How To Use Disquietude In A Sentence
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Even worse, the disquietude grows when we learn of the unavoidability of certain occurrences, such as our Earth becoming engulfed by a dying sun, or a massive comet colliding head-on with catastrophic consequences.
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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
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But another and different kind of disquietude kept them waking too.
Dombey and Son
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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)
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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
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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
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This many people liking something completely secular creates disquietude among the pew-cramming masses.
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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
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Her father's visit to the US stirs up the unwanted memories and brings disquietude.
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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.
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The persistent experience of disquietude in the book returns us to Said's appeal for ‘unending disclosure, discovery, self-criticism, and liberation’ as the basis of a critical humanism - and art.
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Rather, he expressed his moral disquietude about a long-ago decision that traded on class status.
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Still, at the heart of this mania for things American, perhaps more unconscious than conscious, is a deep disquietude.
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These beginnings of summer, always so alike, deluded me into thinking that in spite of my occasional fears my childhood would be indefinitely prolonged; but I no longer felt "joy at waking;" a sort of disquietude, such as oppresses one when he has left his duty undone, weighed upon me more and more heavily each morning when I thought that time was flying, that the vacation would soon be over, and that I still lacked the courage to come to a decision in regard to my future.
The Story of a Child
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As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me.
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To love only to seek - on condition of never finding - to want only disquietude, that is to hate truth.
ProLifeBlogs
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The feminist disquietude was not alleviated by the new rabbi's first pre-Yom Kippur sermon.
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One would not imagine her WASP nervous system is sufficiently developed to register disquietude, but one would be mistaken.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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‘Oh, God,’ Tash said, unable to hide her disquietude.
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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
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I also remember as an elementary school student in the late 1970s that an assignment from my teacher caused me great disquietude and anxiety.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It seems openly talking about sexuality, especially women's sexuality, creates disquietude among the masses.
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I ask again, trying to laugh off the disquietude the question has created.
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Given the disquietude, substance abuse is an easy lure, as is the pressure for early sexual activity.
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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
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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.
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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
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He notes, with some disquietude, the decline in publication of case studies of smaller communities, where most nineteenth-century Americans lived and worked.
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As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me.