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61 uneasy
∎ I had the uneasy feeling we were being followed j'avais la désagréable impression que l'on nous suivait;∎ I've just got an uneasy feeling that it won't work j'ai la fâcheuse impression que çe ne marchera pas;∎ she was uneasy in her mind elle se sentait inquiète;∎ to feel uneasy about sth/doing sth se sentir inquiet à l'idée de qch/de faire qch;∎ I had an uneasy conscience je n'avais pas la conscience tranquille∎ I feel uneasy in her presence je me sens mal à l'aise en sa présence(c) (uncertain → peace, situation) précaire -
62 Personal Essay
The hallmark of the personal essay is its intimacy. The writer seems to be speaking directly into your ear, confiding everything from gossip to wisdom. Through sharing thoughts, memories, desires, complaints, and whimsies, the personal essayist sets up a relationship with the reader, a dialogue-a friendship, if you will, based on identification, understanding, testiness, and companionship.At the core of the personal essay is the supposition that there is a certain unity to human experience. As Michel de Montaigne, the great innovator and patron saint of personal essayists, put it, "Every man has within himself the entire human condition."...In the final analysis, the personal essay represents a mode of being. It points a way for the self to function with relative freedom in an uncertain world. Skeptical yet gyroscopically poised, undeceived but finally tolerant of flaws and inconsistencies, this mode of being suits the modern existential situation, which Montaigne first diagnosed. His recognition that human beings were surrounded by darkness, with nothing particularly solid to cling to, led to a philosophical acceptance that one had to make oneself up from moment to moment. (Lopate, 1994, pp. xxiii, xliv)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Personal Essay
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