Literary notes about UNEASY (AI summary)
"Uneasy" is used by writers to evoke a multifaceted sense of discomfort that oscillates between internal apprehension and external forewarning. In Chekhov [1], the anticipation of a ship’s return unsettles an entire community, while Conrad [2] uses the silence of a bush to hint at unspoken terror. This term also captures personal disquiet amid failing plans, as seen with the cautious character in Dostoyevsky [3] and again when internal struggles and external threats converge in his work [4]. Dickens [5, 6] employs "uneasy" to describe both a physical restlessness and a deeper state of emotional turmoil, a quality that authors like Austen [7], Eliot [8, 9], and others harness to reflect the complex interplay between external circumstances and inner vulnerability."
- As the time had approached for the return of the ship, many of the citizens had begun to feel uneasy.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The consciousness of there being people in that bush, so silent, so quiet—as silent and quiet as the ruined house on the hill—made me uneasy.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - “Tell me, but I trust that you...” “Oh, don’t be uneasy.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - But I don’t think there is any considerable danger here, and you really need not be uneasy for they never go very far.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - Now does Sir Leicester become worse, restless, uneasy, and in great pain.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - I shall feel as uneasy as a new sheared sheep when she's gone from me.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot - "She might have got some power over him in time, and she was always uneasy about the estate.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot