How To Use Disconcert In A Sentence
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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.
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Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
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That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
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looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
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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.
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Titian with Duccio, for example - making them consecutive leads to disconcerting contiguities before and aft, Crivelli with Campin, Velázquez with Stubbs...
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But since she'd considered herself relatively fit, she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time.
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The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit.
Chapter 42
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It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
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The ambassador was clearly disconcerted by the British reaction.
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There was a most disconcerting wobble to the steering.
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Grieve suggests that brave good-faith have-a-go heroes will not face arrest, and then in disconcerting non sequitor that once arrested, investigated and passed to the CPS good intentions will be a factor in deciding what next.
Con-Watch: Have-a-Go-Hero Dominic Grieve
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Expecting the idiosyncratic, the bizarre, possibly the androgyne, they were disconcerted when confronted with what
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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There's no cause to be "disconcerted" by this, and neither is there any reason to obscure the real uncertainties and open questions that scientists are working on.
RealClimate
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Others, shaping to play defensively, were beaten by turn and Steve Kirby was disconcerted by a ball that spun the other way.
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And, besides, it's such good fun to see how one virtuous man can so disconcert you captains of industry and arbiters of destiny.
THEFT
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The sense of time lapse is disconcerting, seemingly reliant on the drama evoked by the size of the projected images rather than the impact of the work itself.
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Mediaset, however, said it is "disconcerted" by the commission's decision and will appeal at the European Court of Justice.
EU Clears Sky Italia's Entry Into Free Digital TV Market
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The initial sense of holding the reins but having no contact with the horse's body is disconcerting, a bit like washing your feet with your socks on.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stood outside to get windswept, missed the commentary and walked ashore to discover that Rottnest Island is overrun with quokkas - long tailed, short faced, round-eared marsupials that look disconcertingly like giant rats.
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It produces stunning, if rather disconcerting, red cider and juice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Up close and personal can be disconcerting.
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After dinner we went to the library in case we still had no power (when you live in the country the absolute pitch black of a nighttime power outage is a little disconcerting with small, squirrely, active children) and then came home to lights and Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Lights Out! The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Men…Cheerio Chocolate Chip Cookies
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And undoubtedly, their mysterious, indefinable quality is the source of their disconcerting power.
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He would have disconcerted the foreign powers, augmented his popularity, centuplicated his forces: but on the first of June it was too late: the additional act had appeared.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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Rational Review
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I still find this extremely disconcerting so I went in search of a solitary place to relax.
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It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
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Do not be disconcerted if your insurer appoints a loss adjuster.
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Disconcertingly, these could retract completely into their platelike central bodies and reemerge elsewhere.
Lost And Found
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Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle
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But he tends to leave an impression of intellectual dishonesty, a disconcerting lack of sincerity.
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But it can be a bit disconcerting for the other player at the table.
The Sun
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Shayne, disconcerted by the sudden invitation, answered quickly, "That would take a bit of negotiation with my husband."
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Dealers would not show him, as he had a disconcerting habit of giving his paintings away for free, and he openly showed his scorn for them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, Leo, it's always disconcerting to be shafted by someone you care about.
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It is a disconcerting moment, not least because Felix looks very like his father - the same warm eyes, perpetual half-smile and toothy jowliness.
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When designer Rei Kawakubo tucks pillows under blouses and shows her collection in utter silence, simple clothes become disconcerting theater.
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Some users have found this disconcerting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Either way, these commentators must be feeling more than slightly disconcerted.
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As someone who has made her name deconstructing the minutiae of the high street, she was disconcertingly long on concept and short on detail of her own business.
TV review: Mary Queen of Frocks; Transplant
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With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate.
Ramsey Milholland
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It's a bit disconcerting, but intriguing.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a disconcerting habit of coming on stage dressed in a red Lycra superhero costume, he seems to set the tone for the rest of the night.
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She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
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Hitching the blanket more firmly into place, laying a hand on his wide shoulder which was as disconcertingly warm, smooth-skinned, and heavily muscled as his arm to steady herself, she gritted her teeth and put the flame to his flesh with no more roundaboutness.
