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"disconcerting" Definitions
  1. making you feel worried, confused or embarrassed
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It has got to be extraordinarily disconcerting to our allies, and extraordinarily disconcerting to the American people.
"Disconcerting" would be one — euphemistic — way to put it.
Some are downright disconcerting and will take time to absorb.
The dark, dense, voluptuous liquid being served is utterly disconcerting.
" Pelosi, meanwhile, called Carson "a disconcerting and disturbingly unqualified choice.
It is hard to say which prospect is more disconcerting.
I'm sure they will find this column disconcerting as well.
At best, this disconcerting scene may help viewers understand boundaries.
"The head of the EPA's comments were disconcerting," Curbelo said.
It's a little bit disconcerting when you think about it.
"It is disconcerting," says Dr Repasky of the new work.
" Mr. Upton has called the president's actions on Ukraine "disconcerting.
Politico's revelations are disconcerting, but they should not be surprising.
He located things with an efficient ease I found disconcerting.
But the number of times that happens is really disconcerting.
The results must have been disconcerting for some of them.
Growth projections for the use of coal are especially disconcerting.
I found it as a challenge, and kind of disconcerting.
But human bias creeps into computerized algorithms in disconcerting ways.
So that's a continuing challenging and a little bit disconcerting.
The AI apocalypse: disconcerting to imagine, but fun to talk about.
The decision by the Nobel committee was, at first glance, disconcerting.
A HAMBURGER and Coke with Steve Boggs was a disconcerting event.
You can also feel the crease, which is a little disconcerting.
Add capitalism into the mix and you've got a disconcerting marketplace.
I have a disconcerting inability to finish a book, for example.
The government response to this warning was equally disconcerting for markets.
This trend, though disconcerting, is not unique to the modern era.
The show awards both film and television, which some find disconcerting.
On Thursday, Seattle news station KIRO 7 published a disconcerting story.
But their treatment in the prison system was, and that's disconcerting.
Still, the results in New Hampshire were disconcerting for the Clintons.
The one that was more disconcerting to me was Victoria's Secret.
But it is quite disconcerting that he would make these claims.
Still, Sabathia's slip was the most disconcerting problem for the Yankees.
"It was the most disconcerting experience imaginable," said Mr. Amberger, 71.
Perhaps most disconcerting of all, is how quickly this has happened.
What was the most disconcerting thing your team found this year?
These scenarios are all the more disconcerting for being so preventable.
But most disconcerting for the Yankees was the performance of Tanaka.
The quietness and patience with which he speaks can be disconcerting.
With this as the future of travel, the outlook is disconcerting.
Still, the Trump administration's decision to invoke these examples is disconcerting.
Perhaps most disconcerting are the allegations made by Texas Republicans Reps.
The tortilla added a disconcerting crunch to an otherwise adequate burger.
Talking about comparisons to 2011 and the 1930s is a little disconcerting.
But Blue Ivy's look reignited a disconcerting debate about the toddler's beauty.
Most disconcerting was Aetna's report that their losses have gotten worse recently.
"The amount of spiders and snakes was a bit disconcerting," he says.
It was very disconcerting 15 years later to actually see it happen.
If you're a normal human being, hearing news like this is disconcerting.
Perhaps they aren't all malicious, but if nothing else, they're very disconcerting.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ, AUTHOR, "THE CASE AGAINST IMPEACHING TRUMP": Well, more than disconcerting.
Elsewhere though, there were enough disconcerting signs to give some analysts pause.
The disconcerting thing is that there are virtually no positives, all negatives.
Something about his persona is extremely disconcerting to white, middle-class Americans.
It is the manner of these proposed cuts that is so disconcerting.
"They found him with weapons that were very disconcerting," the source said.
The borrowed van, a 1990 four-wheel-drive Syncro, made disconcerting noises.
There's a certain kind of responsibility in that, which must be disconcerting.
He's been a disconcerting shade of purple for nearly a day now.
Others, like Kevin Dresser, find the sight of a bored animal disconcerting.
"The current situation is rather disconcerting," said a spokeswoman for Samsung Securities.
Far from being cheered by the offer, they might find it disconcerting.
The jello-like egg is kind of disconcerting between two sweet buns.
A sophisticated if disconcerting new neurological study suggests that we probably are.
An empty butter shelf in France is like a dry baguette: disconcerting.
The notion of bot spam is fairly disconcerting and yet utterly predictable.
Being older on the road is equal parts disconcerting, humbling and enlightening.
She walked us through each episode, explaining the show's most disconcerting elements.
To essentially say 'just kidding' and toss it aside is extremely disconcerting.
Because in times of crisis nothing sounds as disconcerting as a national anthem.
It was disconcerting, even to someone who is pretty adaptable to these things.
What I find most disconcerting about this story is how familiar it is.
But behind the headline numbers, an even more disconcerting dynamic is playing out.
It's "disconcerting," he said, that Grindr is sharing this information with other companies.
Judging from footage of the chants, the robot is quite disconcerting and brazen.
We were going deep in the jungle, so that was a little disconcerting.
This correspondent found himself gripped by a disconcerting mix of optimism and pessimism.
Comic and disconcerting, these pieces leavened surrealist techniques with a critical woman's perspective.
The flogger connects to the Neon Wand, and the overall experience is disconcerting.
This building is home, so for something like this to happen, it's disconcerting.
A particularly disconcerting display, also at the Cloisters, goes one metaphor too far.
She later told ABC that Chris' demeanor even before his arrest was disconcerting.
"It's really disconcerting to imagine these animals floating around sound asleep," he said.
"The fact that this was around since 2005 and wasn't caught is disconcerting."
That's why loose talk about leaving Supreme Court vacancies unfilled is so disconcerting.
What's even more disconcerting is that your home kitchen may be way dirtier.
We don't know if the imagery that participants saw was enjoyable or disconcerting.
It was disconcerting, even in someone who is pretty adaptable to these things.
What's more disconcerting than watching MIT's dog-like Mini Cheetah robot cavort around?
Trump's commitment to this dying industry isn't new news, but it is disconcerting.
In the Book Review, Jason DeParle called it a "generous but disconcerting" work.
It would thus be especially disconcerting if it doesn't celebrate an 11th birthday.
Mr. Trump's rallies, where violent protests sometimes break out, can also be disconcerting.
I make these works both attractive and alluring but also grotesque and disconcerting.
It's a disconcerting start to a game that only continues down that path.
Ideologues find that deeply disconcerting, but in fact, it is his greatest strength.
The trade war between the United States and China has been especially disconcerting.
What I found so disconcerting was the pervasive political polarization afflicting the country.
"The relativity of reality has become so commonplace it's disconcerting," Mr. Alterman said.
For a Texan, especially one who leans left, this situation can be disconcerting.
"I don't know a lot of Muslims, and that was disconcerting," she said.
And it was very disconcerting at first that no one was finding them.
In these circumstances, democracy results in embarrassing deliberations, inadequate solutions, and disconcerting stalemates.
Pelosi called Carson a "disconcerting and disturbingly unqualified choice" in a statement Monday.
What was said between the two leaders, they admit, remains a disconcerting mystery.
Look, the most disconcerting thing was when I saw my wife's email show up.
Shittown is a tiny rural community full of complex characters and disconcerting social systems.
Would that make it feel just as disconcerting and just as uncomfortable and tense?
"They found him with weapons that were very disconcerting," a source told the Times.
Yet this was still a dismaying, disconcerting speech to hear from an American president.
The aesthetic combines archaic technology, disconcerting art, small rooms, and eerily unpopulated public spaces.
That's why it's a little disconcerting that gluten-free has become such a trend.
Since Day 1, the series has reveled in an unrelenting, disconcerting kind of honesty.
As the saying goes: Another month, another disconcerting report from top U.S. climate agencies.
It got a little disconcerting when the site's owner started threatening me with violence.
KS: It was disconcerting how much she talked to me, I have to say.
Oscillating between trembling close-ups and medium range shots, the film feels shockingly disconcerting.
More disconcerting was the starring role given to the New Age entrepreneur Deepak Chopra.
The takedowns were disconcerting to performers who came to town expecting a docile press.
The drumbeat of "bombshell" disclosures and "smoking gun" stories was disconcerting and, frankly, disgraceful.
More disconcerting, though, is that an educated, successful man remains unconvinced of Homer's worth.
At the same time, and just as disconcerting, CMMI became less inclusive and transparent.
But Nation is an impressive movie, emotionally raw, occasionally overwhelming and also occasionally disconcerting.
It's disconcerting how easy it is to identify each one by her pastel ghost.
The fact that you're turning some of that over is a little bit disconcerting.
Even more disconcerting for Tory is the sight of Chris flirting with a man.
Certainly the reports of low morale and on the deficit in recruitment are disconcerting.
So an empty butter shelf in France is like a dry baguette: deeply disconcerting.
But they all shift and recede under your eyes in the same disconcerting way.
To a relative newcomer, like my British husband, all this nudity can be disconcerting.
Particularly disconcerting is the dearth of escape routes, which constitutes a major security hazard.
To a relative newcomer, like my British husband, all this nudity can be disconcerting.
In short, Luca Guadagnino has made something rare and disconcerting: a genuinely pagan film.
The part that's disconcerting is that it's usually done without my knowledge or consent.
It's also extremely disconcerting to hear this kind of rhetoric being given a national platform.
But doing so causes the camera to move left or right with a disconcerting lurch.
And this staging, disconcerting in its swings between these poles, does justice to Bolaño's style.
Next, we get a shot of him living the country life — and it's very disconcerting.
Seeing tweets on screen during a revered miniseries is disconcerting, but that's how Zellner communicates.
"That was disconcerting to us," Rusty Stitt, the superintendent of Schoolcraft Community Schools, tells PEOPLE.
It's just somewhat disconcerting to have become the disgruntled older fan I once didn't understand.
"They made a mockery of the whole thing and it was really disconcerting," said Kitei.
Disconcerting, but given how badly the administration wants the nuclear deal to succeed, not surprising.
Of all the weird places to get pain, your breasts might be the most disconcerting.
Mr Lloyd's production is a rude awakening and a brutal, disconcerting look at class conflict.
A wonderfully disconcerting aspect of this choreography is its extraordinary mixture of formality and informality.
A loud rumbling and a disconcerting dripping sound gave way to percussive but harmonious music.
Her little town, like Jessica Fletcher's Cabot Cove, soon has a disconcerting number of homicides.
Ironically, the best defense for Helfrich is perhaps even more disconcerting for the program's future.
While not a particularly mean spirited ghost, the story of Samuel Chew is still disconcerting.
Erdogan's style as Turkey's supreme leader has been forceful, disconcerting, and even bizarre at times.
The most disconcerting part about solving this puzzle for me was keeping the numbers straight.
I played him three times when he was young and it was mind-blowingly disconcerting.
It's disconcerting even to be reminded of how difficult it is to answer these questions.
Yet more disconcerting than his reaction was the sheet of paper taped to his window.
The rise of the illness in Britain is in accordance with a disconcerting trend worldwide.
While that uncertainty may be disconcerting in some contexts, in these paintings it is exhilarating.
The wind was making a disconcerting whine through the yellowish-gray masses of bare limestone.
Perhaps none is more disconcerting than the collapsing barrier between the political and the social.
Those store cards are usually pretty easy to get, so Mr. Shafer's denial was disconcerting.
Her disconcerting presence provides the first signal of the elusive and intriguing film to follow.
Still, it's surprising and a little bit disconcerting to see similar behavior appearing among children.
But the scale and murkiness surrounding the location tracking industry is disconcerting, to say the least.
But what makes the inconsistency on immigration really disconcerting is what it's revealing about Trump himself.
Most of the time it's not a big deal—it's a little bit disconcerting, that's all.
"It's disconcerting that the US attorney was here, but we have nothing to hide," he said.
S-Town's speculation regarding John's psyche is painful and personal, and often disconcerting in its intimacy.
It can be disconcerting at Mr Trump rallies to hear how thoroughly their nonsense is believed.
But in the context of Trump's election win Tuesday, USA-Mexico takes on a disconcerting tinge.
Both gaps are within the statistical margin of error, but still, the numbers are understandably disconcerting.
But, even more disconcerting is that it is now being investigated as a potential hate crime.
Despite its disconcerting shape and weight, it was easily the most erotic item in the office.
It's actually kind of disconcerting that it took this long for the change to be made.
They told me about the thrilling, mundane, and occasionally disconcerting experiences of being a horror writer.
Which made for the slightly disconcerting vision of a visibly driverless digger carving up the landscape.
A giant iceberg breaking off Antarctica is a disconcerting sight, but it's also fascinating to watch.
It was "very disconcerting" that "some great horror" had gone on at the school, Meyer said.
Second, the relative performance of gold equities versus bullion has proved similarly disconcerting during recent years.
For those who choose Airbnb as a way to meet locals, this is a disconcerting trend.
There's something I find, not disconcerting, but almost unbelievable about Mister Rogers when I've watched him.
Clinton attacks Mr. Trump on his business record — and Mr. Trump finds something disconcerting in Mrs.
These alien sounds would establish a disconcerting musical theme that underscored Gaveston's hold over the King.
It is very regretful and disconcerting that the US-NK summit will not happen as planned.
Endres: One of the more disconcerting things about the metal scene is that you encounter… things.
That's a relief because, to be honest, it's Care-O-bot's silence I find most disconcerting.
No matter how many times my heels click on its gray metal surface, it feels disconcerting.
There is something disconcerting about the experience, even as you are flooded with an odd tranquility.
Matsoukas, who is tall and thin, with dark hair and high cheekbones, radiates a disconcerting hyperassurance.
Midway through "The Long Haul," he does something disconcerting and entirely unexpected: He gives up driving.
A Presidential transition can be a disconcerting stretch of time, even in quieter days than these.
What we may find disconcerting or upsetting or whatever, it is actually what keeps him going.
And the strain in his eyes — he seems to peer uncertainly, especially in turns — is disconcerting.
For most people, getting something factually wrong -- especially in a public setting -- is disconcerting and embarrassing.
No doubt news of yet another change was disconcerting to them during a month of uncertainty.
Pure's "plant-based protein starters" crumbled nicely during browning but remained a disconcerting shade of red.
While the law appears to have worked as intended, the results were disconcerting, to say the least.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said to have sailors killed in two collisions this year was disconcerting.
But the more disconcerting issue is how cognizant these seniors are of being watched over by strangers.
And his choice of Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, announced on December 27th, is disconcerting.
Others find it a bit disconcerting that Garfield is attracted to roles where he plays LGBTQ+ people.
Avoiding the disconcerting uncanny valley that emerges when machines try to mimic humans is a delicate balance.
This points to a disconcerting possibility: Perhaps this time the machines really are reducing overall employment levels.
Instead, it uses them to create an atmosphere of disconcerting seediness, even before the real horror begins.
