disconcert

How To Use disconcert In A Sentence

• IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
• Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
• That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
• looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
• In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
• Titian with Duccio, for example - making them consecutive leads to disconcerting contiguities before and aft, Crivelli with Campin, Velázquez with Stubbs... Evening Standard - Home
• But since she'd considered herself relatively fit, she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time.
• The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
• It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
• The ambassador was clearly disconcerted by the British reaction.