He's a discomfiting figure, and he's soon pursued by adult figures who are more discomfiting, obscured by foliage.
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For filmmakers, servicing those priorities can be a discomfiting proposition.
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I was happy for her, but the experience was discomfiting.
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If only it were all funneled into something less discomfiting.
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Mr. Zahedi's onscreen persona is all about absolute discomfiting candidness.
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It also had the effect of discomfiting servers, and their coaches.
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Or even (let's lower the bar a bit) discomfiting, challenging, daring?
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"So did you," a smiling Bush shot back, apparently discomfiting Rubio.
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It all has the deeply discomfiting shellack of a romantic comedy.
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Casual encounters with strange men are discomfiting to many Saudi women.
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This always made his work discomfiting to the politics of empire.
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Mr Johnston's creations are for the most part discomfiting, funny and idiosyncratic.
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Seeing the film replace that character with "Mira Killian" is deeply discomfiting.
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North Korea Another week, another round of discomfiting quotes from North Korea.
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It's made all the more discomfiting because WWE does have agency here.
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Although no less chilling, it's also deadly earnest, full of discomfiting nuance.
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That quasi-romantic subplot lends Caging Skies much of its discomfiting sensibility.
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By the time the case reached court, she had reached a discomfiting conclusion.
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The stories feature an array of discomfiting situations and hardscrabble New England lives.
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The questions we need to ask now are more urgent and more discomfiting.
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This makes him a discomfiting study for a next-slide-please survey course.
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I grew up watching Indian Bollywood movies, so my discomfiting realization has been twofold.
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It's discomfiting to see such casual appropriation of a tragic event for aesthetic purposes.
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The result is a song that's both catchy and discomfiting, if a little derivative.
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The play's startle factor now lies in its discomfiting depictions of undisguised racism and homophobia.
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While it contains some positive news about household finances, many of its findings are discomfiting.
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His discomfiting poems delve into extremes of emotion that would defeat almost any other writer.
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It should be a discomfiting experience, not a doubling down on what's easy and familiar.
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Hitting the stage mere hours before sunup, GAIKA emerges exuding an unusual and discomfiting energy.
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In one of the game's discomfiting vignettes, Martin visits Daniel's grave as he is cremated.
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For that reason, the discomfiting focus on the role of the Jews should be welcome.
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Rather, they announce themselves as little particle invaders to create a discomfiting atmosphere with the humor.
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But to anyone who believes in innocence until proof of guilt, visiting is a discomfiting experience.
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The work in "Some Possible Solutions," her second collection, is often speculative, always discomfiting and libidinal.
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So it was discomfiting to discover Molly standing beside her one day, holding two paper cups.
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I find the exercise discomfiting, but not because I don't want to know the students' pronouns.
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It's a discomfiting experience, and perhaps the kind that Dean would argue we need more of.
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Divola's edgy, discomfiting style dates back to the 70s, when he was a graduate student at UCLA.
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But somehow, his performance lacked the tropes of traditional masculinity that might have made this aggression discomfiting.
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The result of this conflict is discomfiting, and not in ways I think it intends to be.
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Emerging from an hour of television this expertly discomfiting feels like bursting free of a haunted house.
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I was consistently more drawn to the discomfiting films, the ones with more political and personal edge.
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The encounter turns his life upside-down, kicking off a string of strange situations and discomfiting revelations.
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The CGI fur looks bizarre, and the sexualization of humans pretending to be cats is deeply discomfiting.
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It's so discomfiting that some fans have since theorized that the scene represents Squidward's trip to purgatory.
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It can feel kind of discomfiting, watching people grieve in a foreign language in the name of art.
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Yet for pro-Western Russian liberals, the panicked attitude of some of America's mainstream media was equally discomfiting.
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Without her glee in picturing humans as suffering automatons, this vision would lose its gripping and discomfiting texture.
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And tiki's determined "exoticism," with its cultural appropriations and discomfiting evocation of otherness, reasonably put some drinkers off.
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In "Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone," Nick Bilton writes: Ms. deGuzman's video makes for some discomfiting viewing.
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Perhaps the most discomfiting issue for progressives to face is the role of migration in Mr. Trump's rise.
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In the Times piece about the video, Nick Bilton writes: Ms. deGuzman's video makes for some discomfiting viewing.
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I won't specify which, but Goodell's movement bears the discomfiting resemblance to a certain geometric fascist war salute.
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To watch the Creepy Uncle Joe clips compiled by people who wish him ill is a discomfiting experience.