But this week a disconcerting sign warns that "unpredictable" conditions have affected tomato supplies; none are available.
What the exhibition does best is to capture the overwhelming and disconcerting nature of the world's problems.
"I couldn't remember just exactly what it was about raspberry jam that was so disconcerting," she recalled.
The drop in its other products revenue, in particular, may seem a little disconcerting for Wall Street.
That doesn't make the trend any less disconcerting if you'd written them off entirely like I had.
That is disconcerting in light of the ideological sorting in recent decades in many countries, notably America.
It's quite disconcerting when a major piece of context is missing from your understanding of a story.
Brawn, 61, said the lack of trust became disconcerting and was not something he was used to.
But such a large pivot, says Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets, an investment bank, is disconcerting.
It's more than a little disconcerting to see some of their noxious ideas seeping into the mainstream.
Minkkinen's piece, "The Glass Penis," (1988), shows a penis in a champagne glass — a provocative, disconcerting photograph.
The large number of disconcerting and potentially critical technical flaws discovered by Mnemonic further exacerbates these issues.
Gundlach said it is "disconcerting" that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin does not recognize signs of inflation.
We also couldn't help but notice that a disconcerting number of new gadgets looked like sex toys.
The result can be a disconcerting like-mindedness, an invisible bubble of opinions that reinforces our own.
"He said: "I think what's a little bit disconcerting for me is how the stories are told.
As I followed the simple map on the invitation, I was struck by a vague, disconcerting premonition.
And I certainly wouldn't have been struck by a disconcerting memory that arose with an unexpected jolt.
The meds made her extra anxious and, most disconcerting to her, blunted her desire to make art.
It's also completely different from what he's done before, in ways that longtime fans may find disconcerting.
Still, even though this is manifestly a comedy, it was a little disconcerting to watch in 2018.
The Osmo Action's display has about two seconds of lag when stabilization is on, which is disconcerting.
"This new information is very disconcerting and needs to be more closely looked at," Ms. Canter said.
Then there's the disconcerting fact that her husband's brother (Jovan Adepo) has fallen in love with her.
And she has a habit of biographical embellishment that, while trivial next to Trump's, is still disconcerting.
It can be disconcerting to give up control, but also valuable, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
I tried to capture some of the speech's disconcerting oddness in my write-up of the event.
Karabell said it's the most disconcerting question he's getting, especially since it's often from professional financial advisors.
But he does a very good job of identifying them, providing a thorough if disconcerting tour d'horizon.
Perhaps most disconcerting is the elation with which his nomination has been greeted by anti-abortion extremists.
The painting is visually pleasing and disconcerting, like a sky turned green and pink due to pollution.
The antics have become so disconcerting that even some old guard liberal lions, such as former Rep.
"We noticed the dip in women and it was very disconcerting," said Nancy Staudt, the school's dean.
What is most disconcerting to some is the influence Flynn will soon have in the White House.
After vandals stole baby Jesus's head off a sculpture, a local artist replaced it — with disconcerting results.
Whether describing lucky breaks or hard knocks, her prose is intense and intimate, at once disconcerting and entrancing.
Many tune out Trump's disconcerting traits because they genuinely believe he can keep all Americans safe, including minorities.
A closer look is even more disconcerting for Democrats: 1-in-3 Latino males cast votes for Trump.
Change can be disconcerting, but Venus does connect with supportive Saturn this evening to help you through it.
It was a disconcerting development accompanied by a high-pitched alarm and the distinct scent of burning rubber.
But when it comes to firearms in general, the TSA finds a disconcerting number of guns every week.
Perhaps even more disconcerting was exploring the clinical labs that the genetically altered Little Sisters had called home.
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Honestly, it might be more disconcerting to be Hugh than to be a Crain kid in Hill House.
He also noted Trump's attacks on federal judge Gonzalo Curiel based on his Mexican American heritage was disconcerting.
Visitors may feel discouraged after journeying through the mystifying and often disconcerting world of surveillance — I certainly did.
This omission of food in these advertisements is disconcerting because runners need to eat —and eat a lot.
It was a comment I'd been hearing with disconcerting frequency as I hung around wang hong in China.
They shared with him disconcerting stories about the chaotic registration of migrants, many of whom arrived without documentation.
A few years ago, Jamie Hodari had a disconcerting conversation with Adam Neumann, WeWork's CEO at the time.
But even before the most recent developments, Suu Kyi had displayed a disconcerting sensibility regarding Muslims in Myanmar.
Perhaps most disconcerting, we found a mannequin near the clearance section that appeared to have its hands severed.
A disconcerting but not uncommon dynamic had emerged: As my confidence as a parent grew, my husband's waned.
Linda Greenhouse THERE are few sights more disconcerting during a Supreme Court argument than smart justices playing dumb.
To Robertson and his colleagues, it was clear as day how weird and disconcerting Dog's Life could be.
There was pressure on Crean to redirect a program that had dealt with several disconcerting off-court problems.
This kept happening to me when I was at the gallery, and it was weirdly thrilling and disconcerting.
That question is known as the Fermi paradox, and there are several potential answers (most are fairly disconcerting).
"Having a joke take you on a totally different path from the setup is disconcerting," Dr. Frazier said.
So it was at least a little disconcerting to hear her ooh and aah over emollient bath oils.
What's disconcerting is how many people go along with that idea that somehow the press is the enemy.
But in the corners of the economy where trouble often rears its head earliest, there are disconcerting portents.
Having worked directly with Guantanamo detainees who have experienced torture, Prasow found the installation disconcerting and factually incorrect.
But his shifts, in both policy and personnel, are disconcerting those who were once among his loudest boosters.
Looking at the prints, you had the disconcerting sense of knowing and not knowing what was before you.
But what's even more disconcerting is what Joker's story suggests about the society into which the movie debuts.
I get that it's disconcerting to watch your smart, multidimensional friend turn herself into a selfie sex objects.
All of this puts Trump's praise of Putin during the campaign in a whole new — and disconcerting — light.
"It is rather disconcerting that there should be this impression," he said, according to a transcript of the interview.
It's not all about perfect technique and strategy, sometimes the simple act of constantly moving forwards can be disconcerting.
A much more disconcerting is the habit of America's new chief executive of holding cards close to his vest.
Sure, social media is powerful, and this is just another disconcerting signal Trump prefers ego-stroking propaganda to reality.
This is the L.A. that's depicted in all its various glories, both delicious and disconcerting, in American Crime Story.
I'm not exactly sure how long hosts have been able to wield such disconcerting power over their invited guests.
Contrary to most superstars, Irving is married to the mid-range and isolates on the wing with disconcerting comfort.
That uncertainty may be disconcerting in some contexts, but Relative Brightness proves that it can be exhilarating as well.
The fact that many rap artists continue to thrive despite accusations of sexual and/or physical abuse is disconcerting.
But still: Back in November 2017, there was yet another upheaval over the disconcerting experience of hearing Pikachu speak.
It was just, you know, I thought he was talking about immigrants generally and it was very disconcerting to.
In one surprising and disconcerting scene, Carrie visits him in a segment filmed shortly before his death in 2010.
Jeb BushSad Robert Pattinson Beans from Even Stevens This one fits pretty well, which is disconcerting on multiple levels.
I found it disconcerting, but perhaps that's just a matter of it being different instead of it being broken.
This can be disconcerting, but some creative breakthroughs will arrive as the sun and moon mingle with electric Uranus.
Here's a disconcerting reality: The fate of truth in American public discourse could end up resting with Rupert Murdoch.
But even more disconcerting was that all these people suddenly felt completely comfortable talking to me about my body.
That report offers a disconcerting example of just how much we don't know when we don't have accurate data.
But this is undoubtedly a moment more uncomfortable and disconcerting than could have been imagined before the crisis began.
But the reality for the many students who go on to follow a STEM track in college is disconcerting.
What made this effect particularly disconcerting is that many of Trump's spontaneous interjections were reactions to his own speech.
It doesn't quite just work, but it's close enough that the weightlessness of virtual objects is actually instinctively disconcerting.
"And what's a bit disconcerting, too, is that you never meet them," he said of the new Chinese proprietors.
The show's giddy nihilism is assembled from easily readable individual images that maintain a dark babble of disconcerting humor.
The dinosaurs are built in pieces and assembled, so the workshop can present a visitor with some disconcerting dismemberment.
It also mingles the personal with the political to a degree that some readers will find disconcerting, she says.
To reduce anxiety, promote health, and to just distract from the disconcerting news, Fradin recommends families prioritize outdoor play.
Like the moralist Nietzsche, who also spun off disconcerting and misquotable epigrams, Machiavelli is at once overfamiliar and obscure.
At this juncture, Peck introduces a theme that was a steady yet disconcerting force in Baldwin's young life: movies.
It's a somewhat disconcerting story line given the way it frames a false rape allegation (which are exceedingly rare).
Wolf doesn't confide so much as report — on a crunchy gherkin, on abstract political anxieties, on a disconcerting dream.
Also, if you want to keep your app searches private for whatever reason, you may find the feature disconcerting.
It is so disconcerting that it must be entertained and investigated because it is so foreign to honest people.
Richardson, for her part, finds the situation disconcerting, given the years she dedicated to researching and writing her novel.
That I might waltz into the wall, or vomit backstage (please, not onstage, I hoped) started to seem disconcerting.
But it wasn't lace the world had seen before: instead it was savage, disconcerting and not at all precious.
Film companies were reluctant to involve themselves in the project, and what was most disconcerting was the reason why.
Seeing such a large shift in the goalpost when you don't want to take more investment risk is disconcerting.
The moment is a disconcerting one, and it comes after a long discussion between the two about their relationship.
What's even more disconcerting is that South Korea isn't the only patriarchal country to have had a female leader.
But mainly it's formal: Whatever their intention, they succeed in transforming bicycles and man alike into vivid, disconcerting sculpture.
But mainly it's formal: Whatever their intention, they succeed in transforming bicycles and man alike into vivid, disconcerting sculpture.
And when Gasol made his post-trade debut for the Raptors, Meacham found it disconcerting to watch on television.
The results are particularly disconcerting given that healthy, active people may be considering taking the drug to slow aging.
It is a security breach of the highest order, and something that is very disconcerting for us for national security.
""Bach is absolutely one of my favorite composers... That people could be duped by a computer program was very disconcerting.
In the premiere, we witness their obvious sexual tension before finding out they're related, a disconcerting reveal for the viewer.
"It doesn't work," she says to the producer when we arrive, then peers into my face in a disconcerting way.
Which brings me to an element in ORLAN's work which is distinct from her physical alterations but just as disconcerting.
These polls should be disconcerting for Team Clinton, but for now at least, Trump is the least of her worries.
It's a pit in my stomach," Martin said, adding, "It's a disconcerting time for the science community in this country.
The election of a reality television star to the highest office in the land would be disconcerting on its own.
Over the last few years, the world has started waking up to the disconcerting vulnerabilities of internet enabled sex toys.
In addition to Erdoğan's "calamitous actions" in Syria, the lawmakers cited a "long list of disconcerting steps" he has taken.
Since it took him seasons to acquire, that's disconcerting, as is the new slickness of his manner in several roles.
CNBC's Jim Cramer has been noticing some disconcerting activity on social media as earnings season continues to drive the rally.
"   "Disconcerting to say the least to see POTUS shaking hands with the thug Kim Jong Un and saying he's 'honored.
It was disconcerting to be offshore during a big storm, but far less so tucked in behind the rocky barrier.
Oghi found it disconcerting that he had to keep feigning ignorance, despite his suspicion that she was up to something.
The effect is disconcerting because Appleby conjures an in-between state, where nothing attains definition, nor is anything completely dispersed.
Though we saw a lot of messy stores, Target was by far the messiest and most disconcerting of them all.
Shirako (fish sperm tubes) are available for the brave, and have a disconcerting creaminess and the viscosity of raw egg.
One of the most disconcerting things about virtual reality, motion sickness aside, is the inability to see your own hands.
Her first US solo museum exhibition, Ma'am showcases the duality in Pivi's work: part joyful celebration, part disconcerting funhouse mirror.
Listening to that interview is startling; hearing Chuck Tingle in the flesh, so to speak, is initially a disconcerting experience.
The US News, reporting in a way that's nothing short of disconcerting, stresses what's ultimately at stake with this decision.
And while public cruising and the places where it happens will likely never truly, fully die, the decline is disconcerting.
Now that this long, wild, generally disconcerting ride is over, it's time to ask yourself: Would you fuck the Grinch?
The American Civil Liberties Union has pointed out that Gorsuch has a disconcerting record when hearing cases on disability rights.
"It is really disconcerting to learn about all the prior accidents with these planes," said Jack Hickey, a maritime lawyer.
It isn't so much the shock of the new as the shock of recognition that makes the moment so disconcerting.
It's a bit more disconcerting if it suggests that those with a legitimate claim feel too intimidated to even try.
So too does the disconcerting experience of leaving the exhibition only to find cheap postcards bearing Ignace-Melling's original image.
This 30 percent tilt rate is hardly ideal, but is far less disconcerting than that of the major national newspapers.
Interpersonal dynamics in darts matter as much as the action on the board, and to opponents, this can be disconcerting.
That's a bit disconcerting, and a reminder of how much of democracy is designed to be a work in progress.
The animation is so photorealistic that it's disconcerting to see these lifelike animals walking (and singing) through the familiar drama.
That's the disconcerting result from a survey conducted by Accenture and released at this week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
In advance of Copa's kickoff, Klinsmann gave an interview with the Wall Street Journal that is equal parts puzzling and disconcerting.
Yes, some may find the always-on location sharing a bit disconcerting, but it's also what makes its suggestions so accurate.
"It's disconcerting," said Harrison Rudolph, a law fellow at Georgetown University who focuses on the intersection of technology and legal policy.
Also, the feeling that at any point a crazy person could simply pluck them off your face was a little disconcerting.
But these disconcerting details accumulate into a demented final act that will surely cause a bevy of conflicting reactions from audiences.
"[It] is disconcerting because many of these occupations are related to population health, well-being and safety services," the researchers wrote.
The work of Wojciech Fangor comes to mind; his blurry dichromatic creations from the sixties are similarly circular, mysterious, and disconcerting.
This is my daily ritual — I don't buy coffee, but this little bar brings me so much joy it's slightly disconcerting.
"It's been a few months and there are things that have been disconcerting to me particularly around immigration," said Steve Case.
Considering it's an organic market and those birds tend to be smaller than the typical Oven Stuffer Roaster, this was disconcerting.
As someone whose job it is to definitively point people toward the best next thing, this "personal choice" business is disconcerting.
Disconcerting scenes of self-care are on display in the Valley of the Dolls series by Steven Klein of Camera Work.
Though their concepts may be disconcerting, the above dishes at least incorporate elements that we've all agreed upon as consumable foodstuffs.
To understand why Damore's insertion into the narrative of censorship is disconcerting, it's important to look at how his notoriety unfolded.
