Example sentences for: disconcerting

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

  • 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.

  • The broadcast version of Greenspan's speech looked like it was coming off the Web, giving him the disconcerting appearance of the leader of a strange cult sitting at a small desk in a crowded room.

  • Her own evidence of parents "fleeing a world of unresolved quarrels and unwashed laundry for the reliable orderliness, harmony, and managed cheer of work" points to a diagnosis that is, if anything, more disconcerting.

  • When his women unexpectedly wake up, like Galatea in his "Pygmalion" series or the spurned lover emerging from the almond tree in (1881-82, Merseyside), it's often disconcerting, and the men look as though they should have let sleeping maidens lie.

  • This is the disconcerting news delivered by Arlie Russell Hochschild in her important new book, a sequel to her best-selling The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (1989).


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