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restlessness

[rest-lis-nis] / ˈrɛst lɪs nɪs /


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As a musician, the sounds escaping his horn seemed to rise from some far larger, internal furnace of intellectual and spiritual restlessness.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

Stability, analysts say, can breed its own restlessness - particularly among younger voters less invested in legacy narratives and more drawn to renewal.

From BBC May 5, 2026

By filtering such a common feeling through a strange and delightfully unsettling narrative lens, “By Design” contends with our modern restlessness in far more memorable fashion than many big-budget, big-idea films of the last year.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

His restlessness, be it musical, culinary or otherwise cultural, took him to San Francisco and New York.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

In the cave again, I listened to my mother move back and forth, a pale shape driven by restlessness and rage at the restlessness and rage she felt in me and could not cure.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner




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