I couldn’t even tell what Frankie was planning, and that unsettled me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The harmony is in meltdown because Wagner has used chromaticism, the promiscuous use of all the subdivisions in the scale, to put you in an unsettling place. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was also the time that Ellsberg made the unsettling discovery that he was not quite the insider he’d thought he was. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even bad news could unsettle the humors and cause illness. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was joy there, a giddiness that unsettled him and sent goose bumps down his arms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

More unsettling than the wreckage was the fact that the workshop was deserted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gogol always finds the labels unsettling, the sight of them making him feel that his family doesn’t really live on Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the University of Chicago was terra incognita for Jesse, it was also unsettling for me, not a world I was at ease in. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very curious, and more than a little unsettling. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we’re coming,” she says, unsettled when she hears her echo saying it faintly, less convincingly, once again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Sing out when you need me,” the guard said with an unsettling wink. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet his siblings, with the same parents and same unsettled childhoods, followed a more conventional path in adulthood. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Between the blasts of the great guns, there was an unsettling silence to the battle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The idea was unsettling; it made her feel vulnerable. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine that some churchgoers may have been unsettled by this little old lady in a head scarf hanging out among a bunch of Christians. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sadness in her husband’s eyes was unsettling to her. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The whirl of colors is unbearable, a jagged, unsettling choreography. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something very strange and unsettling about it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him if I was still a virgin, but I felt too unsettled. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

More profound and unsettling was the bond I recognized with those writers whose books I consulted. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that the dreams scared me, but failing the spirits yet again with my forgetfulness was unsettling. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But his effort to unsettle the American failed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I must be catching the cap’n’s seventh sense, ’cause something ’bout the way the man looked at us left me feeling unsettled and itchy. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure I catch her meaning, but I’m unsettled, even so. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, a song that does not end on the tonic chord will sound quite unsettled and even unfinished to most listeners. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The coed dorms unsettled her, all the men in their skivvies, the girls in their robes, the knowledge that at any moment a boy might saunter into her room—or worse, the bathroom. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can visualize pulling into the bus station in Montgomery, Alabama, to discover the unsettling quietness. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stamping her feet on the platform, unsettling clouds of settled station-filth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no longer perpendicu­lar to the waves but broadside to them and was beginning to roll from side to side, that rolling that was so unsettling for the stomach. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily Holmes looked at Mrs. Lawrence with a directness that was unsettling, but now he avoided her gaze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But then I had an unsettling thought: what if the mushrooms were poisonous? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there was also fear and panic, something unsettling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My brother never seemed bored, and that only further angered me at the fact that I was most of the time unsettled and unfulfilled in everything I did. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He took delight in student’s discomfort and did everything he could to badger and unsettle them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the monkey words would unsettle me; a curtain flapped loose inside my brain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is weird to say, but seeing Dad out in the real world was unsettling. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was something else—a strange mix of recognition and hunger—and it unsettled her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew of Herman’s unsettled state, and the Washington office must have been wondering how long I would care to remain in Copenhagen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We listened to the branches break, the dirt get unsettled, the grasses sway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This unsettled me a little, and Ruth had been great about it, watching over me without seeming to make a fuss, always ready to cheer me up if I seemed gloomy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it hangs there, and in that moment I realize what else unsettled me about the mutts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not so strange in and of itself; the unsettling thing was how they were posed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the back of his head, he knew that his reaction was irrational, unjustified, but...but he couldn’t explain to Koffi the way he felt—unmoored, off-kilter, unsettled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The distant rumble of thunder unsettled him more. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The whole experience was unsettling and completely demoralizing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I walked over, remembering how unsettled I had been to see her leave the courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

These kids had just spent an hour telling me stories that were tragic and unsettling, but I reminded them that those same stories also showed their persistence, self-reliance, and ability to overcome. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had a strange face that, little by little, grew unsettling to me: it was a face, or so it seemed for an instant, from a dream I had almost forgotten. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is unsettling, at the very least, to give a stranger access to things, like your self-doubts and your urine, that are otherwise shared only in medical or therapeutic situations. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in some ways unsettling, but compelling as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Each time he had given those unsettling warnings, he had been airing out his own trauma, distancing himself from it by reducing it to a cautionary tale. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The quiet was unsettling, but Ekon didn’t think about that either. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His appearance unsettled Ophie, but it wasn’t because he wore no shirt or shoes or even that he was grievously injured. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Percy wished he could say something encouraging, but he felt unsettled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bunny’s jailhouse jokes had for some reason unsettled me, though I remembered him telling an awful lot of jokes like that, back in the fall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her steady beam of love was unsettling, and she had never dropped those expressions of affection that had been so lovable in her childhood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida felt crabby and unsettled, as if it were her responsibility to stay on the alert. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was unsettling; her mind was so fuzzy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now, just when the new view seems to be taking hold, we may be in for another wrench, this time more dismaying and unsettling than anything we’ve come through. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down at the child, who had quieted some, and was now staring at the Witch in the same way that she had stared at the Grand Elder—with a calm, probing, unsettling gaze. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And they helped me ride out the big, unsettling waves that sometimes hit without notice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My stomach turns, unsettling my supper so that I have to swallow hard to keep it down. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was not like him to be so unsettled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But by the time I reach the hotel dormitory, the unsettled feeling is gone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her smug expression convinces me to keep on walking out of the room and unleashes a barrage of worry that unsettles my stomach. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The idiocy of this question, its unsettling logic, made Flora suddenly grateful for her father. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But it was not her own reflection that unsettled her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The weather was still unsettled, with light rain falling most of the days, but I started the new canoe anyway, for I needed it to gather shellfish. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he was tired and for another, what was there to report while things were unsettled? I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And the rolling motion of the boat continued to unsettle him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And seriously, I wished I hadn’t wiped off the mirror because it was really unsettling to catch Fang looking like that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Harry was quite sure the unsettled feeling didn’t have anything to do with work, though. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She hoped Nico was still alive, and Gaea had just been lying to make her unsettled. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harry had the impression that the words shocked Slughorn himself; he looked quite unsettled for a moment. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As I say, that had been my plan, and when the one-nighters kept happening, it unsettled me a bit. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like finding an egg with two yolks, shocking and unsettling. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I have also, no doubt, been prompted to think along such lines by the small event that occurred an hour or so ago - which has, I admit, unsettled me somewhat. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when he found out that the House of David had a special prayer service for Keeping Your Husband, he had felt unsettled. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid not. Anne insists that you be returned to her household as soon as you are able. The law supports her position, I fear, and in these unsettled times, there is little remedy.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie’s mother and grandmother sat plaintive all afternoon in the parlor, fanning themselves and sipping lemonade, their hair unsettled and their knees loose. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It unsettles me to see her so agitated, like the ground I’m standing on is no longer solid. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There’s too much ornate woodwork here, and the precious layerings of molding and mullion and balustrade and apse, all those thousands of genteel decisions, the studied cuts, just unsettle me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing unsettling about his appearance was a thick white scar that ran from just beneath his right eye to his jaw, like an old knife slash. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At first this message had its desired unsettling effect. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were greeted by curious stares and an indifference that completely unsettled me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid my stomach has become unsettled from too much pickle.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I had the impression that something had unsettled him, but he was too composed for me to tell exactly what. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That had been sort of unsettling, but it was another thing we weren’t discussing, another thing coiled up in the Hunter household, biding its time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know which part of the encounter he found more unsettling in recollection. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There is an urgency to her that unsettles me, a warning in her words beyond the obvious. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She must see something unsettling in my face because she says, “A penny for your thoughts?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They are presumed to be planets that never quite made it, owing to the unsettling gravitational pull of Jupiter, which kept–and keeps–them from coalescing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas didn’t know which was more unsettling— that people thought he was some kind of hero, or that some wished he didn’t exist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A big X goes up in her mind over every single piece of the unnerving, unsettling idea of him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Angry at myself for allowing the night to unsettle me like a child, I wiped the water from my face and continued walking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The truth is I have been unsettled since we came home, and nothing is right. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The more viable option was transportation to the unsettled lands of the American West, along the lines of the Indian removal program adopted over forty years later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And it all felt very unsettling to me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's an unsettling conundrum, and I don’t like it one bit. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was one of the little things that reminded me my brother was really gone, along with the oddly unsettling silence from his room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Deep down, she was unsettled by her narrow escape. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Because he felt mean and unsettled, Joe barked, “How come those kids are watching TV?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

White liked to interview a subject in a place that was unfamiliar to the person in order to unsettle him, and so he had Lawson taken to a room off the warden’s office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Rather than being unsettling, I found the quiet strangely comforting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel found the idea almost as unsettling as the battle forklifts downstairs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think about it. Throw it away. You’re worrying too much— I know, I know, we all are, there’s so much to worry about, but we mustn’t let it unsettle us.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was an unsettling moment, and we boys were always glad to get back to our games, yelling and brawling a little louder than necessary to shatter the spell cast on us by the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It really unsettled me, and although I wasn’t to find out its real meaning until years later, I think I sensed, even then, some deeper significance to it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how unsettling it was to some of us there, in all its mystery. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was an unsettling current in his voice, a genuinely conspiratorial note, as though he believed literally everything that had been said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to find Mr. Henry, all the while trying to puzzle out why Mrs. Caruthers was so unsettled by the idea of more people in the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sergio had absolutely no interest in this guy or why he had the day off, but the unsettling sense of his authority lingered, as well a kind of yearning for it at the same time. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Though they aimed never to show it, they were surely unsettled by the possibility that Barack could be forced out of office in a matter of months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The faun seemed harmless, but Percy still found him unsettling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was unsettling to see Otis Amber act like a normal human being. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we finished that unsettling meeting, I went to see Walter, who was also at the courthouse in one of the holding cells. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They become unstable and have a tendency to unsettle the mood because they deviate from comfortable convention, seeking relationships with unfamiliar chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Will very nearly smiled in response, because he was so unused to the sweetness and gentleness a woman could put into a smile, and it unsettled him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The voice had roared out of the shadows, giving both the unsettling feeling they were about to be pounced upon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Thomas had gotten so used to looks of despair, it was almost unsettling to see happy faces. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

People in Paleolithic societies had led the unsettled life of the hunter and food gatherer, reaping where nature sowed and thus at the mercy of forces that they could neither understand nor control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

TJ shrugged, tossing his science book onto the floor of the metal closet, the smell of feet wafting up from it like a cloud of dust, unsettled. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’s sweaty and unsettled, like maybe lunch didn’t agree with him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was a strange and unsettling sight, like he was standing at the edge of the universe, and for a brief moment he was overcome by ver-tigo, his knees weakening before he steadied himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

The series of photos that emerged from this project were both intriguing and unsettling, the animals incredibly intricate and lifelike, and then you looked closer and realized what they had been made of. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could always unsettle her face with a stem admonition or an old joke or pun in Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just appeared, this other face, for a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave me with the unsettling feeling that maybe I’d seen it someplace before. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Toby felt unsettled in a way he hadn’t all week. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Being in the suburbs was really unsettling Mark—he’d grown used to life in the mountains, in the woods, living in a hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, but it did unsettle the matrons of Bethlehem to see the poor thing boosted into a class ahead of their own children, there to become dazzling slick-quick at mathematics. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is, I must say, a rather unsettling experience to realize this about a matter so close to my heart, particularly one I have given much thought to over the years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The press trumpeted the notion that I had been betrayed by white and Indian Communists who were unsettled by my suggestions that the ANC must become more Africanist-oriented. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some migrants found this unsettling and preferred the comfort of the familiar seats in the rear. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When photographed hatless, he had an unsettling tendency to blend with the sky, so that his eyes hung disembodied in space. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t checked the weather and felt vaguely unsettled about that because the Frog didn’t have any radio gear except a cheap little transistor battery-powered receiver that hardly ever worked right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Citra, Rowan found himself unsettled by his decision to take this on, but he was not going to show it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Sisters of the Star lived in the Tower, a massive structure that unsettled the eye and confounded the mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“They’re just taking some time off to think. It’s been a very unsettling >» year. “It’s going to get a lot more unsettling,” I promised. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She handed me the bag and left me alone, while surprise, relief, and dismay stirred inside me like the ingredients of some strange, unsettling elixir. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward on the table, resting my chin on my folded arms, my hidden fingers gripping the table’s edge as I fought to ignore the irrational longing that unsettled me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He shoved the box farther away, so that the unsettled dust rose up, making him sneeze. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Though unsettled by his words, I turned away and made my prayers, the cross in my hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The raptor had stayed at a slow stalk, presumably so Riker could get off a good shot, but the ankys scrambled forward at an unsettling speed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As unsettling to me as the photos’ purpose was the fact that they weren’t called something else—say, employee contingency portraits, or some other euphemism. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skardebek fluttered softly around the room’s rafters like an unsettled thought. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We laughed at the panhandler on the block, but he wasn’t just an object of ridicule, he was an unsettling omen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She knew I was right, and it unsettled her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the idea of leaving Sahel to lie here in the dirt, as alone as he’d been in the last grisly seconds of his life, unsettled her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By the night of July 3, the boys had grown nervous and unsettled, the magnitude of what was at stake starting to sink in. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever civilization has gone through a major technological revolution, the world has changed in profound and unsettling ways. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even his calling me by the name Crispin was unsettling. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like spiced meat and car oil, which already was an unsettling combination before a whiff of cigarette smoke was added to the mix. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Much more unsettling, thought Shadow, than clockwork has any right to be. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The little nun at the end of the table is smiling at me in a most unsettling way. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was unsettling to hear them argue; she had never before realized the depth of their disagreement. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo felt something unsettled in the pit of her stomach. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The wrinkles around her eyes become a little unsettled and her eyes seem filled with sparks. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The statue unsettles me the longer I stare at it, and I waste no more time leaving the corridor to head to the sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Looking out into the forest was like searching someone’s dreams, disorienting and unsettling, but inside the van, everything was sharp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The room was empty and unsettling in its emptiness, and Mo felt as if she were not alone, as if she was being watched. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But it’s unsettling and people scream again, move about. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But knowing that Zeitoun’s ordeal was caused instead by systemic ignorance and malfunction—and perhaps long-festering paranoia on the part of the National Guard and whatever other agencies were involved—was unsettling. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I know this can be unsettling to people. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Because as unexpected as Mabel's kiss had been, and as nervous and unsettled as I'd felt ever since, I knew that what we did wasn't wrong. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Annabeth couldn’t argue with that, but the hard edge in Percy’s voice made her unsettled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We were scattered, an unsettling feeling in such an uncertain time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the class would suddenly erupt into a confusion of waving arms and jogging legs, unsettling poor Brother. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went about our regular business, but the question of whether Barack would run for president unsettled the air around us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One reason for its remaining unsettled is that different factors may have been decisive in different parts of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But she was anxious and unsettled, and the palace was too grand to be comfortable. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, she was aware of the breeze pouring through the tops of the trees, and this familiar sound unsettled her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even above the ear-shattering levels of conversation that blended into a hodgepodge of unsettling noise, I could hear my attackers’ comments shouted at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth wall was more of a museum, they supposed, but the fact that they weren’t sure was unsettling. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he grappled with an intensely painful realization—one that would have unsettling relevance to his bitter experience in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once again, I had that familiar, unsettling feeling of being in a movie where the film has been broken and then spliced together a whole scene later. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their minds they sneered at unsettled people who had no house to go to and occasionally in their pride they brought a guest home for a day or two. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still trying to piece it all together when an unsettling feeling creeps up my neck, like the greedy touch of a ghost’s fingers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Something cold and unsettling seeped into Ekon’s body then, turning his mouth dry as paper. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was also unsettling to know that he spoke aloud only for my benefit. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She drew a tower with unsettling stonework and intersecting corridors and stairways crowding its insides, looming over a town drenched in fog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked at Alec, who seemed as unsettled as Mark had ever seen him, doubt clouding his eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Looking down at them, I had the unsettling impression they belonged to someone else. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was something vaguely unsettling about the way Rasheed seemed to loom over the woman. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A riposte unsettles your opponent, signaling aggression, quickness, and both defensive and offensive power. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Aarfy seemed a bit unsettled as he fidgeted with his pipe and assured Yossarian that everything was going to be all right. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At night in the lifeboat he was unsettled and noisy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering—all at once. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, there were the relentless insects, the unsettling sense of isolation, and the ever-taxing terrain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even Lewis and Clark with their big guns were astounded and unsettled by the ability of the grizzly to absorb volleys of lead with barely a wobble. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a wind that threatened to unsettle everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They didn’t bother her, these scattered, unsettled matters. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning, she woke up too early, smelling her own bad breath and feeling a sad and unsettling peace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Forget it. I think maybe I’m still a little, you know, unsettled. I thought I was done for. Lost, no water—and you with the chocolate chip cookies.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she heard unsettling sounds, but she never caught sight of what made them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Outside, a spring storm raged, and Cook had set out candles for when the electricity inevitably went—the lights were already flickering in an eerie and unsettling manner. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And yet, in another way, it mattered very much—it was unsettling to hear my parents struggle with English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The route climbed up and down the unsettled rocks of the Khumbu Glacier’s lateral moraine for several miles, then dropped down onto the glacier itself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although he hadn’t written to her yet, and probably had already decided not to marry her, the shock of her marrying someone else so soon was unsettling to him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange and unsettling sight, like he was standing at the edge of the universe, and for a brief moment he was overcome by vertigo, his knees weakening before he steadied himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Our family—wouldn’t appreciate it. They wouldn’t—understand. It would seem suspicious—or unsettling to them. The peace isn’t stabilized enough yet.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Burnside puts the reader into familiarly unfamiliar territory, but in an unsettling way. Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z

He has crafted performances that demand to be seen, partly because they forgo performative pyrotechnics in favor of a palpable, at times unsettling sense of the real. In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

But there was also an unsettling aspect of the picture that did not go unnoticed: “Why is he wearing sunglasses?” wrote one commenter. Dear celebrities (and everyone else, too): Stop wearing sunglasses at museums! 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Park is a genre virtuoso, known for thrillers like “Oldboy,” whose filmmaking is notable for its visual order and extreme violence, a combination that creates a seductive, at times unsettling aesthetic of immaculate frenzy. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The scene is unsettling: Is Violet a victim of Tate’s manipulation, or does he really love her? ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 6: Impersonation of Love 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Tate Britain's forthcoming exhibition, entitled simply Watercolour, aims to unsettle these easy assumptions. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Bateman can be just unsettling enough to give him the aura of a guilty party, but at the same time affable enough to create doubt around that guilt. Bate-and-switch: how Jason Bateman learned to embrace his dark side 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

As if that weren’t enough for the easily unsettled, the show sprinkles each episode with factoids related to the deaths examined, just rolling them out there without explanation. | 'Curious & Unusual Deaths': ?Curious & Unusual Deaths? on Discovery Fit & Health 2012-02-16T22:55:02Z

Her language, like dots of colored light pinging from a smudgy mirrored ball, casts an intoxicating if unsettling glow. Books of The Times: ?Beautiful Thing? by Sonia Faleiro 2012-02-29T22:52:22Z

No, we're talking about something even more unsettling: the academic world's obsession with Stephen Colbert. Colbert: To academics, he's the Higgs boson of political satire 2012-07-10T19:44:07Z

Confident but clearly tender, Mr. Mendes has the familiar charm of a popular kid who has the faculties not to unsettle parents with his slickness. Shawn Mendes, Pop Idol, Is Not Banking on a Gimmick 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The sudden passing of a teenage girl unsettles the four adults in her life. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Bidart’s ability as a storyteller fuels many of these pieces, including his famous dramatic monologues about child murderer Herbert White, an anorexic woman named Ellen West and other unsettling figures. Frank Bidart, Mary Jo Salter and Mary Jo Bang: Poets on desire and politics 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Two of the more notable relative newcomers, Josh Malerman and Paul Tremblay, have recently published novels that are personal, deeply unsettling and peculiarly suited to our current historical moment. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It was in this unsettled period when Wilde, then around 20, spotted Tilda Swinton at a Golden Globes party, sidled up to her ethereal, chameleonic heroine and awkwardly asked for advice. Olivia Wilde, Director: ‘Too Old to Play Dumb Anymore’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sher’s vision has retained its combination of charm and slightly unsettling power. Music Review: Is It Traditional or Modern? Both, With Nods to Kafka and Fellini 2010-09-29T22:38:00Z

Its echoing rooms and deserted porches, glazed expressions and pale, sterile colors are — thanks in large part to the cinematographer Jay Keitel — adamantly unsettling. ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: When Anxiety Goes Viral 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

The effect is unsettling, taking us to some edge, a borderland of metamorphosis. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z

There’s something so uncanny and unsettling about it. He Gives ‘Atlanta’ Anxiety. And That’s a Good Thing. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

In its candid examination of domestic conflict and female ambition, the book unsettles expectations of North Korean life. A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“To unsettle so as to stimulate thought,” Laurens reflects, “to make art that was critical and served truth, though truth might be cruel, such were the aims of Edgar Degas, in his extreme modernity.” Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Björklund’s “Lysglimt” backs a sinister Spaghetti Western theme with unsettling noise and electronic throbs, like a storm cloud commandeering the horizon. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Inspired by texts by the British poet Christopher Middleton, the dramatic, unsettling and emotionally potent “Pavilions” offers an expansive insight into Mr. Hersch’s dark-hued aesthetic. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

God’s grace seems cruelly missing in “Free in Deed,” a quiet, unsettling story of faith found and tragically lost. Review: Faith Found and Lost in ‘Free in Deed’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

You may miss a few moments of “An Open Secret,” either while looking away during its unsettling stories or closing your eyes in frustration. Review: ‘An Open Secret’ Spotlights Child Sexual Abuse in Hollywood 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

It was, she explained in her velvet voice, partly to set an example and partly because the crimes in question deeply unsettled the social order. Radio review: Animals on Trial 2011-03-17T08:00:04Z

Gloomy and vague, “Run Rabbit Run” is a moody, noncommittal tease replete with the usual spectral signifiers: clammy dreams, scary drawings, unsettling masks. ‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: No Child of Mine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Still, the sight and sound of a gun onstage today, given our country’s despicable relationship to firearms, is unsettling. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

War Horse director Marianne Elliott, who was also on the judging panel, said there were a number of "really challenging and unsettling plays about the disenfranchised youth in Britain". Jordan collects playwriting honour 2013-11-22T16:15:18Z

Our yearning for answers and the limits of knowing are at the heart of the intricately crafted, unsettling documentary “This Much We Know.” ‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

"Hints of an unsettled period of weather in the runup to the festival … I think a mixed festival is the most likely." Glastonbury 2013 weather forecast: pack your wellies and sunglasses 2013-06-13T09:28:45Z

You begin watching by feeling mildly amused, then uneasy, then annoyed, then unsettled. Review: Theater as Sabotage in the Dazzling ‘Fairview’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

"We've made the exhibition as inclusive as possible but there's a huge amount to get in. Our ideas of what is frightening or unsettling change over the decades," says Mr Pye. Delving deep in to the gothic 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

That we never quite witness what she experiences — the play takes place entirely inside the apartment, with occasional forays down to the first-floor hallway — adds to the unsettling atmosphere. In ‘Buzzer,’ a Relationship Strained on the Urban Frontier 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

But this show raises deeper questions, and some of them are unsettling. Review | They were once outsiders, but now are embraced as American artists 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

It is set in her bedchamber, giving the display an unsettling authenticity. Princess Diana's former home becomes the Enchanted Palace 2010-03-25T17:25:00Z

His answers unsettle her more than the possibility of talking to a ghost. Review | The fantastic world of Laura van den Berg 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

“The Returned” is much more cool, cerebral and unsettling, but it is at best a ghostly reflection of “Les Revenants.” Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the Dead Return as if Nothing Happened 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Yet as unsettling as Cosby’s transformation was to watch, Cosby’s views on black people, and especially young black people, have undeniably shaped popular black identity. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

As events turn from strange to unsettling, we start to ask at what point we would leave and what unspoken social constraints would be stopping us from trusting our gut instincts. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Invitation 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Outsize feelings roiled beneath Alison’s surface in “The Affair,” Ms. Wilson’s unsettling performance having earned her a 2015 Golden Globe for best actress in a television series. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

They’re all cast in an unsettling twilight of moral struggle, and each one is a miniature demonstration of why Johnson won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Last season brought the East Coast Chamber Orchestra in a beautiful, unsettling concert, heavy on 20th-century rarities. Music Review: A Far Cry, in the Schneider Concerts at Tishman Auditorium 2013-01-17T22:50:08Z

Their reviews seem to have so unsettled and embarrassed the museum’s trustees that, while the show was still on view, they unceremoniously removed Barr as director. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

I’d never seen a corpse before, and the experience was unsettling. I’m glad my dog is dying 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

They do little to unsettle well-established norms of contemporary art making. Art Review: ‘Anti-Establishment’ and Liam Gillack’s Work at Bard 2012-07-05T19:44:25Z

I sense a dark, unsettling challenge behind the twinkle. Fats Waller by Michael Longley 2011-02-19T00:05:53Z

Those who work in the media don’t gather in our huddle rooms each morning and light up the teleconference lines with plots to nettle and unsettle you. Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Purists beware: "Tempest Redux" at the Odyssey Theatre boldly transposes Shakespeare’s play to a darker, more unsettling key, but the inventive staging and solid command of source text make for a memorable re-imagining. A dark 'Tempest Redux' finds its magic at the Odyssey Theatre 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Though "The Bad Seed" wasn't terrifying, by any stretch, it was unsettling, particularly in how the child manipulated the adults around her, something Grace inhabited with unnerving effect. "The Bad Seed Returns" never really blossoms 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

This portrait of 1950s America is like none you've ever seen, and it's unsettling — but the minute it was over, I wanted to watch it again. 'The Master' is a strange and mesmerizing tale of two men 2012-09-20T20:46:07Z

Stanley Kubrick’s foray into the horror genre, now a classic, is still unsettling. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sherlock’ and Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

In addition to the terrific acting, the design team aids mightily, especially with lighting, in creating an eerie, unsettling atmosphere in ordinary-seeming locations. Review: 'The Vandal' is suspenseful, funny drama 2013-02-01T01:34:15Z

Those concepts are why the “Marley” team seems both heartened and unsettled to be polishing the show just as Baltimore finds itself wrenched apart, marching together, clamoring for social justice. ‘Marley’ rising up in Baltimore 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

At first it’s unsettling, but then I surrender to the chaos, beautiful in its own way. Motherlode Blog: The Half-Life of the Divorced Parent 2013-07-25T13:56:44Z

A scene from unsettling horror remake Project Zero 2. Project Zero 2 – review 2012-07-07T23:05:26Z

They’re the space where artists can purge, too — a repository for deep-seated hostilities or the unsettling thoughts that keep us up at night. When bloody horror movies are actually about . . . politics 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The film ultimately “becomes less about one woman, her malevolent charms and quirks, and develops into an unsettling look at imperial power,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Kingmaker’ and ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Clearly, the “talk about it” solution isn’t working for me and it’s just introducing ideas even more unsettling than the lyrics themselves. Motherlode Blog: She Isn't Sexy, She's 7 2012-06-11T00:50:26Z

This wafting extends to the restless camera, which moves around in agitated fashion, as if to convey Anne’s unsettled mind. ‘Anne at 13,000 Ft’ Review: A Woman Adrift 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

There are lots of brilliantly crafted movies which I couldn't have made this movie without," says Cornish, "but which, for me, are a little bit morally unsettling. SXSW 2011: Joe Cornish on aliens, hoodies and Attack the Block 2011-03-14T01:24:49Z

The movie’s central dispute, though — were the women symbols of liberation or victims of exploitation? — remains unsettled, probably because the two options aren’t mutually exclusive. Review: In ‘Daughters of the Sexual Revolution,’ Pompoms and Patriotism 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

His larger story, woven from court records, newspaper archives and historical monographs, is particularly unsettling for what it reveals about the deep roots of anti-Blackness in New York City’s law enforcement divisions. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Kawakami writes with unsettling precision about the body — its discomforts, its appetites, its smells and secretions. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

After years of gangbuster results marked by soaring prices, both auction houses staged relatively modest sales last year, owing largely, they say, to hesitancy on the part of consignors in an unsettled global market. Auction houses see signs of art market uptick ahead of New York sales 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

In the light of this week's revelations, there are more unsettling questions for the Vienna Phil to answer. Vienna Philharmonic's conservatism has exposed it to unsettling truths 2013-03-11T21:28:20Z

But there’s enough unshakable imagery to promise a few months of unsettled Sunday nights’ sleep. Review: In ‘Twin Peaks,’ an Old Log Learns Some New Tricks 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

How the new movie will be distributed is still unsettled. If Warren Beatty Is Directing, Shooting Can Wait. For Years. 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

There is an unsettling edge to the relationship - Eunice is a 16-year-old runaway when she arrives uninvited at his farmhouse one night. Dale Kushner's debut is '50s coming-of-age tale 2013-05-13T15:57:08Z

And as hoary as such epilogues can be, this one lends the production its most genuinely unsettling moments. | 'Unnatural Acts' : Behind the Closed Doors of Harvard, 91 Years Ago 2011-06-24T02:01:10Z

It was, admittedly, an unsettling portrait of the mother, and I wondered if perhaps the suggestion was more disturbing than cathartic. Your Therapist’s Prescription? The Right Book. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

A suspected bomb in a pizza box provides the comedy – along with the unsettling reminder that abortion clinics in the US are regularly under threat from protestors. Ctrl Alt Delete: the pro-choice comedy that's the bravest TV show in America 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

This unsettling question hangs over the novel, and the protagonist’s seesawing unreliability feels intentional and well executed, not the jarring result of tonal indecision. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

That creates a profoundly unsettling environment for immigrants. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The bands are pried up on several floors at the back of the building to reveal floor-to-ceiling windows, giving the unsettling impression that someone is peeking at you through gigantic metal blinds. Architecture Review: A Unified Home for Arts Education, With a Split Right Down the Middle 2011-03-09T23:05:21Z

But it’s easily one of the most unsettling, ambiguous and unusual movie tableaus I’ve seen in some time. ‘Relic’ Review: A Haunted House and a Clouded Mind 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Dynamic, interrogative and unsettling; crafted yet open-ended; fiercely smart, savage and stirring – from the get-go, Paterson's poetry has been essential reading. Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z

Hittman describes her subjects as “everyday lives and everyday struggles”, which, while technically true, skims over just how unsettling her films can be. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

These connections make “Byzantium and Islam” a source of comfort, a calm, pulled-together portrait of a deeply unsettled region. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z

The murder of a child, though, is more unsettling than most screen violence. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

During a midshow address, Mr. Battle spoke about how the audience looked beautiful but seemed unsettled by Mr. McGregor’s dance: “I would have been shaken up, too, but I had an advantage.” Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z

And the power for all of us to seek truth and justice, however unsettling it may be. Bill Cosby and the Oppressive Power of Silence 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

On a different but also domestically unsettling note, Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” just premiered with the first three episodes. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

She replaces the singer's straightforward pop backups with harmonically unsettled and sonically sophisticated orchestrations. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

By turns outsized and restrained, his is a volcanic presence filled with equally unsettling quiet menace. Robert Ryan?s Quiet Furies 2011-08-06T20:58:02Z

It’s a coarse world, full of unsettling moments, slapsticky gags and confusion. Twyla Tharp: The possibilities are endless 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Other comics weighed in, but none have produced a show with as much unsettling urgency as Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette,” a riveting New York debut at SoHo Playhouse that announces a major new voice. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

The director Erik Nelson adds realistic wartime sound effects to the silent footage, achieving an unsettling verisimilitude. ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Execution isn’t our response to people who try to unsettle our cherished beliefs, but we don’t have a huge amount of patience. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

They were aided by architectural historians, who argued that the grounds, buildings, and statues were, while morally unsettling, beautifully designed. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Its clinical perspective on sex was a shocker, of course, but perhaps even more unsettling was its portrayal of carnal desire as a force that warped and melted class boundaries. | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z

After Maeve hits Bernard with the unsettling truth that he’s a host, he breaks into Ford’s office to examine the intricacies of his own code. 7 Major Westworld Revelations 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The frantic, nightmarish allegro allowed full rein to the orchestra's virtuosity, while the jaunty presto finale was truly scintillating and deeply unsettling. LSO/Elder 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z

The biggest surprise, though, is how the story continues to unsettle after it ends. 'Time Lapse' an unsettling trip to the future 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Just this week, the cartoon was featured in a Times article about coping with the relentless and unsettling news environment that we’re living in these days. How to Stay Sane as a Cartoonist in Trumpland 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Circling like tribal warriors, biting the air, the men end up bouncing around like frat boys, reassuring us not to be unsettled by their aggression. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-04T23:22:16Z

In this unsettling yet majestic 2017 documentary, marine scientists and underwater photographers unite to explain the disappearance of major coral reefs. Short Attention Span? All These Movies Are Under 90 Minutes 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Set in a college classroom during a campus shooting, “Good Friday” is activist theater, and it’s meant to unsettle and provoke. Review: In ‘Good Friday,’ an Unblinking Look at Rape Culture 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

This nail-biter of a thriller recreates that violence with unflinching, often unsettling detail. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Mr. Mercedes’ and ‘Hotel Mumbai’ 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Medina had seen the response to the art work as part of a disturbing pattern in which art-engaged audiences called for the censorship of unsettling ideas. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The movie’s straddling of the dramatic and the documentary forms is unsettling. ‘The Mole Agent’ Review: Undercover, Where You Least Expect Him 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The movie, the eighth, is tightly focused and as somber and unsettling as it should be considering its apocalyptic events. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z

This is precisely why its success is unsettling. On Fox News' "The Five," Jessica Tarlov is redefining the image of the sacrificial liberal 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

This jostling pageant doesn't have the unsettling penetration of his best work. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z

The image unsettled numerous fans who took to Twitter and other mediums to voice their horror. Hip hop star convinces fans he has hanged himself on Instagram 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

In these scenes, Anderson makes expert use of static, white noise, vibrations and even the thick sound of air, all for unsettling effect. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Along with the show’s other strong paintings, it demonstrates Mallo’s skill at composing scenes that subtly unsettle. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

With these unsettling progressions, Bridget abstracts herself from her musings, becoming an Everywoman sage. Bridget Jones and the Millennial Workplace 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The first movement is wistful yet unsettled, with folkloric themes and a sometimes jagged piano part. Gidon Kremer and Daniil Trifonov Team Up at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

But reality also has a nasty way of unsettling love affairs. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Now, when she does kill — out of anger and disappointment rather than a misplaced sense of duty — the bloodshed doesn’t have a comic charge, and it’s simply unsettling. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The amalgam of ballerina finesse and daft diva antics is brilliant, unsettling, riveting: the epitome of Trocks style. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mendelsohn’s production, while rough-hewed and obviously produced on a small budget, gets the important things right: most of the performances are strong and individualized, the mood quietly unsettling. Theater Review: ‘Children of Killers,’ by Katori Hall, at the Castillo Theater 2012-10-02T22:14:13Z

Bong’s script was enchanting and unsettling, like Spirited Away. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Contrasts in colors create moods that are “unsettling and uncanny,” he added. A Quiet Word With Italy’s Master of Horror 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

What may unsettle viewers most about “The Innocents” is Vogt’s daring choice to assign villainy to tweens with at least some agency in their actions. In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Plaza’s next project is unsettling in a different sense. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

As the show crisscrossed the country, he visited sites that figured in Mormon history, read books about the church, discovered unsettling things that he had not known about it. Playing Neil Diamond: A Dream Role, and a ‘Crazy Privilege’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

But in this unsettled moment, the speech still felt like a raft to grab onto. The Golden Globes Send a Muddled Message Post-Trump 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

And the two-episode Season 3 premiere, airing Thursday, is “Atlanta” in top form, going to new places while maintaining that unsettling sense of never knowing how the ground might shift. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

It stems back to Thekla's childhood, when she learned to adapt to unsettling things. 'Children and Fire': Ursula Hegi's novel of a small town in pre-WWII Germany 2011-06-01T22:13:59Z

But this was an unsettled period, when everything was possible and experimentation the norm. DVD: At Gaumont in France When All Was Possible 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z

At first, that line was deeply unsettling; the losses represented missed milestones and a lack of control. The pandemic has caused parents to slow down. Here’s how to preserve that pace. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

The collection also includes work from Swiss Surrealist sculptor Alberto Giacometti and — a rarity for American collections — Francis Bacon, the iconic British painter known for his unsettling images of distorted bodily forms. Seattle Art Museum gets major gift: A prized modern-art collection estimated at $400 million 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

This deeply unsettling tale, rich with atmosphere and stingy with facts, “is a stealth weapon,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’ and ‘The Handmaiden’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

It is a terrific visual for her perpetual state of being unsettled. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Despite some unsettling stories of mistreatment of animals on movie sets, I try to remind myself that most of the creatures I’m seeing on-screen weren’t really whipped, abused or interfered with. It’s a critic’s job to be fair. But when animals are involved, it gets dicey. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

“The lack of diversity in the White House press corps is unsettling,” said Sarah Glover, president of the National Association of Black Journalists. The White House press room is overwhelmingly white. Does that matter? 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Dumas's images of children, including her own, are always unsettling. Marlene Dumas's paintings of nudes and kids 2010-08-22T21:29:00Z

The album arrives at an appropriately unsettling moment for the world. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

Fiction has an unsettling way of anticipating reality. What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

But the largest rotations had a habit of making a deep, unsettling “clunk” noise. Retooling the Met Opera’s Problematic ‘Ring’ Machine 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Laenor, the former sensitive young warrior, is now a dissipated playboy looking to get unsettled any way he can. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: A Scandal Spills Over 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

We discovered four aspects of news consumption that, when taken together, paint an unsettling picture of the TV news ecosystem. Don’t be too quick to blame social media for America’s polarization – cable news has a bigger effect 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

William Kentridge, the best-known of the group, depicts an unsettled land, or comments on the country’s dependence on extraction industries by drawing a landscape on an old ledger sheet from a mining company. In the galleries: A look at apartheid’s cruel costs

The unsettling visceral punch of the apparitions is underscored with a soundtrack of bells. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

For Alex, the assignment is especially unsettling because, like many of the characters in the novel, he regards music as one of the last vestiges of the genuine in a life comprehensively penetrated by marketing. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

His favorite technique is to isolate a tiny moment amid hours of video and work it over until it bulges with unsettling significance. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Like that unsettling film by Lars von Trier, the dance wraps messy human desires around a false promise of science, vines strangling a host. Dance Review: ?Restless Eye,? by David Neumann, at New York Live Arts 2012-03-26T22:22:50Z

When the mind loses its moorings, it unsettles others. They’ve Come Undone: Giselle, Lucia and Romantic Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

That a region of such transcendent beauty was the site of some of the 20th-century’s most savage and prolonged  warfare is just one of the many unsettling paradoxes suggested by Hylton’s book. Vanished: Diving into a Real-Life WWII Mystery 2013-11-06T10:45:00Z

The film's July premiere in Santiago unsettled many audiences because Chile remains deeply divided over Pinochet's rule. 'No' Oscar nomination boosts Chile's film industry 2013-01-12T03:31:06Z

“Our Boys” is a deceptively innocuous title for a powerfully unsettling story. ‘Our Boys’ Explores the Anatomy of Hate Crimes 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

And many images in the pilot episode, directed by Neil Marshall, are appropriately unsettling. 'Constantine' haunted by the ghost of a story 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

A video, “The Last Silent Movie,” by Susan Hiller, provides a lilting, unsettling musical air to the fourth floor of “The Keeper.” Object Lessons: The New Museum Explores Why We Keep Things 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

We’re in this unsettling situation with newspaper reporter Sully Carter who, based on his exploits in past Tucker novels, is a magnet for trouble. Neely Tucker’s ‘Only the Hunted Run’ starts with a bang and never lets up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

I wanted to add my voice to those who consider this to be unsettling and unnecessary. Westworld recap: episode seven – it's Ford vs the board! 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Must be pretty unsettling having the CIA next door.” Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Rather than become a new Michael Scott figure, the eccentric, weirdly charismatic California was employed as a kind of catalyst to unsettle and shake up the characters around him. Help Wanted: Now James Spader Leaving The Office 2012-02-28T14:39:12Z

Included in “Volume 2,” the letters, especially those written after the breakup, contain unsettling disclosures. Review | Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, Glenn Kenny said the movie has one too many jump scares, but it also “delivers great unsettling jolts that approximate the power of King’s vision.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Pet Sematary’ 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

The Black Lodge scenes are as unsettling as any in the second-season finale or the prequel film, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.” Review: In ‘Twin Peaks,’ an Old Log Learns Some New Tricks 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

It’s an unsettling trio of Elfmans, with one painfully emerging from the head of another. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

She was tense and unsettled, the way I remembered her, and she refused to stay in our guest bedroom. Modern Love: In Grief, a Mother and a Wife Bond 2010-08-06T17:51:00Z

Doing nothing that felt exaggerated or overwrought, Ms. Wang emphasized unsettled harmonies and de-emphasized melodic integrity. Review: Yuja Wang Plays Dazed Chaos, Then 7 Encores 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

And in an era of Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter, it taps into America’s racial tensions in the most unsettling and yet compelling fashion. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Crane, a flexible actor, nicely conveys Dan’s unsettled art and life. Review: ‘The Body of an American’: Ties Created by War 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Other members of my generation felt similarly unsettled. My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

But the historically and sportingly accurate depiction of a prize fight that ended with a man’s death has an unsettling quality all its own. Putting the Brutality of a Prize Fight on the Met Opera Stage 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s heady, unsettling stuff, adapted by Matthew Graham and brought to life with affecting performances, especially by Osy Ikhile as a scientist who becomes the final witness to the great transition. Review: ‘Childhood’s End,’ a Syfy Adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Chilling Futurist Tale 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The surreal and unsettling power of the melted bottle image evoked the almost unimaginable horror of the moment and led him into a place beyond reportage or documentary. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z

It was an absolutely spectacular performance, run through with urgent and often unsettling beauty. Violinist Stefan Jackiw plays with white-hot passion at the Kennedy Center

Soldaten raises unsettling questions about the fate of civilians in the firing line. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z

The subject of the book is ostensibly racial identity, but Hong confesses to feeling unsure and unsettled about her authority to write it. ‘Minor Feelings’ Rescues Personal Experience From the Expectations of Others 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Hancock recently learned how unsettling it is for his PhD students to receive an unplanned call from him. Calling out of the blue: Why would you do this to someone you love? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

In his funniest and most stylish special, “Miami Nights,” on YouTube, Hannibal Buress ended on a 20-minute story about an unsettling encounter with a police officer in Miami that led to his arrest. Best Comedy of 2020 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

I hadn’t encountered an unreliable narrator and the lingering impact of an unsettling ending in the books I’d read before this one. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Prince asks early on, the expert Mr. Woodeson pitching the question with a jauntiness as unsettling as it is immediate. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z

Is that choice a jittery response to an unsettled sociopolitical climate? Fashion? They’re Over It 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

It gave these streets an unsettling feeling in an increasingly uneasy time. Want a Black Lives Matter mural on your downtown office building? Call this guy. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

When the dancer, standing in profile against a black backdrop, lifts his heels and hands in the same rhythm, the effect is unsettling because so much of the body is near-invisible. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z

But this schematic element pales beside the emotional force of Tony's re-evaluation of the past, his rush of new memories in response to fresh perspectives, and the unsettling sense of the limits of self-knowledge. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z

Already a veteran of several Omaha bands, he had been putting out music since he was 13 — one of those impressive if slightly unsettling talents that gets described as a “wunderkind.” Bright Eyes’ Summertime Sadness 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

It’s there in abundance, its complexities giving his hard-boiled compositions unsettling resonance, uncanny verve and lasting impact. In Charles Garabedian's paintings, anguish of biblical proportions 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The photographs can, at first look, be unsettling; the oral histories serve to humanise the photos, showing the purpose and even sweetness that underlie many of the images. Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti 2013-05-15T14:34:17Z

In his latest and third novel, “The Good Lieutenant,” Whitney Terrell writes an unsettling story about a female soldier’s operation to recover the corpse of a kidnapped sergeant during the Iraq War. Why tell an Iraq war story backwards? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

It is designed to keep viewers unsettled, which it does, admirably. “Uncut Gems” is a merciless, nail-biting crime thriller that lets Adam Sandler shine 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The plastic skin of a naked mannequin is, however, always unsettling. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Resisting those arguments is still our struggle, and so they are, however unsettling, still worth reading, even in their creepiest form. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Then there was Rickie, an effeminate teen – ABC found his application of eyeliner more unsettling than anything else – of indeterminate race who crushed on boys and at one point found himself homeless. Riot grrrls, beta males and fluid fashion: how My So-Called Life changed TV forever 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harrower has provided both Una and Ray with gorgeous, unsettling memory monologues about being lost in a claustrophobic village to which they escaped. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

An alien and unsettling object, literally otherworldly, it captured something that many human representations fail to. The Meaning of the Moon, From the Incas to the Space Race 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a victory, but a pointless, dumb one — and when Mr. Scorsese reruns the scene from a more objective point of view, showing us what really happened, the achievement becomes more unsettling. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z

Suspicious of hysterical hordes, I found it slightly unsettling. Europe concert diary: Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at London Proms 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

The results so far have been both affecting and unsettling, emotional and apocalyptic. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The test of a work of art’s success, though, is not how fluently it communicates a single message; the test is how forcefully it reflects, unsettles, and transforms the world in which it intercedes. From China’s Artist-Activist, a Citywide Great Wall 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The train is forever rocking, which keeps things always a little off balance, adding to the film's unsettling quality. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

But the poem is something more sober, and more unsettled: a five-movement composition in the key of unfulfillment, with, as its opening and closing theme, love that is not simply abandoned but “murdered,” “discarded.” The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

“Love,” the fourth, and easily the least unsettling, feature from the Argentine director Gaspar Noé, has but one goal: To tell the story of a romance entirely through sex. Review: ‘Love,’ Gaspar Noé’s Romance Told Through Sex 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In an improvisatory form concerned with conjuring inner worlds — the source of often grotesque, unsettling movement — surfaces are a controversial starting point. Review: Becoming Kazuo Ohno, a Bold Copycat Tribute to a Butoh Master 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

There is much about "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" that is intensely unsettling and enraging. "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" director on making her anti-"Juno" film: "I just got on the bus" 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

He maintains eye contact throughout, with an unsettling intimacy and odd reverence of approach that is usually reserved for more spectacular stunts. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z

Part of that purpose was to explore an unsettling ambiguity: Are such images titillating, offensive, tragic or some combination thereof? Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

This unsettling aura permeates much of Tomorrow's Harvest. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z

Many of their students were socially coddled and intellectually narrow, their tests of character even narrower, their “trigger warnings” against unsettling speech and gestures ubiquitous and unrelenting. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a relief, at this point, to find that this kind of cringe comedy can still make us cringe—that there is some imagined world of confrontation more awkward and unsettling than our own. Make America Cringe Again: Tim Robinson’s “I Think You Should Leave” 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

The surreal and sometimes unsettling story is grounded by the three-time Caldecott medalist Wiesner’s soft, realistic artwork, and Napoli’s spare text transports us inside Fish Girl’s head as she pieces things together. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Variations on those unsettling words — both explicit and unspoken — echo through the wrenching final scene of Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which opened Wednesday night at Wyndham’s Theater in London. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

It is far more unsettling when Deeks justifies his behavior to Andrew and calls him a “good kid” for not hurting an Afghan prisoner. “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the difference between Pink and a band like the Feeling is sometimes one of context rather than sound, per se. the deeply odd "Menopause Man", however, thickens into something more unsettling. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today 2010-05-30T10:20:00Z

At Cedar Lake that story translates into an alternately soothing and unsettling multisensory experience. Robert Wilson Puts on a Show 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind of domestic tableau you might encounter in “The Twilight Zone,” funny, unsettling and enthralling. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

But the process I found too kooky, too magical, too unsettling, too close to mental illness for comfort. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

The South Korean novelist Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Tuesday for her surreal, unsettling novel, “The Vegetarian,” about a woman who believes she is turning into a tree. Han Kang Wins Man Booker International Prize for Fiction With ‘The Vegetarian’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

The evening ahead was such a potentially unsettling experience that Turnbull had brought two packs of beer with him. Watching ‘The Crown’ With Britain’s Anti-Monarchists: ‘I Feel Queasy’ 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

He also decided to shave their heads, removing the unsettling spindles of hair. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Isn't there something unsettling in the circularity in which some writers write because they want to be writers? Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

This season, he’s intent on showing a more mystical side; “OM” — unsettling, yet hypnotic — falls under weird. Savion Glover Dances in ‘OM’ at the Joyce Theater 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Initially incredulous and unsettled at some of what he sees at the club, Adam changes his mind after he’s pushed onstage and, to the blunt throbbing of “Like a Virgin,” strips. Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike,’ by Steven Soderbergh, With Channing Tatum 2012-06-28T21:57:03Z

At first glance, the factors unsettling the economic outlook for 2023 — rising inflation, looming recession and the war in Ukraine — seem like harbingers of doom for the high-end jewelry business. Shaking Off the World’s Worries, Jewelry Focuses on Growth 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

The test of even the most extravagant science center is not whether you leave satisfied or entertained, but whether you leave animated, a little unsettled, in a state that resembles wonder. Museum Review: The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas 2012-12-01T00:56:04Z

Instead of Gagosian, the blue-chip gallery empire that might have been Wood’s champion, her new show of unsettling figurative paintings, “Time Sensitive,” opened Friday at Michael Werner, the more traditional Upper East Side gallery. Issy Wood Met Power Players in Art and Music. She Went Her Own Way. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

And in a moment of unsettled self-consciousness, he may just be realizing that that’s not such a great thing to be, either. Girls Watch: Slick With Sadness 2013-03-11T18:00:17Z

For instance, “The Postcard” explores the unsettling reality of postwar France, where Holocaust survivors were silenced for decades in an attempt to allow the country to start with a clean slate after the Nazi occupation. An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

None of this anthology’s unsettling fiction, much of it translated by the impressively multitalented Jenkins, has ever been available before in English. Review | Why read what everyone else is reading? A guide to this season’s hidden gems. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Jemisin makes an unsettling attempt at legitimizing the Enemy’s actions — a claim that when cities gain sentience, they weaken the fabric of reality and destroy entire universes. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Where those artists have often mined autobiographical facts and episodes to create their hallucinatory installations, however, Mr. Singh and his colleagues relied on an unsettling form of primitivism. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z

He is unsettled by how the ad portrays the girl like a pinup. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Instead, we are offered the chance to retreat into thought bunkers with those of like mind, and cut ourselves off from unsettling ideas. Nearing the endgame: is Hollywood's lust for sequels destroying cinema? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

That movie is an excruciatingly unsettling study of exploitation and avarice that comes to nothing. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z

This unsettles Don; he’s worried about the potential for a guy’s career to be ruined by a false accusation. Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

But while it revels in Coplandesque rhapsody, its rhythms remain subtly unsettled, and the country fair ambience of its upbeat moments has infectious appeal. Music Review: Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance 2012-06-15T22:14:58Z

It’s hard not to feel unsettled by the sight of Pharrell’s cartoon avatar peeping through binoculars at a group of Lolitas frolicking in the surf. Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Tricky, because Highsmith’s behavior could be as creepy and unsettling as that of the protagonists in her most famous novels, “Strangers on a Train” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” Review | Patricia Highsmith’s sordid search for inspiration 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

In addition, chemicals like phthalates are linked to cancer, which makes it all the more unsettling that microplastics have been detected in human blood. "Soylent Green" scarred me with its disgusting twist ending – but scientists love its prescience 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

But that doesn't make it any less unsettling. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age 2011-08-10T20:11:06Z

But on Saturday evening, near the end of a new , “Dog Days,” I saw the most genuinely unsettling incident I have yet witnessed on any stage. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z

Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary and with unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z

From there, you might pick up on more unsettling details. Cannes: You’ve Never Seen a Holocaust Film Like ‘The Zone of Interest’ 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

The ferocity of their religious zeal — burning dolls are tossed onto Victor’s lawn — is certainly unsettling. Review: ‘Closer to God’ Offers a Modern-Day Frankenstein Tale 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The things that are unsettled to him were decided long ago for Anna. This Week in Fiction: Kevin Canty on Faith and Desire 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Getty Images The Unwinding is the right title for George Packer's epic, sad and unsettling of the last four decades in the US. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z

This kind of honesty is a little unsettling. Review: In ‘Equity,’ No Room for Sisterhood Amid Gloves-Off Wall Street Warfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Both of your movies are violent, visceral and unsettling. Brandon Cronenberg Will Now Perform an Interview 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The unsettling thing is that Franco starts hitting many of the same notes when he talks about his upcoming film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." James Franco says he didn't want to host Oscars 2011-07-21T22:26:48Z

This constantly shifting perspective gives the book an unsettling, almost dreamlike quality, which at the time I attributed to lack of sleep and too many painkillers. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

Anyone who thinks the movies influence our behaviour may find this phenomenon unsettling. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z

When Hickey at last arrives, with Mr. Lane bursting into the saloon like a merry tornado, he brings unsettling tidings. Review: ‘The Iceman Cometh’ Revived, With Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

What’s unsettling, she said, is the silence from the American consulate and the State Department, which in past years were responsive. A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Listening to pop hits there can be disorienting — the music is familiar, but the pace can be unsettling. On TikTok, Pop Music Speeds Up 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

But the family are troubled by more than just financial hardship, and a terrible accident at a cocktail party marks the beginning of a series of mysterious and increasingly unsettling events. Guardian Review book club with Sarah Waters 2010-05-19T13:28:00Z

In 1994, 30 years after the first furore, liberal Ireland was deeply unsettled when O'Brien interviewed the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, glowingly, for the New York Times. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

The juxtapositions selected by the curators are often inspired: Bourgeois’s ominous bronze sculpture “Avenzza,” from the 1960s, for example, fits right in among Goya’s unsettling depictions of witches and insane asylums. In Transit: In Madrid, Disparate Art Collections Collide 2011-05-09T10:01:01Z

He eventually won a scholarship to the American University in Bulgaria in the unsettled era that followed the end of the Cold War. Visual effects artist's Hollywood path began in Albania, with detour in Kosovo 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“It was unsettling,” a former staffer who attended the meeting said. A new Smithsonian boss settled multiple employee retaliation lawsuits 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

As the story progresses, an unsettling darkness falls across the themes being explored, adding a level of narrative maturity players might not expect. The Night of the Rabbit – review 2013-07-06T23:05:43Z

Their appeal lies not only in the comic and unsettling combination of human and animal traits, but also in the way they provoke other characters to reveal themselves through their reactions to them. Cornelius Medvei's top 10 talking animals in literature 2011-01-06T11:32:27Z

The loving but unsettled relationship between a musician and his main love interest, told in flashback in the week before his untimely death. August Wilson on Broadway: A History 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

And video or no, the interview painted an unsettling picture. The Morning After: The Good, the Sad and the Odd, in a Night of Big Interviews 2011-11-15T15:59:58Z

The marriage to Burton may have unsettled her, showing her how simple her own dramatic taste was. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z

That kind of strife underlying the country's head office is unsettling, and was mirrored in Trump's public life; his — and Melania's — administration was one of callousness and coldness. The significance of the Bidens' conspicuous holiday cheer, especially for the Lunar New Year 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Another unsettling element is your stuff about family. I was dropped by new friends and dread not seeing them again | Dear Mariella 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The Second Concerto’s opening movement was unsettled on Saturday, and the balances seemed off: The strings, less rich than turgid, swamped the winds and often Wang. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

As if to disarm that preconception, the album opens with a taut, harmonically unsettled arrangement of “On Broadway,” the striver’s anthem still synonymous with its greatest steward, George Benson. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z

Inside, as the characters and the camera creep through the eerie, diffused light, Kusama establishes an unsettling milieu that a sly-looking Bell eases into as if born to it. ‘Destroyer’ Review: A Very Good Nicole Kidman Plays a Very Bad Woman 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Not something you need to know about my otherwise perfect mother; it’s just to say that Patti LaBelle is an unsettled matter. The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

For me, Showtime's "Homeland" remains the gold standard as it takes us deep inside the unsettling complexities of homeland security. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Best case, that behavior is mildly unsettling; worst case, it’s terrifying. Review: Like Life, ‘Catch as Catch Can’ Throws Curveballs 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Its lush musical textures notwithstanding, the play poses unsettling questions: Was Bilal profiled and entrapped by an FBI informant? Two brothers, one Christian, one Muslim, try to bridge their worlds in 'Bars and Measures' 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

But her personal life during that period was unsettled and unsatisfying. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z

I'd like to say that the amputation scene was one of eerily beautiful, yet obviously unsettling, realism. 127 Hours: 'A complete sensory ordeal' 2011-01-17T22:15:01Z

This creates a friction between style and content that can be unsettling. Review | We know about E. Jean Carroll’s rape accusation. How is the rest of her book? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

I thought it would be unsettling or embarrassing to ask such questions about oneself, but Lipska seemed energized by the mystery. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Carell and the rest of the cast did well here, but elsewhere the comedian turned dramatic actor who unsettled audiences in “Foxcatcher” couldn’t quite find his tempo. The Best Bit of Steve Carell’s Turn on “S.N.L.” This Week 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

It brought an unsettling fragility to the world of the film and in turn, my teenage real-world view of it. Final Destination at 20: the bleakest teen horror film ever made 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s still The Graduate, soon to be back in cinemas and just as alluring, sophisticated and as emotionally unsettling as an affair with your parents’ best friend would be. Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson: why The Graduate unites warring generations 50 years on 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Women find themselves in uncanny, unsettling situations throughout this collection, complete with drugged seltzer, family rivalries and the lingering specter of past traumas. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Other speakers offered emotional tributes to loved ones and cited the written word as a source of healing, action and community in an unsettling world. Susan Choi, Sarah M. Broom win National Book Awards 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

It may sound vile, but Williams manages to weave all of this unsettling stuff into a hugely impressive comic monologue. This week's new comedy 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

The artists he has picked, he writes, “return to distinct formal vocabularies and art historical trajectories,” and they are intent on “borrowing and unsettling rather than wholesale attempts at either remaking or deconstructing.” 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z

Then there’s the final touch that elevates Mr. Olaf’s images into the realm of high art, an unsettling feeling. A Photographer Who Makes You Ask, ‘What Has Happened Here?’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

“I don’t use anything with a color,” he said, “because with patients I think that they would find that a little unsettling.” Skin Deep: Manly Manicures End in Color 2013-06-12T21:19:02Z

An unsettling suite by Mr. Lang, “the national anthems,” repurposes anthem lyrics to reveal how, he said, “our civilization is very fragile, and we are terrified of losing it.” Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Having one’s personal information laid bare on the Internet is a frightening prospect — so unsettling that at least some doxers, ironically, refuse to put their own names out in public. Why do these activists publish people’s addresses but fear the same treatment? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Blackshear depicts Christian’s response to his friend’s deeply unsettling emotional state with creeping alarm but also with a touching sensitivity that puts compassion on par with fear. One Work of Dance, Theater and More to Experience This Weekend 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

