Sentence examples for unsettling ideas from inspiring English sources

On occasion, it does wink at unsettling ideas, as when an ingénue shrugs off the death of her new boyfriend, numbed, like the viewer, by endless loss.

Medina had seen the response to the art work as part of a disturbing pattern in which art-engaged audiences called for the censorship of unsettling ideas.

"The Peripheral" is plotted as a traditional, even conservative thriller, and its fascinating, funny, unsettling ideas are slowly buried beneath a hackneyed plot and flimsy characterizations.

But with Fear and Love, McGuirk has set out a powerful stall for the institution to act as a forum for exploring a world of critical, provocative and unsettling ideas.

In fact, because the Internet makes it so easy to seek out others with the same views, and to tailor our news consumption to our personal tastes, many people will voluntarily block out any chance of being exposed to new or unsettling ideas.

Even for the modest aim of 10 10 to work effectively in Britain, other human possibilities will have to be aroused from the common grave of unsettling ideas; among them, a reawakening of the resourcefulness, creativity and flexibility of people, which alone can mitigate our baleful effects upon the planet.

That's an unsettling idea that the filmmakers fail to pursue.

In other words, the serial crimes of the insane create a kind of protective shell for the rational crimes of the merely greedy, a deeply unsettling idea.

But a number of economists are coming around to a more unsettling idea: The summer-blockbuster strategy itself may have tanked.

The show relies on that balance, as is evident by the way its spoofs of the conventions of Broadway musicals -- the line, "What kind of musical is this?" is repeated throughout -- are coupled with the unsettling idea, introduced in the finale, that unfettered idealism could play a part in ecological disaster.

Meanwhile, an episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley" poked fun at the unsettling idea.