Despite fleeting discussions of disquieting events outside the novel's immediate setting (the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia is a particularly rosy red herring), Mills doesn't try very hard to work Tom's exploits into a broader framework.
In the hands of different directors and actors, and with slight alteration in emphasis, each of the three revivals illustrates the consequential themes of the play: the epidemic of evil, the perversion of religion and civil order and the way that decency can outlive even the most disquieting events.
As well, the book portrayed disquieting events such as necrophilia scenes that Dassin did not know how to bring to the big screen.
This would be a disquieting event at any time, but in these post-Diallo, post-Dorismond days, the episode is terrifying.
The parallels for artists cosying up to Vladimir Putin – as many leading Russian writers did at a specially convened event last week – are disquieting, to say the least.
This is a disquieting result.
Yet there is something disquieting about the idea of public events infiltrated by superhuman watchers, like Argus, the creature from Greek mythology with a hundred eyes.
The Edlington case was highly disquieting.
The protagonist is an Oedipa Maas-like figure whose own journey of disquieting enlightenment is set in motion when she receives a mysterious e-mail message referring to an event from her childhood that only she should know about.
This event has all the aspects that make the blockbuster art show so appealing to some and disquieting to others.
