Sentence examples for unsettling background from inspiring English sources

The band Yo La Tengo later joined the stage with Tamblyn, providing ambient, and at times unsettling, background music as she read.

Marcus would like his characters to inspire sympathy, and they do, their humanity thrown into perhaps greater relief by their disorienting, unsettling background.

This unsettling early background may explain the nervous tension, the irony and skepticism, the obsession with death, and the unremitting quest to discover some meaning in life that was to pervade Mahler's life and music.

For the players, it is an unsettling motivator in the background.

But while many whites embrace Mr. Obama's melting pot background, it remains profoundly unsettling for some blacks who argue that he is distant from the struggles and cultural identities of most black Americans.

The spread of an unsettling BSE-like disease occurs in the background, eventually becoming more and more intrusive.

Munn told the LA Times last week that she found it "both surprising and unsettling" that Black knew of Striegel's background and did not inform the cast, crew or film studio. .

In fact, he sounds like the perfect fit for Nosferatu, with one unsettling rural horror under his belt, and a background in production design.

The parallax option can be unsettling even to those without a visceral reaction, as the background image on the home screen slides around in response to moving the phone, creating artificial depth.

Did you ever receive a text message from your wife or your boss and wish that it could be read to you in an unsettling British accent by a giant disembodied woman's head against a stark black background?

Ms. Hartigan, who obviously likes to surprise, leaves us with an unsettling painting, "Lady MacBeth," in which the character appears several times against a splotchy red background.