Sentence examples for unsettling characters from inspiring English sources

Morally unsettling characters and hateful authors are hardly a reason to pan a novel, I know.

Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose inner agony is trumped only by their deeply British obsession with not making a scene.

A new book called Weird and Wonderful Post-Mortem Fairy Tales compiles the most unsettling characters in their collection.

The show's most unsettling character is its narrator — Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton), whose motto is "You do for family".

The issue of apartheid recedes, and the film, which opens today in New York, becomes an unsettling character study camouflaged as a heist movie.

The man behind the Ancient Mariner, the unsettling character who holds a wedding guest spellbound with his "glittering eye" in Coleridge's poem, has been unearthed by a writer from Shropshire.

Just when you begin to relax and wait for the usual buttons to be pushed, it swerves in more uncertain direction and becomes an unsettling character study of a man self-destructively addicted to flouting authority that is camouflaged as a heist movie.

He felt that there was no moral dilemma and Sneed underwent an unsettling character change.

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It isn't obvious whether the lounge-y central melody is intentionally trying to be funny, but the lightheartedness definitely works, adding an unsettling character to the deeply stoned vibe here.

Deliciously unsettling, her characters act and react in unexpected ways, taking both reader and themselves by surprise.