The chance to profit from water sales is an unsettling phenomenon here.
This gets at an unsettling phenomenon that Stephen Colbert once dubbed Wikiality: the idea that "any user can change any entry, and if enough users agree with them it becomes true".
Their next project, the Aware Collaboration, will be performed in September to mark the publication of a major medical report into "accidental awareness": the unsettling phenomenon through which patients recall the experience of being under general anaesthetic.
But since my youngest came out as transgender, I've observed an unsettling phenomenon: Trans people are treated as though being trans carries with it an obligation to accept intrusive, highly personal questions about their bodies -- questions that are never posed to or asked about cisgender folk (that is, those whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth).
Asked what made increasingly large numbers of young girls go to Syria, he said it was the most unsettling and paradoxical phenomenon.
The fact that tattooing is prohibited by Jewish law — some survivors long feared, incorrectly, that their numbers would bar them from being buried in Jewish cemeteries — makes the phenomenon more unsettling to some, which may be part of the point.
It's a paranoid vision, often an unsettling one, but a huge variety of phenomena enter the poems.
Its title, a play on the term for a flock of crows, also evokes the unsettling phenomenon of the "crow funeral," in which live birds gather around the body of a dead one and caw repeatedly, sometimes for more than 24 hours.
In fact, Twin Peaks is unsettling, occasionally deeply disturbing and was a phenomenon - it became a classic example of "watercooler television", even though ABC scheduled it opposite Cheers.
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