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How To Use jarring In A Sentence

• Although there are a couple of jarring transitions, the bulk of the movie unfolds with organic clarity.
• The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development.
• Their journeys intertwine and overlap, and during sequences in which they go their separate but parallel ways, director Gustad employs jarring cross-cutting to remind us of their journeys' thematic parallelisms.
• The absolute clarity of the orchestral texture allowed for the sometimes jarring harmonies and raucous percussion effects to be highlighted.
• That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
• There are so many jarring races within this end game. Times, Sunday Times
• It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
• A dozen sixth-years poured out from the far end, their lanterns swinging haphazardly from their jarring gait.
• Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine. Reverse Storyboarding
• They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions. Times, Sunday Times