It means the deep, subtle sense of unsatisfactoriness which is a part of every mental treadmill.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

Of course, there are levels of unsatisfactoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dharma in Daily Life] Reference

She felt all the while an unsatisfactoriness, an unsoundness in the things he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

The second important opportunity is the possibility of experiencing pleasure without the after-taste of unsatisfactoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chade-Meng Tan: Have Your Karma and Eat Cake Too] Reference

The last of the four thoughts is of the unsatisfactoriness of samsara, which is the actual acknowledgement of difficulties and problems in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma] Reference

I have always like comparing this to the Buddhist concept of "dukkha" or unsatisfactoriness, disquieted, uneasy .... the inherent wrongness of conscious life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Kisslinger: Is Human Life a Mental Illness?] Reference

The artist, even if the greatest artistic attainments are granted him, has all the greater a sense of unsatisfactoriness or frustration as a creative personality to endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: the Wisdom of Finite Existence Study Day organised by the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford] Reference

The fleeting nature of beauty described by mono no aware derives from the three states of existence in Buddhist philosophy: unsatisfactoriness, impersonality, and most importantly in this context, impermanence.    From Wordnik.com.  [the ah-ness of things, of life, of love] Reference

The two stories, nearly contemporaneous in their production, offer a stimulating contrast in treatment, at the hands of two sharply contrasted writers, of much the same subject, -- the unsatisfactoriness of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Spencer's republished essays may be named, -- while they acknowledge some progress in details, disclose an undertone of growing conviction of the incompetency and unsatisfactoriness of our present modes of teaching and training.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

People are made to realize the uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of the affairs of this life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church] Reference

But he was now too deeply moved to trace a certain unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story] Reference

The unsatisfactoriness of leaving the question to be settled by the decision of the market has become increasingly plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement of Wage Disputes] Reference

But when the critic attempts to account for the unsatisfactoriness of forms he may consider the state of mind of the artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art] Reference

Its unsatisfactoriness lies in the possibility that it may gradually lead to a displacement of men by women in many employments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement of Wage Disputes] Reference

Nancy and Oliver, finding Sunday mails of a dilatory unsatisfactoriness, had made a compact to use the wire on that day instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young People's Pride] Reference

Master degree, ect .... you're still blind because you don't understand about suffering is caused by desires or unsatisfactoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [KI Media] Reference

There is, to begin with, the most frank and most moving recital of the weakness, the unsatisfactoriness, the transience of human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference

Consequently that vague disappointment is felt which most of us experience on attaining a long desired goal — the unsatisfactoriness of success!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ways of Men] Reference

And just because of the simple fact that you are human, you find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life which simply will not go away.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

Thus a lively consciousness of the unsatisfactoriness of a situation is the necessary prerequisite to its investigation; it furnishes the motive for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference

He had never been able to make it pay, and he had gone in seeming willingness to shuffle off the general unsatisfactoriness of it all on to other shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Skylights] Reference

The first act is in the nature of a prelude, and opens with a long soliloquy ( "Interrogo invano") by Faust, in which he laments the unsatisfactoriness of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

Their complaints are like the complaints which men make of the general unsatisfactoriness of human life; they are not meant to imply blame, or to plead for any change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Subjection of Women] Reference

Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

The only fact that lends any colour to Freycinet's supposition of prejudice, is that the Moniteur article of 27th Thermidor suggested a certain unsatisfactoriness about the charts sent home by Baudin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia] Reference

The explanation of the Natives 'Land Act, given to the Barolongs of Thaba Nchu by Mr. Dower, is so illuminative of the wretched unsatisfactoriness of the Act that the occasion certainly merits notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XI] Reference

He subjoined to these complaints of the unsatisfactoriness of a life of pleasure, lamentable statements of the misrule of the King, and the oppression of his government, the arbitrary punishments of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference

"Yes, you may read now," said Mrs. Corey, with one of those sighs which perhaps express a feminine sense of the unsatisfactoriness of husbands in general, rather than a personal discontent with her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference

For I was indeed downcast in soul when I saw in a great multitude the almost brutish and unreasonable insensibility of the people, and the inveterate and ineradicable unsatisfactoriness of their leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

The unsatisfactoriness of science leads Faust to seek repose in worldly pleasure; it led Dante to find it in faith, of whose efficacy the short-coming of all logical substitutes for it was the most convincing argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

But, the worthy Mr Boffin jogged away with a comfortless impression he could have dispensed with, that there was a deal of unsatisfactoriness in the world, besides what he had recalled as appertaining to the Harmon property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Let me here pause for a moment to compare my view of the true remedy for the present unsatisfactoriness of women's lives, and the consequent wastage of baby lives, with those remedies now so commonly put forward by the reformers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards] Reference

Any gain in the cheapness of the editions produced would be more than offset by their unsatisfactoriness: they would, in the majority of cases, be untrustworthy as to accuracy or completeness, and be hastily and flimsily manufactured.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Copyright Considered in some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy] Reference

"It is indeed," said Mrs. Davilow, able to assent with quiet cheerfulness, for she was so well satisfied with the actual situation of affairs that her habitual melancholy in their general unsatisfactoriness was altogether in abeyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

A certain unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference

Its hollowness and unsatisfactoriness, 550.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference