How To Use Disconcerting 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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That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
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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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It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
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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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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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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.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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Disconcertingly, these could retract completely into their platelike central bodies and reemerge elsewhere.
Lost And Found
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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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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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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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It's a bit disconcerting, but intriguing.
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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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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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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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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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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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And that's why it was a bit disconcerting.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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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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His aggressive pleasure was disconcerting, though hardly blameworthy given the open-ended terms of the experiment.
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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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Its blackness was disconcerting, an inkiness that looked as if it could swallow you whole.
The Elf Queen of Shannara
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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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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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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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This can be slightly disconcerting at first.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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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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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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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.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is just slightly disconcerting that nobody is sure of plan A yet.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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More disconcerting are the targets for reducing undiagnosed HIV.
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That this in no way reduces his sanguine view of future economic prospects is as unbelievable as it is disconcerting.
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It serves as the local church now, and it's a little disconcerting to see the homely parish notices posted up in such an imposing edifice.
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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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My discovery, disconcerting though it was, gave me a penetrating insight into style.
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But the untractableness, the avarice, and indiscretion of the parties concerned, broke through all his measures; and to prevent the entire disconcerting of them, he hastened his departure for Mexico, where he arrived May 14, 1717.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
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The situation was so disconcerting to Wade that he suffered a nervous breakdown and went on disability.
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And that's why it was a bit disconcerting.
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This story about confirming if a cat was dead has reminded me of a very disconcerting event in Englishcombe near Bath no, not a badger story.
How to confirm if a cat's dead.
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It was disconcerting to see that polished diplomat, always so unctuous and self-assured, show such a visible sign of distress.
KING OF DREAMS
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Still, even that slim of a chance could be slightly disconcerting seeing that the pesky asteroid that hit the Earth 250 million years ago was likely the cause of 90 percent of life on the planet dying off also, as a worrywart points out to me, those are better odds than winning the lottery.
Doomsday Apophis asteroid? Could the Earth be on a collision course?
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This can be slightly disconcerting at first.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't you find it disconcerting when you have someone literally five centimetres from your face, peering into your eyes with a torch?
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The fact that such a climacteric event of our history is not being taught is disconcerting.
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I must confess that I have always found the concept of symbolic realism to be somewhat disconcerting.
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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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He said: ‘It was disconcerting when people started wandering around with masks on and everything was being cleaned and sanitised.’
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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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he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her
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Some will find these similarities comforting, while others will find them disconcerting.
Christianity Today
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Nothing is quite so disconcerting as the idea of stammering or stopping short.
Poise: How to Attain It
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For homeowners shelling out $800,000, that cartographical anonymity must have been disconcerting.
IT'S THE ROAD NOW TAKEN
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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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This grating noise can be very disconcerting and is one of the biggest reasons, besides pain, that members present for treatment.
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Crewdson's pictures of the last decade offer tableau representations of a suburbia - sometimes faked through tine use of scale models gone disconcertingly off track.
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It was rather disconcerting sitting with my eyes closed for so long and I started to feel really out of body and spacey.
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It was a little disconcerting because he was just bawling his eyes out.
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In the midst of an interesting Spiked essay on the disconcerting popularity of “denier” (as in “Holocaust denier”) as an increasingly broad descriptor for people who demur from the majority view on issues like climate change, Frank Furedi has a passing remark about how we increasingly tend to suppress overtly moral rhetoric, to conceal the normative claims we’re making:
How Inappropriate!
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The first bite of this little cookie of almond-enriched meringue reveals sweet and reassuring buttercream… then the disconcerting jolt of musky, earthy white truffles.
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Ms Rice said it had been "deeply disconcerting" that Russia had tried to "dismember
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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It is a disconcerting thought, given how much is at stake.
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Specters sometimes drifted throughout the area, watching him with disconcertingly blank faces of incorporeal ectoplasm and dematerializing seconds later.
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P.S. - I set up that foot-tall figure of Pope John Paul II, and it's a tad disconcerting at first to be engaged in deviant sexual practices while he stares blithely on, but then you figure it's cool that he's watching and still just blessing it, and that's pretty cool.
July 13th, 2006
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his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly
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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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This time Hearts wanted him, too, but for a man searching for stability, the Tynecastle club's current state of flux must have been disconcerting.
