Sentence examples for disconcerting element from inspiring English sources

Both the painting and the town -- actually the city of Saratoga Springs -- seemed so exactly right, so perfectly and utterly themselves, bestowing pure pleasure without the disconcerting element of surprise.

The other disconcerting element in the news about renewables concerns the extra costs imposed on the economy by their production.

The film's most disconcerting element is its confusing mixture of satire and melodrama.

Perhaps the most disconcerting element in this is that few leaders or even intellectuals have ideas for solutions likely to be considered.

The disconcerting element of this reaction is the threat of punishment to be directed at precisely those small consumers, already struggling with higher banking fees.

One of the more disconcerting elements in this portrait of George W. Bush is the real enthusiasm with which the President has, apparently, taken to visiting wounded soldiers.

Most notably, his skin lacks the horrid mottle of many TV adventures; and though the decision to skip the ageing makeup (Coogan is 47 to Partridge's 55) is initially disconcerting, that grotesque element might have glared a bit in widescreen.

But what's increasingly disconcerting is the racial element that often seems to be at the heart of antipathy toward Duke.

"Golden Falcon," in a fresh staging by Mr. Li, made room for more contemporary and vaguely Western elements, with a mildly disconcerting sequence of cosmopolitan modern dance set to new music by Chung Yao-Kuang.

Even though no sensible designer has used the '' element in years, its complete disappearance is still disconcerting.

"There are real and legitimate organised gangs and organised criminal groups that are operating drug rings… and establishing themselves in Vermont," said Birmingham. "It's disconcerting to us in that you're bringing a very different criminal element.