Severity of disease (Box B, Figure 1) was measured by asking respondents to evaluate how disturbing they found specific prompted diseases (1 = not disturbing at all; 5 = very disturbing).
His behaviour has been disturbing at times.
Vigilante street violence is disturbing at many levels.
Such a device, familiar at an airport, is disturbing at a museum, a place that used to be regarded as a refuge from the world.
The novel is frightening and disturbing at many levels – Kazuo Ishiguro continuously drip-feeds the reader small details which are cause for disquiet (although events or characters with particularly sinister significance are often introduced innocuously).
The interview with Stesichorus (no, me neither) is both a hoot and disturbing at the same time ("I was responsible for everyone's sight... Of course it had its disagreeable side I could not blink or the world went blind").
PARIS — There's something both touching and disturbing at the heart of "Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works," a marvelous exhibition at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris's architecture museum, and it has to do with what the show tells us about our diminished cultural expectations.
Mr Webster's counsel, Geoffrey Cox QC, said his client had endured "months and months" of uncertainty over potential criminal action, telling the court he found the charges "profoundly disturbing at this late stage".. Mr Cox said no explanation or reasons had been offered as to why Mr Webster had been charged.
It is archaic, and though the version signed by Karzai supposedly allows a wife to refuse sex on the basis of "lawful or logical excuses or with permission of her husband", it is disturbing at a time when there had been signs of positive change.
When young Arabs and Muslims see an American president who looks like them, has a name like theirs, has Muslims in his family and comes into their world and speaks the truth, it will be empowering and disturbing at the same time.
While having no sound is disturbing at first, the experience is still very personal, because music is a great way to share emotions and a particular mood.