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Anyone who knows the work of Shepard, who died in 2017, will be familiar with this discomfiting perspective.
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Acts two and three are simultaneously dazzling and discomfiting in the ways they demand accountability from their audience.
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In all these stories, the technology is still profoundly discomfiting, but the characters stuck with it find vindication anyway.
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If being in here is so discomfiting, the flight from New York, where she lives, must have been torture?
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" The word that Lucey renders as "all-consuming" is more discomfiting in the French original: " La souffrance est totalitaire .
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It makes for deeply discomfiting viewing, and reminds us of the need for greater protections for vulnerable young models.
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The tender gesture is also one of discomfiting cruelty, of intimacy mixed with death — a perplexing ritual to behold.
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It's discomfiting when the animal you're going to eat is encouraging you to do so, in my hypocritical opinion.
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Mr. LeFranc keeps his dialogue in the groove of everyday conversation, with its comforting, quirky repetitions and discomfiting holes.
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But how does this discomfiting story tie into the Shimmer, Area X, and a landscape that distorts everything inside it?
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To get a sense of why this is discomfiting, try this thought experiment: You're about to play a basketball game.
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But Queer Eye's narrative arc relies upon female affirmation and romantic endorsement in a way that's occasionally discomfiting to watch.
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"There is much madness in DeWitt's method, a madness of pure logic" and "the sometimes discomfiting pleasure of being dazzled."
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If for nothing more than the questing, discomfiting photography presented in this book, she deserves to be more widely celebrated.
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Later in our conversation, she reveals that recent outsize and overdue attention to her career is both exciting and discomfiting.
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The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
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This makes it harder to draw a clear line between ads that are clearly discriminatory and those than are merely discomfiting.
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He's more concerned with preserving his crustacean sex life than protesting how The Hotel turns human expression into a discomfiting checklist.
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To protect the future of this great democracy, we must dig down to the root of this discomfiting Trump-Russia connection.
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I think for a lot of people that's discomfiting and that may create some of the good pressure toward a solution.
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Every stunning decision, discomfiting revelation, and inexplicable comment from President Donald Trump is leaving congressional Republicans increasingly anxious, bewildered, and fuming.
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They do not appear to mind that this projects, to an audience beyond Virginia, a discomfiting picture of America's 12th-largest state.
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This is a discomfiting viewing experience, considering that the Crusades were a three-century-long bloodbath launched by the papacy against Muslims.
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Banksy's discomfiting doc about Thierry Guetta examines the motivations and merits of street art, and the quest for fame even in anonymity.
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In 2017, it is difficult and discomfiting for most people to acknowledge the depth of evil that is Kim Jong Un's regime.
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Ms. Swinton conveys casual entitlement like someone to the manner born, which gives Marianne's teasing exchanges with Harry an increasingly discomfiting quality.
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After all, isn't part of the point of artistic expression to open itself up to possibilities and varying interpretations, even discomfiting ones?
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For Mr. Cuomo, who's up for re-election this year, discomfiting proximity to criminal cases does not end with the Percoco trial.
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But the accusations against the young Ashkelon resident have been deeply discomfiting after a time of raised concerns about global anti-Semitism.
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This Friday, white supremacists and neo-Confederates will launch a brutal attack against New York City onscreen, all for discomfiting fun, in Bushwick.
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Journalists who met with him for dinner would not let him pay their bills, fearing that it would lead to discomfiting moral debts.
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Wiseau is a character, to be sure, but there's still something slightly discomfiting about the cult of personality that's sprung up around him.
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"There are things about Christine we all can relate to; that's discomfiting, because she decides to do something incredibly violent," Ms. Hall said.
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Barring a historically comprehensive defeat of Republicans at every level of American government, advocates for expanded health coverage will face this discomfiting reality.
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There were only a few African-Americans on the Packers, which made assimilating in nearly all-white Green Bay a discomfiting challenge at times.
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As a study of human development, the film offers an unflinching portrait of Moonee's funny and discomfiting "adult" qualities, and Halley's frustrating juvenile behavior.
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He does not practise martial arts, but his almost discomfiting poise could lead you to mistake him for a master of something like aikido.
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At once forthright and tranquil, Beatriz is not just a good woman; she represents goodness in action, something that less limpid souls find discomfiting.
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He's harnessed that, along with his deep well of anger and sadness, to make his confrontational and often discomfiting work for over 40 years.