While the switch might be briefly disconcerting, in the long run we think the uppercase "Internet" would seem out of step.
In a tweet early Tuesday, Cramer said, "It is disconcerting that you can't read a positive article" about the business climate.
Using lasers, they cut Mylar into computer-generated wave patterns that, when draped on a body, created a disconcerting rippling effect.
But, in some ways, what's in plain view -- a Trump confidante taking advantage of his boss's new position -- is more disconcerting.
The study is especially disconcerting because it focuses on index funds, where the only decision is a simple one – comparing price.
Although he spoke a little Spanish, he'd never mastered the accent and had a disconcerting habit of mixing in Italian words.
Minnesota GOP Chairman Jennifer Carnahan on Tuesday said that Franken should scrap the appearance over Griffin's "deeply disturbing and disconcerting" picture.
"It's so disconcerting when you hear, even tonight, 'Donald Trump is going to New Hampshire to practice for Sunday,' " he said.
It's not a terrible flaw, but it could be slightly disconcerting if you're running around and suddenly find your band gone.
This hate has been trickling down, infecting Pagan communities across the nation, which has been especially disconcerting for practitioners of color.
"I wish we can be celebrating, but it's a little disconcerting," said Rob Bartenstein, chief executive of Kestra Private Wealth Services.
"The uncertainty is really disconcerting for us," said one worker who declined to give his name due to fear of reprisals.
Even more disconcerting to Democrats: according to the Belcher poll, their party "is underperforming in the generic ballot" among African-Americans.
Even more disconcerting: He was wearing the hat of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, the archrivals of the Montreal Canadiens.
I understand how disconcerting it is that mainstream media is a public trust, but mainstream media companies are also corporate entities.
They betray a lack of perspective for Broadway history and, most disconcerting to me, a bias against children and their predilections.
For those not already convinced of the importance of precision engineering, there is the disconcerting story of a 2010 Qantas flight.
WATCHING AN ADAPTATION of "The Secret River", Kate Grenville's prizewinning novel, on the banks of the Thames is a disconcerting experience.
Davíd, the central figure, is a disconcerting and precocious six-year-old, who attends an academy that teaches numerology through dance.
It's more disconcerting than you might expect to re-encounter as an adult a character you've previously met in her childhood.
His defenders can argue that his behavior, while disconcerting, does not rise to the level necessary to remove him from office.
And the knowledge that everything will be different than when we launched by the time we land is a little disconcerting.
On Friday, the whole saga took a disconcerting turn: Ben Affleck said he is not, and never has been, on Raya.
It's still disconcerting to me how outsiders, even fellow Midwesterners, feel about my home state: that it's blighted, abandoned, despair-inducing.
A Buxtehude prelude preceding "Herr, unser Herrscher" amplifies the disconcerting power of Bach's music: you feel it thunder through the door.
"The lack of enthusiasm from Republicans in yesterday's election was disconcerting," Wagle's chief of staff, Harrison Hems, told the Wichita Eagle.
Mr. Trump's unrestrained praise of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and his disregard for America's longstanding military alliances have been disconcerting.
The hostile (and often distorted) analysis in the media was disconcerting but predictable, given the trend toward greater opinion-infused coverage.
The president's reported abrupt and undiplomatic telephone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was as disconcerting as it was inexplicable.
Finally, our Best Weekend Reads include disconcerting imagery from Kazakhstan, where a warming climate is rapidly shrinking the Tuyuksu glacier, above.
Such an arrangement could be disconcerting, at least until passengers figured out which ends of the train open at which stops.
The disconcerting "Symmetrical Procedure TTC-16-2" (2015) is comprised of six curved lines overlapping to form a rounded, inverted pyramid.
I have to admit, this was a little disconcerting, but Tesla execs insist that most people get used to it quite quickly.
Sessions' nomination as America's top prosecutor is certainly disconcerting to the cannabis industry, as well as for civil rights proponents more generally.
Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has described the questionnaire as disconcerting and troubling.
Some members find the questions raised to be disconcerting and wonder whether it is acceptable to have a question about their faith.
We're being facetious, of course, but this bizarre and disconcerting scenario appears to have unfolded at Sava's Restaurant, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In fact, the plunge into silence proved powerfully disconcerting: like a cartoon character shoved over a cliff, running fruitlessly in mid-air.
"Even more disconcerting is the sequential drop-off in operating income starting with -0.7 percent in third quarter 2014," Perkins told investors.
Amid a disconcerting political climate wherein the Trump administration has publicly fostered climate science misinformation, any accurately disseminated climate information is valuable.
A ticker on its website measures, with disconcerting precision, how long it has been in operation: four years, three months, three days.
"A curious, disconcerting and sometimes insidiously effective greatest hits tableau," was British newspaper The Telegraph's summary by its film critic Tim Robey.
That the employee in question who was able to get this data easily, violating user privacy and Google's apparent safeguards, is disconcerting.
Renzi loyalist Lorenzo Guerini, the PD's deputy leader, said Bersani's comments were "incomprehensible and disconcerting", adding that he had "often been disloyal".
It is doubly disconcerting given the disproportionate impact energy prices have on economies — especially economies in desperate need of fuel-injection themselves.
The reports of cheating are "very disconcerting," said Timothy Tesar, assistant director of international admissions at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
"This is extremely disconcerting for Clinton," says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Photo: GettyTinder users in Russia may now have to decide whether the perks of dating apps outweigh a disconcerting invasion of privacy.
"It's not a missile test but it's still very disconcerting for people who look at the North Korean ballistic missile program," Duitsman.
It is a strange and sometimes disconcerting realm that has bailed my ass out on more occasions than I care to admit.
In initial interviews with Fox News staff members, investigators for Paul, Weiss turned up disconcerting findings about the omnipotence of Mr. Ailes.
It was disconcerting when we found a large blue bag of what appeared to be trash in the back of the store.
Trump remains disconcerting to lawmakers because just as they're starting to feel more comfortable with him, he says something puzzling or outrageous.
The rest of the statement reads: It is very regretful and disconcerting that the US-NK summit will not happen as planned.
More disconcerting still, a major earthquake in California presents a real risk of triggering a shock to the nation's entire financial system.
Most disconcerting for LME shorts is how little metal is being delivered to exchange warehouses, even with such a high cash premium.
Similarly disconcerting is Maluma's guest appearance on XXXtentacion's posthumous "Arms Around You," which was positioned as the controversial rapper's Spanish crossover moment.
About that: one stat line that's just a little bit disconcerting is that Gray had a whopping zero assists on the night.
It was cozy inside the hut, with a banged-together quality that I liked, though spending the night there still seemed disconcerting.
Michael Adno is researching the past and present racist politics of Florida, and the results are dense and disconcerting (curator: Alejandro Jassan).
It's more disconcerting than usual when, at the end of the series, Alexander Wilson's surviving children and their families are assembled onscreen.
So it's been disconcerting in recent years to see Northwestern be competitive in the Big Ten and regularly appear in bowl games.
"What's even more disconcerting is that the news headlines haven't been all that bad yet," said Paul Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group.
Often, a compression stall includes a loud, disconcerting bang, and sometimes a quick flame erupts from behind the engine, then quickly disappears.
So yes: It's disconcerting to see a publicly elected woman acting with the sort of reckless entitlement we've long associated with men.
The split between Domingo's fare and the contemporary offerings—which reflect the tastes of the organization's C.E.O., Christopher Koelsch—can be disconcerting.
As many have observed, the timing of the Ukraine call -- right after the apparent "end" of the Mueller investigation -- is especially disconcerting.
What was more disconcerting, however, was how playing by real-world rules in the game made the regular outbursts of violence weightier.
Hearing over and over that identifying as rich was disconcerting surprised us because many Americans claim their wealth as evidence of merit.
What is most disconcerting for an American about the Chilcot report is not the advice of Blair, but the actions of Bush.
The new National Library in Qatar, for instance, opened in April 2016 and is so unusually transparent that it almost feels disconcerting.
Sidenote: It's pretty disconcerting to see how much time you spend at a desk versus actively walking around in a pie chart.
"There continues to be this very disconcerting disconnect between the administration's climate goals and its federal fossil fuel leasing programs," he said.
Artistic legend, Michelangelo Pistoletto, places the disconcerting image of his Surrealist paintings and installations alongside the majesty of a storied countryside structure.
It doesn't matter how you feel about politics, the 2016 presidential election cycle has been shocking, disconcerting, and more than a little nauseating.
It's also peculiar and disconcerting that the audience is mostly covered with the circus-like tent and the actors are uncovered and vulnerable.
It's a disconcerting thought, when you're living with wounds that never seem to be given the time or space to ever properly heal.
The tour, said Christian Prudhomme, its director, is "life, condensed… all the wonderful, exceptional, disconcerting, unfortunate things that can happen: it is life."
"Stocks ultimately trade on their future earnings streams, not the future of the EU, and right now that future looks disconcerting," Cramer said.
I listened to it once stoned and once sober, and I liked it more sober, which is disconcerting for this band in particular.
The localized effect is a bit disconcerting, but if you're interested in really feeling your music, it seems like the way to go.
Fuel inventories also remain elevated, and the surprise 2.5 million barrel build in gasoline stocks on Wednesday is disconcerting for refiners, Lipow said.
Co-opting feminist messages for marketing purposes would be more disconcerting if it were to benefit a company run by men, Duffy says.
What's disconcerting is that Trump -- who likes to defer to military expertise -- doesn't appear willing to do so from his own MDA director.
It's a craving that I find difficult to resist, and one that, as a certified fitness professional, is more than a little disconcerting.
We know arsonists are usually men at an average age of 26, with a disconcerting number volunteering with the country's fire fighting agencies.
It certainly must be disconcerting to realize you're a primary cultural engine for the stereotypes that make a bigoted demagogue's rhetoric politically viable.
The action also sets a disconcerting precedent by an administration that appears willing to rewrite its own regulatory procedures to appease the protestors.
And the fact that religious leaders—including those within the Catholic hierarchy—pushed hard for the directive is disconcerting, to say the least.
Instead of an asset, the faltering peace is disconcerting an electorate also frustrated by tepid growth, weak public services and still-gaping inequality.
"Götterdämmerung" (or "Twilight of the Gods"), the final, five-hour opera, explores the disconcerting idea that without the gods we are left alone.
Farmer and her staff of 20 black women face problems around birthing that are even more severe than the already disconcerting national statistics.
When, a few episodes in, it begins to dive into Sam's messy unconscious, it deepens, hitting on disconcerting themes about sex and loneliness.
This is Donald Trump, a man some here now say is so disconcerting and disturbing, they have started trying to ignore his rants.
As I thumbed toward the top of the screen, I had the disconcerting sense of watching a life become a life-style brand.
That might be what makes astronaut ice cream so disconcerting — it teaches kids that something terrible for space travel is what astronauts eat.
The images are never complete, in a perpetual process of becoming — and that may be the most human, and disconcerting, thing about them.
It's very, very disconcerting, but I comfort myself with the thought that we've been through the dark times before and got through them.
"Desist from thrusting out reasoning from your mind because of its disconcerting novelty," the paper began, quoting the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius.
One of the most disconcerting parts of observing Hungarian soft fascism up close is that it's easy to imagine the model being exported.
So by the end of the year, one of the most disconcerting things was wondering if tech even does any good any more.
At once pleasing to observe and disconcerting to contemplate, Davies's idylls burn with a relaxed complacency of which we're meant to be suspicious.
"It's definitely disconcerting; you can't be Pollyanna about it," said Justin Gimelstob, an analyst and member of the ATP Tour's board of directors.
News flow can be disconcerting, but SEDG's efforts to shift away from China supply for the U.S. market appear to be working out.
Jill Machol, Washington I found it rather disconcerting that you titled the magazine stories to be all about love in New York City.
They did give the impression that she had arrived alone, a disconcerting combination of powerful and vulnerable, at a not particularly appealing party.
I was there and know how disconcerting it was — and detrimental to the hurricane victims — that it was vacation time for political leadership.
Even though I had little to lose, it was disconcerting to see the money I contributed to my 401(k) decrease each month.
Welcome the Kars 4 Kids band, whose theme song is wildly disconcerting for how it gets you into your head and never leaves.
Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow recently released a report highlighting disconcerting irregularities in the Trump administration's distribution of taxpayer-funded farm aid.
The short and very disconcerting answer is that, in Rogoff's words, "treasuries and central banks simply do not know" where this money is.
As to his attempts to cooperate with Russia in countering jihadism, they are disconcerting for their potential to indirectly strengthen Putin's ally, Iran.
Sometimes it seems like the world has fragmented into a jagged kaleidoscope of countless mobs and subcultures, each more disconcerting than the last.
Mascagni can't stop himself from unleashing explosions of Italianate ardor, which often have a disconcerting effect, particularly when Osaka is expressing vile sentiments.
This disconcerting vision is the prevailing view of how automation, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things will transform the world of work.
In turn, this makes the whole experience even more disconcerting when somebody so close to your own age has their story cut short.
With that disconcerting display behind us, producers made the (questionable, I'd say) decision to bring him back for Kaitlyn Bristowe's season 11 in 2015.
What&aposs even more disconcerting is that Amazon Echo records every command you speak, to train the software to work as fluently as possible.
" But last week, the judge presiding over the case argued that the basis for it all — the laughter that initiated the arrest — was "disconcerting.
As if possessed, dozens of hands spring from the figure, who lies on the ground in the fetal position — a disconcerting portrait of pain.
If you've never ridden in or driven an electric car, the lack of rumble or movement when the car is idling can be disconcerting.
Embedded in her most famous quote are the ideas that are fundamental to Marianne Williamson's appeal — and make her a disconcerting choice for president.
The city is now bracing for backlash, which we hope does not happen in response to what is being called disturbing and disconcerting video.
Any sign of distress from his mother would very likely have been disconcerting to Murray, who had already been on edge during this tournament.
While the current downturn in Apple stock is disconcerting, it doesn't eliminate the reality that Apple is a company that has massive cash flow.
With his alternately vital and disconcerting sculptures, videos, and installations presented in Unemployment, his latest show at 47 Canal, Kline has done just that.
It all starts off with a disconcerting bang, as new opening credits play for the first time ever since the show debuted in 2011.
"It is disconcerting that once again, forces outside Nevada are trying to pawn off their problems by dumping nuclear waste in our state," Rep.
One particularly disconcerting Labrador sticks its tongue out as if it were dead—a sign of canine distemper, a measles-like virus for dogs.
" But in July, the judge presiding over the case argued that the basis for it all — the laughter that initiated the arrest — was "disconcerting.
In these works women look directly at the viewer and, in some cases, turn the gaze back on us in ways that feel disconcerting.
But the disclosures have also been a disconcerting reminder of the failures to address sexual abuse, which has enveloped the Catholic Church in scandal.
