Sentence examples for nagging discontent from inspiring English sources
He is happier today than he was five years ago, although a seam of nagging discontent persists in songs like "The One I Can't Have," about his addiction to unavailable women.
The boredom and nagging discontent that drive Roman (Juan Pablo de Santiago) and Maru (Maria Deschamps), the fugitive teenage sweethearts in Gerardo Naranjo's small, jagged melodrama "I'm Gonna Explode," is palpable enough to make you squirm at the memory of being trapped in the limbo of early adolescence.
Where Mr. Altman's masterpiece portrayed American culture as a jostling, twangy carnival of honky-tonk dreams, "Traffic" is a sprawling multicultural jazz symphony of clashing voices sounding variations of the same nagging discontent.
So finally, Melissa's nagging discontent with her day job drove her to attend a weekend-long training focused on empowering women to craft happy, healthy, and sustainable careers.
In their early thirties, they want to want what they have—each other, a committed relationship but they are no more able to will away their nagging discontents than the narrator of "Bright Lights" was to refrain from snorting that final, inadvisable line.
If, however, the transition from one decade to the next is accompanied by nagging thoughts, feelings of discontent and growing desire for something which remains undefined and elusive, then its time to be still and listen!
Still, something is nagging.
