| Standard Big Bang cosmogeny does therefore seem to have those metaphysical implications which some have found so discomfiting. |
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| It's a nifty device too, because it reminds you of the show's discomfiting ambiguity. |
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| After some forced chit-chat about my flight and hotel, she squinted in that discomfiting way that people preparing to speak their minds do. |
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| The content and form of the shows tell difficult, discomfiting, and riveting stories. |
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| Well, he's just made it clear that you've succeeded in discomfiting him and his crew. |
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| The GOP debates have already been entertaining, unpredictable, and discomfiting for the candidates. |
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| His odd, slightly discomfiting palette-a range of hues informed by but not faithful to the colors of the natural world-contributes to a sense of disequilibrium. |
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| If a politician cannot speak discomfiting truths without being thrown out of office, then we can expect to have more politicians who will tell us comforting lies. |
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| Yet preying on their minds is a discomfiting fact: nothing they have done has worked, and they don't know why. |
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| There are only 10 songs and each one, as deliberately discomfiting as it might be, contains the essential properties of a pop song. |
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| The Montenegrin election has more chance of discomfiting Mr Milosevic, but already there are fears of martial law should his foe win. |
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| It is seeping into the salons of power, discomfiting Russia's leaders and their bizniz cronies. |
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| Lady Thatcher was for most of the 1990's a shadowy presence in the Conservative Party that she dominated for so many years here, discomfiting party leaders at times by making known her displeasure at their policies. |
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| So illiterate is some of the bluster coming from top policymakers, and so discomfiting some of their actions, that investors' confidence has been badly battered. |
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| It is discomfiting to see a totally liquid lake in Antarctica. |
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| The percentages are discomfiting once we look into them since, according to the World Health Organisation, more than 1 billion people are overweight and over 300 million are obese. |
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| He also displayed a presumptuousness beyond measure, putting a politely discomfiting artistic performance on a level with an act that terrorized the entire world. |
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