Past evidence suggested that eyesight brought anxiety and depression to people who had learned to live contentedly without it, to the point where fits of crying and bitterness were not unexpected reactions to such unsettling change.

The economists agreed that the region's low unemployment rate masked unsettling changes in the job market.

With a shiver, he abandoned his earlier theory of acclimation for a Vulcan crew, and decided that the unsettling changes in temperature merely meant that the ship's en-vironmental controls were faulty.

Fans attending Princeton University football games this season have been noticing some unsettling changes around the school's 80-year-old Palmer Stadium.

All this unsettling change comes at a critical time in the orchestra's history.

There had come to Iran, in the 1970's, great unsettling changes.

Their once-predictable political order is undergoing unsettling change in the midst of a harsh recession.

To put it another way, he was a singular force in telling us that the unsettling changes of the last couple of decades - especially globalization - really were making us better off.

Surely there had to be some limits to all this progress, all this unsettling change.

Their anxious mood is compounded of many things: an apprehension about the unknown, an unsettling generational change, a sense that history may be flowing away from them.