agitation

Born into old New York money, he disdained the populist agitation that was sweeping the West.

When Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, America was shimmering with the stirrings of social agitation.

The threat of Russian military intervention combined with separatist agitation in eastern Ukraine already is bearing results.

The grassroots agitation in favor of Russia has become less spontaneous and more focused in recent days.

Instead of the agitation I had feared, I found myself able to paint there tranquilly.

In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.

When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.

Santa Cruz embraced him, with more agitation than his stately mien might have announced.

But agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.

The agitation for Tenant-Right in Ireland is destined to fail—in fact, has virtually failed already.