How To Use Unnerving In A Sentence
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It is all a bit unnerving.
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He said: 'It is reassuring but also quite unnerving.
The Sun
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Their discoveries about managerial work and their feelings of impotence made it a very unnerving prospect.
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Her unnerving clarity and audacious style reveal an intellect and imagination capable of a major work.
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I guess it must be nearly impossible to transcend the uninviting, unappealing, unnerving stigma of hospitals - regardless of good or bad design.
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Still, the process, while far less perturbing than Grandma Moses feeling me up, was still a bit unnerving as I am naturally bashful when it comes to taking my clothes off in front of people.
The DC Damsel: Lifting the Ladies: Adventures in Bra-Fitting
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Consider for a moment how many Republican presidential contenders and potential contenders have had either paying gigs as political contributors on Fox or are simply unnervingly regular guests.
Chez Pazienza: The Politics of Murdoch
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Jandek, an ultra-reclusive singer-songwriter specializing in unnervingly bleak psychodramas accompanied by an out-of-tune guitar, has been read as both incompetent and musically avant-garde.
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Finally, when the time comes for the horse to run, the experience will be so unnerving you'll just pray for it to be over.
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It's a bit unnerving when people in the gallery laugh to their own jokes rather than to the ones the comedian is making.
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Perhaps it is the inevitable curiosity summoned by one of the most bizarre and unnerving crimes of the century.
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Still, his government seems to have been unable to resist exploiting the ruling for nationalistic purposes, unnerving investors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's billed as a meditation on racism but it's more an opportunity for this thoughtful, unnervingly camp comedian a cross between John Waters and Steve Buscemi, but with an Australian accent to spin more offbeat stories of his alienation from everyday society.
This week's new live comedy
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There are several occasions when the intrepid adventurer looks destined to fail as a result of failing health or a lack of cash, but owing to his unnerving determination he always manages to win through.
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It is funny, emotional and sometimes slightly unnerving, with great characters.
The Sun
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His communications team, the best in the business, are adept at navigating the ever-accelerating news cycle, but with the growing power of the online commentariat and the recursiveness and unpredictability that comes with it, they are navigating treacherous waters, where conventional wisdom can change -- and be changed -- with unnerving ease and rapidity.
Peter Daou: White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination
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Ebrahim Alkazi believes that through forms harsh and brutal, Sultan Ali ‘sought ananda… to come to terms with that unnerving reality’.
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The tumble in the value of the rouble is not just bruising; it is quite unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which is why it was probably quite unnerving for the bespectacled man looking out of his window at me, a grown man, wobbling in his general direction.
The Sun
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I also own a lava lamp, or at least a vial of orange goo left behind by my landlord who has an unnervingly 70s view of home design.
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So, despite all the screaming and wailing from the right about how Obama threatens America, an unnerving bipartisan consensus on the key precepts of American militarism has, in 2010, fully re-asserted itself.
Jonathan Weiler: Deafening Silence: Why Our Ongoing Wars Are Not a Campaign Issue
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It is the price that is slightly unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's something deeply unnerving about having a device that can read your thoughts and emotions strapped to your head.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is an unnerving, corvine inquisitiveness to his gaze.
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‘And a bit unnerving for the rest of us,’ said Reg from the vast bank of sliders and other controls.
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I say "unnervingly" because Israeli drones (unmanned aircraft guided by remote control) often target such missile-launching operations from the sky.
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The amount of trust placed in virtual strangers was unnerving.
Living with Angina
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I know I might've looked a little unnerving, with my messy ponytail, slightly flushed cheeks from jogging and somewhat disarrayed clothes, but I was told I had a really friendly face!
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His other works of varying scale all have the same unnerving human quality.
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The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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There is something very unnerving about being on a bicycle whose trajectory you do not control.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is always something unnerving about the news media going into bat for their own interests; the moral fervour precludes argument.
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On the good nights, or at least, the reassuring nights, everybody knows her, and they gather in unnervingly intent arcs in front of her instruments, forming her words with their own mouths as she sings them, shouting requests in the breaks for songs she hasn't even finished writing yet.
Boing Boing: August 26, 2001 - September 1, 2001 Archives
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His nearness in itself was unnerving, the warm heat radiating from his body…
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Or whether, the unspoken, unnerving words echoed between them, she might try to do harm to him again.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Occasionally, he would move one of his arms, the small gesture unnerving Leroy from unleashing a good punch.
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The creepiest is a former state senator nicknamed the Shyster, who talks about his pedophilia with unnerving sangfroid.
Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
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Occasionally, he would move one of his arms, the small gesture unnerving Leroy from unleashing a good punch.
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BMW The car is not unnervingly fast, but it is hugely willing.
BMW 1M Coupe
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It was unnerving how bright they shone and so I tried to look away.
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The ground continued to heave in unnerving spasms.
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Not many like to go there, because it can be an unnerving experience, the officials more often than not appearing like zombies who cannot even hear applicants.
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And delicious as it is, the rack of lamb seems unnervingly out of place on a menu alongside sesame noodles.
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There is still the unnerving scenery of headless trees, roofless homes, abandoned tankers and large looming landmine warnings.
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I love that boy dearly, but when he's not-entirely-sober, he tends to spend large amounts of time staring at me somewhat blankly, which is really unnerving when I'm trying to concentrate on something else, particularly if it's something like writing, where I have to use a different portion of my brain than I do for photoshopping, or reading something, as far as I can tell.
Jaxraven Diary Entry
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It was starting to be unnerving, this ability of his to judge her with such uncanny accuracy!
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Labour finds the issue unnerving because it fears fanning nationalist flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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That night we went out - but it was a bit weird and unnerving that she remembered me.
The Sun
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Still, his government seems to have been unable to resist exploiting the ruling for nationalistic purposes, unnerving investors.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the short time since his appearance at the top of the flight a change had come over him, subtle but unnerving.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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I always find it unnerving to throttle back large piston aero engines to idle in flight, and the Kestrel was no exception.
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I must be losing my touch, I considered as the room's unnerving silence got the best of me.
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Rising inflation, weaker growth and more debt issuance are unnerving investors, who are demanding better returns for their money.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's something unnerving about her, it niggles at me.
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A bit unnerving in front of 5,000 student pastors.
Christianity Today
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The most unnerving is when we are brushing our teeth in the bathroom and we turn around - to spot a man, on the hill maybe 100 meters away — just standing with his hands behind his back … observing … us in our bathroom … brushing our teeth.
We're back!
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The dole, in other words, was counterproductive; it tended to “impair that anxiety for a livelihood which is almost instinctive”; giving out money could “relax individual exertion by unnerving the arm of industry.”
A History of American Law
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When I returned to the guest house, however, there was another unnerving surprise.
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His deft, side-splitting recollections of mundane British life leave you with the unnerving feeling that this cherubic 28-year-old from Bolton actually grew up in your home as a part of your family.
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Taking a deep breath, the soldier shut his eyes, as if to blot out some unnerving memory.
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The silence was unnerving, as there was just the sound of a few coughs that echoed around the huge room.
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The flavour was weak and the texture was unnervingly gritty.
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Either way, standing in front of it is a bit unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are more similarities than differences but until you get used to it, the set-up of the courses can be quite unnerving.
For Love or Money
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The hyperreal detail and the increasingly nightmarish sense of surveillance are unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Japan's political equilibrium has traditionally been built on a social compact whereby citizens accepted extensive, often intrusive, government ordering of society in exchange for the unnervingly competent performance of public duties by those who govern.
Will Grief Turn to Anger in Japan?
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The specter of a chemical, biological or radiological attack raises the unnerving prospect of an insidious, invisible agent drifting through ductwork, hallways and offices.
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At first it can be a slightly unnerving experience but drivers find they get used to it quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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And though there's an underlying emphasis on warfare, "Diary" isn't entirely gloom and doom, with shots of colorful world festivals and other merriment intercut between the more violent segments -- with an unnerving soundtrack that ranges from what sound like gunshots to answering machine messages.
Video Of A Foreign Correspondent's Decade By The Director Of 'Restrepo'
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Though the famous corkscrew left crashed to its mark on Darcy's chin with all its old-time power, the psychological effect of its impotency was almost as unnerving as were Darcy's own sledgehammer blows.
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At first it can be a slightly unnerving experience but drivers find they get used to it quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amidst this unnerving display of journalistic cussedness, some Gujarati newspapers tried hard to sustain professional standards.
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There's something deeply unnerving about having a device that can read your thoughts and emotions strapped to your head.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus.
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Rising inflation, weaker growth and more debt issuance are unnerving investors, who are demanding better returns for their money.
Times, Sunday Times
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The experience was unnerving, challenging and ultimately revelatory; now she wants all her movies to be like this.
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There was something unnervingly creepy about wearing Katerina's clothes.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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It quickly becomes grating, rather than unnerving, even as the violence itself increases in deadliness.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Kidnapped
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The overburdened, under-financed hospital was itself an unnerving environment for the meeting.
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The tumble in the value of the rouble is not just bruising; it is quite unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unusual combination of familiar faces, and the unnerving sight of desolate domains viewed in night-vision luminescence is perfect for enjoying as the countdown to Halloween nears.
Ghost Hunting with VH1: the Celebrity Paranormal Project
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He was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving.
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And where you'd expect Jack to be his usual sarky, caustic self, he was so unnervingly straight and calm that I could only think of two possible scenarios: lobotomy or Valium.
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His father vanishes and his mother - an unnerving and twisted woman - is the only available witness.
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Meeting a twin brother I didn't know I had was an unnerving experience.
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Some interviewers have found it unnerving to encounter a subject with such a wild stare and a fey voice given to worrying pauses.
Times, Sunday Times
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During an era when young hoopsters are taught big talent should come with a bigger ego, Greg Oden is so effusively humble it's unnerving.
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Taken as an ineluctable entirety, these units of self-measure are intense, unnerving, and productively bewildering.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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Finding an affable, unapologetic citizen who believed this stuff was unnerving.
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The results are slick, funny and unsettling, slipping between psychological thriller, absurdist farce and ghost story into an unnerving dreamscape where psychosis meets metempsychosis.
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After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town.
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Getting so close to nature can be unnerving, though, particularly if your bedroom overlooks the walled garden - home of the peacock and peahen.
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The maiden brushed a strand of sable hair behind her ear and gazed straight into the eyes of her nervous king, the emeralds set into her own face unnervingly refusing to blink.
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The amount of trust placed in virtual strangers was unnerving.
Living with Angina
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Sometimes, if you watch both their demeanors during the game, it feels like McNabb is the experienced employee, reluctantly taking orders from the new, young boss with an unnerving voice.
Redskins find a way against Green Bay
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There is something very unnerving about being on a bicycle whose trajectory you do not control.
Times, Sunday Times
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I sat in silence, trying to compose myself mentally and emotionally for what was sure to be an unnerving event.
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Sometimes, the wind also brought unnervingly fell sounds with it, as if a chorus of unholy demons was singing in the distance.
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Far more unnerving is the mere suspicion of fear or even of anxiety in the human mass around you.
Jackanapes
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The brother hl 2040 toner cartridge unnerving reassuringly donatist to the carduus of all megathere sheepcote with the kyrgyzstan of navigational blanketed midstream.
Rational Review
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For the regular polish wearer, there's something slightly unnerving about baring all with clear polish.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when it comes down to matters of life and death there is something very unnerving about unforgiving anger, even when it is justified.
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But as I read on, it became apparent that the novel was so prescient it became unnerving.
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She is always fetching, and quiet unnerving as the silent stalker.
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It's also a little bit unnerving.
The Sun
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In that time, we've taken a look at a wide array of sexual fetishes ranging from the unnerving to the truly horrifying to the baffling.
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The intense bright of the chamber and the nothingness in the surround was unnerving.
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The ominous and subtle variations are unnerving as they enkindle vague senses of dread.
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What's unnerving is that Murdoch may be right to suspect, as he undoubtedly does, that these contradictions don't matter.
The Murdoch Touch
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The brother hl 2040 toner cartridge unnerving reassuringly donatist to the carduus of all megathere sheepcote with the kyrgyzstan of navigational blanketed midstream.
Rational Review
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The natural assumption is that having a reporter in the room is unnerving her.
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Instead I find it slightly unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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What I find slightly unnerving is the curious determination of the contemporary left to attribute political differences to some other factor – to genetic predisposition, to mental illness (“homophobia”, “Islamophobia” et al) or, when all else fails, criminality (it’s not enough for Bush to have a different view on the merits of toppling Saddam, he also has to have “lied” and committed crimes worthy of impeachment in the pursuit of said policy).
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His photographs of the outskirts of British suburban housing estates are both familiar and unnerving.
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That night we went out - but it was a bit weird and unnerving that she remembered me.
The Sun
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The tumble in the value of the rouble is not just bruising; it is quite unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Either way, standing in front of it is a bit unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barely surviving the harsh climate of North Dakota plains is the sole silver-lining to the creepy yet unnervingly romantic, starkly humorous, and startlingly composed drama Prairie Love.
Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2011 and the Sound of My Generation: Part I
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He rejects the suggestion that floral prints are too busy, stressful or unnerving to the eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are more similarities than differences but until you get used to it, the set-up of the courses can be quite unnerving.
For Love or Money
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As unnerving as they may be, Fischer says nightmares are a useful and healthy response to trauma, as they reconnect us to our emotions.
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He said: 'It is reassuring but also quite unnerving.
The Sun
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Yet, in the end, it becomes haunted by the unwelcome presence of heavy-handedness, making it seem more like a busy domestic melodrama (with a ghost) than a truly unnerving chiller.
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But there is an unnerving element to the intensity of his devotion to the cause, as if those teeth glint with a shark-like quality, and woe betide the person who gets in the way of that hurry.
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The fire sparked, then relit, recovering its flames with unnerving speed.
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While it unnerving , waiting awhile for an offer isn't necessarily a bad thing, Mr. Akana adds.
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It is that sense of actuality created that helps make the film so very unnerving.
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As I walked down the half-busy streets to work this morning, I could sense the unnerving feeling that people had.
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Which is why it was probably quite unnerving for the bespectacled man looking out of his window at me, a grown man, wobbling in his general direction.
The Sun
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This uber-entertaining masterpiece of a sitcom embodies the extremely rare ensemble "chemistry" of Friends, the quick-witted and cutting topical relevance of Frasier, the clever multi-plot-line & thematic interweaving prowess of Arrested Development, and the blithesome, almost unnerving demonstration powerful family love reminiscent of such memorialized family classics as The Cosby Show or The Brady Bunch.
Hulu.com: The Top 10 TV Comedies of 2011
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It is funny, emotional and sometimes slightly unnerving, with great characters.
The Sun
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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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The tumble in the value of the rouble is not just bruising; it is quite unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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TV Guide goes on to state: "Overwritten and underacted by the kids anyway, it strings out its weekly climactic shockers — some of them truly unnerving — with artery-hardening blobs of moldy adolescent whining.
Archive 2007-05-01
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A bit unnerving in front of 5,000 student pastors.
Christianity Today
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`You might as well answer her,' Ellis said, taking his eyes unnervingly from the road.
TICKLED PINK
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It was unnerving to be a serious filmgoer sitting among a bunch first-nighters at the latest Austin Powers flick.
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The dentist's little monologue is very much a detour, having no direct consequence on the rest of the story, yet this passage stood out, I suppose, because it rings absolutely true: an empty building becomes anxiogenic precisely when you don't fully believe it to be empty, when you sense a presence whose intentions are, at best, unnervingly ambiguous.
Vue Weekly
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Which, after a brief but unnerving encounter with the pub dog (4ft high bull mastiff which had a go at me at me in the carpark), we proceeded to do.
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It's also a little bit unnerving.
The Sun
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Which is why it was probably quite unnerving for the bespectacled man looking out of his window at me, a grown man, wobbling in his general direction.
The Sun
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It's distressing to see people in pain and trouble, to see families that are homeless and children who are actually starving and adults whose spirits are broken and who can't help them, and it's unnerving to realize that these are Americans not European war refugees whose pictures are also on display and in some cases impossible to distinguish from the Americans in the other photographs.
History lessons from Larry, Moe, and Curly
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Perhaps it is the inevitable curiosity summoned by one of the most bizarre and unnerving crimes of the century.
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The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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All that she'd found unnerving about him at first sight remained unnerving.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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His deft, side-splitting recollections of mundane British life leave you with the unnerving feeling that this cherubic 28-year-old from Bolton actually grew up in your home as a part of your family.
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Particularly unnerving is that Bush has now picked up the administration "blame game" talking points, i.e., let's not talk now about what went wrong and who's to blame, we have people to save.
09/12/2005
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He walked away quickly, trying to shake off the unnerving effect of the encounter.
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I have no problem with needles or blood, but sticking someone you love in the stomach with a four-inch syringe is unnerving, even for the most stouthearted amateur nurse.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book
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He knew it was probably just some hobo, but it was still unnerving.
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People find something really unnerving in those who don't drink.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the regular polish wearer, there's something slightly unnerving about baring all with clear polish.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus.
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It is very unnerving to find out that someone you see every day is carrying a potentially deadly virus.
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Tamora kept her seat, one hand free to wield her sword with unnervingly good aim.
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Rising inflation, weaker growth and more debt issuance are unnerving investors, who are demanding better returns for their money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking at picture two I get this unnerving feeling the color scheme is taken one step too far by dressing both girls in mauve.
Horizontal Space by Duilio Damilano
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He rejects the suggestion that floral prints are too busy, stressful or unnerving to the eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall
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The figures are too indistinct to seem threatening, yet their continued presence is, all the same, unnerving.
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Noise can create a level of stress so unnerving that it can suppress intelligence and creativity.
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They found his level, intense stare more than somewhat unnerving.
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The more the sisters seem to confess to one another, the less they seem to say, and the way that so many of the longings in the film are quieted without being fully quelled is part of its haunting and unnerving beauty.
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It is all a bit unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have an unnerving sensation that someone is giving me a hotfoot in my left shoe.
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People find something really unnerving in those who don't drink.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father - the doctor - once showed us how bendy it was, on a rather unnerving visit to his lab.
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What makes Conficker so unnerving is that at least once a day, each infected machine tries to connect sequentially with a list of 250 Internet domains for further instructions.
Conficker worm infects more than a million PCs
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The tumble in the value of the rouble is not just bruising; it is quite unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead I find it slightly unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the price that is slightly unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sensory deprivation provided by the loss of any visual data can be unnerving.
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The superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway reveals his unnerving talent for solving a fiendish problem.
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We see that the invitation images are details of works that play unnervingly with space.
