disconcertingly

How To Use disconcertingly In A Sentence

• My first impression that there was something disconcertingly spartan about the room was reinforced after a bit of tortured thought.
• 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
• They are grand, searching performances, but at times overemphatic and disconcertingly percussive. Times, Sunday Times
• Both take further steps into everyday modernity, and into disconcertingly unpoetic poetry. The Times Literary Supplement
• In various passages from her autobiography, Hepburn, the daughter of a suffragist and birth-control crusader, sounds disconcertingly unliberated.
• 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
• She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
• Specters sometimes drifted throughout the area, watching him with disconcertingly blank faces of incorporeal ectoplasm and dematerializing seconds later.
• 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.
• he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her