| 单词 | disconcertingly |
| 例句 | It’s disconcertingly like a washroom scribble, something you’d write with spray paint on a wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It is true that the gods were disconcertingly incalculable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes a step forward, the ground disconcertingly soft beneath his feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Headmaster Clarkson got onstage and stared down the student body until the auditorium grew disconcertingly silent. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Will looked up at the face of this man who had so much that he wanted even more, and found him disconcertingly smooth and calm and powerful, not in the least guilty or ashamed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time he stared at her as he does now, with those disconcertingly bright-green eyes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There are no trees and the land is disconcertingly flat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Another was of a disconcertingly calm young man whose upper body appeared to be swarming with bees. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But what was of immediate note was that the trail ended, abruptly and disconcertingly, at the water’s edge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, people sensed he was an oddball at the time, disconcertingly gifted, outspoken, irreverent - in short, a strange mix of child and sage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And yet the film is also disconcertingly retrograde, tied to ideas of violent gender dysphoria that haven’t advanced an inch from the psychiatrist who explains Norman Bates’s behavior at the end of Psycho. Dressed to Kill at 40: Brian De Palma's thrilling yet problematic shocker 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z "Unlike many child stars, Daniel Radcliffe has grown up gracefully," said the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer, who thought "the former boy wizard lends this disconcertingly cruel play what little heart it has." Critics hail Daniel Radcliffe's latest stage turn 2013-06-19T13:18:09Z But the rhythm of the night was disconcertingly the same, and the sheer improbability of the happenstance scarily alike. Nothing like this has remotely happened before. This wasn’t just a minor kerfuffle. Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But as it proceeds, the presence of a different kind of musical mind and spirit at work becomes startlingly, even disconcertingly, clear. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z The vocal lines are bare, raw, disconcertingly exposed. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Of course, the ceremony itself is very long, and it stops, disconcertingly, every 10 minutes or so for TV ad breaks. Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Even after the ebbing of the Great Recession, Edin and Shaefer discover that households subsisting virtually without cash income are disconcertingly easy to find. What is it like to live on '$2.00 a Day'? New book examines deep poverty in the U.S. 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z He shaved it off a few years ago; it’s disconcertingly absent from the cover of his 2016 album “Sensuous Chill.” Yanni Is Still Chilling, 25 Years After the Acropolis 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z This is not the only disconcertingly festive note that distinguishes this otherwise mostly undistinguished production. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z But the book became a tremendous success, signaling a new approach to the writing of nonfiction: deeply personal, deeply empathetic, disconcertingly self-revelatory. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The works were visually austere, yet the reference to Christian theology — by a Jewish artist — was disconcertingly specific. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z On the strength of his Royal Liverpool Philharmonic debut, he is strikingly, almost disconcertingly good. RLPO/Rivas ? review 2012-05-18T16:42:08Z The fathers conjured up in these cartoons are a disconcertingly competitive and pragmatic bunch. Father's Day Cartoons from The New Yorker 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z “The taste for the disconcertingly top-heavy, inverted pyramidal mass grows on one slowly,” she wrote, “like a taste for olives or warm beer.” ‘Friday File’: The Whitney Museum’s 1966 Opening 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Yet, disconcertingly, I noticed some of the debut novels that I most admired were by authors who were the products of such courses. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z But her vision remains searingly her own, a relentlessly unvarnished view of human existence and its effect on nature that is as bleak as it is exuberant and, in this, disconcertingly inspiring. Art In Review: ZOE STRAUSS: ‘10 Years, a Slideshow’ 2012-07-12T21:25:56Z But its essential story, seen today, looks disconcertingly dated. The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z There have been days upon pleasant days in which the temperatures have been disconcertingly mild, high blue skies streaked with light clouds that provide painterly decoration without compromising the effect of the sunshine. With the People’s Vote March, Brexit Goes Down the Rabbit Hole 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Most journal-keepers would agree that it is disconcertingly easy to ignore wider issues. The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z I learned to avoid the seats directly under the satellite dish that hangs from the ceiling and echoes conversations held under it, disconcertingly. Can Fancy Chefs Excel at Fast, Cheap Food? Two Case Studies 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z This strange concoction slowly, disconcertingly, hooks you in. Micachu and the Shapes and the London Sinfonietta: Chopped and Screwed ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:22Z Even with the show’s faults, and a disconcertingly blunt ending, the troupe’s efforts remain admirable. Review: In ‘Hard Love,’ a Couple Divided by Religion and Big Questions 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z But there is something disconcertingly feminine about his long blond wig, which he brushes with care. National Review of Live Art | Theatre 2010-03-22T21:30:00Z As an irritated George upbraids the dangerously innocent Lennie, and as the two fantasize about owning their own little spread, they seem disconcertingly far away. Review: Skilled ensemble defines loneliness in Seattle Rep's 'Of Mice and Men' 2011-03-24T00:08:55Z Crossing some of the most dramatic terrain in Maui, parts of the road remain unpaved and disconcertingly narrow. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii 2012-11-30T19:41:37Z If you saw their disconcertingly creepy Rotating in a Room of Images at Battersea Arts Centre a while back you won't want to miss this piece for six audience members at a time. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-18T18:48:25Z Prowling the dingy, open flat restlessly — it looks disconcertingly like a group household I actually lived in, 20-odd years ago — Clarke’s camera introduces us to the all-male assemblage, in fragmentary interviews. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z Dauphin Island, connected to the mainland by a disconcertingly long bridge, was hit so hard by Hurricane Georges in 1998 that entire houses went skidding across the sand like errant beach umbrellas. Trump warned Alabama about Dorian. So we sent someone to cover the ‘hurricane.’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z It was of reasonable loveliness, and, disconcertingly, on the cooler side of temperate. A Dog Day Afternoon 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Various hoary institutions, from the press to the two-party system are teetering disconcertingly on the precipice of something. How do we make America great? 'Necessary Trouble' and 'Against Democracy' take contrasting views 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z There is a disconcertingly rubbery and weird Picasso rendition of Dora Maar. Art Review: Portraits From 16th Century and Sculpture at Sperone Westwater 2012-01-26T23:39:20Z The effect is insular, off-putting and disconcertingly familiar. Movie Review: ‘The Den’ Explores a Web-Based Murder 2014-03-14T01:56:31Z It’s 23 degrees, and Nolan slings the hoses like a lasso towards a hydrant installed disconcertingly near a stand of trees. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z Deb, a recent art-school graduate, has her share of problems even before the concept of identity theft becomes disconcertingly literal. Who is Deb, anyway? In 'D Deb Debbie Deborah,' more questions than answers 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Nothing can detract from real achievements, yet this memoir is disconcertingly shaped by the tropes of popular fiction and confessionalism. Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis ? review 2011-07-29T21:57:02Z It's a brilliant and intriguing film in many ways, boasting an intense, careworn performance from Stewart, though with a narrative "reveal" that arrives disconcertingly early on. Vertigo's rise up the film critics' top 10 is a fascinating case study in reputation 2012-08-01T18:44:44Z Basil was a friendly but extremely ugly male, with disconcertingly bulging eyes. Frugal Traveler Blog: On New Zealand's South Island, Farm Stays With Friendly Hosts 2012-03-27T18:03:35Z It's as if the different periods were parallel universes disconcertingly rubbing against each other. Time and the Conways – review 2013-03-11T17:48:10Z Corruption, she argues disconcertingly, helps hold Indonesia together. The road ahead 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Ball tends to slice and dice action sequences in a way that drains them of energy, and his attempts to churn up emotion fall disconcertingly flat. Lost in the dystopian nightmare of 'The Maze Runner' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Rhinoceros With darkly hilarious urgency, this superbly-staged and disconcertingly timely revival illuminates playwright Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist warning about the seductively corrosive lure of herd mentality, and the fragility of civilized norms we take for granted. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 23-30: 'As You Like It,' REDCAT's NOW Festival and more 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z He is really going somewhere with his disconcertingly confident objects, including a metal perspective cube that opens up new dimensions for the imagination. Why has The London Open got its eyes wide shut to the capital's creatives? 2012-07-04T11:24:57Z It sounded disconcertingly poppy, happy—here, Ocasek told us to shake it up and get real loose, and the song actually felt like a party. Ric Ocasek’s Eternal Cool 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z After an early out-of-town preview of his play “The Gin Game” in 1976, one filled with flubbed lines and disconcertingly long silences, D. L. Coburn sat in a hotel room with the director. James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Lay Their Cards on the Table 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z I'd wanted to be in a band for so long but the rise and fall was disconcertingly swift. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z The color scheme was a disconcertingly minimal blue and white. MTV Video Music Awards Are the Anti-Oscars, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In fact, that isn't exactly what happens, and, a little disconcertingly, Valka turns out to have a sentimental regard for Stalin. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z Perhaps the only real comparison is Lena Dunham's Girls, which similarly eschews the traditional beats and pacing of TV comedy for something disconcertingly and thrillingly alien. Have you been watching … Louie? 2013-03-12T13:13:00Z Ellen Reid’s score is accessible in the best way, disconcertingly sweet without being syrupy, with occasional whispers of choral voices so soft they’re almost more odor than sound. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z So while the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s introduction to the opening track, “Beauty and the Beast,” is all whipped cream and stardust, Lang’s entrance brings in a disconcertingly hard, icy note. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z She looks grey in the face, sometimes sagging with settled grief, sometimes disconcertingly perky. All My Sons; Henry VIII; Paradise Found 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half — or, in current parlance, the 1 percent — lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z The harborside statue of native Hans Christian Andersen’s aquatic heroine may be one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions, but it is also disconcertingly small and of questionable artistic value. Copenhagen: What to See and What to Skip 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Tony is the author of The Lives of Lee Miller, a biography in which he always refers to himself, disconcertingly, in the third person. Tony Penrose 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z This, however, sounds like wishful thinking; viewers will likely tune in primarily to observe the disconcertingly precarious spectacle of Lohan herself. The Precarious Spectacle of the Girl Boss in “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z She settles down in a room in her publicist's building, which is disconcertingly full of smartly dressed mannequins. Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle on her solo debut 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z Black magic has been a disconcertingly central theme of western art for centuries. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z To non-boating types such as myself, we seem disconcertingly far from land. Shell game: Off Florida’s coast, harvesting scallops is an underwater Easter egg hunt Sucking cigarettes with abandon and arching her back in gaudy print outfits, she reminded me – a little disconcertingly – of Rod Stewart circa Do Ya Think I'm Sexy. Cannes film festival diary: day eight 2013-05-22T14:44:16Z McCaw Hall’s enormous stage is disconcertingly empty on a Friday afternoon, though its spacious backstage is a wild dream of Wagnerian proportions. Light it up: The man behind the fire in Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2013-08-15T19:17:11Z It was in the high 70s that Wednesday, and the sun was struggling to break through storm clouds that hovered disconcertingly close to the ground. Snow Boots to Sockless, Briefly 2010-03-03T03:00:00Z On Thursday, Mr. Jacobs brought New York Fashion Week to a close with a disconcertingly depressing if very well-merchandised ode to the documentary “Hip-Hop Evolution” and a moment in time when everything changed. Marc Jacobs Stops the Music 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Yet, in Rodin's hands, this is disconcertingly modern art. Why Rodin's sculpture is Britain's best work of public art | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-23T10:35:00Z The beetroot is disconcertingly tender, like a muddy organ. The Envies of Eating in Springtime 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z As fragile as the Sphinx's face, as transient as the northern lights, as disconcertingly faecal as Seahenge, this irreplaceable part of our gaseous heritage is literally in danger of being blown out to sea. David Mitchell on new World Heritage sites 2011-03-27T00:05:36Z Now, as our new president blurts forth his vision for an increasingly weaponized planet, “1999” sounds disconcertingly fresh. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z For us this meant a disconcertingly huge shower; seriously, you could wash a pony in it. Hotel Review: Hotel Peter & Paul, New Orleans 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z There was abstract art on the walls of our waiting room, patterns made up of disconcertingly large eggs and sperm, and a noticeboard covered in photos of the babies the staff had helped create. Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z There is a long crescendo throughout. The system is simple, but the acoustical effect is disconcertingly not. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z If the violence of the Islamic State often feels disconcertingly Old Testament, that’s no accident. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The animation itself is disconcertingly 2D, but from the off, you can’t help credit Disney with its sheer devotion to its own shtick. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z This is a watchable, enjoyable film, with some hilarious and nail-biting moments, but it sets its face disconcertingly against satire and mischief with a final lurch into schmaltzy, liberal-patriot piety. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z The apes are disconcertingly like us, and it’s fun both to imagine them as better than we are and to watch their civilization developing some very familiar discontents. film: Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today 2011-07-27T12:00:09Z Since there are disconcertingly few women today in charge of ballet companies, I asked her if the job is harder for a woman. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Mason Reflects on Leadership of Royal Ballet 2012-07-20T22:03:05Z This, disconcertingly, begins in the dark, the stage empty, with a taped account of the music’s first few minutes. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z This meant that Whitehall found himself emoting opposite a 10-foot animatronic canine operated by two puppeteers — sometimes inside the dog, sometimes just holding up its rather disconcertingly dismembered head. Jack Whitehall Will Do Anything to Get to the Glastonbury Festival 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Presenters are being interviewed by other presenters as they mingle, but the screens either side of the stage aren't working, and it's disconcertingly empty at the back. Conor Maynard; Gabrielle Aplin – review 2013-01-27T00:08:01Z Sometimes they're trussed in rope, partly covered by traditional robes, hung disconcertingly from the ceiling or positioned kneeling on the floor. Is Nobuyoshi Araki's photography art or porn? 2013-05-08T15:12:52Z Sinclair, whose prose is famously so eloquent, is here smilingly reticent, and somewhat disconcertingly absents himself before the trip is quite finished – to catch a plane. Swandown – review 2012-07-19T20:30:00Z It was a disconcertingly conservative conclusion, and I say that as both a mother and a writer. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But this extreme misery is tethered to an idea of redemption that is disconcertingly soft. Movie Review: The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home 2010-12-28T22:45:33Z There are also heated sock liners, complete with a battery strap that seems disconcertingly like an ankle bracelet Lindsay Lohan might wear. Power Suits Take On New Meaning 2010-12-17T23:46:37Z The island itself, for example, which at first seemed to be disconcertingly deserted, soon proved itself to be even more disconcertingly inhabited. 2010-01-29T04:08:00Z Albers’s horizontal rectangles have an otherworldly serenity, but are enlivened by dynamic pairs of vertical dashes which sometimes look disconcertingly like cartoon eyes. TEFAF New York: A Worldly Fair Overflows With Art and Design 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z "No one is ever bad," said the disconcertingly genial Isaacs, in jeans and a casual shirt looking nothing like the supercilious Lucius. Malfoy actors talk good, evil as Potter saga ends 2011-07-07T11:55:08Z A chef who is – slightly disconcertingly – a dead spit for Guadagnino. