Sentence examples for somehow unsettling from inspiring English sources

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With the front axle virtually under the front seat, it makes for a strange and somehow unsettling ride.

This year's broad lineup includes an assortment of movies that can fairly be described as twisted in one way or another — films with a premise or tone that is somehow unsettling.

They are roughly divided between those the Administration says it might bestir itself to bring a case against someday, and those it acknowledges it doesn't have enough evidence against, but finds somehow unsettling, and so is locking up anyway.

When, having warily welcomed the prince, Lucretia is lulled to sleep by her nurse and her maid, you detect a foreboding element in the tranquil music, like some pastoral lullaby that is somehow unsettling.

And walking into that courtyard is like undoing a box − a present − and uncovering a pleasant if somehow unsettling surprise.

Like Telfar's line, it's never over the top, and still somehow unsettling.

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Watching him stare at a TV playing Air Supply's I'm All Out of Love is somehow completely unsettling.

("Cock" being the operative word here, as the novel is marked by the nearly complete absence of women, something that becomes more startling, and somehow more unsettling, onscreen).

Norman Reedus ripping off his toenail was somehow more unsettling than all of the zombie murders of the past half-hour put together.

Most unsettling, somehow, for me, is the still image of Allen reconstituted as a speakeasy gangster, the "tough hombre" remembered by an elderly waiter decades after the event.

But while Trevor is obviously, recognisably and sadly disurbed, fellow-sufferer Karen was somehow even more unsettling because she looked and sounded perfectly normal even when she was saying, earnestly: 'There's an affinity between us', of a man she has seen only once, nine years ago.

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