Shameless
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It is a disconcerting, even radical book, and its central subject, as in much of Warner's work, is the inherent strangeness of the self, resistant to control, insusceptible to coercion, demanding one way or another to be discovered and demanding more after that.
Authors and others
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Nato's smaller fish may find this disconcerting and expensive but they need to get used to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your first step onto the revolving disc that holds the tables can be a bit disconcerting and it's easy to get lost as your seat sidles away while you're loading up your plate.
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The mild drum & bass mix gives a sense of fracturing and reassembling, but not to the point where it's disconcerting.
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There is a very simple solution if you find this disconcerting: get down there and do it for her.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Golden Bird House, a similarly disconcerting picture, scumbled ocher brushstrokes fill the sky behind a white turretlike construction resting atop a pole.
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There's something slightly disconcerting about rappers reaching the ripe old age of 40.
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People are disconcerted, even frightened by that kind of lack of personal control.
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The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
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While ignored by the bullish contingent, we will highlight recent data on corporate debt quality that is quite disconcerting.
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In appropriate touching, staring, and verbiage is also upsetting, disconcerting, or distracting to many people as well.
Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?
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It is, in fact, the immobility and abstraction of the Discharged Soldier that disconcerts the onlooker: no visibility is to be found here in the eye of the seer.
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
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Their remake of the 1969 John Wayne semiclassic hews faithfully to Charles Portis' laconically funny novel, adding just a few Coenesque moments of irony, disconcerting violence and grotesquerie.
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I get a bit disconcerted when he's not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not just cute and beguiling, Pilkington's sculptures are slightly off-centre being both disarming and disconcerting.
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‘There is a disconcerting symmetry between Prozac and Ritalin,’ he writes.
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But the family may find some of your plans disconcerting so factor in time to talk things through.
The Sun
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After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
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It was especially disconcerting to watch my wife being rolled into the gapping mouth of a machine centrally located in an otherwise barren room.
Paul Kerr: My Beautiful Bald Wife
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I do feel qualified to offer a personal view of some disconcerting aspects of how politicians and big business conspire to run the show.
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And the Church finds that very disconcerting at a troubling time like this.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was aware that this was disconcerting to those who had called to condole.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Reading his book over a century later, in an age that has sentimentalised illness and therapy, his remarks sound disconcertingly moderate.
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In long passages both bawdy and fantastic, we are shown how the feminine principle makes nonsense of all forms of statecraft, including even the cleverest ones adumbrated in The Prince, and how the distance between the boudoir and the bordello or zenana or harem is disconcertingly short.
Cassocks and Codpieces
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I've always been disconcerted as to why cities fall all over themselves trying to win the burden of the Olympics.
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And that's why it was a bit disconcerting.
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As an author, I can say that there is nothing more disconcerting than to read numerous paragraphs in another book that are hauntingly similar paraphrases of one's own work.
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It produces stunning, if rather disconcerting, red cider and juice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole experience had disconcerted him.
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It's disconcerting, coming from a city where you orient yourself by the river.
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What is truly disconcerting about the story is the result of the fall, and the divine purpose behind it.
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unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development
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In many a laboured scene of the wannest humour and of the most affecting passion I have seen the best actors disconcerted, while these buzzing muscatos have been fluttering round their eyes and ears.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
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Not because there is no advance warning of the subject matter, though that is disconcerting enough.
The Sun
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The division between the first and the second half is marked by a disconcerting jolt in the flow of the film, and the ambiguous ending may infuriate.
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Edie hesitated, and shook her head, being too disconcerted to say anything.
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There's something faintly disconcerting about watching a former financial guru revert to the language of a woolly-headed students' union rally.
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I find it disconcerting that it's legal to advertise these dating sites on programs used predominantly by teenagers and pre-teens.
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As we sprinted away from home plate, I found myself in the disconcerting position of being a step behind the old crock.
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I think yankeesue was referring to HSI because I went to their site, too, and found no staff listing, and even more disconcerting is that when I hit “contact us”, I got the following error message:
Wonk Room » CD-ROM Converter Service Center HSI Doubles As The GOP’s Favorite ‘Academic Think Tank’
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It's as if gay men represent something so primally unsettling, so disconcerting on some primordial, preverbal level, that violence becomes, for some heterosexual men, the instinctive response.
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But what touched her was the serenity, even gaiety of his old age—“Being always perfectly happy, he had a charm about him”—and his fondness for disconcertingly simpleminded jokes, something he had always shared more readily with colleagues than he could with his own family “Kill Sydenstricker!” went a favorite one-liner passed round the missionaries of North Kiangsu.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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There are a number of disconcerting issues apparent in this undertaking.
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No level of incompetence or failure would either exasperate or disconcert him.
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Far more disconcerting than their deaths was the unclear or “vapory” meaning of their lives.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes.
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But there are strong links and similarities in this instance which are slightly disconcerting.
The Sun
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Suddenly they stop, disconcerted by the noise of disturbed leaves.
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His aggressive pleasure was disconcerting, though hardly blameworthy given the open-ended terms of the experiment.
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She is a brave woman, whom nothing dejects or disconcerts, which is the living proof that we are only valued according to the force and versatility of the inner consciousness.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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For us, it is the most disconcerting and the most ambiguous piece in the entire Mass with its use of the old discant technique.
Archive 2009-04-01
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In a tremulous state of dissatisfaction with himself — that any such grisly thought should have dared to obtrude itself upon him in this way — he got up and lit the lamp — re-read this disconcerting item in as cold and reprobative way as he could achieve, feeling that in so doing he was putting anything at which it hinted far from him once and for all.
An American Tragedy
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Equally disconcerting is the increase in unrelated transplants in the last two years and the pressure it has put on women.
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It's getting a bit disconcerting, to be honest.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may disconcert the prevailing image of Jefferson the empiricist to observe that he also devoted his life to a religious project.
The Chosen Peoples
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My sounds seemed momentarily to disconcert the boar, and while he halted and shifted his weight with indecision, an apparition burst upon us.
CHAPTER III
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This new benignity and tolerance a little disconcerted him.
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This again disconcerted me; and the spirits I had determined to exert, again failed me.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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Its blackness was disconcerting, an inkiness that looked as if it could swallow you whole.
The Elf Queen of Shannara
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That warrior, nothing disconcerted, pursued his way to the island of Zante, where he fell in with a Turkish "flota," under the command of the Bashas
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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I also know this, which is even more disconcerting: That two of the principles that have made this country exceptional -- the free press and the idea of representational government -- have inexplicably, impossibly, been, if not quelled, then stifled.
Bad Shakespeare
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Quentin, although rather surprised, was at the same time pleased with the ready, or at least the unrepugnant acquiescence of Hayraddin in their change of route, for he needed his assistance as a guide, and yet had feared that the disconcerting of his intended act of treachery would have driven him to extremity.
Quentin Durward
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It is somewhat disconcerting to find her an embodiment of French chic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Samantha Womack, who exited EastEnders after its contentious baby-snatching storyline, is larky in voice and sparky in demeanour but and this can't have been due to her broken toe has a disconcerting habit of swinging her arms up and down as if trying to take off.
One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review
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Odo smiled without teeth, knowing that the expression disconcerted the Farruna.
Proud Helios
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It's disconcertingly riddled with inconsistent spellings, clunky syntax and other editing botches.
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Since her eyes were usually downcast, it could be slightly disconcerting when she raised them and looked at you directly.
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For some reason, the editor has started to greet me with a growl, which can be a little on the disconcerting side for an equable chap like me.
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Iris opened it to find a youngish dark-haired woman outside, who looked disconcerted at the appearance of a stranger.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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She was aware that this was disconcerting to those who had called to condole.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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However much we may be cognizant of the vagaries and the incertitudes of its testimony, it continues to afford us a disconcerting awareness that the past is different from the present.
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There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there are strong links and similarities in this instance which are slightly disconcerting.
The Sun
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Needless to say, the cumulative effect of this patchwork approach to narrative is both disconcerting and slightly depressing.
Times, Sunday Times
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She thought she was relieved not to be spending the night in the grim, gloomy old brownstone where, she imagined, the ghost of Lionel Luthor still ruled, but the apartment was… disconcerting.
