Greenwald found his youth "disorienting," having assumed that someone willing to risk his future must be near retirement.
It was disorienting to realise that someone alive today could know a woman whose feet had been deliberately bent and broken as a child in order to stuff them into 3in shoes.
Early in this effective memoir of Edward Snowden's revelations about National Security Agency spying, Greenwald recalls meeting Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel conference room next to "a huge, green, plastic alligator". Greenwald found his youth "disorienting," having assumed that someone willing to risk his future must be near retirement.
If someone looks disoriented or too scared to move, grab that person and drag him with you.
Watching "Tank Girl" is as disorienting as waking up in someone else's bad dream.
Disoriented and confused, I clearly heard someone shout the words, "Your car is on fire".
I don't mean to be too glib, but it's violently disorienting to sit back and watch someone destroy your country.
Even if no one comes to your rescue, yelling can disorient your opponent and scare him into thinking someone else will come along.
Lost and disoriented, she eventually ended up at Metropolitan Hospital Center, where someone called her son, who picked her up and took her where she wanted so badly to go.
They recalled one game in which Dempsey, after laying a jarring hit on someone after kicking off, was so disoriented that he ran to the wrong sideline and grabbed a seat on the opposing team's bench.
Perhaps someone up to no good — or, perhaps, someone disoriented in a maze of identical structures, ducking the rain and looking for the house he had left less than an hour before.
