Sentence examples for slightly discomfiting from inspiring English sources

That sort of language is slightly discomfiting.

It's simultaneously hugely entertaining and slightly discomfiting, an impressive trick to pull off.

In the second act, the heroine Swanilda imitates an articulated puppet to both comical and slightly discomfiting effect.

Alice O'Keeffe, writing in the London Observer, finds the frankness slightly discomfiting: In order to enjoy a sex scene, one needs to feel at some level attracted to the characters involved, and as much as Jeff is funny and likable, he was not someone I wanted to picture at it in quite the forensic level of detail provided.

That still keeps things moving at a slightly discomfiting clip for the patient, even though the pace is much slower than in the real world.While standing in this decelerated scene, the patient is asked to carry out tasks that require him to search the virtual environment: looking for all the "people" wearing red shirts, say, or blue ties.

The space was austere, the choir heavenly, and the images of Jesus - only slightly discomfiting.

The devout Roman Catholic in Sir Matt (he has dropped on his knees in the crowded tearoom at the Manchester United ground to kiss the ring on a bishop's hand) might be slightly discomfited by the joke, but the football club manager, who has lived the most memorable moments of his life amid the tense, masculine irreverence of dressing rooms, would smile without embarrassment.

I am nevertheless slightly discomfited by news that Erik Prince, the former SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater, is now in the process of assembling a mercenary battalion for the United Arab Emirates.

He seems somewhat discomfited by this turn: he likes money but dislikes himself for liking it.

Somewhere in our response to the experience of watching multiple hours of television there is, if not shame, the discomfiting feeling of being slightly out of control — compelled to continue not necessarily by our own desire or best interests but by the propulsive nature of the shows themselves.

The play has its implausible moments and sometimes sacrifices discomfiting subtlety for a broad, and slightly forced, sitcom approach, as when – in a "panic buy", to minimise embarrassment in the shop – Waldorf arrives for the encounter with more types of lubricant than you could, well, shake a shillelagh at.