| 单词 | disconcert |
| 例句 | For a moment the world swirled in a disconcerting kaleidoscope of color, but when it settled, Holly was no longer the defeated elf she had been. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “No—I—of course not,” said Harry, disconcerted by this sudden change of subject. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I walked out onto the street feeling extremely disconcerted, leaning on my chauffeur’s arm. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, that’s a wonderful idea! But just send out weekly announcements postponing the parades. Don’t even bother to schedule them. That would be infinitely more disconcerting.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The disconcerting lessons of heliocentrism, of evolutionary theory, and of relativity and quantum theory are frequently cited cases in point. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z How disconcerting it is to look in a mirror and see the same face, unchanged for years. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Used to images sharp as reality, Harry was disconcerted by the change. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Though they are home they are disconcerted by the space, by the uncompromising silence that surrounds them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even more disconcerting was the change in how customers responded to Ned himself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Though baffled, I was not a bit disconcerted. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He flopped comfortably into the chair which had been disconcerting his father. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As we clear the plates, my mother looks as dazed and disconcerted as she always does, only more so because she doesn’t have the first clue what to do with my sisters and me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z To faze is to disconcert or embarrass; it comes from a Middle English word, fesen, which meant “drive away” or “put to flight.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When she felt the stone pressing coldly against her skin, she was disconcerted by the sense of relief that flooded through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Many patrons enjoy the experience immensely, while others find it disconcerting and prefer to wear their own faces. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Clara had to ask his name every time she saw him and was always disconcerted to find him in his silk robe in the bathroom of her house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, Dewey found the self-consciously casual conversation of his fellow witnesses, as they stood awaiting the start of what one witness termed “the festivities,” disconcerting. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought disconcerted her, and she hurriedly laced up her well-worn boots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at each other disconcertedly, feeling for the first time in their lives that they were practically strangers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the disconcerting sense that if he looked through the glass he would see himself running drills in the training rooms, seated at the long table in the dining hall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Realizing what I wished, he flipped his palm up in one of those blindingly fast, disconcerting movements of his. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Michael held off the tears, curious, but quite ready to continue in case Dads further revelation was as disconcerting as the original. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it's a bit disconcerting to hear howling winds when you're used to utter silence. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was kind of disconcerting, because Poseidon listened so intently. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Though they were separated by several feet, she was disconcerted by the intensity of his gaze; she felt as if he could pull her open from afar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a little disconcerted then by what eventually greeted my eyes. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z These chaotic, tormented scenes were a thousand times more disconcerting than the scandalous mummies she had expected to find. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence and the intimacy of the room disconcerts him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the unicorns spoke to her, and that was a little disconcerting. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon had become a lemur, and was gazing at him with disconcerting wide eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, they would shake their heads and call themselves prejudiced, but at the time they were profoundly disconcerted. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Our meeting — at a safe house in town — was disconcerting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, in the reflection of the now broken mirror, they saw the Uncle’s face spread into a wide, disconcerting smile before he grabbed her shoulder. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Alaska looked at me with disconcerting frequency when she drove, particularly since we were winding through a narrow, hilly highway south of school, headed to the aforementioned Coosa Liquors. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Sarai had a new, disconcerting awareness of herself, as though she’d never realized how many moving parts she had, all to be coordinated with some semblance of grace. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The familiarity of his gesture disconcerted the girl, who was paralyzed for a second but quickly drew back, trying to struggle free. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary, though pretending not to hear, was somewhat disconcerted; and Elizabeth, sorry for her, and sorry for her father’s speech, was afraid her anxiety had done no good. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The President was slightly disconcerted: Mrs. Coulter’s eyes were heavy with sleep, and she could hardly see in the glare from the corridor light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Still, though, even when they were dull I enjoyed the disconcerting combination of French life and English narration. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z No wonder the fellow had seemed so disconcerted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The most disconcerting image was the look of genuine affection he occasionally showed her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If he persisted in talking of such subjects, she had a disconcerting habit of falling asleep. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She had a hard face and blinked so rarely that Olanna was disconcerted by her wide-eyed stare the first time they spoke. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d opened windows before to find himself above the ground of another world, so he shouldn’t have been surprised to find he was underground for a change, but it was disconcerting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I have no idea where we are, and the fact that so much of Southern California looks alike is disconcerting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Adina had the disconcerting feeling that the ground beneath her was not as solid as she imagined. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Con had the disconcerting feeling that the man might pry open his mouth and examine his teeth, but then the rider only asked, “Who are your companions?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The effect was disconcerting, dizzying; her too-tight beaded slippers seemed to float in midair. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was somehow more disconcerting than if the haint had been solid. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Most people find it disconcerting being woken in the middle of the night and dragged off for questioning, but I simply could not take it seriously. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He found the man’s lack of insignia disconcerting and was not even sure he had to say ‘sir.’ Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I... I don’t follow you,” Chronicler said, disconcerted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was of a much higher rank than Baruch or Balthamos, and visible by a shimmering, disconcerting light that seemed to come from somewhere else. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Renly had been a boy of eight when Robert won the throne, but he had grown into a man so like his brother that Ned found it disconcerting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As I stumbled down the stairs, I had the disconcerting impression that I was entering the bowels of the earth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There was a disconcerting gleam in his eye, as if he wanted to have a bite of her rather than the biscuit. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The new injury endowed the big oaf with a disconcerting lisp. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z David presses his thumb into his palm and massages his hand, clearly disconcerted by all the interruptions. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And he gave it back to Will, with a disconcerting, unreadable long stare out of his deep black eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I was disconcerted by the cells with lights still on and inmates standing up, because they were invariably backlit and I couldn’t see their faces or what their hands were doing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They all turn to look at RON, he’s briefly disconcerted but batters on. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Finally, he thought that the two cameras hidden in burlap-covered towers might be distracting when he began to play, and the towers themselves, looming over the stage like medieval battering rams, were disconcerting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps most disconcerting was when Grandpa was inviting them down to breakfast. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Frodo said nothing: the shrewd guesses of the farmer were rather disconcerting. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Because quantifiers like both and either have a disconcerting habit of floating around the sentence, the phrases that come after them may end up nonparallel, and that grates on the ear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason, Mike’s puppy dog behavior and Eric’s apparent rivalry with him were disconcerting. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It was disconcerting when Pet dipped in and out of her head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The effect was so disconcerting that when he held out one of those enormous hands, she slapped it away. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Everything looked familiar, which was disconcerting until I realized I had seen all this stuff before in different family portraits scattered throughout the whole county, the same props used over and over again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As Chaplin, the Harvard historian, has argued, New England Indians were indeed disconcerted by their first experiences with European guns: the explosion and smoke, the lack of a visible projectile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He also became prone to sudden fits of hilarious laughter over nothing, which, while disconcerting, nevertheless made him entertaining company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Hearing you lie outright is a bit disconcerting.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This situation was deeply disconcerting to me, for such a scandal only served to divide the movement at a time when unity was essential. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Debussy’s 'Gardens in the rain’, though, was composed in 1903, a good thirty years after the Impressionist painters had first begun exhibiting their works to a disconcerted Parisian public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The others, disconcerted, bit their lips at the ring in the young man’s voice. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, everyone had decided that there was something endearing about Petey, a thought that was a little disconcerting. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Other images in the two-screen video include silhouette figures standing near the Lincoln Memorial, saturated and moody visions of other Washington landmarks, and disconcerting scenes of political violence. Review | Phillips Collection is turning 100 and showing what future of classic museums can be 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z So it’s a little disconcerting to realize, early on, that the new “Taken” is set in the present. Review: ‘Taken,’ a Prequel, Offers the Slaughter Before the Slaughter 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Individually, the impact of these various crises ranged from disconcerting to debilitating to horrifying. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Writers from the old imperial periphery have introduced western audiences to disconcerting facts. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z Mr. Beale is never better than in his scenes with Mr. Scarborough, as the Fool teases Lear into disconcerted flashes of self-awareness. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z No matter the setting, Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata presents, with much the same immediacy, the same disconcerting shifts of mood. Review: For Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer,’ a Chance to Compare and Contrast 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Flanagan also raised some more carefully argued criticisms of Maynard’s work, pointing out that the author can underestimate the disconcerting effects her revelations have on readers. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But I found the situation disconcerting, and it still bothers me a year later. My business partner is too nutty 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z Yet more disconcerting than his reaction was the sheet of paper taped to his window. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z What he learned was even more disconcerting than the frightening scenario he was reading about in the news. From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z For anyone accustomed to getting laughs, silence from a muted audience is disconcerting, and it might help to see smiles. Perspective | Miss Manners: Keep camera on — but only if you can look interested 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z And each, in its way, is exquisite and disconcerting. New & Noteworthy, From Dorothy Strachey to Musical Gender Bending 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “Citizen” begins quietly, with descriptions of how encounters between people of different races can turn hurtful or puzzling or disconcerting in the space of a few words. Claudia Rankine on ‘Citizen’ and Racial Politics 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The way Mr. Morris uses a supply of steps, gestures and positions to fit specific words is always among the most disconcerting features of his art. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z Here the author, public speaker and white woman is on Fumudoh's glossy rose-saturated turf, where the performer goes by Ziwe and, figuratively and ever so gently, closes the distance to a disconcerting closeness. With Showtime's sunshiny and sharp "Ziwe," we have an iconic talk show host in the making 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z A wonderfully disconcerting aspect of this choreography is its extraordinary mixture of formality and informality. Review: From City Ballet, a ‘Peculiar Marvel’ by Ratmansky 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Director Michael Michetti moves the action from one disconcerting tete-a-tete to the next seamlessly, at a bracing pace. Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Rather, taking literary license with the title character’s documented history, Palmer spins a cracking tale that, despite its disconcerting subject, is piquantly cheerful and compassionate. Birthing Bunnies: An 18th-Century Woman’s Bizarre Medical Hoax 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z What disconcerted a couple of decades ago quickly becomes classical fare. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z She experiences “the disconcerting feeling that everything is double.” Mother and Daughter, Separated in Parallel Universes 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It is a disconcerting lesson in life and kindness, and a reminder that our private and public selves are seldom the same. A Game of You 2010-07-18T21:45:00Z The disconcerting thing is that, apart from the outfit, Minnie doesn't look her age at all. Minnie Mouse: the queen mum of cartoon rodents 2013-03-25T16:21:16Z But shortages of color are more disconcerting — particularly when it comes to blue, the world’s calm and cool favorite color according to numerous surveys. Now supply-chain woes have come for the color blue 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The house’s experimental design became especially disconcerting for DiFranco when things grew turbulent. Review | Ani DiFranco: The making of an iconoclast 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Spring stilts give him a great and stooping height: they also lead him to move with a disconcerting, unpredictable bounce. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Puberty is a deeply disconcerting time; fueled by hormones and angst, a body and set of emotions that were once relatively predictable are hurled into a state of heightened confusion. "I Am Not Okay With This" is the sharp, superpowered coming-of-rage drama Netflix needed 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The lighting, by Connie Yun, was highly varied and occasionally disconcerting, as when the stage was suddenly bathed in purple to accompany a mournful aria. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps most disconcerting is our dominance in the area of incarceration. Gut-wrenching photo evidence from Brown vs. Plata in 'Prison Obscura' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z There was “a disconcerting similarity to ‘Get Smart’ in togas,” and “the Batmobile was really second-rate Detroit in comparison with the vehicular sophistication of James Bond.” Friday File: Recalling Batman’s Star Turn at Shea Stadium in ’66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This disconcerting though pleasurable phenomenon — the past inserting itself into the present — happened again and again. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z A Berkeley sociologist takes a generous but disconcerting look at Tea Party backers in Louisiana to explain the way many people in this country live now, often to the astonishment of everyone else. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z So when protests against systemic racism and police brutality began sweeping the country, she found their silence disconcerting. She’s Been a Force for Change in Ballet. The World Is Catching Up. 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The sight of paddleboarders still seems a little disconcerting on a river that until the 1980s was among the country’s most polluted waterways. Tampa reinvents itself to show off its shores 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s disconcerting to hear people say that shouldn’t change. Ava DuVernay on Hollywood’s Inclusion Problem 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z At first it’s a little bit disconcerting to hear an outside authority deliver lines like “the artist problematizes the discourse between the media and the general public.” Art In Review: CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI: ‘Discourse News’ 2012-07-19T21:34:43Z What is most disconcerting for an American viewer is how close to home the extremity is, as if the heart of darkness lurked among your friends and neighbors. | 'Into the Abyss': ?Into the Abyss,? by Werner Herzog - Review 2011-11-10T22:23:18Z One memorable twist introduces an almost uniform corps de ballet of 10: nine look-alike women in formation with a man who’s both similar and different enough to create a marvelously disconcerting effect. Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival Plunges Into the New 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z In place of spaghetti, he proposed recipes that are as arbitrary and disconcerting as the discombobulated poems he called "words in freedom"; food as subversion, as provocation – and as art. The Experimental Food Society's culinary revolution 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z Were potential buyers disconcerted by the difficulty of understanding the connection between the title and this piece of artistic labor? Sotheby's Sale Leaves Its Audience Dazed 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z But the vehemence which is projected onto the screen of Hillary is disconcerting and needs examination. Not sticking together: Why did women ignore the hate speech against Hillary Clinton? 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z But for all her clarity Hunt Lieberson does not stint the music’s opulence, particularly in an “Absence” that is disconcerting in its sensuous embrace of loss. Classical Recordings 2011-05-25T21:34:45Z The result is a picture that is simultaneously engaging and disconcerting. ‘Asako I & II’ Review: Double the Love (and the Heartbreak) 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “Early breast growth,” she wrote in the article, “may be just that — early breast growth: disconcerting, poorly understood, but not a guarantee of our worst fears.” Motherlode Blog: Helping Girls Through Early Puberty 2012-03-30T15:13:42Z I admit it was a little disconcerting to read an entire book and not be able to find out what happened at the end. Style Invitational: Vowel movement—a new wordplay game 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Hunter and the Iranian president have a disconcerting way of saying preposterous things in a calm, complacent tone; both are serenely impervious to contradiction or sarcasm. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z But, to many in tennis, the lack of legitimate challengers—and the fact that the gap between the top players and the field only seems to be growing—has become disconcerting. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Even the Foley screams at the end of the relatively calm and waltzy ballad “Werewolf” underscore the song with a disconcerting violence. Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel...: Painful, Raw Parts That Form Something Beautiful 2012-06-18T16:24:15Z The decadent island society of Orléans is home to a select group of sisters born with the disconcerting ability to perform plastic surgery without the plastic. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z He always pressed to extremes, carrying on further than one would think necessary and rarely letting anything go before it became disconcerting.” Lucian Freud, Adept Portraiture Artist, Dies at 88 2011-07-21T19:28:45Z I know from the short list to the nominations was the most disconcerting part because it feels more real. Oscar documentary shorts: A guide to "St. Louis Superman" and "Walk Run Cha-Cha" 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z And each one is communicative and personable, often slipping with disconcerting seamlessness into exhibitions of charm, like models or actors. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Radio Show,’ at 92nd Street Y 2014-03-17T22:24:10Z “Suddenly to have a new landmark to come right up through the ground is quite disconcerting; there’s something alarming about that.” Milton’s Shakespeare Was Just a Trans-Atlantic Tweet Away 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “I think Kate deactivated because I can’t tag her,” he said in the comments under the photo, seeming disconcerted that I was not available. Social media vacations don’t work 2012-08-07T16:00:00Z He is among the most disconcerting artists before the public today in any genre. Dance Review: A Playfully Roasted Old Chestnut 2010-12-12T23:28:00Z In action films, he holds a gun in a really disconcerting way. The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond 2013-12-06T16:45:00Z It’s disconcerting when you realize the marketing people are reading your mind. Motherlode Blog: Parents: Toy Marketers Have Our Number 2012-02-15T16:14:35Z As Mr. ben Yitzhak describes the manipulation of Mr. Yousef, you have the disconcerting sense of monitoring a chess match in which strategical maneuvering and intellectual gamesmanship take precedence over the human cost. ‘The Green Prince,’ About a Hamas Son Recruited by Israel 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It's enjoyably disconcerting stuff, available to view until the end of the month over on the ITV Player. Catch-up TV guide: from Homeland to The Town 2012-12-15T00:05:19Z What’s striking, though, and initially disconcerting is how vivid, even garish, the images are, despite a vaunted antiquity. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z Of course, the film is flawed: it is disconcerting, to say the least, that Robert’s crime itself is not explicitly dramatised in flashback. My favourite Christmas film: Christmas Holiday 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z More disconcerting is Salvini’s popularity and what seems to be indifference among a now significant swathe of the electorate. The seven standout stories of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z But, in its straightforward — even bland — healthy-mindedness, this Mahler more than anything acted as a kind of peace offering after Mr. Adams’s beautifully disconcerting concerto. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The stately if youthful head, rendered in hatched brown ink shaded with a flurry of dots, is fully frontal; but the boy’s disconcerting eyes are not. The Getty just announced its most important drawings acquisition in 20 years—and adds a 'Surprise' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. El Guindi also gives Doug a long monologue about an encounter with an Arab woman while he was on assignment that adds another disconcerting and not entirely coherent layer to his character. Review: ‘Threesome,’ at 59E59 Theaters, Examines Sexual Inequality 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Comic and disconcerting, these pieces leavened surrealist techniques with a critical woman’s perspective. The Week in Arts: Sleater-Kinney, Paul Taylor and ‘Synonyms’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Rather, it is the power of spectacle — the symbol made flesh — that has made theatrical performance throughout history so disconcerting to those in authority. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The play goes by a potentially disconcerting title — “Junk” — but it has an estimable pedigree. On Broadway, dramatic riches await, in both words and music 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Three bright green bronzes by Oren Pinhassi, which look something like ironing boards with birds’ legs and include a few plastic shower curtain rings and two panes of glass, are similarly disconcerting. An Elegant Return to Form at Independent Art Fair 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Kantarovsky paints disconcerting, darkly funny scenes of lovers, mourners, children and freaks, and intensifies their eccentricity through unexpected contrasts of oil paint with drippy watercolor. What to See in Art Galleries Right Now 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The décor at one popular place is a disconcerting mix of beer posters and Pooh Bear murals. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z "There is incredible theatricality and inventiveness; he breaks rules and creates dense, rich, terrifying, disconcerting scenes." Piranesi works drawn together in London for first time since 18th century 2013-02-14T18:13:07Z So the concept of them being “meaningless” is both disconcerting and anti-intuitive, even just for the sake of playing a game. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps even more disconcerting, however, were the angst-ridden and misguided comments on her article that suggested cultural diversity schemes were tantamount to racism and should be abolished. The arts need diversity schemes 2010-08-16T17:00:00Z And more disconcerting when that dance feels it could have been the newest? Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z And as Betty alerts Bill that Frank Mason is there, Frank seems disconcerted, trying to explain that his name isn’t Mason. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Personal Is the Clinical 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z This exquisite corpse is disconcerting because it flows so well; the artists seem to have intuited a motif of sinuous lines, even though they were blind to one another’s inventions. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z It’s disconcerting, too, that while Graham is considered by many to be the most iconic female choreographer in American dance history, three of the four contemporary works presented are by European men. Early Martha Graham: Deep Movement, Eternal Mysteries 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The issues she had raised found a disconcerting resonance in November, when The Boston Globe published a series of reports about accusations of sexual misconduct by faculty members at Berklee College of Music. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z At first it's disconcerting to be pulled away from the Whitshanks' present-day concerns, rendered with such immediacy and texture that they might be our next-door neighbors. Anne Tyler traces a family line with 'A Spool of Blue Thread' 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z I hadn’t realized until adulthood that there was a connection between Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles, and I found it disconcerting, like realizing that I was related to people I didn’t totally enjoy. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z As played by Kevin Kline with an almost disconcerting low-key openness, Flynn trades on his name recognition with an earnest, self-deprecating manner, though that is itself a form of entitlement. ‘The Last of Robin Hood,’ on Errol Flynn’s Final Years 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z This disconcerted her, because it was true: It was about his history of using disparaging language about women. Review: Megyn Kelly Tells Tales Out of Fox News in Her Memoir, ‘Settle for More’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Her disconcerting presence provides the first signal of the elusive and intriguing film to follow. ‘Clara’s Ghost’ Review: A Family of Performers, a Night of Hysteria 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The tension between the frosty beauty of Mr. Wilson’s production and the simmering passions of its characters is disconcerting at first. ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea,’ a Robert Wilson Production 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z They’re too lumpy and disconcerting, chopped into jump-cuts of one squishy texture after another, spending too much time enthralled to a single killer chord sequence. New Music 2011-06-06T23:12:56Z "It's pretty horrendous out there; it's a scary, disconcerting place," she says of the rampant hacking and the damage it is inflicting. Emma Stone is soaring with 'Cabaret' and 'Birdman' roles 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Her wistful acting was tepid, but even more disconcerting was the sense that she was constantly holding her breath, thereby depleting her plié. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z "When I feel like I don't have a clear sense of what I'm doing that day, that's more disconcerting," he said. Block Party's Jason Lajeunesse: 'I'm exhausted and happy' 2012-07-13T19:36:03Z According to a disconcerting new study in Pediatrics, it may be more complicated than that. Study: Trying to convince parents to vaccinate their kids just makes the problem worse 2014-03-03T22:01:00Z But he does a very good job of identifying them, providing a thorough if disconcerting tour d’horizon. Review: ‘The Big Stick’ Argues for a Robust Military Role Abroad 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z This fondness for short phrases and isolated dance effects is, in dancers of such physical elegance, highly disconcerting. Dance Review: Paris Ballet Opera’s ‘Giselle’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T21:45:22Z But Frost's performance and the almost Milliganesque nature of the proceedings prove an intriguing if sometimes disconcerting combination. Botallack O' Clock – review 2012-10-01T15:16:20Z “There’s so much uncertainty. It’s very disconcerting for us to not know if we’re going to be protected.” Nurses are trying to save us from the virus, and from ourselves 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Hodge, too, receives his share of praise for a performance that Spencer calls "splendidly charismatic and disconcerting". Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has mixed reviews but announces extension 2013-06-26T10:28:21Z “It was a bit of a shock, to be honest. It was disconcerting with no warning.” Inspiring, Chaotic, Reborn, Brand-New: The Many Lives of Art Fairs 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z He realises that he is disconcerted above all by their unstopping busyness. Guardian book club: Capital by John Lanchester 2013-03-01T17:42:01Z It’s funny, but it also has the disconcerting effect of reminding us that animals, after all, have lives too, and they rely on water. Meditations on southern California's water lifeline 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Shot in black and white, with the help of several dancers, it shares the elegant but deeply disconcerting aesthetic of Man Ray’s photographs. Art Review: ‘A Disagreeable Object,’ at the SculptureCenter 2012-10-04T22:46:23Z Coming face-to-face with a real-life yellow schoolgirl is a deliciously disconcerting experience. Artist of the week 198: Jennet Thomas 2012-07-12T11:10:21Z Which is very disconcerting when you've been… eating brie all day. The end of the Streets 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z But he was charged in New York only with the thefts of the works by Leger and Yim, who's known for her disconcerting images of toy bears and other creatures. Man admits NY piece of bicoastal art-theft spree 2012-02-07T17:38:11Z They'd find no relief there tonight: as part of her curation of the South Bank's Meltdown Festival, clips from her album Fly are being played in the gents, to pretty disconcerting effect. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band – review 2013-06-14T23:30:22Z It’s disconcerting, and yet a familiar role to play. Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z It is so disconcerting to me on a very deep level that not only do we not prohibit but we in fact often embrace it, whether through likes or other forms of affirmation. Would you share your kid's private life on a billboard? Maybe don't put it online then 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z If the effect can seem disconcerting at first, it feels, by the end of the book, all but inevitable, as if the story could be told no other way. A Novel of the City, Alive to Its Hidden Connections 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Woodman used her self-portraits to disconcerting and startling effect with the elements of self and object often merging. I visited the Uffizi gallery at 17, and was awestruck. Now it's exhibiting my art? 2010-12-19T00:07:08Z This lavish three-week retrospective, spanning almost 60 years of work, has demonstrated that this sometimes irritating and corny dance maker is one of the superlative and more disconcerting artists of our time. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z Was it disconcerting to learn that the fate of humanity rested on an old guy who enjoyed “getting in a little air bath before the end of the day”? Yes, it was. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Horseman With No Head; Ben Franklin With No Breeches 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z That news was disconcerting, at least to me. Don’t Box Them In. Their Dancing Belongs to the World. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z More often than not she films real places, whether it is a Texas swamp or an idyllic Lake District wood, and transforms them into something completely and disconcertedly unreal. Mars attacks 2012-08-07T15:57:41Z The simple reversal, as disconcerting for the reader as it is for the man's grown-up children, very cleverly destabilises one's sense of anything reliably meaningful in human identity. Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom | Book review 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Practice Architecture was happy and grateful and also slightly disconcerted. Britain's best young architects 2011-01-09T00:04:06Z The poems, which compress her thoughts into daring and disconcerting forms, are another matter. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z "A curious, disconcerting and sometimes insidiously effective greatest hits tableau," was British newspaper The Telegraph's summary by its film critic Tim Robey. King of Cannes Haneke could get record third Palme d'Or with "Happy End" 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s odd and disconcerting and isn’t quite second nature. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z He, and we, are left with the disconcerting image of Olympia's still-blinking severed head, while a wistful lackey strokes her dismembered hand. Only God Forgives: Kristin Scott Thomas and other big-screen Barbies from hell 2013-05-30T17:00:01Z It does not resolve all those questions, but it provides enough information for its readers to begin to see some answers and to see how troubling and disconcerting they are. How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s not everyone, but it’s a significant enough minority to be quite striking and a bit disconcerting. Frugal Traveler Blog: Notes From a New Zealand Newbie 2012-03-22T18:00:48Z "I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand," she admits. Sophie Ellis Bextor at Jacques Townhouse 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z So he’s definitely a handful of a gay boy, disconcerting his schoolmates and headmaster even if he’s still a virgin. Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The most disconcerting thing, however, is a long length of vacuum-cleaner hose that snakes from a doorway and between the speakers to the pianola. Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent 2010-06-06T21:00:00Z But for her latest film, Hittman has shifted her gaze away from those adolescent encounters and towards something even more disconcerting: their potential aftermath. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z It was all a bit disconcerting watching Stew watching himself — and commenting on his own youthful mistakes. 'Passing Strange' a rockin' good time at Bailiwick 2011-04-26T21:34:42Z And he was equally prone to giving his forms disconcerting twists, ripples, folds and tears, often imbuing them with an aura of entropic collapse that Robert Smithson might have embraced. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z What’s disconcerting — and, worse, dizzying — is how the vantage point changes in the blink of an eye. Watching From a Distance: What Gives a Virtual Dance Life? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z He watched it in his den the night before, yelling and screaming, alone — permitting others in the room would be too disconcerting. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z These strange and disconcerting pictures feature Walker’s drawing skills in a way I’ve never seen before. Issues of today echo in BAM exhibit ‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The use of time is what makes the dream ballet so disconcerting for some and so riveting for others. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But human bias creeps into computerized algorithms in disconcerting ways. Opposing Views on What to Do About the Data We Create 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Being older on the road is equal parts disconcerting, humbling and enlightening. The Frugal Five 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The Met’s move toward deaccessioning immediately encountered some resistance, surprisingly from its former director, Thomas P. Campbell, who on Saturday posted on his Instagram account that he was “disconcerted” by the news. Facing Deficit, Met Considers Selling Art to Help Pay the Bills 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The results make for amusing, if at times disconcerting, listening. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-09T06:00:15Z It is, however, disconcerting to see him roaming around the stage as if he’s inspecting crops. Osipova and Vasiliev in Mikhailovsky’s ‘Don Quixote’ 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z If it continues to speak to us with uncanny force, it may be because we, too, live in a world of disconcerting juxtapositions. Music Review: Riverside Choral Society, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-24T21:59:57Z More disconcerting was the work of some of the professionals in the society’s orchestra, particularly in a crucial cello solo near the end, tortured at considerable length, and among the vocal soloists. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z And we are right to find that disconcerting. It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Also memorable is the rather disconcerting experience of what might be called extreme privatization. Art Review: Tatzu Nishi’s ‘Discovering Columbus’ Installation 2012-09-21T18:15:31Z Embarrassed, he wonders: "Did we bury the hatchet?"It was only a dream, but no less disconcerting for that. Readers recommend: songs about forgiveness – results 2012-11-15T14:00:00Z Michiko Kakutani’s “Pandemic Notebook” on May 17 points out that literature is helping people to understand this difficult and disconcerting time. Letters to the Editor 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z While there is ample zaniness in the two hours of music that follow, it is the score’s sober core that keeps the opera’s mood pleasurably disconcerting. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet, there was something disconcerting about this sobriety sorority, so resolutely dressed in black and with even a bared arm covered with a long glove. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Sobriety Sorority 2010-03-09T19:26:00Z What is even more disconcerting is that, in the cinema, hardly anyone applauds. Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris | Dance review 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z This disconcerting prologue segues into a series of ever more disconcerting scenes. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Even if it was disconcerting to be watching the band perform while it was still daylight, they did their best to conjure a club vibe. The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “I felt it would be disconcerting for my authors to wander into a bookshop and see their editor’s name writ large across a hardback,” he said. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In her own art, Ms. Polska has delved into that same sense of being both drawn in and disconcerted. A Polish Artist With Varied Talents 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The Serpentine is a good venue for her art, with its disconcerting mix of intimacy, anger and celebration. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z They are awesome in their beauty but disconcerting. How New York City Got Its Fresh Water 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z It was very disconcerting not to go into work. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z "EO" does abruptly shift its storylines, which can be disconcerting, and his character can be in the background for some of the drama. "EO" is the gorgeously hypnotic drama about a donkey whose journey will break your heart 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z For acting principal clarinet Jessica Phillips, hearing French lyrics while Italian words are in her music can be disconcerting at times. Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ arrives at Met Opera in original French 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z It's a little disconcerting delivered by the man with one of the most earnestly sentimental voices in pop — but maybe that's the point. James Blunt brings livelier songs to Moore 2011-05-05T18:02:04Z In the UK, the March cinema schedule gave us a particularly disconcerting Phoenix double-whammy. Is Joaquin Phoenix set to be the greatest actor of his generation? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Some things are weirdly disconcerting, like Mr. Nauman’s video of his hands kneading his own hairy thigh into different shapes. Art Review: Lucy R. Lippard and Conceptual Art, at Brooklyn Museum 2012-10-18T20:10:23Z Attendance has been down this season from prepandemic averages, as it has been for many arts institutions; the question is whether those numbers will rebound or settle into a disconcerting new normal. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The small screen, usually jittering and scrolling with plenty of new messages, was suddenly a disconcerting Technicolor swirl with a huge black spot in the middle. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z Most disconcerting is “Backyard,” a thoroughly mundane patch of grass flanked by a cheaply shingled garage and concrete steps leading up to a house. Thomas Demand undercuts what we think photographs show us 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Some images are recognizable, others alien, but all are mesmerizing, their intricate patterns like crop circles—both elegant and disconcerting. Jeffrey Milstein Photographs Los Angeles and New York in a Way You’ve Never Seen Before 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z My 10-year-old self would have been sadly disconcerted had he known of these matters. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z Not a moment too soon, because the current Ricardo Legorreta look from the early 1990s feels less park and more fortress — in a disconcerting Easter egg color scheme. Roundup: Art, money and Art Basel, plus taco gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In a similarly disconcerting moment, stagehands come into the audience to install parallel bars on the stage. 'Absinthe' in L.A.: Like Cirque du Soleil on Red Bull and vodka 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Once this elaborate structure – both multiple narrators and a back-and-forth movement in time – might have seemed disconcerting, but the huge popularity of Small Island suggests that readers have found it no special challenge. Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-08T00:08:00Z Seeing so many photographs of Woodman, mostly naked, often posing in empty rooms with peeling paint and fading wallpaper, is a slightly disconcerting experience, though. Francesca Woodman ? review 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z The quality of private fantasy here is as disconcerting as it is touching. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Most disconcerting of all to Trollope aficionados is the novel's subject: the effects of a law passed by the youthful Britannula Assembly making euthanasia compulsory for everybody between the age of 67 and 68. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z Back to those endless liquids; most of us find oozing fluids disconcerting. Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Both because it's disconcerting to see poisonous gas and heat rays laying waste to that comfortable world – and because, it's fun. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z The result is a genuinely fascinating piece that takes a while to build and may, at the outset, disconcert the accent police with the more persistently adenoidal sounds of the women in the cast. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z And sometimes these tendencies are absorbed and play out in ways feminists sometimes find disconcerting. For Some in Transgender Community, It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Though she hasn’t said anything publicly, popular opinion says that his overt play for her affections was a miscalculation: rather than sweet, listeners are finding him disconcerting. How to Get Your Ex Back Without Being as Creepy as Robin Thicke 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Still, even though this is manifestly a comedy, it was a little disconcerting to watch in 2018. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Paul Lewis has become one of our greatest contemporary Schubertians, and this disc captures his disconcerting, detailed, profoundly moving interpretations of the master’s three final piano sonatas. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It is disconcerting to see so many U.S. presidents refuse to see the futility of “conquering” Afghanistan, because they have made no effort to understand Afghanistan, its society and its people. Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z As he’s driving home from work, a song comes on the radio that disconcerts him and triggers a whole train of thought. This Week in Fiction: Anne Enright on Writing from Life 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z All in all, “Brother, Can You Spare a Brain?” is an hour filled with revelations for Liv, some fairly disconcerting and others going a long way to feeding her hero complex. 'iZombie' recap: Brother, can you spare a brain? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z As for Patrick, he was so easygoing that I found it disconcerting. Women’s Work 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z So it is a little disconcerting to see her in a dowdy wig and unflattering specs in Can You Ever Forgive Me? What's not to love? The new wave of 'unlikable' women in film 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s also completely different from what he’s done before, in ways that longtime fans may find disconcerting. Review: Matt Groening Enters the Netflix Age With ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z His death, at age seventy-eight, is more than painful; it is disconcerting and disorienting. The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The timing disconcerts: jokes are barely signalled, and are often over before we’ve quite registered them. Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s as if a singer at the height of her fame accidentally wandered into pop’s uncanny valley — a disconcerting gray zone between a superstar’s glazed image and the sentient being behind it. Perspective | Ariana Grande just stepped into pop’s uncanny valley, and everybody’s going nuts 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Doctors and patients want a solution, and bed rest allows them to prescribe and undergo something, rather than face the disconcerting reality of the unknown. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z It's almost nothing, but takes on a disconcerting air of human plumbing, a desperate surgical experiment in connecting insides and outsides, the world with the body, and a thing to a wall. Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs 2011-01-18T21:31:01Z It is disconcerting and elegant, nightmarish and divine, and a fitting vessel to consider today’s volatile race relations through dance. Dance Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The work’s seductive polish is disconcerting in light of its fixation on destruction. 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z His implausible utterances come in two forms, one more disconcerting than the other. The art of the lie: The art forgery guide to Donald Trump’s tall tales 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z He added, in effusive understatement, “This is not in the least disconcerting.” Lotte Hass, Pioneering Diver Known for Beauty and Bravery, Dies at 86 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Klein, who had the same job in Washington, D.C. before Emanuel recruited him, said he understood that camera enforcement can be disconcerting. Illinois Senate approves speeding cameras 2011-10-26T22:19:00Z In 1566, Elizabeth I's archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker, was disconcerted to receive a bill from the bailiffs of the city of Oxford. Saints, Sacrilege & Sedition by Eamon Duffy - review 2012-07-27T21:55:05Z I'm loath to say much about the plot of this superbly disconcerting new novel from the New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones, for fear of giving away too much. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z The Sky group is very amiable and in no way disconcerted, apparently, by my workroom being at the top of the house. Michael Holroyd: writers in front of the camera 2011-08-19T21:55:13Z In Zweig’s letters, she found disconcerting and relatable thoughts before a double suicide. Yiyun Li’s brave look at depression and the consoling power of literature 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Yet perhaps more disconcerting is the “Toy Story” special, even though it’s sweet, family-friendly fare. ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Robot Chicken’ Spawn Holiday Specials 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Anthony Page directs with a plodding ponderousness that turns this disconcerting comedy into a three-hour trudge. What to say about ... Design for Living 2010-09-20T11:47:00Z So it was disconcerting to hear Bachanalia open its 24th season on Wednesday night at Merkin Concert Hall with such an ineffective performance of two chorale preludes by Bach. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z But “Contagion,” despite disconcerting glimpses of body bags piling up, avoids the familiar fiery spectacles of disaster movies. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z From here "Bullsh*t" mixes up disconcerting layers of moral complexity underneath the humor, beginning with its means of engaging its audience. "Bullsh*t: The Game Show" and our love of liars and lying 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z So it was at least a little disconcerting to hear her ooh and aah over emollient bath oils. Anna Chlumsky of ‘Veep’ Sniffs Around Bleecker Street for Gifts 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The dance begins with all the performers seated on a bench at the rear of the stage, backed by a wall of disconcerting green. Review: Ohad Naharin Is More Than the Sum of His Imitators 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Much of O’Casey’s strange and hallucinogenic drama possesses the disconcerting timelessness of a dream. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z It achieves, like its English title, a disconcerting juxtaposition of the mundane and the primeval. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Although I am a feminist and mother to a daughter, I found the possibility of his guilt too disconcerting —and I willed it away. Motherlode Blog: When a Beloved Teacher Is Also a Rapist 2012-03-30T19:30:59Z Perhaps most famously, she posed, freckle-faced, for Newton wearing a white bathrobe that opened to expose a sliver of nipple, her expression in that instant a disconcerting blend of innocence and insolence. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z By contrast, the high style of mannerism, its mythological allusions, conflation of time and intricacy of design, is disconcerting, even alienating. For this Dutch master, a cigar is rarely just a cigar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The effect is disconcerting – we rarely see such unfiltered staginess on film – but always riveting; there is not an inch of slack, a word wasted. Viola Davis: ‘I’m pretty fabulous’ 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z And to readers used to the original books, the most disconcerting thing about Mr. Spielberg’s film is the way it jumps off the screen. Tintin Is a New Breed of Comic-Book Hero for Most Americans 2012-01-02T20:37:06Z It’s a little disconcerting, though not exactly distracting. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s disconcerting; you expect him to push back his forelock at any moment. Jack the Giant Slayer: Fee-Fi, Ho-Hum 2013-03-01T04:30:21Z Midway through “The Long Haul,” he does something disconcerting and entirely unexpected: He gives up driving. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Looking down the list, it is disconcerting to see how many favourites and classics were not in fact rewarded with the best picture statuette. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z He also changes the ending, and so alters not so much the meaning as the mood of the play, which begins with a disconcerting joke, and should end with one. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z There’s such a disconcerting rush of lush imagery and action in the first 40 minutes or so of “Invisible Life” that one is apt to wonder whether there’s any kind of focused narrative. ‘Invisible Life’ Review: Sisterhood Is Stronger Than Patriarchy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s a sensational story that crafts a compelling case and a disconcerting portrait of a murder. Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z This slim volume is fresh, perverse and disconcerting. Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by Frank Wedekind 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z Derivatives of Mr. Glass are sadly endemic in contemporary music, but it was especially disconcerting to hear the same effect copied in “The Shooting Gallery” just two months after “Einstein” returned to the academy. Music Review: Bill Morrison and Richard Einhorn’s ‘Shooting Gallery’ 2012-11-11T23:00:07Z Some phrases alternate small footwork and big jumps in disconcerting alternation. Review: ‘Legends & Visionaries’ by New York Theater Ballet 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z I was disconcerted to discover, towards the end of this episode, that he is having an affair with an exotic Chinese widow with a mouth like a poppy. Twin Peaks reviewed by Nancy Banks-Smith 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The sublime and the ridiculous can coexist in disconcerting proximity. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z With tendrils drooping down, extending its length to an astonishing 10.2 inches, it suggests a corsage gone awry or dripping blood — disconcerting and oddly beautiful. The Brooch Is Back, Baby 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z I find it not only disconcerting but stressful. What It’s Really Like to Be an Airline Pilot 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Browning frequently gives us protagonists who are, to say the least, unsympathetic, and the story unfolded as we listen to the duke and probable wife-killer is enough to disconcert the most lax of readers. Poster poems: Dramatic monologue 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z Who sculpted it to such a disconcerting spike? ‘Christmas With You’ Review: Pop-Rocking Around the Christmas Tree 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z For one fleeting, disconcerting moment as you drive by, the wordless pictures line up exactly with the approaching view. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The later works at times left me disconcerted, as if, for all my concentration, I hadn’t managed to listen to them in the way Nono wanted me to. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The seductive spell of indolence is broken after Percy falls into a disconcerting conversation with a kid in bell-bottoms, who refers to something or other as “groovy.” The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The images are never complete, in a perpetual process of becoming — and that may be the most human, and disconcerting, thing about them. Pierre Huyghe Reads Our Minds, and Discovers a New Art Form 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s disconcerting; it keeps you in a state of high alert that is stressful and draining, especially when the content may require immediate action. I turned off phone notifications and instantly felt calmer and happier 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Few films immerse us as completely in their universe as "Fury Road" does, to often disconcerting effect. 'Mad Max' kicks a post-apocalyptic extravaganza into overdrive 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It's disconcerting but strangely effective — you get a sense of different aspects of the man, coexisting as one. 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector': A documentary with misplaced sympathies? 2010-12-02T21:34:00Z I advance like the chosen people.After a few hours, I reach that disconcerting point where neither coast is visible: neither on the Argentine side, nor the Uruguayan. The Mistake by Martín Kohan, translated by Nick Caistor 2013-03-19T13:00:01Z And it can be disconcerting when something that always usually gets a big laugh doesn't. One Man, Two Guvnors: the tour de farce reaches Adelaide 2013-03-06T15:47:12Z Whatever the mayor’s political standing, “it’s always disconcerting,” Ms. Taylor added, “when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, ‘I know who you are.’ ” Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Companion, Diana Taylor, Gives a Rare Interview 2013-12-27T23:22:28Z At the same time, the image is strangely disconcerting. A Portrait of the Creative Mind Behind Gucci, on Instagram 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Days into their ordeal they start to understand the truth of each more fully, which is where the story transforms from an ordinary survival drama into a disconcerting, savage curiosity. "Yellowjackets" is a fantastic, terrifying plummet into the darkness of female desire and rage 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Even so, what the publicity notes are pleased to call a “disconcerting narrative structure” is far from the only issue with “Archaeology of a Woman,” Sharon Greytak’s confounding blend of long-ago murder and present-day dementia. ‘Archaeology of a Woman,’ Starring Sally Kirkland 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It's true there is something rather disconcerting about the Smith Family entertainment complex. Will Smith's child labor question 2010-10-19T21:15:00Z This means that, at first glance, all you see are a bunch of disembodied heads floating around, which is slightly disconcerting. Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue: the year Amy Adams missed out on an Oscar 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z That she faced threats from Cosby’s camp is alarming if not surprising; that other journalists undermined her work is a more disconcerting matter. Review | For years, one reporter investigated allegations against Bill Cosby — even when no one was listening 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But it’s probably not a bad thing to be disconcerted like this; it wakes you up to conventions. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z The shocks of the movie are crass and somatic, not disconcerting or social. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z As a dad, it was disconcerting to know that only two of her respondents "had ever had a substantive conversation about sex with their fathers." Great sexpectations: Peggy Orenstein's 'Girls & Sex' explores the thorny politics of teen sexuality 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z There are magical transformations, and Merinda encounters a perfunctory witch, voiced by Julie Walters, whose character is removed from the story in a lamely disconcerting way. Brave – review 2012-08-09T20:00:01Z “It will be initially disruptive and disconcerting, but it’s in a very attractive position.” In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z It's sometimes striking and sometimes disconcerting, though the Henschels' performance is always wonderfully assured. Trojahn: String Quartets Nos 3 and 4; etc ? review 2011-07-28T20:30:01Z Despite a few postmodern flourishes and some teasing structural game playing, their latest offerings are unlikely to disconcert habitual watchers of “Masterpiece” television. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z They do not seem disconcerted to be told she's already been on. Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics 2012-06-23T18:00:01Z When you see that color of skin it’s disconcerting. Behind the Poster: '3 Christs' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z More disconcerting, however, was the often blurred line between acceptable and offensive. New Freedom for Myanmar’s Artists 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He is taller now, though the sight of him at a grand piano can still be disconcerting, especially when you hear what he plays. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Another way would to be to focus on the almost disconcerting diversity of early American Modernism. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z His experience is disconcerting enough just to think about, and to see it recreated in Mr. Boyle’s characteristically fast-moving, immersive style is jarring, thrilling and weirdly funny. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes 2010-09-06T22:55:00Z Later, Adam, the last member of the group, appears; the twenty-one men already assembled find his appearance disconcerting, as none of them had previously noticed he was missing. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He described leading “The Blind” as “a little disconcerting,” since musicians build on the energy of the audience, something harder to discern when that audience is blindfolded. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z Viewing it in the context of current debates surrounding today’s miseries, actually, is equally fascinating and disconcerting. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z We see their capacity for impersonal sublimity, their animal energies and their politely civilized behaviors, all overlapping peacefully and yet with disconcerting complexity. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the David H. Koch Theater 2014-03-12T21:55:29Z It’s a record that is a bit disconcerting — since so much of what resides on Facebook is so banal. What happens to a person's Facebook posts after they die? One artist is using them to build digital memorials 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z No, which is what was so disconcerting when I was diagnosed. "Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z It's disconcerting news given that holiday baking season doesn't really begin in earnest for another month. Wait, you can actually freeze butter? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z As in some of the earliest Jacobs collections, there was a disconcerting feeling that something was going on behind the apparent sweet serenity of lean clothes with pretty decoration. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs: Happy Days? 2014-02-14T13:52:15Z And more importantly these older performers bring a vivid and often disconcerting chemistry to the material. Kontakthof | Dance review 2010-04-02T20:30:00Z Isn’t it disconcerting to live in such a world? Jane Fonda: ‘Plastic surgery bought me a decade’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The effect can be cacophonous and confusing, although the other extreme is probably more disconcerting: when too many shows are talking alike. Art Review: In West Chelsea, Sculptures Speak in Dialects 2010-06-01T22:51:00Z So in the 11 months since I signed my book contract, I’ve written nothing, which is disconcerting since that’s 10 months longer than I usually procrastinate. The Art of the Boring Memoir 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But for all its seeming obviousness and disconcerting, almost camp, appeal, the latest fourth plinth commission does manage to celebrate both Nelson's success at Trafalgar and the postcolonial multi-ethnic mix and mingle of Britain today. Message in a bottle 2010-05-24T13:27:00Z This can be briefly disconcerting: It’s Maria and Tony from “West Side Story” who begin the polka that becomes “Shall We Dance?” for Anna and the king of Siam from “The King and I.” Review: City Ballet Salutes Jerome Robbins, a Master of 2 Realms 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z More disconcerting than the awkward literary affectations is how Stern writes about the actual history of the war. In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Eventually, however, it’s disconcerting how much of the contrasting heroines she does contain. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z It is disconcerting, for many, the presentation of a bald woman. Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the isolating experience of being ‘the first,’ plus recently confronting an alopecia diagnosis 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z It is visualised in a disconcerting mixture of film and flesh. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z It was a sharp and spirited debate, with both candidates delivering some lacerating blows, but Mr. Ryan at times seemed disconcerted by the sheer blowhard intensity Mr. Biden brought to the night. The Tv Watch: Biden Takes off Gloves in Vice Presidential Debate 2012-10-12T05:09:03Z After so many years of trying to keep his face out of the newspapers, it is still disconcerting to be seeking publicity, he said. F.B.I. Art Sleuth, Now Author of ?Priceless? 2010-06-06T22:06:00Z It was slightly disconcerting knowing the label head was there. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z The sense of connection and empathy — indeed the sense of self — is complex, affecting, but, to a Western eye, disconcerting. Dance Review: Stopping Traffic Downtown With a Subcontinent?s Movements 2011-08-18T22:06:27Z The result was dislocating and disconcerting: out of the mouth of babes came a damming view of a self-obsessed adult world, with its vicious quarrels and petty concerns. Monkey Bars – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T10:54:39Z Anticipating a formal printed questionnaire, Jessica is disconcerted to be bombarded with highly personal questions. Beware Strange Psychologists: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The one that was more disconcerting to me was Victoria’s Secret. Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s a nice metaphor for the effort it takes to assemble the product known as Joan Rivers, but the bluntness of the images and her gaze are disconcerting. | 'Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work': A Comedian?s Life: Enter Talking or Mocking 2010-06-10T21:58:00Z Again the music is disconcerting, a gentle piano line giving way to chugging guitars. Readers recommend songs about assassination: The results 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z What was disconcerting was the sense of distance from the stage. The thrust of the problem for the RSC's new stage 2010-11-24T10:28:00Z There is something slightly disconcerting about the Mountain View Googleplex itself, which I guess has a lot to do with finding yourself in the physical space of so virtual an entity. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z Our narrator recounts his terrible suffering with disconcerting calmness. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z Her husband’s family was disconcerted by the fact that he could not beat her up. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z That’s a disconcerting effect for a museum retrospective, charged with organizing history. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z It was a little disconcerting to go from that to “Mother Emanuel.” Finding Some Treasures at FringeNYC 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, we were greeted warmly — sometimes with a disconcerting attentiveness. Journeys: Driving Through Cambodia: A Road Trip Through Ruins and Unexplored Highways 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z One of the more disconcerting images, "Underpass With Elephants," shows a family of elephants beneath a raised roadway in Nairobi. Nick Brandt's 'Inherit the Dust' photos track Africa's tragic urban sprawl 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z What explains the discrepancy between the common perception of a growing “food movement” and the disconcerting data on what people actually buy and eat? The surprising truth about the ‘food movement’ 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But I imagined that such disconcerting relics, if real, were part of an isolated history, their existence attributable to a murderous sect. Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Interviewing Night Engine is a slightly disconcerting experience. Ones to watch in 2013: Night Engine 2013-01-04T08:00:03Z And there is also the voice, fashioned like the disconcerting conscience of a David Lynch heroine: "Having to breathe was an embarrassment in itself. This was the kind of girl I was." The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Then, in the final scenes, Mr. Bourne takes a disconcerting departure from Shakespeare that changes our sense of the story from tragedy to accident, and of the protagonists from courageous rebels to tormented victims. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z In the park’s main headquarters building I browsed educational displays, including a disconcerting collection of plastic garbage that had washed up on beaches. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The memorial to the Korean war will disconcert American visitors, but it is useful for understanding the war from a Chinese point of view. Vaut le détour 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z These photographs—which are collected in a new book, “Inner Constellations”—convey a feeling that is simultaneously disconcerting and serene. Maïmouna Guerresi’s Mystical Portraiture 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Much as I enjoy Baker's cheerful licentiousness and his stylistic virtuosity, it's impossible to read House of Holes without speculating about his motives and feeling disconcerted by his more bizarre deviations. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z Grisham also writes that Trump “frequently said insane things to foreign leaders” that ranged from absurd to disconcerting. Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z But technical limitations aside, the most disconcerting thing about conversing with Lauren was not knowing where to look. Alexa, meet Lauren: L.A. artist turns her apartment into an experiment in artificial intelligence 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Until I learned to turn off the view of myself, I, like others, was disconcerted by the oddness of catching sight of myself – a view I don’t think we are meant to see. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It’s both disconcerting and entirely appropriate that the channel’s newest show, the mini-series “On Death Row,” beginning Friday night, features the sober voice and calm eye of the German filmmaker Werner Herzog. | ?On Death Row?: Werner Herzog?s Documentary Series ?On Death Row? 2012-03-08T23:18:29Z Still, let’s hope its successors may take a less disconcerting path. Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z "Several people went: 'All right, Rev?' and that was a bit disconcerting." Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z "Getting such a quick and positive response was a little bit disconcerting," he says, given his less successful experiences with earlier work. Debut author: Liam Murray Bell 2012-06-09T23:05:45Z She was so disconcerted as it hovered over her that she could only look up at the pilot and smile. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z Not knowing what you are looking at is disconcerting and thrilling. Dance Review: Choreographer Works Magic With Latest Ballet 2013-12-20T13:13:20Z And the strain in his eyes — he seems to peer uncertainly, especially in turns — is disconcerting. New Faces (and Bodies) in Classic Roles at New York City Ballet 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But still, there was something disconcerting about our Jewishness being “confirmed” by a biological test. What does it mean to be genetically jewish? 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z But it was fun, he said, and also disconcerting to be so scantily clad in public. Up Close: Zachary Koval Is Gay, Vegetarian and a PETA pinup 2012-06-27T00:29:04Z Mr. Levine’s performance was so masterly that it was a little disconcerting to see him walk onstage during curtain calls with a cane, looking thinner and frail. Music Review: This Time, a Baritone as a Verdi Baritone 2011-01-21T23:47:28Z What’s disconcerting, though, is how their moral escapism leads to higher flights of ballet classicism. Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z There’s a disconcerting, characteristically Cronenbergian lack of affect to most of them — few experience pain anymore — even when they’re carving one another up in dark corners or in performances. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The title of Sigrid Nunez’s disconcerting new novel comes from French philosopher Simone Weil, who believed that asking that very question, was what love of one’s neighbor truly meant. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z We spoke to my mother and at first she was very stoic and wrote me a letter about how disconcerting all this information was. Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z These shifts in tone are disconcerting, but most problematic is the lack of dramatic tension or plausibility. Review: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Carmen’ in London 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Since it took him seasons to acquire, that’s disconcerting, as is the new slickness of his manner in several roles. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z And once in his 20s when he was travelling in Holland “and kids formed groups when they saw me in the street and chased me around making goat noises … which became a little disconcerting”. Sir Peter Blake: ‘All a country has is its culture; the rest is infrastructure’ 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z On the whole, “Man in Profile” is an entertaining and useful book, albeit a somewhat disconcerting one, too. ‘Man in Profile’ stirs controversy over the work of a New Yorker great 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z If it was once possible for members of the conservative movement to tell themselves that these factions had been driven into the political wilderness for good, recent events tell a more disconcerting story. William F. Buckley and the Odyssey of Conservatism 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z It's a disconcerting, oddly captivating experience that does away with the music rulebook in favour of creating various sonic textures that seem to be almost working against each other. New music: BTU – Swordbeerfish 2013-02-28T11:54:00Z The idea of a six-year-old sitting on the ground in front of a TV wearing 3-D glasses and spending hours playing with a virtual animal may be disconcerting, but it is going to happen. ArtsBeat: Bowling, Golfing and Shooting With the Sony Move 2010-10-15T22:50:00Z McCarren has tried to educate her in the strange and disconcerting mores of Washington: how the capital can often be a place of evasions and empty promises. 10 years after Austin Tice’s abduction in Syria, his parents still fight for him 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Despite the terrors implied by its settings, its mood is never persuasively disconcerting or, indeed, persuasively much of anything. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, research about the benefits of family dinner is vast and disconcerting. Perspective | Taking back the family dinner: How we created a mealtime renaissance 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Also, Croatia was very clean, but the pervasive graffiti was somewhat disconcerting. Game of Croatia for this family of six Was it the diversity or the novelty that disconcerted bidders? Photography: Soviet Photographs in a Rough-And-Tumble Auction 2011-04-01T12:00:31Z The stories in Swearingen’s disconcerting and promising debut explore themes of violence, chance and the consolations of imagination. New & Noteworthy, From Joe Biden to a Rock Novel in Verse 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s disconcerting looking down and not seeing your own body in the game-world with you—there’s a definite moment of dude where’s my torso. Hands-On with Oculus Rift: Virtual Reality Is Almost Here, Finally 2013-09-20T15:44:18Z Most disconcerting, to people who weren’t used to her, was the way she used “that” when native English speakers would use “this.” The Countess and the Schoolboy 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s disconcerting how Markovitz shifts back and forth between the bland and bizarre — but the best pieces here are memorable. At Kucera Gallery: Mark Calderon, Sherry Markovitz 2013-05-30T19:45:07Z It's always slightly disconcerting to walk down the red carpet and have these flashbulbs going off in your face. Cowboy revival 2011-02-11T13:33:13Z It's a disconcerting, if darkly humorous, example of the way that identity politics can play out in the most unexpected places, including under a Facebook post about vegan sausage. After Cracker Barrel adds vegan sausage, some say chain is too "woke" 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z But in a somewhat disconcerting feature, the wall separating the bathroom from the bedroom had a peek-a-boo portal that allowed you to peer into the guest room, and your roommate to peer back. Check In: Hotel Review: Gale South Beach in Miami Beach 2013-06-07T18:49:40Z Floating in the ice hole is at once strange, a little disconcerting and down-right fun. Breaking the Ice on a Finnish Cruise 2014-03-18T07:22:40Z Initially though, the effect is not a little disconcerting. Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues 2010-05-27T09:56:00Z While there is violence and horror aplenty in “Climax”, Noe’s cast of top-notch dancers deliver stunning performances filmed by a swirling - sometimes upside down - camera that is mesmerizing and disconcerting. Gaspar Noe's 'Climax' takes Cannes on a drug-fuelled dance 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z On the stage, we watch the black actors, reenacting the scene in silence, and it’s a wholly disconcerting experience, hearing how the voice-over reduces the humans in front of us to stereotypes. Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Fairview' at Woolly: Both serious and a hoot - The Washington Post 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Uncommon in that a book built out of such a simple, spare and affectless style manages to bring a character to life so fully that one is disconcerted to be among another's thoughts. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading 2012-10-10T16:06:12Z And the tendency to embed something disconcerting or destabilizing in every image is consistent right through to the end. Review | This Native American artist should have been a household name. But he died at 31. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z These Associations is no less complex, affecting and disconcerting. Tino Sehgal: These Associations 2012-07-23T15:23:00Z That barrage of marketing is especially disconcerting, since the performers themselves are so friendly. Circus Review: Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-29T21:14:00Z But then again, being reviewed badly, or oddly, or even well, is quite disconcerting and weirdly irrelevant – it all refers to work you did so long ago. And now there's a book out there with your name on it. Imagine that 2011-04-12T11:51:16Z Which brings us back to those beautiful, disconcerting photos of the children. My critics ‘were in some measure correct,’ Sally Mann admits in memoir 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He's written about families at their rawest, sweetest, most disconcerting. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z It was bizarre and disconcerting and without an acceptable context. Newtown is my hometown 2012-12-19T17:29:00Z She clambers on to the roof of the boat in her 5in heels with such ease it's a little disconcerting. Stars go wild in the countryside 2011-08-06T23:05:32Z He is diligent about explaining the “disconcerting reasons” why this is so. Books of The Times: ?Being Wrong,? by Kathryn Schulz; ?Wrong,? by David H. Freedman 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z He sounds confident in his contradictions, and it’s disconcerting. Drake, 'Nothing Was the Same' review 2013-09-23T02:13:00Z “The scarf routine is particularly disconcerting,” she wrote. Perspective | Elvis Presley died 40 years ago, and he couldn’t have picked a worse time to do it 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z His is a profound and lyrical love affair but it does have its disconcerting moments: "There's something sexual about whales," he writes at one point. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare; Feral by George Monbiot – review 2013-06-03T07:00:04Z Purposely disconcerting but nonetheless ill conceived were excerpts from interviews with Palestinians: testimony about checkpoints, borders, incarceration and death, recited flatly by the dancer Mina Nishimura. Dance Review: Yoshiko Chuma Brings Her Exotic Blend to La MaMa 2013-07-15T21:02:21Z The thought of lighting a small, white candle that suddenly filled the room with the smell of pasta sauce was disconcerting. Spaghetti-scented candle? Why “savory” candles mess with our minds 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z What was disconcerting was the degree to which he was laughing loud at everything all night. Old school champion Jim Davidson aims to turn standup on its head 2010-09-16T16:06:00Z The spectacle of true crime stories in an age of hashtags is always a little disconcerting. The Case Against Adnan Syed: what happened after Serial? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z That said, seeing a grown woman dressed like a Disney princess and not skating on ice with a giant Chipmunk is a bit disconcerting. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Who Went Home? 2012-10-03T12:00:34Z They sounded weird, particularly Robin: he sang in a bizarre, strangulated quaver that gave the disconcerting impression he was about to burst into tears. Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees: 'I want to keep the music alive' 2013-07-18T18:30:00Z But she was finding Stone’s methods sometimes disconcerting. Simon Stone Faced the Unthinkable. He Thinks You Should Too. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z For Tower this is the disconcerting radiance of wheat fields on a cold and windy night made golden by a full moon. L.A. Phil chamber players start Next on Grand in here and now 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But he has a disconcerting way of idly lifting his shirt or putting his hands into his pants. Theater Review: ‘Falling,’ at Minetta Lane, Looks at Autism’s Role in a Family 2012-10-16T21:58:05Z As it happens, these are matters that come into instructive and sometimes disconcerting focus when we consider how humans film animals. Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z There is no pain, but the noise is pretty disconcerting, as if someone is running a vacuum round inside your head, bumping into the walls and furniture. Tim Dowling: my wife’s earwax is sucked out. She screams. Now it’s my turn 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z But they all shift and recede under your eyes in the same disconcerting way. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z And yet there’s something disconcerting about watching my son experience so much nature through an electronic medium. Looking for Moose to Moon Over 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z For those not already convinced of the importance of precision engineering, there is the disconcerting story of a 2010 Qantas flight. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The Spanish award’s jury said that Hustvedt’s “ambitious” work “delves into aspects that depict a convulsed and disconcerting present from a feminist perspective.” US author Siri Hustvedt receives prestigious Spanish award 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Though there are few places in the city where one can escape the clamor of construction, there’s something disconcerting about the racket of drilling and hammering in the context of a plastic surgeon’s office. My boobs, my burden 2014-02-24T01:00:00Z Aside from a disconcerting dash of inverse tokenism, everybody is black. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z Comments about sex, sexism, misogyny, cultural appropriation and homophobia hover around this juxtaposition, if that kind of thing interests you — but it’s also just disconcerting and funny. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In the Book Review, Jason DeParle called it a “generous but disconcerting” work. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Taken on its own, the Dark Web is disconcerting enough: a virtual dark alley filled with bogeymen and unseemly characters ready to trade private information to the highest bidder. Espionage Insiders: The Existential Threat 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z With “nothingtoodoo,” his first solo show at the Mary Boone Gallery, Mr. Koh gives his ascetic side full reign, to disconcerting effect. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z Seeing him here is slightly disconcerting, like bumping into a teacher away from school. ‘It hits you over the head’: can I survive my midlife crisis? 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Clark wants to make us recognise the difficulty and strangeness of Picasso's modernism: yes, of course, Picasso is an artist who should shock and disconcert you, if you are looking at him properly. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z There’s something I find, not disconcerting, but almost unbelievable about Mister Rogers when I’ve watched him. Matthew Rhys and the All-Feeling Male 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z I asked how things were going with his band, the Silver Seas, and got a disconcerting response. The Silver Seas: 'I've got to get a smash by hook or by crook' 2013-07-15T10:04:08Z To find him gunned down by police on his own doorstep inside 30 minutes after threatening to go berserk with a shotgun was truly disconcerting. TV review: Silent Witness and Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent 2011-01-04T08:00:05Z They blend humor and bleakness, sex and poverty; they disconcert as much as entertain. Danny Brown finds success by rapping about being broke 2012-03-28T00:18:00Z His is something of a nightmare world, all jagged angles and disconcerting juxtapositions. Roman Muradov's graphic novel loss of innocence (in a sense) 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z At the same time, there is a disconcerting shift at the vivid personal centre of the play from scepticism to awe. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z It was disconcerting to be offshore during a big storm, but far less so tucked in behind the rocky barrier. Everything Is Different on an Island 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z In the 1970s Balanchine removed the caller but added a slow male solo that is the ballet’s most modern and wonderfully disconcerting feature. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z Legion’s strangeness might be stifling, but the 33-year-old has long specialised in disconcerting kooks. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z What’s even more disconcerting is that nothing has really changed in terms of the job market. Stay-at-home dad no more 2012-06-21T21:50:00Z Some viewers may find themselves disconcerted or even exasperated by the film's final moments, but I found in them a final flourish of Hausner's sheer, exhilarating technique and intelligence, like that of a superb musician. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z The problem here is Rhys Ifans, cast as the villain Dr. Curt Connors; a white-lab-coated fellow with a disconcerting ability — aided by various mysterious chemicals — to turn himself into his hideous alter ego, The Lizard. 'The Amazing Spider-Man' — been there, done that 2012-06-29T00:00:05Z Winehouse's disconcerting sultriness meant she was initially classified as a jazz vocalist. Amy Winehouse obituary 2011-07-23T19:08:11Z I was quite disconcerted when my father refused absolutely to put a leash around my neck and take me for a walk…. Ingrid Bergman, As Time Goes By 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z What is disconcerting is that Iamus can produce this stuff endlessly: thousands of pieces, fully notated and ready to play, and "many of them great", according to Díaz-Jerez. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z But while his physical infirmity was disconcerting, what has stayed with me most was the sensitivity showed him by the superstar pianist Lang Lang, the soloist that evening. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z That picture, he noted, marked “the disconcerting point at which the cinema’s nostalgia bandwagon seems … to have turned up the road of juvenile regression”. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z The Bella twins, who do not wear masks while filming, have felt protected but somewhat disconcerted. ‘Total Bellas’ Refuse to Be Knocked Out by Quarantine 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Helpfully the actor also bears a natural resemblance to Lincoln that can be disconcerting at times, particularly in the scenes from his pre-presidential years. "Abraham Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Dilemma" clarify a few things about uncomfortable history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z "It was disconcerting, I'm not going to lie, to read those tweets," Wadlow said. 'Kick-Ass 2' looks at consequences of vigilante violence 2013-08-16T23:13:27Z In this oppressive and disconcerting staging, the consistently enthralling action takes place below deck – in the pit. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z Celebrity Where's Wally ... the Stars of Tomorrow Walking into the Screen International Stars of Tomorrow reception is a supremely disconcerting experience. Almost famous: how to spot the stars of tomorrow 2010-07-29T21:03:00Z Wilde’s audiences, then, often minimal, were a disconcerting combination of true believers and rowdy hecklers. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Thomas modeled her first book on her relationship with her husband, which is what made it all the more disconcerting when her marriage started to fall apart. Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s Separation Gives Phrase ‘Conscious Uncoupling’ a Boost 2014-03-28T20:04:37Z In recent years, headless animals have turned up with disconcerting frequency in New York City parks — goats mainly, but also chickens, and on occasion, a pig or calf. ‘Neon in Daylight’ Lights Up Ambivalence With Shades of Didion and Others 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The experience was “quite disconcerting,” he said, and was in line with predictions that we’re in for a bad tick year. Tick encounters are expected to be frequent this year. Here’s what you need to know. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z None of it sound or feels organic or fully human, which is how Seyfried distills the disconcerting essence of Holmes. Hulu's "The Dropout" brings its A-game with Amanda Seyfried's powerful take on Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Lorenz Hart Lorenz Hart is the laziest of the pre-eminent lyricists, and one of the most disconcerting. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z But in rewatching the movie three and a half decades later, Buck, with his rough-around-the-edges appeal, isn't really what is disconcerting about the film, which has become something of a cult classic. How "The Bear" paid homage to John Hughes and the dark heart of the Chicago suburbs 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Arena reasons that the musicals conform squarely to its catchall “American Voices” mandate, but it’s disconcerting to see a theater with such a historic reputation steadily lobbing pop softballs. Be serious: Can tough-minded theater survive on D.C.’s big stages? 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z And it’s disconcerting to learn that in Pakistan some honor killings can be forgiven by the victim’s family, with no punishment for the murderers. In the Best New Crime, Lethal Lasagna, Honor Killings and Nanny Cams 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A peculiar, disconcerting feature of the book is how frequently it reproduces the conditions it purports to criticize. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Ventura’s scattershot arguments are fueled by a disconcerting mix of libertarianism and conspiracy-theory paranoia, and buttressed by citations that range from legitimate journals to websites of somewhat less rigorous standards. Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z For some, I imagine, this would be a disconcerting, frustrating experience, but I quickly got used to this linguistic interzone. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z “These are disconcerting times, and this painting actually contrasts with what we are seeing now between Ukraine and Russia,” she added. The newest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art? Its own security guards. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Nawi says Lek’s disconcerting juxtapositions force the viewer to ask, “Where are we and when are we?” A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z A year ago, hospitals across the country noticed a disconcerting trend. The real reason the new RSV shot is hard for some parents to find 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z But the signals USC sent once again about the direction of its defense were too disconcerting to be brushed away with a win. Alex Grinch's disconcerting USC defense continues to fail. Can he pull it together? 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Such displays have been especially disconcerting for many American Jews given their own deep involvement in the quest for social justice. 'The left has really let us down.' Why many American Jews feel abandoned 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Muasau might have taken the whole obnoxious communication thing a bit too far, drawing disconcerting signals penalties in back-to-back games for mimicking the other team’s snap count. Late bloomers, comebacks and surprises: The unlikely rise of UCLA's defense 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z The fractious discourse offers a disconcerting glimpse of what’s ahead for a variety of cultural groups as school districts across California move to develop ethnic studies courses in response to new state requirements. Whose stories do we tell? Israeli-Palestinian tensions polarize an Orange County school district 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z “It’s a very disconcerting feeling when the fire department shows up and they don’t have water,” Ellison said. When Kula needed water to stop wildfire, it got a trickle. Many other US cities are also vulnerable 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z When it came to USC’s defense, the last month had offered up one deeply disconcerting signal after another. Alex Grinch's disconcerting USC defense continues to fail. Can he pull it together? 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z And that game is part of a disconcerting trend in which the Seahawks almost played better on the road than at home. What to watch for when Seahawks face Panthers in Week 3 — plus, Bob Condotta’s prediction 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z There were 11 penalties in the first half alone — seven of them pre-snap, including two for “disconcerting signals,” a delay of game charged against the defense for imitating the snap count. No. 3 Florida State survives late Boston College rally to win 31-29 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z Here, though, the members of the Pacific Chorale were so boldly amplified that they became a disconcerting but oddly affecting presence. Review: P-22 is remembered with fanfare at the Hollywood Bowl, in one of his favorite neighborhoods 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z In her disconcerting novel “I’m a Fan,” Sheena Patel takes this lopsided, obsessive and desperate dynamic to unsettling depths, exploring what happens when an initially parasocial relationship becomes social — and sexual. Follower becomes stalker in ‘tough-to-look-away-from’ ‘I’m a Fan’ 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z And the game continued a disconcerting trend dating to the midway point of last season. Four Downs with Bob Condotta: Answering questions after Seahawks’ Week 1 loss 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z But, McGhee noted, those departures send a disconcerting signal about the lifestyle available in California, that the state is less welcoming to lower-wage workers and younger generations. Shrinking California Still Dreams, but More Modestly 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z The knowledge and time Seattle had to focus on its tactics made it disconcerting that the Sounders lacked signs of improvement after the break. Sounders put up a dud against Atlanta in return to action 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z A disconcerting 28 percent of participants went broke despite having an advantage, and a shocking two thirds bet on tails at some point in the game, which is never rational. The Gambling Strategy That's Guaranteed to Make Money and Why You Should Never Use It 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z This indelibly nasty fable initiates an impressive range of similarly disconcerting tales that delight, disturb and startle in a myriad of resonant and unforgettable ways. Celebrate Women in Translation Month with these 6 audiobooks 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Tornadoes have spun through with disconcerting frequency; in December, two people died after one touched down in Keithville. Extreme Weather Is Coming. Someone Has To Tell The Chimps. 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z It also featured some good injury news but also a new issue for safety Joey Blount, as well as the at least momentarily disconcerting sight of first-round pick Devon Witherspoon sitting out at the end. Seahawks practice gets chippy; rookie CB Devon Witherspoon sidelined 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z |
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