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z The advantages became apparent before boarding even started, when I was pointed not toward the regular, jampacked security line, but upstairs and into a disconcertingly friendly and rapid process. Frugal Traveler Blog: Visiting the Frugal Promised Land: Business Class 2012-05-08T20:23:37Z “The taste for its disconcertingly top-heavy, inverted pyramidal mass grows on one slowly,” the architecture critic for The New York Times, Ada Louise Huxtable, wrote in 1966, “like a taste for olives or warm beer.” The Art of Flavor at Flora Bar in the Met Breuer 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Now Claire is stuck in the 18th century, underdressed for it, fleeing from a redcoat dragoon patrol — the sinister captain of which looks disconcertingly like her husband but turns out to be an ancestor. ‘Outlander’ and ‘The Knick’: Once more, time is of the essence Direct engagement links any number of pieces that require you to stare into another’s eyes, sometimes disconcertingly so. Review: Actor's Skill, in Delivery and Dexterity, Redeems 'La B?te' 2010-07-13T18:00:00Z More to the point, the room looks disconcertingly like a dartboard, with Lewinsky at the center of the crimson bull’s-eye. Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z When the drama of real human life fuels your art, especially when that art is created in tandem with another person, the line between inspiration and theft is disconcertingly thin. Review | Can a friendship between two cartoonists survive their own success? 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z But the characters trapped inside the uncanny world of Kate Folk’s debut story collection, “Out There,” are disconcertingly similar to us. Stop Telling Single People to Put Themselves ‘Out There’ 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z What he couldn't have predicted was that Isolde's Titian tresses today look disconcertingly like Rebekah Brooks-style locks. Tristan und Isolde – review 2012-05-22T11:57:52Z Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air. William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Vengeance and bloodshed figure prominently in many of those movies, and also, somewhat disconcertingly, in “Kung Fu Panda 2.” | 'Kung Fu Panda 2': A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy 2011-05-25T21:42:30Z More disconcertingly, Juliana gradually begins to glimpse, more and more often, a bizarrely dressed young woman roaming the estate, whom she doesn’t recognize. Review | First published in 1924, ‘Still She Wished for Company’ makes for a delicious, if bittersweet, Valentine’s Day treat 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “Heart” feels disconcertingly generic at times: Anouka, perhaps in an attempt to make the show feel more “universal,” tends to prefer bromides like “love is love” over the details that would have grounded the play. ‘Heart’ Review: First a Starter Marriage, Then Real Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z It was so broad as to be disconcertingly limiting, yet it wasn't the first time I'd heard it and it wouldn't be the last. What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z Somewhat disconcertingly, the movie is voiced entirely in English, something that Range said he thought would help make it more accessible to a wider audience. "Death of a President" director takes on slavery 2010-09-17T17:37:00Z Their faces look disconcertingly human, but their body shapes are blocky and unappealing. Best and worst animated characters, explained 2011-02-09T21:15:00Z The collection is far reaching; on the ground floor there's tribal and ethnographic tattooing paraphernalia, some of which is disconcertingly beautiful. Amsterdam Tattoo Museum features the macabre and the beautiful 2012-07-26T09:21:32Z Now get out your atlas and locate Boise, Idaho, where the skies never seem to cloud over, the people are disconcertingly friendly, and Trey McIntyre Project is the toast of the town. Boise and Trey McIntyre Project in a Deep Passion 2010-08-13T19:05:00Z That glosses over its oddities and flaws: There’s a distracting randomness to some of the human dramas around EO, a few disconcertingly surreal passages and certain questionably heavy-handed moments. Opinion | Something Very Important for Democrats Just Happened in Pennsylvania 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Taken together, it was disconcertingly folkloric — the busy frenzy onstage conjuring the scrub of fiddles and stomp of clogs, the crackle of fire of the surface of a river, the foreboding churn of distant machinery. Review | So Percussion brings the noise to the Fortas Chamber series 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Its existence suggests that other elephantine asteroids, veiled by the sun’s glare, remain disconcertingly undiscovered. ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps the museum’s curators could have used more time to learn the inevitable eccentricities of a brand-new building — which, disconcertingly, is not quite finished. Review: OCMA opens: The good, the confounding and the lack of seating 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In the land of triple-digit temperatures, the Rams were disconcertingly mild. Rams' offense still disturbingly hot and cold in lukewarm win over Cardinals 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Body parts turned up in dumps, cesspools, glens, even, disconcertingly, behind a butcher shop. Review | The grisly Cleveland murders that unraveled Eliot Ness 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z While Los Angeles staggers through its driest 23-year period in 1,200 years, the sculpture is a disconcertingly festive maypole that is simultaneously brutal and sad. Review: As drought deepens, nine L.A. artists think about water 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z For a brief moment, it seemed that a Kubrickian caricature might come disconcertingly close to the Oval Office. George Wallace hoped to upend the 1968 election. Then Gen. Curtis LeMay dropped a bomb 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z And by depending on LR, there will be the inevitable consequence for Mr Macron's supposedly centrist government that it will begin to look disconcertingly like a right-wing one. Emmanuel Macron a chastened and greatly weakened leader 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z At a line level, the verbs do much of the heavy lifting, and the overarching plot, which involves a vast time-travel bureaucracy, is deliciously and just a little disconcertingly addictive. Grayscale Lives in a Future Pandemic, Surveilling Memory, Saving Coral Reefs, and More 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The players made it disconcertingly clear that they were eager for a summer vacation and a new music director. Review: Santa Barbara music students, Simon Rattle and the London Symphony make for joyous revelation 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z All women astronomers in her world—those earning doctorates between the mid-1950s and the mid-1980s—had the same stories, which disconcertingly often mention bathrooms. Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In an America where mass shootings have been normalized and political forces are finding excuses for a bloody insurrection, the vision of this musical has never seemed so disconcertingly apt. Review: East West Players revives a disturbingly timely 'Assassins' 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z When the call went around the set for “lunch” — at 11 p.m., disconcertingly — there was much left to finish. Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Both the keyboard deck and the lid are almost disconcertingly smooth. Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 review: the 15-inch Chromebook to beat 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Additionally, its treatment of female characters feels disconcertingly underdeveloped. Apple’s Dr. Brain is a bold, genre-bending thriller 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z More disconcertingly, elements of the 82nd Airborne Division were placed on alert the morning of August 12th. What Afghanistan tells us about Team Biden’s incompetence 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Despite Samsung’s claims of improved durability with last year’s Flip phones, a disconcertingly large number of them still cracked right at the crease, even if they weren’t dropped or damaged. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 review: flipping into the mainstream 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Others seem disconcertingly tatty — none more than the 13 characters in Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” annually the pageant’s grand finale. Review: Celeb photographer Matthew Rolston's fabulously weird Pageant of the Masters portraits 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z And beyond the children, the border numbers remain disconcertingly high for the new administration. Kamala Harris touches down for first border trip 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z With new infections surging on nearly every continent, signs that the vaccination drive is in peril are emerging, most disconcertingly in Africa. Western Warnings Tarnish Vaccines the World Badly Needs 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The first year of COVID-19 was a disaster that unfolded in disconcertingly slow motion, at low volume and behind closed doors. Editorial Roundup: Minnesota 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Few of us considered ourselves part of a herd before, but the concept rooted in livestock management made it disconcertingly clear that we, too, are animals at the mercy of a microbe. We may never reach herd immunity — but it probably doesn’t matter 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The wound looked disconcertingly like chicken cutlet at the grocery store. How Caring for Backyard Chickens Stretched My Emotional Muscles 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z If earnings disappoint investors and management’s forecasts are worse than expected or disconcertingly vague, share prices could plunge back toward their recent lows. How Bad Will the Economy Get? Companies Will Provide Clues 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Even more disconcertingly, the lieutenant governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, suggested on Fox News that it would be reasonable for the elderly to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the economy: A general strike could happen in the US. But what comes after could change everything 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z They’re, like, five minutes away from starring in a disconcertingly agrarian Uncanny Valley Farms commercial! Is fake meat getting too much like the real thing? 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Trading in the market began to get snarled last week, with traders saying they saw disconcertingly large gaps in prices offered by buyers and sellers. Stocks nosedive on Wall Street, triggering trading halt 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z His Doc Martens are too small, “and occasionally a terrible clear bubble on my heel leaks and burns, keeping my sock disconcertingly wet.” Review: Such was life in Provincetown 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z He stares either piercingly or disconcertingly into the camera. Opinion | Democratic officials have reason to hope for a happy ending. The debate shows why. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The experimenters conclude that the rats learn to play this game for the sheer joy of playing the game, and this is disconcertingly similar to the way human children play. The science stories that shaped 2019 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z I assured them that it was okay to leave, hugged each of them as they finally exited, and soon found myself disconcertingly alone. Watching my students turn into soldiers of empire 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Many Democratic aspirants are patently insincere about what they call an existential threat, and many are disconcertingly sincere about weird minutiae. Opinion | Warren and Sanders know their startling ideas won’t get done 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The tale is told in flashback, either in voice-over or to the camera, with Frank looking directly—and disconcertingly—toward us, as if he were being interviewed for a documentary. Remembrance of Kills Past in “The Irishman” 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Williams’s serve, disconcertingly, was not a weapon; it was a liability, an exasperating, net-slapping illustration that her 37-year-old body would not cooperate. Perspective | Serena Williams faces some hard truths after falling short again in a Grand Slam 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps most disconcertingly, little is known about how microplastics affect human health. The ocean is teeming with microplastic — and it's leaching into our food systems 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The animals are puppets, but even though the tiger needs three people to operate it, it still appears disconcertingly realistic, especially when it is growling in your direction. Adapting a 'sort of impossible' book for the stage 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But outside these cultures, those eager to experiment have had disconcertingly unpredictable experiences. Altered minds: mescaline’s complicated history 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z There was just one server, who, though warm and friendly, disappeared for disconcertingly long stretches. A Tibetan Momo Shop Expands with Lhasa Fresh Food 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The suit makes us aware not so much of the physical difficulties of old age, which can be manageable, but of the mental state disconcertingly associated with it—the price of age being perpetual aggravation. Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The universe ought to be a cacophony of voices, but instead it is disconcertingly quiet. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “Nothing clears a room like removing a brain,” he sings on “Corps de Blah,” a work that disconcertingly jumps between humor and disgust. Appreciation: Scott Walker, who turned his back on commercial pop music to became an acclaimed experimental composer 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Travelling across Germany in the past months, I met plenty of young and disconcertingly smart activists who are trying to take their country far to the right. How a German Teen’s Death Has Become a Political Weapon 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Trump is splattered disconcertingly around Moss’s office in Lower Manhattan. Adam Moss bids farewell to New York magazine – but he's not done playing yet 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z If the street’s disconcertingly unrecognizable, the existence of Stone Korean will make you feel a whole lot better about changing Seattle. 3 great new cheap eats: Seattle Times food writers on wallet-friendly spots to try 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The political establishment seems to find Ocasio-Cortez disconcertingly real: She exhibits contradictions that suggest an actual personality. Opinion | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is appealing because she’s real. Can she keep it that way? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The next six Cabernets I tasted, sans Burt, were sadly pretty simple wines, pleasant to insipid and sometimes disconcertingly green and herbaceous. Is This Chilean Wine Too Affordable? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Miles drove to the Camp, where she sat across a table from Isaac, who was disconcertingly placid. ‘You descend into hell by coming here’: how Texas shut the door on refugees 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z A wealthy former CEO of a healthcare company and transplant from the north, Bredesen long cut an almost disconcertingly moderate figure in the state. Democrats’ chances of seizing Senate rest on two centrist older white men 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z But, disconcertingly, it turned out to have quite a lot to do with people like us, and possibly you too. Airbnb and the so-called sharing economy is hollowing out our cities | Gaby Hinsliff 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But some experts on white nationalism say the movement’s political agenda remains disconcertingly widespread. A Year After Charlottesville, Disarray in the White Supremacist Movement 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Seen from above, the parch marks have a magical quality, as if a giant had doodled them from memory, but they are also disconcertingly real. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Rep. Trey Gowdy’s emotions sometimes bubble disconcertingly close to the surface, but unlike many members of the political class, he is not all surface. Opinion | Trey Gowdy’s work here is done 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z THE GAP between the policies pursued by President Trump’s administration and what the president says when he is outside the range of a teleprompter continues to be disconcertingly wide. Opinion | Trump says we’re leaving Syria ‘like, very soon.’ Bad idea. 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet Empire called it "disconcertingly dull", saying its "effort to wipe the slate clean proves a little misguided." Mixed reviews for Tomb Raider reboot 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Hawking, when I scooped him up, was disconcertingly light and stiff, like a bundle of sticks. My Alarming, Inspiring Encounter with the Late Stephen Hawking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Most disconcertingly, hate crimes have increased 20 percent in the wake of the 2016 election. An excerpt from 'Political Tribes' 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Two years later, Rio was all about the spirited people of Brazil overcoming Zika, economic woes and disconcertingly green pools. NBC's Olympics coverage embraces the political but offers something for everyone 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Then there were the lightning, wind and fog effects, not to mention something at ankle height called, most disconcertingly, a tickler. A movie lover’s guide to Washington cinema, from hipster film house to Imax 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Also, there is something disconcertingly alien about a “perfect” world. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Identifying himself as "Dylan," he spoke in disconcertingly soothing tones about one's readiness for ghostly status as he draped thick, large sheets over participants. A24's spooky way of promoting 'A Ghost Story,' sans stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But he’d learned to see respectable England as disconcertingly similar, albeit with its prejudices expressed through nicely graduated hierarchies of social class. How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z It moves back and forth in time, a bit disconcertingly at first, but is richly descriptive, unsparing in its account of life under Jim Crow, and a touching account of love that extends over generations. Memoir: Black waiter was civil rights hero 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z In this finely calibrated indie from writer/director Sarah Adina Smith, the Emmy-winning “Mr. Robot” star is used to disconcertingly good effect, his large, lidded eyes like reservoirs of hope and pain. Offbeat indie 'Buster's Mal Heart' showcases Rami Malek's gifts 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z This massive, two-story complex — the largest single remnant of some 45 buildings at the time of Northern State’s closing — is an overwhelming maze of passageways and disconcertingly long corridors. An old mental institution, and its cemetery, might get a dignified makeover 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Few have personified these qualities as enthrallingly, disconcertingly and movingly as Frankie “The Answer” Edgar. The Joy of Six: boxing and UFC comebacks from the canvas 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s disconcertingly easy to leave when you know you can go back whenever you want. I deleted my social media apps because they were turning me into an idiot 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z For many of us, particularly those who reckon with the history of race, the true fear was not that we were in some unmapped terrain but that we were passing landmarks that were disconcertingly familiar. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes the aid in my right ear works disconcertingly like a radio receiver. We celebrated our 35th anniversary with an unusual gift: His-and-hers hearing aids 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z One quintet of bathers looks disconcertingly like the marmoreal Aryan nudes of Adolf Ziegler, Hitler’s favorite artist. Francis Picabia: the art 'loser' who ended up winning it all 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He pointed out that the participation rate of minorities in clinical trials is already disconcertingly low; even if E.P.R. proved to be a success, it could further undermine efforts to recruit people of color. Can Hypothermia Save Gunshot Victims? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Grant had a lazy eye which veered disconcertingly off to one side, but at that moment I caught him looking right through me. We all make mistakes: critics own up to their biggest gaffes 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Courtesy of those headphones and the high-tech wizardry of “binaural” audio – which is reproduced across a disconcertingly lifelike 360-degree field – The Encounter might be happening in your head. Simon McBurney: British theatrical alchemist ready to dazzle Broadway 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Though one could mock all the frippery, the show was disconcertingly lovely. Gucci’s Renaissance Man 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Once you’ve stopped and looked around, though, Obduction faces the ultimate problem for a VR game: how do you move through virtual space that feels so disconcertingly physical? Obduction is a beautiful virtual world that shows the limits of VR 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z At the same time, the number of voters who distrust her is disconcertingly high. What Will Decide the Presidential Election? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Solondz, 56, recently called from his home in New York for a conversation that felt as thoughtful and disconcertingly honest as his art. 'It's hard sometimes to look at a dog as a dog': Todd Solondz on bringing 'Wiener-Dog' to the screen 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The Administration’s letter to its “colleagues” in the nation’s public schools brings to mind Little Red Riding Hood, standing innocently before the large, smiling figure in granny clothes, except for the disconcertingly big, sharp teeth. Obama’s Transgender ‘Guidance’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The story of The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco, in fact, is disconcertingly delightful. Walking on sunshine: The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco compilation 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps more disconcertingly, the money-losing company issued $1 billion in bonds this week, which perplexingly plunged despite strong initial demand for the offering. Getting Nervous About Chinese E-Commerce 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But the CBA gives the commissioner disconcertingly vague power to discipline them for “conduct detrimental,” and it’s a power Goodell has consistently abused like a third world tyrant. Tom Brady’s lawyers missed the point: his innocence 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z He has the look of a fawn, with a narrow triangle chin and disconcertingly pale and steady hazel eyes. The hidden price Steph Curry pays for making the impossible seem effortless 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z For visitors to Damascus, life may seem disconcertingly normal. An unlikely normalcy prevails in the Syrian capital, where a mix of rural refugees and urbanites conduct their daily business to the muffled sounds of explosions in the distance 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z There may be plenty of fish in the sea, yet many are unhygienic, self-absorbed, disconcertingly attached to ex-fish, or fans of Donald Trump. Optimising romance 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z When the day is windy, their surfaces pleat with convincing waves, and when the day is still, they are disconcertingly flat and quiet. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z And the easy dissemination of hateful propaganda over the Internet makes that goal disconcertingly achievable. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Where Klitschko looks dignified and—considering that he is thirty-nine years old—disconcertingly muscular, Fury is a stranger sight. Tyson Fury: The Heavyweight Champion We’ve Been Waiting For 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Whether my round wires will become as disconcertingly common as my tortoise horn-rims are remains to be seen. Is It Time to Refresh Your Glasses? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Watching the actor disappear under white hair and latex wrinkles feels disconcertingly stagy at first. ‘Trumbo’ tells a by-the-book story of a blacklisted screenwriter 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Why films continue to wish me to sympathize with whiners I find disconcertingly unanswerable. ‘Love’ film by Gaspar Noe contains real sex but lackluster story 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z She develops the disease in her 40s, and the play jumps around disconcertingly in time and space, matching Megan's own failing grasp on reality. Alzheimer’s takes center stage as new plays tackle memory loss 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z After years of watching wildlife documentaries, spotting animals from the vehicle is a thrilling but disconcertingly familiar experience. Shooting a Lion 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z He got through it by watching old episodes of The Avengers, and daytime TV, although that was, disconcertingly, “full of adverts for life insurance and cancer!” Bruce Dickinson: ‘Hell would freeze over before I'd stop performing’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z My wife observed, later that afternoon, that we were disconcertingly low on toilet paper. Testing Favor: app aims to bring users whatever they need – but does it deliver? 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z For investors, the country's lead policymakers — once seen as a group of competent technocrats — have begun to look disorganized and disconcertingly opaque. China's market missteps are tripping up others 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z For the next couple of hours, Ms. Sanftner made colonial history disarmingly, disconcertingly contemporary without a hip-hop or R&B score. Actresses in ‘Hamilton’ Take a Trip to a Family Home for a History Lesson 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Starfish are famous for their ability to regenerate a disconcertingly large chunk of their bodies if dismembered. Starfish Show Tracking Tags Who's Boss [Video] 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z LaGuardia, known for its disconcertingly close proximity to the bay, is one of the most congested airports in the United States. Plane Skids Off Snowy NYC Runway, Stops Feet from Icy Bay 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z LaGuardia, known for its disconcertingly close proximity to the bay, is one of the nation’s most congested airports. Plane skids off snowy New York runway, stops next to icy bay 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And he was disconcertingly good at presenting himself as a reasonable, rational actor. I I interviewed Bashar al-Assad about ending Syria’s civil war. He’s still too delusional to do that. 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet seen from a distance of several decades, the images seem disconcertingly bombastic and conceptually shallow, especially when compared with the manic eclecticism of his earlier Combines. This Stanford Exhibit Shows How Robert Rauschenberg Boosted NASA Space Exploration... With Art 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Now they also seem capable of expelling disconcertingly large objects through their skin. Starfish Show Tracking Tags Who's Boss [Video] 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z It was a year when words like "beheading," "quarantine," "botched execution" and "rectal feeding" became disconcertingly familiar. What to expect in 2015: Obamacare and the Republican Congress 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z But in the past year, the price of many generics is disconcertingly moving in the wrong direction, drawing the attention of Congress and pinching the wallets of consumers as well as pharmacies and insurers. Generic drug prices skyrocket in past year 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z And most disconcertingly, it's naive to think threats won't continue to be made against dissenters, particularly women. Gamergate is dead 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Gardner, 40, cherubic and ebullient, is a human sunbeam whose unshakable cheerfulness is disconcertingly authentic as he exclaims to the waiter at breakfast, “Thank you for your work this morning!” In Colorado, overheated rhetoric from ‘Mark Uterus’ Dizzied by the turmoil, Wall Street experts agreed on one thing: The jarring day showed that fear had finally returned to markets that had become disconcertingly complacent. Stocks in Asia Open Lower Thursday After Rough Day on Wall St. 