unsettlement

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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

Most people I met or heard speak over the weekend agreed there was a common element of unease and unsettlement, which explains the panels dedicated to simpatico artists like Clive Barker, David Cronenberg and J.G.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2022

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 corresponding period in the German army lasted from 1871 to 1888, and such a period of unsettlement is indeed the common, practically the universal, result of a war on a large scale.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various