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Not short on discomfiting scenes, "Waking Lions" offers a commentary on privilege and otherness, challenging readers to confront their own blind spots and preconceptions.
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The same discomfiting sensuality can be applied to the freestanding totems, each of which embodies a different take on the casual defiance of gravity.
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However, one of those people has recently gone missing--under circumstances of great interest to Aphra's discomfiting government allies, and possibly to the entire planet.
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Like millions of Americans mailing tubes of spit off to DNA testing companies, Hiram followed his genetic results to distant cousins and discomfiting family secrets.
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Adrion focuses on the voices of women who've shoehorned their way into the industry and have inspiring stories to tell, as well as discomfiting ones.
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Detroit is just as dexterously made, but it brandishes its sense of thematic heft and its sense of craft in a much more discomfiting way.
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Is it at all discomfiting that people will be hearing these immensely intimate expressions and hear them as political, or is that maybe a strength?
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It is not hard to imagine his appearance on the first page of the leaderboard casting a discomfiting shadow over the players he is chasing.
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His movies are populated with malignant forces both living and dead, but some of their most effectively discomfiting moments aren't the most ghoulish or gory.
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Beyond making for discomfiting viewing, Queer Eye's treatment of women exposes fundamental structural issues that are linked to the conventions within which the show operates.
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Today, comedians like British John Oliver and South African Trevor Noah enjoy lambasting American candidates on cable TV. Our campaign finance laws are already discomfiting.
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If the cisgender girl claims that the transgender girl is invading her privacy in a discomfiting way, that could also constitute a Title IX violation.
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Somewhat discomfiting, the jests of these authors serve as an antidote and alternative to the despairing negativity or fake positivity that plagues patients like me.
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I wish David and Jim could have been there on Wednesday for "The Seasons," its silky warmth a contrast with the previous evening's discomfiting intensity.
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The cast members, all first-rate, wear Ásta Bennie Hostetter's 1980s costumes with discomfiting comfort, as if they had no idea how unflattering they were.
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In previous work, Varejão has created abstract, vaguely discomfiting images on the cracked canvases — on others, the distinctive blue patterns of traditional Portuguese tiles (azulejos).
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There's the heavier stuff, too: compared to the women who will compete for Viall's love on network television, he has the discomfiting advantage of sheer experience.
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Partly it might refer to the discomfiting sight of Eggleston walking about, never looking entirely comfortable with his surroundings, yet creating stunning work from those journeys.
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Still, there's something discomfiting about the prospect of multinational giants monetizing their identity-as-a-service platforms to the tune of billions of dollars per year.
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It potentially blurs the already eroding line between editorial and commercial in a discomfiting way, but also could serve as a model for other publishing companies.
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The overall effect of these reds and blues and greens, all pitted against a range of grays that signal "internet-neutral," is discomfiting in the extreme.
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Intermittently, he channeled the discomfiting straight talk of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, who spoke at the Oscars in 1977 and 1988, respectively, about industry racism.
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It's a strange, discomfiting choice not least because it means that few of the Japanese characters, including Atari, have the depth or dignity given the dogs.
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Now living in his native Japan, he essentially cannibalized the infamy of his crime for a living and has a discomfiting, symbiotic relationship with his brother.
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This unnerving authenticity is partly testament to Mr. Driver's ability to tuck one performance inside another, but it also testifies to a stark and discomfiting truth.
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Depicting a naked teenage girl with a basket of flowers, "Fillette à la Corbeille Fleurie" is widely acclaimed but, given the cultural #MeToo moment, potentially discomfiting.
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The slightly discomfiting message is that if we wish to realize all of the benefits of exercise, we probably have to continue exercising throughout our lives.
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It was a discomfiting role reversal for Day, who had fed off his mother's strength since his father died of stomach cancer when Day was 12.
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Such restrictions are particularly mystifying when the law affirmatively protects the right to discuss gun ownership, access, and safety — even though such conversations can be discomfiting.
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The incongruous letter remained there throughout much of my childhood—a discomfiting advertisement to the world that not everything inside the house was quite normally aligned.
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Both paintings employ a discomfiting version of non finito — the figures aren't incorporated into a composition but are instead isolated against expanses of untouched white canvas.
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No one anticipates that these events will be comfortable or comforting, but threats of violence, personal attacks, and any physical contact — threatening or not — are legitimately discomfiting.
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Roast-style humor is an odd fit for protocol-oriented Washington, and some comedians praised Ms. Wolf for discomfiting the audience of elite journalists and administration officials.
