He has four quarrelsome siblings in various states of discontent.
Lombardi's art anticipated this state of psychological discontent and paranoia.
But to see it that way requires an outsider's lens ("a state of useful discontent," Howe calls it, though I prefer Danilo Ki‰' phrase: "a troubling strangeness").
Mr. Kelly is "positive" but not smug, saying that "complacency" is not in his vocabulary and that he follows the Gordon Selfridge mantra: "Always approach your work in a state of happy discontent".
The schlumpy Vanya (does anyone else wear a nightshirt these days?) makes a good assignment for Bruce Randolph Nelson, who taps into the guy's state of contented discontent.
The third kind of vote is perfectly understandable in a tight election in a battleground state, but message of discontent isn't likely to get through.
But Mr Yang's high-profile rebellion has won sympathy even in the state-controlled press.Rumblings of discontent over the one-child policy have been growing louder, stirred by debate over whether it is needed now that the first children born under it face the prospect of caring for an ever-increasing number of pensioners.
In 1993, with "nothing that I could rightly point to as a book in progress" and in a "state of indecision and discontent," Talese is invited by Tina Brown to join The New Yorker "as the 'writer at large,' which was the title she had bestowed upon Norman Mailer when he had worked with her at Vanity Fair".
But, the differentiating moments of the Grammys this time around, because of the current state of disunion and discontent in America, were statements either made in accepting awards or in performances.
Yet mindful of discontent, the state has dug deeply into its cash holdings.
