How To Use Disturbingly In A Sentence

  • The reality is a disturbingly different film, dark and sombre, a 17th century candle-lit England, a portrait of the poet and debauchee John Wilmot, and one that ultimately bows out to a feminist heroine
  • But also, confusingly and faintly disturbingly, a childlike innocence that appeals to us all. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flexible, permanent set consists of a curved wall, covered with a disturbingly lurid purple wallpaper whose pattern varies in scale from normal to absurdly large.
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Provided that sun creams can be used for protection, the problem is only - though disturbingly - a cosmetic one, seriously so for dark-skinned people; small patches of depigmentation can also occur in the iris.
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  • A youngster from a disturbingly troubled background, he was left to wander the woods near his home, armed with a gun and a headful of demonic thoughts.
  • Others were disturbingly abstract, and Hawk could give her no clue as to their exact meaning.
  • Police say that the hoax calls are often disturbingly graphic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Disturbingly, it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture…
  • Disturbingly, many people were honking their support for him.
  • He looked awful; his skin was pale and his washed-out eyes had disturbingly-dark circles under them.
  • Disturbingly, it also contains creatine, a compound taken by athletes to help them to gain weight and build muscle.
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • His eyes were disturbingly intense, their deep cerulean blue hypnotizing me.
  • Police say that the hoax calls are often disturbingly graphic. Times, Sunday Times
  • The play is set in the 1970s, but almost 30 years later this story of society's need for scapegoats remains disturbingly relevant.
  • She mainly supplied drinks, chit chat, and that disturbingly cheerful smile of hers.
  • These photos look disturbingly similar to the infamous George Bush-Angela Merkel backrub. What were they thinking? (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • A disturbingly perky androgynous sprite tries to spread the joy of music to an unpopular putz named Buzz.
  • Horrendous twitter and jaggies mar the three dimensional pans, which mask the disturbingly uniform trees and empty dirt.
  • But if he thinks that the auction is within sight of completion, he is disturbingly out of touch. Times, Sunday Times
  • And more disturbingly for the other clubs with ambition, the display promises even greater deeds.
  • More disturbingly, military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith.
  • Matters come to a head when the star is expelled from the team, leading to a climax at once disturbingly intense and morally dubious.
  • The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
  • As recently as last spring, a violent public response flared in Cincinnati under disturbingly familiar circumstances.
  • the details of the kidnaper's letter had sounded disturbingly convincing
  • Political conventions have become distressingly routine and disturbingly predictable.
  • He's a great orator and a disturbingly good actor. The Sun
  • The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
  • The scenes of the brutal carnage of the sacking of Troy are disturbingly timely.
  • Disturbingly ventriloquial: you know it's out there, but where? Times, Sunday Times
  • The two quickly formed a suicide pact, as 'cami' soothed Nadia's worries, eased her guilt and, most disturbingly, repeatedly tried to persuade her to kill herself in front of a webcam, while she watched. Dose.ca Celeb News
  • So what if the movies were little more than bookends for the disturbingly graphic short subjects, it was those inserts from whence the satisfaction, salaciousness, and serious dinero flowed.
  • Sections of the audience let out a disturbingly approving cheer.
  • Matters come to a head when the star is expelled from the team, leading to a climax at once disturbingly intense and morally dubious.
  • More disturbingly, Gonzalez's aesthetics, confirmed by his own poetry, seem overly obsessed with language and esoterica.
  • KINETON/Warwickshire Time allowed 02:24 It's a training exercise ... but for the bomb squad this scenario is disturbingly real.
  • Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.
  • The colonel is an unstable hard-ass with disturbingly huge eyebrows and a gun given to him by John Wayne.
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • More disturbingly, military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith.
  • Mocking a few for not knowing the band's hometown heroes the MC5, the Suicide Machines joked and jested throughout a powerful (but disturbingly short) set.
  • It's nice to think there was a time when I was small and cute and didn't list disturbingly between being a lanky gawk and an oafish lump.
  • Plus, we stayed up a bit late, drinking vino and back-yarding and chitter-chattering Barzak and I have lived disturbingly parallel lives. Forlorn
  • The violins in this piece dissonated disturbingly
  • A few years later a crisis of confidence led him into an almost reclusive lifestyle, where he would paint to get away from the pain and, more disturbingly, lacerate his skin because he believed he wasn't attractive to the opposite sex.
  • Me, I prefer the "Desparate Poli Sci Blogger" persona I exude, which is disturbingly close to my own personality (except it's a lot less strident in person-SEL is a lot closer to my real personality). La Profesora Abstraida
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • The range of new antibiotics is disturbingly limited," she said. FDA Chief Focuses on Antibiotic Resistance
  • Just as a virus Brooks calls "Solanum" turns people into zombies, the four contagions we describe below can create a zombie workplace — where creative people and good ideas disturbingly molder.
  • This is work that disturbingly demands its audience's complicity, and leaves an indelible stain on the memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rising tensions over the South China Sea disturbingly recall the naval race between Britain and Germany during the dreadnaught era that played a key role in triggering World War I. Eric Margolis: The Road to War in Asia
  • It was a disturbingly alien face, with holes instead of eyes. THE EXECUTION
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • Lawrence Solomon may well be a great communicator, but the author of The Deniers also is a frontline voice for a disturbingly large and influential denial industry, writes George Marshall .
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • That blueberry 'dollop' looks disturbingly like oversized caviar. New Year's Diet Aid
  • I looked forlornly past the celebratory bottle of champagne, consoling myself that it could be saved for New Years, and selected a bottle of Barbados dark rum from my disturbingly overstocked bar.
  • That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
  • Most disturbingly for friends and relatives, the disappearances have been seized upon by religious zealots in what they say is an attempt to have the men killed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
  • Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • The entire outside of the building is lit up every night in a disturbingly bright shade of aubergine.
  • Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized. Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
  • A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
  • I mean if something is "profoundly and disturbingly evident" why is the hour "indeterminable"? Archive 2007-04-01
  • But there was something disturbingly thought-out and aesthetic about it all, as if it too were a painting. THE EXECUTION
  • All too often, Keyes comes across as almost-disturbingly unpolitic.
  • Not only were his eyes lacking their normal cobalt hue and his pupils disturbingly restricted but now his eyes were blood shot as well.
  • More disturbingly, the government has inaugurated a policy of forcible expulsions from camps for the displaced.
  • Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.
  • The Mariner's conceptuality is resonant in the sliminess of "a million million slimy things" (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), 4.230); a register picked up again in Sartre's disturbingly phobic Being and Nothingness (601-15) .13 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • I would have passed on my compliments to the artist, had it not been a drawing from the disturbingly popular Japanese art form manga.
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Avatar" 's desire to have its anthropological cake and eat it too suggests something deeply unself-aware and disturbingly unresolved within Cameron himself. 'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'
  • It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
  • Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace.
  • On this disturbingly upbeat new record, mimsy acoustic numbers such as Lonely Girls drown the victim in sentiment, and when Richard Oakes does plug in his guitars they sound anaemically scratchy.
  • And a body disturbingly contoured in a snug jacket and a pair of hip-hugging trousers. Earl of Durkness
  • Indeed, throughout the occupation, the stream of images continues to feel disturbingly discordant with our national identity.
  • Others were disturbingly abstract, and Hawk could give her no clue as to their exact meaning.
  • KINETON/Warwickshire Time allowed 02:24 It's a training exercise ... but for the bomb squad this scenario is disturbingly real.
  • With the country once again plunged into political turmoil, Rudd's insights should prove disturbingly relevant.
  • At the helm of this dysfunctional clan is Bernard, played by Jeff Daniels, who is disturbingly effective as the over-educated, passive-aggressive father.
  • Yet, by cautiously placing precious melodies in the heart of his soundscapes, Octavius creates with this album a disturbingly chilling cinematic piece of work.

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