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Example sentences for: jarring

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"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.
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.
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.
For ideological free-marketeers (like myself), theories like Smith and Wright's can be intellectually jarring.
Does a cowboy all the way down to his liver `a full-fledged 100% cowboy' derive from the damage done to one's liver by the jarring suffered in breaking horses?