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
The faces in the end zone are a jumble as the noise envelops him with each jarring stride.
Being locked in an unfamiliar room, in an unfamiliar city, carries an instant and jarring feeling of alienation. Times, Sunday Times
Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy, Volume II
It's jarring and offensive and leaves one with nothing but repulsive images that linger on afterwards.
An example: If I were to rip out the music portion of Far Cry 2 and replace it with nothing or something completely irrelevant and jarring, is that not going to change the experience of the game? In reply to Clint Hocking and Michael Abbott
Since none of the campaigns intersect with each other, this can be quite jarring to your feeling of progress, especially with the limited amount of gameplay.
Thinking about Florence in that jarring bit of jargon always brought a mental smile to Carlisle's Ph. D. -trained ear. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
I find it especially jarring that the preview would feature animation taken from drive-in intermission reels. Mad Dog Movies « American Grindhouse to premiere at SXSW
If you want to top your own, they're making all their organic condiments in-house even jarring their own pickles, resulting in hand-ground mustard, slow-roasted tomato not-quite-ketchup, a hot sauce so blistering that making it requires goggles, and roasted garlic mayo, which, assuming you persist in eating dirty water dogs, is the very clinic you'll need treatment from. Thrillist: Feed Your Hole: A Truck To Make You Truck
There shouldn't be anything disturbing or jarring in a bedroom, even if you're using the most modern style of design.
Jaguars safety Donovin Darius was ejected in the fourth quarter for a helmet-jarring, clothesline hit on receiver Robert USATODAY.com
The effect was more jarring than through a stereoscope but no less magic. Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF?
Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
Runners rarely need pure rest on their days off, just a break from the jarring effects of running.
For the coherer to be ready to detect a new pulse of energy, conduction had to be stopped by jarring the granules.
The hedge clippers, meanwhile, were now cutting at the air, jarring her fingers as the handle opened and shut in her hand.
Here there can be twain no longer, for all jarring, frowardness, and opposition being removed, the oneness is established, wherein the true peace consists forever.
The three friezes with their ugly horizontal divisions, are also devoid of the supple rhythm whereby San artists achieved formal harmony, and this absence of flow creates a jarring staccato effect.
Often, the birds are simply in shock after such a jarring accident.
Simple self promotion is jarring, far too revealing and far too blunt, gauche, clumsy, and vulgar.
For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring.
No matter how powerful and commanding your voice, it always sounds weak and feeble after loud music and graphics on a big screen, but the drama that was about to unfold really was a jarring contrast.
That is a more viable option to pass time than to watch this jarring take on a surge of youthful passion.
Still, there are jarring moments, such as the author's assessment of the effect on the counterculture of the expansion of America's war in Vietnam.
The result was more jarring and more shallow than through a stereoscope but no less magic. The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
The juxtaposition makes the variation in quality all the more jarring.
It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet (ala Deep Purple) or unremorsefully jarring in its very density (a la Black Sabbath).
He proposes this singular, jarring experience as the physical correlative to a spiritual reality.
But at times the jokes are almost jarring, which is unexpected, because I've worked with cadavers for a couple years now. Archive 2007-12-01
The golem turned, shuffled into the V of green ribbon, shaking off clods of mold, jarring the ground with its ponderous tread.
In a foreword to the published proceedings of the conference—written before detailed histories of Nazi Germany lent the phrase he used the jarring ring it has today—Wilford gushed that the convertiplane would be “the final solution of useful flight for humanity.” The Dream Machine
Again, the musical backing is just as thrillingly ugly and grotesque as ‘Ladies’; Kurt Weill would be proud of this jarring burlesque scene, the bilious portrait of corruption in all its glory.
The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks.
Thinking about Florence in that jarring bit of jargon always brought a mental smile to Carlisle's Ph. D. -trained ear. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
The results are centered, economic, and if occasionally obvious, prove an effective offset to vocals that run from austere to jarringly dense and discordant.
I understand that the sight of a pig's foot on the conveyor belt at the checkout line can be a trifle jarring, especially when contrasted with food “products” such as fruit roll-ups, but the essential pigginess—and footiness—of the item serve to remind one of the humble origins of the stuff we put in our mouths. What Do You Mean, You Don't Sell Pigs Feet?