But there is a disconcerting disconnect between the fantasy of country life that the restaurant presents and the sobering reality just outside its doors.
In Closing: • Writing about this show was a distinct, if sometimes disconcerting, pleasure, in part because true crime is a longstanding interest of mine.
It was therefore disconcerting how frequently the A.I. was able to accurately predict my intentions, often when I was in midsentence, or even earlier.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT DISCONCERTING WHEN BIG, OVERSOLD MOVES DO NOT GET CORRECTED IN ANY KIND OF IMPULSIVE WAY, BUT RATHER GET CONSOLIDATED SIDEWAYS.
The stakes were far less significant on Sunday, and although it was only the Mets' fifth game of the season, the loss was disconcerting.
This list of biases is far from exhaustive, and though they may be disconcerting, uncovering new systematic mistakes is critical for improving clinical practice.
The company's Super Bowl commercials have historically been a little offbeat, but the best word I can use to describe this year's is disconcerting.
"Seeing the effect of pollution on humanity is disconcerting and so we decided to try to make a change," Esh and Simon told CNN.
The nonlinear storytelling and unreliable protagonist add to the sense that there's no solid narrative ground to stand on here, which can be disconcerting.
Combined with the return of this very Cold War-style missile contest, the world may be heading towards a very disconcerting balance of terror.
When crunching the numbers for 2019, Strava found a disconcerting trend with female cyclists: They were less likely to bike to work than men.
And it's disconcerting to learn that in Pakistan some honor killings can be forgiven by the victim's family, with no punishment for the murderers.
Opinion He's the reason I'm at Cambridge, which is why the university's decision to revoke his invitation to do research there is so disconcerting.
In the middle of the experience, electronic trio The Acid will be performing their disconcerting score, which we premiered "Theme 1" of earlier today.
The noise may be slightly disconcerting for your fellow respectful passengers, but it'll alarm the loudmouths and they'll stumble into a panicked, uneasy silence.
He stakes out Lee Harvey Oswald (a quietly disconcerting Daniel Webber) to make sure the assassin was working alone — the better to justify killing him.
There's an explosion of tangy, salty freshness on my tongue, followed by a slightly disconcerting sliminess as the spaghetti-like pasta casing makes itself known.
Back in 2012, when his appointment was first announced, I said no: I worry, however, that this appointment tells us something disconcerting about monetary policy.
But after so many years of thinking she would be the outside force that would bring order to Westeros, her hardline tendencies are becoming disconcerting.
As for Trump's constant lurking behind her throughout the second debate, Clinton said it was disconcerting but she handled it as she's handled previous situations.
To prevent a disconcerting uncanny valley effect, a translucent version of the headset is left in place, to create some mental distance for a viewer.
It is quite frightening and disconcerting to hear Alexa's adult lady voice come out of Furby, which is known for speaking disjointed English and gibberish.
And Clinton's surrogates have often failed to get young women to see her as an historic figure, a lapse that some Clinton supporters find disconcerting.
It takes absurd and somewhat disconcerting skill to make an audience root for Vernon (Todd Robert Anderson) or relish the company of Paul (Allan McLeod).
She also made a note, under Airbnb's "Things to Keep in Mind" tab, that she "does own a weapons permit," which is vague and disconcerting.
"It's disconcerting that we start making decisions for companies ... I think it gets a little frightening,"  said James Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Leuthhold Group.
But like a disconcerting number of white-working class Democrats, Schultz found common cause with Trump after supporting Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primaries.
The ground debate within the Democratic Party over whether to drop Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is "disconcerting," a party strategist says.
Politically, it is also disconcerting Republicans who, a week ago, were hoping to fight a midterm campaign on a strong economy, tax cuts and deregulation.
Think of how depressing and disconcerting it is to be unable to seek vindication against an infringer irrespective of how egregious and widespread the violation.
The disconcerting truth is that the brutal, venal, medieval Taliban movement is popular in the ethnic-Pashtun-dominated south and the mountainous east of Afghanistan.
While his back-and-forth with Megyn Kelly is childish all around, his power play against the primary fair-and-balanced news organization is disconcerting.
This past weekend at UFC 208 there was an air of professionalism and reserve to the proceedings longtime fans of MMA may have found disconcerting.
There is something really disconcerting (and also hilarious) about seeing such paintings with roots in Suprematism, Minimalism, and Ad Reinhardt composed on rinky-dink cardboard.
Also disconcerting, has been Musk's combative attitude toward Wall Street and the press, which rose to a head during its first-quarter earnings conference call.
The Shift Of all of Facebook's superpowers, perhaps the most disconcerting is how it can make online publishers disappear with the push of a button.
The results were not just a disconcerting measure of Italy's mood but also a harbinger of the troubles that may yet lay ahead for Europe.
One of the most disconcerting aspects of the immediate days and weeks following my concussion was the degree to which I found my self missing.
They take up with a street-smart boy carrying a disconcerting amount of cash, and two young women, sisters whose beauty becomes a harrowing liability.
It is a collective shrug, they say, that they find all the more disconcerting given how explosive and relevant gender has become in the race.
Others might find the arrival of chain stores disconcerting, but Mount Vernon residents took it as a sign that retailers thought the neighborhood had potential.
Ms. Hincapié said it was "especially disconcerting" that Mr. Montes was deprived of a hearing before an immigration judge, in violation of his due process.
Rather, taking literary license with the title character's documented history, Palmer spins a cracking tale that, despite its disconcerting subject, is piquantly cheerful and compassionate.
The pronouncement seems disconcerting, as most delegates have viewed Wakanda as a Third World country, based on King T'Chaka's former appearances at the United Nations.
"What's disconcerting is the desire to hide information from your own team," said Andrew S. Weiss, who was a Russia adviser to President Bill Clinton.
Bulging eyes, gaping mouths, warts, wrinkles, and other disembodied expressions or body parts are arranged in elaborate configurations that are at once delightful and disconcerting.
The inability of LSAT takers to follow the test's extremely onerous rules is slightly disconcerting, considering these are the future arbiters of our legal system.
The brutally cold conditions are a good excuse, but it was disconcerting that they had to rely on a botched short field goal attempt to win.
The lingering trauma of repression and the heady, disconcerting repercussions of freedom are tendrils that wend their way throughout Sala's refined, giddy, somber body of work.
MTN, which has expanded in more than 20 frontier markets including war-ravaged Syria and Afghanistan, called the latest demands by Nigerian authorities "regrettable and disconcerting".
Wanting a robot to handle your calls is one thing, but convincing the person on the other end they're talking to a human is somewhat disconcerting.
The images are quietly humorous and disconcerting, painting a picture of Italy that doesn't align with the postcard scenery most people—even some Italians—think of.
Even when someone means well, it can be disconcerting to see a stranger getting a little too close to your child in public, for obvious reasons.
Should we not hear from aliens by that time, the researchers say it would be "disconcerting," and the Fermi Paradox would emerge as a relevant problem.
Ultimately, the longer the situation with Deutsche Bank lasts, the more disconcerting it will be for the market until it gets resolved one way or another.
"That's one very disconcerting thing—the proportion where fentanyl is detected," Dr. Jane Buxton, harm reduction lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control, told VICE.
It's a disconcerting scenario, but also one well worth considering now that AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner over the weekend for around $85 billion.
The play reveals this odd, disconcerting paradox: we mythologize artists, but do so with precisely the attributes of authenticity we ironically think make them more real.
It's a bit disconcerting to watch the skies light up with these genuine death rays, each one a merciless destroyer of countless worlds unknown to us.
" Smith writes that it is "disappointing and disconcerting that Undersecretary Rood, when asked comparable questions could not or would not share similar information with the committee.
"Nonetheless, it is disconcerting that two independent operations were able to penetrate the D.N.C., one of which was able to stay embedded for nearly a year."
"Certainly to have officers like this among the fine men and women in the department is disconcerting, but we will root them out," Chief Suhr said.
"Proving Up," a smaller-scale but no less disconcerting piece, had its première earlier this year, and was staged in September at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
Starting and ending the puzzle with cross-referenced clues might be an interesting element in the puzzle for some, but it might be disconcerting for others.
The suggestion that some students should be required to pass one type of assessment, while others are given a different (presumably more rigorous) one, is disconcerting.
"No previous government in South Africa has even hinted at (changing the central bank mandate) and Zuma's people now doing it is pretty disconcerting," Peta said.
What's perhaps most disconcerting about this revelation, though, is that the first thing that comes to her mind when she's thinking about the supermarket is deodorant.
Perhaps Post wanted to take audiences down a disconcerting—yet seductive—path; one that echoes the journey of Olivia Benson and her comrades in each episode.
Considered in retrospect, it has disconcerting resonances with subsequent concerns about Justice Kavanaugh's willingness both to tell the truth and to stand up to President Trump.
The decadent island society of Orléans is home to a select group of sisters born with the disconcerting ability to perform plastic surgery without the plastic.
He appears so blissful that it is disconcerting to read Merigeau's account that as a boy Jean rarely encountered his father except while posing for paintings.
Mr. Kantarovsky paints disconcerting, darkly funny scenes of lovers, mourners, children and freaks, and intensifies their eccentricity through unexpected contrasts of oil paint with drippy watercolor.
"I felt it would be disconcerting for my authors to wander into a bookshop and see their editor's name writ large across a hardback," he said.
But, in its straightforward — even bland — healthy-mindedness, this Mahler more than anything acted as a kind of peace offering after Mr. Adams's beautifully disconcerting concerto.
But during pregnancy, a woman's body changes so much on a daily basis and is one of the most surreal and disconcerting things you can experience.
At other moments his manipulations are so cruel, his acts of violence so vile, that it feels profoundly disconcerting to have ever been seduced by him.
Even more disconcerting than Sheffer's approach to Asperger's wartime actions is her attempt to ground the notion of autism in Asperger's World War II-era work.
The abnormally high number of casualties (600 people were injured) in a country that has long mastered the art of theatrical but safe demonstrations was disconcerting.
Still, the dead, leafless trees, standing 80 to 100 feet tall and glistening black in the sun, made for a sight both starkly beautiful and disconcerting.
"It is disconcerting that, when asked about gun control, around half of those with higher conspiratorial predispositions wanted less strict gun laws," Uscinski and Parent observe.
And while those companies have all sworn to improve their respective systems and offer opt-outs, it's the phishing apps from SRLabs that are really disconcerting.
All this occurs at disconcerting speed, which many will take as proof of the film's romantic impetus—of Cianfrance's faith in the headlong lunge of love.
Prominent U.S. officials have exhibited disconcerting nonchalance toward a set of technologies that some experts believe holds more transformative potential than fire or the steam engine.
The line was meant to put us at ease, but it had the disconcerting effect of startling us with an abrupt intimacy that we couldn't reciprocate.
Take, for disconcerting example, the case of Alexander V. Livinenko, a former Russian agent, who was fatally poisoned in London in 2006 with a radioactive element.
Despite the emergence of this disconcerting news on Tuesday, some parents are standing by him, saying he never expressed anxiety about immunizations to them, The Post said.
Discounts are nice, but the prospect of Amazon effectively watching your phone screen over your shoulder or preventing you from seeing certain pages is a bit disconcerting.
It also ignores the reality that user data is already out there, and that no number of tweaks to its platform will make that any less disconcerting.
The more noteworthy, and potentially more dangerous move from Trump, relates to the disconcerting, anti-Muslim inclinations evident in another executive order he is expected to issue.
The Queen is apparently not a fan of selfie-photos, and former U.S. ambassador Matthew Barzun told Tatler magazine in 2014 she finds them "disconcerting" and "strange".
In a statement issued by his ministry, he also described as "disconcerting" a decision by the European Commission to take Germany to court for breaching air targets.
Here was an array of streetwear that had been enlarged to exaggerated proportions, shown in such disconcerting silence that the clothes took on the formality of vestments.
Europe is not the priority that it was in 1949 when we created NATO, and so their lack of support for their own mission is very disconcerting.
This should be disconcerting to all Americans, but especially your companies as, once again, it appears the vast majority of their efforts are concentrated on our platforms.
"It is disconcerting that two independent operations were able to penetrate the DNC, one of which was able to stay embedded for nearly a year," Langevin said.
This company has found itself in controversy over data harvesting before, so the lack of a "just let me use my headphones" option is a little disconcerting.
But that's the key: Trump, as even people inside his campaign acknowledge, has a disconcerting tendency to agree with whomever he's speaking to or last spoke to.
The figures are disconcerting for the CDC, in part, because it shows that the explosion of infections that occurred in 2016 are continuing into the new year.
It can be disconcerting to watch women take part in it — not only because of patriarchal stereotypes, but also the feminist pressure to represent our gender well.
More disconcerting is the perception that people with mental illness are potentially so dangerous that only police are equipped for the job of getting them under control.
You come to trust Delilah — when she tells you to do something, you do it — which only makes the latter portion of the game even more disconcerting.
Manager John Farrell had some equally disconcerting things to say about Price, noting that while Price had experience similar discomfort before, there was more "intensity" this time.
"Let's hope that wage growth accelerates from here because the decline in the savings rate is disconcerting," said Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group.
With such a difficult past and a disconcerting present, I completely understand why a Jewish organization feels we need a day to pray in unity for peace.
The disconcerting reality, however, is that they are already behind the curve, as the status quo for SCRM is not keeping pace with today's dynamic threat landscape.
Kenneth Branagh initially found portraying Kurt Wallander, the addled Swedish detective, so intensely disconcerting that he wore bright clothes and attended flower shows to cheer himself up.
I've spoken with practicing physicians across my state, and all of them agree that it's disconcerting to have "big brother" looming over their shoulders in this manner.
What makes the latest setback for Matz so disconcerting was how well he had been pitching despite a large and painful bone spur in his throwing elbow.
While the increase in cost over one year is disconcerting, the two-year rise of 88.9 percent over the $2.7 billion in fiscal 2014 is downright disturbing.
It's disconcerting for a superrich (if maybe not as rich as he says) plaintiff to treat the legal system as a weapon to be deployed against critics.
Her transitions between other people's stories and her own personal and professional observations can be disconcerting, but she is such good company that you will forgive her.
From there the bout took on a more grinding pace, as favored by Barnett, and by the third round there was little of Arlovski's disconcerting speed left.
And though my conversations with him were innocuous, it was disconcerting to know that my message history with a private individual was accessible by someone at Twitter.
Perhaps the most disconcerting change: Bloody cartel violence outraged Mexicans and captured international attention for the drug war, which saw 27,000 homicides during its peak in 2011.
"Those shoes are so disconcerting, they're really instruments of torture," Ms. Antonelli said of the footwear from the last full collection Mr. McQueen produced before his suicide.
I received a disconcerting email this year from a senior staff member in the Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement at Sarah Lawrence College, where I teach.
And now, we have some more disconcerting news to report about the makers of some of your other favorite treats—in this case, the liquid, intoxicating ones.
Still, when I decided to attend Defcon, a freewheeling hacking and cybersecurity conference held each year in Las Vegas, disconcerting advice began pouring in from all sides.
"It's disconcerting to have your phone go off all the time," Mr. Hein said from a landline in his office, when his mobile phone began to ring.
There were executives in expensive suits, young men and women looking unaccountably dressy in ripped jeans and, according to James, a disconcerting number of people wearing hats.
Yet this YouTube activity, even depicting wholesome activities, is disconcerting for Emily Long, the director of communications and development at the Lamp, a media-based literary group.
But what is more disconcerting than Mr. Trump's constitutional ignorance is his obliviousness to the idea that some things fall within state jurisdiction and others do not.
Americans are being forced to choose between a cherished lie and a disconcerting truth as they prepare to celebrate the centennial of the 219th Amendment in 2020.
The footage is actually quite incredible, and you have full control over where to look, from the quite detailed ISS to a slightly disconcerting, but beautiful planet Earth.
To hear someone who supposedly represents a brighter future guided by science and innovation go to bat for Trump and his cronies is disconcerting to say the least.
And, if such a model is more widely adopted, it speaks to a disconcerting future in which police and tech companies have an excuse to surveil peaceful protestors.
Despite being handcuffed at the wrists and flanked by Interpol agents, fugitive Mexican governor Javier Duarte wore a disconcerting grin moments after his arrest in Guatemala on Saturday.
He tried not to think about the cold, or about the ice sheet trapping him in from above, or about the disconcerting blackness stretching hundreds of feet below.
Paitreau returns to soft blue tones when the sun goes down and the family searches for cops in the empty community — a disconcerting setup for the subsequent chapter.
Nevertheless, it's a little disconcerting to know that the $1,800-$4,200 you spend on a laptop can't even get an aftermarket SSD upgrade or a third-party repair.
There's also no way to tap at the top of the screen to scroll back up to the top — a common iOS gesture, which is a little disconcerting.
Regaining recognition both federally and culturally has become the primary mission of the Nisenan tribespeople because they believe it will help them reverse some of these disconcerting trends.
It's not unreasonable; I can see how a disembodied voice that's always there and always listening would be disconcerting to a toddler—or really any normal human being.
But the in-betweenness of the cats of "Cats" is deeply disconcerting, because it causes them to roam in the shadows of a phenomenon called the uncanny valley.
Photo: GettyInternet service providers gobble up a disconcerting amount of information about you—your browsing history, your geolocation information, your financial information, and a lot (a lot) more.
And yes, the Clinton campaign is mostly right that neither of these controversies has produced anything remotely as disconcerting as what Donald Trump offers on a daily basis.
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (CNN)There's something particularly disconcerting about watching a terrorist attack unfold in the heart of Europe from the vantage point of the Middle East.
What makes these actions so disconcerting is that they fly in the face of all that the Chinese government and people have accomplished, and undermine its future potential.
The "Stepford Wife" trope is a Western one, but it's interesting (and disconcerting) to see the different ways in which culture and tradition are distilled into patriarchal norms.
"It was disconcerting," says the actress, whose doctor suspected the loss was a result of a condition called telogen effluvium brought on by stress rather than her chemo.
On Friday, more than 60,000 people packed into Rio's Maracanã stadium for the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games — but above their heads, something disconcerting was happening.
But the trip also included disconcerting news: The left-hander Steven Matz's arm was sore, so was David Wright's shoulder, and Syndergaard had had his right elbow checked.
If for no other reason, this is disconcerting because the only thing that keeps our nation of laws intact is belief that no person is above the law.
While this may seem a little disconcerting, the Paris-based designer responsible for the concept said in Le Parisien: "We have to capture the drama of what happened."
While Peace Corps' lack of verified development impact is disconcerting, what's clear is that volunteers forge the types of deep, trusting relationships necessary to sustain impacts long term.
Although "Wake Up" doesn't quite recreate the bizarre magic of last year's "Sicko Mode," the visuals are still striking enough — disconcerting, yet graceful — to make a lasting impression.
That's why Depp's accolade is so disconcerting: it's a clear indicator that he has been forgiven and that all the nastiness dredged up in 2016 has been forgotten.
Employing a playlike setup and an unflinching camera (Jeff Cutter's cinematography is miraculously lucid), the filmmakers lean heavily on Mr. Goodman's disconcerting performance and Ms. Winstead's spunky resolve.
What's particularly disconcerting is that Washington seems to be making this decision, which does not ever guarantee Foster will actually play for them, as a sort of flyer.
Still, the mistake was disconcerting for a group seeking to defend its Olympic title from 2012 and add to the luster of its World Cup triumph last summer.
Thus emboldened and initiated I was able to press on, but slowly — the inner rings got a bit disconcerting, and the clues less helpful, as it should be.
It was a disconcerting segue for those of us who have learned over the last few years to cringe whenever a politician starts discussing conversations around the lockers.
Throughout my training, with disconcerting irregularity, I would experience flashes of intense doubt, echoes of the first bad reaction that had come over me in my friend's field.
Roving Eye As a child, Leonora Carrington — painter, fabulist, incorrigible eccentric — developed the disconcerting ability to write backward with her left hand while writing forward with her right.
Perhaps most disconcerting were predictions that the Merced River, which flows through Yosemite National Park, could rise as high as 23 feet, more than double the flood stage.
JONATHAN GRAY: So we think of ourselves as long-term investors; that if you get caught up in the news of the day, it can be very disconcerting.
While the rules around cigarettes are well-established, vaping has occupied a more nebulous position, and it's not surprising that a company like Walmart could find that disconcerting.
After a few listens, each song rings out with disconcerting familiarity, like discovering a clearing in the woods you know you've been to before but can't place when.
This inequality is even more disconcerting when you consider people of color are missing from top staff positions in Senate offices that represent large Black and Latino populations.
It is disconcerting and difficult to build a story around a series of conversations with artists who tell you very plainly that their work is about deceiving journalists.
But not only is the software in its current iteration unreliable, the consequences of relying on machines to flag and store this type of sensitive content are profoundly disconcerting.
That there are such obvious divisions in the lower echelons of White House power -- witness Conway and Spicer -- will be disconcerting, but not surprising to Trump's senior European counterparts.
Read more: The Number of US Households That Can't Afford Water Could Triple in Five Years More disconcerting is the current administration's apparent disregard for access to clean water.
It has also been disconcerting to hear Mr Trump's supporters adopt the term Lügenpresse to refer to the mainstream media, or to any journalists who criticise the president-elect.
More disconcerting is that GM sold fewer cars in 2018 than it did in 1961, despite the US working age population rising by 103 million people over that time.
At a time when gun violence is fresh on the conscience of the American people, many would find the concept of violent felons regaining access to guns somewhat disconcerting.
Amen Dunes: Freedom (Sacred Bones) This strange album, New York indie veteran Damon McMahon's breakthrough as Amen Dunes, is as lulling and disconcerting as psychedelic folk-rock can get.
"This should be disconcerting to all Americans, but especially your companies as, once again, it appears the vast majority of their efforts are concentrated on your platforms," they said.
I find it disconcerting to see my own sloppy handwriting turned into a pristine digital object, but unfortunately, it's an unavoidable experience while testing out Montblanc's new Augmented Paper.
"The incomplete nature of their responses to date along with the failure to provide supporting documents or commit to a firm document production timeline is disconcerting," a spokeswoman said.
But fame had downsides, he said: more scrutiny, less privacy and a number of disconcerting — if harmless — encounters with fans, including one who showed up at his front door.
More disconcerting, is that the agency may have taken punitive actions against EPA employees who expressed concerns about the ethics and legality of these and other Pruitt's questionable decisions.
That behavior is particularly disconcerting when you consider that some index funds in the real world charge far more that the study's choice – some as high as 2401 percent.
Google's game streaming service, which launches today in an extremely limited and frankly disconcerting form, has an easy pitch: What if you could play your games wherever and whenever?
I think it can be quite disconcerting for people and may sound like we're jumping ships at every track but life is too short for one kind of music.
What feels so disconcerting about this is not just that density normally brings urban perks — diverse restaurants, rich cultural institutions, new business ideas — that we can't enjoy right now.
Cumulatively, these books persuade you of a disconcerting truth: Compared with Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany was a terrestrial paradise — except for Communists and Jews (and, later, Gypsies and homosexuals).
A "disconcerting trinity of LOX and CINNAMON and RAISINS" (and capers and red onions.) "Completely unhinged," says editor Tom (the guy that pulls this whole thing together, thank you!).
"We appreciate that this behavior may be disconcerting, and encourage anyone who has been approached in this manner to contact police so we can investigate the matter," MacLeod said.
A group of pungent young men (cigarettes, sweat and wild game?) camped out in a common area next to us — disconcerting as the locks to our rooms were broken.
The next day, his yard was coated with fine white ash and peppered with carbonized twigs, shards, and other debris—a disconcerting reminder of just how close it got.
The murders were especially disconcerting not just because they were so savage and intimate, but because Lizzie's arrest "unsettled an ethnically and class-determined model of criminality," Robertson writes.
There is something disconcerting yet attractive about Murillo's installation, and however we look at it — from within the scene or from above — the complicity of our gaze is haunting.
Photo: APMeasles is pulling off a disconcerting resurgence across the continent of Europe at the same time the vaccination rate is falling, per recent data from the World Health Organization.
The Piano Teacher It's the kind of approach that gives such disconcerting gravity to what may be her defining role, as Erika Kohut in Michael Haneke's 2001 The Piano Teacher.
As cheers and little sobs filled the air, the performer Adrienne C. Moore informed us about the happy and slightly disconcerting coincidence, and led us in a moment of silence.
"These survey findings show a disconcerting lack of confidence among teens when it comes to achieving financial goals," said Jack Kosakowski, president and CEO of Junior Achievement, in a statement.
So, when they are not in those slots, or — in this case — when they leak out of those slots and spin out all over the place, it can be disconcerting.
But the ability to massively categorize a group of people based on their location and ad profiles feels profoundly disconcerting, even if it is more common than you might think.
A very disconcerting thing happened while I was reading You by Caroline Kepnes, an arresting thriller recently turned into an equally arresting Lifetime drama: I began thinking like Joe Goldberg.
They know that they are faced with a choice they find genuinely disconcerting, the possibility of feeling rotten either way, of being ridiculed by someone no matter what they choose.
Parsing through the aftermath, the pair began collaborating, drawing on Dada and other Interwar art movements to create bizarro, disconcerting takes on agitprop posters, 50s ad graphics, and religious pamphlets.
Most disconcerting to me and to millions of Latino voters was how the two Latino candidates fervently argued with each other over which one would treat Latino immigrants worse. Gracias!
The state of smartwatches made for kids is so disconcerting that the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) recently made a public service announcement warning consumers that the devices are not secure.
She has a disconcerting ability to make submission holds look godawful realistic, and her black hair, heavily applied eyeliner, and black mouthguard combine with her style to give you nightmares.
Several years deeper into the disconcerting blur between recreational and habitual drug consumption than the face-tattooed teens currently blowing up streaming platforms, Future makes for an unintended cautionary tale.
That is not as disconcerting as it sounds: the authors find that the American economy is still producing plenty of the right sort of firms, with lots of growth potential.
Divines got some great reviews out of Cannes this year, and now Netflix is introducing it to the world with a trailer that's all at once funny, charming, and disconcerting.
The entire IoT could become a source of intelligence Still, it's both wild and disconcerting to think that something as critical as a pacemaker could be monitored by a hacker.
Sherene Marie Zarrabi, a store employee at Dainty Hooligan in Stillwater, Oklahoma, decided to quit her job after receiving a disconcerting email from the brand's founder and CEO, Jessica Issler.
Also disconcerting was that Netflix added far fewer subscribers over all during the period than expected, which the company blamed on news media coverage of its plans for price increases.
It's why it's so disconcerting that the US withdrew from its landmark nuclear agreement with Russia roughly a year after Putin and Trump had their hours-long meeting in Helsinki.
While those numbers might (it's debatable) reflect a healthy pregnancy, the idea of gaining weight may be a disconcerting experience for a woman who is recovering from an eating disorder.
The robots grow more "human" as the book progresses, until their uncanny presences and disconcerting intelligence exacerbate disintegrating relationships within the company, and cause the whole project to fall through.
In others, the fields and bars vanish altogether to make the space an even plain: the drastic change of geography — or of perception — is disconcerting, but the dancers carry on.
But it's disconcerting to learn that something you did, or something you took, in all good faith, following all the best recommendations, may be part of a more complicated story.
The concept of ice that can light on fire is disconcerting, so professor Maurice Dusseault, from the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at Waterloo University, broke it down for us.
But Mr. Durham depicts her — skeletal limbs, tiny whittled hands, disconsolate stare — with a tenderness that's almost disconcerting in the context of an exhibition otherwise laced with needling, jibing bitterness.
Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — It's always a little disconcerting when a constructor decides to give us the silent treatment, but the silent treatment is what we are getting from Sam Trabucco.
It was, for the YouTube right, an expression of power — internal to YouTube, to be sure, but projected outward into the platform's wider world in a visible and disconcerting way.
As always, it's amazing and disconcerting watching Kenneth The Page doing normal people things like shotting tequila, screaming at former Disney Channel stars, and toasting Cambridge Analytica for some reason.
The contrast between the tight regulation of information by repressive regimes in the 20th century, and the free-for-all of today's media environment, gives the book its disconcerting force.
It does not resolve all those questions, but it provides enough information for its readers to begin to see some answers and to see how troubling and disconcerting they are.
It's a reasonable choice, but it has the slightly disconcerting effect of making it appear that Depp's biggest problem is that he is broke and suing his old business manager.
So it's surprising — and perhaps a little disconcerting — to learn that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama's national security adviser, is actually optimistic about the state of the world right now.
That was "most disconcerting," said Ken Perkins at industry research firm Retail Metrics, given that retailers potentially stand to benefit from greater customer spending this year after recent tax cuts.
Climate hawks received a few disconcerting signals in the wake of the midterm elections (which turned out to be a much bigger victory for Democrats than they appeared early on).
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: after impressing so with her earlier work both in features and documentaries, what's disconcerting here is DuVernay's inability to forge a strong or supple visual style.
While Facebook is painting this as a move toward more legitimate news, it's still disconcerting considering that the company is still grappling with a nightmarish flood of misinformation plaguing users' feeds.
While it's incredible—and important—to see black female mathematicians being rightfully celebrated, it's disconcerting that it took until 274 for them to receive the national acknowledgement a blockbuster film affords.
And don't even get us started on the disconcerting sexual undertones to Mario, Bowser, and Peach's relationship in this game, which finds a reptilian monster forcing a human woman into marriage.
And when you read it, I hear the character in my head, so I can imagine it's disconcerting when you listen to an audiobook and it changes the gender on you.
Even many well-run ones have a disconcerting taste for adventurism: Mr Nguyen promises that Masan will be picky with its investments, after its bet on a tungsten mine turned sour.
As more women in Hollywood come forward with tales of tales of battling the wage gap, the idea that those negotiating on their behalf would be less than forthright is disconcerting.
Tonight I got to experience a re-run of that disconcerting event as the United States followed the same trajectory with its democratic choice of Donald Trump as its next president.
While Trump's open praise for dictators is unusual and disconcerting, from a foreign-policy perspective, being nice to autocrats is one of the more normal things Trump has done as president.
"Perhaps more disconcerting was the electing to not guide to the time when it would reach 10K per week (previously said to be sometime during 2018)," said JPMorgan analyst Ryan Brinkman.
While he may have harbored animus toward Comey or made disconcerting statements, the act of firing Comey can be justified on Comey's own misconduct as opposed to assumptions about his motives.
I WOULD LIKE YOUR REACTION TO IT. THEY SAY, QUOTE, IT IS VERY DISCONCERTING AND TROUBLING TO PEOPLE WHO TAKE INVESTOR PROTECTION ISSUES SERIOUSLY – THIS IS TALKING ABOUT YOUR NEW JOB.
Instead, it left with many more questions after a disjointed, disconcerting 268-22 loss to Guatemala that raised more questions about where the United States was headed under Coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
For a Canadian electronic music fan in India, it's something that takes a little getting used to—and as disconcerting as the spectacle was, their presence served a very serious purpose.
It was meant as an insult, yet it grew to be associated with unsettling, disconcerting feelings of awe and dread that could be evoked by such elaborately beautiful architecture and art.
"The fact that these results were leaked to the press the day before they were made public is very disconcerting and undermines the credibility of the living wills process," said Sen.
What may be most disconcerting in the entire affair is what it says about the state of democracy in the country that is supposed to be the model for the world.
Not only was the president clearly overstepping his authority by giving an order to the Fed, but also it was disconcerting because I wasn't planning tighter monetary policy at the time.
It's a novel about ideas that also cares deeply about the pleasures of language, and a novel of disconcerting timeliness that does not depend upon its historical context to be compelling.
What started as a novel sighting in South Carolina has become a disconcerting global phenomena, and with Halloween around the corner, incidents of creepy clowns show no signs of slowing down.
On one of my walks through Dessau, a mostly sleepy town, I saw some disconcerting graffiti: a three-foot high swastika, spray-painted in yellow against the side of a shop.
I just hope one day you're brave enough to look at these real, and disconcerting issues surrounding racial/justice inequality from a holistic point of view instead of an egocentric one.
While I continue to question the basis for a criminal charge on this evidence, Trump's continued failure to recognize the danger of a self-inflicted wound is disconcerting for any lawyer.
Suddenly feeling that I might faint at any moment, I lay down on a concrete balcony for about 10 minutes until the disconcerting sensations passed, after which I felt completely normal.
What's even more disconcerting is that, according to Media Matters, Sunday's news shows didn't cover the March for Science protests even though tens of thousands of people showed up to march.
The film itself is a disconcerting look at nuclear tests and missteps, plunging the viewer into old footage and warnings from Cold War-era panics right up to the present day.
"The express discussion of loyalty is disconcerting," and could heighten speculation that the "president was trying to exert some pressure or at least exert some influence over the Russia investigation," Gerhardt said.
In reality, he has a disconcerting tendency to agree with whoever he's talking to: whether that's Sean Hannity, or a crowd of Trump supporters, or the members of his Hispanic advisory group.
Even more disconcerting to a large cohort of Knicks fans is that, just like Anthony did, Porzingis openly prefers playing a position at which both he and the team are less effective.
And this most recent attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cybersecurity threats in the world today – nation-state action and organized criminal action.
" But yes, it was like two and a half hours of my life, which at the time, was slightly disconcerting, because I thought, "Am I talking my way out of this job?
"It's more disconcerting than you might expect to re-encounter as an adult a character you've previously met in her childhood," Maya Chung writes, reviewing the book with other debut story collections.
At 41, the author is himself afflicted by "a disconcerting mixture of nostalgia, regret, claustrophobia, emptiness and fear", beneath which lie "questions of loss and regret, success and failure...mortality and finitude".
When you see a ball of light go across a wall in front of you and you know without a doubt that there is no external source, it can be extremely disconcerting.
When they confront the Kaylons about the disconcerting revelation, all hell breaks loose, and it's immediately evident that no one on the Orville will ever look at Isaac the same way again.
Perhaps the tech industry is getting slightly better with equal pay, but it's rather disconcerting that the computer programmer role is still among the top 15 jobs with the largest pay gaps.
" There's a name for this: The "in-betweenness of the cats of 'Cats' is deeply disconcerting, because it causes them to roam in the shadows of a phenomenon called the uncanny valley.
Chinese consumer spending is in better shape than indicated by retail sales data, analysts say, in what could be a positive sign amid a disconcerting slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
These are the most flagrant examples of the disconcerting discovery made by a small art museum in the South of France: More than half of the works in its collection were fakes.
The Olympics always end with a disconcerting whimper, the medals frenzy peaking somewhere in the middle of week two and the last events sputtering out across an eerily calm final few days.
The barren TV schedule is itself disconcerting, and amplifies the sense that the Olympics were a passing tornado, provoking frenzied and drunken enthusiasm but now leaving us, dazed, to survey the rubble.
CVE is not a soft alternative to counterterrorism, but rather a critical and complementary policy option for dealing with disconcerting but lawful beliefs and activities that occur in the pre-criminal space.
David Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA, said it was "very disconcerting" that it appears Trump may have made a conclusion about Iran before finding the intelligence to back it up.
It's co-directed by Jeff Desom and Carlos Lopez Estrada, and it's shot nicely—the dim light of the hotel is disconcerting, the bright light of the fake-outdoors is even creepier.
The progress the North demonstrated with its sixth test was disconcerting enough for South Korea to convene a meeting of its top security officials to discuss the growing missile and nuclear threats.
There is a painful correlation between the amount of guns, the easy access to them and the disconcerting number of gun deaths we suffer each year, as compared to other developed nations.
"Deepfakes" — the use of AI to modify videos to make people appear to do or say things they haven't — have become a frequent and often disconcerting refrain in 2019's news cycle.
I find it particularly disconcerting that Jewish organizations feel compelled to universalize anti-Semitism before condemning it, as if they must first seek permission from others before speaking about their own pain.
The talk-show host Stephen Colbert was swept up in a surreal, disconcerting broadcast when he and the guests on his live election-night special began realizing that Mr. Trump was winning.
So it can be disconcerting, at first, to eat a version that is actually luscious, to experience how supermarket ingredients can be transformed through technique and chemistry into something delicious and rare.
The shifts from football game high jinks or a character's apple-bong-toking abuelita to the question of whether to shoot another teenager in the head are disconcerting, to say the least.
Books of The Times In recent years, headless animals have turned up with disconcerting frequency in New York City parks — goats mainly, but also chickens, and on occasion, a pig or calf.
Participation and interaction were encouraged at several points throughout the exhibition, including a disconcerting wall of pink Post-its onto which visitors could anonymously write about the first time they were harassed.
He was then an emerging Modernist, possibly as known for his writing (still untranslated into Japanese at that point) as for the comparatively small, but profoundly disconcerting, output of his Paris atelier.
Abirami Chidambaram, who presented the Alaska case in 2005, when she worked for the Alaska State Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory in Anchorage, said she had heard about another disconcerting scenario since then.
It's disconcerting, too, that while Graham is considered by many to be the most iconic female choreographer in American dance history, three of the four contemporary works presented are by European men.
Equally disconcerting is that women veterans (over two million, or 220006 percent of the veteran population) are the fastest growing subgroup of veterans but many say they often feel invisible in society.
The streets would be so much more interesting if concept car designs overflowing with far-fetched ideas, jutting angles, and disconcerting shapes made it into the everyday vehicles riding on our roads.
But, while I found "Vinyl" to be a slog, I can't stop watching "Billions," which, under its lurid surface, is smartly paced and frank—even thoughtful—about the disconcerting fantasies it provokes.
What I especially admire about the painting is that it's disconcerting mixed signals are never neutralized by some explanatory psychodrama, but it does make a stealthy appeal to freedom, thereby sidestepping camp.
As Burke spoke, the camera slowly panned up Johnson's body—a disconcerting red carpet practice that became slightly notorious after Cate Blanchett criticized it at the 2014 Oscars, stooping down to meet E!
Cossman noticed during all three of his volcano trips that there were moments when smoke and steam and gas essentially blinded him—a disconcerting experience when you're standing on the precipice of hell.
The second underlying explanation for the hunger for ideas is that Hegel's owl of Minerva loves nothing more than a puzzle, and the modern world is throwing up puzzles at a disconcerting pace.
Radner's stark considerations of her mental health are on screen only for a moment before the film cuts to another clip of her performances, creating a disconcerting contrast that is never fully explored.
Writer-director Ari Aster set out to make a film that felt unsafe, and that's the most apt description of this movie: It feels fundamentally wrong in a way that's truly (intentionally) disconcerting.
It's disconcerting, though, that their solution to the question of where to go as a mainstream rock band when there are no more mainstream rock bands has ultimately been to cease to exist.
It is not surprising that they instructed Iran Air to contribute to the Syria war effort, but it is disconcerting that Washington has ignored this evidence and allowed Boeing to continue its negotiations.
Suppress your impulse to try to parse out what the hell this thing is supposed to signify, and instead treat yourself to these deeply, deeply disconcerting images: Welp, I guess that does it.
Our most recent reminder of this disconcerting truth: Bob Diachenko, a self-described cybersecurity enthusiast who works for an IT development firm, discovered an online database containing information on thousands of US voters.
While they are gleefully circumspect about last week's events—the word "alien" never appears in the 3,000 word update—some of the changes listed present disconcerting implications about what might be to come.
"This (the jobs cuts) is disconcerting considering the high unemployment rate in the country," said Mantashe, a senior figure in the ruling African National Congress who once headed the National Union of Mineworkers.
Also disconcerting is that according to the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan government agency that does the budget bean counting for the federal government, the fiscal stimulus is wrecking the nation's fiscal situation.
While the thought of Google quietly recording your every search — whether it's on Maps, YouTube or its search engine — can be disconcerting, there are reasons why it's useful to keep these settings enabled.
She felt unsupported and aloneAfter she experienced some disconcerting symptoms, she emailed her boss to let her know that she would likely be starting her leave, the Google employee wrote in the memo.
After explaining that she had picked up the precepts of medieval palmistry decades ago, from an art-historian neighbor whose specialty was Hieronymus Bosch, Atwood spent several disconcerting minutes poring over my hands.
And while there weren't any really "sexy" styles on display either, the effect of an army of dudes in white polos and khaki pants storming the University of Virginia was disconcerting to many.
The issues she had raised found a disconcerting resonance in November, when The Boston Globe published a series of reports about accusations of sexual misconduct by faculty members at Berklee College of Music.
"I'm normally a pretty brave person, but when you feel like you're in a fishbowl and you don't know who it is that's throwing rocks at you, it's disconcerting," Ms. Weaver, 53, said.
If it was once possible for members of the conservative movement to tell themselves that these factions had been driven into the political wilderness for good, recent events tell a more disconcerting story.
It's disconcerting that for every fiscal year of his presidency so far, Mr. Trump has called for deep cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
There's such a disconcerting rush of lush imagery and action in the first 40 minutes or so of "Invisible Life" that one is apt to wonder whether there's any kind of focused narrative.
If this is a bewildering time to be an American, so, too, is it a disconcerting time to be a fan of rock and pop, among the country's maddest and most characteristic concoctions.
Ms. Tantaros says in the suit that a fleet of anonymous social media accounts, known as "sock puppets," used the information to send her subtle and disconcerting signals that she was being watched.
PRINCE AL FAISAL: We are living in a time of much uncertainty, and there is a lot of fog around, no clarity, a lot of contradictions, a lot of negative and disconcerting developments.
Lifestyle writing, whether "quit lit" or sex tips in Cosmo, has always been popular, but over the past few years in particular, it's blossomed in tandem with the disconcerting rise of "wellness" culture.
Mesquite — the go-to wood in Hawaii, the American Southwest and northern Mexico — emits a strong-tasting smoke and pyrotechnic sparks that, depending on your level of pyromania, you'll find thrilling or disconcerting.
Their antique look, however, can feel distanced, and the juxtaposition of handcrafted charcoal drawings and found objects often opens up a disconcerting conceptual space, a wedge of estrangement occupying the center of the work.
Given that, it can be a little disconcerting to think of stars as de facto aliens struggling with basic human interactions, which is how Pitt and Portman sometimes come across in their new films.
It's too early to say she's headed toward Mad King territory, but at the very least, from the audience's perspective, a character many people assumed would be fantastic is suddenly showing some disconcerting signs.
There was no there was no real sense that these were human beings that were being processed, which is disconcerting to see when you have people that are fleeing, you know, from from danger.
If people across the social and political spectra are getting accounts suspended, YouTube videos demonetized, or stories de-ranked, it looks like bad service from a platform with a legitimately disconcerting amount of power.
There's something inherently weird and a little disconcerting about sharing a name with a famous person, particularly on the internet, where it can be easy to mold the boundaries of your identity and persona.
That's why the new teaser for the upcoming film The Disaster Artist (in case you're losing track, that's the film of the book about filming the film The Room) is both disconcerting and brilliant.
What was even more disconcerting was the fact that the Iraqi drones were made in China, a country filling a void created by the U.S. that's rapidly becoming a multi-billion dollar global market.
As polls open for US primaries in Ohio and Florida, the political elite in Tokyo is starting to confront a disconcerting idea: that their indispensable US ally could actually elect Donald Trump as president.
It is not just the passionate traditionalists and Brexiteers, overjoyed at the prospect of "taking back control" of the country from the European Union, who find the prospect of a "bong-less" Westminster disconcerting.
It was his diminutive goblin of a teammate, Brad Marchand (seriously, even among his teammates Marchand is known as the "little ball of hate," a term that even President Obama seemed to find disconcerting).
The scathing 56-page external review cited a "disconcerting" number of incidences of bullying, racism and sexism and multiple cases of managers belittling and publicly humiliating staff and making "demeaning, menacing", profanity-filled comments.
The advance the North showed with its sixth test was disconcerting enough for South Korea to convene a meeting of top security-related ministers on Wednesday to discuss the growing missile and nuclear threats.
What a sublimely ill-matched couple the actors make: Hayek is steady and foursquare, with unflattering bangs and a disconcerting gaze, while Lithgow, twice her height, is lanky, richly amusable, and pink of cheek.
What to me is most disconcerting about these paintings — but also contributes deeply to the pleasure in experiencing them — is that I began to feel bodiless, like a ghost, when I looked at them.
