How To Use Disorienting In A Sentence
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And both companies are targeting women, who may be more likely to walk into a boutique-style store than the disorienting emporiums where most gadgets are sold.
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The front foyer is mustard yellow, and part of the adjoining kitchen is muted purple, and the diningroom/livingroom has a chairail where they painted the lower half lighter than the upperhalf, which I find very disorienting.
Is this the one?
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Though they don't rock as hard, and it's possible that the Jesus and Mary Chain could set up some kind of disorienting wall of guitar feedback or something.
Typepad Virtual Book Tour: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
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It's Benjamin Button's incredibly ugly brother showing his reality through his own kind of disorienting, head tripcinematic dreamscape.
Kim Morgan: Kim Morgan's Top Ten Movies Of 2008
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The atmosphere inside the cavern was a disorienting mixture of wet stone, sour egg sulfur and air fresheners placed strategically around the rough-hewn furnishings.
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He is losing to it, to our twenty-four-hour-a-day pie fight, to the dizzying cut and the disorienting edit, to the message of fragmentation, to the flicker and pulse and shudder and strobe, to the constant, hivey drone of the electroculture ... and yet still he fights, deathly afraid that the medium he chose is consuming the very things he tried to protect: childhood and silence.
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Thoroughly disorienting, which is what makes it so intriguing.
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The strange characteristic about an inverted spin, according to one pilot, is that yaw is opposite to roll and can be quite disorienting.
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Patient preferences for nondisclosure of medical information and family-centered decision making may be disorienting initially to American-trained physicians.
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And yet I find the notion disorienting to contemplate: there are not enough drugs for women to take during pregnancy.
Origins
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Just as the appearance of the daemonless boy near the end of The Golden Compass wouldn't carry nearly so much horror if we hadn't been so entrenched in daemon-hood up until that point, I think that the formulaic content of the first six Snicket books - a major point of criticism - is absolutely essential to the disorienting effect of watching the formula, bit by bit, dissolve in later books.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
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It's such a bizarre and disjointed album, confrontational and spaced, an incredibly druggy and disorienting experience.
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What I was experiencing was probably the disorienting effect of mild shock.
BETTER THAN THIS
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The nuances of the architecture are often disorienting, which is a feeling I had repeatedly while reading
The Fire and the Rose
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Referring to the flood-lights that will be invariably used during musical programmes, he added that apart from disorienting nocturnal birds like night herons and spotted owlets, the birds would be made vulnerable to predators.
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People view Mike Nelson's installation which turns the British Pavilion into a 'disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages'.
UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
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Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings.
UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
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Because they traffic in exaggeration, all farces are a bit disorienting - not as forbidding as a foreign language, more like a different dialect.
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Called a "disorienting revue" in promotional materials, it is not an easy one to describe.
Learning From A Rave Revue
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First, the weirdness is poured on so heavily that it's disorienting, which is fine by itself, but which in this case made it more difficult to care about the characters and the story.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Visually and structurally disorienting, and loaded with obscure symbolism, this film epitomises for many what mars the student film scene.
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An abrupt change of location can be disorienting.
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German infantrymen found close-quarter combat disorienting, because it broke conventional military boundaries and dimensions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blizzard of budget numbers flurrying around Washington is disorienting.
Robert L. Borosage: Succor the Rich, Suffer the Child
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making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting
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The band is increasingly carving out its own, peculiar place on the art-pop spectrum, however; the seven-minute juggernaut "Sweet Nothing" and the wondrous " Arena" - which conjures visions of Boards of Canada as a rock band - are as drivingly danceable as they are drugged-up and disorienting, while few other bands would be capable of assembling mumbled gibberish and face-gnawing, low-frequency sinewaves into a tune as compelling as "Pie IX.
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Elsewhere in the show, images of window openings, staircases, mirrors and decontextualized objects were all out of focus, inviting yet inevitably disorienting.
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Adam Schofield examines the ways Juraj Herz's The Cremator "elicits psychological horror through its disorienting cinematography," how it "reflects trends in Nazi propaganda" and "the much-overlooked indirectly subversive Aesopian messages pertaining to communism that the film directed towards Czechoslovakian audiences of the late 1960s.
GreenCine Daily: Senses of Cinema. 43.
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The poems come to us across a great chronological and cultural divide, and the reader is reminded of this fact by the occasional archaic word and by the unusual compounding, both of which impart a faintly disorienting tone.
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And then it goes one step further: 99% of the curse words and sexual references are removed in odd, disorienting edits.
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Kyle and Louis, their hosts for the night, were indeed upstairs, in a paneled private room, reached after a long and disorienting trek through the interior of the club, across parqueted dining rooms, past bars and rest rooms, up two half flights of stairs that bookended a golden little cigar lounge.
The Deed
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This proved a good area to go to escape a disorienting white-out on the upper slopes, as did Arc 1600.
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It's Benjamin Button's ugly brother showing his reality through his own kind of disorienting cinematic dreamscape.
Kim Morgan: Charlie Kaufman Is A Humble Genius. 'Synecdoche' At Ebertfest
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Some light crackling noises and loud pops are disorienting and prevent me from giving a higher score.
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The lush and extravagant countryside, the somnolent seriousness of the army base and the intense, heavy sunlight had been most disorienting.
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Here, however, it came to be another old and enduring track through otherwise treacherous and disorienting terrain, a variation of path and trace.
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We didn't realise it was a real place. the scale of the gallery is a bit disorienting at first and I've tried to reflect this by tilting the image slightly.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Snake venoms have different effects, some simply weakening or disorienting, others paralysing or killing the prey.
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Philip found that following the logic of these conspiracy theories was deeply treacherous and disorienting.
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Poached pears in curried cream. It was pleasantly disorienting, like being momentarily lost in a foreign city and regaining one's bearings at the sight of a familiar landmark.
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The bar is a seething mass of bodies writhing to the disorienting beat.
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a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting
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Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings.
UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
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Here she breaks what is actually a metrically regular dactylic line so that the beat is undermined and countered by the line breaks: a subtle disorienting of form and expectation.
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Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings.
UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
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The road turned sharply left and upward, and there appeared a dizzying view of the sea, blue and disorienting to look at.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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I wonder if part of why it's so disorienting is that I've played so much tetris that my brain expects different results.
That and this
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They said life there was boring and disorienting but not especially harsh.
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Patient preferences for nondisclosure of medical information and family-centered decision making may be disorienting initially to American-trained physicians.
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It's a kind of existential revenge film that mixes some almost unwatchable scenes with superb camera movements, a disorienting plot and painterly compositions.
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The strange characteristic about an inverted spin, according to one pilot, is that yaw is opposite to roll and can be quite disorienting.
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Colors cavorted behind her eyes for a few moments, disorienting her.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Intercut with images of a world of ice-covered trees along with numerous other rapid cross-cuts, the result is bizarre and disorienting in the extreme.