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Magazine and book publishers looking to memorialize the enigmatic icon were preparing “to jump aboard the bandwagon that looks disconcertingly like a hearse,” the piece proclaimed. James Dean Was "Barely a Celebrity" Before He Died 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z But now, as we watch those roles get automated and service jobs spring up in their place, that history starts to look like a disconcertingly small sample. The machines are making us stupid 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z This broad-based fiscal hit is probably why consumer sentiment fell by more than 15% and is still at disconcertingly low levels. Why the Abbott budget was the perfect political poison 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But that assumes a widespread discontent with the free-speech status quo that instead seems disconcertingly muted. Tiananmen amnesia Her hand, offered for a firm shake, is smooth and disconcertingly cool, as though her veins pumped seawater. Loss Leaders on the Half Shell 2014-02-22T16:03:33Z Others are the opposite, the end of a curve dipping away at a sharp angle, sometimes disconcertingly out of sight. On the Luge, Safety Built Into Swerves 2014-02-05T02:48:29Z In the morning I went to the hardware store, where I found a disconcertingly large selection of rodent control devices, a whole wall of them. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z On a recent afternoon, a team of mechanics was banging disconcertingly on the innards of an engine while another plane was taxiing for takeoff. Mansfield, Ohio, air base’s fate reflects a larger battle between active duty, reserves 2013-12-17T00:20:06Z After all, the art style is remarkably similar—disconcertingly similar, one might say—and even the silent plot appears to share some similar elements with Gearbox’s first-person shooter. From 'CodeHunters' To 'Aliens: Colonial Marines': How Gearbox Has Become One Of The Most Controversial Studios In The Industry 2013-03-15T17:26:24Z Sovereign debt loads are disconcertingly large in many countries and will need to be addressed. The global economy: Slower and slower 2012-10-09T14:25:41Z As I entered the residence in Tehran, I found the whole spectacle weirdly, disconcertingly familiar. Escape from Iran 2012-09-17T22:20:00Z But even researchers acknowledge that the symptoms are disconcertingly vague. Waiting and Worrying After Yosemite Hantavirus Outbreak 2012-09-17T18:55:31Z They showed large and disconcertingly abrupt temperature jumps in the past. The Discovery of Global Warming [Excerpt] 2012-08-17T14:15:00.500Z At its narrowest, the traffic is still disconcertingly close.” Who Needs Bike Trails? Denmark Has a Bicycle Superhighway 2012-07-23T13:35:36Z The only sounds were the disconcertingly mournful thuds of muffled drums — and, of course, the marchers’ footsteps on the hot pavement. City Room: A History of Making Messages Heard, Silently 2012-06-15T22:57:31Z This story, which is affiliated in ideas with Sanine, is Tolstoyian in the main issue, yet disconcertingly different in its interpretation. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z "While this represents significant progress, the mortality figures are still disconcertingly high for a disease that is entirely preventable and treatable," the report said. Deaths from malaria fall, but funding woes loom: WHO 2011-12-13T13:07:39Z But the aged and infirm propose and the postman disposes and I can only hope I shall not be either disconcertingly previous or ineffectively subsequent. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Archie wished the tigers' heads had been pressed in the same way; as it was, they were disconcertingly solid and life-like, with long teeth and snarling mouths and glaring eyes. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z "Know what?" asked Bill, appearing disconcertingly around the tree. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z And from this portal the book goes on to incidents and persons not less exquisite but still disconcertingly mere portals. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z At the top of these you see — disconcertingly, even though you have known where you were heading all along — brilliant sunshine. The 9/11 Decade: Ironworkers of the Sky 2011-09-01T19:24:08Z "I have been expecting the collapse of capitalism all my life," said the left-wing historian AJP Taylor during the social unrest and inflation of the early 1970s – a time disconcertingly like our own. The eurozone: it's a pyrrhic victory for the eurosceptics 2011-08-13T23:06:43Z The man could see that a swift jerk would bring the butt in to her shoulder and the barrel in line with him, while the girl's gaze was also disconcertingly fixed and steady. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z DOE officials say that their actions are consistent with federal policy, but they seem disconcertingly casual about it. Activation energy 2011-07-06T17:20:02.960Z Moreover her pure, bright color and clear eyes were disconcertingly natural beside the artificial beauties. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z That did not seem to bother a considerable number of women who were, somewhat disconcertingly, walking along in their bare feet holding their high heels, which had presumably been through a lot this night. | Las Vegas: Witnesses to Sunrise Over the Strip 2011-06-21T00:20:25Z But her pretty eyes laughed, most disconcertingly, while the rest of her face remained prim. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z She could look back, by the light of fool-wisdom, and sort out innumerable, half-forgotten trifles, unconsidered at the time, which corroborated, almost disconcertingly, this—what could she call it? The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The supposed strength of this defense – the linebacking threesome – looked disconcertingly mundane. The Fifth Down: 2010 Seahawks: What the Film Revealed 2011-05-04T10:00:31Z “You see, the situation was disconcertingly novel to me.” The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z She smiled disconcertingly, as she looked away again at Maria Greene. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z Michael Oher, moving to the left side, was disconcertingly average, at least given the hype around him. The Fifth Down: 2010 Ravens: What the Film Revealed 2011-03-29T10:00:25Z They were all very splendid and disconcertingly free from mud. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z He seemed startled at her disconcertingly frank manner of speech. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Swickey had returned the stare in full and a little over, replying with that juvenile grimace so instinctive to childhood and so disconcertingly unanswerable. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Surely, in the first over of an Ashes series, the atmosphere must be disconcertingly intense? Jonathan Trott: 'What we achieved might only hit me when I've retired' 2011-01-11T00:06:00Z From the door to the chair, from the chair to the window, from the window back to the chair, she lay estimating him altogether disconcertingly. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Slighty disconcertingly I've got the squeak and thwack of squash coming through my headphones, despite there being nothing but cycling on my TV screens. Commonwealth Games - live! 2010-10-13T09:12:00Z Ask Nicholas Johnson, director of the center’s state fiscal project, if he divines any silver lining in his report and he pauses a disconcertingly long time. The State Budget Disaster 2010-07-01T17:00:00Z Ormond still picked him for the England match and Johnstone played beautifully in a 2-0 win, yet the manager disconcertingly declined to give him even a minute at the World Cup finals. The Joy of Six: World Cup memories 2010-06-07T06:08:00Z His eyes, clear and clean and shining from his out-of-door life, disconcertingly direct, met hers. The Trail of Conflict "I—I did not think that mademoiselle had got here yet," he said, the dark eyes in their steady gaze disconcertingly at variance with his stammering speech. The Belovéd Traitor She stood looking at him silently, her large, questioning eyes reminding him disconcertingly of Asshlin's. The Gambler A Novel Mary herself asked very crisply, appearing in her disconcertingly and silent fashion. In And Out The most disconcertingly tedious part of the whole entertainment is, in my opinion, the Tango itself: it is mere virtuoso-work in dancing—an eccentric caper, not after beauty, but after variety. The Book of This and That His voice was tenderly exultant, his eyes disconcertingly possessive as he reminded huskily: "About that honeymoon I promised to show you, Mrs. Courtlandt——Can I interest you in a silver mine?" The Trail of Conflict To the younger men she was a little reserved and quiet, to the elder men all grace and sweetness, to the trickster cousins, disconcertingly cool. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington That was so disconcertingly what he had become. The Sacred Fount “Flabby dabby” was her not inappropriate mental definition, but the small grey eyes looking out of the vast mass of flesh were disconcertingly keen and alert. What a Man Wills This Robert Gloucester was disconcertingly direct, and must be kept in his place—gently, however, for he had other points in his favour, such as being young and handsome, and transparently impressed by herself. A Question of Marriage For a thought wonder glimmered in the violet eyes; then they flashed disconcertingly; finally they became utterly cold and disdainful. The Destroying Angel Her lips were a disconcertingly vivid red, apparently an artificial color. Star Performer When she was gone, and Perry, Mrs. Nelson looked disconcertingly at her son. A Canadian Bankclerk The street was deserted, and the tap of her little heels sounded disconcertingly loud in the emptiness of it as she hurried on, turning from the narrow street into a narrower one. The Wishing Moon He wasn't able to answer all of Warburton's disconcertingly sharp questions. Industrial Revolution We slid and floundered as though we had on skates; we accumulated balls of it underfoot; and we sank disconcertingly half-leg deep at every third step. Gold She was unaware, disconcertingly unaware; yet her surprise showed the frankest pleasure. Tante Lavendar had his share, but somehow that morning he was disconcertingly candid to himself. Robinetta In gray, ghostly walls, empty windows stared steadily, disconcertingly like sockets of dead eyes in tattered, weatherbeaten skulls. ean and Smithy walked among the roofless ruins. Two Thousand Miles Below She looked disconcertingly pretty; she was always at her best in the evening; and she had such eyes to gaze on him. A Great Man A Frolic She lost sight of herself altogether just now, and saw him only, but in that different light in which he had appeared so suddenly, so disconcertingly, at the ball two nights ago. Daisy's Aunt They might be impossible, Madame Belot of course was impossible; but they were not vulgar and they were extremely intelligent, and their intelligence displayed itself in realms to which he was almost disconcertingly a stranger. Tante The red monsters, in spite of their bulk, were disconcertingly swift. In the Morning of Time Suddenly Maggard's frank laugh broke out disconcertingly as he added an inquiry so direct that it caused the other to flush. The Roof Tree "I have been wondering whether you kept your promise to me," she said—I wish women were not so disconcertingly irrelevant—"but now I am quite sure." The Belovéd Vagabond Grandmother lowered her spectacles to the point where they rested upon the wart and peered disconcertingly at Matilda. Master of the Vineyard The broad face before 52her was not unhandsome, and the blue eyes were disconcertingly direct, but she despised him for a coward. The Jupiter Weapon It was disconcertingly familiar, until he recognized, beyond any doubt, that it was his own. Mountain Blood A Novel It was disconcertingly funny, and the girl helped him to his feet, laughing in spite of every effort to restrain herself. The Wind Before the Dawn Janet thought the great rooms were very beautiful, but Oliver did not like their vast silence in which the slightest sound seemed so disconcertingly loud. The Windy Hill He was considerably taken aback, however, when his host suddenly asked, with a disconcertingly intense glance: "Are you quite sure you are really innocent?" Simon Once or twice her knees faltered disconcertingly in her progress down the corridor. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls She was even taller than Mary Zattiany and in the portrait her waist was round and disconcertingly small to the modern therapeutic eye. Black Oxen But now, to a lone man down there, they would be bleak plains stretching to a disconcertingly near horizon. The Planet Strappers Much that was done perished with the group or the fad that gave it birth, much when suddenly come upon now on the walls of the provincial gallery looks disconcertingly old-fashioned. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties As he handed the cigarettes about he looked searchingly at Martin with eyes disconcertingly intense. One Man's Initiation—1917 She was as demure as possible, but she seemed unusually and disconcertingly self-possessed. Mistress Anne This is the bunch," and Laramie spoke even more deliberately; he looked directly, almost disconcertingly at Van Horn himself, "that sent the men to rip off my wire just a while ago. Laramie Holds the Range His eyes, though capable of a disconcertingly direct gaze, were clear and even childlike. The Crooked House The Staff of Life suddenly and disconcertingly sprouted wings —and mankind had to eat crow! Bread Overhead Mr. Sperry came, breathing threats and future slaughter, but met a disconcertingly cold and undisturbable gleam of the gray eye. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage He turned to drop his cigarette into the brass receiver at his elbow to avoid contact with her gaze, which was bent upon him disconcertingly. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! "Now what about us?" she said disconcertingly, leaning back in his arms. Planet of the Damned "Or to say all that more briefly, Stuart," she replied in a disconcertingly matter-of-fact voice, "I'm a woman—and incidentally you mustn't drop into the habit of calling me dearest." The Tyranny of Weakness You mean," said Toni, who, like other primitive people, was apt to be disconcertingly outspoken, "you mean that Owen—my husband—isn't happy. The Making of a Soul But what can I say when the primary address was so disconcertingly to the ear? On the Stairs Then all these speculations disconcertingly vanished, and Hilda presented herself to his mind as a girl intensely religious, who would shrink from no unconventionality in the pursuit of truth. Clayhanger "I'm not," answered Georgiana, looking away from him into the fire, whose light flashed in her eyes less disconcertingly than that which she somehow knew leaped in his, "sure where we left off." Under the Country Sky Out of the desert of American fictioneering, so populous and yet so dreary, Dreiser stands up—a phenomenon unescapably visible, but disconcertingly hard to explain. A Book of Prefaces "It's the beastliest kind of a shame, your ever having had to do such work——" "Oh, had to?" she flashed back at him disconcertingly. The Fruit of the Tree "Why are you sorry?" the voice asked disconcertingly. The Lost Valley A basin of acorn coffee and a small piece of black bread was all we had eaten for breakfast, and we were commencing to feel the pangs of hunger disconcertingly. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben This attitude proved in the end to be possessed of a disconcertingly slender foundation. South America Irving thought that his deep-set dark eyes were disconcertingly direct in their gaze; and a lock of black hair overhung his brow in a far from propitiating manner. The Jester of St. Timothy's I was too late to hear what he had said, but the resentment which his attempt had provoked was disconcertingly obvious. Berry And Co. In her conversations with me the Queen was at times almost disconcertingly frank. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean I hoped that he would not remember me, but, like many great men, he had a disconcertingly good memory for faces. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy His dark blue eyes were disconcertingly clear and direct. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert Carminow, who under a manner of deepest gloom concealed a nature as kind and as disconcertingly morbid as of yore, was unaffectedly charmed to see his old schoolfellows, and said so. Secret Bread He moved at length, moved suddenly and disconcertingly, freeing one hand to turn her face quietly upwards. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories The outside silence was softly musical with all the little voices that at Hooper's had so disconcertingly lacked. The Killer As for Arúna—while pain anchored her body to earth, her unstable heart swayed disconcertingly from heights of rarefied content, to depths of shyness. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India She was eager, voluble, curious, and most disconcertingly oblivious of a possible sensitiveness in Lane. The Day of the Beast He had not changed, but he had developed so far that to Ishmael he seemed disconcertingly altered. Secret Bread With the faintest possible gasp of surprise little Eve Edgarton stopped slashing his arm and, picking up the lantern, flashed it disconcertingly across his blinking eyes and naked shoulders. Little Eve Edgarton It was dark out there and disconcertingly silent. The Real Adventure She looked at him over her glasses disconcertingly, and he could think of no reply. A Hoosier Chronicle The people are disconcertingly like English, especially the girls and children—fair and big and healthy looking. With Rimington “Oh! yes, we know,” Mrs. Banks put in disconcertingly. The Jervaise Comedy Again the lifted lantern light flashed disconcertingly across his face and shoulders. Little Eve Edgarton It was disconcertingly loud, in the first place, and it came out upon the promontories of speech with a flat whang that fairly made you jump. The Real Adventure These were thought obscure only because they were so disconcertingly penetrating and direct. The Life of Reason His face was uniformly solemn, but his eyes were disconcertingly furtive. The Inheritors And it was because the guests seemed so disconcertingly pleased to see her. Christopher and Columbus The schoolma'am's eyes, besides being pretty, were often disconcertingly direct in their gaze. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories Most disconcertingly before his glowering eyes a great, sad, round tear rolled suddenly down the White Linen Nurse's flushed cheek. The White Linen Nurse Well," said Lady Halifax disconcertingly, "I suppose the carriage is at the door, Lawrence, but you might just send to inquire. A Daughter of To-Day For a host to count up the items is suggestive of parsimony, while not to look at them is disconcertingly reckless, and to pay before their faces for what his guests have eaten is embarrassing. Etiquette She was disconcertingly eager and glad to meet them, and pathetically anxious to win their favor. The Happy Family She would have given a good deal to have witnessed his subsequent movements, but she would have been considerably disappointed had she done so, for Hone's methods were disconcertingly direct. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories "I'm saving her for myself!" snapped the Senior Surgeon most disconcertingly from the doorway. The White Linen Nurse She executed one of her queer little dances, very solemnly and intently and disconcertingly. The Dark House He was so terribly strong, so disconcertingly absolute in his demands upon her. Greatheart She was now at least twenty-five, and her gaze disconcertingly combined extreme maturity with extreme candour. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns He handed her the key with a gesture that disconcertingly melted the rigour of all her limbs. The Price of Love His ears still range disconcertingly with the stinging echoes of his wife's all-too-frank and truthful portrayal of his character, disposition, parentage, and future prospects. Analyzing Character Yes, there was one weak spot in the middle of the top of his head, where the crop had of late disconcertingly thinned! The Regent She was pretty, too, disconcertingly pretty, in spite of the dark circles under her eyes and the pallor of her face. Witness for the Defense Ignoring desire, which to-night so sensibly and disconcertingly gnawed at his vitals, let him work to restore the former harmony and sweet strength of their relation. Deadham Hard She knew well that, had he chosen, Nick might have thrust back, instantly and disconcertingly, as his manner was. The Way of an Eagle While Macgregor grinned miserably, Christina, the stranger, smiled sweetly, if a little disconcertingly. Wee Macgreegor Enlists Some were gaping, others foolishly grinning as if their last sensation had been agreeable—as indeed it had been—while others stared disconcertingly. The Flying Legion It is true that Mama Joy recovered disconcertingly that afternoon, and became once more ubiquitous, but Billy felt that nothing could cheat him of his joy, and remained cheerful under difficulties. The Long Shadow To pass from the dynamic to the static mode must be always something of an embarrassment and trial, especially to the young with whom sensation is almost disconcertingly direct and lively. Deadham Hard Dave was sincerely startled when his son one day skillfully restored tone to the thing after it had disconcertingly rebelled. The Wrong Twin This distrust is not, perhaps, the proximate cause of the strikes that now follow each other so disconcertingly, but it embitters their spirit, it prevents their settlement, and leads to their renewal. An Englishman Looks at the World Iron rails and ties blocked the exits and the small cannon disconcertingly thrust their nozzles down upon one out of the windows. In the Claws of the German Eagle She turned quickly and saw a stranger standing on the threshold regarding her with a rather disconcertingly intent gaze. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth She sat waiting, her eyes disconcertingly fixed upon the other woman's flushed face. The Port of Adventure Then he put his elbows on the table, pinched his lower lip with his two fore-fingers, and regarded Bert disconcertingly with magnified eyes. The War in the Air A slight hill, a ploughed field, the streets of a town, create riotous, rolling, invisible streams and cataracts of air that catch the airman unawares, make him drop disconcertingly, try his nerves. An Englishman Looks at the World Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would. The Age of Innocence His relation with Maria as well was, strangely enough, no longer quite the same; this truth—though not too disconcertingly—had come up between them on the renewal of their meetings. The Ambassadors Thorpe looked at him with a disconcertingly leaden stare, the while he thought over what had been proposed. The Market-Place Rather stiff it was, but suddenly it came over— The big curved wings on either side flapped disconcertingly, flapped again' click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock! The War in the Air The worker is beginning now to strike for unprecedented ends—against the system, against the fundamental conditions of labour, to strike for no defined ends at all, perplexingly and disconcertingly. An Englishman Looks at the World She might be any one of a dozen definable types, or she might—more disconcertingly to her companion and more perilously to herself—be a shifting and uncrystallized mixture of them all. The Reef At three-thirty to the minute—never have I known a human being so disconcertingly businesslike as J. F. Bretland—an automobile of expensive foreign design rolled up to the steps of this imposing chateau. Dear Enemy Instead of the prehistoric being I had expected, a girl stood in the open door looking at me out of a quite remarkably bright pair of eyes—disconcertingly bright in fact. The Man from the Clouds The large brown eyes that the child turned upon her were disconcertingly familiar. Calvary Alley From where I stood, at a distance of six or eight yards, the impact of the Sheeney's fist on The Young Pole's jaw and cheeks was disconcertingly audible. The Enormous Room And, in certain faces there would peep out, queerly, disconcertingly, indications of some obscure malady of the spirit peculiar to very ancient races—like the excavations in the Roman Campagna. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Corson gulped and surveyed the young lady, and found her eyes as disconcertingly rebuking as they had proved in the case of North. All-Wool Morrison It began by seeming grotesque; it ended disconcertingly. The History of Mr. Polly The straight delicate features, slightly foreign, the fair hair rippling from the neck, were disconcertingly familiar. Calvary Alley Our friends were stared at rather disconcertingly as they landed, and there was no little suspicion in the glances directed at them, as they made their way to the commandant's quarters. The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar It was Mrs. Beale, disconcertingly, who began to explain it to her friends; it was she who, wherever they turned, was the interpreter, the historian and the guide. What Maisie Knew Nagel, in Mysterier, is shown as a fool, an eccentric intolerable in ordinary society, though he is disconcertingly human, paradoxically sane. Growth of the Soil In consequence he often appeared disconcertingly abrupt in decision. Lady John Russell He gazed at her for a moment fiercely from under his black brows; then suddenly and disconcertingly he seized her by the wrists. The Bars of Iron His eyes, touched with humor and yet disconcertingly intent on information, were fixed steadily on hers. Man Size Then it dropped, limp at his side, for he was gazing into the two barrels of a shotgun, which, materializing over a rock, were pointing accurately and disconcertingly at the pit of his stomach. Average Jones Also, her calm outlook upon heavenly horizons made the affairs of the girls seem sometimes disconcertingly small, and to realize the smallness of one's affairs is in itself an experience to youth. The Iron Woman She was so young, so cool, so disconcertingly straightforward that, in contrast, his own age appeared the greater, and his many counterfeit qualities were thrown into uglier relief. Flowing Gold But she hid in unexpected crannies, and stepped forth to confront him disconcertingly. Youth Challenges The thought of Lady Bramfell mingled disconcertingly with some other thought more distant and less easy to secure. The Masquerader Algy, quivering and angry, looked disconcertingly round the room as if he were quite calm and collected. Aaron's Rod And then she burst out disconcertingly: "Do you think he has gone off with that dreadful little Gedge girl?" The Red Planet Johanna lifted her shortsighted eyes to his face, and looked coolly and disconcertingly at him through her glasses, as if she had just become aware of his presence. Maurice Guest She disconcertingly inquired what he would do with patients who had sustained fractured skulls, developed cancers, or been exposed to smallpox. A Daughter of the Land High moments have a way, sometimes, of resolving their prime and unreducible factors, all of a sudden, to disconcertingly simple terms. Missy Brown had a disconcertingly simple and direct method of dealing with the most complex problems. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan On many of her interlocutors Madame Merle might have produced an irritating effect; it was disconcertingly difficult to surprise her. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 His movements were marked by the lizard's disconcertingly abrupt clockwork speed; his speech was thin, fluty, and dry. Crome Yellow He compromised with the conscience that her memory kept so disconcertingly active. Captain Blood She took with him precisely the tone that Aline had taken with herself and which in Aline she had found so disconcertingly indelicate. Scaramouche Although well on the wrong side of seventy, his eyes were still disconcertingly bright. A Voyage to Arcturus And he put on his glasses disconcertingly, and threw his head back to watch the reply. Soul of a Bishop We were all shy and didn't know how to take hold of him now we had got him, and, which was disconcertingly unanticipated, he was manifestly having the same difficulty with us. The New Machiavelli When he was about to get up, he found that the shrivelled skin that had been his third arm was flapping disconcertingly with every movement of his body. A Voyage to Arcturus |
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