What I'd found jarring at the time was this emotional reaction to the death of someone she'd never even met. THE EXECUTION
Another Instance of the strange _loosening_ nature of a violent jarring Motion, or a strong and nimble vibrative one, we may have from a piece of _iron_ grated on very strongly with a _file_: for if into that a pin _screw'd_ so firm and hard, that though it has a convenient head to it, yet it can by no means be _unscrew'd_ by the fingers; if, I say, you attempt to unscrew this whilst _grated on by the file_, it will be found to undoe and turn very _easily_. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
She stumbled on the stairs, tripping and hitting the ground painfully, jarring her arm under her body.
Pearce's injury – he has since recovered and is back to riding on snow – was a jarring reminder of the dangers posed to these athletes who often market themselves as devil-may-care thrillseekers but know they make their living in a far more serious, and dangerous, profession. Sarah Burke Dead: Skier Dies After Accident During Training At Park City, Utah
Hobson was always doubtful after jarring his knee in last week's friendly with Manchester United while Jones suffered bruised ribs in Tuesday night's game with Middlesbrough.
They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of something jarring , try subtle or soft movements similar to fade infadein a slide show.
They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions. Times, Sunday Times
Fleda my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a jarring, -- "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment -- I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears' without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy
My classmate had such a gift for asking jarring questions out of the blue.
Even with the 1996 TV movie to pave the way, it was still somewhat jarring to see 'Doctor Who' entirely filmed and not on cheapjack videotape. O'BSERVATIONS: "ROSE"
A very fine soundtrack shifts from a winsome romanticism in the early moments to the jarring untuned piano notes in the latter fraught stages.
Why is that the most obnoxious, most annoying, the most grating and jarring is the most popular?
Then his outline moved upright, a jarring elastic shape like cartoon smoke gone mad.
For him, music is still everywhere in the world, and the whole business of philosophy only as it were the correct editing of it: as it will be the whole business of the state to repress, in the great concert, the jarring self-assertion (pleonexia) + of those whose voices have large natural power in them. Plato and Platonism
The juxtapositions of these images are meant to be jarring, to shake us out of our complacencies about medicalized birthing practices and our growing detachment from natural birth.
There was a lot of contemporary art on the walls, not exactly her taste but not overly crude and jarring.
In fact, he's made it worse by a jarring disjunction between form and content.
It's not a perfect movie as it runs a little too long and the cinematography is jarring at times, but this is a movie with strong believable characters in the lead.
As for the Old Vic material, it's in jarring contrast to the steely professional polish that characterised Who's Next.
His life-sized but nonetheless obviously fake trees are colored to emphasize the imposture - jarring industrial green or gleaming silver and bronze, for instance.
No matter how powerful and commanding your voice, it always sounds weak and feeble after loud music and graphics on a big screen, but the drama that was about to unfold really was a jarring contrast.
Especially jarring are the pixelated JPEG graphics that are used throughout as illustrations.
Thomas Jane being gone is a big loss, as I find movies with sequels that don't have the same actors are way to fuckin 'jarring for my taste. Punisher: War Zone Finally Gets an Official Teaser Poster « FirstShowing.net
In the context of this chapter, Dore's comments strike a jarring note.
Nothing jarring, simply a sense of chronic neglect—plasterwork left unrepaired, a spiderweb crack running jagged down one pane of window glass, drapes frayed and left to fade in the sun. Earl of Durkness
New to the foursome is Louis (Jennifer Hudson), who is conspicuous both in her in appearance and in her targeted, jarring service to the plot. Kevin's Review: Sex and the City - Less Sex, More Drama « FirstShowing.net
His application of these to Weiss's materials on epigraphy, numismatics, and topography is jarring, but illuminating.
Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air, for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage.
What I'd found jarring at the time was this emotional reaction to the death of someone she'd never even met. THE EXECUTION
More serious is the way the last half-hour seems to lose pace, then comes to a sudden, jarring halt.
Leila weighed the question, then favored Nika with that jarring grin.
I jumped from the tree, jarring my knees with the impact and ran for the stables.
And because the script has wisely avoided writing them as stereotypically American, there are no jarring notes in the casting mix.
The pov shift was jarring, and the beginning kind of fizzled out without going anywhere – what was all that musing about electronic mony * for*? GAMES OF CHANCE • by Jerry Kraft
Hideous, jarring Luther, filled with phlegmy death rattles, seeping brains, and motiveless daylight butcherings carried out by psychopaths "just for the lulz". Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
On the other side, someone had painted many of the occupied buildings in blazing colors: pink, yellow, and minty green — a jarring sight in the washed-out landscape. Where Birds Rule the Earth
And because the script has wisely avoided writing them as stereotypically American, there are no jarring notes in the casting mix.
The result could be a jarring running style, complete with shin pain and sore hips. Times, Sunday Times
Routine safety labeling must have adhesives strong enough to withstand wear, jarring and abuse.
In the context of this chapter, Dore's comments strike a jarring note.
There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
Being locked in an unfamiliar room, in an unfamiliar city, carries an instant and jarring feeling of alienation. Times, Sunday Times
Playing the music without bars gives a free-flowing rhythm, devoid of jarring stops and starts.
At times, the book jumps from place to place in a jarring way, only to fragment at crucial moments.
The simple trick of leaving the destruction of bombs to the imagination while focusing on the strange chemistry between the two men is jarring and frightening.
Having an outside force influence him was a jarring superfluity.
But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance.
Standing in Murcott's shoes in 1968, we might have expected jealousy to subside over time, after an initial period of jarring dislocation and difficult individual adjustments. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
Wenger has gambled all on being right, on refusing, for example, to spend jarring sums of money on an essentially unexciting, non-shirtsleeved, unspiky-haired goalkeeper with a tedious expertise in catching footballs. Is there method in Arsène Wenger's mad, mad world?
Jarring images bled into each other the way the realities of unjust political situations always do.
the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk
It is a jarring shift from the fluff I post about to an issue of deadly seriousness.
Ri stared after him for a moment until the door closed with its sharp hiss, jarring Ri back to reality.
Still, my mind whirls as the ground comes crashing upwards, ending in a bone-jarring snap.
We are ready to concede that life is the only jarring note in this otherwise perfect symphony of matter.
Not that Tóibín's language is jarringly contemporary or slangy.
The only jarring note was the cheap modern furniture.
However, before it could complete its circuit, his arm was brought to a sudden halt, jarring his entire body.
There are a couple of jarring notes.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently published a jarring report on what it calls discretionary service spending, a category that excludes housing, food and health care and includes restaurant meals, entertainment, education and even insurance. NYT > Home Page
The curculio catcher, or machine, is run against the tree three or four times, with sufficient force to impart a jarring motion to all its parts. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
I think total silence would be far too jarring - people wouldn't want to stay in a place where all they can hear is their tinnitus.
Still others, believing they are in C, will dutifully ‘tweak’ the final phrase of the piece to return to the note C at the cadence, making for a somewhat jarring ending.
Apple trees serve as posts for a construction which presents a jarring contrast to the organic forms of the meadow.
The flat of the blade cracked across the back of Lexa's head, knocking her to the ground, the fall jarring her sword from her grip.
In fact it seems to be at the root of so much that is crass, wrong, jarring, dull, styleless, dumb and devoid of class: Trying Too Hard. Narcissism: the new journalism
And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any.
The noises were jarring and even more unharmonious.
I think his point about the two movies within the movie jarring is dead-on. ( Intertribal: kick ass
Angharad gasped and gripped the horse's copper mane as Shadow sprang into a bouncy and jarring trot.
But the question is: Do they need what Churchill called a jarring gong of self-preservation? CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2006
One jarring element was the sudden appearance of guns towards the end of the play, when previously swords were the order of the day.
Attacked!" repeated Wolfe, -- "attacked!" and then suddenly sinking his voice into a sort of sneer, "why, since the event which this painting is designed to commemorate, I know not if we have ever had one solitary gleam of liberty break along the great chaos of jarring prejudice and barbarous law which we term forsooth a glorious constitution. The Disowned — Volume 02
Levitt is clearly a whizz with numbers, great long strings of them, as he demonstrates during the book following this slightly jarring, self-deprecating introduction.
There's no way it can roll over a flat, smooth road without a sequence of jarring bumps.
He does not attempt to jazz things up with cloying camerawork and jarring technique in an effort to be stylish.
Thinking about Florence in that jarring bit of jargon always brought a mental smile to Carlisle's Ph. D. -trained ear. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring – "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment – I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy
Even at low levels ultrasound can cause jarring vibrations and a rise in temperature.
