Sentence examples for unsettling possibility from inspiring English sources

But now came a more unsettling possibility.

That unsettling possibility is suggested by a paper published in February in the American Sociological Review.

Officers mention a third advantage when they talk about the unsettling possibility of simultaneous terrorist attacks.

But there was the unsettling possibility of development on a vacant parcel nearby.

If this unsettling possibility comes to fruition, instead of peace there will be oblivion.

This in turn raised the unsettling possibility that the administration might seek to limit the law's reach.

And what of the unsettling possibilities?

Yet sometimes they are left open as unsettling possibilities in the present.

After nine stormy days in which each Middle Eastern leader threatened to walk out, it was President Clinton's bag-packing that drove home the unsettling possibilities of what the future without a peace effort could hold.

Yet the technique has also raised unsettling possibilities for cosmetic human enhancements and "designer babies". Earlier this week, the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine produced a long report on the ethics of gene editing, arguing for extreme caution when dealing with heritable human traits but leaving open the possibility of use to remove disease-causing genes.

We all yearn for a stable and morally intact society, but I have less faith in the narrow strictures of a closed society (whether it is Smalltown, U.S.A., or Smalltown, Somalia) than I do in the rich, though more unsettling, possibilities presented by a democratic and diverse society that upholds these values.