irresolution

Example Sentences

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Declaring an uneasy truce with irresolution, she is aware that she’ll never know X, “as if we could ever say for certain where she ended and where the world began.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2023

During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, religious music rarely used the tritone because it created a sense of unease and irresolution rather than majesty or awe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2020

I think with a good story you have a question in the back of your mind and the storyteller knows how to create an irresolution or imbalance that you are waiting to experience.

From Salon • May 29, 2020

‘You cannot exaggerate the intensity of man’s inner irresolution and craving for authority,” Freud told a congress of psychoanalysts in 1910.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2018

He looked then for weakness in her face, for fear or irresolution, and there was none.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck