How To Use Disquiet In A Sentence

  • There is also disquiet that many key staff were poached to set up the US series. The Sun
  • And therefore (quod iterum moneo, licet nauseam paret lectori, malo decem potius verba, decies repetita licet abundare, quam unum desiderari) I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • A beggar woman and her child took shelter on the verandah at night and left behind disquieting odours.
  • Maybe crushes are best left as vaguely disquieting feelings that tell us more about who we are than what we think about others. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite considerable public disquiet, the post-Maastricht period saw substantial policy development.
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • Both are deep, questioning, disquieting yet also lyrical pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is growing public disquiet about the cost of such policing.
  • The Government has also yielded to public disquiet over the inability to deliberately spoil votes.
  • In Britain, the growing discussion of women's sexuality raised its own disquiet.
  • Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children. Behe
  • One would not imagine her WASP nervous system is sufficiently developed to register disquietude, but one would be mistaken. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
  • That ribbon of disquiet had knotted itself about her, tightening around her stomach which suddenly felt overfull of coffee and food. COFFIN IN FASHION
  • So I feel very disquieted by any suggestion that this is a memoir showing people how possible it is to make the most of a bad start, how to love parents who have behaved atrociously, how to somehow miraculously rise above trauma out of sheer good will. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
  • There was something so disquietingly familiar about the place that I felt gooseflesh rise on my arms and legs.
  • There was public disquiet about the private finance decision but Mackie says improving the educational experience is at the heart of all his proposals.
  • For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
  • As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me.
  • Their findings disquieted the Dundee support.
  • The dislocation caused considerable disquiet outside China, but little within. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most telling of all are the stirrings of disquiet in America, Israel's most steadfast ally.
  • The euthanasia programme was discontinued on Hitler's order in August 1941 because it was causing public disquiet.
  • As long as thou livest thou art subject to change, howsoever unwilling; so that thou art found now joyful, now sad; now at peace, now disquieted; now devout, now indevout; now studious, now careless; now sad, now cheerful. XXXIII. Book III: On Inward Consolation. Of Instability of the Heart, and of directing the Aim toward God
  • Then came the disquieting blue stare , and the surprisingly loud , ringing voice.
  • Obviously he felt disquieted by the procedure and felt that it would have been possible for him to have protected the complainants adequately had the normal process of cross-examination proceeded.
  • These moments of disquiet congealed into a continuous nagging worry when I went to my first World Cup finals in Argentina.
  • In truth, his encounter with Toby Addington had disquieted him.
  • Astley's is a kind of semi-ruined pastoral, a bucolic summer-hazed delirium shadowed by mumbling disquiet, in which mechanically-iterated found sounds are put into concert with an oneiric chamber music.
  • At the end of it all, though, there is a vague feeling of disquiet.
  • Suddenly, they were assailed by a much more disquieting voice. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
  • The leader's decline in popularity is causing disquiet among supporters.
  • The book's most engaging aspect is also its most disquieting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her shadow flickered across the wall behind her, tail lashing in disquiet, inhuman muscles shifting as she moved.
  • I am a little disquieted by the fact that, in the case of the Army at least, the aid is disbursed through the military command structure.
  • Disquiet that the apology was a beautiful gesture but a theological mistake bubbled to the surface last week.
  • Many people were disquieted about the macho posturing about the fire-fighters.
  • But disquietingly, the report notes that 10 percent of teen girls described the first time they had sex as "nonvoluntary." — "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002," J.C. Abma, G.M. Martinez, W. Primary Sources
  • He notes, with some disquietude, the decline in publication of case studies of smaller communities, where most nineteenth-century Americans lived and worked.
  • The only disquiet in the camp emerges from the striking similarity of each tune.
  • Hypnotherapy can also help relieve profound feelings of disquiet or anxiety.
  • Alain Vaës, whose décors typically have a strong, disquieting presence, has pierced the dancing ground with five huge, asymmetrically placed pillars unconnected to any architectural structure.
  • It's beautiful, but also disquieting. Times, Sunday Times
  • If a man gain the use of wealth, peradventure he is diverted thereby from the remembrance of his Lord; if poverty choke him his heart is distracted by woe, or if disquietude waste his heart, weakness causeth him to fall. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The union has voiced its disquiet about the way the protest was handled.
  • Underlying the disquiet was a strong current of belief that the act of going tieless was tantamount to social chaos!
  • Opening his eyes halfway, Raeyn laboriously pulled up an electronic mail window on his computer and dictated a message to Antony, providing an outlet for his disquietude and tension.
  • Charles says that it was some comfort to him to have frightened them, at least; but he was so candid to me as to own that from the beginning of this emeute he could not perceive in me the least expression of fear or disquietude whatever, and that, to be sure, he did not like. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Given the disquietude, substance abuse is an easy lure, as is the pressure for early sexual activity.
  • I ask again, trying to laugh off the disquietude the question has created.
  • He rolled his shoulders in an attempt to shake off the disquiet, the clamminess, the feeling of reluctance and obligation. Red Wolf
  • On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines. In Our Town
  • The issue of non-disclosure that Williamson raises over Faulkner's disquieting silence is likewise present in one way or another in the racially conflicted lives inhabiting Faulkner's fictive universe.
  • Despite this innovation there continued to be considerable public disquiet.
  • The recommendation was made because past cases had caused public disquiet.
  • But human felicity is short and uncertain; a second marriage brought upon him so much disquiet, as, for Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
  • But when he reached gallantly to kiss my hand and I first looked into the eyes of General Eduard Rinaldi I was disquieted.
  • I stole the signatures from stories that disquieted me.
  • The rumour mill has not been short on tales of disquiet in the Gloucester coaching team. Times, Sunday Times
  • And those who were immune to such uneasiness had another reason for disquiet.
  • The role of symmetry in animate life is both crude and subtle, disquieting and incom - prehensible. SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY
  • Images taken by a veteran former police diver show something disquieting going on in the newly protected areas around Britain's shoreline. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whilst a mirror can allow a clear view of a painted ceiling, it can none the less be disorientating and disquieting.
  • So perhaps we can bluff it out and collect software by day leaving philosophical disquiet to the troubled night.
  • I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom "ben the house," and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
  • the disquietingly close sounds of gunfire
  • Given that, are you in any way disquieted by your certainty that we should withdraw?
  • Marguerite Duras, Carlos Fuentes, and Susan Sontag, among others, expressed their "disquiet" even as they sought to remain loyal to the Cuban revolution. Cuba Libre
  • Some users also expressed their disquiet at the changes on social media. Times, Sunday Times
  • He'd listened to Kiesler's precise summing up of the evidence with mounting disquiet. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • The lord knoweth, that euen now we are too much wearied and disquieted with the importunate and instant complaints of our subiects, insomuch that wee cannot at this present by any conuenient meanes release or dissolue the sayd prohibition, before wee be sufficiently informed by your maiesties ambassadors, of the satisfaction of our endamaged subiects. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Hypnotherapy can also help relieve profound feelings of disquiet or anxiety.
  • It seems openly talking about sexuality, especially women's sexuality, creates disquietude among the masses.
  • There is growing public disquiet about the cost of such policing.
  • More and more governments are having to step in and override these magistrates who arrogantly refuse to take note of public disquiet.
  • The most disquieting thing about the scofflaw spirit is its extreme infectiousness.
  • The Patent Office's adventurousness gratified biotechnologists, but it also disquieted many clerics.
  • The programmatic demands, for now, are more radically reformist than revolutionary, which makes their rejection all the more disquieting.
  • The rest of them ranged from disquieting to downright whacko!
  • Some of this is emanating from the usual sources on the lunatic left of journalism, but the allegations are retailed generally by those who want to believe them, under the guise of merely reporting disquiet.
  • Gossip sells—this is one of the points Mr. Epstein makes, staring in disquieted astonishment at the vast gossip industry with magazines, Internet sites, television shows and newspapers devoted to little else. Boulevardier's Delight
  • There is also disquiet about the cost of due diligence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Who in processe for the insufficience of the fruictes of the earthe, (whiche she tho gaue vntilled) and for default of other thynges, ganne falle at disquiete and debate emong themselues, and to auoied the inuasion of beastes, and menne of straunge borders, The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Taxpayers are picking up the bill despite public disquiet over MP perks. The Sun
  • I was instantly disquieted and remembered my neglect with regret.
  • No heart will be left unsatisfied; no spirit will mourn in unrequited love, for that happy region is the abode of love – of love without the defilements or the disquietudes of mortality, for there it is an everlasting, pure enjoyment. The Scottish Chiefs
  • The union has voiced its disquiet about the way the protest was handled.
  • The strength of the dollar is causing considerable disquiet on the Stock Exchange.
  • In the cuttings from the American papers which you have sent me I have read with great disquietude an article which says that, after all, the New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
  • It was a deeply disquieting experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over in the UK where plans are well underway to do just this, there's a growing groundswell of public disquiet.
  • Note, A great deal of disquiet is often given to the world by the restless ambition and implacable resentments of proud princes. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • It must be the summer air that affects me with feelings almost as disquieting as they are refreshing. Andersen's Fairy Tales
  • Another disquieting feature of the assessment report is the unsubstantiated claims of illness provided by the mother.
  • She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Because of the overwhelming (yet disquieting) response to my plea for questions, I will be caching them and answering a few each day.
  • THE clouds were gathering fast -- the waters were troubled -- and the approaching tumult and disquiet of all things in Carolina, clearly indicated the coming of that strife, so soon to overcast the scene -- so long to keep it darkened -- so deeply to impurple it with blood. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
  • There is growing public disquiet about the cost of such policing.
  • Taxpayers are picking up the bill despite public disquiet over MP perks. The Sun
  • Mr. Kelly also was "disquieted" by the lack of disclosure about Repo 105 in Lehman's securities filings. What Lehman's Central Players Knew
  • The disquieting situation between these two neighbouring countries looks set to continue.
  • The question of whether or not the killers qualify for freedom under the same agreement is one that has given rise to much public debate and disquiet.
  • It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied Archive 2007-03-01
  • And this is only a pale reflection of the extent of public disquiet and the belief that the prime minister was lying.
  • They know too, that an overly complicated life, one that keeps a person endlessly busy, always plugged-in, available and aimed at ticking off one more entry on their to-do list, can also be a life full of addiction, avoidance and disquiet. Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life
  • In other situations the publication of suspicions may unreasonably give rise to public disquiet and speculation.
  • That was the reason for her disquieting responses to the beautiful gifts and the disturbing change in her.
  • A few ago, cade vizier an pavise from an collaborative misanthropy scraps who was soft disquietingly kashmiri a groundbreaking skink surveying ruff our exploited, faithfully burbly untoothed zairean. Rational Review
  • He has a disquieting poem ‘The Conquest’, indicative of local distrust of the plainsman.
  • The disquieting situation between these two neighbouring countries looks set to continue.
  • “Titianus F.,” on the stone balustrade, which is one of the most Giorgionesque elements of the portrait, is disquieting, and most probably a later addition. The Earlier Work of Titian
  • The orchestra also stirred disquiet by playing contemporary music. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ollivier, the Prime-Minister, said openly: "The Government has no kind of disquietude; at no epoch has the maintenance of peace been more assured; on whatever side you look, you see no irritating question under discussion. The Duel Between France and Germany
  • And that brings me to another aspect of my disquiet which is that given these large charities are using similar advertising strategies to the RSPCA, and there is frequently a separate but similar Scottish version, are they also poaching funds that people in Scotland are assuming are going to help Scottish children? Wee Abused Scottish Beasties
  • But her symbolic stance emerges at a time when there is considerable disquiet over the imaging of children.
  • There was something oddly disquieting about this move. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is he also aware that there has been considerable disquiet over the proposed amalgamation of the St. Neots and Huntingdon bench?
  • I also remember as an elementary school student in the late 1970s that an assignment from my teacher caused me great disquietude and anxiety.
  • It also notes that'there is surprising absence of evidence of consumer disquiet about contingency fees '. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have always like comparing this to the Buddhist concept of "dukkha" or unsatisfactoriness, disquieted, uneasy .... the inherent wrongness of conscious life. Karen Kisslinger: Is Human Life a Mental Illness?
  • The second cause of his disquietude was the jealous hatred of Madame Campvallon toward the young rival she had herself selected. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • ‘Oh, God,’ Tash said, unable to hide her disquietude.
  • Investors were already nervous about an expected "day of rage" by protesters in Saudi Arabia, disquieted by reports late Thursday of police gunfire in the country's oil-rich east. Quake, Tsunami Throw More Uncertainty Onto U.S. Stocks
  • I say, then, that the first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit, that it shall not impel and tumultuate as formerly; that it shall not entice and draw aside; that it shall not disquiet and perplex the killing of its life, vigour, promptness, and readiness to be stirring. Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
  • But then something disquieting happens. Times, Sunday Times
  • He hoped that it would express disquiet at the circumstances of the Tully-West shooting and would call publicly for an independent inquiry.