In the 19th century, its pylons, halls and courts were still mired in detritus: Nightingale was unsettled by the temple’s “dim unearthly colonnades” when she visited on New Year’s Eve in 1849. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

New TV dramas like “Homecoming,” “Maniac” and “Legion” are exploring the issues unsettling society with characters who struggle to maintain a grip on reality. Before I Was Homer, I Was Bart 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In addition to unsettled weather, ominous portents include the groom’s mislaying of the ring, and his first squabble with Dolly, in which he refuses to take her beloved pet turtle on the overseas voyage. Movie Review: ‘Cheerful Weather for the Wedding,’ With Elizabeth McGovern 2012-12-06T21:22:23Z

After some particularly unsound decision making, one of Danny’s crew mates asks Anne to check in on him, which forces the two to grapple with their unsettled past — and, of course, their intense attraction. The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

David Cronenberg has made some unsettling films in his extraordinary career, “Dead Ringers,” “The Fly” and “Crash” among them. David Cronenberg: “Hollywood hasn’t fed me very much. Biting their hand would be gratuitous” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Directed by Shelley Butler, this funny, deftly unsettling piece displays the absurd and destructive sides of romantic relationships. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

The publication of Akyol's Islamic endorsement of democracy is well-timed with the still unsettled government in Egypt, the war raging in Libya, fighting in Yemen and unrest in Syria. Seeds of Arab Spring sown in Islam's past, author says 2011-07-14T18:31:10Z

Here, there’s extra fascination, also unsettling, as your attention is drawn away from the electric Kennedys to Ben and Tony, right by their side. Ben Bradlee: the ground-breaking editor who helped bring down Nixon 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Yet whatever unsettling power the work held was ultimately due to the interaction of movement, image and word, with the music playing only a supporting role. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z

But it’s Tilman Hahn’s sound design, with its unsettling buzz, that will burrow most unforgettably into your memory. Review: ‘Stung’ Stars Giant Wasps That Attack the Rich 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

He seems, in ways both inspiring and unsettling, to have figured something out. The Wilford Brimley Meme That Helps Measure Tom Cruise’s Agelessness 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Evan’s breakdown in the musical’s climactic aria, “Words Fail,” was so operatic in the theater that it unsettled the nerves. Perspective | Ben Platt’s seven-year journey with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ has taken him from Arena Stage to Hollywood 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

It’s just that there’s something bitter and weird and unsettling about the place where Sandler seems to be right now. Adam Sandler hates you 2012-06-16T22:00:00Z

The movie only found its second life thanks to Blockbuster and cable TV, where a new stream of audience fans — and then generations of them in their wake — could stumble upon its unsettling charms. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

But there’s something deeply unsettling about its juxtaposition of showbiz glitz and the horror of mass slaughter. Vox Lux director Brady Corbet: 'The movie is about the desire to be iconic' 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

The show has swung in unsettling, often darkly hilarious, bleak, and raw directions. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

"Flowers in the Attic: The Origin" made its unsettling debut on Lifetime with "Part 1: The Marriage" which set the stage for Olivia's revenge. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin" part 1 ending explained: Olivia’s plan 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the constant blurring of reality and hallucination, nightmare and memory, the reader becomes as unsettled as Hilton. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

That uncertainty builds as the journey continues, nicely complicating the story and imbuing it with an unsettling thrum of tension. ‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually) 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

As this fine production and Ms. Wiest’s fearless performance attest, call it what you will, “Happy Days” remains one of the most unsettling and unforgettable plays in the modern canon. Review: ‘Happy Days,’ an Unsettling Glimpse Into the Existential Abyss 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Their level of commitment is simultaneously admirable and unsettling. Critic?s Notebook: It?s a Jungle Out There: Big Cats, Big Body Counts 2010-12-05T22:14:00Z

The "unsettling" dark tale sees the main character, Zoe, corresponding with the prisoner in order to get her own dark secret and guilt off her chest. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher wins Waterstones children's prize 2013-03-21T20:00:28Z

He wrote and sang all the movie’s songs in a gravelly, delicate, unsettling falsetto. ‘Joan of Arc’ Review: The Saint Is Revisited in Song 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Half-Life of the Divorced Parent It’s been almost five years since my marriage ended, but the 50-50 custody arrangement is still unsettling. Motherlode Blog: The Half-Life of the Divorced Parent 2013-07-25T13:56:44Z

Like Mantello, Sparks connected the show to a larger sense of dread that is haunting our society, a sense that our world is unsettled. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Designer Kelvin Small’s ­period- and personality-appropriate costumes create a pleasantly unsettling contrast with the room’s streamlined modern decor, designed by Molly Hall. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Laurence occasionally evinces a winking self-awareness about the play’s unsettling layers of meaning. Review: ‘Hamlet in Bed’ Is Michael Laurence’s Shakespearean Take 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

The strength of “The Crash Reel,” an engrossing, unsettling documentary Monday night on HBO, is that the filmmaker, Lucy Walker, knows when not to stop. Television Review: Kevin Pearce Is the Subject of Lucy Walker’s ‘Crash Reel’ 2013-07-14T22:22:35Z

This reaction — “You knew better than that” — further unsettles the reader. What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

For decades, he has been unsettling audiences, derailing genre expectations and expanding the limits of big-screen entertainment with exploding heads, gasping wounds and desiring, suffering, metamorphosing bodies. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

But there’s an unsettling sort of beauty in the challenges Wonder Valley presents, especially after dark. In the California Desert: Vast Darkness, Vibrant Music, an Oasis 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The idea is admirable, even honorable, in the way it unsettles our fantasy that aging artists never lose touch with the all-important muse. Creative disruption from Blige to Swift upends music world in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In “Men,” he skillfully manipulates moods and subverts expectations without achieving the unsettling, hallucinatory clarity of his best films. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Boogie Nights” actress Heather Graham, who has spoken of unsettling encounters with Weinstein in the early 2000s, wrote on Twitter that, instead of focusing on him, she would be celebrating powerful women. 'We got you': Weinstein accusers relieved, elated at rape charges 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

As unsettling as a hard slap to the face, "Starred Up" shocks the system. 'Starred Up' is a savage journey toward anger management 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps a stolen minute will be enough for them to discover themselves in one of her unsettling stories. Sherry Turkle's 'Alone Together': lonely in a world with 1,000 virtual distractions 2011-01-20T22:21:04Z

Slow and seductive and deliberately vague, this deeply unsettling tale of lost parents and troubled daughters exudes atmosphere while hoarding facts. Review: ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’ Is Bewitching and Bloody 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

On a deeper plane, it’s an unsettling look at the murky issue of recovered memory. Caper stories and mysteries for the beach or backyard 2013-08-07T22:16:26Z

The point is that this scandal, more than anything, exemplifies the calculus that a typical female employee encounters every day in casual workplace sexism — the tiring, unsettling, nagging, self-doubting calculus: Is this wrong? Perspective | Andrew Cuomo and the old ‘I was just being playful’ excuse 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

And while beauty is her most obvious attribute, she has a sharp mind, an impertinent tongue and, crucially, the unsettled, inchoate yearning that draws the eye, stokes the imagination and has long fueled heroic quests. ‘Anaïs in Love’ Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Though troubled by her children’s unsettled lives, her mother-in-law’s dementia and her own financial worries, Deirdre perseveres, with the help of her Catholic faith and the occasional blueberry doughnut. In ‘The Humans,’ Jayne Houdyshell Embodies Mom 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s the first in a chain of strange, unsettling incidents. In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Others, like a chamber next to the tearoom, loaded with imagery and memorabilia from World War II, are unsettling. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Their flashy lives might be enviable to some — but the death of a player brings unsettling mystery and media scrutiny. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and ‘On Point’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

One reason is the so-called uncanny valley effect, when viewers find near-human images unsettling. At CounterPunch Studios, actors' digital doubles come to life 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Like Vincent Price’s unsettling Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General or Reed’s tormented priest in The Devils it’s the sort of charismatic turn that holds the eye despite, or perhaps because of, its insanity. Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The V&A website describes the museum's collection of Ethiopian treasures as an “unsettling reminder of the imperial processes which enabled British museums to acquire the cultural assets of others.” U.K. Museum Offers Ethiopia Long-Term Loan of Looted Treasures 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The cardigan somehow made the stare even more unsettling. My date with a 1985 Chateau d’Yquem 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Though China never acknowledged an export ban, the incident caused rare-metal prices to spike, and unsettled manufacturers around the world. Unobtainiums 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s unsettling as much for what doesn’t happen as for what almost does, if the two weren’t interrupted by someone coming home. Fake It When You Make It: The Sad Sex of The Americans 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Her departure has ushered in an unsettling era for the country’s musical landscape. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The flag, the statistics, the guns make for a powerful, unsettling opener, perhaps especially because the movie opens in a week of high-profile mass shootings — and not in Chicago. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

This unsettling ambiguity is the only constant in their playful, passionate, bitter encounters. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

Cable news hangs on his every word, while he returns the favor by mimicking some of its worst talking points, often within enough minutes to create an unsettling semblance of harmony. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Adorno—and, more recently, Edward Said, whose own last book was on late style—argued for an altogether different, more unsettling lateness. Does “Late Style” Exist? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Thus the simple images become as unsettling as their queasy colors. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The miraculous thing is that this unsettling circumstance becomes, via Bill Russell’s book and lyrics and Henry Krieger’s music, the platform for an emotionally transporting, melodically rich and, yes, profoundly entertaining evening. A big, beautiful “Side Show” on Broadway

Later, unsettled by ambulances taking away neighbors stricken by the virus, she left New York for California, to stay with her parents and siblings. With 10-hour rehearsals and buckets of ice, dancers prepare to retake Broadway stage 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

“She is in our living rooms,” Ms. Vargas-Cooper said in a telephone interview, “and that just brings up a lot of unsettling feelings.” An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z

It’s a wild and largely unsettled landscape of flat-topped mountains, dense evergreen forests, lakes and inlets that is, quite literally, on the rise. Sweden’s High Coast: an uplifting experience 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

Vesta Gul, the protagonist of “Death in Her Hands,” takes her place among these unsettled women. In Ottessa Moshfegh’s New Novel, Nothing Is Certain. Not Even Death. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Some city legislators have suggested the government is wary of fully embracing Lee's legacy for fear of unsettling Beijing by paying tribute to the star's enduring sprit of youthful rebellion. Bruce Lee's daughter recalls his energy as fans mark anniversary 2013-07-19T12:12:22Z

On Liberty is the key text because it unsettles so many fixed ideas. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

The letter didn't stop there and only became more unsettling. “The Watcher”: The real-life stalking case behind Netflix’s seriocomic mystery thriller 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

The resulting ambiguity perfectly mirrors the film's unsettling philosophical core. From Goblin to Morricone: the art of horror movie music 2011-08-18T22:00:02Z

Brittle and unsettled, the Symphony has a snarl not evident in the sophistication of the Toccata Concertante, and a taut formal unity that seems to look back more to Beethoven than Bach. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

O.K., almost entirely — it is unsettling when a scene calls for them to flirt with their young co-stars, but the show wisely deploys Konkle’s real-life boyfriend as a mouth double for a kiss. Review: ‘PEN15’ Goes Crudely, Sweetly Back to School 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The oils on canvas of F. Scott Hess, for instance, play with psychological tension and spatial disorientation in a novel and unsettling manner. Five must-see Seattle art shows in August 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

One frosty morning, already unsettled, Ogawa’s narrator steps outside to find the river carpeted in petals. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

In the fresh interpretation, with its piercing strings and moody atmospherics, a celebratory weed rap by the Oakland duo Luniz became deeply unsettling. Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, she places her sculptures in unsettling scenarios, like scenes from a fairytale or a half-remembered dream. Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' 2013-07-24T18:29:00Z

The return of “The Conners,” for sure, was heavy and unsettling. Review: ‘The Conners’ Is a Bittersweet Pill 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

But you can live with this feeling of being unsettled. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z

We started digging around, and things quickly became unsettling. Experience: I tracked down my impostor 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Two hours in, the third season is already perplexing, unsettling and potentially addicting. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episodes 1-2: Back in Style 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Then he switches to an unsettling whisper: "Get out!" My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a darkly fascinating and ultimately unsettling tale. Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Guess what? I’m going to a psychiatrist now,” Melissa writes, and Ms. Farrow makes us feel both the girlish pride in this announcement and the unsettled emotions roiling beneath it. Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow in ‘Love Letters’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“It is hard to find California now,” Didion wrote, “unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised.” Holiday magazine: The rise and fall of the glamorous mid-century travel publication 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The urgency of that belief gives rise to the novel’s most unsettling theme: the tension between complacency and stridency in the face of existential threats. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

It’s excruciating to watch this once happy young woman devolve into such a conflicted, destructive character, and it’s even more unsettling to learn that her story was inspired the author’s actual experience. ‘Tender’ review: a love story of misaligned affections 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

The unplumbed dynamic between the young man and his peculiarly angry parents is much more unsettling than the horned entity that provokes his crisis. Review: A Paranormal Sleuth Investigates Three ‘Ghost Stories’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

In a program essay, Mr. Biss writes of the “lyricism and terror” existing side by side in “the astonishing and often unsettling music of Schubert’s late period.” Review: Two Concerts Explore Schubert, Before He Took His Leave 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The mere existence of “Get Back” is a sign that, more than half a century after the Beatles disbanded, their history is still unsettled, and remains endlessly ripe for deep-dive research and partisan counternarratives. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In her five-star review from Edinburgh, The Guardian's theatre critic Lyn Gardner described the results as "both unbearable and essential", while The Edinburgh Reporter declared it "hugely powerful, deeply unsettling, but vital viewing". Art show called off after protests 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The conflicting and contradictory viewpoints create the opposite of agitprop and, in its way, something more politically radical, opening up a complex, unsettling debate that does not stop at the curtain call. Girl X - review 2011-03-06T17:07:36Z

He told me that he used “an awkward phrase” and that the company sometimes has to make “hard choices” and compromises where “it definitely gets squirmy and makes us feel unsettled.” Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Along the way she makes some unsettling choices and risks losing the support of the audience, but Ferrera's stirring enactment and the hopeful determination she gives Crystal generally keep sympathy on her side. Review: America Ferrera stars in edgy 'Bethany' 2013-01-22T19:41:08Z

Despite the unsettled economic and political weather, the region’s rich are still keen to associate themselves with status-enhancing products and brands, Mr. Bamps said. Special Report: Yachting: Yacht Makers Sail Over Mideast's Troubled Waters 2011-03-23T07:30:47Z

I’m not gonna lie, that is the really daunting and unsettling part of doing this. Brandi Carlile opens up about overcoming insecurities, her latest Grammy win and her new memoir 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

From its straightforward opening, “Corps” grows both more joyous and more unsettling, nudged along by Celia Hollander’s stealthy electronic score. Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Though it creates a powerful picture of exploitation and inequality, “Iron Crows” is less a piece of advocacy than an unsettling hybrid of art and witness. | 'Iron Crows': Documentary on Shipbreakers, and Where Tankers Go When They Die 2011-08-23T21:53:07Z

One reason for the policy, they said, is to protect against people casually touching people who don’t like to be touched or who have disabilities that make unexpected touch painful or unsettling. Thank You for Asking 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

He recognized many of the older works, he said, but found some of the newer ones unsettling. Robert Indiana Had All but Vanished in Recent Years. Some Friends Wondered Why. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

And the greatest minds of chess are able to select from that infinity the choice that unsettles their opponents and throws the course of the game onto a brave, new, unpredicted path. Theater Review: Garry Kasparov Faces Deep Blue in ‘The Machine’ 2013-09-08T21:17:12Z

“This is about unsettling the history and mythology about what America is.” What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a barbed critique of twentysomething Brooklyn hipsters and it tells a gripping mystery story, which has a genuinely unsettling conclusion. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

I always found Mr. Kangaroo’s sidekick Bunny Rabbit a little unsettling. Remember This: ‘The Giants Win the Pennant!’ 2012-10-02T22:46:16Z

It’s a fascinating collection of pieces—sometimes hilarious, often unsettling, always probing and provocative—about, well, Muslim life in America, past and present. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

"The tension was inevitably going to be in the room because this is a book that creates a tense and unsettling conversation. ... It is not a comfortable book." Author Paul Beatty faced a strangely racial interview in Australia 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The idea that we still observe a ritual tied to sacrifice is unsettling. Motherlode Blog: I Enjoyed My Son’s Bris 2013-05-31T15:17:42Z

An admiring Stephen Amidon in the Sunday Times enjoyed Saunders's new collection, Tenth of December, in which the author "once again invites us to look at the world in a new and unsettling manner". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2013-01-18T21:00:07Z

Referring to herself as a girl might simply be King’s nod to her character’s insecurity, but it also reflects the fact that Casey sometimes reads much younger than even an unsettled 31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

I expected to find it unsettling, but I was surprised to also find it inspiring. The new documentary “Trapped” takes viewers to the bloodiest battlefield in the American “war on women” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Such merciless dedication to realism pervades the film, resulting in a revenge story that is ultimately more unsettling — and more successful — than many of its predecessors. ‘Violation’ Review: The Trauma of Vengeance 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

In his 1919 essay The Uncanny, Freud writes that the motif of the double, produced by a mature mind, often appears as a "ghastly harbinger of death" – an unsettling entity observing and judging its twin. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z

But “Random Acts” is more than an unsettling dream. Review: ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ Is a Striking Dream Vision of Race 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

A perfectly off-kilter and dystopian roundup of beautiful rogues and misfortunates, it successfully characterizes our own unsettled time, inside the bubble of an art fair. The Armory Show: Playing It Safe During an Unsettled Time 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s an unsettling chorus to picture on an arena stage, with thousands of fans belting along. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

RS Thomas didn't aim to soothe but to unsettle with an unflinching record of his inner life. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z

In the process, they’re giving unsettling resonance to the premise that comedy isn’t easy. ‘The Old Woman,’ With Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Tracing lines between past and present evils — colonialism, gentrification, cultural appropriation — with an irreverent and experimental approach to editing and sound, “BeDevil” refashions Australian history as a deeply unsettling ghost story. Rediscovering Australia’s Generation of Defiant Female Directors 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Once he settled on a truth, he was compelled to unsettle it,” Saul writes. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

How else, today, to explain “Manhattan,” a film that presents, and almost gleefully fails to condemn, a love affair characterized by unsettling imbalances in age and power? The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Jackson’s novel is a genre standout owing to its psychological interpretation of horror, and this approach that informed 1963’s “The Haunting,” an atmospheric, unsettling cinematic adaptation of the book. Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” will keep you up at night 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Of all of these illusions it’s the illusion of free will that I find most unsettling. Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

From there, things get weirder and darker, and the movie takes a turn that is all the more unsettling for maintaining the facade of an old-fashioned teenage date movie. ‘Dawn,’ and Other Shorts From Sundance Festival 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

With the latest version of “The Invisible Man,” Universal has given one of its horror classics a creepy-scary overhaul with an unsettling #MeToo spin. ‘The Invisible Man’ Review: Gaslight Nation, Domestic Edition 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

A surprisingly luddite agenda is on display here for a sci-fi show, but there really is something unsettling about how interconnected we have all become. Doctor Who: The Bells of Saint John – series 33, episode six 2013-03-30T19:00:02Z

Pivot made quirky, interesting choices: the unsettling Arctic murder mystery “Fortitude”; the Australian coming-out comedy “Please Like Me”; and “Human Resources,” an “Office”-like documentary series about an actual New Jersey recycling company. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Some have said that it seems rather tacked on – and it's true that the bombs do have a strange and unsettling impact at the culmination of the narrative. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z

That the triumph occurs in the wake of such horrific violence is what has always been so unsettling — even terrifying — about her story. Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Anderson, an independent director with a far-ranging résumé that leans to shockers, has a knack for creating unsettling atmospheres with the low-budget-filmmaking equivalent of smoke and mirrors. | 'Vanishing on 7th Street': Disappearing People, Leaving a Lot of Clothes Behind 2011-02-17T23:09:46Z

A few intonation issues unsettled the flute solos in the first movement, but the menacing horn notes, on wailing siren-like crescendos, drove the music to a fever pitch. Review | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays on, and with gusto, despite no new contract 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The butcher’s wife thought the film was “modern and different,” and the priest felt “apprehensive, nervous and deeply unsettled.” Laure Prouvost, an Artist of Theories and Influences 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

I am usually all nods when scrolling through their posts, but a recent trend of messages unsettled me. Perspective | Why you should stop trying to lose weight 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

But 40 years later, a film historian learns that a last recording might still exist, and chases down more of its unsettling back story. 9 New Books Coming in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Form and content are not at variance here: The play's unsettled stylistic equilibrium matches the characters' domestic situation, which has been thrown into disorder by a confluence of circumstances. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

When I first saw a writer doing this, I was immediately seized by an unsettling combination of desire, envy and cynicism. On the perks and pitfalls of signing books 2012-07-31T08:55:34Z

Only once was Mr. Bell truly unsettled during the course of his work. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

This one is all the more unsettling for being grounded in the mundane. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

A regular human might find it unsettling that Congress is threatening to haul him before a committee investigating possible Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Roger Stone, a master of dark political arts, is playing the Russia scandal for all it’s worth 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

The relationships between the inhabitants or personages in Nash's paintings, whether organic or inorganic, are always unsettling, out of scale, odd. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z

It therefore felt unsettling to see a close relative of the Cabat, the Lido, available here in a hot-pink hue called Shock, perhaps a tribute to Schiaparelli, and shocking indeed at $6,850. Critical Shopper: Boutique Features Bottega Veneta Resort Line 2012-01-18T20:00:05Z

Under the same Facebook post, Doblips shared he felt unsettled that the delivery person took a moment to peer into his window. Amazon driver breathes on customer’s window, leaves message: Report 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

A hug from the wrong person is somehow much more unsettling than a brandished knife. My streaming gem: why you should watch Creep 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

And“Mockingjay Part 1” is indisputably a war movie, from tearful start to unsettling end. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Before the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra appointed Manfred Honeck as its music director in 2008, it went through an unsettled period that included an experiment in which three conductors shared its podium. Music Review: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-27T23:13:45Z

The realism of these landscapes, in his loose confident lines depicting farm buildings, tents, fences, power wires and treelines, is unsettled by what looks to be invented and fantastical sculptural elements. Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The crowd around them grows unsettled and angry. What burning Nikes to protest Colin Kaepernick ads really means 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Dark and unsettling, Phoenix’s Joker is far removed from the comic book characters traditionally seen on screen. Joaquin Phoenix wins best actor Oscar for 'Joker' 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

As in the film, it was almost as little was happening, but sudden crescendos and squalls of noise proved satisfyingly unsettling. Solaris - review 2013-03-16T03:04:41Z

The effect is as unsettling as it is transporting. Into the forest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

While admitting that “what was troubling was that her desire to be the black man on the street superseded the unsettling history,” he ascribes it to her innocence of the “historical baggage” of minstrelsy. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

But there's still something unsettling about watching a crowd react in the way they do to music like this. The Weeknd – review 2013-03-25T18:38:22Z

Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary, and unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-10T00:46:04Z

But I was unsettled, since my bookshelves meant either there were no good books by women, or I had somehow read in such a way as to avoid them all. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

In case you’ve forgotten, the foundation of the franchise is a short videotape full of unsettling images that unsuspecting people keep stumbling upon; anyone who watches it dies seven days later. Review: In ‘Rings,’ Best Not Go to the Videotape 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

In this unsettling inverse of Advent, the first minutes of the show include an armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant that ends with bullets flying in a Tarantino-like way of twining violence to wryness. Review | After all the praise and hype, what if ‘Atlanta’ is just a great show about the human condition? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

A similar anxiety unsettles Mr. Van Sant’s paintings, although their unthreatening pastel palette and miasmic drifts of gentle brush strokes leave you wondering what, here, really, is not to like? Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

As far as I know the men were unrelated; it was just an unfortunate coincidence. It is always unsettling to see someone take ill so suddenly and I wish both men well. All's well if the play ends well | Mark Fisher 2010-03-29T14:48:00Z

But I've never had any interview experience quite so unsettling as half an hour with Ginger Baker in front of a couple of hundred people. Beware Mr Baker 2013-05-15T08:10:20Z

While on the surface it may have looked a little drab and dressed-down, The Killing managed to create a dark and unsettling picture of Copenhagen, one of Europe's friendliest and most appealing cities. Rewind TV: Women in Love; The Killing 2011-03-27T00:05:34Z

I felt personally violated, passionately angered and deeply unsettled. We fill queer spaces with joy and belonging. That’s why they’re under attack 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

Horror movies, he said, are about audiences “being uncomfortable, unsettled and disturbed.” When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

In the second movement, “The Song Is for You,” a melancholic yet unsettled saxophone melody emerges over what Mr. Adams aptly calls “pools” of chromatically tinted sonorities. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z

“Midden” refers to monumental mounds of oyster shells that were present when Dutch colonialists “settled and unsettled,” in Michelson’s words, what would become New York City. Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Some will be unsettled by visiting a memorial to tragedy, and that is perhaps how it should be. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

The film’s conclusion at the United Center is both rousing and unsettling. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

He flipped between local stations, the Home Shopping Network, the nightly news, and scenes from the concert in which he was currently performing; sometimes, he landed on more unsettling material. U2: Bring Back the Irony 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

And frequent jolts of electric guitar unsettle “Nothing, Not Nearly,” a countryish song about another vanished romance: “We’ve not got long, you know/To bask in the afterglow,” she sings. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This ability to render subconscious trauma into provocative theatrical expression, as potentially unsettling as entertaining, has earned him a lot of attention in a very short time. A Playwright Who Won’t Let Anyone Off the Hook 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Towards the end, it might even be said to boil over into melodrama, but that doesn't take too much away from the unsettling resonance of the whole. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z

Still, the number of unbalanced wines we found was unsettling. Giving Rosso di Montalcino a Second Look 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Some of Hollywood's most powerful final scenes are also some of the most emotionally unsettling. Clip joint: the best unhappy endings 2013-03-21T12:31:31Z

It was an intriguing idea, but there was also something really unsettling about those films. Best and worst animated characters, explained 2011-02-09T21:15:00Z

It is racked with mostly bare arrangements and a stark, heartfelt vocal delivery that provides the stunning balm to bind this unsettling beauty together. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z

As Weyes Blood — a moniker borrowed from a famously unsettling Flannery O’Connor novel — Mering has found different, and perhaps even more effective, ways of conjuring destruction. Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

The way I talk about it unsettles some people. Back off, thinsplainers! We’ve heard it all before 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

A sinister babysitter with a tail plies a captive child with four unsettling tales adapted from the more obscure annals of European folklore. The 99-Seat Beat: The play staged in the art gallery, Mary Zimmerman's 'Secret' and more picks 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Whatever the conclusion, it’s meant to unsettle us, like the best of Serling’s “Twilight Zone” episodes. ‘Us’ Reflects a Mirror Image of ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

“The fact of death is unsettling,” he writes. Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Overall, the feud was significant because it was a remarkable and perhaps even unsettling display of Teigen's influence and power on Twitter. Chrissy Teigen and the enduring, celebrity need to be relatable 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Having said that, she does have the unsettling stare of a bisque doll and looks like Jared Leto at his most emo, which are not the first requirements of an undercover agent. TV OD with Rhik Samadder: Line Of Duty 2012-07-13T23:05:00Z

Portraying the Man Known as Dr. Death In the film “You Don’t Know Jack,” there is something both familiar and unsettling in the man’s visage when it first comes into view. Al Pacino in ?You Don?t Know Jack,? About Kevorkian 2010-04-20T23:03:00Z

But what goes round comes around, and 30 years on, my brother, after an unsettled life in Europe, may finally be joining my mother to live in Brazil. Family life 2012-06-15T23:05:03Z

The clash in perspective is unsettling and fits well and emphasizes Obama’s unsettled look. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mackey, using loop pedals to give himself the sound of a small ensemble, creates an unsettling hellscape with descending phrases that vividly evoke Orpheus’s journey. Spitfire Fiddling: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

It unsettles more than it satisfies, and increases the very appetites it is supposed to sate. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s an unsettling simulation of living in a state that denies basic facts and perpetuates the most inane claims. Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Many scenes are unsettling to read and to look at, whether bloodshed, racial slurs or ugly spectacles like a waitress dousing her unwanted customers with cleaning detergent and torrents of water. ‘March’ Graphic Novel Revisits Civil Rights Movement in Rich Detail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

The long take that opens “Ride or Die” might recall the Steadicam shot in “Goodfellas” were it not for the unsettling mood it evokes. ‘Ride or Die’ Review: Killing for Love 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

What’s unsettling, at first, is how accustomed the viewer is to seeing Bateman charm his way out of situations that are merely awkward and quirky. Review | Netflix’s relentless ‘Ozark’ gets drunk on an ice-chest full of redneck cliches 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

His measured style gives the film a steady-as-she-goes ballast even as it follows impulsive, unsettled lives. Movie Review: ‘Beijing Flickers’ Directed by Zhang Yuan 2013-01-09T23:58:06Z

So many parts of the exhibition are meant to unsettle our relationship with work and time — in a moment when people across every industry are doing just that: unionizing, job-hopping, turning their ambitions inside out. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

That kind of character is unsettling to viewers, because they’re forced to feel pangs of identification and judgment, both at once, an unsettling sensation. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

