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 vagueness and irresolution in this episode could be taken as a warning, reminding us that endings can take longer to play out than we might expect — or hope.
From New York Times • May 21, 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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