It was a bit disconcerting to sing in front of people lolling around on cushions at first, but in the end it was great. |
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It's always disconcerting when you smile at someone and they just blank you. |
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The realization that they all had blind spots and shame issues within their cultural and familial heritage was both comforting and disconcerting. |
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There is something profoundly disconcerting about these 1940s mugshots and, I suppose, the idea of having a collection of them. |
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Not surprisingly, the disconcerting undertones of this film are downright troubling. |
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Now that's the cold disconcerting face of anti-smoker Nazidom right there in all it's brutal simplicity. |
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I still find this extremely disconcerting so I went in search of a solitary place to relax. |
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It was rather disconcerting sitting with my eyes closed for so long and I started to feel really out of body and spacey. |
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Maybe the fact that I can listen to and enjoy such disconcerting, discordant, noisecore music means I'm not fit to walk the streets. |
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The two designs have sometimes been construed as representing a disconcerting shift from the spartan to the lavish. |
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While ignored by the bullish contingent, we will highlight recent data on corporate debt quality that is quite disconcerting. |
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The sheer vulgarity of the presidential jet and the extravagance it represents is disconcerting. |
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The steady and disconcerting traffic of parents and other relatives through the stage door during the performance becomes a stream. |
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Initially I found it slightly disconcerting to have dozens of sad fish eyes staring up. |
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This willingness to see formally accomplished prose as a means to camouflage empty thought is disconcerting. |
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Having a horse coming at them, especially at the canter, can be extremely disconcerting to the ex-racer. |
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Not just cute and beguiling, Pilkington's sculptures are slightly off-centre being both disarming and disconcerting. |
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It's disconcerting, coming from a city where you orient yourself by the river. |
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The situation was so disconcerting to Wade that he suffered a nervous breakdown and went on disability. |
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The fact that such a climacteric event of our history is not being taught is disconcerting. |
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My discovery, disconcerting though it was, gave me a penetrating insight into style. |
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Several people reported seeing a spider called a false widow, which has a disconcerting behavior of rushing toward people who approach it. |
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And undoubtedly, their mysterious, indefinable quality is the source of their disconcerting power. |
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This is the cultural fantasy of concert music at its most potent and disconcerting. |
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I find his insouciance about the difficulty of figuring out ethics disconcerting, though he's right that Nietzsche collapses into Platonism. |
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As we sprinted away from home plate, I found myself in the disconcerting position of being a step behind the old crock. |
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I find it disconcerting that it's legal to advertise these dating sites on programs used predominantly by teenagers and pre-teens. |
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It serves as the local church now, and it's a little disconcerting to see the homely parish notices posted up in such an imposing edifice. |
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This grating noise can be very disconcerting and is one of the biggest reasons, besides pain, that members present for treatment. |
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I do feel qualified to offer a personal view of some disconcerting aspects of how politicians and big business conspire to run the show. |
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Don't you find it disconcerting when you have someone literally five centimetres from your face, peering into your eyes with a torch? |
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But he tends to leave an impression of intellectual dishonesty, a disconcerting lack of sincerity. |
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Molly, a servant, had the disconcerting habit of periodically dropping on her knees for a quick prayer. |
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With a disconcerting habit of coming on stage dressed in a red Lycra superhero costume, he seems to set the tone for the rest of the night. |
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He has a disconcerting habit of talking very seriously and then suddenly withdrawing. |
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Equally disconcerting is the increase in unrelated transplants in the last two years and the pressure it has put on women. |
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That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events. |
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To someone who has always been completely in control, or tried to be, this was, and still is, very disconcerting. |
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People say that he doesn't smile much, but he has a throaty chuckle and the disconcerting habit of laughing when he is cross. |
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For some reason, the editor has started to greet me with a growl, which can be a little on the disconcerting side for an equable chap like me. |
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Since her eyes were usually downcast, it could be slightly disconcerting when she raised them and looked at you directly. |
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It is very disconcerting to be a fly on the wall as a band figures out what musical style best suits them. |
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Whatever the size of the vessel, there is little worse when at sea than those disconcerting and queasy rolling motions. |
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And now I like everything on the album, relishing the very quirkiness and variety that I had found disconcerting. |
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Given his rap sheet, his shyness and soft voice are at first disconcerting. |
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I must confess that I have always found the concept of symbolic realism to be somewhat disconcerting. |
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There's something faintly disconcerting about watching a former financial guru revert to the language of a woolly-headed students' union rally. |
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It is disconcerting, however, that two-thirds of the menus here offer variants on pork dishes. |
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The only ever so slightly disconcerting thing is that I had eight screws and four tacks left over at the end. |
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That this in no way reduces his sanguine view of future economic prospects is as unbelievable as it is disconcerting. |
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Takeshi is small, thick set, with bandy legs and a disconcerting twitch to his cheek. |
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What Chaterji found disconcerting was the time consuming preoccupation with technology. |
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The time bomb exploded, the sound resonating in a disconcerting fashion off the interior walls. |
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Speaking of shooting stuff, a detour led to the shooting range in the basement, where a disconcerting number of bullet marks were way off target. |
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Then suddenly there was a loud, disconcerting sound, and the building shuddered slightly. |
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His aggressive pleasure was disconcerting, though hardly blameworthy given the open-ended terms of the experiment. |
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Your first step onto the revolving disc that holds the tables can be a bit disconcerting and it's easy to get lost as your seat sidles away while you're loading up your plate. |
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Four dozen faces and no eye contact is a little disconcerting, but liberating, too. |
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What is more disconcerting is the black hole into which these FOIA requests to the NSA disappear. |
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It's disconcerting to see my once Calvinist home town rebrand itself as the Dubai of the Great Lakes. |
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But even when gastronomic curiosity overcomes fear, it can be disconcerting to discover that the most highly prized and delicious ones have poisonous lookalikes. |
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There is nothing to be gained by harping on about events in 2002, however disconcerting those events were. |
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This time Hearts wanted him, too, but for a man searching for stability, the Tynecastle club's current state of flux must have been disconcerting. |
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As an author, I can say that there is nothing more disconcerting than to read numerous paragraphs in another book that are hauntingly similar paraphrases of one's own work. |
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In Golden Bird House, a similarly disconcerting picture, scumbled ocher brushstrokes fill the sky behind a white turretlike construction resting atop a pole. |
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It was a little disconcerting because he was just bawling his eyes out. |
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What's disconcerting isn't the discovery of that first flea or tick, but the creepy-crawly feeling that if you've found one, many more are lurking nearby to take its place. |
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There are a number of disconcerting issues apparent in this undertaking. |
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If head smooches from the chairman and bear hugs from store employees are disconcerting after nearly 30 years at the more buttoned-up GE, Nardelli isn't letting on. |
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Spending time with bean is somewhat disconcerting after seeing him play so many somber, doomed roles. |
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The division between the first and the second half is marked by a disconcerting jolt in the flow of the film, and the ambiguous ending may infuriate. |
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It leaves a disconcerting sense of loneliness and purposeless to things. |
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Some women find this method disconcerting because the period they have each month while on the pill is reassurance that they haven't become pregnant. |
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Hair growing where it never grew before is a disconcerting experience. |
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Although inaccurate it proved very disconcerting to the whole community. |
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The transition is disconcerting since there are no other cuts of this sort in the picture. |
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An odd looking assembly of musicians then clutter the Hollow's general performing area sporting several guitars, violins and a couple of disconcerting beards. |
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And on the simplest level, there was a disconcerting clash between the postmodern textuality dispensed by the singers and the humble captions on the screen. |
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Frida is a colossal woman, in girth and stature, and she becomes the dark star at the center of this disconcerting debut. |
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Most disconcerting of all was the sense that this perilous post-election limbo was so very un-American. |
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He has a habit, disconcerting at first, of turning his palm quizzically outward and staring off into the distance, as if silently interrogating an unseen, all-knowing source. |
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The sense of time lapse is disconcerting, seemingly reliant on the drama evoked by the size of the projected images rather than the impact of the work itself. |
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And it is even more disconcerting if two officers of the council, having gone to law and losing, now pass on the bill for this affair to the rate-payers. |
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These disconcerting interjections of human speech into an otherwise depopulated realm help illuminate an ambiguous statement about technology in Omit's work. |
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His obfuscatory prowess, despite attaining a disconcerting status, receives little scrutiny or condemnation from media. |
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Suddenly, you get a disconcerting attack of ponophobia, the dread of overworking or of pain. |
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Most disconcerting of all is an atonal score that sounds like Satan clearing his throat. |
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By another artist, this could be a comment on the disconcerting, hypercommodified artificiality of modern life. |
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With these standout movies, it is more than disconcerting that one of the top grossing films of the last season was The Waterboy. |
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I have noticed a recent trend in the way people are hard-handedly collecting whip-round money for gifts, which I find most disconcerting. |
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We must admit it's all a bit disconcerting seeing her in daywear rather than the kick-ass hotpants and boots she wears for her stage shows. |
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There is always something very squinty about President Bush, unlike his father, which is disconcerting to some. |
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Derrida's claim is both less absolute and more disconcerting than Tallis's traducement of it. |
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Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting. |
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Last and certainly least, we endured ungifted music man Leeroy demonstrating his disconcerting habit of rapping and then tailing off into normal conversation. |
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His odd gestures and tics were disconcerting to some on first meeting him. |
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