Sentence examples for unsettling ability from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the photographic frame can reveal the unsettling ability to extend and include us in its space.

His scenes have a rare and unsettling ability to make the reader woozy, the ends of the chapters flicking like black horseflies off the page.

Walking round the show it became apparent that Sherman's unsettling ability to expose the workings of stereotypes has intensified with time.

With a jellyfish gene inserted into its DNA, a hen modified this way acquires the power to fluoresce in a bright green hue when illuminated with blue light – an unsettling ability, to say the least.

A few intimates, like Mr. Moody and the photographer Laurie Simmons, show up to offer perspectives on the work, but Mr. Crewdson's unsettling ability to evoke the ineluctable void between observer and observed — and between one human being and another — is beyond the reach of words.

Tabby's name stood out, as did the creature's particular daring, and I had the strange sense of already knowing that the poor thing was doomed to a gruesome and shocking end: hunted and murdered by a pack of wild cats, some pages later — by which time I was marvelling both at the various peculiarities of the book and at my unsettling ability to forget them.

That switch "is questionable and unsettling in terms of his ability or desire to be fair and impartial".

But as a player, he shares several qualities with Kasparov: incredible preparation, fantastic calculation skills, the ability to find unsettling strategic moves, and fierce competitive intensity.

After all, It is a bit unsettling to think that your estranged spouse has the ability to make medical and financial decisions on your behalf.

I find the movie incredibly unsettling, and I can't stop thinking about its ability to play with the metaphor of the idealized partner, versus the one that you end up with.

It is Bay's opinion that Bayer had "the ability to capture the kind of seductive and unsettling imagery that would make Nightmare feel like a fresh, visually arresting moviegoing experience".