Sentence examples for disturbing ability from inspiring English sources

By 2001 the lead detective on another spinoff, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," was a former altar boy burdened with a schizophrenic mother and a disturbing ability to bond with criminals and the criminally insane.

In their disturbing ability to reveal dark psychic conflicts, they might remind us of another English composer, to whom Maxwell Davies in every other way seems poles apart: Benjamin Britten.

Other actors, including Chris Noth and Jeff Goldblum, rotated in and out of the series, but the show was always wrapped around the oversize persona of Goren, a former altar boy burdened with a schizophrenic mother and a disturbing ability to bond with killers.

We meet Dr Hannibal Lecter as he's first brought in by the FBI to assess the mental state of the fragile Will Graham, a special investigator and criminal profiler who has the remarkable and disturbing ability to place himself into the mindset of a killer.

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen, 480pp, Allen Lane, £20 Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil, 614pp, Jonathan Cape, £20 The exhumation of Vichy goes on apace in France: this is unsurprising, given the vast complexity of the subject and its disturbing ability to haunt the present.

She points, albeit vaguely, to child abuse as a source of Neve's disturbing abilities.

If Americans, overall, were healthier, it would certainly improve the entire health care system, but as the major food companies profit, it costs us when it comes to health care, Of course, in the health care debate, we also see another disturbing trend, the ability of major corporations to impact the debate at the detriment of the people our government is meant to serve.

The most interesting, and disturbing, effect is the ability of low concentrations of salmon calcitonin to potentiate oxygen glucose deprivation-induced cell death.

The crux of our decision to end his contract was that by not defending himself against widespread and disturbing allegations he compromised his ability to do the job and effectively disqualified himself.

That's always seemed too small for Mr. De Niro -- whose appeal to audiences, even in his most disturbing roles, lies in his ability to project strength, self-possession and enigmatic, inviolable reserve.

A 2006 Czech study cited by Craftsmanship in its story found that vegetables like kale do have the ability to accumulate disturbing levels of thallium in their leaves, but the very same researcher behind that study told Vox Thursday that it would depend on what kind of soil it was planted in, and that he doubted it could poison human beings.