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Some women find this method disconcerting because the period they have each month while on the pill is reassurance that they haven't become pregnant.
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But it was so markedly unlike her – noisy, chaotic, bright, messy, playful – daycare that it was almost disconcerting: quiet (although clearly happy and engaged) children busy with quiet activity, all in coded dress (nothing extreme, just variations on navy blue and white kiddy ensembles) and all seeming more mature than their three-plus years.
To Montessori, Or Not To Montessori | Her Bad Mother
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Slightly disconcerting, but most enjoyable - which is the way nostalgia should always be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Waking up at 2: 30 without the power to fall back into slumber is disconcerting.
Archive 2006-10-01
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An odd looking assembly of musicians then clutter the Hollow's general performing area sporting several guitars, violins and a couple of disconcerting beards.
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And as someone who has been through hurricanes both as a reporter and also just kind of hunkered down inside homes, it can be very disconcerting when you're inside and all of a sudden, you know, it seems like nothing is really happening.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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It's a bit disconcerting, but intriguing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact, however, that imprisonment brutifies and destroys instead of reforming is beginning to glare at us in a manner so disconcerting and undeniable, that we feel something has to be done; and in accordance with our ancient habit and constitutional predisposition, that something turns out to be compromise.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
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But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency.
The Collectors
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It produces stunning, if rather disconcerting, red cider and juice.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find it a little disconcerting when adult twins dress and style themselves alike.
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And the Church finds that very disconcerting at a troubling time like this.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hair growing where it never grew before is a disconcerting experience.
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This can be disconcerting as one discovers that their best friend or spouse annihilates them recurrently in the unconscious.
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Her assumption of equality with him was disconcerting, and at times he half-consciously resented the impudence and bizarreness of her intrusion upon him -- rising out of the sea in a howling nor'wester, fresh from poking her revolver under Ericson's nose, protected by her gang of huge Polynesian sailors, and settling down in Berande like any shipwrecked sailor.
Chapter 6
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Not surprisingly, the disconcerting undertones of this film are downright troubling.
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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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Often called a nightmare, isolated sleep paralysis is not considered a sleep disorder (as when it occurs with narcolepsy), but rather an extremely disconcerting intrusion of the atonia, or paralysis, of REM sleep carried over into your waking state.
Janet Kinosian: A Short Guide To Understanding Your Nightmares
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The Christmas variety show was amuch-anticipated event on the school calendar, a chance for the students to showcase their talents with comic turns, singing, banjo-playing and a greatnumber of disco-dancing routines, disconcertingly gyratory displays performed in skin-tight ensembles to the hits of the day: London Boys, Black Box, Big Fun.
Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll
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The death mask is more disconcerting.
Times, Sunday Times
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In various passages from her autobiography, Hepburn, the daughter of a suffragist and birth-control crusader, sounds disconcertingly unliberated.
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People say that he doesn't smile much, but he has a throaty chuckle and the disconcerting habit of laughing when he is cross.
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Scrutinize those buildings, touch those surfaces and you'll discover a disconcerting number of restored façades, reassembled colonnades and a positive glorying in what the Italians call "feigned" materials: simulated marble, cleverly disguised concrete and a cunning assortment of ashlar, or thin stone slabs applied to resemble weighty blocks.
The Heirloom City
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What's disconcerting isn't the discovery of that first flea or tick, but the creepy-crawly feeling that if you've found one, many more are lurking nearby to take its place.
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As he held her there, he began to breathe heavily and there was a disconcerting expression on his face.
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Both take further steps into everyday modernity, and into disconcertingly unpoetic poetry.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The female condom, being polyurethane, makes a disconcerting "crinkling" noise during intercourse, and looks like a frat party joke.
FDA Warnings on Nonoxynol-9 Re-Define Sponge Worthiness
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Her assumption of equality with him was disconcerting, and at times he half-consciously resented the impudence and bizarreness of her intrusion upon him -- rising out of the sea in a howling nor'wester, fresh from poking her revolver under Ericson's nose, protected by her gang of huge Polynesian sailors, and settling down in Berande like any shipwrecked sailor.
Chapter 6
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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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Takeshi is small, thick set, with bandy legs and a disconcerting twitch to his cheek.
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Thurston discusses what he calls mystic hunger strikers, as well as the disconcerting ability to see without eyes.
Experiencing the Next World Now
