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

Eventually I spoke of my lingering disquietude to Kiev Schoening, whose home was not far from mine.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer