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  • If he persisted in talking of such subjects, she had a disconcerting habit of falling asleep.   (source)
    disconcerting = disturbing
  • The Savage obeyed with a disconcerting literalness.   (source)
  • And then came that disconcerting ride.   (source)
    disconcerting = unsettling
  • "But where are the others?"
    "They won't be fed by you to-day. They're either in the dressing-station or pushing up daisies."
    The cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him.   (source)
    disconcerted = disturbed
  • I put my question quickly and somewhat sternly, on purpose to disconcert him.   (source)
    disconcert = unsettle or disturb
  • This change of note disconcerted Ebenezer;   (source)
    disconcerted = disturbed or unsettled
  • ...there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.   (source)
    disconcert = nervousness (disruption of composure)
  • I was exceedingly surprised on receiving so rude an answer from a stranger, and I was also disconcerted on perceiving the frowning and angry countenances of his companions.   (source)
    disconcerted = unsettled or disturbed
  • But the longer it went on, with no one coming to the door, no one looking for him, the more certain he became that this was something deliberate, meant to disconcert him.†   (source)
  • As soon as the situation required him to work with Edgar's father, however, arguments arose, puzzling and disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Foreigners, especially men, tend to find this tradition a bit disconcerting.†   (source)
  • But what had disconcerted the Count was when his father clarified that natural selection didn't need tens of thousands of years to take place.†   (source)
  • Of Herbert, who had developed a burning hatred for the enemy and fired at them with disconcerting joy.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Traynor looked stunned, and then a bit disconcerted, and then her whole face closed off.†   (source)
  • It had been enough of a shock for Harry to discover, on his eleventh birthday, that he was a wizard; it had been even more disconcerting to find out that everyone in the hidden wizarding world knew his name.†   (source)
  • That's really disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Ed remembered Ishmael's father and shook his head, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • "Oh," she said, still evidently disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Another was of a disconcertingly calm young man whose upper body appeared to be swarming with bees.†   (source)
  • Renly had been a boy of eight when Robert won the throne, but he had grown into a man so like his brother that Ned found it disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt disconcerted.†   (source)
  • I look at the others' disconcerted faces.†   (source)
  • It was rare I had such a keen listener, and I found it almost disconcerting.†   (source)
  • They left peacefully, just as they had come, and Mama Elena was quite disconcerted by the way they had treated her; it didn't fit the picture of the heartless ruffians she'd been expecting.†   (source)
  • Alaska looked at me with disconcerting frequency when she drove, particularly since we were winding through a narrow, hilly highway south of school, headed to the aforementioned Coosa Liquors.†   (source)
  • "Oh ...er, really?" said Arthur, who was beginning to find the man's curious, kindly manner disconcerting.†   (source)
  • For a moment the world swirled in a disconcerting kaleidoscope of colour, but when it settled Holly was no longer the defeated elf she had been.†   (source)
  • They all turn to look at RON, he's briefly disconcerted but batters on.†   (source)
  • "Dad," I said, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • It started with disconcerted looks, his brows crinkled while he chewed on his bottom lip, followed by deep sighs and eventually sleepless nights, the floorboards creaking under his feet while I lay awake in my room, to where we are now, an inherent desperation in Henri's strained voice.†   (source)
  • It would have been less disconcerting if they'd been milky.†   (source)
  • His gaze was disconcerting; it seemed that he was searching for something hidden in my face.†   (source)
  • Occasionally I made the short trip to the Time Tombs, especially at night, avoiding the soft, disconcerting tugs of the anti-entropic time tides while I moved through complicated shadows under the wings of the Sphinx or stared at stars through the emerald wall of the Jade Tomb.†   (source)
  • Kaerva seemed disconcerted.†   (source)
  • The Germans were making these films before they liquidated the ghetto, to give the lie to any disconcerting rumours if news of the action should reach the outside world.†   (source)