The deal's collapse leaves unsettled such issues as ownership of Time Warner Cable, which is the largest pay-TV provider in Southern California with 2 million customers. Comcast officially ends bid for Time Warner Cable 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Dedicated” is occasionally moving, but it isn’t unsettling. ‘Dedicated’ Makes the Case for Choosing Something and Sticking With It 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

But at its best this engaging, unsettling piece not only distils abstract ideas into sharply visceral imagery, but offers a moving account of what it means to be human. Rosie Kay Dance Company – review 2013-03-15T17:33:37Z

Molly Smith Metzler’s comedy “Cry It Out” divides neatly into thirds: an entertainingly irreverent beginning, a bland middle and a rewardingly unsettling finish. Review | Metzler’s comic ‘Cry It Out’ sings the new-parent blues 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Radiance” is a sleek rocket ship of a novel, swaddled in Art Deco decadence and glossy with an unsettling alt-history patina. Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mess is well worth a look at BAC where Sleepwalk Collective's unsettling Amusements is also available. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z

But “Bad Dog” is about addiction, and when Hoppe-House’s characters finally get real, they deliver one of the most knowing and unsettling plays thus far in the citywide Women’s Voices Theater Festival. At Olney, addiction tale ‘Bad Dog’ wags and snaps 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

“Moll’s a wild one,” someone remarks early in “Beast,” Michael Pearce’s thrilling, unsettling debut feature. Review: A Troubled Beauty and a Mysterious ‘Beast’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

What he wanted to create, he said, was “an anthology that would potentially unsettle, and speak about things other than ‘Isn’t crime terrible?’ and ‘Isn’t the class divide an awful thing?’ Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

More unsettling still was his disdain for children of a certain kind – the vast majority, I suspected – the rude ones, the dirty ones, the ones who were not good. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

That “almost” — and the film’s unsettling mix of violence and comedy — set off a heated conversation at the Cannes Film Festival last month, though “Elle” drew glowing reviews from American and European critics alike. ‘Elle,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert as a Rape Victim Who Turns the Tables, Rivets Critics 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

It was unsettling and raw and fitfully funny. Review: ‘The Conners’ Is a Bittersweet Pill 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Adoption comes to feel both urgently important and the worst kind of commodification; you hear some honest and deeply unsettling things as the characters size up potential children. International adoption: Not so black and white in Theater J’s ‘The Call’ 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The artist, known for his unsettling portraits, traveled to Los Angeles from Tokyo twice to oversee the installation of the exhibition, but it never opened. Closed Nearly a Year, Empty Museums in Los Angeles Struggle 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

That extra fierceness appears to be the inevitable, if unsettling, expression of a defensive mind-set intensified of late by concerns about terrorism, escalating crime rates and economic instability. 2010-01-21T08:08:00Z

The scene of a decrepit Bowie being put in a coffin is perhaps more unsettling today than it was at the time if only because Bowie always seemed so timeless on screen. Beyond “The Man Who Fell to Earth”: Coming of age with David Bowie’s films 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

In this way, among many, does the tone of "Girls" strike a perfectly unsettling balance. 1 of the 'Girls,' Zosia Mamet, shines in Season 2 2013-01-10T14:36:09Z

She spoke with news outlet Jam Press about the strange and unsettling items found in the house’s walls and on the property. Owner of 'one of the most haunted houses' details the unsettling discoveries made on the property 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

“He had a turbulent life in many respects and an unsettled soul. As we look at all these things, almost everything was purposeful.” An Anthony Bourdain Auction Will Include His Treasured Knife 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Most important, Mr. Dillon, who played Amir in a London production, brings a coiled intensity to his performance that makes Amir’s increasing antagonism all the more unsettling. Josh Radner and Gretchen Mol Star in 'Disgraced' on Broadway 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

However, this would have involved a possibly unsettling challenge to a sacrosanct piety. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z

The section of the novel devoted to Fukushima is unsettling in its immediacy. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Offers Hints of Alternate Lives 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Delbanco’s riveting and unsettling book shows how questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to resonate in our own. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a deeply unsettling image, even if the wall label tells us that the patient consented to be photographed and that she is now “doing well.” ‘Thomas Struth: Photographs’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The effect is strangely unsettling — like watching grown humans in utero. Floodwaters make statement in 'Holoscenes' at Museum of California Art 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

And yet the ideas being promoted are far-fetched, meant to be funny but also unsettling. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

It’s a topic that doesn’t seem particularly ripe for comedy — but if there’s one comedian with a proven track record for conceiving sharp humor out of unsettling themes , it’s Amy. Amy Schumer rips into Bill Cosby scandal: “We deserve to watch like no one’s raping!” 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

There can be something very unsettling about the crowning of a new fashion wunderkind in the shadow of a former fashion wunderkind closing his business. Fashion’s Newest Star Already Has Michelle Obama’s Approval 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

“We represented a very balanced message of unsettling times and they didn’t know how to market it.” 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

But if it manages to amaze and unsettle as well, it will continue to live up to its name. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z

In short, history as Yawnghwe depicts it, is indirect, opaque and unsettling. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The dog’s death, and Edwards’ subsequent lawsuit against the hospital, challenges the way the US legal system values pets and provides an unsettling case study in what happens when your money-making, Instagram-famous pet dies. ‘She was becoming a star’: what happens when your Instagram-famous pet dies? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

One arresting voice comes through like a war cry, all ancient, melismatic syllables in unsettled rhythms. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

There was a refreshing clarity to “Stripe Tease” that extended to the music as well, a slightly unsettling storm of groans and pitter-patters produced by a three-person band called Alpha Consumer. From Minnesota, the sure, swift footing of ‘Stripe Tease’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

“America is a concept,” Deni tells his fellow workers before leading them in a rendition of “This Is America” that finds new context for many of the video’s familiar, unsettling dance moves. ‘Guava Island’ First Look: Childish Gambino’s Mystery Project With Rihanna Is Unveiled 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Its dark sense of humor — along with its opening scene of an unsettling crime — owes a debt to the “Scream” franchise. A horror movie for our time: “Get Out” is frighteningly topical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Also translated as “Black Cat,” the film grabs hold of you fast and tight right from start with images of swaying bamboo and the unsettling sounds of loudly banged drums suggestive of war. | 'Kuroneko': Tragic Love Tale of Spirits and Samurai 2010-10-21T23:12:00Z

Tarantino and Iñárritu have long made their characters and audiences suffer for their art, each in his own way depicting human misery with an unsettling combination of detail and aestheticized detachment. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Girls, with their swift and mysterious pubescent metamorphoses, unsettle themselves, their parents and society. Review | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s ‘Likes’ brilliantly captures our current moment 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

That debate — what movies open where and when — is sure to remain unsettled in the coming months, and probably well beyond. A fall movie season (like everything else) in flux 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

The disjointed feeling of "Rain," however, has more to do with the unsettled nature of the drama. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Not since Cormac McCarthy's The Road have I been so gripped and unsettled by a piece of fiction. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

The reader finishes it unsettled, unsure of what’s going to happen, stricken with a mixture of hope and dread. Benjamin Hale treats troubled characters with care in 'The Fat Artist and Other Stories' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

A total revamp is a tantalising prospect, and yet a slightly unsettling one. What will Superman look like in Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan's hands? 2011-03-17T15:36:00Z

Barring unbreakable self-confidence, liking a boy band whose primary audience is girls between the ages of 8 and 12 is bound to invite an unsettling amount of ridicule, even from my most nonjudgmental friends. I was a music snob, until I fell for One Direction 2012-10-25T17:33:00Z

Ma’s debut, “Severance,” about an emotionally numb worker in a post-apocalyptic society, won acclaim for its precise sendup of capitalism and chilly, unsettling tone. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

"Tranquillity" doesn't seem quite right for Rankine, who turns to writing because her heart and mind are so unsettled. 'Citizen: An American Lyric' meditates on the trauma of racism 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

But study this structure for a bit and it becomes unsettling. Argentine slums and a Unabomber cabin: How 'Home' at LACMA rethinks ideas about Latin American art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

His books are silly and sweet, as books for children should be, but they are also unsettling, strange, and sometimes scary. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

It’s unsettling to realize that the head-bopping music and the mind-bending words are products of the same disjunctive imagination. Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Who needed another show about an angry middle-aged clown man going back home to wrestle with some unsettled scores, a horrible ex-wife and equally dickish relatives? The best TV of 2016 … that you probably didn't watch 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

And the island has been unsettled by a rash of shootings, including, last Thursday, of the gay singer Kevin Fret. What “Hamilton” in San Juan Means to Puerto Rico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

He cries, and with a frequency some find unsettling. Cultural Studies: Big Boys Don?t Cry, Do They? 2010-12-31T04:15:37Z

For the greatest escape in times of unsettling emotional needs, what embrace could feel more satisfying than that of Starz’s romantic, time-hopping drama series “Outlander”? Perspective | In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

For parents, the notion that the impact of painful events can transcend children’s memories is unsettling. Perspective | What happens to our lost childhood memories? Motherhood sent me looking for answers. 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

But “Game of Thrones” is made to be watched in our world, where the optics of a rich white man bargaining away the freedom of darker slaves is unsettling. ‘Game of Thrones’: Tyrion, Daenerys and the Art of the Deal 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

After all, there are deep and unsettling parallels between the industry, particularly in Europe, and fascism’s antidemocratic aesthetic. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z

He described his father’s work history, as an accountant, as somewhat unreliable and his early childhood as unsettled. Tom Laughlin, 82, Star of ‘Billy Jack’ Movie Series, Dies 2013-12-17T01:29:45Z

As Baths, Will Wiesenfeld creates unsettling but beautiful electronic music, layering brittle drums with piano, unusual acoustic samples and his own fragile vocals. Your week in Seattle music: Steve Aoki, Nickel Creek 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The crowd in Austin also was jangled by its slow-burn escalation of menace to a climax of outrageous, deeply unsettling proportions. SXSW Film: The Movies and Performers That Stood Out 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Fern and Vanguard join a rolling, dispersed tribe — a subculture and a literal movement of itinerant Americans and their vehicles, an unsettled nation within the boundaries of the U.S.A. ‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Even before they became the largest media conglomerate in the world by a significant margin, Disney was already a shadowy corporate behemoth with unsettling business practices. Captain America vs Predator: what could the Disney/Fox deal mean for movies? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

It’s simple enough to allude to the Arab Spring, but such an inspiring, frightening, still unsettled event demands a more surprising metaphor. Dance Review: ZviDance in ‘Dabke’ and ‘Coupling’ at New York Live Arts 2012-06-03T21:20:55Z

The episodes are edited to highlight their paper-thin bravado, but even so, the camera can’t disguise an unsettling desperation, a visible yearning to make all those sordid couplings with strangers somehow pay off. Television Review: Gross? Maybe. But It Got Me on TV, Right? 2011-04-06T18:11:34Z

The cover of the heavy rock band UFO's 1974 album Phenomenon features a hand-tinted image of a suburban couple apparently faking a UFO sighting, and manages to be both camp and inexplicably unsettling. Storm Thorgerson, Pink Floyd and the final secret of the world's greatest record sleeve designer 2013-04-19T17:32:49Z

Working with thorny dissonance but a gentle touch, he grounded the improvisation in an unsettled, wakeful vein. Music Review: Tyshawn Sorey’s Wu Wei Quintet at Greenwich House 2013-04-18T22:47:19Z

Butterworth’s play is a suspenseful tale of unsettled scores, of the tug-of-war between politics and family. The Best Theatre of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Disney Identical twins or "multiples" as I believe they're more correctly termed, in a slightly unsettling, Minority Report sort of way, hold – for me, at least – a unique fascination. Clip joint: identical twins 2010-03-17T17:07:00Z

That deliberately muted aesthetic was meant to underscore the show’s darkly comic and unsettling themes. How Do You Dress a Russian Doll? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

They display all the unsettling power and apocalypticism we expect from this exceptional, romantic artist. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z

His manner, tentative from the beginning, becomes by degrees increasingly unsettled and unmoored. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The Kid, the title character in Sapphire’s unsettling new novel, is an orphan, an aspiring dancer, an abused child and a violent offender. Books of The Times: He?s a Vessel Overflowing With Rage (And He?s the Orphan Son of Precious) 2011-07-04T19:26:18Z

Mr. Corigliano sets the words to music of shimmering tranquillity pierced with unsettling orchestral details. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z

But one wonders, when confronted on the musical stage by dramatizations of recent events with profoundly unsettling resonances, how much we can divorce ourselves from reality and experience this kind of production freshly. Ripping tragedies from headlines and making them sing 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

To me, McHale’s tone carried just the right amount of irreverence for a night that was bound to end with a teary and unsettling speech. Caitlyn Jenner the talk of the evening at the odd, blingy, but watchable ESPYs 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Birth” is an otherworldly piece, and it’s almost as if Glazer uses Heche to further unsettle the audience, a task she takes on with vigor. Anne Heche Onscreen: Wily and Funny but Also Unnerving 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

“The Sinner,” an atmospheric murder mystery airing Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on USA Network, is slowly settling in to the enigma that is Mosswood Grove, the unsettling “utopian community” around which the second season whirls. A cult next door? “The Sinner” and the dark allure of retreating to a “utopian community” 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

“In general, profound love and genuine creativity usually constitute a threat to powerful forces in the world who are unsettled by it,” West added. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

A garden overstuffed with conifers seems to me to be static and lifeless, ironically, and the surfeit of pointed shapes against the sky is unsettling in some indefinable way. Winter wonders: Conifers revive the sleeping garden. But remember, less is more. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The lyrics made up unsettling short stories, all the more creepy for their delicate orchestral backdrop. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

In a way, this enhances the show’s unsettling gauziness, but it also leaves the viewer feeling hopelessly lost. ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’: A fitting response to our super-serious zombie mania 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

However, Ayoade doesn't see himself moving to Tinseltown any time soon, blaming his inability to drive, calling the sunny weather "confusing and unsettling" and saying he lacked the ambitious drive often associated with Hollywood stardom. His role in "The Watch" puzzles British star Richard Ayoade 2012-07-27T20:01:46Z

From a public health standpoint and beyond, these are unsettling times. Thanks, coronavirus. Will Seattle’s tourist-dependent businesses survive the lost summer season of 2020? 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

But being unsettled is not always a bad thing. Trevor Noah first “Daily Show” was definitely strange — but it could be exactly what we need 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The winter that never was remains an unsettling thing, but not to revel in its positive effects would be churlish. Perspective | An unsettlingly warm winter unlocks flowering treasures 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

In “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” a meditation on mass incarceration in the United States, the Canadian filmmaker Brett Story arranges a series of oblique, geographical vignettes into an unsettling mural of systemic damage. Review: ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’ Reveals the Invisible Tentacles of Mass Incarceration 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

He does this by placing them in unsettling contexts. New band of the day ? No 893: Becoming Real 2010-10-22T16:16:00Z

Its juxtaposition of the personal and the political — Ms. Manning’s plangent isolation, coupled with the geopolitical reverberations of her revelations — is as unsettling as it is in “Klinghoffer.” ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The terrors that engulfed Argentina in the 1970s and ’80s — the ones that had so unsettled Enriquez as a child — play heavily in the background of her latest novel, “Our Share of Night.” Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

For Oliver, though, that’s not the most unsettling aspect of elected judges. Watch John Oliver Take Elected Judges To Court 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

This unsettling Al Jazeera doc accompanies Cerf as he speaks to soldiers, detainees and experts, as well as experiencing a "psychological operation" himself. Catch-up TV guide: from House Of Cards to NFL Archive 2013-02-02T06:00:07Z

There is nothing here to unsettle an interwar West End audience, until Priestley takes a startling break from the formula. Time and the Conways – review 2013-03-11T17:48:10Z

The filmmakers, largely forgoing a soundtrack, skillfully manipulate stillness, silence and anomie to unsettling effect — at times evoking the ambient dread and decay of, say, Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion.” Review: In ‘Hard Labor,’ a Brazilian Couple’s Unsettling Struggle 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

However, distressing but recognisable events give way to something altogether more unsettling and creepy when the family convene, after Lydia's death, at their holiday home in a remote corner of Devon. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-01-23T10:01:01Z

The mood of the piece was ominous and unsettled, but also darkly alluring, with a use of glassy dissonance that registered as richly luxurious. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Not everyone likes the idea, though, and some arts leaders maintain that theater should be unsettling and provocative. Brace Yourself in Act II: Trigger Warnings Come to the Stage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

But what really unsettled me was the look on MacLaine’s face as she went into character, with pursed lips and accusing eyes. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z

Shortly after “The Americans” finished, he began shooting “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” playing another unsettled character, the magazine writer Lloyd Vogler. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Created in 1948, this setting of Stravinsky's titular score evokes an unsettling, striking sense of period glamour through its Parisian chic costumes and sharp choreography. This week's new dance 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

After bracing himself for another disappointment, Galgut was astonished to have finally won and unsettled about the onslaught of attention, he said. Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The assemblage of bells and organ on Theresa, Lark of Ascension is simultaneously wistfully pastoral and oddly unsettling. Broadcast: Berberian Sound Studio Original Soundtrack – review 2013-01-03T15:30:02Z

But if this Brahms is rightly unsettling, it’s unsettled, too; so much is going on that it can be hard to hear the tragic, destructive force that marks this symphony coming through. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

It may have been the final act of defiance of a figure whose life and work remain unsettled, ambiguous, compelling and worthy of even more attention. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Adams has said he must have been having some unconscious premonition, since this 20-minute score conveys an “unsettling mood of crisis anxiety.” Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

The defining of better and worse forms the basis for a stimulating and unsettling exhibition. Review: Photography’s Shifting Identity in an Insta-World 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

More unsettling is the tonal shift the film takes as the topic turns to the funds Vreeland's photography now generates. 'Monk With a Camera,' though devoted, is blurry at its center 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Walker extends that unsettled, slightly evasive quality to his lyrics. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

At once atmospheric, elegiac and unsettling, the work was crafted with Ms. Fleming’s creamy voice in mind, and she sang beautifully. Music Review: Renée Fleming’s Perspectives Residency at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-28T20:58:38Z

I remember leaving that night and feeling unnerved or unsettled by the whole thing. 'Outlander' actors and Ronald Moore talk controversial spanking scene 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

“With one look,” indeed, to borrow a song lyric that describes such unsettling presence. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Kanye West was barred from performing because of his unsettling online behavior. The Grammys, Always Unpredictable, Face New Surprises 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

One of the most unsettling things about “Monologue” is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

A recent trailer for this series has all the ingredients of a shocking story: an unsettling doll, foreboding rain and a title card that reads “from M. Night Shyamalan.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Servant’ and ‘The Godfather Part II’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

I’m thankful for the tax cuts we'll be getting, because life can be unsettling if you don’t know where your next billion is coming from. Style Invitational Week 1255: Tour de Fours XIV — SANT is coming 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Speller is nicely at ease with the period and the unsettled nature of a world emerging from the fug of conflict. First novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z

Meeting Lynch in person, it's hard to finger him as the man behind such unsettling material. From The Archives: Behind the scenes of 'Twin Peaks' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Funny looks from funny male strangers are unsettling. 2010-01-13T22:45:00Z

His first forays into art were collages and cut-ups of magazines, which he still makes and exhibits from time to time, cultural references spliced together to form vivid and unsettling wholes. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z

A boy I had long noticed for his broad shoulders and well-defined jawline innocently sat next to me, and his cologne wafted over with unsettling effects. The politics of my cleavage 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

And then there’s something about the building’s appearance that seems to unsettle people. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z

It was always going to be a problem topping Heath Ledger's vivid and unsettling performance as the Joker in the second film. Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z

As is often true of big boys with unsettled hormones, he also reads as just a little dangerous. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

While much of the audience laughed, Boyle looked unsettled, Smith said, and launched into a long explanation of why his humour tended to be so vicious. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-08T15:24:00Z

The mix of old myth and new aggression is unsettling, in part because it is unclear which came first. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

One actor, John Wayne, was so unsettled that a show producer, Marty Pasetta, said security guards had to restrain him so that he would not storm the stage. An Oscars Apology for Sacheen Littlefeather, 50 Years After Brando Protest 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

This exploration of secularism and Islamic extremism finds Turkey’s literary colossus at his most profound and unsettling. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

When a relationship ends, it’s staggering and unsettling to see a former partner and confidante literally disappear. Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z

It was weird and beautiful, unsettling and also familiar. Harvey Weinstein Casts a Shadow on Dior and Saint Laurent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

With this honour came an unsettling discovery: movies, unlike commercials, came with critics attached. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z

She may not fit the cliché of an aggressive temptress, but her earnest, unsmiling presence is unsettling. Movie Review: ‘Breathe In,’ a Tense Marital Drama 2014-03-27T22:54:05Z

If Grisey's happens to be a more violent sea, that only made De Keersmaeker's choreography all the more unsettling and cathartic. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Even those shows that did failed to spend much time on the revelations or mention the most unsettling accusations. James Corden Says Trump’s Feud With Senator Is Like a Playground Fight 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

It unfolds in sound waves that swell and subside, rich with unsettling slides, piercing dissonances and spiraling riffs that never quite slip into a regular pulse. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

"Like Hannibal Lecter in a Mary Poppins outfit, Missy was an unsettling mix of prim and predatory, even while shackled to an upright gurney." Doctor Who: How was Peter Capaldi's debut series? 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

The feeling is unsettling and familiar enough to compel us to keep a close eye on it. A cult next door? “The Sinner” and the dark allure of retreating to a “utopian community” 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

After all, you don’t sound unsettled by your mother’s support — because you trust her. I’m Drowning in $100,000 of Debt. But Someone Wants to Help. 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Then the program starts hopscotching all over, first to the Aleutian Islands, where the prize is striking and rather unsettling footage of killer whales as they gang up on a gray whale calf. Television Review: ‘North America,’ a Discovery Channel Nature Series 2013-05-17T22:47:13Z

I suspect that you and I share a few favorites on the sci-fi side of his filmography, including his unsettling appearances as Matthew Abaddon on "Lost." From "The Wire" to "John Wick," we trusted Lance Reddick as a voice of authority, empathy and comedy 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

For the rest of us, watching the fog and speculation of an unsettling weekend, reality still matters. Sick With Covid, Trump Tries to Paint the Picture of Health on TV 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Monsters and Men’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

An unsettling gothic tale about a Black maid and her white employer, Jenna Cato Bass’s “Good Madam” exposes the ways in which South Africa’s apartheid past continues to haunt its present. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

There are at least two types of confusion that art produces: Disorientation, which is a good thing, unsettling our certainties and prodding us in uncomfortable new directions; and befuddlement, which is confusion without purpose. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Our dual consciousness of active shooters — their lethality and their rarity — may save our lives, but it is also a kind of fall from grace, an unsettling acceptance about the world. One year after the San Bernadino attack, learning to survive is a routine part of life 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The new show will follow the Acosta children as they work through an unsettling future when their parents are abruptly deported to Mexico. 1990s drama ‘Party of Five’ reboot involves deported parents 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

The story was less a creepshow and more a mourner’s unsettled dream. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the French Zombie Drama Deepens 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

The bucolic bedroom community of roughly 3,800, unsettled over the summer by a rash of burglaries, reeled with grief Friday after hearing the news about Kelli O'Laughlin, a freshman at Lyons Township High School. Investigation continues in fatal stabbing 2011-10-29T15:49:00Z

It made me think back on his “Symphony #9,” made for American Ballet Theatre, where an unsettled air intrudes on the gaiety, alluding to the growing tragedy of Stalinism. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

But it would be a shame to skip Watkins' unsettling, hallucinatory vision of the future. Claire Vaye Watkins' 'Gold Fame Citrus' taps into a dystopian, drought-stricken L.A. 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

She still has a small but penetrating voice with a dark, unsettled tone, and she still mushes many of her pitches. Music Review: Cecila Bartoli in ?Otello,? at Zurich Opera House 2012-03-02T23:19:05Z

How unsettling his performance is: when he’s being jolly in luring Georgie to the sewer, there’s something of the serial killer to him, rather than the immortal creature from the deadlights. Fears of a clown: why the original It will always be the best 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

In this way, the novel feels like waking from a long, unsettling, unshakable dream. Forbidden Art and Star-Crossed Lovers in ‘The Earthspinner’ 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kollar does not label his images; they engross and unsettle on their own. Capturing Human Moments Amid Chaos in Israel and the West Bank 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Images of Hurricane Katrina, of desperately poor people abandoned by their government in the floodwaters of New Orleans, unsettled but didn’t shatter the faith. Perspective | Trump spoke of images he’d ‘never seen before.’ Now there are mass graves in New York. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

While there, he began writing an unsettling psychological thriller about a wealthy New York family whose lives intersect with a sociopathic construction worker. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

And her boldness feels tethered to the precariousness of her project: nothing fixed, everything unsettled. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The appalling mockery of this amply sized garment injects a sudden and unsettling note of pathos into the play. | 'Bachelorette': Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland?s Comedy 2010-07-27T02:04:00Z

The singer, at least, sounds far more invested in the quieter, more unsettling material. Album review: The Strokes, 'Comedown Machine' 2013-03-25T14:45:00Z

And rather than living from the sweat of his brow, lived the free, unsettled life of the shepherd. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z

The midday sun on Saturday made for unsettling contrasts in Ms. Anspaugh’s gritty work, an extension of her recent “we were an island.” River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

With those words in mind it is hard, when you watch Foster’s unsettling Black Mirror episode, not to think a lot of that relationship was running through her head when she made it. Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’ | Tim Adams 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

As it happened, our dorm had been the site of two unsettling incidents that year. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, an unsettling photograph taken in a Chinese robotics lab by the French photographer Yves Gellie shows a man with his robot doppelgänger. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z

Over the years Robert Silverberg has shown us many unsettling futures, and to these we can now add the strange and surprising one we call old age. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

The biggest was to that ending, which he reimagined in ways that get more unsettling and relevant as our own election season goes on. When Democracy Dies in Daylight 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

While Jackson’s older brother Jackie teared-up and called the performance “amazing,” many fans with a less personal relationship with the singer found the performance to be unsettling. Michael Jackson’s hologram performed at the Billboard Music Awards and it was creepy 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

"She knows she frightens people, and draws on the mystical to unsettle them." Medea: the mother of all roles 2012-10-02T18:04:21Z

This strange, gorgeous story constantly unsettles the reader’s expectations as it moves ever deeper into houses and cornfields that hold whispers, jittery laughter and too many secrets. The National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

During all this, there are synthesizer fanfares befitting a vintage video game, along with some drums and low bleats for drive and the occasional unsettling addition of high-pitched noises. Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Metal staircases that glide on and off add to the unsettling, urban-industrial vibe, as do a few steampunk tweaks to the period costumes. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Is the disparity in time — some cases resolved quickly, others unsettled for decades — simply a matter of which countries present the more convincing evidence? Museums’ Property Claims Are Not Simply About Evidence 2013-07-01T21:36:51Z

There’s an array of pleasantly unsettling characters here. A Terrific New Thriller About a Mysterious Man and Rats. Lots of Rats. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a time of unsettling change, except at the BBC, where even driven reporters are assigned to do feel-good newsreels about debutante balls and royal visits. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z

As an adult, however, I look back on that year and feel unsettled and squeamish; Mr. K would often comment on my looks and how he liked my hair styled best. Perspective | Ask Amy: Teacher’s conduct pushes creep meter to 11 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

As rich and detailed as the records were, they didn’t answer some of the most basic and unsettling questions. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

It's in the infamous DVD commentary to Outlaw where, after railing against "fackin broadsheet cahnts" who slated it, he admits that the film might be unsettling "especially after you've had 10 pints". Dyer straits: how can Danny save his career? 2010-08-19T21:00:00Z

Planned or not, the unbalance was befitting, punctuating an evening that unsettled and sometimes even assaulted the senses. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Can a book be unsettling and also massively popular? For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The highly unsettling opening scene, in which Zoe Wanamaker's continuously poignant Kate runs out into the garden having had a nightmare, sets the tone for the alarming fluidity of this production. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

Ms. Evans said she was unsettled by the reaction to the video. Moriah Evans: Communitarian, Feminist, Dance Maker 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

For those whose college years are long behind them, “The Hunting Ground” provides an unsettling reminder of what a culture that rewards sexual aggression and non-consent looks like. “No means yes, yes means anal!”: This new film will change how you think about rape culture 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

There’s a scene in the second episode this season in which Dee is trapped in Dennis’s bedroom, and it’s really unsettling. ‘It’s Always Sunny’ at 13: The Cast Has Evolved, but the Gang? Not So Much 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Watching Trudy laugh happily at the carnage she orchestrated is more unsettling than the sight of men being impaled on various sharp objects. ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

In the Prologue, her tone blended with Clayton’s gruff beauty for a duet of unsettling harmony. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Throughout Death Certificate, Ice Cube is not merely outspoken, but outrageous, and is often the butt of his own deeply unsettling humour. What is the most offensive album of all time? 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z

The ambiguity of the term, the fact that its definition remains unsettled even among legal scholars, only serves to bolster the position that the rule is arcane. Don’t be a Ted Cruz birther: Liberals should reject the xenophobia behind “natural born” citizenship 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

As Ailes’ victims flash across the screen in “Bombshell” — all thin, white, polished beauties — their images are meant to stir sympathy and moral outrage, but they also project an unsettling uniformity. The Sexual Predator’s TV Wife 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

The artist said one of her main inspirations was her childhood in France, where she was close to her affectionate mother but was also unsettled by her father's marital infidelities including with her governess. Sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies aged 98: report 2010-06-01T14:56:00Z

With those unsettling words in mind, I rode for eight hours the next day in a nearly empty bus toward my final destination, Merzouga. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

It’s all a bit too ludicrous to be sensuous or unsettling, or ultimately all that insightful. ‘The Wild Boys’ Review: Women as Boys, and Violence as Art 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

