Sentence examples for jarring context from inspiring English sources
The presence of fear, anxiety, lust, horror, and other states was a new element, but their frequently jarring context was not; he was on the lookout, as always, for the unexpected associations generated by random images (or words) in close proximity.
Those that did hated the jarring context switch when they pulled-up the start menu.
Window 8's jarring context switch between the full-screen start menu, apps and the desktop never felt right.
Freundlich's remake is stately, composed and even glossy by comparison, which makes some of the story's violently contrived twists seem even more jarring in context.
A suite of nine Vincent Ramos drawings takes the organizing principal of a list — here, titles of 1960s and '70s pop songs categorized by subjects like "love" or "colors and numbers," which he's casually jotted onto lined notebook paper — and frames it within a jarring political context.
She smiled a little too often, perhaps to avoid looking angry or defensive, but her geniality was at times jarring in the context of Sept. 11.
I think this pretty little landscape that we have here is rather jarring in the context of the reserved, the sparing, pleasures typically afforded us in Paradise Regained.
While professors at those colleges did not face a surge in class size, they had to decide how to address such jarring events in the context of their curriculums.
His symbols, which can seem jarring in a contemporary context, may strike some as Surrealist, but that isn't quite right: they are pre-Surrealist -- in fact they are pre-Englightenment -- and don't need to be seen as having Freudian meanings.
There are scattered references throughout the book to Rees's own life, and these are often oddly jarring given the elaborately stylized context.
Campuses including Cornell, the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California, Irvine, have seen a wave of counterdemonstrations using tactics that seem jarring in the American academic context.
