disquietude

Example Sentences

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The group’s songs, all dance grooves, pulsing bass lines and ’80s-tinged synths, have typically reeked of disquietude and served as a maze into Healy’s brilliant but occasionally self-indulgent mind.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022

But in times when I feel swells of disquietude, I don’t try to suppress them.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

In a pandemic defined by widespread disquietude and legions of first-time bakers soothing their angst by muddling through banana bread recipes, the show should be, and has been, both balm and inspiration.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2020

The front-runner for Best Play is probably Stephen Karam’s bleak and revelatory drama “The Humans,” which has much to say, albeit indirectly, about the disquietude driving this election season.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2016

The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer