He’d just landed at the airstrip in Tingwall after a short break in Fair Isle, staying on his parents’ croft. Three days of being spoiled by his mother and listening to his father complain about the price of sheep. As always after a trip home, he wondered why he found it so difficult to get on with his father. There were never arguments, no real antagonism, but he always left feeling an edgy mixture of guilt and inadequacy.
Source: White Nights by Ann Cleeves
Context: The character is inspector Jimmy Perez.
If I feel an edgy mixture of guilt and inadequacy, would I feel guilty and inadequate,and edgy to boot?
I looked up instances of the bolded collocation edgy mixture and it seems to be rather common as in these sourced examples:
edgy mixture of self-confidence and doubt
edgy mixture of fantasy and fact
an edgy mixture of laughter, shock and outrage
an edgy mixture barbarous atrocity and black humour
What does this collocation really? Would it mean edgy in addition to the chosen mixture (say fantasy and fact)?
Thank you.
Source: White Nights by Ann Cleeves
Context: The character is inspector Jimmy Perez.
If I feel an edgy mixture of guilt and inadequacy, would I feel guilty and inadequate,and edgy to boot?
I looked up instances of the bolded collocation edgy mixture and it seems to be rather common as in these sourced examples:
edgy mixture of self-confidence and doubt
edgy mixture of fantasy and fact
an edgy mixture of laughter, shock and outrage
an edgy mixture barbarous atrocity and black humour
What does this collocation really? Would it mean edgy in addition to the chosen mixture (say fantasy and fact)?
Thank you.
