Sentence examples for a discomfiting study for from inspiring English sources

This makes him a discomfiting study for a next-slide-please survey course.

Britain's bus privatisation disaster is a story of profit before need, and a discomfiting tale for those who believe the private sector automatically trumps the public realm.

Who dismembered this lumpy, clucking creature and turned it into a geometry lesson?" For a child on the threshold of exile, it was a discomfiting metaphor for the process of assimilation.

Those moves have many in Ireland questioning his loyalties, a discomfiting state of affairs for McIlroy, who cares what people think of him and strives to be a winning — and winsome — entertainer.

Yet his slick portrait of habitats might well strike a discomfiting note far further afield for us all.

And when the daily vast hordes of the "grackle," to use its vulgaris name, gather menacingly on the telephone lines overhead they're paying a discomfiting homage to Alfred Hitchcock's capacity for terror.

Standing there for 10 minutes was a discomfiting experience.

This suggests that virtual killing, for all its sterile trappings, is a discomfiting form of warfare.

Do you agree that there is cause for concern, or believe that two fallow seasons do not a discomfiting trend make?

I did have one larger objection, to a discomfiting turn the novel takes toward its end.

It was meant to be a discomfiting prompt, but the idea excites me, too.