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A city long known for its robust economy, affordability, liberal politics and chic restaurants finds itself confronting an open secret as discomfiting as the bone-chilling winters.
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We're given to think that Fleck's nervous, discomfiting laugh is a neurological condition, until we're suddenly told that it might be another sign of his mental instability.
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He forced banks to tackle billions of dollars in distressed corporate loans, discomfiting powerful tycoons accustomed to fending off their creditors through politician friends in New Delhi.
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The idea that you might want to systematize the emotional parts of life and regard social activity as a source of inefficiency is, to many people, discomfiting.
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It's something new under the sun, a thrilling and discomfiting document of the present moment and also, like every movie that matters, a bulletin from the future.
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Irving moves seamlessly between the wide-eyed perspective of the child and the critical gaze of the adult, creating a tale as beautiful as it is discomfiting.
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Bookshelf In his St. Patrick's Day sermon in 1852, John J. Hughes, the newly minted first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, raised a discomfiting cautionary flag.
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I had the discomfiting sensation of catching a glimpse of something deeply private, like walking in on someone in a state of undress or using the bathroom.
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Masterfully directed by John Frankenheimer and featuring Frank Sinatra's finest acting performance, this hallucinatory masterpiece still manages to be darkly funny and queasily discomfiting in equal measure.
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For us, it really is chapter one: chapter one is, be awake and be okay with experiencing with how discomfiting this is, without letting your guilt consume you.
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The director has been emphatic about the fact that this is her story, both to pre-empt critics of its discomfiting nature and to keep these conversations going.
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Tillerson is Trump's wild card response to the current perception of America, especially at a time when international agreements are creating new international realities and discomfiting current alliances.
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The hard work of reconciliation comes through a sober examination of discomfiting historical truths about slavery, Jim Crow, and their contemporary manifestations in devaluing black lives in America.
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The jokes in The Good Place, like the cries of the damned, are so discomfiting that they sometimes play out like the comedic equivalent of a pump fake.
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But I suspect that some of them would find it discomfiting in a world where the professional sacrifices in heterosexual marriages are still made most often by women.
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"Trigger warnings" are based on a similar principle: that discussions of certain topics will trigger, or reproduce, past trauma — as opposed to merely challenging or discomfiting the student.
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Rosso, a key figure in the Met Breuer's inaugural show "Unfinished," created discomfiting bronze and wax statues which dissolved the subjects' faces into landscapes of crags and divots.
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But the president's threats and his initial refusal to back down in the face of criticism generated condemnation at home and abroad while deeply discomfiting American military leaders.
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But the president's threats and his initial refusal to back down in the face of criticism generated condemnation at home and abroad while deeply discomfiting American military leaders.
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Sometimes the discomfiting element is emotional, seen on the face of the subject, but at other times it comes from some strange juxtaposition or anachronism within the setting.
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While pronoun choices may not be an explicitly recognized human right, they represent respect for larger rights that are legitimately claimed, even at the risk of discomfiting the powerful.
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The real heartbreak in this wise, discomfiting novel turns out to be the love between mother and daughter — a daughter early damage has driven to exile in a hard place.
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You don't need to know that the gleaming, jet-black boots in "SUPERIOR" (2018) belong to a prison guard to discern the discomfiting power dynamics at play in the work.
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It's a discomfiting feeling to always have to present yourself a certain way, especially when you know the type of person you are and the goals you're setting for yourself.
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It has a discomfiting parallel with the now-forgotten moment one week after Trump's swearing in when his administration issued a statement on Holocaust remembrance that did not mention Jews.
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While some Christian traditions have evolved to be more progressive in the new century, Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
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But at this point, more than halfway through season two, it's discomfiting that the show seems to be cribbing yet more things from Battlestar Galactica instead of leaving its influence behind.
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Still, the formation of HIP was bitterly opposed by many longtime residents, who viewed it as enabling rapid, discomfiting changes in a community that increasingly was taking on a Latin flavor.
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Going into the Valley of the Kings felt like sneaking into the Metropolitan Museum in the middle of the night: I had the place to myself, but the privilege was discomfiting.
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Listening to their pablum or their political rhetoric is discomfiting and infuriating — there's nothing to salvage there, and there's nothing interesting about their characters or demeanors to examine and pick apart.
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Plus, Perdita Weeks is compulsively watchable as Scarlett, the alchemy student who brings a documentary crew and ex-boyfriend in tow, and the hellish final act is appropriately bizarre and discomfiting.
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While this was a small improvement over last year's discomfiting C minus, and the first time the grade had increased since the survey began, a little context puts the result into perspective.
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Obama made progress through means the media and the public found unfamiliar and somewhat discomfiting, while facing a right-wing politico-media machine bent above all on denying him credit for anything.
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When Barnes & Noble fired its fourth C.E.O. in five years last month, the publishing industry had to grapple with a discomfiting thought: The biggest physical bookstore chain in the U.S. could collapse.
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And the temptation to dismiss discomfiting revelations as fake news, to retreat back into ignorance and self-justification, is at least as powerful as the impulse to really reckon with the truth.
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The work, on that day, seemed to be taking its place in an operatic canon full of contradictory, discomfiting, occasionally offensive works that time and again nevertheless demonstrate their relevance and power.
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Yiannopoulos, a senior editor at the conservative Breitbart News, is no stranger to controversy, but the CPAC's recent embrace of the crusading anti-political correctness provocateur has been discomfiting to some conservatives.
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But his mysterious and discomfiting presence is proof as well of the director's preoccupation with the symbols and mythologies (and values) of a prelapsarian Japan, particularly those associated with Shinto and Buddhist folklore.
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"Liberals found the experience of Obama's presidency mostly dissatisfying," he claims, "because they find power itself discomfiting"—part of a larger "infantile rejection of the compromises inherent in governing" that perennially dogs the left.
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There's something discomfiting about the way the show seems to be referencing the free world's treatment of authoritarian leaders and the West's intolerance of women who dress modestly in accordance with their religious beliefs.
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The Austrian director Michael Glawogger, known for lending scenes of utter squalor a discomfiting aesthetic loveliness ("Workingman's Death"), died three years ago, months into filming what was meant to be a globe-touring project.
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"Safe spaces are an expression of the conviction, increasingly prevalent among college students, that their schools should keep them from being 'bombarded' by discomfiting or distressing viewpoints," Judith Shulevitz wrote in The New York Times.
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It's something of an "I'm sorry if you were offended" level of apology, but it raises the discomfiting possibility that the incidents that have come out publicly are just run-of-the-mill for Franken.
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That mission has just been reaffirmed in a University of Chicago letter to incoming freshmen that rejects "trigger warnings" about discomfiting course material, "safe spaces" for the hypersensitive and cancellations of invitations to controversial speakers.
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Mesmerizing, insightful, discomfiting, incisive, revelatory: Those are just a few of the adjectives reviewers have used to describe Lisa Brennan-Jobs's memoir, "Small Fry," which portrays the Apple cofounder Steve Jobs as a terrible dad.
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This image is placed in tension with an emerald green 1998th-century-style backdrop, swagged to bursting with damask fruit that lends a gorgeousness, and an imprimatur of mainstream probity, to the otherwise discomfiting scene.
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Having to face Sale more frequently could be a discomfiting sight for the Yankees, as it might have been for the Mets if Sale had been dealt to the Washington Nationals, who also pursued him.
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While drug treatments may provide relief, two new studies suggest that the right type of exercise might lessen both the frequency and discomfiting severity of hot flashes by changing how the body regulates its internal temperature.
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Sometimes, what we're really seeking on our travels is an absence of sensation; being a stranger is both liberating and discomfiting because it means we have willfully traded a context we understand for one we don't.
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The lawsuit will subject U.S.A. Swimming's governance to intense and possibly discomfiting scrutiny at a time when numerous sexual abuse lawsuits involving Olympic sports — such as gymnastics, figure skating and taekwondo — are winding through the courts.
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With a performance project in which he sells vials of his own blood, Jarrar has been engaging Wall Street's tourists and traders with the discomfiting reality of human life as a commodity in war-driven capitalism.
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I'll admit that it can be discomfiting to hear a server suggest ordering "four to five" twelve-to-twenty-dollar dishes a person, and to find that one of those dishes consists of, say, three fingerling potatoes.
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Yes, he's saying that to relieve Amy's fears of dying from scarlet fever, which she thinks she's contracted from Beth, but they're cuddled up closely in a carriage and it's discomfiting, given the age difference between them.
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But it's a discomfiting fact that at least six murderers turn out to have used Stormfront as a resource, including Dylann Roof, who logged on as "LilAryan" before killing nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston in 2015.
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One post features a productless shot, a 1970s-Hockney-gone-surrealist composition involving a half-dog, half-cat collaged onto shadowy pinks and babied blues, as discomfiting and mesmerizing as anything else on Weird Instagram right now.
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To confront the severed head and fragmented body of a janitor in a museum space is a discomfiting reminder of the undocumented (in more than one sense) material labor from which such discourses can help distract us.
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And the party's seeming preemptive rejection of a de Blasio run raises a larger, more discomfiting question: Has governing experience in the age of Trump become a source of political liability rather than a basic qualification for office?
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Louanne Van Pelt knew the cartoonist Charles Schulz and also had the extremely discomfiting knowledge that she had inspired Lucy, whose personality apparently developed in real time as Mr. Schulz took notes on Louanne's behavior at card games.
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There is, to a degree, a discomfiting layer of broad 'Asian' aesthetic applied to the video that doesn't quite sit right in 2018 (especially after all the discussion around Isle of Dogs and using 'Asian-ness' as a costume).
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There's something undeniably discomfiting about watching near-naked performers roll around and rub raw chickens all over their bodies, and in our day and age, any image that creates discomfort without the use of violence seems worth lingering on.
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The Greek cinematic provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos earned a screenplay nomination for "The Lobster" (available on Amazon Video); his discomfiting earlier features "Dogtooth" and "Alps" are on Fandor, a conscientious cinephile site that gives Amazon Prime users a free trial.
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During my stay, I went out for morning runs in shorts, I wore mini skirts in restaurants and clubs and I roamed the streets wearing whatever I felt fit, without a single, discomfiting male or female gaze on my bare legs.
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No matter how viewers feel about Weiner's infidelities, or his repeated lies about them, it's still discomfiting to see how ruthlessly and single-mindedly the journalists around him chase any whiff of humiliation, generally with a tone of smug, patronizing superiority.
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Diamondbacks 12, Yankees 23 PHOENIX — If the Yankees strolled into town finally feeling good about themselves after winning three consecutive series against two division leaders and the defending World Series champions, they were met with some discomfiting sights on Monday.
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The image, unforgettable because it stretches compositional coherence nearly to its snapping point, reminds me of Degas's painting "Place de la Concorde," another picture in which easy, classically balanced composition is jettisoned for something more exciting and discomfiting and grounded.
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And the decision of British voters to leave the European Union, catalyzed by the promise of the U.K. Independence Party and others of an orderly, independent England, was nothing but an attempt to stop the frightening and discomfiting effects of globalization.
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For Tyson, a popular television and podcast host as well as the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and a man who was raised in the city's generally liberal and antiwar milieu, the experience was a discomfiting epiphany.
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Starter Luis Severino breezed through five and two-thirds innings with just one hit allowed; the lockdown bullpen did its part; and the Yankees offered the rest of baseball a discomfiting look at the power-packed head of their batting order.
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If the resulting photographs are slightly discomfiting, they are also humane and compassionate, because they make us see that even within the incessant repetitions that constitute capitalist society, there is always a hidden and highly personal pattern to our movements.
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For all that the book is "dead serious about the losses entailed in a marriage's undermining," Fernanda Eberstadt writes in her review, "the real heartbreak in this wise, discomfiting novel turns out to be the love between mother and daughter."
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They will rightly remark that the men and women affected by the state of emergency are, in some proportion, unsavory, disreputable, discomfiting: drug dealers and petty crooks; men with heavy beards and bearings of menace; their wives swathed in black.
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The human, all too human, neuroses laid bare in Monzó's pithy stories can be discomfiting to read for the nerves they strike — the lies we tell to get by, the rationalizations and hypocrisies, the forbidden thoughts, the randomness of events.
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While Wild Wild West lacked the snazzy Men in Black sheen, the high frame rate in Gemini Man is like an overabundance of polish: the movie gleams with an uncanny, sometimes discomfiting vividness that recalls a live broadcast blown up to impossible sizes.
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She invited me to her home, a shotgun affair with a pool, and served me homemade egg salad and coffee cake while Vinni and her large black cat stared each other down and punctuated our cordial political chatter with discomfiting battle cries.
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Even if new trade barriers -- which invite retaliation anyway -- might not be as effective in discomfiting China as the Trump Presidency assumes, there's also the simple fact that tariffs force US consumers to pay more for the same imports, making them poorer.
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In New Babylon, a video performance by Gi that was written and directed by Jonas Hegi, she contorts her arms and angles her head in figurations that aren't beautiful examples of dancerly poise, but discomfiting examples of our bodies' capacity to contain tension.
