Sentence examples for Disconcerting from inspiring English sources

There is also a telephone to which only the band's ex-members have the number: if it rings and a museum-goer picks it up, they will find themselves in the disconcerting position of holding a conversation with one of Abba while standing in front of a vast floor-to ceiling photograph of Abba.

As Maggie O'Farrell put it in her Guardian review: "The stories wrap themselves around the wholly disconcerting premise that catastrophes can rear up in anyone's life without warning".

The two look so hale it's disconcerting.

"This can be disconcerting for early career researchers – nothing in the training prepares you for the first time that a student asks to see you and then bursts into tears.

He acknowledged criticism of the scheme saying it was always "disconcerting" when a traditionalist such as himself came up with something not regarded as a conservative and traditional position.

Up yours, men! Doyen of disconcerting crooners, Daughn Gibson returns with yet another album full of intense storytelling set to cinematic soundscapes replete with ripples of sexuality and sinisterism.

That was disconcerting enough.

I like the actors and I have a soft spot for dystopic visions of the near future, but I sense from the outside that this will be a tough needle to thread".War" gets off to a raucous start, nailing down conventions of the latter-day Bond-type film and pairing those sleek charms with disconcerting bits of the sort of reality that the movies tend to avoid.

The interpolation process is good at removing blur and judder, but it can make the motion appear unnaturally smooth and disconcerting.

Fianna Fail has ruled Ireland for nearly 18 of the last 20 years, for the past decade jointly with the small, right-of-centre Progressive Democrats.But the "Teflon taoiseach's" timing and tactics are disconcerting his supporters.

Spreads on credit default swaps, a measure of the risks of default widened on both countries.The spread between Greek and German debt hit a new all-time high, and the movement in Portuguese yields is somewhat disconcerting.