This is a deeply disturbing idea.
It is a disturbing idea: grief as burial.
It is often assumed that Freud's most disturbing idea was that of sexuality, the idea that we are all perverts in our dreams.
Behind the gossip about business-government conspiracy, money and body shape in Tom Wolfe's Nov. 26 Op-Ed, "The (Naked) City and the Undead," lurks the truly disturbing idea that modernity destroys our historic city.
Even leaving aside the disturbing idea that real, living people might pay to see the petulant man known as "Money" do anything other than box, there's an issue: his extensive history of domestic violence.
In a footnote, Alter observes: "This is a radical and deeply disturbing idea for the Hebrew imagination, which, on the evidence of many earlier texts, sets such great store in leaving a remembrance, and envisages the wiping out of remembrance as an ultimate curse".
It will certainly be an arresting, and perhaps disturbing, idea for Pope Francis, who quite literally has only one functioning lung; he lost one during a childhood illness.On the face of things, the Christian world has moved a bit closer, over the past 24 hours, to acquiring a fully operative respiratory system.
Still, while there may be something disquieting about an author granting someone else the license to write under his name, it is not necessarily a disturbing idea for a writer to try to make a book better by rewriting it and selling a new version, providing that when the new rendition is published, the writer's surgery has been made clear.
The filmmakers, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, who are based in Italy, reverse the chronological order of events, putting the Fascist-era material up front and printing it as negative, in order to bring to life a profoundly disturbing idea: the appalling casualties of today are born of the political monstrosities of tomorrow.
It's eventually revealed that they are being doused with gasoline, which is actually a more disturbing idea.
This raises a disturbing idea: Is the unsubstantiated possibility that there's some juicy scandal involving Obama's birth why WND is desperately clinging to this smear?