No music cues you in to the horror; the images just grow more unsettling and the scene more grim. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

This deep, unsettling hue ties into what Ra describes in “Space Is the Place,” explaining his understanding of the cosmos. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

Beloved novels do function as comfort food, even novels as profoundly unsettling as “To the Lighthouse,” in the middle of which Woolf dispatches death by illness, childbirth and war in consecutive cruel parenthetical passages. A Grieving Woman’s Eloquent Homage to Virginia Woolf 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

It also unsettled the usual way of seeing things, with the snapshot framing life in blunt, confrontational, surprising and sometimes contorted ways. Toulouse-Lautrec: A master of branding, a lover of celebrity 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Let’s hope the talented Mr. Levine, in an unsettled time, gets more said than that. Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z

Mostly the letters have the peculiar distinction of being unsettling without ever being truly interesting. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

HBO condemned the breach as disruptive, unsettling and disturbing and said the authorities were investigating. Game of Thrones episode leaked online after HBO suffers week of chaos 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The activist and rapper Boots Riley tackles societal ills in this comic, unpredictable and sometimes unsettling dystopian tale about a young slacker. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and ‘Baskets’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

The illustrations of other central symbols are even more unsettling. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z

In the third episode, Johnny watches Gigi nails a new song that he wrote, and he’s both moved and unsettled to see that his music may be better through her than through him. Review: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Delivers Rock of the Aged 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

But as a piece of drama, and indeed polemic against the death penalty, Better Man is affecting and unsettling television. Better Man - TV review 2013-07-25T22:49:05Z

Their warring improvisations are intriguing, unsettling and often exquisite. Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist – review 2012-11-18T00:05:47Z

In this unsettling image, Denby managed to concentrate everything he saw and felt. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z

The other is that the catalog raisonné presents a more diverse, less restrained and more unsettling O’Keeffe than is generally known — by turn expressionistic, akin to folk art or otherwise idiosyncratic. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

But the meditative music, with its spacious if unsettling quiet, gradually brought down the blood pressure. A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

Another season two source says that Spottiswood frequently made unsettling, demoralizing comments about her appearance. "He made their lives miserable": How the showrunner of a popular courtroom drama finally got fired 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

There is a moment in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project as sharp and unsettling as a gunshot. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Still, there’s something unsettling about the project, especially since many can’t act as advised, for financial or other reasons, and the real problem is that governments and corporations are failing us. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

His – mostly – live-action short Silence Is Golden is another unsettling work that blends a jolly 70s aesthetic with some bleak social realism. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z

The contention that fakes are the supreme modern art form rests on a false syllogism: modern art, Keats argues, intends to unsettle; fakes unsettle us; therefore fakes are great art. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z

The spectral brass and strings do the opposite of what orchestral arrangements usually do: instead of cosseting you with lushness, there's something unsettling about the way they weave in and out of the song. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-24T15:30:01Z

As an apparently unproven theory, it repelled people; as reluctantly accepted fact, perhaps it remains unsettling. doesn't present the phenomenon entirely accurately. Has the science in Ice Age 4 gone adrift? 2012-07-16T07:00:04Z

Getting killed off was a new experience for me — unsettling but dramatically satisfying. Richard Thomas of ‘The Americans’ on Agent Gaad’s Fate, John-Boy and Jimmy Carter 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Years later, she meets a man who shares her brother’s name, setting up an unsettling exploration of long-lasting grief. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe because of that history, and his tendency to push his characters to an unsettling, staring-too-long grotesqueness, his character lacks the gravity he needs in the more serious moments. Review: ‘Forever’ Is a Thrilling Story of Boring Love 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Even more unsettling, as the cadaver coughs up its clues — a severed tongue; blackened lungs — the mortuary itself begins to stir with shuffling signs of life. Review: ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’ Raises Mighty Goose Bumps 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

When the book turns to the subject of H.M. himself, it becomes more unsettling — and also more fraught. ‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

But, of course, she found it strange and unsettling to be part of the media storm, declaring even that she felt "like a fraud". Choose July's Reading group book 2013-06-26T13:35:35Z

The film is considered a risk partly because the hyper-reality lent by the cinematography technology could be unsettling to viewers. Ang Lee Is Embracing a Faster Film Format. Can Theaters Keep Up? 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

This year has been an attempt to make art, often without the escape hatch of comedy, which means you may move and unsettle people powerfully, but at the risk of coming off pretentious or self-serious. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

I wasn't deeply worried, just vaguely unsettled by it all. Q&A: Author Erik Larson nervously awaits arrival of 'Beasts' 2011-05-09T15:32:05Z

The experience is unsettling and moving in about equal measure. Home invasions, melting glaciers and Humpty Dumpty – is VR finally coming into its own? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

In fact, he sounds like the perfect fit for Nosferatu, with one unsettling rural horror under his belt, and a background in production design. Nosferaaarghtu: why they shouldn't remake Dracula's best film outing 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

But it's a calculated artistic decision that makes unsettling, perverse sense. 'The Devil's Double' captures horror of Hussein son's look-alike 2011-08-04T20:00:06Z

Yet because a warming planet is so frightening, and the prospect of changing their lifestyle so unsettling, they force themselves to believe it isn’t true. My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline 2013-01-20T12:45:00Z

David Annen plays the flighty father in My Dad's a Birdman with a volatility that is at once comic and unsettling. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

And yet under the inspiration of this unsettling incident Martin decides to form a neighborhood watch council to monitor the goings-on in Bluebell Hill, as the area is innocuously called. | 'Neighbourhood Watch' : ?Neighbourhood Watch? by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-08T03:17:19Z

Issue docs, particularly those about important but unsettling topics, often disappoint. The Hunger Games Kills Off Two New Combatants: Perseus and Snow White 2012-04-01T22:35:54Z

The sight is unsettling — the Cheshire grin of a girl trapped in a room with only her fantasies. Review: A Bracing Trial by Zoom in ‘State vs. Natasha Banina’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Cobain picture was unsettling for sure, but not half so startling as the portrait, in a recent issue of W, of Mr. Altuzarra himself sheathed in a silk jersey-and-snakeskin dress from his spring line. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z

Farmanfarmaian's art has encompassed many forms, from simple paintings of flowers and birds to unsettling "memory box" installations reminiscent of the oeuvre of Louise Bourgeois. Monir Farmanfarmaian: 'In Iran, life models wear pants' 2011-07-12T20:59:01Z

Hulu's latest documentary, "Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons," exposes these unsettling connections over the course of three episodes. The 7 most shocking Victoria's Secret revelations from Hulu's "Angels and Demons" docuseries 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Munch's Red Virginia Creeper is an unsettling work which features the vine enveloping the house, almost as if it is suffocating it. In Pictures: Edvard Munch exhibition 2012-06-27T07:25:37Z

The effect of the piece, by experimental Glasgow company Fish and Game, is oddly unsettling, a blurring of film and reality. Alma Mater: Click here for tonight's show 2011-08-08T21:15:01Z

Eventually, after those first unsettling years, he found his level. Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

McDonough doesn’t quite buy that: “I believe Al’s life is far more ambiguous, chaotic and unsettled than the clichéd happy ending usually reported.” Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Still more unsettling nightmare visions follow: Virginia finds herself a squirming witness to her mother’s teenaged exploitation by a fellow student collecting nudie Polaroids of all the cutest girls in his homeroom class. | 'Sex Lives of Our Parents': That Worst Nightmare, This Time Even Worse 2011-06-23T02:01:25Z

As if the result of a solo game of exquisite corpse, these composite creatures are oddly proportioned and at turns alluring and unsettling. Woody De Othello’s Extraordinary Monuments to the Mundane 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Toys in the Attic” isn’t as unsettling as Mr. Svankmajer’s work, but even in this English-language version, it’s scarcely a cute and cuddly family film of the generic type often foisted on American tots. Movie Review: ‘Toys in the Attic,’ Directed by Jiri Barta 2012-09-06T22:53:02Z

That this piteous figure is the 17th-century scientist Galileo Galilei makes his abjection even more unsettling to watch. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z

It’s too bad that the invented parts have the effect of turning Anna Sorokin from an unsettling mystery into a character we can identify with and begin to sympathize with. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Or one of those unsettling, ambiguous ones that gnaws at you long after you’ve finished the show? 2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

“It Was Late and We Watched the Motel Burn,” written after doing just that from a tour-van window, is vertiginous and unsettling, the melody constantly swallowing itself. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Often revived and forgotten, it’s an unsettling companion piece to Mr. Sinatra’s subsequent assassination film, “The Manchurian Candidate.” Ida Lupino, a Woman of Spine on Both Sides of the Lens 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Part of Tarzan’s appeal — at least to some — is that he inhabits a world that resembles ours, but without the unsettling distractions of real suffering. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It's unsettling, because you realise that there may be things they can't do in one country. Hunted: created by the brains behind The X Files and starring a Summer Bay legend 2012-09-28T14:00:00Z

Messages that conflict with that existing sense of self, therefore, are unsettling, and so we often reject them — even if they happen to be positive, and even if the source of the message is ourselves. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

“Burrito Hill Mirror,” a reordering of Mr. Klein’s recent piece “Burrito Hill,” features an uneven chime like that of a windup music box, beautiful but subtly unsettled. Review: An Argentine Pianist and Composer’s Prismatic Experiments 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a vertiginous maneuver that remains unsettling as Choi’s new narrator shifts erratically between first and third person, trying to unpack what’s “sealed in the amber of a childhood crush.” Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

He positions their love story within a deeply unsettling and beautifully composed panorama. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

In the unsettled 1960s Adorno was first embraced as a leftist thinker and then accused of using his teaching to discourage anti-establishment activism. Art Review: Hito Steyerl Has New York Solo Debut at e-flux 2012-12-20T22:07:09Z

I was unsettled by a recent software advert on TV in which a mother uses her computer to compose a lovely smiling family photograph, despite her truculent husband and unruly kids' refusal to pose together. If only weathermen were honest and said forecasts were just a bit of fun 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

But “K” is nonetheless weirdly suspenseful, and also uncannily contemporary — a riff on the theme of modern ennui and frustration that is unsettling and poignant. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

She noted that, “for many Trump voters, even peaceful protests are unsettling,” and that “many seemingly persuadable conservatives say that liberals are burning bridges rather than building them.” The Perils and Possibilities of the Never-Ending Protest 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

When people are dealing with some of the most important choices in their lives, like how to raise their children, and something unsettling happens, “your brain will reach for explanations, for a sense of order”. Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the show, day after day, Westworld’s hosts wander in preordained narrative “loops,” which the park’s guests are free to unsettle, join, or terminate at their leisure. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

She stumbled upon the pig couch while helping a friend search for a statement couch online and was immediately drawn to its “unsettling texture” and melancholic face. That Pig Couch on Craigslist? Not for Sale. (Also, Not a Couch.) 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

Chockfull with 30 songs, The White Album made for an intentionally unsettling marriage of opposites: beauty and crudity, sublimity and blankness, harmony and cacophony. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Even though Fröst played a basset clarinet, the elongated early version of the instrument for which Mozart wrote his concerto, Fröst’s style has an unsettling post-Mozart quality to it. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps these are two different ways of channelling the same dark, human urges: either they curdle into something deviant and unsettling, or they get processed into humour. Hounds of Love: why do comedians make such chilling villains? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

In one particularly unsettling scene, Kaylie bites into an apple, only to find it's a light bulb. Actress Gillan plays with perceptions in ghostly thriller 'Oculus' 2014-04-11T19:20:37Z

Ishy Din hopes that the project will unsettle expectations for all kinds of audiences. 10by10: Britain like you've never seen it on screen 2012-08-29T09:14:00Z

So, I appreciate what’s driving your question: Someone may be unsettled. My City Friends Want to Wait Out the Virus in My Suburban Home 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Osea, a small island off the coast of Britain reached by a causeway, is too unsettling a place to be charming but it is certainly intriguing. Jude Law: 'When I became a parent, I would cry at anything' 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

In that quiet, unsettling drama, exquisitely directed by Mark Romanek, Williams played a photo-booth clerk who becomes obsessed with a prosperous suburban family whose lives he witnesses through a succession of happy portraits. Robin Williams: Frenetic, often fearless actor brought brutal honesty to best roles

The 1975 hit “Kashmir” takes us to “distant and unsettling lands,” he writes, “with one having to closely follow the path of Jimmy Page’s ever-circling, talismanic riff to stay safe from surrounding danger.” Every note of Jimmy Page — before, during and after Led Zeppelin 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Still, it is very good, especially in parts, and above all it is unsettling. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

As Hulu did with its “Into the Dark” series, Amazon’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse” bundles four new “unsettling” movies, in this case by a diverse group of filmmakers. Little Bursts of Fright: The Horror Anthology Is Having a Heyday 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

But over the long term they suggest something unsettling: the toll that professionalism takes on our sense of selfhood. The Season Finale of 'The Good Wife' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Encouraged by Jim Williams’s unsettling score, Hall and Roth convincingly sell their characters’ sick psychological bond. ‘Resurrection’ Review: Mother of Fears 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mainly because it’s a bit jarring and, frankly, unsettling. How old is too old to trick-or-treat? The Halloween custom should be reserved just for the kids 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z

As if to unsettle his own strength — or to emphasize it — Mr. Potter often experiments with new groups and configurations. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It's all tactically unsettling and annoying in just the right ways. Review: 'Arms' Is Weird But Maybe the Perfect Switch Game 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

As her ideas took form and gravitated from pen and pencil lines on paper to colorful, paint-saturated canvas, they grew more unsettling, raising difficult questions about race and class. Review | Was the founder of modern Brazilian art a friendly cannibal? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

After intermission, Tania León, 76, presented her first-ever piece for the full Philharmonic, and rose to her belated debut with music of unsettled understatement and quietly ominous power. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Hirsute's you … the rather unsettling film version of The Cat in the Hat. Why Dr Seuss continues to charm America 2012-07-24T12:08:58Z

Still, the pass-interference controversy has been unsettling, if only because it is a reminder of how much people often get wrong when they try to make things right. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Not a drop of talent is wasted here, whether in Lithgow’s heartbreaking portrayal of a lawyer past his prime, or in Maslany’s unsettling depiction of a spiritual leader on the brink of divine madness. Review | In one of summer’s best new shows, Perry Mason gets what he’s always lacked — a personality 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

But there is also sometimes the unsettling feeling that he is at least re-enacting the spirit of touching those instruments for the first time. Music Review: Darius Jones, Ryan Sawyer and Shahzad Ismaily at the Stone 2012-07-04T21:38:09Z

Stanley Kubrick could make the simple act of forcing the audience to look down a hotel hallway deeply unsettling; terrifying even. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 6: Impersonation of Love 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

An unsettling cinematic clip of Page portraying a mostly quiet Holmes left the E3 crowd wanting more. Few surprises for gamers at E3 2012-06-06T13:25:10Z

The result, Lawrence Van Gelder wrote in his review for The New York Times, is a film that is “at once admirable and deeply unsettling.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’ and Macy’s Fireworks 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

While the back-and-forth between Gregory and the footnotes works to unsettle matters in the text, the podcast — ironically — settles them. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The interaction between Mr. Webber and the toddler is startling and a little unsettling; there’s a palpable closeness. The Carpetbagger: Actor Gets Attention as Director of 'The End of Love' 2012-01-21T15:48:45Z

He conveyed unsettling depths of character by nearly blacking out an actor’s brow. - The Washington Post

It's meant to be a celebratory display, but there is also something a little unsettling about it. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z

“People are invested in Bill Clinton’s legacy – it’s more unsettled, more fluid. I think there’s a sense that it’s being reassessed right now.” Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: the thrilling hit podcast rips into the scandal 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

And despite her status as an emerging feminist voice, Ms. Conger had to concede that mustering up the courage to ask Mr. Ahnberg to be her date was a little unsettling. A Feminist Romance, but Not a Radical One 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Its cagey lyric suggests that a new female arrival has unsettled the menfolk of a quiet suburban neighborhood: Sid Tepper Dies at 96; Delivered ‘Red Roses for a Blue Lady’ and Other Songs 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

In “Stand Tall,” Jones’ female figure is a steady presence in unsettled surroundings that include, at the left, what could be the remnants of an American flag in disarray. 3 Seattle gallery shows to check out in January 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a straightforward documentary and a good one for those who haven’t already spent enough time with this strange, unsettling story. Review: ‘Team Foxcatcher’ Looks at a Millionaire’s Descent Into Murder 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Equally unsettling are the series of media appearances with Trump and his daughter, Ivanka. Lessons from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Establishment Democrats sold out the voters 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

When it stops everyone freezes, but there’s an unsettling rattle that takes a moment to place. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z

That violent opening fuses several storylines in “The Nakeds,” a sharp, unsettling novel about damaged people limping through life. ‘The Nakeds’: A young, broken girl and her nudist family 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Inger led Stockholm’s Cullberg Ballet for five years, and “Walking Mad” was infused with the stark, unsettling and quirkily theatrical style of that experimental company founded by the acclaimed choreographer Birgit Cullberg.  A fiery tribute to female power: Ella Fitzgerald and Alvin Ailey dancers in ‘Ella’ 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

You might think of this unsettling and imaginative production as a sort of perversely animated mixtape — a metaphor confirmed by the presence of a giant reel-to-reel recorder on the back wall of the set. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

In Los Angeles, fans of The Wizard of Oz have been unsettled by plans for rival new versions. Smiley starts a row over reluctance to commission original scripts 2011-07-09T23:07:03Z

Reading Tove Ditlevsen’s “The Copenhagen Trilogy” was so unsettling as well as so pleasurable that it’s bound to be one of those books I return to again and again. Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The result, in Gaiman's masterful care, is one of the most unsettling stories of family life in years. Fiction's best dysfunctional families 2013-06-06T10:44:02Z

You might say that every crisis gets the multi-celebrity car-crash pop anthem it deserves, but truly no crisis — certainly not one as vast and unsettling as the current one — deserves this. This ‘Imagine’ Cover Is No Heaven 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

But, Kenny added, “when they settle into a groove that aligns with the novel’s, the movie delivers great unsettling jolts that approximate the power of King’s vision.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Citizen Hearst’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

And Perry’s candidacy unsettles the race further, making the outcome next year here hazier than ever. Bachmann wins Iowa Straw Poll 2011-08-13T22:07:00Z

Whoever designed the new Hamburglar’s costume chose a super unsettling mix of kitsch, cartoon and mass-produced polyester hipster. McDonald’s new Hamburglar is a flame-broiled pile of hipster garbage 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

For example, her famous ghost story, “The Portobello Road,” is both macabre and funny, its unsettling mixture of tones building to a shocking, magnificently deadpan sentence that will take any reader’s breath away. Michael Dirda reviews “The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark”

Nevertheless, Arbus's black-and-white portraits – particularly of those with mental disabilities or physical abnormalities – retain their power to unsettle and disturb. Diane Arbus: humanist or voyeur? 2011-07-26T10:56:29Z

In a brilliantly unsettling chapter, he interrogates the four doomed victims of the "plot" he has discovered: the men accused of being the Queen's lovers. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

The impact of some 20,000 square miles of these hills unsettled me completely. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The excerpt from “Peace and Love” is mystifying, but in a promising and unsettling experiment, a section of house dancing in the work is set to the chaos of traffic noise. Dance Review: Rennie Harris RHAW, at the New Victory Theater 2013-05-20T22:09:43Z

I woke from “The Heavens” as I hope to emerge from any work of fiction: moved and unsettled, a new and intoxicating set of questions alight on the mind’s horizon. A Heroine Who Lives at Once in Elizabethan England and 21st-Century New York 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

His unruly behaviour has often unsettled other contestants. Gary Busey: “I passed away after brain surgery. Then I came back” 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

But it didn’t appear quite like that on the runway, where long tailored coats seemed more like the Bolshevik past than the unsettled present. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z

It’s a fitting conclusion to a book that raises unsettling questions about who someone was, and what he did. Once Viewed as a Savior of Children, Hans Asperger Is Now Called a Nazi Collaborator 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

He begins writing about what he did and what he witnessed — first, with articles for The Washington Post and The New York Times, and now, with this profoundly unsettling book. Review: Eric Fair’s ‘Consequence,’ a Memoir by a Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Sprawling, meditative and unsettled, “Don Carlos” eventually fell out of favor, and when it returned to the repertoire in the mid-20th century, it was sung almost exclusively in Italian. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

And it’s the visions of their being fatally tangled in wire that are the show’s most unsettling. | 'War Horse': A Boy and His Steed, Far From Humane Society 2011-04-15T02:01:02Z

The words reassure, but the images unsettle, as the camera slides along a glistening fuel rod and pauses, transfixed, before a winking control panel. | 'Under Control': ?Under Control,? Documentary on German Nuclear Power Plants ? Review 2011-12-02T05:13:02Z

Constand said she found it deeply unsettling that Cosby, still a man of means and influence, was out of prison, unconstrained and able to contact her and others. Despite the Cosby Ruling, Andrea Constand Feels Like a ‘Symbol of Hope’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Stricken with guilt and paranoia, they see themselves as hunted fugitives, and recurrent images of car headlights approaching from behind recall the most unsettling moments of “Silkwood.” Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z

But two years ago she turned her attention to music, releasing a strong debut album, “Yours Truly,” that used shades of 1990s-style R&B to unsettle her squeaky-clean image. With Justin Bieber in tow, Ariana Grande plays the Forum 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Time has, of course, proved it to be nothing of the sort, though it is characterised by an emotional immediacy that can be unsettling in performance. Prom 48: LPO/Jurowski – review 2012-08-19T15:56:24Z

This idea of “construction” is key to understanding why a spaghetti-scented candle would be unsettling to some people. Spaghetti-scented candle? Why “savory” candles mess with our minds 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

One reason that “Girls” is unsettling is that it is an acerbic, deadpan reminder that human nature doesn’t change. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z

“New Dark Age” is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

That means drag, jazz and physical comedy; in their mixture of contemporary and period details, his productions have suggested an unsettling affinity between the rapacious capitalism of the Weimar Republic and contemporary society. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The cheekbone under my left eye was swelling, my teeth felt unsettled and weird, and who knew what was going on underneath the skin of my rapidly swelling arm? Marie Kondo, Mary Poppins and magical adulting fantasies for a hostile world 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Thompson's 10 interlinked tales, longlisted for the Man Booker this week, deconstruct genre and myth while remaining original and superbly unsettling. Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-27T21:55:04Z

The music in the concert’s first half was sympathetic and duly elegant but also vaguely unsettled, even a bit labored. Music Review: Keith Jarrett Opens CareFusion Festival at Carnegie 2010-06-20T21:35:00Z

You are shoved and pushed, and the loud bangs and distant sound of screams are unsettling, as are the pools of blood in a small room where instruments of torture are all around. 66 Minutes in Damascus – review 2012-06-21T17:00:03Z

In an unsettling twist, these men take on the role of actors. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z

In their voicelessness, their post-mortem reduction to their bodies, they serve as unsettling reminders of what certain ideals of femininity look like when carried to the extreme. Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

More unsettling is a sequence in a supermarket, where Ms. Bernard plays a woman who has caused a stir by lying down — in Aisle 7, next to the watermelons — and pulling her dress up. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Their leader, however, appears to be an unsettling, middle-aged lifeguard named Saro. ‘Agostino,’ by Alberto Moravia

Few artists have produced work as genuinely unsettling to established ways of thinking — including establishment thinking within the museum and art world — as Kruger. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Murky, unsettled and intense, it's a hell of a song. This week's new tracks 2012-06-08T23:05:21Z

There's more here than we've heard on TV, but the tinkling bells and cellos of Hungry Face and unsettling guitar intro to The Huts work perfectly over a full-length album. Mogwai: Les Revenants – review 2013-07-25T20:45:00Z

A far more unsettling family portrait can be found in another Spotlight selection: “Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?” New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

It gave me ideas about breaking out the most unsettling, crazy moments of young romance from the tragedies.” The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

Together, these spirits join forces in an unsettling and moving film about motherhood and bad memories, one that won’t so much grab you by the throat as squeeze your hand. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z

The storytelling is jittery, cluttered, unsettling in some of the right ways and quite a few of the wrong ones. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

I watched 51 women march in high-heeled formation to the tune of Katy Perry’s “Roar,” while murmuring words like “confident” and “strong” in unsettling unison. Perspective | The ‘new’ Miss America and the trap of ladylike expectations 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

That the U.S. president is threatening nuclear annihilation in an early morning tweet is certainly unsettling — Trump’s rhetoric on North Korea may even appear unnaturally bellicose — but it is hardly unprecedented. Donald Trump needs his “Day After” moment: We’ve heard reckless rhetoric from a Republican before — then Ronald Reagan negotiated nuclear disarmament 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Here’s my theory: more people looked up “culture” this year because it’s become an unsettling word. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

There may be no calmer album this year, and no more unsettling one either. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z

However, it's spot on for the mini white cube which satirises the whole caboodle, framing a pair of knickers alongside critiques of a show called FIB which is "unsettling, challenging" and has "gut-wrenching authenticity". Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

He’s best known here for his unsettling, shrewdly class-conscious drama “Burning,” which centers on an uneasy triangle — featuring a revelatory turn from the American actor Steven Yeun — that ends in catastrophe. Loved ‘Parasite’? Manohla Dargis Recommends Other South Korean Movies 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

But Lucy Dalglish, who heads the University of Maryland’s journalism school, confessed to feeling “unsettled” by watching a reporter and a source go at it. Clashes in the White House press room are riveting. But how far is too far? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

His appearance in Hitchcock’s Marnie in 1964 focused on the dark side that had been nurtured in the Bond franchise, but without the justification of missions on the secret service, it looked more unsettling. Sean Connery at 90: a dangerously seductive icon of masculinity 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

The obvious and unsettling question of what constitutes a finished or genuine Rodin is a recurring theme of the show. Exhibit review: In Virginia, a Rodin show changes how we see the sculptor 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

These unsettling stories are aptly titled — "other nightmares," indeed. Crime fiction: a new Ian Rankin hero and nightmares from Joyce Carol Oates 2011-11-09T22:55:06Z

A blue screen over Kidman’s face at one point in the film is both beautiful and unsettling. Nicole Kidman is gunning for an Oscar in "Destroyer" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

It's unsettling, uncomfortable and a little bit gross, which is exactly what Mongkolsiri wanted. Netflix's Thai film "Hunger" was supposed to make you feel "uneasy" and grossed-out says director 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

Somewhere in Hollywood, bewildering, unpredictable, lyrical, probably the most unsettling song about Lassie you'll ever hear. Old music: 10cc – Somewhere in Hollywood 2012-07-04T12:31:00Z

Eventually the madness beneath his colorful facade becomes clear and unsettling. 'Daddy Longlegs': A wildly irresponsible father creates chaos 2010-06-24T19:29:00Z

For the opening to The Simpsons’ 26th season in 2014, he propels us into a future world where the characters have either evolved or mutated into unsettling blobs. The Simpsons: are the couch gags the only things left worth watching? 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

It is an unsettled homecoming, resignation etched on young faces. Frank Oriti’s Paintings at Richard J. Demato 2013-08-15T21:13:34Z

He devoted himself to horror fiction just after World War I, creating unsettling and often interrelated stories, many of them published in the pulp magazine “Weird Tales.” Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

But in Season 2, which begins Wednesday on FXX with two episodes, “Dave” knows that it’s not as easy as that — not the success, and not all the unsettling stuff underlying it. On ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky Faces the Music 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

I’m sure some might be reassured by this, but I find it oddly unsettling, as if I am being posed a complex philosophical problem at bedtime. Can an app guarantee a good night’s sleep? I tested them to find out 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

A lot of artists are unsettled on principle; they are driven by the unreasonable idea that there’s something they ought to do or can’t do. Playlist: Albums From Mary Stallings, Black Breath and Miguel 2012-03-30T19:29:10Z

Q: Are you unsettled by the rapid changes of the past half-century? Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z

But also because — as intense and unsettling as the argument was — it was substantive and illuminating in a way time-killing cable shouting matches rarely are. On CNN, Debating Trump and the Ku Klux Klan. Really. 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, being virtually selected alongside a pet may have felt unsettling, but clearly she had great taste in dogs and it was flattering to be in such good company. Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Hope's Bach was seething and unsettled, and the highly alert SSO strings matched his aggressive articulation and egged on the tumult. BBCSSO/Volkov - review 2011-01-31T18:04:33Z

In a way, these naysayers are right: I didn’t need marriage, to settle down; I wanted it, to be unsettled. I was a “male spinster” 2012-11-29T01:00:00Z

Mr. Muhly’s style is inherently restive — it’s all unsettled motion, shot through with tender exhalations — but the sound world is so hyper-polished and unvarying that the restlessness feels paradoxically static. Review: Nico Muhly’s ‘Marnie’ Brings Hitchcock Into the 21st Century 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

Even more unsettling is seeing her crying, naked and clutching a grubby teddy like a little girl. Artist of the week 199: Jo Spence 2012-07-19T16:13:17Z

The circumstances of her pregnancy are still unknown, which raises a host of unsettling questions about the state of her prior care. Can a court order an abortion? 2012-11-06T19:18:00Z

To others, however, the vigorous response reflects the fact that even the best-supported science, empirically speaking, is still enmeshed in unsettled metaphysical questions. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z

Between barbs, there are songs, specially composed by George and featuring an unsettling number of middle-of-the-road ballads, and many shrieking encounters between Kim, Billy and Billy's quarrelling parents. Taboo – review 2013-01-11T17:36:56Z

Yet there is much beauty in this abundance, and something deeply unsettling, too. Review: ‘Frontières Sans Frontières,’ Where Poverty Is Photogenic 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

