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

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2019

The Republican Constitution of 1848.—With the overthrow of the Orleanist monarchy, in consequence of the uprising of February 24, 1848, France entered upon a period of aggravated political unsettlement.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin