Sentence examples for Rather discomfiting from inspiring English sources

All this is rather discomfiting.

So the principal experience of wearing a costume would not be the experience of festivity; rather, the costume produces the discomfiting feeling that someone higher ranking is nearby.

The relentless satire buffers Oates's readers as much as it does Skyler — reaching a point when the ridicule, rather than the tragedy, becomes discomfiting.

Aimed at discomfiting the leaders of the target country rather than its economy as a whole, these types of measures include imposing restrictions on travel by government officials and excluding them from sporting and cultural events, as well as freezing their overseas bank accounts.

The really discomfiting part is that Carter doesn't advance this claim as a criticism, but rather as an acknowledgment of the way America's leaders fight wars, and are quite likely to continue fighting this one.

Moreover, part of the success (not least the turnout of black voters) was because of President Clinton rather than despite him.So for once it is the Republicans' turn to "spin" their way out of discomfiting news.

The results were discomfiting.

These are, naturally, discomfiting facts.

But still a trifle discomfiting.

These contradictions can be discomfiting.

It is a mesmerizing, discomfiting reading.