He wants to scare and unsettle you, and does. Review: In ‘The Conjuring 2,’ Ghostly Violence Has a British Accent 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Vegans are unsettling and uncanny: they live among us, speak like us, behave like us – but for one significant exception. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Primary colours are pumped up, so things are immediately unsettling. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

When human habitations are introduced to these desolate scenes the effect is jarring and unsettling. Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

You are one of the main characters in this so was writing a character based on yourself in any way unsettling? Jon Ronson gets inside ‘Frank’s’ head

More unsettling is that Paige seems to revert to an earlier version of herself. Movie Review: ?The Vow,? With Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum 2012-02-09T22:50:56Z

But there are wonderful, juicy, unsettling things in both tales of crime and punishment. Lumet, his films embodied grace under fire 2011-04-10T19:29:00Z

It remains unsettling to accept that their signatures co-exist on the same lease agreement. A Story About Fred Trump and Woody Guthrie for the Midterm Elections 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Terror rating: 4.1, because knowing you willingly paid money to be lied to is unsettling. 10 Unconventional Halloween Diversions 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

It's a modern horror, one that seems plausible, and this is by far the most unsettling piece of the trio of films, grotesque and disturbing. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

And so life continues much the same, although the news about Juri — and the family’s unblinking pragmatism — unsettles the inaugural calm. ‘Shoplifters’ Review: A Family That Steals Together, Stays Together 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

We are all hoodwinked into accepting this as the right thing to do … it always leaves me feeling very unsettled! To Kill a Mockingbird: a book that still raises questions about 'good' justice 2013-07-18T08:33:11Z

Sally Prue wastes no words in this odd and unsettling story which is loosely linked to The Ballad of Tam Lin. Michelle Harrison's 10 best bad fairies 2011-03-23T13:52:18Z

For one woman, “all outings were unsettling — they gave you a taste of something you couldn’t have.” Review: ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

After such an unsettled and unsettling year, these gestures to the land’s past suggest a desire for stability, a collective need to affirm what happened, and when and where. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

In performance, as on record, these songs are an unsettling puzzle, not congratulations for being on the right side. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-02-28T21:30:02Z

Yet Anomalisa comes across from the very start as deeply strange and unsettling – because its actors are all puppets. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

So while it’s genuinely unsettling, it’s also a heartfelt reflection on family, as well as a kind of love letter to the often overlooked towns of the American Midwest. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Thompson herself, who made a vivid, even unsettling impression in “Nanny McPhee,” is relatively innocuous this time around, like a walk-on in her own film. | 'Nanny McPhee Returns': Emma Thompson Tames the Wild Child in Wartime 2010-08-19T23:34:00Z

When a down-on-his-luck expert in cult deprogramming tackles a tough case in "Faults," the results are unsettling — for him, if not the audience. Deprogramming is hard work in 'Faults' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But the most dramatic and unsettling part of the exhibition are the copies of body casts. Pompeii exhibit in NYC shines light on buried city 2011-03-04T15:42:09Z

Now Mr. Spector and Ms. Hall are onstage together again, playing Rachel and Tom, an English married couple at the heart of Clare Lizzimore’s unsettling “Animal,” which opens on June 6 at Atlantic Stage 2. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

What’s changed since then has been in equal measure reassuring and unsettling. To survive, this Shakespeare troupe is offering online classes and videos. Are branded masks next? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

He uses the soundtrack brilliantly, fusing concrete music with sound effects and score to unsettle and position the uber-mannered, hyper-real performances of his actors. Arts & Leisure: What Spooks the Masters of Horror? 2011-08-19T13:45:42Z

"I'm interested in stuff that unsettles me, in issues such as jealousy and loneliness, arrogance and pride," he admits. New band of the day - Joe Banfi (No 1,426) 2013-01-08T16:10:44Z

The most unsettling and eyebrow-raising allegations were one of grooming underage girls. The nerdy online power of "Rick and Morty" creator that led to allegations of sexual assault 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

Darnielle’s raw, sometimes unsettling observations of the world lose none of their power on the printed page. Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle returns with a second powerful novel 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Many people regard the cicadas as unsettling, but young children and old gardeners, who still find the world a wondrous place, adore them. Perspective | Can retail therapy soothe a gardener unsettled by the crazy spring? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

That was incredibly profound and unsettling, standing in a refrigerator surrounded by 30 bodies. With ‘In Search Of,’ Zachary Quinto Reprises Another Leonard Nimoy Role 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sommer’s wittily appalled Bradley needs to be a shade more menacing for the second act curtain scene to unsettle as it should. Review: In Shepard’s ‘Buried Child,’ a Father and Family Dissolve Into Darkness 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Yet passages of bottomless ickiness come spring-loaded with genuinely unsettling episodes about the dangers of modern convenience and, of all things, death’s inevitability. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

What it all means is anybody's guess, but it's unsettling, weirdly compelling stuff. Banjo or Freakout: Banjo or Freakout ? review 2011-02-17T21:59:01Z

Sitting in a comfortable black sweater, dark dungarees and Day-Glo sneakers — “I’m a complete scruff,” she said — she conveys unguarded ease and unsettled opinions. Keira Knightley, Making Her Broadway Debut, Is Not Afraid of the Dark 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The incident is at once charming and unsettling, and therefore squarely in keeping with Erpenbeck at her most scholarly, in the university lectures. Review | In ‘Not a Novel,’ Jenny Erpenbeck continues to evolve 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

A high school student’s stormy relationship with her teacher, and her changing perceptions of it, are the focus of this unsettling debut. 13 New Books to Watch For in March 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It's dislocating and unsettling – and that's without taking into account the intensity of the acting. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z

But unsettling is what Mr. Armstrong wants here, and the furiously catchy qualities of the tune help his cause. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Phair brings that unsettling sense of candor to her first book, a memoir titled "Horror Stories," released on Oct. Liz Phair's "Horror Stories" chronicles the real ghosts that haunt us 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The first installment in the Seattle writer's new paranormal trilogy is a romance-suspense blend concerning a clairvoyant who "finds that her psychic gift if both unsettling and incredibly dangerous." Newly released books with local ties include 'Kiss'em Goodbye' and 'Out of Body' 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z

Despite Sami’s unsettling presence, the family’s apartment is a haven for Amira and Lina, a place where forgiveness and understanding come easily, love is palpable, and there is room for nuance. A Breathtaking Novel About Growing Up Muslim in Post-9/11 New York 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

And there is much that’s unsettling in this 11-minute show, including a Baby New Year Resolution Enforcer, who has shockingly little tolerance for unkept promises. ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Robot Chicken’ Spawn Holiday Specials 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The most unsettling reminder of my Election Night is certainly “The Moon Juice Cookbook,” an unapologetically esoteric offering from Amanda Chantal Bacon, who owns the thriving Los Angeles health-food business Moon Juice. The Moon Juice Prosperity Gospel 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The musical explores the response of Gander residents, and their developing relationships with the deeply unsettled passengers. ‘Come From Away,’ a Musical About Sept. 11 Connections, Is Coming to Broadway 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The single “Lydia,” on “Strays,” tells the story of an unsettled woman in an abortion clinic. The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Fiona Banner's works arrest the eye and the mind; they are both seductive and unsettling. 2010-01-20T11:53:00Z

But “Weekend,” which is about the risks and pleasures of opening up emotionally in the presence of another, remains true to the unsettled, open-ended nature of the experience it documents. | 'Weekend': ?Weekend,? Directed by Andrew Haigh - Review 2011-09-22T21:40:03Z

Her show remains an unsettled realm of enforced cheer. Perspective | Ellen DeGeneres is sorry. ‘Ellen’ the talk show is still forcing a smile. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

That year, one of her most critically and commercially successful films, “Vagabond,” about a dangerously unsettled woman, was released in the United States. The Agnès Varda I Knew: Showing Women Their Real Place in Movies 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Rather, it was to set up a powerful contrast between our desire to be fully and luxuriantly immersed in familiar narratives — the cyclorama experience — and the more anarchic and unsettling freedom of abstraction. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

So is the abrasive challenge of Downs: Hitchcock's careening vocal, Mills bouncing a basketball for percussion, steel drums, queasy horns and slide guitar combine to brilliantly unsettling effect. Big Star Third – review 2012-05-29T12:42:27Z

The novel highlights an unsettling lack of faith in institutions and peaceful protest that leads some to believe that harsh tactics are the only way to get noticed. 'American Subversive': A suspenseful novel of domestic terrorism 2010-05-12T23:21:00Z

Unfortunately, Tyler doesn’t supply many incidents as unsettling as that encounter with the real or imagined hijacker. Review | ‘Clock Dance,’ Anne Tyler’s 22nd novel, feels familiar — for better and worse 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

What began as innocent texting, soon became unsettling. The 6 most shocking Jerry Falwell Jr. sex scandal moments from Hulu's "God Forbid" documentary 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a bit unsettling to realize how much our ideas about manliness owe to an ancient theory holding that all men, no matter how noble, will eventually reveal their perversities. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Even more unsettling — or thrilling, depending on your orientation — the machines are not only building a new religion, but learning how to build a religion. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

In Russell Potter's magical rendering, Toby's story is both a travelogue and a sometimes unsettling inquiry into the nature of animal intelligence. 'PYG': the memoirs of a very smart swine 2012-08-03T19:47:04Z

The effect is brilliant – fractured, unsettled – but it's really hard. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z

Womack said she was attracted to the label's standing "outside the Nashville machine," a position that might've unsettled a veteran performer wary of fading from view. Lee Ann Womack takes an introspective path to the Grammy Awards 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

In Bullwinkel’s creepy, deadpan debut, bodies become objects, objects become bodies, and bodies and objects fuse and part in fascinating, unsettling ways. These Short Story Debuts Are ‘Squirmy,’ ‘Virtuosic,’ ‘Claustrophobic’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

There is real and imagined body horror, unsettling flashbacks and a truly chilling dinner that they simply refer to as the “pearl soup scene.” ‘Spencer’ star Kristen Stewart is done hiding her life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

He fixes everyone with a chillingly shrewd, malevolent stare made even more disquieting by an unsettling Parkinson's disease tremor — an inspired touch. Django Unchained – first look review 2012-12-12T13:06:56Z

There are blocks and blocks and blocks of exposition, but little of the python-like squeeze of invisible power that made books like Wind-Up Bird and A Wild Sheep Chase so unsettling. IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami 2011-10-31T09:00:03Z

The tempo is unhurried, and the song saves some of its most affecting revelations — “it kind of makes me feel like maybe I was better off” — for its unsettling final moments. Lana Del Rey Takes a Road Trip Into the Past 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Worse still, it’s not even the best country song about a seemingly homeless person; it’s tougher to swallow than even Craig Morgan’s awkward and unsettling “Almost Home.” New Music: Iggy and the Stooges, Darcy James Argue, Kenny Chesney 2013-04-29T21:31:45Z

Tori Wranes, a Norwegian artist born in 1978, contributes an unsettling bit of whimsy with a video titled “Ancient Baby,” with the artist appearing masked and hovering in space. Perspective | Is there a difference between national art and nationalist art? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s an unsettling time for governments around the world. 6 Podcasts About Political Scandals and Upheaval 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Comyns lets the reader see the appalling, unsettling side of this golden couple, and Bella’s utter submission to their charms can make a contemporary reader impatient. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

This unsettling thriller begins as eight people head off in their driverless cars. Review | An online warehouse gone rogue. Driverless cars, hijacked: Fiction that feels eerily possible. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Behind that question — which was, of course, left unsettled — lay a larger one. Review: HBO’s ‘Looking’ Has Season Finale, but No Word on Its Future 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

In 2015, a Billboard writer described the theme as “gorgeous and gentle one second, eerie and unsettling the next.” Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

He is performing a kind of abject penance that is hard to dismiss, even if you may initially want to; it is too quiet, unsettling and self-effacing. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z

Shainberg is looking to unsettle audiences with “Rupture” — and he will. Steven Shainberg on directing Noomi Rapace in the claustrophobic thriller “Rupture”: “It’s a dream, a nightmare and a sexual fantasy” 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

But it works well with a song that's just as unsettling and off-putting. New music: Fiona Apple – Every Single Night 2012-06-12T06:00:00Z

She sang them with the full range of her voice, making them twice as good, with a kind of severe passion, only semi-sentimental, following their unsettling, unresolving melodic trajectories. Music Review: Annette Peacock at the Whitney Museum of American Art 2013-04-28T20:59:36Z

Thankfully, Yellowjackets is here to finally kill this cliche' and devour it whole with an anti-yule log as unsettling and hilarious as the series itself. Exclusive: "Yellowjackets" spills Easter eggs for Season 2 in an ominous Yule log video 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

With poetry that is “indicative of the young people in the world today,” the article continued, “he seeks to capture their restless, unsettled imaginations.” Royston Ellis, Bridge Between Beat Poets and the Beatles, Dies at 82 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

The realization that something you thought to be “real” is actually an advertisement is an increasingly common, if unsettling, sensation. Good at Skipping Ads? No, You’re Not 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

There’s something beautifully wrong and unsettling about what they do.” Music: Echoes of Another Time and Place 2011-02-18T20:45:34Z

If those possibilities imply that the play’s ambiguities are intriguing or unsettling, don’t be deceived. Theater Review: ?Massacre (Sing to Your Children)? at Rattlestick 2012-04-16T21:52:09Z

In the video, Ms. Ginsburg appears in the Canadian bay’s waters with a few scuba divers, but it quickly turns unsettling as the tide rises, submerging them. A Provocative New Space for Art Emerges in Virginia 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

In his 1997 book, “Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are,” Lawrence Wright notes that twins are “an unsettling presence, because they undermine our sense of individual uniqueness.” Noticed: Kirk and Nate Mueller Capitalize on Being Twins 2012-01-13T22:15:44Z

The images spark off memories, the "counterpoint and candlelight" of a birthday celebration followed by an unsettling medical diagnosis. Poem of the week 2010-05-10T10:24:00Z

And the episode managed to be unsettling and weird and riveting without crushing the viewer’s soul. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

It is not a matter of greed, but of distorted incentives leading to unsettling behavior. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

In each case, theatergoers are never more than a few feet from the actors — in some scenes, a few unsettling inches — turning from passive viewers to emotionally invested neighbors. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The repercussions of the April ash cloud were shockingly global, and unsettling at every level from the practical to the psychological. Volcanic art 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Set in a shabby corner of Reykjavik, Iceland, far from the usual tourist attractions, the movie focuses on four teenage boys struggling in that sticky, confusing, inescapably unsettling space between childhood and adulthood. ‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Violent Jerks 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

For many older workers, however, remaining in employment beyond 65 is an unsettling prospect. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Instead, he seems to be finding the prospect of growing up unsettling. Motherlode Blog: Autistic and Coming (Reluctantly) of Age 2013-05-07T18:20:55Z

Chewed Corners, though, finds Paradinas being neither abstruse, nor unsettling, nor minimal. µ-ziq: Chewed Corners – review 2013-06-22T23:05:03Z

It might be improvising, or maybe not: in “Soft as Chalk,” when she landed down on the word “lawlessness” six different times, she consistently used her softest voice for the song’s most unsettling word. Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing in Tongues, Some of Them Strung 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z

And viewers in Joplin, Mo., deserve to know that the connection between climate change and tornadoes is still unsettled. 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

I went there when I was a kid," Stephens explains, "and I remember being unsettled by it. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z

The biggest unsettled question of all is independence. Iraqi Kurdistan, Caught Between Worlds 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Some see shadow creatures during this state, shown in creepy re-enactments that make “The Nightmare” as frightening and unsettling as a fictional horror feature. What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

He also appears to be morphing into David Gest, but that – though profoundly unsettling – is really a side issue. Come Dine With Me Election Special, Bill Oddie's Top 10 Frights And Delights, and Modern Family 2010-05-07T07:00:00Z

Mr. Garland, a novelist turned screenwriter making his directing debut, sets an eerily, cleverly unsettled stage. Review: In ‘Ex Machina,’ a Mogul Fashions the Droid of His Dreams 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It suggests an unsettling kinship between the alienness of both the very tiny and the very large. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z

The destruction and suffering are horrific; the mode of representation even more unsettling. A woman’s place in the Middle East? For some, it’s behind a camera. 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Their unsettled position between fiction and nonfiction leaves the secular reader wondering: How am I supposed to take this stuff? The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Exonerations are also like a Pandora’s box in two important and unsettling ways. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Physiologist Martin Johnson, Edwards’s graduate student in the 1960s, admitted that he was initially reluctant to join him and Steptoe because “it was quite unsettling … to see the sheer level of hostility to their work”. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Given this novel’s unsettling title, one could be forgiven for expecting a mortal soul to be compromised at some point. Books of The Times: Staying Civil as the World Convulses 2011-01-02T22:21:30Z

The movie, directed by Jacques Tourneur, is famed for its reliance on light, shadow and the power of suggestion to create its spooky, unsettling atmosphere. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Saturday Night Live’ and the First Presidential Debate 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Movies, TV, the streaming Internet barbarians at the gate unsettled as well as entertained. Golden Globes 2015: Sweet wins for audacious filmaking 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The 1968 My Lai Massacre, a war crime in which hundreds of civilians were killed, is summed up thus: “The event raised unsettling questions about the conduct of the war.” Review | Trump has tried to coopt the Army. This new museum shows why that won’t be easy. 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Heidecker is known for creating grotesque characters and unsettling situations that explore what he once described to Marc Maron as the “garbage” of modern life. The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Indisputable is Ozick’s exquisite artistry in rendering yet another resonant and unsettling tale. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The space in Edinburgh does the production few favours, but it nonetheless creates its own unsettling, dislocated world. Mies Julie – Edinburgh review 2012-08-08T11:53:50Z

Now, a batch of new television dramas are exploring the issues unsettling society today—from technological unease to pervasive surveillance to the questioning of truth—with characters who struggle to maintain a grip on reality. The Surreal World: TV Delves Into Paranoia, Anxiety and Misinformation 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Yet the more I read Amelia Bedelia the more unsettled I felt; I began to suspect that I wasn’t hearing all the notes. The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

The raw panic makes me uncomfortable, but the thing that truly unsettles me is the realisation that emotions I once felt so profoundly, so viscerally, have now completely vanished. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z

He deviates from the crime template to unsettling effect: Horton's fabled powers of observation and deduction fail him at one crucial point, the bad are not obviously punished nor the good and innocent rescued. The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd – review 2013-03-15T17:34:01Z

Arriving with true Caledonian punctuality – five minutes early, running a pre-emptive recce – she quickly unsettles that idea. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z

"The Rover" in particular exudes a creepy, unsettled vibe. The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

A single work might mesh elements from sci-fi, folk tales, personal memories and human history, as in the unsettling Summer Days in Keijo. Artist of the week 203: Sung Hwan Kim 2012-08-16T09:38:07Z

This sensation — reading the internet in a book — is both illuminating and a little unsettling. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Cat is unsettled by a visit from her judgmental mother. TV listings for Monday, Nov. 30 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a sober, unsettling story, but it ends on a note of optimism in America’s ability to right itself — too easily, I would argue, given everything we saw before it. When Democracy Dies in Daylight 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

There, unsettled by death and her own mortality, Maria confronts the past, present and future. Olivier Assayas Talks of His New ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Reflecting its unsettled quality, the dancers engaged in some well-crafted struggles; at times, one of them would tumble — gently and in slow motion — and the others would be knocked sideways a bit, rattled. A grand duo in Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater and Attacca Quartet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Pew,” her most recent novel, tells the story of a mute, racially ambiguous and seemingly genderless individual who shows up in an unnamed Southern town, unsettling the community. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

With a Composer as Your Umbrella The weather on Saturday was seething and unsettled. Music Review: Damien Top and Linda Hall at Symphony Space 2012-09-10T02:23:04Z

“Poetic License,” an unsettling drama by Jack Canfora, from the Directors Company in association with New Jersey Repertory Company, looks at the ugliness behind the scenes. Theater Review: ?Poetic License,? by Jack Canfora, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-02-20T23:15:11Z

It's an unsettling, unexpected image, executed very faithfully in its ultra-retro style, and combined with the film's title provokes a horrifying question in the viewer: where is the skin this person lives in? The Skin I Live In 2011-08-09T08:25:49Z

But it’s the spectre of a hologram that is more unsettling. Anthem of Freedom: How Whitney Houston Remade “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

As on his 2015 debut, which won that year’s Mercury Prize, Mr. Clementine uses his striking tenor voice to convey a vision of life on Earth that’s equal parts unsettling and lovely. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s like Henry Darger’s paintings: In terms of craft and technique, everything is off-kilter and crudely rendered, but the otherworldly world it imagines is unsettling and bafflingly strange enough to redeem its stylistic shortcomings. ‘The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac,’ by Sharma Shields 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Its aim is to disturb you, scare you, unsettle you. Elijah Wood on police boycotts and getting an impromptu massage from Nicolas Cage 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Preminger is drawn to the new freedoms but also unsettled by them: they create clutter, not clarity, a circle of endless possibility in which there is no satisfaction and from which there is no escape. Video: Late Preminger, the Un-Swinger 2011-05-13T23:13:01Z

She claims other parents said their kids were also “unsettled” by the nature of the exercise. Elf murder exercise leaves student 'traumatized,' mom claims: 'There was a crime scene in one of the classrooms' 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

What makes these pictures remarkable is that they raise the unsettling question that reverberates through “Invisible Man.” How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

A former Times staff writer, Wappler knows nothing unsettles an anxious suburbanite quite like a stranger who won’t explain why he’s hanging around the neighborhood. Suburban alienation meets aliens in Margaret Wappler's 'Neon Green' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

He didn’t mean to write a pandemic parable — he finished a draft of the book months before the coronavirus became rampant in the United States — but he agrees that the parallels are a little unsettling. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

The play, by James Ijames, is about a family that, like the royal family in Shakespeare’s story, centers on a lonely young college student unsettled by his mother’s decision to marry her dead husband’s brother. ‘Fat Ham,’ a Pulitzer-Winning Riff on ‘Hamlet,’ Is Broadway-Bound 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

“This unsettling train of thought and everything about this new land of Elkhorne caused me profound unease.” They Carried Memorials and Monuments on Their Backs 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Dark, moody, and unsettling, the Symphony No. 11 is full of moments of impending doom, terrifying eruptions of percussion “gunfire,” menacing crescendos, eerie calm, and rhythmic martial passages. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z

Though these narrative uncertainties evoke the unsettling pervasiveness of menace underpinning everyday life in the region, the effect is often frustrating. In the West Bank, Violence Begets More Violence 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The result was chilly reportage, unsettling yet compelling. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

It takes comedy — unsettling, bleak, never neatly-resolved comedy — to begin the work of flipping that script. The cathartic laughs of "Bombshell": Why dark comedy speaks to us in the #MeToo era 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

The images that accompany the recordings are movie clips, archive interviews and an unsettling, digitised 3D rendering of Brando’s head that he was measured for in the 1980s. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Husband and wife continue to reminisce as they wander through the unfamiliar streets, surprising each other by confessing a few secrets powerful enough to unsettle their resilient marriage. Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman

Only one guest is allowed in at a time, a concept that sets the unsettling tone. | 'Hotel Savoy': The Porter Will Kindly Show You to Your Doom 2010-10-06T21:59:00Z

The partners, who in conversation don’t finish each other’s sentences so much as escalate one another’s tangents, also shared a fascination with what they perceive as the unsettling underbelly of corn-pone culture. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

But man, there was always that pull inside me — I felt in a permanent unsettled state. Stephen McKinley Henderson, an August Wilson Stalwart 2010-06-08T22:21:00Z

And again: “Joyce allowed a complex imagination to shine its pale, unsettled light on what had already passed into shade so that he could coax it back into substance, courtesy of style.” Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Her prose is graceful and her book is full of vivid, unsettling detail. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s even more unsettling since it seems to be manufactured into such a nonissue that it is hardly, if all, discussed by our political leaders. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

If we were put through the full diagnostic test Maeve experiences here, perhaps the results would be equally unsettling. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Those in the field admit, however, that what is unsettling is how easily this work slipped through the system. A Dubious Old Master Unnerves the Art World 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

“Terrific strategy, honey,” I said, trying to hide how unsettled I felt. Modern Love: Bringing Home the Wrong Race 2011-06-03T20:16:10Z

Shot in the aftermath of the 2006 bombings, the daylong sojourn includes unsettling images of ravaged buildings and people going about their business, with an equal emphasis on the two "real" people in the car. 'I Want to See': a (real) unusual trip through war-torn Lebanon 2011-07-07T19:26:06Z

Whether that’s an image of human or divine love is left unsettled. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

It's a splendidly camp and subtly intellectual show that draws the audience in and leaves them doubled over with laughter and a little unsettled. Edinburgh fringe comedy round-up 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

It’s just that it would be a more unsettling evening if some of those arguments came from unexpected seats at the rounded- triangle of a jury table. Review | Government shutdown aside, Ford’s Theatre stays open and percolates with a multiethnic ‘Twelve Angry Men’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

How did you find the right way to balance the soothing versus the unsettling? Liz Phair's "Horror Stories" chronicles the real ghosts that haunt us 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The first season is a much rawer project, an unsettling farce about guilt and grief that is challenging to both TV conventions and the viewer. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The three hopefuls hailed from Syria, Egypt and the Palestinian territories - some of the world's most troubled and unsettled countries. Region's woes take centre stage as refugee becomes 'Arab Idol' 2013-06-23T10:33:09Z

Those are unsettling questions, but for even more discomfort, there is the brutal “Raze,” an American film from Josh Waller. Critic’s Notebook: Horror Films at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-17T22:10:07Z

Once he has her alone, he becomes doting and solicitous in very unsettling ways. Books of The Times: Chilling Abduction in Chevy Stevens?s ?Still Missing? 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z

Introverted and flinchy, Fraser is an unsettling character to enter the story through, with an awkward, defensive personality and hints of a troubled past. Review: ‘We Are Who We Are’ Captures Not-So-Innocents Abroad 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

But what’s most unsettling in his work isn’t its violence, but the seductive voices of those who perpetrate it. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The 18th century painting of sailors in a rowboat trying to rescue a man was as unsettling as it was stirring. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Or there is James Hogg’s strange, unsettling “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” in which the narrator is pursued around the city and the countryside by a terrifying avatar named Gil-Martin. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Marvel Entertainment's renowned heroes find themselves in an unfamiliar and unsettling position in the pages of the just-released "Age of Ultron" series: defeated, demoralized and desperate. Marvel goes dystopian with 'Age of Ultron' title 2013-03-06T07:15:09Z

Some of these works were made years after an inmate’s release, showing how the unsettling conditions of prison continued to shape their lives. Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

In its own way, because of its stark beauty, it is more unsettling than all of the worm-infested skulls and decaying corpses depicted in the etchings around it. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

“I was a huge fan. I binged it, intoxicated by the information and the unsettling ending. As a film-maker, I wanted to see a visual story that connected with this case.” From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fear 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

It was too vague and unsettling to tick the “social relevance” box, but it somehow encapsulated its time. Oscar-bait no more: why serious-issue dramas are floundering 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

His dark eyes practically drill holes into the rear-view mirror as he unsettles his blackmail victim, Stavros Milos, by spinning tales of wolves whose only mission is to devour whatever stands in their way. 'Fargo' Recap: Baring Teeth 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

This also works for unsettling your grown friends who might be wondering why an elf will be watching over them each night. Tech Tips To Keep Your Kid's Belief in Santa Alive 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Kumar is the voice of reason to many Indians; to see him so vulnerable is unsettling, though it makes his persistence all the more impressive. ‘While We Watched’ Review: A Lament and a Battle Cry 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

It’s an unsettling coda, similar to the ending of “Lazarus,” Harris’s celebrated 2018 work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

That’s emblematic; there’s a lot of “almost” in this dance, much of it engaging in its exactitude while unsettling in its incompletion. Review: In This Dance, Even the Nose Scratches Are Choreographed 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

“The Calling” aims to unsettle, but when a movie primarily leaves you wanting to learn more about the jurisdictional conflicts of Canadian law, it can’t properly be called a thriller.  ‘The Calling,’ a Murder Mystery From Jason Stone 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

In the opening moments of the unsettling animated feature “I Lost My Body,” a young man, Naoufel, lies on the ground covered in his own blood. ‘I Lost My Body’ Review: The Quest of a Severed Hand 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Their "truth" is revealed in so far as they engage you – and that they do so by unsettling, by disturbing. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z

The manifesto’s appearance Sept. 19 unsettled some media critics. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

In “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” a playfully arch and unsettling film based on Shirley Jackson’s 1962 novel, there’s nobody obvious to root for; everyone is dour, foolish, phony or deranged. ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Review: An Arch, Feminist Fairy Tale 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

He says it was not a great success — he was "too young, too confused and too unsettled" to play Shakespeare's fallen king. Anthony Hopkins overcomes his stage fright in 'The Dresser' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Recordings from survivors - played into a dark, chilly room - provide an unsettling conclusion to the tour. Titanic museum launched in Southampton, England 2012-04-03T11:58:13Z

It turns out that there’s something deeply unsettling about hobbling around with one bare foot. Go Down That Hall. You Know You Want To. 2010-10-21T14:56:00Z

The recipient feels unsettled, that is real, and is asking for more information so that her response can be an informed one. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Roses are red. The police are blue. Bouquet is creepy. The cops are, too. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

“That can also be unsettling for the audience, but only that brings us further.” Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

“The Infinite Blacktop” is droll, savage and healthily unsettling, even at moments when it verges on becoming an essay about its own construction. Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

