unfinishedness

Burke notes qualities such as unfinishedness or ruination, magnitude, difficulty or impossibility, and even "sad and fuscous colours" as symptomatic of the Sublime.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Art frees you from the infuriating unfinishedness of the real world.

The Angriest Man In Television 2008

Art frees you from the infuriating unfinishedness of the real world.

The Angriest Man In Television 2008

I love the general state of unfinishedness about the campus: there is always a new building going up or renovations taking place.

Campus Love Letter 2006

I love the general state of unfinishedness about the campus: there is always a new building going up or renovations taking place.

Archive 2006-04-01 2006

Looking at the work of Eva Hesse at the Jewish Museum yesterday I was struck by this sense of both completeness and unfinishedness I know that isn't a word...

Archive 2006-06-01 Lemon Hound 2006

Looking at the work of Eva Hesse at the Jewish Museum yesterday I was struck by this sense of both completeness and unfinishedness I know that isn't a word...

The desire for a sense of "completeness" Lemon Hound 2006

The artist discovers her own unfinishedness in the work.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist 2005

Which might explain the slight, yet far from disconcerting air of unfinishedness about that first album though the cause is just as likely to have been the explosion of ideas that clearly occurred in the studio after the inspirational Roxanne had been recorded.

Reggatta de Blanc 1979

There is usually a degree of unfinishedness about him.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various