Had they been lighter, gauzier, the colour combinations would be less stark, less jarring. Times, Sunday Times
Thou must leap into the abyss of dreadful caves and caverns, replete with poisonous toads and hissing serpents; thou must plunge into seas of burning sulphur; thou must launch upon the ocean in a crazy bark, when the foaming billows roll mountains high — when the lightning flashes, the thunder roars, and the howling tempest blows, as if it would commix the jarring elements of air and water, earth and fire, and reduce all nature to the original anarchy of chaos. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
But the easy music and inconspicuous action is made jarring by the fact that the man is naked.
The bumps, jarring and knocks can damage the helmet.
Alas, there is something jarring and unnatural about this record. The Sun
It is this that enables him to captivate the reader without recourse to melodrama, to luxuriate in language without falling into self-indulgence, and to weave the novel's numerous threads together without a hint of jarring contrivance.
A very fine soundtrack shifts from a winsome romanticism in the early moments to the jarring untuned piano notes in the latter fraught stages.
the piano was jarringly out of tune
Not everything in baseball is pure statistics, however—Bob Sheppard's call heralding Jeter coming to bat would sound jarring at the bottom of the Yankee order. Fiddling With the Lineup
There was a jarring note of triumph in his voice.
This site will no doubt be jarring to the casual observer more familiar with staid academic websites.
While the air system is good, it fidgets badly over sharp intrusions like potholes, jarring and jolting the passengers.
There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
When Wray slathers one of the large paintings in yellow chartreuse, the effect is jarring and delirious.
A sword of antique make and uncommon size, framed to be wielded with both hands, a kind of weapon which was then beginning to go out of use, hung from his neck in a baldrick, and was so disposed as to traverse his whole person, the huge hilt appearing over his left shoulder, and the point reaching well-nigh to the right heel, and jarring against his spur as he walked. The Abbot
It's a jarring reminder that money doesn't guarantee success though it certainly beautifies failure. Broke
There are so many jarring races within this end game. Times, Sunday Times
The most jarring element of the disc, however, has to be the director's choices.
One reason the destrier was rarely ridden except to war was that its natural gait was a rather jarring trot. HERE BE DRAGONS
If your aesthetic is a surreal one, this isn't a problem; you can easily come up with titles that not only aren't jarringly incongruent with the music, but actually contribute to the overall effect. The song that goes like this
More gentle than the jarring noise of traditional alarms, this clock uses a gradual increase in ambient light, stimulating aromas, and peaceful sounds from nature to awaken sleepers.
It is hard to imagine a more jarring or tasteless juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
The scene continues for several minutes with the jarring clang of the phone bell echoing loudly.
It can be jarring in pea soup to have a jolt of capsiacin heat. Tigers & Strawberries » Split Pea Soup: It’s Ugly
There were a few jarring notes in the production, though, which stop me from hailing the series as a work of genius.
The jump from carefully composed illustration to crudely arranged website was quite jarring.
Leila weighed the question, then favored Nika with that jarring grin.
“It’s gotta be jarring to see somebody dressed up in a billowy linen shirt, drop-front hemp britches, and a wide woven sash, with a big tuque on his head, driving an old, beat-up Buick Century,” he said. One Big Table
Finkelstein applies jarring color notes reminiscent of the beautiful acidity of Bonnard, and he arrives at vibrant passages.
From the quiet strains of a young Henry Mancini to the jarring sibilant tones whenever the monster makes an appearance, it is a piece of movie history.
And it was, understandably, an uneven production, coddled in Sky Sports-style doom-laden graphics, given weight by the restrained but nicely persistent questioning of Gabriel Clarke in the stadium, and siphoned rather jarringly through the expert but gurglingly partisan commentary of Clive Tyldesley "Ji-sung Park SWEEPS in the equaliser! Adrian Chiles's chumminess strikes right tone as ITV treads carefully | Barney Ronay
Her comments on future policy introduced a jarring note to the proceedings.
Opponents say it would have a jarring effect on the skyline.
She bit her lip, then turned the bell key and heard its jarring buzz inside.
Its mix of action and pop culture-soaked nerd comedy isn't something we've seen much of in the half-hour format and while it was a bit jarring to jump from Chewbacca jokes to semi-tense action sequences, the overall effect was akin to watching the mildly rambunctious lovechild of Chuck and Better Off Ted, as nannied by that nifty Robert Redford caper "Sneakers. Watercooler: Breaking In (Kind of) Cracks Us Up
Or else a fall from the pretence, or realization of the true circumstances, may be a greater jarring of the spirits than the status quo.
The film's segues into the seedier side of Austria are always appropriately shocking, and Erika's steadfast resolve in these environments is an utterly jarring anachronism.
At 5 am, I was shaken awake from my sleep by the dissonant sound of drumbeats and jarring notes emerging from a defunct synthesizer.
Occasionally, the text makes jarring jumps from one subject to another without smooth transitions.
That comment about finding grammatical errors "jarring" is just a bit overboard, don't you think? Victorian Houses of MS (copy)
But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance.
The rather jarring songwriting style is noteworthy more for its ambience than its catchiness.
Again it was an extremely hard and jarring landing, but a successful one.
Then his outline moved upright, a jarring elastic shape like cartoon smoke gone mad.
This release has plenty of gusto when the tracks are taken in moderation, but it's kinda hard to take the band's jarring riffing and constipated vocal delivery for an entire album.
The result is an often jarring - the sound may change drastically from one single to the next - amassment of repeatedly beautiful material.
He also shook off a clean right hook and a jarring left uppercut in a first round as the Londoner prevented the home favourite from making much of an early impression.
Or else a fall from the pretence, or realization of the true circumstances, may be a greater jarring of the spirits than the status quo.
There was a jarring note of triumph in his voice.
It's a jarring transition for a band originally known for its raw, youthful and raucous inflammability, but a nonetheless fitting and increasingly natural one.
Tacklers are trying to knock the ball loose with jarring hits.
Exhibits are dimmed whilst fantastically big projections of rarely seen war photographs cover the jarring, angular interior walls.
Every step I took was having a jarring effect on my shoulders.
The train lurched again and I was slammed against the train side, jarring my body.
Thus the tense, often jarring interplay between rapid pans or other movement, and stationary close-ups.
The electronics are jarring, perhaps even misplaced, but one must remember that this piece is a requiem for a 16-year-old boy, not a 65-year-old man.
In discussing "The Night Café" 1888, a well-known depiction of a disreputable barroom in Arles—a jarring composition featuring bright yellow gaslight shining on blood-red walls—they tell us that "Vincent began his dissonant painting in a dissonant mood. A Stranger to Himself
Chatsworth-based Ora won for its VibraRing line of rechargeable cellular phone batteries that can replace jarring rings with vibrations.
The one somewhat jarring aspect of the film transfer was the choice to black out areas of the screen where Thai subtitles originally appeared.
They basically cut out an entire scene from one episode in a really jarring manner.
Alas, there is something jarring and unnatural about this record. The Sun
The jarring notes of strings by Bernard Herrmann are now in surround sound - not that this makes any real difference.
There is no mind-jarring pop music to shred your thoughts and, more importantly, no irksome rash of timeshare touts badgering you to buy a dream in the sun.
Meikoku, who always seemed to have extra assignments, was busy writing an essay while Hoshiko kept jarring his arm, sending the pencil skidding over several centimeters each time.
This network of sensors sends signals to a black box imbedded in the vehicle that controls seatbelt tension and air bag velocity which makes the crash much less jarring for all the occupants of the vehicle.
The performance involved a single musician playing original music, jarring yet rhythmic, on cello and cimbalom.
The professors acknowledge that placing terrorist in quotation marks “may be jarring for some readers who consider the designation self-evident.” OBAMA ZOMBIES
After all the experiments made and repellents used for the plum curculio, the jarring method is found the most efficient and reliable, if properly performed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
His outburst blaming the vandals on the estate for frightening his wife to death, was a jarring moment of realism.
Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air, for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage.
Death could pop up anytime, a jarring jack-in-the-box with a fixed, bloody grin.
After the lush greenery of that beautiful country, the starkness of northern Namibia provided a jarring contrast.
In those first weeks I tore around my new home on various borrowed bikes, electrified by this unbeautiful city, as thrillingly jarring as a Dada cut-up.
Still, much of that probably stems from the dialogue, which is full of jarring shifts between period-speak and anachronisms.

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