Words similar to jarring

Example sentences for: jarring

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

In other words, this book has a jarring lack of a strong single voice, despite a knack for often finding a fine turn-of-phrase or a clever word choice.
Consequently, he has written an extremely strange book: In reading it, you are subjected to changes in personality as abrupt and jarring as nasty little electric shocks administered to the base of your spine.
"Their loss of control has been jarring to our traditional media and political organizations, who had sat astride a tight monopoly over politics and news," Katz writes in Virtuous Reality . "They fought back and have been fighting ever since, complaining that these new interactive media are dangerous and destructive of public discourse.
In essence, this approach would use political globalization to to a slightly less jarring pace.
And why do those pictures always feel as if they've been honed with the help of focus groups in suburban shopping malls to ensure that no aspect will be jarring to the middlest of middle-class viewers?