That character, a 42-year-old East German expat with the horrible nickname "Puss David Dendickck), is unsettling merely through appearance and his cadences.
In the last year, Ms. McBride has been roaming the country performing with her small band on her "Home Tour," which has a similar spirit to her old Brooklyn apartment: it is an unglamorous and even unsettling tour with appearances in destitute parts of cities, but that is the point.
If we can make backstage fun of obese and elderly patients, should we feel free to do the same about those whose behavior — as opposed to appearance — is unsettling or off-putting?
The Arizona Memorial marks the resting place of more than 1,000 sailors and marines killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and, from the street, the run down appearance seemed unsettling and even disrespectful.
It was opening night for Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," a terrifically unsettling one-man show starring John Hurt, known for his craggy, melancholic appearance and portrayals of the same.
It's what makes their appearances stilted, unsettling and ultimately damaging to their campaigns.
For neighbors, however, more unsettling than the house's appearance were the prostitutes who took up residence there.
The relationship between appearance and financial success is unsettling because it offends our contemporary conception of fairness; it challenges the idea, popularized by Horatio Alger, that it's possible to improve a bad hand with hard work and perseverance.
Website IGN named "Paper Hearts" their sixth favorite "standalone" episode of the show, calling it "creepy and unsettling", and claiming Noonan's character was "one of the most disturbing villains to make an appearance in the series".
The fifteen minutes for questions at the end didn't bring the robust debate and interrogation the Opera House hoped would justify Bolt's appearance, with proceedings quickly devolving into a weird, slightly unsettling love-in.
