The phrase "a disturbing effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an impact or influence that causes discomfort or unease.
Example: "The film had a disturbing effect on the audience, leaving many feeling unsettled long after it ended."
Alternatives: "an unsettling impact" or "a disquieting influence".
It is a disturbing effect, strangely reminiscent of her own persecution.
His early death had a disturbing effect on other artists of his time.
But her friendship with the likes of Dale Winton and Paul O'Grady is having a disturbing effect.
It is marvelous to see how Leo Tolstoy continues to have a disturbing effect on the power structures of church and state ("For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending," front page, Jan . 4.
Chase also has a disturbing effect on the dying old man in the third (and most forced) of the novellas, a reclusive eccentric who tells his nephew the story of his life and why, while out cutting wood with Chase, he failed to warn him that a chain saw was about to kick back in his face.
These oscillations have in turn a disturbing effect on the motion of the spacecraft.
(The little melodrama's play-within-a-play-within-a-play conceit has a uniquely disturbing effect if fully realized; an audience can be made to feel unnervingly complicit in the double murder with which the piece ends).
A war may have a profoundly disturbing effect on a country's economy.
These might be a consequence of (1) the short measurement interval and the consequential low intake during that time, (2) the assessment of consummatory behaviour more than once a week and (3) a possibly disturbing effect on the intake of control animals since CMS mice most of the time were kept and stressed in the same room [17].
It was suggested that increased muscular tension along the torso induces a more disturbing effect on posture when it is asymmetrical.
Most of them have a similarly disturbing effect, and are steeped in the climate and folklore of the island that has become his home.