  • Dona Belen had a disconcerting ability to suddenly tune in quite clearly, especially to what was none of her business.†   (source)
  • Whatever the reason, Mike's puppy dog behavior and Eric's apparent rivalry with him were disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Though they are home they are disconcerted by the space, by the uncompromising silence that surrounds them.†   (source)
  • It didn't sound like the destruction of the Hindenburg, but it was a little disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Consider, just for a moment, that a disconcertingly large number of writers meet their ends in water.†   (source)
  • It was disconcerting how Sarafine could move so easily from one set of emotions to another, from sincerity and regret to disgust and contempt, each emotion as hollow as the next.†   (source)
  • Even more disconcerting was the change in how customers responded to Ned himself.†   (source)
  • "Surely not," says Simon, disconcerted afresh.†   (source)
  • As he was a young man the other young men would size him up from time to time, as young men do, and Saeed found this disconcerting.†   (source)
  • And I had the most disconcerting sensation: that in my memory she would look up from that game of solitaire, and the sockets of her eyes would be empty.†   (source)
  • She was looking at him with that disconcerting expression of matemal love and tenderness , disconcerting because of the total solid blackness underlying it.†   (source)
  • These chaotic, tormented scenes were a thousand times more disconcerting than the scandalous mummies she had expected to find.†   (source)
  • A lot of guys find the cascade of bubbles across their faces extremely disconcerting.†   (source)
  • She wore a pair of loose trousers trimmed in red, which scandalized the older ladies and disconcerted the gentlemen, but no one was indifferent to her skill.†   (source)
  • These people and their disconcerting directness!†   (source)
  • "Give me back my keys," I said, disconcerted at not knowing how my keys had come into his possession.†   (source)
  • Only slightly less disconcerting than the article's factual errors was the material that necessarily had to be omitted for lack of space.†   (source)
  • It was disconcerting: the images she'd kept in her mind all this time had altered the moment she had seen him.†   (source)
  • I was a little disconcerted then by what eventually greeted my eyes.†   (source)
  • My wife was especially disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Though it couldn't be described as a date, it almost had that feeling, which made it a little disconcerting.†   (source)
  • David presses his thumb into his palm and massages his hand, clearly disconcerted by all the interruptions.†   (source)
  • The disconcerting news was that if she ever materialized, I'd be third in line after the state health department and her probation officer.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes, I'm sorry," she said disconcertedly.†   (source)
  • Also, Dewey found the self-consciously casual conversation of his fellow witnesses, as they stood awaiting the start of what one witness termed "the festivities," disconcerting.†   (source)
  • It twitched and jerked up and down erratically, so that looking at him was disconcerting: one minute he would be looking at you out of both eyes, and then the eyelid would droop and he would only be looking with an eye and a half.†   (source)
  • "You mean the girl in the corridor," said Stoddard with that directness which his friends were apt to find disconcerting.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of thing you could keep doing and not feel bored or apprehensive or disconcerted or bothered by much of anything except the fact that the metal bar on the sofa bed was digging into your back.†   (source)
  • It is disconcerting to look down at your father, the one person you can always remember being bigger than the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • That would be infinitely more disconcerting.†   (source)
  • But it was disconcerting to know that I carried within my body, unbeknownst to Moody, an I.U.D. that could jeopardize my life.†   (source)
  • The skirt rustled when she walked, in a most disconcerting way.†   (source)
  • It's a bit disconcerting, this side of Felicity, like having a pet shark that thinks itself a goldfish.†   (source)
  • A big, solid woman in her fifties, she wore her dark hair in a disconcertingly girlish Dutch boy bob.†   (source)
  • "Do you like working at Millennium?" he said, disconcertingly.†   (source)
  • Frodo said nothing: the shrewd guesses of the farmer were rather disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Hazel was disconcerted.†   (source)
  • The woman looked disconcerted but tried to smooth out her expression.†   (source)
  • 0800 on May 8th 1981, she appeared to be disoriented about the facts of the incident and disconcerted as she kept dozing off.†   (source)
  • My client is apt to be disconcerted if she discovers the police on my doorstep.†   (source)
  • This confusion of yours is disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Beech later wrote: There is something disconcerting about presenting to an audience a man who is gently snoozing at your side.†   (source)
  • To speak of black "grammar" will disconcert many Americans, white or black, who think that Black English is merely a lazy or broken English.†   (source)
  • Two years ago," said Mme. Lavier, disconcerted by Jason's impatience, annoyed, frightened.†   (source)
  • This situation was deeply disconcerting to me, for such a scandal only served to divide the movement at a time when unity was essential.†   (source)
  • Not that I object, but you might be a bit disconcerted if Bonnie happened to walk downstairs while I was carrying you in, naked.†   (source)
  • Marcela sank back down, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • And you needn't look so disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Major Reid, our instructor, was a blind man with a disconcerting habit of looking straight at you and calling you by name.†   (source)
  • It's kind of disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Years later, they would shake their heads and call themselves prejudiced, but at the time they were profoundly disconcerted.†   (source)
  • He was a very blond, disconcertingly young man in a black suit, his skin so fair that you could see the blood coursing beneath it.†   (source)
  • It was disconcerting how perfectly equipped this room was for a woman.†   (source)
  • "Indeed," he said, a little disconcerted.†   (source)
  • It had required a week for me to get their measure, but they must have taken mine at our first meeting; and, while there was nothing overtly disdainful in their evident assessment of me, they managed to ignore my presence, and indeed my very existence, with a thoroughness which was somehow disconcerting.†   (source)
  • I said nothing, of course—Nathan being the ostensible master of the situation—but it troubled me painfully, troubled me that Sophie appeared to be so rapidly turning into a lush; and I was further disconcerted over the fact that Nathan did not seem to notice, or if he did, failed to take the protective measures that such heavy, distracted and potentially dangerous drinking called for.†   (source)
  • He was disconcerted.†   (source)
  • HENRY (A little disconcerted) Speak then.†   (source)
  • It was the darkness of the womb, the prenatal darkness of embryos in that house, which was a little disconcerting but made for deep and luxuriant sleeping.†   (source)
  • He was disconcerted by their laughter and lost his smile a moment; then, realizing it was friendly, smiled again; and again they laughed.†   (source)
  • He pumped the substantial arm, taking an extra moment to recover himself, not to appear quite this disconcerted, or so rejected; he had entirely surprised himself.†   (source)
  • Tony was disconcerted: the unexpectedness of these men's responses was taking him right out of his depth.†   (source)
  • She is quite disconcerted.   (source)
    disconcerted = disturbed or unsettled
  • Himmelstoss is disconcerted.   (source)
  • K. was disconcerted to notice that he understood no more than fragments of what the Italian said.   (source)
  • "I shall keep clear of you, Crawford, as long as I can," said Edmund; "for you would be more likely to disconcert me, and I should be more sorry to see you trying at it than almost any other man."   (source)
    disconcert = disturb or unsettle
  • I scrubbed out the disconcerting conversation and wrote one more line.†   (source)
  • "No — I — of course not," said Harry, disconcerted by this sudden change of subject.†   (source)
  • 'Don't be thick,' said Ron, looking highly disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Eragon blinked and nodded, though it was actually rather disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Amaranta and Rebeca, disconcerted by the unexpected visit, attended her with a stiff formality.†   (source)
  • I found myself a touch disconcerted, so I said, "Rose went to college.†   (source)
  • She looked around at all the faces upturned to her, rather disconcerted.†   (source)
  • "All right," said Hermione, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Whatever the cause, the sound was utterly disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Still, it's a bit disconcerting to hear howling winds when you're used to utter silence.†   (source)
  • I walked out onto the street feeling extremely disconcerted, leaning on my chauffeur's arm.†   (source)
  • The silence and the intimacy of the room disconcerts him.†   (source)
  • "I ...I don't follow you," Chronicler said, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Pilar Ternera seemed disconcerted: "I don't either, but that's what the cards say."†   (source)
  • Still, as a fallen god, I understood how disconcerting it was to be without one's powers.†   (source)
  • The spade entered with disconcerting ease.†   (source)
  • Lifaen turned his glittering eyes on him, probing Eragon with disconcerting acuteness.†   (source)
  • It was a disconcerting picture; something about the wolf's plaintive posture made him look forlorn.†   (source)
  • It was like scanning through arrested instants of time, disconcerting to the lens of the inner eye.†   (source)
  • Used to images sharp as reality, Harry was disconcerted by the change.†   (source)
  • Nasuada faltered, disconcerted, then forged ahead.†   (source)
  • 'Ah,' said Fudge, who looked thoroughly disconcerted.†   (source)
  • No wonder the fellow had seemed so disconcerted.†   (source)
  • He was disconcerted by how out of place he felt among them.†   (source)
  • She smiled, slightly disconcerted at being alone with him.†   (source)
  • She found it rather more disconcerting to be among a group of people who were as dark as she was.†   (source)
  • It could be disconcerting, but he enjoyed the sense of connection it created between them.†   (source)
  • It was indeed Amatis, with her disconcerting Luke-blue eyes.†   (source)
  • He was disconcerted, especially because she seemed to be aware of her effect on him.†   (source)
  • He found the man's lack of insignia disconcerting and was not even sure he had to say 'sir'.†   (source)
  • Reality might disconcert her, bewilder her, hurt her, but it would not be reality.†   (source)
  • Most disconcerting yet, the shadows, like all shadows, had no depth.†   (source)
  • Of course, there was no one around to see him, but he could see himself, and it was disconcerting.†   (source)
  • She peeked around the particleboard like a little girl, which I found disconcerting.†   (source)
  • And when Clay looks, he sees, and that's the most disconcerting thing of all.†   (source)
  • At thirty paces, only his green, unblinking eyes disconcerted Tom.†   (source)
  • None of them fit with the sweetly smiling girl in the photograph, and that was disconcerting too.†   (source)
  • As disconcerted by that as she, Roarke led the way to the door.†   (source)
  • Even more disconcerting was that Saphira did not seem to share Eragon's confusion.†   (source)
  • It was a disconcerting sensation, but at the moment, he would have welcomed it.†   (source)
  • The dwarves behind him muttered among themselves, appearing disconcerted.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be as disconcerted and displeased as they were.†   (source)
  • But I was disconcerted to find myself looking out over a completely peaceful scene.†   (source)
  • "I — what?" said Harry, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • I did not know why humans consumed bug juice, or from which type of bug it had been extracted, but it was the tastiest part of the meal, which was disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Langdon could already tell that the video was an unfair piece of propaganda, omitting all the noblest aspects of the initiation and highlighting only the most disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Mortati knew that all the exits to Vatican City were guarded, and the missing cardinals could not have gone far, but still, with less than an hour before opening prayer, he was feeling disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Realizing what I wished, he flipped his palm up in one of those blindingly fast, disconcerting movements of his.†   (source)
  • Harry was so used to him bald that he found the sight of Slughorn with thick, shiny, straw-colored hair quite disconcerting; it looked as though he had had his head thatched, though there was already a shiny Galleon-sized bald patch on his crown.†   (source)
  • But those sparkling blue shallows —so enticing at first glance—had not yet graded off into depths, so that sometimes I got the disconcerting sensation of wading around in knee-high waters hoping to step into a drop-off; a place deep enough to swim.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him.†   (source)
  • Clara had to ask his name every time she saw him and was always disconcerted to find him in his silk robe in the bathroom of her house.†   (source)
  • Still, it was a little disconcerting to see my buck-naked self stomping around, slamming a ship's rudder at Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • [Moving casually among the tables and disconcerted customers, some of whom are on the point of leaving, Rick speaks to the room in a calm voice.†   (source)
  • It was disconcerting the way he said this, like it would be a good thing to have no vampires in Forks.†   (source)
  • He felt that he was a part of many images moving simultaneously in a fragmenting way that was disconcerting to the inner eye.†   (source)
  • But now that the day had come to inherit the rest, a day his grandfather could no longer read the books himself, Ashoke was saddened, and as he placed the empty suitcase under his seat, he was disconcerted by its weightlessness, regretful of the circumstances that would cause it, upon his return, to be full.†   (source)
  • The shop owner went from being weirdly disconcerted by having a man in a wheelchair in his shop to being quite impressed.†   (source)
  • "I don't know," I said, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • During lunch, commenting with General Moncada about that disconcerting proliferation, she expressed the desire for Colonel Aureliano Buendia to come back someday and gather all of his sons together in the house.†   (source)
  • In fact, so disconcerted by this notion became the Count that when Idlehour was deluged by rainstorms that September, giant black moths harrowed his dreams.†   (source)
  • Looking highly disconcerted, Ernie muttered something about unfinished Transfiguration homework and scurried away.†   (source)
  • The familiarity of his gesture disconcerted the girl, who was paralyzed for a second but quickly drew back, trying to struggle free.†   (source)
  • Disconcerted, knowing that the children were waiting for an immediate explanation, Jose Arcadio Buendia ventured a murmur: "It's the largest diamond in the world.†   (source)
  • Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, Til look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something.†   (source)
  • So with utmost attention, he watched as Rick disregarded Ugarte's pleas for help; he saw the saloonkeeper's expression remain cool and aloof when the police dragged Ugarte from his lapels; but then, as Rick began making his way through the disconcerted crowd toward the piano player, something caught Viktor's eye.†   (source)
  • Nasuada faltered, disconcerted as she often was by the girl's responses, then continued: "I apologize for not ordering my guards to let you pass, night or day.†   (source)
  • It was disconcerting, certainly.†   (source)
  • It was all very disconcerting.†   (source)
  • Ronnie seemed to intuit his every feeling and thought, which was both disconcerting and a source of relief.†   (source)
  • An eerie and disconcerting environment.†   (source)
  • As she opened the refrigerator to get the chicken out, she watched him from the corner of her eye, thinking it was both nice—and a little disconcerting—to know that he'd be helping her in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • It was ...disconcerting, to have his horse's thoughts translated to him, but he rose again, slid his hands along Darling's flank.†   (source)
  • Two days ago, that realization had been disconcerting, but she now understood that, for Dawson, there had been no other choice.†   (source)
  • Heidi's dark eyes, disconcerting underneath her fringe of white-blond hair, were tight with sympathy as she asked her questions.†   (source)
  • He was a smart guy and would-be likable but ageless in the face, which disconcerted Marvin because you like to know how old a man you're talking to.†   (source)
  • Their unknown lives disconcerted him, making his smile go stiff and bringing to his cheeks a formal flush of deference.†   (source)
  • There was something disconcerting about that, but lost in the chase, Dawson had no time to consider it.†   (source)
  • A disconcerting and terrible thought.†   (source)
  • Lexie's disconcerting mood, which had started in the predawn darkness, had continued for the next few hours.†   (source)
  • Already winded, and a bit disconcerted by it, he slid down, knelt at the foot of the bed, yanked at her right boot.†   (source)
  • "Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery," she says.†   (source)
  • But it's disconcerting.†   (source)
  • This was a-bit disconcerting, but they offered to assume our mortgage and pay us the balance in cash.†   (source)
  • A fire captain hurried toward her, then circled out slightly, disconcerted, as if she were not the person, after all, he had expected to meet here.†   (source)
  • It's disconcerting.†   (source)
  • A small mirror used to hang above the washbasin but she took it down because it disconcerted Sister to see herself unveiled.†   (source)
  • You just disconcerted him, as he wouldn't be accustomed to a woman who speaks her mind and feelings right out, without filtering.†   (source)
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