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Ruth was an unsettling mixture of the conventional and the strange.

The movie incorporates some of the "Codex"'s flair for visual invention, an unsettling mixture of the gorgeous and the grotesque.

Paired with Mr. Gibbons's piece is "My Dinner With Weegee," a new work by the Canadian photographer and video artist Donigan Cumming, whose work records, with an unsettling mixture of prurience and sympathy, the lives of desperately sad characters.

Because of a bad experience, which resulted in the scarring of a former boyfriend's face, Angele has sworn off love, instead pursuing a series of one-night stands with an unsettling mixture of callousness and neediness.

Jones is only 25, but already his career has been an unsettling mixture of raw pace, sickening injuries and even a hint of tabloid fodder, with Jones insisting in a newspaper article recently that reaction to pictures of him talking to the model Jodie Kidd were "blown out of all proportion".

The men are likewise fine, with Mr. Rogers touchingly awkward as Gabriel; Mr. McLachlan endearing as the devoted but neglected Joe; and Mr. Topol imbuing his portrait of the disturbed Henry with an unsettling mixture of bourgeois academic rectitude and nervous, possibly sinister idiosyncrasy.

He is a consistently unsettling mixture of ill-at-ease and supremely confident, affable and truculent, brittle and boyish.

By David Denby Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" (1970), which opens at Film Forum on Dec. 17 and also kicks off MOMA's retrospective of the director's work on Dec. 15, is an unprecedented and unsettling mixture of political drama and sensuality.

Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" (1970), which opens at Film Forum on Dec. 17 and also kicks off MOMA's retrospective of the director's work on Dec. 15, is an unprecedented and unsettling mixture of political drama and sensuality.

Churchill's unsettling mixture of myth, history, and modern day is an attempt to come to terms with the startling paradigm shifts of the early eighties, when British society was reeling both from the macho swagger of its first female Prime Minister and from her tough monetarist medicine — which, by the time "Top Girls" was written, had lowered inflation but doubled unemployment.

Its unsettling mixture of religion and gay pride, certainly a new brew, never rings true.