Sentence examples for unsettling whether from inspiring English sources

It's the silenced robots and dead-eyed mannequins that are perhaps the most unsettling, whether it's the bowed clergyman who sorta resembles Tall Man from Phantasm, the grinning gunslinger bellied up to the bar, or the unintentionally sinister little girl in the post office who is the stuff of enduring nightmares.

The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: "Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing.... Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all".

(They're calling it "Most Valuable Friend," which I find a little unsettling, though whether that says more about MVF, Facebook "friends", or me is an exercise I leave to the reader).

He said he and his employees found it profoundly unsettling not to know "whether to back her down or gear her up, to use a trucker's terms".

The rich countries of the world, while still rich, struggle with monumental levels of debt, both private and public, and unsettling questions about whether they can compete globally.

An unsettling question is whether the violent commands from these voices reflect our culture as much as they result from the disease process of the illness.

For now, among the sick and their doctors, the faltering and delayed governmental response raises unsettling questions about whether the country is prepared to handle a similar catastrophe.

What lingers is the film's chilly air of melancholy and flickering hope, and the unsettling ambiguity over whether Oskar, having invited Eli into his life, has let the right one in or not.

Look beyond the borderland limbo, and the unsettling question becomes whether we've vanquished the antiquated contempt that made a civil-rights movement necessary or simply given it a new form.

But the more unsettling question is whether the chaos and violence from Colombia will spill over the unsecured border, especially if an American program to help Colombia battle narcotics trafficking escalates the country's civil war.

In its preamble to the petition, the CPJ argues that incidents of surveillance, intimidation and exploitation of the press "have raised unsettling questions about whether the US and other western democracies risk undermining journalists' ability to report in the digital age".