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
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
A half-speculative, half-hostile contemplation of his habitual associates was one of the queer aspects of this period of unsettlement.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