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• Changes at News International, where James Murdoch, discombobulated perhaps by the phone-hacking revelations, devises new ways to disconcert his underlings.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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This can be slightly disconcerting at first.
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The initial sense of holding the reins but having no contact with the horse's body is disconcerting, a bit like washing your feet with your socks on.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the curiosity - dealer, who plainly had not expected his uncouth visitor, seemed disconcerted and embarrassed.
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What Chaterji found disconcerting was the time consuming preoccupation with technology.
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It's getting a bit disconcerting, to be honest.
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The whole experience had disconcerted him.
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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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Sister Ursula the hospitaler was a tall, thin woman perhaps fifty years old, with a lined, experienced face at once serene, resigned, and even mildly amused, as if she had seen and come to terms with all the vagaries of human behaviour, and nothing could now surprise or disconcert her.
The Confession of Brother Haluin
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We explored a bit before lunch, but there's something disconcerting about seeing a medieval village crammed with tourists and tacky art galleries.
Times, Sunday Times
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To someone who has always been completely in control, or tried to be, this was, and still is, very disconcerting.
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Initially I found it slightly disconcerting to have dozens of sad fish eyes staring up.
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We explored a bit before lunch, but there's something disconcerting about seeing a medieval village crammed with tourists and tacky art galleries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite being labeled a paranoid schizophrenic, it's Noah's personality -- foul-mouthed, funny and disconcertingly intuitive -- that defines him, not his diagnosis.
Dennis Palumbo: Who (and What) Defines Normal?
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I changed my mind and disconcerted her plan.
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She may be surprised, disconcerted; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man.
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Rational Review
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The two women looked on without uttering a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the Bishop.
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Disconcertingly, spanking in childhood also is associated with approval of hitting a spouse and increased marital conflict.
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It is disconcerting, however, that two-thirds of the menus here offer variants on pork dishes.
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In essence, this makes the mouse pointer disappear disconcertingly when the pointer is moved on the pad.
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Her paintings are all from an aerial viewpoint - as a viewer you look down on a washed, subtly disconcerting landscape.
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Evelyn was momentarily disconcerted by his response, until she saw his eyes focussing on her neck.
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The nanosecond you receive deeply disconcerting news, pay attention to your reaction, and honor your upset.
Dr. Cara Barker: Tapping Your Inner Strength in Troubling Times
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Everyone is familiar with how a song will bring back a time and place with disconcerting vividness.
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It is just slightly disconcerting that nobody is sure of plan A yet.
Times, Sunday Times
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One thing which I find disconcerts some women, and is even a matter of grave concern, is that, at times, their hair falls out.
How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade
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Dealers would not show him, as he had a disconcerting habit of giving his paintings away for free, and he openly showed his scorn for them.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is something profoundly disconcerting about these 1940s mugshots and, I suppose, the idea of having a collection of them.
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My first impression that there was something disconcertingly spartan about the room was reinforced after a bit of tortured thought.
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Galligan said last week he was "disconcerted" by Lieberman's statement at a Thursday news conference that effectively declared Hasan guilty of the shootings.
Senate committee subpoenas gov't over Fort Hood shooting
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This kind of theatre is what is meant by the term ‘edgy’ - fresh, in-your-face, a little disconcerting.
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This willingness to see formally accomplished prose as a means to camouflage empty thought is disconcerting.
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Some will find these similarities comforting, while others will find them disconcerting.
Christianity Today
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It is also disconcerting that quite a few intended runners have been withdrawn at short notice.
Times, Sunday Times
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In essence, this makes the mouse pointer disappear disconcertingly when the pointer is moved on the pad.
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Compulsive early music fanatics might be disconcerted by the variety of composition and performance styles.
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In the opening scene, a commuter waiting in an otherwise empty Metro station is disconcerted by a conversation with a character played by Gerard Depardieu, in which the latter talks of his dreams of murder and displays a potential weapon -- a flick-knife.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Brad: “What I find disconcerting is that we actually ran a $900,000 trade deficit with Canada in live turkeys in the first half of this year!”
