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disconcerting
in
Brideshead Revisited
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- He asked me to dinner, and I was a little disconcerted to find that we were to dine alone.†
p. 50.8disconcerted = disturbed or unsettled
- It was disconcerting to find how observant that mild old man proved to be.†
p. 55.7disconcerting = disturbing or unsettling
- "Science annihilates distance," said my father disconcertingly.†
p. 75.8
- Julia and her friends had a fascinated abhorrence of what they called "Pont Street"; they collected phrases that damned their user, and among themselves—and often, disconcertingly, in public— talked a language made up of them.†
p. 211.6
- He had long fair hair combed back without a parting and a face that was unnaturally lined for a man of his obvious youth; one of his front teeth was missing, so that his sibilants came sometimes with a lisp, sometimes with a disconcerting whistle, which he covered with a giggle; the teeth he had were stained with tobacco and set far apart.†
p. 243.9disconcerting = disturbing or unsettling
- She was not, as I have said, a woman of high ambition, but, having had her expectations so much raised, it was disconcerting to be brought so low so suddenly.†
p. 360.6 *
- I had met Father Mackay several times; he was a stocky, middle-aged, genial Glasgow-Irishman who, when we met, was apt to ask me such questions as, "Would you say now, Mr. Ryder, that the painter Titian was more truly artistic than the painter Raphael?" and, more disconcertingly still, to remember my answers: "To revert, Mr. Ryder, to what you said when last I had the pleasure to meet you, would it be right now to say that the painter Titian ..." usually ending with some such reflection as: "Ah, it's a grand resource for a man to have the talent you have, Mr. Ryder, and the time to indulge it."†
p. 377.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(disconcerting) disrupt composure -- such as to confuse or worry
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)