That night, I slept uneasily in a hammock strung between two posts on the porch.
The history of whaling is both a testament to American can-do and a shame worn uneasily.
It centers on three middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters who are uneasily negotiating with age.
And the specter of decline always floats uneasily above the city call it the Detroit effect.
After 15 minutes they stopped and eventually, uneasily, I fell back to sleep.
If the Latin emotions of the French sit uneasily with humour, so does the French logical mind.
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Hundreds of Muslims clustered uneasily as firefighters battled the flames, expressing fears that the fire was caused by arson.
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The latest moves sit uneasily with some members who are worried that Facebook knows too much about their lives.
So Americans uneasily both accept and reject the hereditary principle, a contradiction that's uncomfortable for them but very productive.
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Her early scenes are the weakest in the movie, the comedy of the semi-fantastic sitting uneasily amid the gathering gloom.
On the face of it, Virago, the original feminist imprint, sits uneasily beside Ex-Libris in the Little, Brown publishing list.
The geographic turn can at times seem uneasily like the astrological turn.
Smaller rivals claim that sheer bulk sits uneasily with the essence of private banking: attentive treatment based on close, long-term personal relationships.
The most labile European country on matters nuclear has, not surprisingly, been Germany, where great engineering and anti-nuclear sentiment have long coexisted uneasily.
There were no reports of violence, but around 200 Muslim residents gathered uneasily nearby, many expressing suspicions the fire had been set intentionally.
Sometimes kids will glance away uneasily, shift from one foot to the other or cross arms in front of the body but not always.
In Bolivia, the Chapare is split uneasily between those who have embraced the new ways and those who still follow the cocalero unions.
To make matters worse for Kent, James Hockley then had his off stump pegged back by Kruger, as the home side lunched uneasily on 96-5.
As China continues to rub up uneasily against its maritime neighbors, including Japan, which occupies another set of disputed islands, these seas could get stormier.
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His life has all the look and sound of a fully respectable intellectual activity, rather like, one feels uneasily, the life of a string theorist today.
He starred in it onstage, together with Daphne Rubin-Vega and John Ortiz, who played an uneasily married couple, and who now follow him into the screen version.
It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.
The two parts of Mr Krakauer's book co-exist rather uneasily.
However, the concept of a city within a city, one that appears disconnected from its surrounding environment, rests uneasily with some, who see it as the stuff of dystopic science fiction.
Two years ago, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm born from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, found itself, uneasily, with a new big shareholder, Alisher Usmanov, another of the steel oligarchs.
Senior church figures are deeply worried about the welfare of Christians in parts of the world where they coexist uneasily, and at times violently, with Muslims: Nigeria, Sudan, Indonesia, even Iraq.
Guyanese politics, too, is uneasily split along racial lines.
Asia's traditional corporate model sits uneasily with modern practice.
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