Word: disquiet
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...undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from...
...Turin, Fiat's Northern Italian home, Bonfante found a spreading mood of disquiet...
There was similar disquiet among the trustees over the awarding of the 58th annual Pulitzer Prizes announced last week. The advisory board had recommended a prize in national reporting to the Providence Journal-Bulletin's Jack White, 31, who broke details of President Nixon's minuscule income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. Although his scoop was the first in a series of revelations about questionable presidential tax deductions, White's access to confidential returns was a stark violation of Internal Revenue Service regulations; White has refused to say how or where he secured the Nixon returns...
...painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city abandoned to the sea, or Leon Spilliaert producing a haunted self-portrait, the images constantly predict the sense of solitude and disquiet in which surrealism reveled...
Asked what she found wrong with the country on her cross-country trip, Pat replied, "I didn't see any problems on this trip-I have on others." She seems to feel that what disquiet she once saw has been erased by her husband during his first term. She insists that "you can't find any field where we haven't become better off, and the people know this-they're not dumb...