It is unsettling in a story when characters we like and feel sympathy for start to echo the story’s villains. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Beginning in a 21st-century family swept by a recent tragedy, Wade's version has no rabbit hole but a more unsettling bunny point of entry: an overstuffed armchair. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

The unsettling idea, most explicit in Godot, that life is habit – that it is all just a series of motions devoid of meaning – never gets any easier. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z

“It always seemed to be retuning itself, finding limitless ways to unsettle you, and us.” A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means Maladaptation 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Kiernan’s direction, however, imbues the production with an unsettling feeling: The actresses mirror each other in ways that aren’t always exact replications but rather variations on themes. ‘The Same’ Review: Do You See What I See? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Six people died and 12 others were wounded in a rampage that unsettled lawmakers and brought pleas for civility during an era of heated partisan politics. Gabrielle Giffords bids an emotional farewell to Congress 2012-01-25T15:57:00Z

As was the case in Serbia under Milosevic, we are able to watch the role that comedy can play in unsettling a despot. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

This, too, she finds unsettling, as any diva no doubt would. An Opera That Springs From China but Laps Distant Shores 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

In many ways, it’s less about zombies than the grieving process and the unsettling effects when it’s interrupted. TV Review: The Returned 2013-10-30T09:30:40Z

A girl newly moved to a big house in Oregon discovers an unsettling alternate world through a hidden tunnel, one that provides — at first — advantages her customary world does not. A Deep Dive Into Laika’s Animated Worlds 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Would the story be more "unsettling" if Sanchez were not 24 but 34? Much ado about Mark Sanchez's teenage fling 2011-02-10T16:20:00Z

"The unsettling idea," Clegg explained, "most explicit in Godot, that life is habit – that it is all just a series of motions devoid of meaning – never gets any easier." Why do we sneer at Sarko for trying to improve himself? 2011-07-23T23:07:20Z

She begins with an unsettling moment of fear and drama that tells us very clearly we're not in Tara any more. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z

All those come together in the finale of the enormous Fourth, a layered collage of tunes and textures that, under Dudamel’s baton, feels as unsettled and tenuously harmonious as America itself. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

You want images that unsettle the audience, so if you put an actor in the wrong position in the frame it's going to feel uncomfortable. What is a cinematographer? 2011-02-25T09:15:27Z

“This is truly, truly upsetting and unsettling,” she said, “and this low-grade panic attack I’ve been living under just went to orange. I had such high hopes of him being out of office before 2020.” Laurie Metcalf, the First Lady of American Theater 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Nothing is off-limits here: They routinely engage in profanity-laced exchanges with students, and McBride’s character directs unsettling advances to one of his female colleagues. Does television have a teacher problem? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

How at once lovely and unsettling these paintings are; they rock the mind as well as the eye. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z

Mendelsohn steals every moment he's in with an unsettling mix of sleaze, grace and aggression. 'Lost River': Ryan Gosling's evocative, messy feature filmmaking debut 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The coming classical music season has an unsettled quality, a sense of a culture trying to orient itself in the midst of crisis. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s unsettling. I just don’t like people knowing our address.” As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

It was a little unsettling to see how exactly some of the students mimicked her mannerisms. Dance Review: Juilliard Students in ?New Dances? at Sharp Theater - Review 2011-12-16T22:41:32Z

The classical music industry’s reaction to the essay was spirited — and mixed, a sign of how unsettled the debate remains. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Gripping his score as if it were a Bible, Mulroy delivered the Evangelist's narration with the slightly unsettling sincerity of a committed preacher. St John Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T23:00:00Z

A “Data Abundance” chart that shows how many messages are sent and photos shared on various platforms each minute renders life’s new entwinement with unsettling precision. Move Over, Metaverse. Here’s Something Meaner. 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

In “Beloved,” the murdered baby’s spirit lingers among the living, an insistent, unsettling manifestation of the traumas of slavery. Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

At a low moment in the pilot, he argues for surrendering to the Mithraic, unsettling his militant partner. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Is TV’s Wildest Hallucination 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

With its garish color, canted angles and baroque violence, the first “Suspiria” is still adept at unsettling your equilibrium, which is fitting for a film that renders psychosis into visual style. Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The spread of an unsettling BSE-like disease occurs in the background, eventually becoming more and more intrusive. Debut author: Sam Byers 2013-04-21T14:00:01Z

I tend to find characters from a more rooted, real place to be more frightening and unsettling. Horror films equal happiness for actor Elijah Wood 2013-07-03T15:52:29Z

As if that wasn’t unsettling enough, Wolf tells me that she sees an angel with big black wings around me. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Eventually, Carter made the decision to push for a limited agreement between Israel and Egypt, leaving the fate of Jerusalem and the Palestinians unsettled. Lawrence Wright's new book vividly recalls 1978 Camp David summit 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

I would say the most unsettling one, the one that unmoors me — quiet as it’s kept — is what it means to have been unremarked upon. My Artist Ghost 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The story is unsettling to the core; I can’t stop thinking about it three days later, and I know that’s a sign of something special. Mad Men Character Study: Cleopatra Joan 2012-05-30T13:07:06Z

That question feeds into other, bigger questions that are posed, implicitly and explicitly, by “The Nether,” which is as smart as it is unsettling. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

If theology often sharpens curses to dogmatic points, great novels can transform them into open-ended questions, unsettling easy pieties about cause and effect, past and present, crime and punishment. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Robert Day Presented as part of a Royal and Derngate season celebrating Northampton, DC Moore's unsettling new play is unlikely to persuade first-time visitors to settle in the area. Town 2010-06-22T20:29:00Z

This is unsettling if you value the intellectual independence of public museums. Elaine de Kooning and Andreas Gursky in Close-Up in the Hamptons 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

PASADENA, Calif. — Fifty years ago next month, CBS broadcast “The Homosexuals,” an unsettling documentary about a subject “that people find disturbing,” as Mike Wallace, the anchor, put it. ‘When We Rise’: Stories Behind the Pain and Pride of Gay Rights 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The judges praised the novel for blending “the intellectual rigor of post-modern technique with a story that is timely, mesmerizing, and in the end, unsettling.” Susan Choi Wins National Book Award for ‘Trust Exercise’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Despite its tripping iambic step, evoking a country-dance in 3-4 time, the poem is unsettled. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z

She noted that there are evolutionary and biological reasons that sound sources coming from behind and above listeners can be unsettling or anxiety inducing. Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.) 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

The ordinariness of the world that Zumas imagines is perhaps the most unsettling aspect of “Red Clocks,” her second novel. Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Roughly put, the Jackson movement was to American politics in the 1820s and ’30s what rock ’n’ roll was to American culture in the 1950s and ’60s: young, raw, unsettling. Rocking the Vote, In the 1820s and Now 2010-10-22T23:03:00Z

On recent single Rock Bottom, Marshall uses his south London accent to croon in an unsettling fashion that has drawn comparisons with Edwyn Collins and Morrissey. This week's new live music 2012-10-12T23:05:42Z

Even those who do, though, might be unsettled; it’s sobering to contemplate how Dad or Grandpa gets along when no one else is around. Theater Review: ‘Henri Shnuffle,’ From the Sprat Theater Company 2013-05-24T20:14:59Z

So are each of the books on this list, which range from a much anticipated autobiography to an unsettling diary. 10 books to read in November 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

The interaction between piano and strings is also beautifully achieved, the pianist harrying the strings into the busier and more unsettled reaches of the middle section before easing off again. Melvyn Tan/Schubert Ensemble – review 2012-06-21T17:30:01Z

Feels pretty unsettling a couple decades down the road. "The Last Unicorn" at 40 is a poignant prophecy and reflection of today's eco-grief 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The apparent collapse of the merger leaves unsettled such issues as ownership of Time Warner Cable. Comcast will end bid for Time Warner Cable 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

As she later contemplates the children swept up in the border crisis, the orchestra is tense, dissonant and unsettling. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s making something into a civilized object that’s also kind of a distressing feeling potentially, or at least unsettling,” Ms. July said. What Will the Future Be Like? These Objects Help Us Imagine 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

In a paragraph or two, I’m going to describe how much I admired, with a few reservations, the show’s acrid, ambiguous, unsettling last sequence, which was, refreshingly, the opposite of fan service. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

It's frankly unsettling when they go for it with the dead. Newsweek digs up Princess Diana 2011-06-29T15:46:00Z

But, in a real sense, the movie’s most dominant character was Mr. Giger’s unsettling creature. H.R. Giger, artist who designed the creature in the 1979 film ‘Alien,’ dies at 74

You keep blinking at these pages, struggling to bring the story into some comforting focus, convinced you can look past its unsettling intimations. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

There are good moments, strong scenes and brief turns from familiar faces, including Donald Sutherland, a human jolt, sinister and avuncular; and Ruth Negga, as a longtime, unsettled Mars dweller. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Netflix's latest documentary feature "Our Father" is an intricate real-life horror tale about fertility fraud that manages to grow more unsettling by the minute. The 5 most horrifying moments from Netflix's harrowing fertility fraud documentary, "Our Father" 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

And yet, I’m still unsettled by the fact that taking care of my own children full-time and the prospect of continuing to do this indefinitely should be a trigger for a depressive episode. Is motherhood causing my depression? 2013-02-25T23:30:00Z

In the locker room alone after my workout, I feel unsettled. DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day 2012-04-04T22:26:55Z

The story comes to the viewer in complex chunks and unsettling layers, as Grace reluctantly recounts her dirt-poor immigrant childhood and the circumstances that led to her fate. Review | Fall TV 2017: 10 new shows worth checking out (and 5 you can totally skip) 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thorne seemed pleased, a lot less unsettled than when the lesson began. Bella Thorne, the Ex-Disney Star, Chillaxes With Yarn 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

He also received acclaim for Breaking the Waves, an unsettling film about a naive young woman - played by Britain's Emily Watson - whose devotion to her husband has shocking consequences. The man Cannes banned 2011-05-19T15:26:10Z

For instance, this week Film Forum unveils “System K,” a lively, cogent, unsettling documentary about the incredible art world roiling in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘System K’ Review: Art in the Streets of Desperation 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Dickey concludes that ghost stories attached to particular places often contain social anxieties and unsettled issues from the past. Haunted Houses Are About More Than Just Ghosts 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

For Glück, who has always had a complicated relationship to literary renown, winning the Nobel felt like a long shot, and she found herself unsettled by the news on Thursday. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

“But it’s unsettling in my films because it’s looked at on a human scale.” Film: Todd Solondz Talks About ?Wartime? 2010-07-16T23:34:00Z

Such is their unsettled state as they depart for Virginia to visit Mark’s parents. Hannah Pittard’s chilling road-trip novel: ‘Listen to Me’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

It’s not something you can ask out loud, but it is a thought, as the moments drag on, that can get unsettling. I Was Misinformed: Was It Fatal for You, Darling? 2014-03-20T21:32:38Z

Mr. Gooding captures the unsettling enigma of Mr. Simpson, the running back, actor and Hertz pitchman, grown strange in the hothouse of celebrity, lashing out — in grief? guilt? — as the investigation closes in on him. Review: ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson,’ Seen This Time in Double Vision 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The expectation that fathers are setting some sort of example for their daughters, especially one with romantic undertones, is unsettling to Tom Burns, 40, who lives outside Detroit. Father-Daughter Dance Gets a Makeover in ‘Modern Family’ Era 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

The book’s final lesson is the unsettling one that regardless of how many wise decisions get made by prudent leaders, good luck is crucial. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

She recognized that the everyday turned eerie was far more unsettling than any threat from the outer limits of experience. Review | Laura Lippman’s suspense novel ‘Dream Girl’ takes its cue from Stephen King 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

We are unsettled and given more to do. Rereading: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi 2011-01-04T14:26:37Z

He likes to repeat the ends of his sentences in a sotto voce growl, which is unsettling, and his best friend is his backpack, which is possibly more so. The Middle 2010-08-31T07:00:00Z

As much of the headway on the comic female loser has been made through the medium of television, it’s not surprising that that’s where Kraus’ still unsettling vision is being celebrated today. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The score is at once staggeringly original, more than a little trashy, and unsettling in its sexual and racial politics. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Both artists take banal, electronic clip art and render it curiously unsettling. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

This density of detail contributes to the film’s unsettling emotional intensity. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z

Which raises an unsettling question: Why are so many people celebrating the release of an admitted killer? Michael Alig, the Former King of the Club Kids, After Prison 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Others, including Maxey and Schwalbe, find themselves with bafflement sprawled on the shoals of upper middle age, beset with unsettling diagnoses: neuropathy, bum hips, hearing loss, even brain tumors. An Unlikely College Bromance That Has Lasted a Lifetime 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

And for me the effect is more unsettling and entertaining than that of another, blunter work, now on Broadway, by a better-known playwright on the same subject: David Mamet’s “Race.” Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z

But other changes were more unsettling and indicated a dangerous shift in attitudes over the months we were gone. May We Please Just Date Without Hate? 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Matters start to grow even more unsettling when who should turn up but Fausto Squattrinato, the flamboyant performance artist who flits through the pages of “The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.” Review | Is it a memoir? Is it a novel? A shadowy writer toys with our expectations 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

His images were themselves restless, seeking the chaotic, the startling, the moody, and the unsettling in his most personal work, the landscapes. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

But, far more unsettling, nine different death dates are listed. The narrative seductiveness of Zoran Zivkovic 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Caesarian section becomes an unsettling, repeated theme, and Keating's Wake Wood almost conjures up memories of Birnam Wood in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a killer who was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. Wake Wood ? review 2011-03-24T15:00:01Z

And the pace can be unsettling, even if prices rise in the short term. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

There Lucy and George, after their unsettling encounter in hotblooded Italy, meet again in “polite” society. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z

But one customer claims that the flight crew failed to explain the unsettling scene and instead “made a joke of it.” Delta plane fills with mist before takeoff, confuses passengers 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The opener — a black man talking on a cellphone on an empty suburban street — briskly sets the tone, unsettles the mood and announces Mr. Peele’s way with metaphor. Review: In ‘Get Out,’ Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (Bad Idea!) 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Given the events of 14 years later, it’s a very unsettling image — and perhaps the one piece on vintage Letterman which hasn’t been uncovered this week. David Letterman’s 1987 opening montage has an eerie World Trade Center cameo 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

It is one of several volcano pictures in the Allen collection, but it is perhaps the most ominous and unsettling. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The relationship between foreground and background stays unsettled, and everything seems to be on the edge of tottering over. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Placing ham on the same level as asbestos is outrageous nonsense and only serves to unsettle people. Wurst case scenario: Germany and Austria defend their sausages 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Dré, who, according to Q-Tip, recorded collaboratively, in the studio with Tribe, is featured on the album’s sixth track, “Kids . . . ” It’s the record’s most unsettling moment. Andre 3000: The most ominous instrument in hip-hop 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

This week, then, has brought particularly unsettling news. Festival violence: gentleness and decency will survive these vile attacks 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z

For while the threat of danger to herself has certainly evaporated, the responsibility of making life and death choices while waging war from an emotional distance begins to unsettle and unnerve her. Anne Hathaway’s Solo Turn as a Fighter Pilot in ‘Grounded’ at the Public Theater 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Instead, we sit in silence as the lights slowly rise and we blink, released from the unsettling hallucination that is Grzegorz Jarzyna's production. 4.48 Psychosis | Theatre review 2010-03-26T22:00:00Z

The sounds and rhythms of these poems are gorgeous, and Phillips, whose awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, isn’t afraid to ask unsettling questions: “What if all suffering is in fact for nothing?” Wise love poems by Mary Oliver, and two other new collections 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

The investigation that follows is riveting — twisting through the complex personalities and relationships inside the cult, all while dredging up Eden’s unsettling past. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The show has to balance a tricky combination of dark wit and unsettling atmosphere. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Other popular articles included spring weekend getaways, a different way to look at Paris and an essay on why we travel in unsettling times. In Transit Blog: The Top 10 of 2011 2012-01-05T19:04:13Z

A scene depicting characters trapped underground anxiously counting down their remaining hours of oxygen is even more unsettling. Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z

Are the coming Oscars an anomaly, or an unsettling sign of the times? Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

Though its overall vibe is still more reassuring than revolutionary, an exciting, unsettled energy runs through its exhibits, and I found it more difficult than usual to make this standout list of only 10 picks. An Elegant Return to Form at Independent Art Fair 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

In an interview earlier this month, Benjamin said she was not surprised by the reaction “given the lack of representation” in the theater, but the uproar was still unsettling. A Bollywood Favorite Is Remade for the Stage, Raising Eyebrows 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

The "unsettling parallels" in the three cases made headlines around the world. I’m not running scared: On Mollie Tibbetts and rejecting the fear of jogging alone 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Something Nobody is gutted in “Sound of My Voice,” a smart, effectively unsettling movie about the need to believe and the hard, cruel arts of persuasion. Movie Review: ?Sound of My Voice? Directed by Zal Batmanglij 2012-04-26T23:25:49Z

Those lines are part of an unsettling monologue, and they’re not the only compelling moments in a story that is by turns earnest and odd, tender and disturbing. | 'Dedalus Lounge': Anthony Rapp in Gary Duggan?s ?Dedalus Lounge? - Review 2012-01-15T23:27:40Z

That reality television has a rubbernecking fascination with failures of one sort or another is unsettling. ‘Botched’ and ‘Abby’s Studio Rescue’ Begin on Tuesday 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

At home, Caroline’s flimsy excuses for her absences fool no one, and in the movie’s most unsettling moment, Philippe calmly lets her know that he is aware of her affair. Movie Review: In ‘Bright Days Ahead,’ a 60-Year-Old Woman Takes a Lover 2014-04-24T23:35:20Z

Even if the playing seemed a bit unsettled, the four Wagner tubas provided a warmly baritonal cushion of sound below the horns. Salonen, CSO scale majestic heights of Bruckner symphony 2011-03-04T18:35:00Z

For such a noisy campaign, it was a quiet, gradual, unsettled ending. A Rudderless Night, as News Networks Struggle With a Surprise Victory 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Now to see him so devoid of humanity was both effective, understandable and unsettling. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

At the same time, I also understand that most Americans haven’t thought much about gender identity, and such out-of-the-box thinking is new and, to some, deeply unsettling. ‘Bathroom bills’ focus on the trans community but could affect another group more 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

It was, as a performance of this work must be, an unsettled and unsettling drama with a sublime, otherworldly resolution. Music Review: Alexei Lubimov at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-28T22:12:14Z

In the most unsettling scene, Martin summons Jeff to a family council at which Martin announces he is going to whip Maura with a belt for her transgressions: a punishment Jeff calls “medieval.” | 'Twelve Thirty': In States of Undress, Mental and Physical 2011-01-14T00:17:47Z

By far the strongest writing in the play, this soliloquy unsettles exactly as it should. | 'The Break of Noon': He?s Born-Again but Still Obnoxious 2010-11-23T05:16:00Z

In an unsettled season with a cascade of postponements and cancellations, lower ticket demand and fewer productions mean bargain prices and, if you’re a theater journalist like I am, a lot more free evenings. A Season to Savor a Cherished Musical Again and Again (and Again) 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The sheer unexpected nature of where my unconscious takes off to is unsettling in itself. My partner left me before lockdown and I can't get over him 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

The non-judgment puts the song in a gray area, which ends up making it even more unsettling. Perfume Genius: a local musician gaining global attention 2010-09-16T19:22:00Z

Back in America, after his unsettling sojourn in the desert, the young man finds himself drifting, unable to decide on a job or to hold together a relationship. Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Zero K’ captures the swelling fears of our age 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Madame Morbid offers a view of Brooklyn’s incredibly dense history, as well as an unsettling reminder of what an easily overlooked necropolis it is. It’s Ghost Tour Season 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

In the simplest terms, it was the sort of symmetry Kubrick used in “The Shining” to really kind of unsettle the audience. | Q&A: David Wilcox on Creating the TV Series ‘666 Park Avenue’ 2012-09-26T22:20:42Z

From the perspective of our weary, unsettled times the turbulent period depicted in “Hair,” with its violent clashes over the Vietnam War and a groaning generation gap, seems like a vastly sweeter and simpler era. | 'Hair': Back When Even War Seemed a Bit Less Scary 2011-07-14T02:01:04Z

“The unsettling feeling people get while looking at these is pretty much how I feel most of the time,” the proprietor wrote in an e-mail. How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

These are a few of the reasons Jonathan Majors’ legal drama has an unsettling familiarity about it. The Jonathan Majors case: the latest celebrity trial variant where women lose 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z

The players failed to envelop Kavakos in the Nocturne’s glimmering, unsettling darkness. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

At worst — at the moment with Cosby — it can be unsettling, dissonant, sickening. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

One observer in this unsettling, piercing film likens the company to a rubbish heap crawling with rats. ‘Bolshoi Babylon’: Ballet’s dark side meets Kremlin politics 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The opening scene sets the unsettling mood with a frontal shot of squat, barracklike buildings swathed in early morning fog. Review: In ‘Demon,’ Wedding Jitters From the Uninvited Dead 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s an unsettling sequence of events one can read equally as either proof of or counterpoint to the dictum “Believe All Women.” The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Looking at the crowd, cheering and baying for your blood, all around you, it was very unsettling. ArtsBeat: Damian Lewis on the Season Finale of ‘Homeland’ 2013-12-16T17:50:30Z

We see examples of the anti-conventional techniques the muralist developed: spraying, splattered, dripping paint — anything to make the results look unpolished and unsettling. The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

It's made all the more unsettling by the cool, eloquent way Michel makes his case. Reading group: A slap in the face from André Gide's The Immoralist 2012-07-12T16:48:17Z

But the context, in this case, casts shifting, unsettling light on such classic elements. Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

The dark and unsettling film “The Cleaners” spotlights an issue that merits more attention than it’s been given. These Movies Haunted Me at the Human Rights Watch Festival 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Dazzling and unsettling the residents with his arbitrary rules and pronouncements about how the world works, Abraham speaks in portentous aphorisms and exhibits a growing paranoia. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

A more appropriate and much more unsettling Mencken observation is that “the men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars”. 'You made this bed, America!' How House of Cards turned the tables on us 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

The rest is mainly a puzzle: beautifully shot, artfully composed, nevertheless unsettling and needlessly cruel. Review | ‘Euphoria’ is a depressing, dirty show about teenagers. Of course you’ll watch. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

He responded that he had enjoyed the evening, but since he was feeling a bit “unsettled” right now, he wanted to leave things for a little while. How do I survive the morning after having sex on my first online date? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The necromancy, and the necrophilia, that creep into “Last Stories” are unsettling, but here Mr. Vollmann seems alert, committed to his material. William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

The tapes, now in the National Archives, will be unsealed in 2027, and in the meantime Sam Pollard has assembled an engrossing, unsettling documentary. 10 Great Movies at the New York Film Festival You Can (Mostly) See Online 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

I think it’s important that Hades’s lines are simple and direct — and emotionally wrong, awkward and unnatural, but in a way that’s unsettling rather than comical. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

The effects of this mixture of words and painstaking handicraft are dense, contradictory, beguiling and unsettling. Two fine shows at Northwest African American Museum 2013-01-03T22:17:00Z

It is to be the beginning of a bizarre and unsettling duel between the two women. Cannes 2012: Mystery ? review 2012-05-18T12:17:33Z

When it had its premiere in 2018 in Milan, Mr. Kurtag’s first opera captured the paradox of its composer’s best music: a sense of unsettled serenity. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

But for the authors, even this is not unsettling enough. Best-selling thriller ‘Crow Girl’ dives deep — too deep — into darkness 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Then, overnight, humans disappear, and this unsettling survival story finds its groove. ‘In My Room’ Review: Alone Again, Unnaturally 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The birth pangs of labour, the call for herbs to hasten it, and that first horrific appearance of the newborn's black muzzle and buds of horns is as unsettling as any moment in opera. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z

It is a place to be enthralled and unsettled – not to receive easy answers. Why the Royal Albert Memorial Museum won the Art Fund prize 2012-06-20T09:12:01Z

Scott Taylor, a packaging engineer for Avon by day, has worked at Headless Horseman for 10 years, with nine of them spent playing a very unsettling clown. When ‘Boo!’ Is Only the Beginning 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

At what point do you start to become unsettled by his comments? She Wrote the History of ‘Jeopardy!’ Then She Changed It. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Soon, Mrs. Bunting is making excuses for her lodger’s unsettling behavior, even lying about his movements to Joe Chandler. Review | What if you saw something suspicious and did nothing? ‘The Lodger’ posits a consequence. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

An unsettled sense of national identity is like having a sore tooth, and Brexit is like taking a sledgehammer to the wrong side of your face. Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The missing information about Vasari’s family life is unsettling precisely because Vasari tended to view artists as if they made up a big Italian family. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

With two parts to go, there's plenty of time for ritual disappointment, but this opener seemed to bring something of the unsettling flavour of Twin Peaks to an unprepossessing corner of England. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z

From its unsettling opening to its breathtaking conclusion, "Anywhere" exemplifies Lippman's strengths: compassion, intense prose and deep empathy for the snares of ambiguous emotions. New in crime fiction: Laura Lippman's 'I'd Know You Anywhere,' a new Arkady Renko mystery, and local debuts by Jeanne Matthews and Peter Lewis 2010-08-10T17:26:00Z

Noises unsettle him, except in the woods, where he can identify them with precision. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Seeing these clues to a mystery, like bloodstains still fresh after 500 years, I felt unsettled, all over again. Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari draws me into a black hole 2010-09-23T14:33:00Z

Its future seems plausible because we live in its unsettling present. ‘The Peripheral’ Isn’t Really About the Future 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

It is also a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z

The movie stands as one of the great dramatic provocations of the era, an unsettling domestic web of manipulation, exploitation and decadence. This week's new film events 2013-03-23T06:00:10Z

Instead, it's oddly seamless, unsettling only on a subtle level. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z

For psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, the scary and unsettling aspects of fairy stories are vital. Fairytale films are in fashion – but can Hollywood deliver a happy ending? 2012-11-09T12:25:40Z

The slow second movement is wistful and idyllic yet subtly unsettled. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

What unsettles her critics seems to be her refusal to play the fragile, broken butterfly. Should Rihanna's dark revenge fantasy be banned? 2011-06-02T15:15:00Z

This sense of intrusion is both electrifying and unsettling; it can feel almost indecent. Michael Fassbender: ‘I was a bit of a worrywart. I’ve tried to work on that’ 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

But there is always some unsettling quality within the perfection that encourages the viewer to keep looking. A Photographer Who Makes You Ask, ‘What Has Happened Here?’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

“It was the most surreal thing. It was unsettling to think that still exists.” ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The scary work this time falls to Lauren Ambrose, playing a medical student who realizes that an unsettling number of patients at the hospital where she is studying end up in comas after routine procedures. The Week Ahead: Sept. 2 — 7 2012-09-02T07:40:05Z

Mr. Henry creates a rich tension between the Paper Boi persona and Alfred, sharp and self-aware, who’s unsettled by his minor celebrity. Review: In FX’s ‘Atlanta,’ a Princeton Dropout Works the Angles Back Home 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

She is the 8-year-old narrator of Nancy Tucker’s gripping, unsettling debut novel. A Young Murderer Grows Up, and Has a Child of Her Own 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

She is ably assisted by co-star Michael Cera, who throws off his Superbad silliness, to find a darkly unsettling but still very funny persona in Brink. Sundance 2013: Magic Magic – first look review 2013-01-25T09:35:00Z

The films are at their most unsettling when they draw their supernatural fears from India’s lived reality — mob violence, intergenerational conflicts and women’s suffering. ‘Ghost Stories’ Review: Bollywood Aims for Frights 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

But what was and remains truly unsettling is the violence of the white law enforcement toward the black hero, played by Duane Jones. In George Romero’s Zombie Films, the Living Were a Horror Show, Too 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Death and Oil" is a spare, fast-paced account of the Piper Alpha tragedy as riveting as it is unsettling. 'Death and Oil': the deadly cost of oil addiction 2011-10-12T21:59:09Z

It’s normal to be unsettled and concerned about the upending of life as we know it. Perspective | A psychologist’s science-based tips for emotional resilience during the coronavirus crisis 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

When playing a horror game — as opposed to watching a horror movie — you place yourself inside the unsettling action instead of at a remove with your popcorn. The Terror of Alien: Isolation and the Evil Within 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Being so obsessively scrutinized is strange, she confided, and more than a little unsettling. Carine Roitfeld?s Daughter Builds Her Own Empire 2011-12-14T22:12:09Z

At a time when the world has become defined by unsettling news and social distancing, how is a writer supposed to focus on telling a funny story about physical intimacy? Pondering ‘Sex Education’ When Touching Is Off-Limits 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Together, Kane and her subjects express the whirlwind of thoughts and feelings zooming around in their unsettled psyches. Seattle’s SOIL Gallery, run by local artists, speaks to the issues of our time 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The thought of its getting zapped by frost unsettles her, but she is glad to be pruning the fruit trees. George Washington would recognize today’s Mount Vernon garden, but not the weather 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Intiman Theatre, the main comedy venue, was a more crowded refuge — and a more unsettling one, especially when headliner Jeselnik took the stage. Bumbershoot Day 2: Trey McIntyre and cool surprises 2011-09-05T03:30:31Z

The best way to “unsettle” our current poisoned debate would be to reclaim that truth. The Mail: Letters from Our Readers 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Endowed with an aggressive and unsettling wit, her mutant chairs, tables and cabinets take bricolage to a new level, cobbling together found materials, objects large and small, and furniture scraps and innards. The Lower East Side as Petri Dish 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

