Word: disquiet
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Those anxieties may seem quaint to us now, but they were real enough then to trigger a deep sense of discontent and unease. That kind of transcendental disquiet has surfaced over and over again in our political campaigns. Its persistence is less about introspection than about a uniquely American strain of denial...
...more varied songwriter. Her best new track, May Queen, has a melody that ranges more widely than the ones in her previous compositions, and her songs sometimes break out of the verse-chorus-verse penitentiary of most rock 'n' roll. Shane, for example, has no chorus. It's about disquiet before a war, and it ends with Phair repeatedly singing, "You've gotta have fear in your heart," an unsettlingly effective close...
Coroners, clowns and country singers should never be too happy; there's just something about their work that makes a crying-on-the-inside quality appropriate. Luckily for fans of country singer Clint Black -- and unfortunately, perhaps, for the man himself -- he is one of those people whose disquiet, in his lyrics at least, has increased as a function of his rising success. The reasoning of such people tends to be variants on the following: I have a new car, a home, a pretty wife . . . Hmmm. Now that I have these things I could lose them: my car could...
...session leader, recalls the intensity of emotion. "The pain within the Chrysler corporation was evident from Day One," he says. "They cared a lot about the business and took enormous pride in having been part of the greatest turnaround in U.S. industrial history. There was a grave sense of disquiet that it could happen again, damn it, on their watch...
...whites have opposed the idea from day one. Others initially accepted the concept of social justice but now argue that racial preferences have gone on long enough and ask whether minorities expect special treatment in perpetuity. Beyond the white backlash is a growing body of dissent, or at least disquiet, among blacks -- including some who have benefited directly from affirmative action...