Sentence examples for some disorienting from inspiring English sources

If it's a god on a skateboard you want, a god on a skateboard you'll get in this hagiography, which intersperses biographical segments about Mr. Way (including some disorienting re-enactments) with clips from his 2005 jump over the Great Wall of China, one of the many oh-no-he-didn't stunts that have cemented his legacy as a technical innovator and a marketer's dream.

These objects are charming, uncommon and finely made; almost all are in some way disorienting.

Myrrh-scented elixirs and the continuous splash of a copper chakra fountain were meant to induce the kind of retail trance some people find disorienting.

When the Vignelli map made its debut in 1972, critics maligned it for a lack of geographic verisimilitude: Central Park was portrayed as a gray, squarish blob, and stations were placed misleadingly close to one another, leaving some riders disoriented upon ascending to the street.

He'd have had no chance of squirming out if it started: 'Santer, you thieving useless slag, give that money back NOW.' EC corruption leaves some people disoriented, as the first people to delight in Euro-bashing are the rent-a-shriek Tory right.

Her death will prove disorienting to some at home, and will also be accompanied by changes across the Commonwealth.

Some passages are intentionally disorienting, as in the first movement, where the cross-rhythms between the instruments made the Philharmonic musicians seem on a free-for-all.

The results are deliberately disorienting, with some fans of previous films such as The World and Still Life apparently alarmed by the stark (a tonal shift of Jia's latest.

The main entrance is on the other side, from the parking lot around back, and the effect of this turnabout is pleasingly disorienting: in some indefinable way they've got you hooked before you sit down.

This is a novel which proceeds, both at phrase-level and in terms of plot and character, by moments of disorienting readjustment, some sly and secretive, others dazzlingly brazen.

The so-called ganzfeld effect is reputedly disorienting, in some cases, causing hallucinations and vertiginous symptoms.