irresolution
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Declaring an uneasy truce with irresolution, she is aware that she’ll never know X, “as if we could ever say for certain where she ended and where the world began.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
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 movie may, in the end, frustrate your desire for straight-up thrills and clear answers, but its irresolution is masterful — sincere, generous and entirely appropriate to the deeply searching story it has to tell.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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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