Self-reported empathy questionnaires sometimes seem to be testing for species-level traits (if you agree that " In emergency situations I feel apprehensive and ill at ease" , many congratulations: you are a human).
After hours of witnessing their obvious chemistry on full display, you start to feel a little ill at ease—which you'd most likely describe as jealousy, rather than envy.
Long ago I felt ill at ease when I saw a woman too well adorned, --whether a woman of the people with her red neckerchief and her looped skirt, or a woman of our own society in her ball-room dress.
" With pleasure, " Nejdanov replied. Ever since Markelov's appearance he had been in a state of great excitement and embarrassment. This sudden intimacy made him feel ill at ease, but he was nevertheless drawn to him.
When I was ill at ease in the world, it would have been hard to die; I had lived to no purpose, that I could discover; the end would have seemed abrupt and meaningless.
No big surprise that later, Ty ended up studying psychology and even wrote a book about the science of awkwardness and what makes some people feel so ill at ease in the world.
Very ill at ease with himself, and with Stryver and most other men, Darnay made the best of his way into the quiet of the Temple, opened the letter, and read it.
I look forward to seeing you—only not at our house, as you intended—fancy how wretched and ill at ease we should be! —but you know where I wrote to you—in that wood.