  • The orchestra also stirred disquiet by playing contemporary music. Times, Sunday Times
  • Through the breathing hush of that dark hour which foreruns the dawn, that hour in which the head that knows a wakeful pillow is prone to sudden and disquieting apprehension of its insignificance and it's soul's dread isolation, the cab sped swiftly south upon the Avenue, shadowed reaches of the park upon its right, upon its left the dull, tired faces of those homes whose tenants lay wrapped in the cotton-wool of riches. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
  • I expressed the hopes of the international community with regard to the Pretoria peace accord, and my disquiet over the resumption of fighting and the 'goading' that endangers the accord," Michel told a press conference Sunday after a day of talks with DRC officials. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • And despite dire warnings of certain columnists alluded to above, Americans by and large do not seem overly disquieted by contemporary French trends.
  • Our laws should reflect this disquiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied. Archive 2008-04-01
  • The Soul is not to be disquieted, that is sees it self encompassed with darkness, because that is an instrument of its greater felicity. The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
  • But I have another source of disquietude which is unaccompanied with any alleviating circumstances. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
  • We inhabit a space of restless disquiet, and into that space popular culture introduces cathartic visions of disruptions, destructions, calamities, betrayals, gratifications, fulfillments and healings.
  • Perhaps you, too, were upset or disquieted by those photos of women holding hands with women, men flashing their matching wedding rings.
  • The invitation had prompted widespread disquiet after s crackdown on anti-government protests in Bahrain. Times, Sunday Times
  • The spooky music and lighting add to the disquieting, supernatural mood. Times, Sunday Times
  • I must say that bad news disquiet me a great deal.
  • Mostly, though, his opponents were disquieted by his notion that the world might be older than the biblical chronology would indicate.
  • Fact, in this instance, is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction.
  • Our laws should reflect this disquiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • So perhaps we can bluff it out and collect software by day leaving philosophical disquiet to the troubled night.
  • Wysing Arts Centre, Sun to 18 MarSkye SherwinFreud's portraits are hard, disquieting things, attuned to the tough reality of bare, veiny sprawling bodies and the jaundiced walls, gummy sheets and cruel furniture around them. This week's new exhibitions
  • In more established markets, the Japanese challenge has been disquieting.
  • THANKS, RON -- The Post editorial board writes again on the Brown allegations, lauding the U.S. attorney's office for having a look: It's a welcome move by U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen that hopefully presages a swift but thorough examination of charges that have disquieted the District. ... DeMorning DeBonis: March 11, 2011
  • Azrael sat very still in the dim, modest living room, contemplating the human female that disquieted him so deeply. Surrender the Dark
  • the disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire
  • Her work goes beyond pathos, and whilst it seems paradoxical to speak about beauty, or even to use an oxymoron like ‘terrible beauty’, her work has a disquieting elegance and poise.
  • He goes on: 'The viewer is left with that disquieting feeling. Times, Sunday Times
  • While this lack of stereospecificity does not establish that the oxidation is artefactual (the chiral centre is five bonds away from the aldehyde group) it was, nevertheless, cause for disquiet.
  • This affects my entire perception of the city, filling me with disquiet, antipathy and even a certain revulsion.
  • The last thing any hospital needs during a period of public disquiet is another type of scare to increase anxiety.
  • The rumour mill has not been short on tales of disquiet in the Gloucester coaching team. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite its popularity, there is growing disquiet about the behaviour of some of its guests and the lack of regulation covering its hosts. Times, Sunday Times
  • But another and different kind of disquietude kept them waking too. Dombey and Son
  • They are under a frightful apprehension of guilt and wrath, that they cannot enjoy themselves; when they seem settled they are in disquietude, when they seem merry they are in heaviness; like Cain, who always dwelt in the land of shaking. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • That the system is creaking adds to the disquiet and also makes it easier for Labour to offer an alternative that does not look fiscally irresponsible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ones encouragement of the electorate to be cross with the incumbent is the primary component and second is a posture designed to deflect existing disquiet about yourselves. A Wee Fib
  • Images taken by a veteran former police diver show something disquieting going on in the newly protected areas around Britain's shoreline. Times, Sunday Times
  • This photo was entirely different , and yet something about the scenario felt disquietingly familiar.
  • My husband and I looked at each other till we burst into tears, and our children observing our disquietude began to cry bitterly. Five Best: Susan J. Matt
  • There were even some among them who did not dance at all, but only felt an involuntary impulse to allay the internal sense of disquietude, which is the usual forerunner of an attack of this kind, by laughter, and quick walking carried to the extent of producing fatigue. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
  • I confess is not an entirely resolved disquiet but there it is. Problem : Some BNP supporters are decent people
  • There is considerable public disquiet about the safety of the new trains.
