How To Use Disconcertingly In A Sentence
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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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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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They are grand, searching performances, but at times overemphatic and disconcertingly percussive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both take further steps into everyday modernity, and into disconcertingly unpoetic poetry.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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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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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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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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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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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he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her
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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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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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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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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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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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In essence, this makes the mouse pointer disappear disconcertingly when the pointer is moved on the pad.
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It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
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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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Disconcertingly, spanking in childhood also is associated with approval of hitting a spouse and increased marital conflict.
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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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She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.
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It's disconcertingly riddled with inconsistent spellings, clunky syntax and other editing botches.
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There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes.
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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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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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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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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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The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
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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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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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Disconcertingly, these could retract completely into their platelike central bodies and reemerge elsewhere.
Lost And Found
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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.
