You might expect a G4S director, at least privately, to relish the rapid rise in prison numbers, which is fuelling an expansion of the business in the UK, but he voices unexpected unease at the sharp rise in prison numbers, which have jumped from 41,800 in 1993 to over 86,000.
What is noticeable - and unexpected - is the unease.
That will be welcomed in Washington, where administration officials have watched with unease the unexpected success at the polls of an alliance of hard-line Islamic parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
While both the way he moved his head — in jerks, like a bird, sometimes as if he had been startled by or remembered something — and the way he spoke — hesitantly, full of pauses, stutters, coughs, snorts, an unexpected deep breath here and there — suggested nervousness and unease, what he said was, by contrast, completely assured.
While such a contentious and monumental decision can be expected to trigger anxieties, much of the economic noise we're experiencing is not necessarily founded in direct, tangible effects of Brexit itself, but rather a mounting sense of unease around the potential implications of such an unexpected move.
BOSTON--Scott Brown's unexpected victory in the special Senate election here indicates voter unease with the political status quo -- it's a development that should force Democrats to rethink their national strategy, particularly on health care messaging, heading into November.
Approval of the contract extension came as unexpected good news in what has been a summer of labor unease at Southwest.
The first human response to such an unexpected disruption of a ritualized social experience like Super Bowl watching is disorientation and unease.
Not since Tales of the Unexpected have British viewers been treated to such elegantly crafted half-hour slices of intrigue, unease and all-out emotional intensity.
But one unexpected growth area has been outpatient cosmetic surgery, as patients like Ms. Seiff try to salve their unease with a host of skin-deep, but inwardly comforting, remedies.