  • But a sense of disquiet came over me when he began his exertions.
  • Another reason for the disquiet is the stature of the author, admits David Benjamin, a former legal advisor to the Israeli army. Al-Ahram Weekly Online
  • If the government wins, it will fuel the mounting disquiet over the relatively paltry payments some soldiers are receiving for lifelong injuries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another area where there has been disquiet about the content of teen fiction is that of novels which engage with the realities of the world we live in today.
  • Is he also aware that there has been considerable disquiet over the proposed amalgamation of the St. Neots and Huntingdon bench?
  • We wish good recovery to the young victim and we hope that such incidents do not happen again in the future because they particularly disquieten us. '' Your Local Guardian | Sutton
  • While some people were comfortable with it, many more were disquieted, even deeply offended.
  • There is also disquiet about the cost of due diligence. Times, Sunday Times
  • But her symbolic stance emerges at a time when there is considerable disquiet over the imaging of children.
  • He expanded on her work - not always with her full approval - causing an increase in public disquiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • This many people liking something completely secular creates disquietude among the pew-cramming masses.
  • These characters may be inarticulate, their words awkward attempts to express existential disquiet.
  • -- This is indeed a weakness; but it is a weakness of nature, and which neither religion nor philosophy are sufficient to arm us against; and the very endeavours we make to banish, or at least to conceal our disquiets on this score, occasion a certain peevishness in the sweetest temper, and make us behave with a kind of churlishness, even to those most dear to us. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
  • His appointment caused disquiet among members.
  • Murphy acknowledged that he was aware of public disquiet over the matter and that his office was inundated with calls asking for the matter to be finalised.
  • Part of the disquieting effect produced by this monument results from the irony with which Michelangelo invested it, the degree to which representation has been subordinated to simulation and replication.
  • Do you find any trouble or disquiet in your body by the importunate stings and pricklings of the flesh? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • The rest of them ranged from disquieting to downright whacko.
  • The spooky music and lighting add to the disquieting, supernatural mood. Times, Sunday Times
  • It started with the creation of Alberta Health Services, the province-wide "superboard," and moved on from there to the increasing disquiet of the province's voters. Progressive Bloggers
  • Do not flatter yourselves that you should hold out; there are secret lusts that lie lurking in your hearts, which perhaps now stir not, which, as soon as any temptation befalls you, will rise, tumultuate, cry, disquiet, seduce, and never give over until they are either killed or satisfied. Of Temptation
  • The world depicted is a fascinating one, and we gaze upon it with rapt attention, even as the disquieting mood of the film keeps us ill at ease.
  • There has been considerable disquiet and unease since the news broke in September that the Patrician Brothers were closing the school.
  • The rubicund moon-head goes wagging; darker beams the copper visage, like unscoured copper; in the glazed eye is disquietude; he rolls uneasy in his seat, as if he meant something. The French Revolution
  • Six parts arrogance , three parts disquiet and one part guilt towards your late husband.
  • Images taken by a veteran former police diver show something disquieting going on in the newly protected areas around Britain's shoreline. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a deeply disquieting experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since Natura had been in what they call a settled state in the world, it had always been his custom to distinguish the anniversary of that day which gave him birth, by providing a polite entertainment for his friends and kindred: he had now attained to his fortieth year, and though it had been that in which he had known more poignant disquiets, than in any one of his whole life before; yet thinking that to neglect the observation of it now, would give occasion for remarks on his reasons for so doing, he resolved to treat it with the usual ceremony. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
  • Her father's visit to the US stirs up the unwanted memories and brings disquietude.
  • Azrael looked up, studying her gaze with a disquieted frown, then stared at the last shelf again. Surrender the Dark
  • Suddenly, they were assailed by a much more disquieting voice. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
  • They talk tough while their actions add to the numbers and so also to public disquiet about the scale of immigration.
  • In Britain, the growing discussion of women's sexuality raised its own disquiet.
  • This disquiet was increasingly directed at Francis Redwood, who was consecrated as Bishop of Wellington in 1874.
  • If they do not quite give us that disquieting feel of folly, they admirably convey the look of the thing. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It's summer break and Pete is disquieted by the fact that he won't make it into Heaven.

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy