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

Both produced a global sense of unsettlement at such unruly, obscene surfacings.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2019

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

If poetry ever exercises a healing and reconciling influence on life, the deep and tranquil charm of Virgil may prove some antidote to the excitement, the restlessness, the unsettlement of opinion in the present day.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.