unfulfillment

But as their lives move forward — as Pietro struggles to figure himself out and as Bruno’s farm falls on hard times — they become contrasting, complementary studies in unfulfillment, in the difficulty of being either too grounded or not grounded at all.

A life of pointless luxury might have its decadent charms, but it also carries a heavy risk of unfulfillment and lack of direction.

In 2010, there was the thrill of Landon Donovan’s dramatic goal against Algeria that won the group, but then the unfulfillment of losing to beatable Ghana in extra time in the round of 16.

If his Test career had been ended by the Ashes, there would have been a sense of unfulfillment.

In “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime of erotic unfulfillment.