He ascribed his self-doubts to "the very same spiritual and intellectual restlessness that once compelled me to stand up against the totalitarian regime and go to jail for it."

A fellow foundation director remarked on Mr. Soros's intellectual restlessness.

Listening to Busoni's recordings, one can glean the special sound and style his own music invites: the discipline and freedom, the intellectual restlessness and spiritual repose.

Feeling a bit of intellectual restlessness after a few years in the host's chair, though, Mr. Soares came up with an idea for what he thought might make an amusing novel.

It undeniably offers further testimony to the intellectual restlessness and suppleness of Ms. Parks, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for "Topdog/Underdog."

It has the courage of its intellectual restlessness.

Another explanation for the trend, intellectual restlessness, came from James Winn, director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, an interdisciplinary think tank.

Its bald spots of self-consciousness are overridden by the courage of its intellectual restlessness.

Rather, "it's been the successive generations of Russian writers capable of examining life's emotional and intellectual restlessness, its complexity and intensity".

We are always aware of an aching emotional and intellectual restlessness, fed by a need for clarity, to use one of Eddie's favorite words, in a muddled, superficial environment.