It's a tension that can be as disorienting as a cold night in Southern California, as titillatingly cross-cultural as the name of a nouveau-noir manga series "Cowboy Be-bop," as provocative as incongruity itself.
For the past year, the terminal, which serves 10 million international passengers a year, has been undergoing an expansion that has filled the space with tall wooden barriers and so many temporary walkways that it can be as disorienting as a garden labyrinth.
Giambattista's line can be as disorienting as his perspectives, as it is in his fast, loose sketches of groups of allegorical figures (along the lines of "Victory and Fame" or "Nobility and Virtue") — sheets he kept around the studio for use in a variety of projects.
Can the side effects of medication be as disorienting as the direct effects of a maddening neuro-chemical disorder?
Wag is as disoriented as I am.
There are plenty of memorable scenes with Earn, especially when he's placed in an unfamiliar environment — a pawnshop, for instance, or the loft of a dealer in samurai swords — and he's most interesting when he's as disoriented as he is judgmental.
If Ravi was as disoriented as Wei claims, one can perhaps see why: Clementi was hesitant to talk about curtains, but in a busy dorm, after less than a month of cohabitation, he had kicked out his roommate so that he could have a sexual encounter with an older man who made no pretense of being his boyfriend.
I want to know if she was as disoriented as I am when my husband is only away for a week on a business trip.
In some ways the show was predictable, and in some ways it was as disorienting as the contemporary world itself.
In a way, these late-night records were as disorienting as the cacophonous techno records that had come before.
Deciding whether to visit this state, which may or may not be boycotted, is as disorienting as peering into the depths of the Grand Canyon.
