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

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.