discomposure

Example Sentences

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If that first night was one of the liveliest, or at any rate was the freshest, of my exaltations, there was another, four years later, that was one of my great discomposures.

From The Coxon Fund by James, Henry

This was not the discomposure of last night; that had quite passed—such discomposures were a detail; the real coercion was to see a man ineffably adored.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry