The phrase "alarming display" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that is shocking or concerning in nature.
Example: "The alarming display of violence during the protest left many citizens feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods."
Alternatives: "disturbing exhibition" or "startling presentation".
A graph charting capital-gains changes in California looks roughly like the alarming display of a heart-rate monitor at the hospital.
By the time he arrived, well over an hour late, my children had reluctantly examined a thousand dusty bayonets and an alarming display on "chemical warfare through the ages" and were demanding – forcefully – to go home.
In an alarming display of institutionalised discrimination last week, the South Dakota state senate passed a bill requiring transgender students to use locker rooms and toilets corresponding to the sex they were assigned at birth.
He can be relied upon not to goad an untested new leadership in Beijing into an alarming display of military posturing of the kind it put on the mid-1990s, on the occasion of the island's first democratic election for the presidency.
But in an alarming display of rehabilitation, the neo-fascists won 9.4% of the vote in the European elections on 25 May and, in the race for the Athens mayoralty on 18 May, were backed by 16.1% of the electorate even though its candidate, Ilias Kasidiaris, sports a swastika tattoo and assaulted two leftwing female politicians during a live TV show.
The economy is displaying alarming symptoms of overheating.
His 2006 debut album These Streets, while buffed and polished to a high sheen, still displays alarming hints of ingenuousness: possessed of a pretty large voice, his tales of romantic encounters have done huge business (platinum album; Top 5 single) and also struck a chord in some surprisingly heavy quarters.
"He continues to display an alarming ignorance of basic facts of contemporary international politics".
There was an alarming flimsiness to this display that contributed to them being two goals down within 11 minutes.
As prospects for peace appear dim in places like the Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan and now with a renewed bombing of Libya, the President of the United States (and his heiress apparent) continue to display an alarming lack of understanding of the responsibilities as the nation's highest elected officer.
THE world currently displays an alarming number of large economic and financial imbalances.
