unsettlement

Example Sentences

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It always seeks out that which will increase its own velocity, deepen its hold, magnify its unsettlement....

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2023

It signals a widespread social unsettlement, an unbounded and uncontainable anxiety.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2021

This unsettlement stretches across species, and is at its most playful in A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Titania’s drug-fuelled enchantment with Bottom as an ass.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016

The Middle East, with its tremendous unsettlement due to the Arab Spring, is looking for safety, and Asians who have relatively robust economies and tremendous growth are looking to expand.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2012

His heart and brain were alike on fire, for at the root of his deep depression and unsettlement lay the fact, known as yet only to himself, of complete estrangement between himself and his wife.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas