Example sentences for: disconcerting

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

  • It is understandable that Michel Vercambre would find it disconcerting to run into blue jaundice in his English-Welsh dictionary [“Instant Welsh,” XVII, 3].

  • The result of all these juxtapositions is, however, a somewhat disconcerting blend of pop-science and pop-confessional genres.

  • Daily Variety 's Ray Richmond says the show, which focuses on volunteers in a San Francisco community clinic, "has the disconcerting effect of a neon sign flashing, 'We're doing television that makes a difference.

  • 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.

  • Especially disconcerting was said to be his lengthy disquisition on numerology.


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