But, for much of the programme he seems ill at ease and a little awkward.
They focus on nurturing people, families in particular, who are ill at ease with modern American life.
However George Costigan who plays Lennie's brother George does seem ill at ease, unconvincing and almost amateurish.
Yet, perhaps because he is so clearly ill at ease, he ends up undermining his own efforts.
The Taliban's grip on Kabul is all the tighter because they are ill at ease in the capital.
Peevish and ill at ease, Zellweger is miscast as a hard-boiled "modern" woman.
IR--Bagehot (May 17th) thought I looked ill at ease when Robin Cook, the new foreign secretary, presented his mission statement at the Foreign Office.
Yet the idea runs deep, in British life of the past half-century, that a true toff must be hushed and slightly ill at ease with his own toffery.
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The all-rounder looked ill at ease throughout his time at the crease and made four runs in 45 minutes before nicking Jacques Kallis to Graeme Smith at slip.
Late in the afternoon, the people in our neighborhood, who had all been feeling ill at ease, gathered in the dimness of our house to share a meal.
There were times when Campbell looked ill at ease against LuaLua's searing pace, not least when Kolo Toure had to make a last-gasp saving tackle on the DR Congo man.
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Blackburn looked ill at ease as Sunderland's confidence grew and, with Malbranque frequently a creative force in midfield, it seemed inevitable that further opportunities would fall the way of the visitors.
Normally reliable performers like Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson look ill at ease in their uniforms, which may be a point in their moral favor but augurs badly for the confidence of the movie.
Although he is still in the honeymoon phase of his presidency and the House of Representatives is being run by extreme liberals, the American people are becoming increasingly ill at ease over the President's programs.
Ill at ease, they have reined back from revisiting it, apprehensive that, unchecked, their talking might deposit them eventually at the door to a concern better left alone the two years spent together under one roof, in her apartment in Toronto, as man and wife "Only on paper, I'll have you know, " she will point out again and again which had been an utter disaster.
Like Ponting, Pietersen is at his most vulnerable when he is not dictating proceedings and has looked particularly ill-at-ease with the short ball in the warm-up games.
He was modest and charming in private, although visibly ill-at-ease on big public occasions and prone to gaffes and unnecessary controversies.
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The second room is majestic: three boxing scenes, three ravishingly piquant portraits of working-class youths, and a startling nude of an ill-at-ease woman.
For a man who has spent so much of his life around the military, he seems remarkably ill-at-ease when it comes to talking to men in uniform, at least those in the ranks.
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