Word: disquieting
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...question of reducing Louise Woodward's sentence to time served, however, the results were less clear-cut. Only 41 percent agreed ? the rest swayed, perhaps, by the prosecution's emotional argument that Louise was in jail for virtually the length of Matthew Eappen's life. There was visible disquiet, too, at the scenes of champagne-cork popping in Elton, England. And with Louise reportedly set to reap a possible $100,000 for selling her story to a British magazine when she eventually returns home, the court of public opinion is sure to remain in session...
...elite" should be grateful for our sheltered existence. We should also recognize the limitations that this existence imposes. Maybe then we will complain a little less and cease wallowing in the odd culture of disquiet that we have created. In 1969, the year after the Tet Offensive, the Beatles sang "Here Comes the Sun." In 1993, Kurt Cobain blew off his head with a shotgun. We really must grow...
...obscure for long. Every Vice President must invent a life for himself. Nixon and Agnew played good cop-bad cop. Agnew created his role as a menacing though semisatirical rabble-rouser of the much-maligned love-it-or-leave-it Silent Majority of Americans who wished, against their mounting disquiet, to believe in their government's war. The struggle defined itself in cultural conflict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace had gone national as an angry outsider-populist and blue-collar backlasher. Agnew became a kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals emerging as the liberal...
...evolution of the Kennedy myth after Dallas has set an American mood of moral disquiet and trompe l'oeil. Now you see it, now you don't. The shining story of Camelot has proceeded through the decades with an evil twin--the American tabloid version of the Kennedys, with Mafia molls and ruthless lusts and greeds: the gods as gangsters...
...anxieties run like a fuse. After the explosion in the dead of night, every tremble became an aftershock. A volunteer touched a microphone, and everybody jumped. A box of paper on the floor prompted worried looks. As people looked over their shoulders, a shiver led to a global disquiet...