Of all the cast, she seemed the truest to Tolstoy, modestly approaching his ideal of goodness, so it's disconcerting, to say the least, to observe her, as Moll, sliding headlong in the other direction.
"I have experienced the simulation of what they went through and, even being aware that it is about to happen, it is very disconcerting," said Murray Butt, the president of the Qantas pilots union.
Equally disconcerting is the fact that President-elect Donald Trump will replace President Barack Obama, the best president of my lifetime, whose legitimacy to sit in the Oval Office Trump directly and repeatedly challenged.
While it's disconcerting to imagine a parallel literary history with Proust Instagramming madeleines, just think what a sensation Dickinson, the woman who seemed to think in 140-word epigrams, would have been on Twitter.
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 76% (season 2)What critics said: "The degree to which 'Ozark' slams on the breaks is disconcerting; the downshift in pacing creates an antsy viewing experience that transitions into blandness.
If you're going to make a reading list, you might as well make one for prison, where smartphones are contraband and a disconcerting number of people really do need ways to pass the years.
The bite of the hyena is one of the strongest of any animal on earth, so feeling the hot breath of one of these animals on my ear was disconcerting, to say the least.
"I think the military has improved overall, although it&aposs hard to say how much, because our government no longer collects data on indica of improvements, which we find a little disconcerting," Sopko said.
"It's always disconcerting when a journalist's telephone records are obtained by the Justice Department — through a grand jury subpoena or other legal process," Watkin's attorney Mark MacDougall said in a statement to the Times.
Its disconcerting to see the Seattle City Council pick and choose who gets a voice in local elections, and when, the Seattle Chamber of Commerces chief of staff, Markham McIntyre, said in a statement.
Trump's attraction to violent strongmen such as Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte, combined with his State Department's disavowal of the traditional American embrace of human rights, has been disconcerting.
Ultimately, the exhibition — by virtue of its disconcerting beauty — is a triumph against the fear that keeps us silent, an outcry against perpetuated violence, and a tangible reclaiming of the artist's sense of self.
Not being able to share meals with friends and family, to gather at others' tables or pull up more chairs to our own, has been one of the most disconcerting effects of the coronavirus.
More disconcerting for the Democratic politicians who want to expand the government's role in health care: Less than half of Democrats, 42 percent, said they trusted the federal government generally to do what's best.
If a change in scent is accompanied by something more obviously disconcerting (like blood in your urine or pain with urination), or it simply doesn't return to normal, that's reason enough to contact your doctor.
This year's videogames weren't explicit responses to anything that happened this year—games rarely work like that, especially where multi-million dollar development cycles are concerned—but entertainment and reality often intersect in disconcerting ways.
In a statement on Twitter, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said it was disconcerting that a criminal like Morabito had managed to escape from a prison in Uruguay while waiting to be extradited to Italy.
So to get a degree of closure on this debate—and just to understand why CrossFit is so associated with two extremely disconcerting clowns—Tonic decided to dive into the roots of Pukie and Rhabdo.
President Donald Trump's deference to Russian President Vladimir Putin at an extraordinary press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday was stunning and disconcerting, particularly given his bullying of America's European and NATO allies last week.
As I noted last week, Trump's public agonies over what to do on his signature issue revealed his disconcerting tendency — contrary to his truth-teller, bomb-thrower image — to agree with whomever he's speaking to.
The Guys Who Slide Into DMs With 'Creepy Asterisks' "There's a disconcerting style of speech that's bubbled up from the depths of web culture and entered the dating world: the creepy asterisk," writes Quinn Meyers.
In response to Hannity's question Thursday, Trump said the messages are "very disconcerting," and that "[Strzok and Page] are trying to infiltrate the administration really it's a coup, it's spying, it's everything you can imagine."
If I am transfixed by Imhof's performance, it is the morbid transfixion of being faced in the mirror with visions of the body, of sociality and of subjectivity that are at once desirable and disconcerting.
If you're wondering if the Garden of Earthly Delights-esque scene that took place at the restaurant may have been to blame for the sudden "illnesses," it's not looking likely—more like a disconcerting coincidence.
John S. Pistole, a former administrator of the T.S.A. who created the Office of Professional Responsibility to establish uniform discipline and punishment across the agency, said claims by agency whistle-blowers were disconcerting, if true.
Two disconcerting statistics dubbed by A.T. Kearney the "millennial double whammy" — steadily increasing student loan debt and stagnant wage growth — paint the concerning picture of the present state of the macroeconomic impact of higher education.
One teacher describes the disconcerting experience of first seeing DeVos, in her "thousand dollar suit and her really pretty shoes" in a school where the drinking fountains didn't work and the bathrooms didn't have soap.
The risk assessment was disconcerting, particularly reading about the large number of casualties to sniper fire and IEDs; and the high frequency of PTSD symptoms reported amongst journalists covering the first phase of the operation.
Yeah, and again, if you are a hardcore Twitter nerd like myself, you find that actually disconcerting because it's a new way of looking at things, and there's no real rhyme or reason to it.
"Even more disconcerting is that the authorities are stating that Minzayar Oo and Hkun Lat were detained on September 13 – whereas in reality they have been in police custody since September 7," the magazine said.
This can be disconcerting — it's a new and not entirely convincing experience to see Watergate recounted with little or no reference to The Washington Post, the federal judge John Sirica or the Senate Watergate Committee.
It can be disconcerting for adults to live in a world where that doesn't happen, where a clear line of demarcation fades into a smudge of days, Monday to Friday, same as they ever were.
The hosts are malfunctioning machines to him, not the evolving consciences we've spent a season and a half observing, and the reminder is disconcerting, especially during an episode that's so concerned with their emotional impulses.
One of the more disconcerting notions floated is the prospect of adding more seats to the Supreme Court in order to politically "balance it" the next time Democrats control both the White House and Congress.
That reaction was fine by him: Riley ends the film on a note of volatility, introducing disconcerting new information in the closing seconds and then leaving this, and one of the film's major antagonisms, unresolved.
On a Monday evening last August a 243-year-old man dressed in tennis whites, with a moustache and a ruddy, jowly complexion, drove his silver Porsche Boxster at disconcerting speed through the French Alps.
Losing Rudock isn't a big deal, talent-wise, but it's somewhat disconcerting that he managed to win last year's starting job over two players competing for that same job today, Wilton Speight and Shane Morris.
While there is something to be said about the disconcerting trend of undetectable spying, like with apps and online parental controls, this very tangible approach takes this level of intrusion to a deeply unsettling new place.
If viewed on a Cardboard or VR headset, it can be quite disconcerting, as you have to constantly turn your head to see what is coming, which is exactly the feeling I was hoping to evoke.
This disconcerting disconnect between national political behavior and localized elections is the subject of an important new book, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized, by the political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins.
The game uses your phone's camera, so you will get the very disconcerting impression that there is a ghost Pokémon flapping or undulating directly over your desk, your bath water, your local place of worship, etc.
One of the most disconcerting trends of the modern internet is the specific, reflexive ways that bad actors have learned to manipulate and dismiss inconvenient truths by using the culture, systems, and mechanics of the internet.
Between "fake news," offensive content supported by mainstream advertising, and disconcerting developments like sexual assault being broadcast on social media websites, Americans see an Internet that seems out of control and taken over by bad actors.
Arlie Hochschild's generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party presents a likable fellow named Lee Sherman, who once worked for a Louisiana chemical plant where his duties included illegally dumping toxic waste into the bayou.
There are precedents for everything, but the disconcerting truth is that America's political situation is downright weird today — too weird to be flattened into historical parallels, though as always there are precedents to study and weigh.
A disconcerting trend is that, since 2016, views that the U.S. has become an adversary have nearly doubled among young Arabs, while views of Russia as an enemy have fallen from 63 percent to 41 percent.
I'd give this episode a lot more credit for that if not for the fact that by this time, the show's obsession with continually menacing Veronica with sexual predators was starting to get a little disconcerting.
More disconcerting is "Dialectical Landscape 1" (2017), a giant garden extending across Midtown Manhattan and apparently all of Central Park, built on a platform forty stories up and spread the width of an entire crosstown street.
If it does not, though, the implications are equally disconcerting: It would mean that an innocent American was subject to incredibly invasive surveillance, not because the F.B.I. broke the rules, but because the rules allowed it.
The article, citing a close friend of Simmons, raised the disconcerting possibility that Simmons was somehow being held captive against his will or was being coerced to remain in his own house by a manipulative housekeeper.
Over coffee, "Andrei" quickly made clear that he knew all about her troubles with the police in Vladivostok — and a disconcerting amount about her life in general, including her trips abroad on behalf of Open Russia.
More disconcerting than the spin from professional politicos was that many voters (on both sides of the aisle) lacked the ability to tell truth from fiction, or to penalize candidates who lied repeatedly and without shame.
But in some ways, it's like so much more disconcerting that all this stuff in various other years is also exposed, also accessible, and they had no idea until people started just mildly scratching at it.
"It has been disconcerting in recent years to see the party rely more and more on outlandish theories of what the 'deep state' is doing," said Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Whatever the reason, it's disconcerting to see the Pentagon caught off guard in a time of great uncertainty, especially as relations with North Korea enter a sensitive stage while there's and turmoil on America's southern border.
As disconcerting as this news may seem, there's no reason you should fear getting attacked by mutant bicephalous sharks that can eat you more efficiently, as depicted in the inspired 2012 film 2-Headed Shark Attack.
But even more importantly, it sends a disconcerting signal to all potential foreign visitors when the US cancels visas for entire groups on short notice rather than canceling visas due to the actions of individual visa holders.
He thinks that what makes the Punisher compelling to some people is precisely what makes him so disconcerting to others: his ability to shoot his way past the moral complexities of a situation and never look back.
That it required a New York artist to come to Seattle and put homelessness at the forefront of the visual art community's conversations, when our greater community was already well into a state of crisis, is disconcerting.
There was still something deeply disconcerting about being immersed in it, in all the court cases and painful sexual assault allegations brought forth by victims, that made it feel like it should be happening to someone else.
Beyond politics, it's in food culture where you see some of the most disconcerting trends in the age of the Instant Me. Soylent, mentioned earlier, has a niche following among millennials who can't be bothered to eat.
The most disconcerting clash came late Saturday in Marseille, in southern France, when Russia fans appeared to storm en masse into sections filled with England fans just after a 1-1 tie between those teams had ended.
"It's not the presence of some app on your device that's disconcerting, it's that it might be configured in some way that you weren't aware of and didn't agree to," said Sam Havron, another Cornell researcher. concentrationcamps.
Will Fuller, 21st overall to the Houston Texans: Fuller could wind up a very good player, in the Kelvin Benjamin archetype of burners with speed, but his ability to make the routine catches look hard is disconcerting.
Most disconcerting is the space heater lodged sideways in "Untitled (heater puff)" (2019), which features a low-tech illusion of flickering flames; Belott's studio suffered a serious fire in 2018 that destroyed large amounts of his work.
He was born with one eye slightly crossed, and it still drifted when he was tired or feeling stressed; strangers sometimes found it disconcerting, but his quick wit and easy sense of humor usually dispelled any tension.
Indeed, "All the Poems" is admirably professional and thorough, from its formal, scholarly introduction to its four appendixes to its two indexes, and it is almost disconcerting to see this poet of radical whimsy so coolly annotated.
What is perhaps most disconcerting about the latest business boom for the Sinaloa Cartel and the drug trafficking business in the state is that it has coincided with the arrest and conviction of its former boss, Guzmán.
For his presidential run, Bolsonaro chose a retired military general as his running mate who's also made disconcerting statements about military power, including that the return of military rule in Brazil could be justified under some circumstances.
I have no idea if these people actually wish to murder me, though it's disconcerting to imagine who among those millions of visitors to the site will read the comments and decide to drive to my house.
So it's been much more than disconcerting that my alma mater's success, and its big investment in the sport, comes as we are being reminded every day of the price football players pay in traumatic brain injury.
While Ms. Le Pen confidently blazes ahead, staying on script and making progress among women, farmers and disillusioned middle-class voters, the mainstream party on the right offers the most disconcerting spectacle that any election has witnessed.
I find it disconcerting that while his hand is floating between the general and the saint,  his gaze is focused behind the general, suggesting that the reactions of his head and hand  are occurring in separate dominions.
Beyond making paper and a printing press, the instructors asked students to consider whether the book is dying because of digital media—a disconcerting proposition since looking at a screen both day and night sounds like ocular torture.
While it's not shocking to learn that mental health professionals also struggle with mental health issues—given that we're human and all—it's disconcerting to see research show that mental health care professional are hesitant to seek help.
She did not find this disconcerting, even when it happened in her own bed, but once she made the mistake of mentioning those midnight thoughts to her husband and he looked at her like she was terminally ill.
Kaspersky Lab has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage or offensive cyber efforts, and it's disconcerting that a private company can be considered guilty until proven innocent, due to geopolitical issues.
What begins as a delightful reunion soon devolves into a disconcerting look into the horror of unchecked power as the boys' lives are revealed to have been part of a secret and wildly unethical study of human development.
The visual contrast between present-day Gypsy — who looks markedly healthier and happier in her post-jail life than she did in her years under her mother's care — and the Gypsy in that footage is often extremely disconcerting.
Neither is violent—the first is a renunciation, the second a reckoning—but both are profoundly disconcerting, because they leave white characters and readers alike alone with past and present iniquities, and with the scales to measure them.
Fairooz was convicted on the charges in May, but a judge overturned the conviction in July and ordered a retrial, arguing it was "disconcerting" that Justice Department prosecutors argued that laughter alone was enough to merit a conviction.
That's why climate scientists say calls for such debates are disconcerting: According to the Trump administration, satellite observations, ground measurements, field research, and deeply scrutinized results — gathered over decades and from across the globe — simply aren't sufficiently convincing.
It has some body lean that can be disconcerting if you're not expecting it, but on the backroads of Westchester County the CX-5 can corner at a pace that will utterly terrify and possibly sicken your passengers.
An even more disconcerting consequence of Babchenko's faked death is how it has reinforced the Kremlin's hand; it is the ace-up-the-sleeve that can be thrown on the table whenever they need to win a pot.
It was disconcerting to witness just how tenuous it was for the sole remaining operator to establish a runway on the ice — vital for access to high latitude sea ice on the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole.
That said, it's no secret that, here at Refinery29, we love butts of all shapes and sizes, so it's a little disconcerting to hear the lengths so many are willing to go to change the way they look.
The reciprocal self-portraits sent to him by Gauguin and Bernard, which also cross-reference Japanese art, attest to their shared motivations, making their later breaks with their longtime friend a disconcerting note in the exhibition's biographical narrative.
Known for plunging his players and audiences alike into long, disconcerting stretches of total darkness, Mr. Haas is gifted at sonic evocations of control, oppression and extremity; his work shares the classicism of Mapplethorpe's work, and its brutality.
