But now everything is fine again, we feel at ease here".
"We also know we may not be favourites, but we feel at ease.
"We feel at ease and are totally benefiting from our pilgrimage," Soumaya, 30, from Mali, told the AFP news agency.
There are people in whose company, because of a million tiny signals with no words spoken, we quickly feel at ease, people whose attitude we quickly sense is authentic, and not fabricated; and I would submit that our nation as a whole has directed this biological, non-rational intuition at David Attenborough, and he has passed the test.
Just as we now feel at ease with objects that are curvy and fluid in shape, we seek out the same qualities in buildings, and find them in Hadid's extraordinary visions of space and structure.
In "Self-Reliance," he decries the social niceties that require us to put on what he calls "the foolish face of praise," a "forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us".
We conform when we pay unearned respect to clothing and other symbols of status, when we show "the foolish face of praise" or the "forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us" (CW2: 32).
He may not know exactly what it sounds like but he knows the role he wants the music to play.... Here, the focus [was] on how can we make someone feel at ease or pleasant or comforted in a way that feels like doctor's office wallpaper, an insincere sense of calmness.
Maybe it was the perfectly put-together passersby outside, or the buttoned-up manager who greeted us, but we didn't quite feel at ease in our pink and blue, baguette- and beret-dotted pajamas.
No, if we really want to feel at ease about what is going on with Hillary Clinton's health, as well as about those rumors that her glance can curdle milk, that the cat Socks was her long-term familiar, and that Trump looks the way he does because Clinton once looked at him with the Evil Eye and will not allow his virile member to return to him, there is only one approach to take.
