Example sentences for: disconcerting

How can you use “disconcerting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That several jokes about California cuisine mention cilantro is unexceptional (click ). That many jokes about California's erotic life mention enemas is disconcerting.

  • The really disconcerting thing about Bryan's decision, though, is that it seems so blatantly to be more about gaining the favor of Wall Street than about improving the performance of the company.

  • This story of a long and stormy love affair between a fallen angel and a 19 th century French vintner is described alternately as having "a ferocious display of inventive power" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and as having "a disconcerting hollowness" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics agree on the flashes of brilliance in her writing; the disagreement is over how consistently Knox puts it all together.

  • Yes, you can sing just about every one of Dickinson's poems to the tune of "I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing" (try it, it's fun), but that kind of surface-level orderliness is undermined by the speaker's disconcerting propensity to topple into the abyss, whether prompted by union with God, union with the beloved, or union with death.

  • Though the maps are disconcerting at first glance, one easily learns to translate the state boundaries and make sense of the regional patterns.


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