"To the thinking person, there are few things more disconcerting than a tweet by the US president as they initially seem to accord to reality but then quickly turn into messages from some alternative universe," the newspaper said.
"It's disconcerting to me that planning based on the promise of certain rules and taxation levels is actually being second-guessed after clients had put money into that vehicle," said Katie Brewer, a financial planner in Garland, Tex.
In part, that shift is a legacy of the late writer and TV host Anthony Bourdain, who was always game to try something new, however disconcerting, because he respected the fact that in another culture, it was beloved.
While directors and executives behind big franchises like Star Wars always take fans into account, it's a bit disconcerting that the vocal fans, some of whom resorted to toxic and racist harassment, may now see their actions validated.
As I sat with Judge Gorsuch, a disconcerting feeling came over me that I had been through this before — and I soon realized I had, with Judge John G. Roberts Jr. He was similarly charming, polished and erudite.
"It is disconcerting and serious that a criminal like Rocco Morabito, boss of the 'Ndrangheta, managed to escape from a jail in Uruguay while he was waiting to be extradited to Italy," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said.
Not only does that mean you have a Shamrock Shake any damn time of the year you please, but making it yourself essentially guarantees its minty taste will come from something less disconcerting than "Natural Flavor (Plant Source)."
For his presidential run, Bolsonaro chose as his running mate a retired military general who has also made disconcerting statements about military power, including that the return of military rule in Brazil could be justified under some circumstances.
While Facebook Spaces and Microsoft's AltspaceVR have opted for game-like floating head avatars, High Fidelity has chosen to approach a more realistic design style that seems more closely aligned with the slightly disconcerting avatar style of Second Life.
For publishers and other websites that make their livelihoods off of online advertising, that's perhaps the most disconcerting finding from a new report that offers no shortage of bleak news on the scope and spread of online ad blocking.
Britain provides most of the gas that keeps Irish homes warm; Northern Ireland, which has only one interconnector to mainland Britain, gets enough of its electricity from the Republic for the possibility of an interruption to be somewhat disconcerting.
And my sense is that the process side of Trump was very appealing to a lot of people even as the substantive side of him was at least a little bit disconcerting, even to a lot of his voters.
"He is 'Swiftboating' her by throwing shade on what should be a strength," Ms. Conway said... The disconcerting thing is that Trump has proven time and again that he has unerring sense of how to cut down his opponents.
Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world, and if those faces are blank and unresponsive – as they often are when absorbed in a device – it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.
And it's not even that loud, either, which stands in stark contrast to the $15 box fan I have in my room that sounds like it's dying from exertion (and also makes a burning rubber smell, which is disconcerting).
Given the president's erratic tweeting habits and penchant for reacting to emergency situations without having all the facts, the idea of Trump having the ability to send alerts to the entire country could be, for some, a bit disconcerting.
For listeners accustomed to a separation between advertising and editorial, the blurring of lines can be disconcerting (or embarrassing, such as when podcast hosts like Joe Rogan and Tim Ferriss expound on how much they enjoy wearing Me Undies).
What's disconcerting, however, is that when filming resumed and the dog was allegedly comfortable in the water, it quickly went under — a sign that the stunt, which was being monitored by the American Humane Association, was perhaps too extreme.
"Black Mother" was shot in Jamaica (his mother's native country, where he has spent time over the years), and in its early scenes depicts deprivation and desperation not dissimilar to what his earlier film showed in such disconcerting focus.
What is truly strange and disconcerting about the times, though, is that the stable folks left in Washington — especially in the Senate, where a number of rational people still reside on both sides of the aisle — are so silent.
But, in truth, it was not an errant kick — or a time-keeping fiasco at the end of the first half, or a fluky 163-yard interception return (one of two for touchdowns) — that was most disconcerting to Alabama.
No, but the almost comic spectacle of a youthful, energetic commentator substituting "Hail Trump!" for "Heil Hitler!" as some in the packed room he addressed last month gave Nazi salutes, since seen by millions on YouTube, is indeed disconcerting.
As if all this is not disconcerting enough, the fourth implication is that the internet can have a pernicious effect on our democracies, where adversaries can take advantage of our freedoms and interfere with our societal and government institutions.
It is, therefore, extremely disconcerting to read the complete omission of non-pharmacologic treatment by the leadership of NIH and NIDA, who have enormous influence on what is researched and therefore on what is brought into policy and practice.
So clean-cut does he seem as an actor, with that steady jaw and the disconcerting directness of his gaze, that when anything truly messy or emotionally dishevelled comes along we know for sure that battle will be joined.
"There's something fundamental about the fact that Trump presented himself as a noxious human and still won that is disconcerting and unsettling about America," said Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist working for a group focused on suing Mr. Trump.
"There's something fundamental about the fact that Trump presented himself as a noxious human and still won that is disconcerting and unsettling about America," said Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist working for a group focused on suing Mr. Trump.
This is Pantheon again: "Stronger growth in households' money holdings in the second half of 2016 correctly indicated that consumer spending would surprise to the upside, so its recent slowdown is disconcerting," Tombs said in a note to clients.
So does the demand to show evidence of harassment or sexism — which can be especially disconcerting when someone tweets something offhandedly to vent to her followers, only to be challenged by a bunch of "sea lions" she doesn't know.
In this case, Google is pinning the blame on a Wikipedia troll, but it's still disconcerting to see how easy it can be to manipulate the core product of one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world.
And it's very disconcerting in that middle period when you don't have that one person who you're really counting on, but it forces us to the point about getting engaged on the ground, to be the leaders in our community.
Dallas Stars (323-15-5, +28)—You never want to overreact to one game, but watching the Stars get stomped at home by the Blackhawks on Saturday had to be disconcerting for those of us still riding the Dallas bandwagon. 3.
The timing and content of the show is just as shocking as ever, but bathed in a calming pale blue/mauve light, the juxtaposition of clippings about the old practice in the State Department is even more jarring and disconcerting.
So some longtime conservative activists in the Sixth District found it deeply disconcerting, and deeply suspicious, that they and Carnevale were on the same side in 2016 — and that she'd been endorsed by the Trump campaign to represent them in Cleveland.
It's true that Google Duo doesn't support the disconcerting "Drop In" feature like the Echo Show and Spot, but I still feel more comfortable putting a smart speaker in my bedroom or bathroom if I know the camera is covered.
Pompeo's threats were disconcerting in that they could well have deleterious effects on wider journalistic freedom - he proclaimed that "free speech activists" hiding behind the banner of journalism cannot be tolerated - but Democrats at this juncture have no standing to object.
He creatively attempts to wriggle out of it by recruiting a couple of former members and bringing their wild accounts of Scientology's disconcerting procedures and its leader's fits of aggression to life, by casting actors to recreate those brutal scenes.
It's also disconcerting that Clinton would use the debate to advocate the "right" to kill preborn children with disabilities at the same time millions are celebrating the lives of people with Down Syndrome during this Down Syndrome Awareness Month of October.
You're sitting at the extreme front of the vehicle, with very little protection between you and any potential oncoming object, a fact which is a bit disconcerting when paired with brakes that feel a bit too vintage for my taste.
"This campaign of disinformation is extremely disconcerting because black voter turnout declined in 2016 — for the first time in 85033 years," the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), which counts 48 lawmakers in its ranks, said in a joint statement on Monday.
"It's always a little disconcerting when you lose but it was positive that we were able to play well and have our chances," forward Bryan Rust said of Pittsburgh's relentless assault on the San Jose goal in the final two periods.
The attention on this much-hyped team revolves around the Warriors' Klay Thompson and Steph Curry, and their disconcerting habit of shooting and floating back down court with their wrists curled, as though they'd just put a check in the mail.
"The termination of this contract is especially disconcerting when considered alongside the operational successes these assets have demonstrated, not to mention the hundreds of good American jobs and hundred of millions of taxpayer dollars that would be lost," they wrote.
What makes Jamie's reaction even more disconcerting is how the news lets him experience lust again — first with another woman, which Claire learns when he tries to initiate sex with her and she finds two bite marks on his upper thighs.
There was the panning video from a jeweler that showed nature's disconcerting powers, and an image from a friend named Chris that showed the floodwaters rising around the pumps of a Shell gas station that shares a parking lot with Georgie's.
WASHINGTON — When President Obama woke up in Havana on Tuesday to news that explosives had ripped through an airport and a subway in Brussels, it was a familiar, if disconcerting, feeling: another foreign trip overshadowed by violence elsewhere in the world.
The Week Ahead It is difficult these days to read a newspaper or magazine or watch a television show without seeing an advertisement for some sort of prescription medication (usually with a long and disconcerting list of possible side effects).
The intensity with which Babymetal fans love their idols is surprising, sometimes even disconcerting, until one takes into account the fact just how much Babymetal's manic J-pop-meets-thrashy nu-metal hybrid has done to pry open metal's iron gates.
To be sure, it wasn't perfect -- the predominantly white crowd was disconcerting, the overwhelming focus on reproductive rights instead of other issues pressing in black and brown communities such as police brutality, mass incarcerations, voting rights and immigration -- was a disappointment.
They depict dot-eyed characters in disconcerting situations that might quickly devolve into tragedies (a woman staring at another woman, one clutching a hammer; a skeleton-headed figure; a girl either emerging from or sinking into a very small box).
That Facebook has picked up on this is nice if you like products tailored to your emotional needs, and perhaps a little disconcerting if you'd rather Facebook didn't figure out exactly how to tailor its business model to your emotional needs.
Douglas's work, like many in the exhibition, is not concerned with a highly detailed portrayal of the human form; no facial details are outlined and the bodies are left within this featureless void which makes the work all the more disconcerting.
Here in Connecticut, turnover in the field of Direct Support Professionals (DSPs)—the pivotal workers who support people with I/DD in daily life and even with taking part in civic duties, like voting—is at a disconcerting 2628 percent.
Her replacement, Areum (Kim Min-hee), has a disconcerting first day on the job, which includes a long, boozy lunch, some prying questions from her employer and a visit from his wife (Cho Yun-hee), who mistakes her for Changsook.
Yet even in progressive Iceland, and certainly abroad, there are lingering and dated assumptions about what I should be doing and how I should be acting that are at best disconcerting and at worst, downright abhorrent to my feminist nature.
More disconcerting still, the man arrested, a 217-year-old Tunisian believed to be plotting an attack in Germany, was known to the authorities as a suspect in a horrific 216 assault on a national museum in the Tunisian capital.
John Gans, author of "White House Warriors," a book about the NSC and its history, added that other governments may find it disconcerting if in the long run the U.S. doesn't take the lead on issues that cross national boundaries.
Even more disconcerting than the resignations and firings, however, is the ongoing smear campaign against McMaster himself, a three-star Army general who has served his country with distinction in numerous war zones across multiple deployments over a span of decades.
Although the trend of denying contentious speakers such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or refugee turned Dutch politician and critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali public platforms by "disinviting" them from campus is disconcerting, it is not censorship.
While Rakowitz pays homage to the past, Phillipson alludes to a disconcerting future with her candidly titled "THE END," which consists of a saccharine dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry and parasites in the form of a fly and a drone.
Tile, which makes a location tracking product to help consumers keep track of things like keys and phones, testified in Congress last month that users of its app began receiving disconcerting messages from Apple's settings warning them that they were being tracked.
This was somewhere between disconcerting and unspeakably horrifying, because much of the fake news was of a political nature and then we elected an aging reality star accused of sexual harassment and assault two dozen times over as president of the United States.
But it's still unethical that Jervis woos Jerusha without disclosing his identity and at least a little disconcerting that this protofeminist tale ends with its plucky heroine rewarded with marriage to the man who has manipulated her for the past five years.
At a time when modern-day women are encouraged to use skin care as a coping mechanism, to do detoxes and cleanses, to cry at SoulCycle, that these characters choose such bizarre, disconcerting ways of coping is in itself a rebellious act.
The room is decorated in framed gold discs (Led Zeppelin, Missy Elliott, Ed Sheeran), and most of the walls are made from glass, which gives you the disconcerting ability to see what everyone in the building is doing at any given moment.
"They can taste slightly disconcerting at first, because you don't associate them with an appellation, or known reference, but they maintain the characteristics of the type of grape, and above all they are silky," says the founder of the winery Borja Saracho.
When one of my previous employers once remarked that "your body is the kind of body a man will like to bury himself inside," my response was a disconcerting giggle as I maintained a sizeable distance to avoid being groped for further illustration.
For Mr. Trump and other Republican leaders, the ongoing political realignment of the suburbs — which was essential to Democrats flipping Republican-held congressional seats in 2018 and retaking the House — is a disconcerting disadvantage that they have shown little ability to reverse.
From James Knowlson's 1996 biography, "Damned to Fame," we also learn that in later life Beckett liked to pass the time reading pulp crime fiction, which is both charming and disconcerting, like hearing that a great patisserie chef binges in secret on Twinkies.
And the lack of diversity and equality behind the scenes is an especially disconcerting discovery when you consider that the best way to increase diversity onscreen is to encourage and promote filmmakers, writers, and producers who are willing to tell unique stories.
For a North Indian like me, accustomed to the blood feud between the Congress and the B.J.P., and the polemics of secularism versus Hindu supremacy, the Arunachali politician's ability to change allegiance so lightly and so frequently seems both disconcerting and comforting.
What's disconcerting, however, is why Mr. de Blasio would welcome such donations, given the risk of the appearance of impropriety, not to mention the fact that his fund-raising has raised ethical and legal questions since he first ran for mayor in 2013.
You can reportedly still swap in a new iPhone battery and have the phone work, but you're going to have to contend with a disconcerting service message that is likely enough to dissuade a lot of people from fixing their phones themselves.
Dineo Seshee Bopape, one of many South Africans in this show, fills the museum's largest space with smashed bricks, uncanny orange light, and footage from one of Nina Simone's most chaotic concerts, adding up to a disconcerting tableau of displacement, racism and madness.
The photo offered a disconcerting tableau that at first glance was hard to believe: It appeared to show a room inside the center, with an old popcorn machine, a black-and-white cat, a lamp and a table with bottles of water.
The idea that timely access to life-or-death information could depend on paying a fee is disconcerting, said David W. Titley, a retired rear admiral in the Navy and a former chief operating officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
For an event that informs millions of Americans on the positions of aspiring presidential candidates, the degree to which the entire primary debate process is dictated by a handful of corporations who've turned the democratic process into a profit center is disconcerting.
This even works in YouTube videos, which can be somewhat disconcerting when you turn head to look at a clock or another monitor, and suddenly it sounds like Matty Matheson is cooking up a frankly ridiculous lasagna three feet next to you.
Since 2012, longtime pals Max Allison, Natalie Chami, and Doug Kaplan have come together Cerberus-like to wrangle blissful noise clouds, disconcerting static, and jazz-inspired compositional contortions out of a beautiful mess of loop pedals, synthesizers, guitars, and assorted other electronics.

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