disaffection

Example Sentences

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Aden’s peculiar disaffections and devotions emerge more naturally, out of secular American banality, and are presented, at this stage, without descriptive commentary; the reader has to catch up.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

But “Six Degrees” isn’t a documentary; it’s a prismatic consideration of a society whose disaffections run every bit as deep today.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2010

I ticked through the whole long register of my disaffections, hit all the ready categories.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Indeed, it was only the disaffections of the outlying peoples, who generally abhorred the Aztec hegemony, that enabled the Spaniards to carry on their operations, or, indeed, to set foot in the country at all.

From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin

Now, as, under these contingencies, no action of the affections can take place, but only an explosive action of disaffections, two points offer themselves for consideration in the matter.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John