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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Peevish and ill at ease, Zellweger is miscast as a hard-boiled "modern" woman.

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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.

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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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