Sentence examples for a discontented man. from inspiring English sources

A discontented man finds no easy chair.

By Norman Matson The New Yorker, November 24 , 1934P. 18 A discontented man with a house in Long Island that has a finished basement with a bar, gets talking in a tavern - wailing at how unhappy he is.

Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, the protagonist of No 50 (The Garden) is a discontented man who digs down in his garden looking for the meaning of life, only to find himself back where he began.

He is a tense, discontented man, with a highly developed sense of irony.

Nobel was a melancholic, discontented man, with problems of his own.

In the dark comedy Arthur Newman (2012), he starred as a discontented family man who fakes his death and embarks on a journey under an assumed identity.

In early 1888, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle called it "a big, bare, dingy place, where all the year round discontented men meet to discuss their wrongs".

Packaging age-old reactionary machismo with sophisticated, academic language, he is the perfect intellectual icon for young, discontented men involved in the radical right.

Studies have shown sexually discontented men were constantly questioning the woman's desires and they feel as if they should just stop trying to seduce her.

Maybe part of the job is teaching them the value of contentment in a discontented, grasping, climbing world".

In "Nigora" Adam Thirlwell uses a discontented wife's musings about the men in her life, past and present and future, to chart this woman's disappointments and hopes, and to delineate her own sense of self.