The phrase "troubling idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe an idea that is causing anxiety or worry because it seems disturbing or unpleasant. For example, "It's a troubling idea that the company might have to lay off half of its employees."
This is an odd and troubling idea for us.
Mr. Wampach played up this troubling idea of passivity by presiding over a false intermission, handing out drinks and popcorn with well calibrated ennui.
A more troubling idea the catwalk proposed is that one might want to wear shorts with a pair of socks yanked up.
It's a troubling idea, and one I would rather not dwell on now, which is why I'm excited to turn on "Cops and Robbersons" and watch it until my brain rots.
But that is a troubling idea, suggesting that fascism can be linked with repressed homosexual desire, particularly when Bertolucci adds that it is only at this moment that Clerici truly understands who he is and why he was a fascist.
If you like your symbolism heavy and your narrative monochrome, second-placed TSG's resistance against the Red Machine from Säbener Strasse fits with the troubling idea that the big, storied clubs are either too slow or too stupid to keep up with Bayern.
I stay for five or 10 minutes and tell them what is on my mind, things that are troubling me, ideas I am excited about.
Even after almost 20 years as a governor, for much of that time elected by my fellow parents, I find this idea troubling.
If you're troubled by ideas you encounter in your studies, I urge you to get in touch with your university's mental health services – they exist for this very reason.
She feels Woolf's poem speaks both to her aesthetic and the ideas troubling her today.
And so it was troubling to me the idea of hollowing out the U.S. economy.