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But he found a way around that discomfiting observation, claiming that a statue of Artemis with red hair, red sandals, and a red quiver strap must have been not Greek but Etruscan—the product of an earlier civilization that was considered less sophisticated.
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But more than that, it is a discomfiting reminder of how at least one part of this once-tranquil island is changing, made readily apparent by the jumble of construction crews building the rail line and a skyline already crowded with cranes.
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How do you paint a graphite study of a deer looking into the woods, as she does in "Painting Drawing Painting," which is one of the masterpieces in a show filled with the discomfiting, straightforward particularities that only she is capable of attaining.
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This month, as another major international sporting event rolls through this city, the structure can be seen as a lingering symbol of the shadow from which Russian sports are still trying to emerge, a discomfiting monument to the dark art of doping.
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They know that there is a pile, and they know the only way to advance higher in that pile is going to seem to be absolutely committed to your job, even when doing your job involves harming or discomfiting other people around you.
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Rather, Agalarov is also a former member of the first family of Azerbaijan, a man who was once entrenched in one of the most kleptocratic regimes in the world, dominated by a family that shares discomfiting similarities with the current first family in Washington.
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But the moments that do work, work well — and the adaptation is at its best in its second episode, "The Raid," which functions as a primer for why Watership Down is so revered — and why the combination of rabbits and perpetual dread is so discomfiting.
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While the author gives us plenty of reasons to sympathize with the persecuted Yasmin, the artfulness with which she deceives and manipulates is so downright creepy that one periodically finds oneself in the discomfiting posture of cheering on the bullies and the mean girls.
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For Francis to resign so quickly after Benedict, therefore, would set a discomfiting new precedent for the Catholic Church: that the papacy is no longer an automatic lifelong role, which could, in turn, weaken the Catholic tradition that the pontiff is, fundamentally, chosen by God.
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This imbalance operates on a number of levels and manifests in myriad ways: The men who sit in a pack on a stoop and yell about what they'd like to do to you is discomfiting, for example, because there is one of you and many of them.
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It was an inducement to overlook the show's discomfiting racial dynamic, suggesting that the issues brought up by its lineup — with two popular black rappers, each with more radio and chart success than the headliners, relegated to the evening opening slots — have little to do with race.
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For someone like me who long ago turned his back on America's never-ending wars on terror, it's discomfiting to imagine the process that might finally lead to a US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, especially one negotiated by The Donald and his strange team of hawks.
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The adult Kit's shell may be enervatingly thick, but the younger Kit provides some of the novel's funniest lines and most discomfiting observations, including an encounter with her future in-laws that's so delicately, productively twisted and inappropriate it filled me with a queasy kind of joy.
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It is a discomfiting process, and surely many feminists will come away, as I did, deeply disagreeing with her; others will, as I did, nonetheless find her book a persuasive and valuable contribution to the continuing debate over how to deal with sexual assault on college campuses.
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Now the resistance is going to have to find opportunities to do something similar, and make the rolling crisis Trump and Republicans have unleashed on American democracy something that's discomfiting in tangible ways for the business executives and economic elites who are the real beneficiaries of Trump's politics.
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Such accusations missed not only the patent intensity of Mann's feelings for her children but also the care she had taken to mount an exquisite and often discomfiting pastoral drama, focused mostly on her son Emmett and daughters Jessie and Virginia (her husband, Larry, comes on stage only occasionally).
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The allegations against Sheikh Salman and the possibility of his becoming the first new president of FIFA in nearly two decades are discomfiting to some of the organization's members, who are seeking to project an image of reform in the face of international investigations centered on allegations of financial crimes.
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This is journalism in defense of liberalism, not liberal in the left-wing American or right-wing Australian sense, but liberal in its belief that the individual is more than just an identity, and that free men and women do not need to be protected from discomfiting ideas and unpopular arguments.
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But Green made a terrific leap in his next novel, "Party Going" (19453), a discomfiting social comedy—think Buñuel meets Forster, or Beckett meets Mitford—that follows a group of daft and desiccated Bright Young Things for a four-hour period during which their trip to France is delayed by fog.
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Two heart-wrenching photographs of Hollywood hustlers by Philip-Lorca diCorcia turn the act of posing, which Mr. diCorcia paid for at his subjects' going rates, into a commodified sexual performance of its own, and six crumpled bronze iterations of Elizabeth Stephens's "The Porn Star/Academic Bronzed Panty Collection" are extravagantly discomfiting.
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Her early films include "Sand Screens" (1991), a drama centering on a woman determined to lead an uninhibited life in a deeply conservative society, and the sarcastically titled "A Civilized People" (1999), which touches on such discomfiting topics as homosexuality, the ill treatment of immigrant house servants and religious acrimony in Lebanese society.
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The world it's created is so viscerally discomfiting to watch that whenever the show tries to use music to punch up the tension or to undercut it ironically, instead it has the opposite effect: Things start to feel mawkish and silly, and my emotional attachment to what's happening onscreen is broken a little.
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Their new album tackles these discomfiting developments headon, with anxious, overwhelmed tracks that detail the ongoing reality of the Swedish arms industry (on "Swedish Guns"), the aforementioned horse trampling (on "We Got Game"), and the sense of outright anger that comes with living in a society that sees fear-mongering as reasonable means of governance.
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The two strongest pieces, however, drive home his abiding interest in the black male body: "Aureola (Black Presidents)" (2012), a grid of images of black men playing presidents in works of fiction, and "The Big Payback" (2009), an alternately funny and discomfiting video showing two black men dancing to James Brown on a Harlem street.
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" Mr. Anderson has been criticized before for his handling of race; Jonah Weiner wrote in Slate in 2007 that "The Darjeeling Limited" showcases "an obnoxious element of Anderson that is rarely discussed: the clumsy, discomfiting way he stages interactions between white protagonists — typically upper-class elites — and nonwhite foils — typically working class and poor.
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Just a few decades after Alexis de Tocqueville had praised the U.S. as an egalitarian land without extremes in "Democracy in America," the urban elite of cities like New York were left with a discomfiting realization that American exceptionalism was perhaps ending and giving way to a large working proletariat that could radicalize or rebel like in Europe.
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Even before becoming director David Fincher's go-to guy alongside partner Atticus Ross, that penchant for evocative sound design manifested both inside and apart from NIN, from the spare piano-led drone of "Another Version Of The Truth" and the delicate shoegaze of "Beside You In Time" to his discomfiting score for the PC video game Quake.
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Lizzie, you mentioned the lack of goofiness earlier, and it's true: the deadpan humor that worked so well in a small town in the '90s feels awkward when deployed by the security guard monitoring the mystery box, and it's even more discomfiting when Michael Cera shows up to monologue as Andy and Lucy's Marlon Brando-obsessed son.
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But even with all that aside, isn't it a little discomfiting to think about how this deeply confessional scene in C.K.'s most personal, most groundbreaking series is all about how he's trying to get the closest thing there is to a moral figure in his works to admit she should just shut up and enjoy it?
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Whether it's host Nathan Fielder trying to get one over on Uber, attempting to construct the world's perfect talk show anecdote, or helping an old man find a lost love in a way that becomes more and more discomfiting, the series incisively critiques everything from capitalism to reality television, but always flits away from you the second you think you have it pinned down.
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There's a couple other weird, discomfiting tidbits from the story, including that Gargac prefers the bar crowd for being more entertaining—read: drunk—for viewers to watch, that he installed a plugin to show an image of a rooster over boarding passengers' groins after his cameras caught an upskirt shot of a female rider, and Gargac's viewers seem to routinely leave creepy, sexist, or judgmental comments about the riders.
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It's easy to chalk up some of the decline to the kind of rude comments and discomfiting gestures we're used to hearing about women in politics — the same types of concerns that deter female candidates from running later on — but experts say much of the shift has to do with how girls are taught and trained for leadership roles in high school (and how they're not trained, too).
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Kazin noted the difference between the way Didion often spoke of herself in print: as fragile, ill, on the verge of divorce in a famous Life column in 1969, and the way she was in person, more a creature of sensible steel than frivolous silk: Joan Didion is a creature of many advantages, as is clear from her own belief that she had the sense to get born and to grow up in Sacramento before so many discomfiting things began to happen to the Golden State.
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All of my aunties have been a discomfiting combination of the above — they feed me until I burst and then criticize my weight; when I was in my early twenties, they wanted me to get married but tattled to my mother if they saw me with a boy; one of my aunties flew across the country just to see what I was wearing while in college and then repeated the information to my mother, which led to at least two years of them not speaking.
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Whether it is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) calling up the Democrats' "Green New Deal" for a floor vote, House Republicans using motions to recommit to offer politically discomfiting amendments, or House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) using non-binding resolutions to make a political point without risking Senate inaction or a presidential veto, messages are being sent through the medium of congressional television.
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