irresolution
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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
The irresolution that haunts the Crimmins case has made it reliable fodder for TV movies and books, most famously the 1975 novel that launched Mary Higgins Clark’s career, “Where Are the Children?”
From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2017
He looked then for weakness in her face, for fear or irresolution, and there was none.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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