restlessness
Example Sentences
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He’s never settled into a particular genre and, perhaps due to that wide-ranging restlessness, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be awarding him an honorary Oscar in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
As a musician, the sounds escaping his horn seemed to rise from some far larger, internal furnace of intellectual and spiritual restlessness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Stability, analysts say, can breed its own restlessness - particularly among younger voters less invested in legacy narratives and more drawn to renewal.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
By filtering such a common feeling through a strange and delightfully unsettling narrative lens, “By Design” contends with our modern restlessness in far more memorable fashion than many big-budget, big-idea films of the last year.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
Maggie swallowed any restlessness and concentrated on her French grammar.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