More unsettling for Irene, who has this nervous habit of calling everything she likes "cute," is the news that the building is uninhabited. Astute 'Barcelona' at the Geffen Playhouse leaves audiences guessing 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

But just as unsettling was performing it into a void. Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo take on ‘Godot,’ hoping it’s a powerhouse online 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

It asks unsettling, important questions: about morality and society, the human mind and our black hearts, and the unbreakable bonds of familial love. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z

Sure, in comparison to the hurricane I unleashed on my subjects, we are experiencing a light breeze, but it's still a bit unsettling. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z

The filmmakers, Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, have obviously dug into the history of their subject, but they blow through a pocket chronology of dams in America with unsettling speed. Movie Review: ‘DamNation,’ a Documentary, Wants Nature Left Alone 2014-05-08T22:45:18Z

Darkness suffuses “How to Be Safe,” Tom McAllister’s heady and unsettling exploration of America’s gun violence epidemic. When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

For those who think demography is destiny, Klein has an answer, and it is an unsettling one. Why America’s Political Divisions Will Only Get Worse 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

But the most unsettling reference in “Klara and the Sun” concerns a process called “lifting.” Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Elliott, a Times reporter, chronicles the life of Dasani, a child living in New York’s shelter system, for eight years to tell an unsettling story of inequality in America. New in Paperback: ‘Invisible Child’ and ‘Libertie’ 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

The most unsettling part of the whole experience, for the captain, seems to be talking to the passengers on the P.A. The Fortifying Pleasures of YouTube Cockpit Videos 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

That introduces an unsettling segment about a New Jersey dog owner who fought draining legal battles in defense of his dogs after they were involved in several biting incidents. Critic’s Notebook: Dogs on TV, Beyond the Whispering 2012-05-29T18:19:29Z

“The Peripheral” is plotted as a traditional, even conservative thriller, and its fascinating, funny, unsettling ideas are slowly buried beneath a hackneyed plot and flimsy characterizations. William Gibson’s Man-Made Future 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

To improve dialogue, signal that you’re open to hearing unsettling news about your child. Teen suicides are on the rise. Here’s what parents can do to slow the trend. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

“You Are Special” ended up in a place more trite than unsettling. Critic’s Notebook: Trespassing on the Proving Ground of the Next Generation 2013-07-28T21:30:12Z

In addition to creating a definitive historical record of how the Watergate scandal unfolded, “The Nixon Defense” resolves some major unsettled questions. In ‘The Nixon Defense,’ John W. Dean Returns to Watergate 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

It’s both touching and unsettling to hear these tales of the practical limits of good intentions. Three Podcasts to Listen to in June 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Beyond the unsettling visuals, nobody warned me of the terrible pain of the sudden strain on my dissolvable stitches, caused by involuntary erections. 'I had to adjust to life with a different penis' – the pain and positives of an elective circumcision 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Craig Johnson's fascination with the legacy of suicide is fearlessly teased out in the strange and unsettling "The Skeleton Twins." Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

It's an unsettling picture in which everything seems to be on the verge of disappearing: the very condition of the night. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

Despite this projection of purity, O’Keeffe was not above using her carefully curated environment in unsettling ways. Georgia O’Keeffe, Stylist and Curator of Her Own Myth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

If horses, Mr. Strachan said, are “out there going completely nuts and they’re unsettled, then we like to lean in and find out what’s really deeply unsettled for you, because they don’t lie.” Can We Learn Anything From Horses? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Just the opposite: The cascading waves of unsettling encounters and unexplained phenomena imbue it with the thrilling energy of possibility. A Heroine Who’s Paid to Impersonate the Dead? Hey, It’s a Living. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

It spawned a plethora of audio shows that promised to help Americans process an unexpected and unsettling time. 8 Podcasts to Help Make Sense of Post-Trump America 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Indeed, something secret lies at the heart of Pietro’s and Teresa’s unsettling connection. Review | In Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trust,’ infidelity takes an unlikely form 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The author, who was born into a low caste before leaving for the United States, offers an unsettling view of how discrimination, segregation and prejudice are very much alive in contemporary India. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

When it comes to plays that inspire fear, unsettle the audience or display horrific intensity, only a handful come to mind. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

He was very courageous – it’s such an unsettling and stunning image when the bees emerge from his mouth. How we made Candyman: 'I got a $1,000 bonus for every bee sting' 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Which might be acceptable if "Stalker" were trying to explore the meaning, message or causes of such unsettling themes. In violent 'Stalker' on CBS, depravity seems to be the point 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

It was illuminating, but as I wandered around, a number of unsettling thoughts gripped me. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z

Black Emperor is a perfect, resigned and unsettling soundtrack to a drift through the dark post-apocalyptic void. Readers recommend: songs about the end of the world – results 2013-01-10T14:00:02Z

She’s drawn to what’s most unsettling about these fables: their disorienting logic, their blithe cruelty, their subtle encoding of race and gender. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

One of the reigning masters of horror fiction assembles a massive retrospective — 28 chilling, unsettling stories and novellas. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

To make things even more unsettling, it's sung so jauntily you wonder if you're listening to avant-garde barbershop. Readers recommend songs inspired by poetry: The results 2010-09-16T21:59:00Z

“We are unsettled, to the very roots of our being,” Lippmann wrote, in a passage Calderone quoted. “Sleep with your grandmother”: What passed for contraception advice for a teenage girl in the ’60s 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

“The picture that emerges is complicated, unsettling and intriguingly ambivalent,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, and invites questions that “can’t yet be answered by a movie.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ and ‘Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

There’s been increased attention on this in recent weeks, with the unsettling spread of the coronavirus around the world. How to Disinfect Your Space on an Airplane 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

In Porter’s winning new novel, “Lanny,” despair and unsettling entities are again on the menu, as are hard-won grace and beauty. A Rich, Twisted, Gloriously Cacophonous Novel of Village Life 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

On Netflix, a similar – if less outrageous – sense of unsettling weirdness reigns. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

This is a great B-side but you all have to get his record Love Is Real, which features just drum machines, synths and his low and unsettling voice intoning mantra-like lyrics. Audio advent calendar: PVT playlist 2010-12-22T16:09:54Z

Looking back, the interview feels like an "I Think You Should Leave" skit with Cruise, the Tim Robinson stand-in, taking emotions to the unsettling extreme until they cross social norms. Tom Cruise, our messy messiah of movies 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

There are lots of dire news stories generated by scientific studies, but one report from Europe last year was particularly unsettling. Shifting toward a greater understanding of bugs – the good and the bad 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

In an unsettling time for a theater with multiple challenges, that last title may prove ironic, or prophetic. Ethan McSweeny resigns as head of American Shakespeare Center amid financial peril and staff complaints 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

The idea of a producer like the Maple Guild, with its Quebecois investors and 400,000 taps, unsettled a traditionalist like Couture. Vermont’s maple syrup business is booming, thanks to technology and changing tastes 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

But what’s well-masked in his productions for others is, in his own music, brought to the fore — a fluency with texture, a willingness to unsettle. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

As I found myself unmoored by the sheer volume of unsettling news, I sought the refuge of reading. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Over the years, his style changes in seemingly dramatic ways that often disturb or unsettle his loyal fanbase. Historian Sean Wilentz on the Mysterious Bob Dylan 2010-10-21T08:40:00Z

Rosier filters all this into mysterious works that, at their best, have the unsettling pang of a half-remembered dream. Artist of the week: Mathilde Rosier 2011-08-18T14:20:07Z

It may be the most unsettling scene in either of these stark, sometimes gruesome studies. Television Review: David Morrissey Plays a Cop in ‘Thorne,’ on Encore 2012-06-11T22:31:34Z

Making matters more unsettled, the tonalities of the performers are all over the map. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

But now something more unsettling than a sudden, cinematic cut to black has stirred debate at the institution in Pleasantville, about 30 miles north of Manhattan. For a Revered Art House Cinema, a Season of Off Screen Turmoil 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Russell and Reggie Oliver, simply write beautifully about the eerie and unsettling; for proof, see Oliver’s recent, “Holidays from Hell.” These small presses can help you think big about summer reading 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Daniel Conway’s busy pile of a set suggesting an arcade, a courthouse and a construction site is as unsettling as the hectic script. 'Merchant of Venice' set in post-Civil War America? That's Aaron Posner's 'District Merchants' 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Watching and reading back this material was an unsettling experience for her. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z

A similar heap of past journalistic efforts, to say nothing of Jackson’s acquittal in a prolonged and hotly prosecuted 2005 molestation trial, accompanies the unsettling facts that “Leaving Neverland” presents so unflinchingly. Review | A devastating and credible ‘Leaving Neverland’ will turn you off Michael Jackson for good 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The diverse painting materials don’t always gel with one another, creating surfaces as discordant as the agitated lines and unsettled shapes they describe. Review: Michaela Eichwald at Overduin & Co. 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Both are often in motion — she feels unsettled, he seems disconnected — which allows Mungiu to introduce other characters and map out the sociopolitical terrain. ‘R.M.N.’ Review: A Bleak Diagnosis for Romania 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

It's beautifully made – the horror elements still unsettle, with hardly a drop of blood spilled – and Mark Wilkinson's soundtrack is rightly considered a classic. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-20T05:00:14Z

There’s a difference between how Woody and Lena played it, though, and I wonder if that difference is what ultimately unsettled some viewers of Girls. Is She Really Going Out With Him? 2013-02-12T19:33:59Z

But it also consolidates power in the executive branch and creates an unsettling scope of surveillance. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

To parody our willingness to waste so much time inside the algorithmic expression of Mark Zuckerberg’s psychosis requires an approach altogether more radical and unsettling. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

In Allen’s fashioning, Black experience is never subject to conventional parameters of time and space, and his magic realism, instead of being performatively exuberant or purposefully provocative, is plainly unsettling and disturbing. Black Experience, Past and Present, Made Haunting and Surreal 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

The brooding British Columbia landscape, with its undulating dark waters and encircling gloomy mountains, do a lot to set the unsettled mood. ‘Demonic’ Review: Making a Hash of a Genre Mash-Up 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

A freshly installed gray carpet covers the wood floor and has the chemical reek of glue, which adds to the unsettling sense of the gallery as a holding cell or place of confinement. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

The show also recognized that Gilbert was among many who felt unsettled by a new host delivering “Jeopardy!” clues. On Alex Trebek’s Final ‘Jeopardy!,’ a Last Introduction From a Friend 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Then he began a murky, unsettled, slow-rumbling prelude, only gradually recognizable as the songbook ballad “Body and Soul.” Music Review: Vijay Iyer, Alone and With Others, at Zankel Hall 2013-04-29T21:19:37Z

They just didn’t unsettle enough to give the political media the wild week they were ready for. Election Watch: Hell Fails to Break Loose in Michigan 2012-02-29T12:40:37Z

An elegiac second theme offers lyrical repose, though there’s a subtext of unsettling harmonies. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Blazes Out a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The E.U. referendum campaign was marked by social division, heightened animosity to immigrants, and a bold and unsettling nativist rhetoric. The state of the arts in Canada 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

His latest album, “Mayday,” an exploration of dance music’s unsettling underbelly, showcases an impressive roster of luminaries and producers, including Chilly Gonzales, Hudson Mohawke and even Paul Simon. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But with each reading, I’m a little more unsettled, in the best possible way.” New & Noteworthy 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

It assumes they don’t want to deal with the dissonance of being unsettled, yet fascinated, by the behavior of fictional characters. Olive Kitteridge and Why "Likability" Is for Saps 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Is that as liberating for you as it is unsettling to a first-timer? Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

It explores racial issues — old, new and forever unsettled — but to define a novel this sweeping by those terms alone seems reductionist. Review | In ‘The Gone Dead,’ a woman’s questions about her father’s death reveal a town’s racist history 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

These two African American men — both in their mid-40s, both on their second novel — bounce off the page with the sharpest, wittiest, most unsettling cultural criticism I’ve read in years. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

But by then her focus on Trump’s “kindness” felt unsettling. Watching the Republican Convention 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Bad Man” is an atmospheric and unsettling novel, but not a perfect one. Review | Dathan Auerbach got his start as a horror writer on Reddit. Now he’s back with ‘Bad Man.’ 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

So, there is a sense there’s something unsettled in the air, the shifting of borders, the obsession with nation over universal good. Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ‘1917’ in one long take 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

It isn’t the process of getting pregnant, with its cycles of raised and dashed hopes, or the term “sperm donor”, with its unsettling connotations. Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

The story’s unsettled nature is proof enough that all of this still needs time to ferment before anyone tries to make it into captivating material for TV and film. Review | Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ is like replaying a nightmare while we’re still having it 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Taughtly ethereal, with the strings hovering in the vicinity of the same views notes, it created an unsettling sense of mood and place. Solaris - review 2013-03-16T03:04:41Z

There are some very good scenes in the movie’s second half; even so, it’s striking that the most unsettling aspect of “La Llorona” is that history doesn’t simply shape the movie. ‘La Llorona’ Review: The General in His Horrific Labyrinth 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

But her images are too literal to unsettle habitual expectations deeply. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z

But for the audience, they prove unsettling viewing, provoking a sense of complicity. Still life: The artist who tried to capture death 2013-05-29T16:48:31Z

Visually and sonically hypnotic, it’s an intensely sensory blend of internal monologue and unsettling mystery, draped over a thin skeleton of plot approached so obliquely that it seems almost inconsequential. ‘Upstream Color’: Arresting visuals flow in puzzling sci-fi romance 2013-04-11T20:38:36Z

Perloff’s production is beautifully contained, though the blocking of the action is as unsettled as the text. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Shocked and unsettled, she considered a number of possible courses of action and decided, at least at first, to do nothing. Weekend Reading: Foie Gras and Farming, a False Tale of the Afterlife, and More 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

A hard-core eccentric embodied by Bill Camp, he is at his most comically unsettling when he speaks of “the smell of corpses,” and takes a long, savoring sniff. Battered but Unbowed: How Beckett Speaks to a New Era 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

But it felt a bit unsettling to be reveling in these tunes, lively or lamenting, without some acknowledgment that things are rough in Istanbul at the moment. Critic’s Notebook: A Boston Biennial Celebrates the Baroque Tradition 2013-06-18T21:16:06Z

And so they should be: for it is epiphany that we are witnessing here, the moment that divine power, in all of its unsettling strangeness, makes itself manifest. The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans 2013-03-23T16:49:06Z

The idea that we still observe a ritual tied to sacrifice involving our newborn sons is even more unsettling. Motherlode Blog: I Enjoyed My Son’s Bris 2013-05-31T15:17:42Z

“Tron Song,” an ode to Thundercat’s pet cat, lost none of its unsettling, haunting elements when performed in a cavernous space. Thundercat attracts crowd in hot warehouse for blissfully weird show 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Larraín, who is Chilean, has made a handful of tough, unsettling films about life in his country under a military dictatorship determined to control the thought and behavior of its subjects. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Broadchurch”: The disaster of “Gracepoint” shouldn’t put viewers off the second season of the original marvelous and unsettling British murder mystery. TV Picks: 'Empire,' 'Broadchurch,' 'The Jinx' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

But this unsettling film is about the planting and nurturing of a mind-set, one grounded in hostility and fear. Review: ‘Do Not Resist,’ or When a Police Force Becomes an Army 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The movie’s main problem is that the actual story of the Suicide Forest is more unsettling than this fictional one. Review: ‘The Forest’ Centers on the Search for a Twin at a Suicide Site in Japan 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

"It's incredibly brutal to watch at times and unsettling, and I am thrilled that even for lovers of the book, it still shocks." Not just a thriller, 'Girl on the Train' plumbs women's struggles 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Most unsettling of all is a portrait by a colleague in which Muybridge hunches, scowling with paranoia, at the base of a patriarchal sequoia, apparently ready to wriggle into a cavity between its roots. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

Roomful of Teeth is an octet of singers trained in unusual vocal techniques from around the world, and the composers who write for the group typically draw on those effects in subtly unsettling ways. Review: Roomful of Teeth Duels With Sounds of the Financial District 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

It’s unsettling to see them cut open to reveal their sweet insides. This Pickle Is a Cake 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Passing a tenth of a century can be an unsettling time for the hosts of TV talent contests. MasterChef final 2014: Ferran Adrià episode sees series on top form 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Kids had an outsider spirit, an ambition to unsettle the audience and not be, even in success, too easily palatable. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

The series delves into Lynchian surrealism and opts for unsettling anguish over jump cuts. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Queer Eye’ 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Far from being made up out of whole cloth, they are quite an accurate representation of an unsettling reality — despite what Trump would have us believe. Perspective | Trump cries ‘fake!’ about media reports of White House chaos. But they keep getting proven right. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

A young man, a strange woman and an unsettled death that may be a murder — “My Cousin Rachel” vibrates with possibility. Review: In ‘My Cousin Rachel,’ It’s Kiss or Be Killed 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ellis, playing bass clarinet, blended with Ms. Jensen in a stealthy crawl; the song felt unsettled, but purposely so. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

But something about the wary calm in the restaurant afterward unsettled me. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home

In any event, as he recently wrote in an open letter to those unsettled by the marketing images for this production, “A complicated and contradictory response is an appropriate one.” Donald Byrd’s ‘Minstrel Show’ tackles touchy racial history 2014-02-17T01:42:55Z

This quandary is all the more unsettling because its object happens to be the body of a pregnant woman. In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

This open-ended approach can be frustrating at times, like a brew of metaphysical musings, Dollar Store Antonioni and barren “Slackers,” but the film does have an unsettling vibe under its sunny exterior. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Kayiza dwells on scenes that a feature might relegate to a montage, the better to sit with feeling unsettled and tired and scattered, but pushing ahead to another future. ‘2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Review: Small Bites 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Foxcatcher” is a creepy movie, as unsettling and unresolved as the true crime at its center. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more

When someone dies in a sitcom, on the other hand, it’s not just sad on a personal level; it’s existentially unsettling. All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry: Family Guy and When Sitcoms Kill 2013-11-26T15:14:22Z

“The left-hand side of James’s face had collapsed, a balloon with the air gone out of it, a melted waxwork,” giving the unsettling “impression of two different faces, two different people, welded savagely together.” In This Novel, a Man’s Face Becomes Distorted. His Sanity Follows. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

The woman’s head is outside the frame, so it’s easy to focus on this bit of skin, to let your imagination run wild, fired up by the image’s unsettling power, its allure and its menace. ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

As in Barnhill’s tale, the ending is an unsettled one: a dragon left behind for another fool to find. Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

However, there is something unsettling about the whole enterprise of basing what is essentially a horror movie on a hostage situation in Iraq. 2010-01-29T07:06:00Z

He is seeing more of himself and the world than he has seen in all the time leading up to this moment, and it’s exciting as much as it’s unsettling. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

A weird little chapter about Richard Nixon in Opryland, for instance, is darkly comic and unsettling, while hinting at some chilling sickness in our national spirit. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“And I don’t know what all they saw, what they got from that. Is it the fear alone they’re enjoying? It’s just so unsettling to not know.” Family claims stranger hacked baby monitor to watch 3-year-old daughter, tell her 'I love you' 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

His Violin Concerto is clever but unsettled, overwhelmed by what an orchestra can do – not ready to accept that one piece can't capture it all. BBCSSO/Matthais Pintscher ? review 2011-02-07T18:13:25Z

These are physically obstreperous works, shot through with unsettling emotions. Art in Review: ANNE RYAN: ?The Black-Line Woodcut, 1945-48? 2011-11-03T21:39:00Z

Lauren Weedman, right, tells it like she sees it once again, in the latest installment of her unsparing, hilarious and unsettling monologue, ripped from the pages of her own quirky life. Performers single-handedly take the stage in Seattle Solo Performance Festival 2011-04-07T19:31:04Z

At last, if posthumously, she’s getting the full New York treatment, with “Carol Rama: Antibodies,” a large and illuminating tour of 60 years of Rama’s unsettling art, at the New Museum. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

It’s the unsettling way in which Goya complicates 18th-century ideas about childhood. Overlooked Works That Deserve Another Glance 2010-12-30T23:21:19Z

Orwell despised the book because of what he viewed as its fascistic reverence for sexual power, but the movie substitutes something more topical and subversive in those unsettled postwar years: an erotic dream of democracy. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z

One of the most arresting parts of this unsettling series is its opening credits, a sort of warped Sistine Chapel sequence depicting modern-day figures crying helplessly to the heavens. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

But this is still an intelligent and profoundly unsettling novel. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-04-06T11:00:01Z

I was amazed, and a bit unsettled, by how much his speaking voice sounded like song. At the Kitchen’s Spring Gala, John Cale and Lawrence Weiner Inspire and Provoke 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

When he writes that one of the icebound scientists was “mesmerized by its character; its power; its spectacular unsettling sounds — sometimes cracking like gunfire, sometimes shrieking as it split and cleaved,” we understand the fascination. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The idea is not an unusual one in Khmer communities, but it unsettles Lamb; she, like her brother, is not religious, but at the same time, she said, “I’m kind of haunted by it.” A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning. 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

My experience on network TV is that it gets very dispersed, and that’s very unsettling. Stars and Creators of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Talk Shop 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

We were looking for something that was unsettling because of the banality of the transmission. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z

In her first novel, “My Old Sweetheart,” published in 1982, she assigned to a character named Lily many of the circumstances that made her the unsettling siren of a writer she is. From Hollywood ‘Pretty Girl’ to Empowered Novelist 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mandel’s novel “Station Eleven,” which imagined the artistic and societal consequences of a deadly pandemic, took on an unsettling relevance over the past two years. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Then she wakes from this nightmare, unsettled by the thoughts rattling in her subconscious. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

What keeps Mr. Wallace’s work from falling into preachiness is its canny and unsettling blend of installation, video, documentary, fiction and advertising — what feels like foreboding one moment becomes promotional the next. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

At the end, they burst into bloom, and what was unsettling turned into a moment of grace. Who Needs Big Brands When You Have Ella Emhoff, Bowen Yang and an Actual Beating Heart? 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Far from belittling the trauma, it’s the most realistic part of the movie, especially as it’s preceded by one banal but increasingly unsettling dialogue exchange that will give many women chills of recognition. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The inscriptions give birth and death dates, and unsettling warnings like “Think on Death” and “Prepare to Follow.” Antiques: Mourning Jewelry, Pocket Watches, Jacob A. Holzer Sculpture 2012-09-21T05:20:20Z

The American War he creates is an unsettling amalgam of 19th-century hatred and 21st-century technology: the War Between the States amplified by the wonders of modern engagement to claim tens of millions of victims. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

That makes their self-aware approach to repurposing old friends from the show incredibly topical – unsettling, even. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Can retail therapy soothe a gardener unsettled by the crazy spring? Perspective | Down the garden path: A new show tracks America’s love affair with plants 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

A generous friend would later point out to me how unsettling this was. Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Window vistas on the world are beautiful but not powerfully unsettling or overwhelming. Hanging 104 Floors Above Chicago, There?s No Time for Vertigo 2011-05-30T12:00:00Z

Cars change and the lengths of women’s skirts shift, unsettling your sense of time. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

And once you start editing, any vestiges of objectivity vanish, as evidenced by an unsettling shock cut in “Bestiaire” to a taxidermy workshop filled with the glassy-eyed dead. Movie Review: ‘Bestiaire’ Is on Trail of Objectivity in an Unnatural Home 2012-10-18T23:56:20Z

As a children’s book author, Ms. Aaron wrote and illustrated the series “When I’m ... ,” which addresses unsettling emotions children may experience. Jane Aaron, Filmmaker Whose Animation Sprouted on ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 67 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

“It is not wealth to have more than others,” this 38-year-old singer-songwriter intones on “It,” a serene and unsettling ballad from his new album, “Mangy Love.” Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

There is also something deeper here that unsettles me as a psychologist focused on parenting and as a parent myself. Motherlode Blog: Don’t Make Your Children the Exception to Every Rule 2013-07-07T12:40:38Z

But the landscape unsettles the eye, as if “Multiple Maniacs” had left Baltimore for Pluto. ‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

If you think about it, this feeling of being unsettled is a truer reflection of reality than the feeling that everything is nailed down. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z

He brought up the unsettling image of mass murderer Dylann Roof posing on Facebook with a Rhodesian flag as symbol of white nationalism. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

This book’s most unsettling chapter takes its name from one of the great rock bands in this country: Drive-By Truckers. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z

This is what really unsettles me about the Black Man’s Fan Club. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

A former student with a shady back story as a prisoner in North Korea, he looms over the narrative, peppering the shifting, unsettling timeline of the love story. When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Both seem plausible, but what happens is more unsettling. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

His best-known images are unsettling portraits of people on the fringes of society, taken in interior spaces, the walls of which Ballen has covered with primitive drawings. Roger Ballen Revisits His Never-Before-Published Woodstock Photos 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

As "Late Night" host Seth Meyers sums it up, that is great but also unsettling. What Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon's firings say about the impact of episodically dominant figures 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The dispute, set out in a court filing last December, remains unsettled. Suit: Rep. Walsh owes $117K in child support 2011-07-28T16:38:00Z

It was unsettling but theoretically harmless – as much as King knew that readers would be scared of them, he also knew that we were fascinated, amused, entertained. Fears of a clown: why the original It will always be the best 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The 58th edition of North America’s longest-running international art show is a deluge of art and information that left me with an urgent, unsettled question: Who, or what, are shows like this for? A Deluge of Art at the Carnegie International 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Soon, however, the frequency and amorousness of her emails became unsettling – Lasdun was happily married – and he began to try to detach himself from the correspondence. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z

“War Machine” is a weird, unsettled movie for a weird, unsettled time. Review | Brad Pitt finds his inner George C. Scott — two of them, in fact — in ‘War Machine’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Between those acknowledgments and Dominique Fishback's best actress nomination for her unsettling performance in the limited series "Swarm," we have signs that Emmy voters are appreciating unconventional artistry. Emmys Politics 101: Why HBO dominates, "Dragon" overpowers "Rings" and some actors make history 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

But if the vague and unsettled feeling it leaves you with is intentional, the sense that the piece needs to go deeper is not. ‘After the War,’ about an Israeli musician, shows there’s no country for bold men 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Their collaboration resulted in “The Hand That Feeds You,” a twisty, unsettling thriller that comes out on Tuesday and bears little resemblance to either of their individual literary styles. ‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ a Thriller Written as an Act of Love for Its Originator 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Still more unsettling are the brief appearances by Ms. Green, who at one point is tied to the shrine by a garland of flowers. Dance Review: Natalie Green at the Chocolate Factory 2013-05-31T21:30:23Z

The series isn’t just too unsettling; it’s too visually and emotionally rich. Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing more unsettling than finding something unexpected in a bathroom. Acai shop's oddly-placed bathroom mirror sparks fears on TikTok that bathroom-goers are being spied on 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

It’s amazing how unsettling it can be just watching someone with a lantern wandering around in the pitch black night. How post-horror movies are taking over cinema 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Yet in terms of performance, the tension is an artistic construct, a mood that unsettles intentionally. New York City Ballet sparkles and blurs in opening program 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

This plot point for a reality television show is unsettling to me, for obvious reasons. The Bachelorette Finale Is Terrifying If You Know Nothing About the Show 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Take Me Out” explores what happens when a Major League Baseball superstar comes out as gay, tracing the way it unsettles the team and unleashes toxic prejudices. Jesse Tyler Ferguson pivots to baseball in a Broadway play 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

But the backlash and criticism was immediate: The actor John Wayne was so unsettled that a show producer, Marty Pasetta, said security guards had to restrain him so that he would not storm the stage. Sacheen Littlefeather, Activist Who Rejected Brando’s Oscar, Dies at 75 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

But how unsettling it is to realize that, under many circumstances, a child must be diagnosed with a speech, behavioral, or sensory impairment to receive free early education. Private preschool is a racket 2013-09-05T13:50:00Z

Throughout the collection, Mr. Millhauser veers into the realm of fantasy with unsettling and mordantly funny results. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

And we are vouchsafed a fleeting, unsettling image that explains why, of a white man with a rifle trained on the back of the music-playing father. Review: Arthur Miller’s Dying ‘Salesman’ Is Reborn in London 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

“I’m excited to work with you, Jeanie King,” says her therapist, and the scenes between them are electric and unsettling: Is Jeanie being healed or exploited for her lurid background? A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

In response to this unsettling trend, there have been more discussions about antisemitism and how to combat it. Discussions about antisemitism need to include gender and sexuality 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the intimacy of this theater, an incubator of previous acclaimed Sondheim revivals, those deadly lollipops are brandished with an aggressiveness that’s unsettling. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

And once you start editing, any vestiges of objectivity vanish, as evidenced by an unsettling cut in "Bestiaire" to a taxidermy workshop filled with the glassy-eyed dead. 'Bestiaire': Meditation on captive animals both beautiful, repellent 2012-11-15T21:33:08Z

There are moments in “The Other Side” that inspire gratitude for confronting viewers with the most unsettling truths of an American subculture largely kept out of view. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

The album has a suitably dreamy atmosphere: those dreams that unsettle without being nightmares. New band of the day (Joe McKee No 1,535) 2013-06-18T15:41:50Z

Those creepy postcards keep coming, and then the postcards become vaguely threatening DVDs, and then the DVDs get replaced by something even more unsettling. John Lanchester's 'Capital': Lost in London on a not-so-easy street 2012-06-27T20:25:04Z

But whether Leo desires to escape is an unsettled question. ‘Sauvage / Wild’ Review: A French Hustler Gets Too Close to His Work 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

She recounts one nail-biter of a story in which an unsettling vibe cut a meeting with a former abortionist short, as both parties wordlessly parted at different, randomly selected train stops. One Child Nation: looking back at China's horrifying policy 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z