Example sentences for: uneasy

How can you use “uneasy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.

  • It is, perhaps, this sense of opportunism, and of blowing up ordinary jobs like creating a black reference book of this sort as if one were announcing the return of the monarchy to America, that makes you feel uneasy about many of the black public intellectuals.

  • For true instinct, you must turn to Mike Figgis, an English director ( Leaving Las Vegas , 1995, One Night Stand , 1997) who's defiantly not a player and whose pixilated, semi-autobiographical, semi-allegorical The Loss of Sexual Innocence would not have got past the mall focus groups that evidently embraced Instinct . It nearly didn't get past the screening that I caught at Manhattan's indie-friendly Angelika Film Center, which was marked by uneasy throat clearing and lots of walkouts.

  • Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."

  • So I think people are genuinely uneasy with Clinton's character.


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