How To Use Disquieting In A Sentence
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If they do not quite give us that disquieting feel of folly, they admirably convey the look of the thing.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Jonathan Bailey as his sole protector and Nicholas Farrell as his clerical housemaster provide exemplary support in a play that stirs disquieting memories of adolescent angst.
South Downs/The Browning Version – review
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He smiles a hello, but his eyes only touch mine briefly, a disquieting sign.
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The one genuinely disquieting moment is when a bear lollops across the road behind the cast.
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For us, real marionettes, string marionettes, produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.
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It is disquieting to join the ranks of futurist thinkers, for many so-called experts have made forecasts that have turned out to be embarrassingly wrong.
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He goes on: 'The viewer is left with that disquieting feeling.
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Non-classical literature is an unpleasant, disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged.
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And if at any time the charms of poetry transport him into any disquieting passions, he will quickly say to himself, as Homer very elegantly (considering the propension of that sex to listen after fables) says in his Necyia, or relation of the state of the dead, —
Essays and Miscellanies
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It must be the summer air that affects me with feelings almost as disquieting as they are refreshing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Such a mix is not exactly a ready-made means for triumph, but Mr. Hegarty wields it with disquieting power and grace, whether whispering through spells of ethereality or growling with an energy that is at once pent-up and unencumbered.
Brazen Beats and Metal Mayhem
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Maybe crushes are best left as vaguely disquieting feelings that tell us more about who we are than what we think about others.
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Suddenly, they were assailed by a much more disquieting voice.
THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
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It was a deeply disquieting experience.
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Images taken by a veteran former police diver show something disquieting going on in the newly protected areas around Britain's shoreline.
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The world depicted is a fascinating one, and we gaze upon it with rapt attention, even as the disquieting mood of the film keeps us ill at ease.
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The spooky music and lighting add to the disquieting, supernatural mood.
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The rest of them ranged from disquieting to downright whacko.
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Part of the disquieting effect produced by this monument results from the irony with which Michelangelo invested it, the degree to which representation has been subordinated to simulation and replication.
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This photo was entirely different , and yet something about the scenario felt disquietingly familiar.
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Images taken by a veteran former police diver show something disquieting going on in the newly protected areas around Britain's shoreline.
Times, Sunday Times
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The South were willing purchasers of a property suitable to their wants, and paid the price of the acquisition without harboring a suspicion that their quiet possession was to be disturbed by those who were inhibited not only by want of constitutional authority, but by good faith as vendors, from disquieting a title emanating from themselves.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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A disquieting and disturbing aspect of the case was that the accused had become an arrestee, detainee and confessor of a crime before he was a suspect.
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The book's most engaging aspect is also its most disquieting.
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There was something oddly disquieting about this move.
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The disquieting voices of the few people who doubted that complete abstention was achievable for most problematic consumers were drowned out in a sea of treatment optimism.
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It's beautiful, but also disquieting.
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It's the dawning of the new millennium: magic, esotericism, chivalry and the divine are all blended together, expressing a disquieting but luminous desire for liberation.
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Fact, in this instance, is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction.
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The vivid flashes of memory which do come to him only incite a great restlessness for its renewal, which, if it be for the time impossible, is only disquieting and discontenting.
The New Tenant
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If they do not quite give us that disquieting feel of folly, they admirably convey the look of the thing.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He goes on: 'The viewer is left with that disquieting feeling.
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There is a disquieting aesthetic beauty and grace found in the war dead.
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Both are deep, questioning, disquieting yet also lyrical pieces.
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Feature article characterizing "the new veterans" as "disquieting, machine-like products of their special time, and products particularly of the impersonalized, low-pressure but deadly war that they have been waging.
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But then something disquieting happens.
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I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom “ben the house,” and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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The emphasis on secrecy also seemed to help keep the prez from getting any disquieting information.
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Today, however, there is a disquieting trend: presenters are apparently chosen because they are telegenic dishy dons, trendy in leather and denim, and they pronounce on subjects far from their own expertise.
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It also nudges driving just that little bit closer to the disquietingly frictionless experience of automated banking.
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It denies the idea there are other traditions at all, simply a common pedigree of commercialism that is historyless: as Silliman writes, "soft surrealism itself is about packaging such disquieting phenomena in ways that are always already understood.
David's comment
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Alain Vaës, whose décors typically have a strong, disquieting presence, has pierced the dancing ground with five huge, asymmetrically placed pillars unconnected to any architectural structure.
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The programmatic demands, for now, are more radically reformist than revolutionary, which makes their rejection all the more disquieting.
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The most disquieting thing about the scofflaw spirit is its extreme infectiousness.
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the disquietingly close sounds of gunfire
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I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom "ben the house," and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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Whilst a mirror can allow a clear view of a painted ceiling, it can none the less be disorientating and disquieting.
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Images taken by a veteran former police diver show something disquieting going on in the newly protected areas around Britain's shoreline.
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The role of symmetry in animate life is both crude and subtle, disquieting and incom - prehensible.
SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY
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The issue of non-disclosure that Williamson raises over Faulkner's disquieting silence is likewise present in one way or another in the racially conflicted lives inhabiting Faulkner's fictive universe.
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On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines.
In Our Town
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It's beautiful, but also disquieting.
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The rest of them ranged from disquieting to downright whacko!
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But disquietingly, the report notes that 10 percent of teen girls described the first time they had sex as "nonvoluntary." — "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002," J.C. Abma, G.M. Martinez, W.
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The book's most engaging aspect is also its most disquieting.
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Suddenly, they were assailed by a much more disquieting voice.
THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
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Then came the disquieting blue stare , and the surprisingly loud , ringing voice.
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For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
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There was something so disquietingly familiar about the place that I felt gooseflesh rise on my arms and legs.
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Wasp larvae feeding on paralyzed caterpillars is certainly a disquieting image, to say nothing of malaria feeding on children.
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Both are deep, questioning, disquieting yet also lyrical pieces.
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Maybe crushes are best left as vaguely disquieting feelings that tell us more about who we are than what we think about others.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Titianus F.,” on the stone balustrade, which is one of the most Giorgionesque elements of the portrait, is disquieting, and most probably a later addition.
The Earlier Work of Titian
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Her work goes beyond pathos, and whilst it seems paradoxical to speak about beauty, or even to use an oxymoron like ‘terrible beauty’, her work has a disquieting elegance and poise.
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the disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire
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In more established markets, the Japanese challenge has been disquieting.
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Wysing Arts Centre, Sun to 18 MarSkye SherwinFreud's portraits are hard, disquieting things, attuned to the tough reality of bare, veiny sprawling bodies and the jaundiced walls, gummy sheets and cruel furniture around them.
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Fact, in this instance, is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction.
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The spooky music and lighting add to the disquieting, supernatural mood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through the breathing hush of that dark hour which foreruns the dawn, that hour in which the head that knows a wakeful pillow is prone to sudden and disquieting apprehension of its insignificance and it's soul's dread isolation, the cab sped swiftly south upon the Avenue, shadowed reaches of the park upon its right, upon its left the dull, tired faces of those homes whose tenants lay wrapped in the cotton-wool of riches.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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But then something disquieting happens.
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There was something oddly disquieting about this move.
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A beggar woman and her child took shelter on the verandah at night and left behind disquieting odours.
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The disquieting situation between these two neighbouring countries looks set to continue.
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He has a disquieting poem ‘The Conquest’, indicative of local distrust of the plainsman.
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A few ago, cade vizier an pavise from an collaborative misanthropy scraps who was soft disquietingly kashmiri a groundbreaking skink surveying ruff our exploited, faithfully burbly untoothed zairean.
Rational Review
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That was the reason for her disquieting responses to the beautiful gifts and the disturbing change in her.
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The disquieting situation between these two neighbouring countries looks set to continue.
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Because of the overwhelming (yet disquieting) response to my plea for questions, I will be caching them and answering a few each day.
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Another disquieting feature of the assessment report is the unsubstantiated claims of illness provided by the mother.
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It must be the summer air that affects me with feelings almost as disquieting as they are refreshing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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It was a deeply disquieting experience.
Times, Sunday Times