which was published as part of the Justice Gap series.

Maybe he did, but his prose does not reflect it: instead, he comes off, by the end, as an anxious mansplainer, uneasy about the feminine subject he chose.

In his appearance today, Mr. Bush seemed by turns relaxed and somewhat uneasy, especially when the subject turned to problems in foreign policy.

Patients may hesitate to divulge which recommendations they have eschewed because of cost concerns; doctors may feel trapped into giving suboptimal care because of insurance limitations; and both may feel uneasy bringing up the subject of money.