The electronic group Growing makes sounds that are less abrasive than pleasantly disorienting.
But tastiness applies, too, in the pleasantly disorienting effects of colors that appear to be distributed at random: bright or muted or warm or cool, all ajumble.
Stepping into this upside-down bowl is pleasantly disorienting, as if one had been momentarily liberated from Manhattan's orthogonal grid.
The same principle pertains to other oratorical genres: extra points go to those religious, motivational, or political performers who manage to pleasantly disorient their audiences.
Marriage simultaneously simplified and complicated the songs; there's something pleasantly disorienting about watching a husband and wife gazing at each other while singing past each other, for the benefit of thousands of voyeurs.
Three pleasantly disorienting days followed as jet-lag, the 7,500ft altitude, the rhythm of Ramadan and the thrill of the unknown convinced the children that a week was passing.
Yet Mr. Nott's transition seemed almost like a filmmaker's dissolve, and for a brief, pleasantly disorienting moment, it was as if the two composers inhabited the same plane, with the roots of Webern's spare language revealed in Schubert's opening harmonies.
THE BATHROOMS We found the bathroom pleasantly disorienting because it had the same organic cotton towels and Kohler tub we have at home, but a lot more besides: an immaculate tiled white floor, tasteful sinks in a robust wash stand of marble and dark-painted wood, an environmentally friendly dual-flush toilet and pumps filled with clean and natural-smelling bath products.
The less athletically inclined might prefer a pleasantly disorienting traditional Malay massage in a glass-enclosed, air-conditioned oasis.
