Sentence examples for disturbing quality from inspiring English sources

Among consenting colleagues, swearing is stripped of its most disturbing quality, which is aggression.

Though these violent markings often give his images a sinister, even disturbing quality, Slota himself has an upbeat demeanor.

There is a meditative quality about this installation, but also a disturbing quality displaying an obsessive compulsive disorder.

Or is there some disturbing quality in the crisp fall air, warning the stag in the woods that mating time is near, warning Dudensing that he's fooled around with Childe Hassam long enough?

Its end has something of the inevitably melodramatic about it (I wonder whether Evelyn Waugh noted the detail about a woman's child having the same name as her lover, and filed it away for future use in A Handful of Dust), but up until then it has a disturbing quality, as of an uncomfortable truth.

(She herself chose to remain childless, however.) Tanning and Ernst moved to France during the communist witch hunts conducted by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and there she began work in the late 1960s on soft fabric sculptures stuffed with wool in larval or limblike shapes, many of which evoked an erotic and often disturbing quality.

While the sounds are not objectively "loud," their episodic presence at any hour of day or night and their pulsing rhythms accentuate their disturbing qualities.

Phillips has talked about "the rise of hip-hop and rap in their more vulgar, misogynistic, homophobic form" as an impetus for his novel, and about the disturbing qualities of "minstrelsy" among current performers.

But the virtue of Nicholas Hytner's shining production is its ability to strike a balance between the play's disturbing qualities and its touchingly funny study of two natural singletons achieving maturity through love.

There was a disturbing, upbeat quality to the governor's tone as he said this during last week's debate with Vice President Al Gore.

During the recording of that album, Sylvian became addicted to cocaine and the album certainly has a disturbing, ethereal quality, in the world yet apart from it.