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The viewer is offered a disconcerting view right up his nostrils.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, they used the front door so infrequently that when they did, their mothers were disconcerted.
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He was disconcerted to hear that she wanted a pink living room, but he followed her lead, draping the room's three sets of French doors and two windows in striped pink taffeta.
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But even when gastronomic curiosity overcomes fear, it can be disconcerting to discover that the most highly prized and delicious ones (the morel, the cep and the chanterelle, for example) have poisonous lookalikes.
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His tone seemed to genuinely disconcert some of the protesters.
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Any husband who would be "disconcerted" by having a wife capable of finding interesting and original things to say to people would be way too insecure and twat-like to pull such a social competent in the first place.
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He was disconcerted to find his fellow diners already seated.
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a friend of mine pointed me to this article and said that a political science class that he was in in the 60s did an exercise to demonstrate to the students exactly this sort of bias in themselves, which was nontrivially disconcerting especially for those like Marxists who flatter themselves that their world views are based on constant challenging of their own thesis…
Partisan Thinkers Don’t Use Reasoning
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After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject.
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It is a sort of derivative which disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists.
Les Miserables
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Here's some blah-blah from the table of contents about it: ‘As robots become more anthropomorphic, they are engaging with us in disconcertingly emotional ways.’
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Khan slips clear of an advancing Peterson and then catches the challenger with a right that disconcerts his opponent.
Lamont Peterson beats Amir Khan - as it happened! | Steve Busfield
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We explored a bit before lunch, but there's something disconcerting about seeing a medieval village crammed with tourists and tacky art galleries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Disconcert: The cat's cold stare disconcerted me.
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There's something undeniably disconcerting about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most disconcertingly, many of their public statements are Bush 43 redux, a smorgasbord of overly-optimistic platitudes utterly dichotomized from economic realities.
Sheldon Filger: Obama's Economic Crisis Team is Full of Green Shoots
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These disconcerting interjections of human speech into an otherwise depopulated realm help illuminate an ambiguous statement about technology in Omit's work.
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From face to face and speaker to speaker his eyes would turn, boring like gimlets of incandescent ice, disconcerting and perturbing.
The Mexican
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What's most disconcerting is that these men are lying to themselves -- not about their complicity, but about their ostensible anti-communism.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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His vague reply disconcerted us completely.
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Anyway, something about the call disconcerted me, and it took me a while to realize what it was ...
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It's very disconcerting - a kind of fizzing ache that starts around mid-thigh and gets worse going down towards my feet.
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I get a bit disconcerted when he's not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever was flashing through the visibly disconcerted president's mind, he could not come up with a direct answer.
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He nodded, somewhat disconcerted by his mother's sudden generosity, and jogged up the stairs.
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And on the simplest level, there was a disconcerting clash between the postmodern textuality dispensed by the singers and the humble captions on the screen.
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It was his quietness which disconcerted her.
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The young American bemoaned the wet and cold of the Pennines, disconcerted by their bleakness that inspired the Brontes more than a century before.
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There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition.
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I’ve let her try, but her ardour is somewhat disconcerting.
Bank Of VaJayJay | Her Bad Mother
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Howarth had a disconcerting glimpse of the barely controlled aggression beneath the mask of casual good humour.
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R'shiel smiled briefly, then focused her disconcerting eyes on the Kariens.
TREASON KEEP
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Aren't you worried some of your early fans might get disconcerted by this?
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He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic.
Demons and Dictionaries
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Either way, these commentators must be feeling more than slightly disconcerted.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was a little disconcerted by his reply.
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The SEC has yet to issue a ruling, though it's disconcerting to note that SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro has been notably solicitous of unions in her two-year tenure.
Raise My Company's Taxes
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Having a horse coming at them, especially at the canter, can be extremely disconcerting to the ex-racer.
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Except the one night before my marriage, I'd never stayed in a hotel, and I was disconcerted when Pete leapt out of bed at 7am to get to his ship by eight.
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Needless to say, the cumulative effect of this patchwork approach to narrative is both disconcerting and slightly depressing.
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