Sentence examples for discontentment from inspiring English sources

The Tories had furthest to fall, having swept the last major local election in 2009, and, as the main ruling party, were an obvious target for mid-term discontentment.

"Everybody loves a rebel," explains Andrew Bolton, the curator of "Punk: Chaos to Couture", a new exhibition about the role of punk in fashion, now on view at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Economic uncertainty and political discontentment in the 1970s helped spur the anti-establishment aesthetic of punk, which flourished in London and New York.

However, the nationalistic, xenophobic far right which often embodied an open or thinly veiled anti-Semitism while capitalizing on economic dislocation and discontentment with immigration gained considerable political power in countries such as Greece and Hungary.

If this year's general election taught us anything, it's that there's discontentment amongst the electorate.

For many businesses in the design sector, there is a growing discontentment with the standard of goods produced in the Far East.

But there is unprecedented discontentment in Hong Kong over the scramble for public resources.

With me in that Bundesbahn car, which had, I suppose, survived the war — within me — was a certain grain of discontentment.

The vision of marital discontentment, and of the loneliness and hopelessness at the core of William's and Clare's characters, might have the effect, on the reader who takes literature too much to heart, of terror.

For it has been a winter of discontent for us, a particularly hard one in more than three decades of discontentment.

Lubow digs deeper, but without shedding much more light than either of his predecessors on her art or the deep discontentments that fuelled it.

Like Bonnard, Vuillard was a painter not of domestic life but of the evanescence of the pleasures and discontentments of domestic life, a different thing.