Sentence examples for disorienting mix from inspiring English sources

Fourteen different DJs were spinning a dizzying, disorienting mix of hard house, progressive techno, psych trance and every other possible incarnation of the genre.

But for a visitor steeped in the scientific world view, the impact of the museum is a disorienting mix of faith and reason, the exotic and the familiar.

Lindstrøm himself is not a d.j., though, so when he performs at Good Room, on April 23, he will have with him a laptop and electronic controllers, the better to reassemble his own hits and scraps into a seamless and somewhat disorienting mix that sounds like one long song.

The first scenes, which take place at a convention of insurance agents — a setup that cannot help recalling the infinitely sweeter and wittier "Cedar Rapids" — are a disorienting mix of nuttiness and Midwestern deadpan, and thereafter the movie can't seem to figure out if it wants to be tawdry or zany, an amoral romp or a cautionary tale.

When the shifts at Columbus change, around lunchtime, the scene on Astor Avenue is a disorienting mix of older students hopping into cars with throbbing music or gleefully plotting their afternoons, and baby-faced ones trudging through the crowds to line up at the metal detectors.

Chris Richard of The Washington Post called it "a disorienting mix of industrial clatter and digital slush" and noted "there isn't much to sing along to".

There they found a whole new audience and a productive partnership with Adrian Sherwood, who had established the reggae label On-U-Sound and was infatuated with the possibilities of dub, a Jamaican musical style characterized by heavy echo and disorienting mixes.

It is disorienting, this mix of cosmetic and real.

In places like Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, frustrated people -- choked by booms in population, disoriented by the uneasy mix of imported American culture and old traditions, blocked by failing economies and squelched by curbs on political expression -- have found a single vehicle to express their rage: political Islam.

With 308 standard rooms, 22 junior suites and 12 suites, the hotel is hardly "boutique," but the mix of design styles is as aesthetically engaging as it is disorienting.

It could be disorienting.