Seeing that actually done, here, was disconcertingly … well … eye-opening.
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The color scheme was a disconcertingly minimal blue and white.
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Facebook is already disconcertingly good at recognizing faces in photos.
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Also, there is something disconcertingly alien about a "perfect" world.
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She is almost disconcertingly happy and productive—fertile, you might say.
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As Americans, we do eat a disconcertingly large amount of meat.
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Though one could mock the frippery, the show was disconcertingly lovely.
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My nipples emerged from the Willow swollen, misshapen, and disconcertingly white.
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He is bulbous—and yet still, he has those disconcertingly slender hands.
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Its sexy and violent; scattered and at the same time disconcertingly satisfying.
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Yet despite these concerns, Mr Trump's political instincts may have been disconcertingly keen.
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First up is a disconcertingly blonde Catherine Zeta-Jones as Olivia de Havilland.
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Disconcertingly, child actors play the roles one moment, and grown-ups the next.
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Apart from the disconcertingly futuristic plain popcorn packaging, this is a respectable calendar.
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It is exactly the disconcertingly pink colour I remember, reminiscent of chubby babies.
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It's still disconcertingly baby pink, though now with brown edges where it's caramelised.
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Also, be aware that the budget interior rooms, rather disconcertingly, don't have windows.
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And, most disconcertingly, this deep, getting-deeper-by-the-day chasm between my eyebrows.
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She had a disconcertingly careless way of stretching that reminded me of my cat.
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The universe ought to be a cacophony of voices, but instead it is disconcertingly quiet.
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There was just one server, who, though warm and friendly, disappeared for disconcertingly long stretches.
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Carr, as good of a season as he had in 2015, is disconcertingly skittish against pressure.
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Finally, the roar arrived, the speed of sound disconcertingly lagging light but undeniable in its force.
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For us this meant a disconcertingly huge shower; seriously, you could wash a pony in it.
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The grids of letters get bigger, the length of the highlighted row gets longer (or, disconcertingly, shorter).
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But this is just the latest example in a long line of a disconcertingly misogynistic robotic enterprise.
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Its surface is disconcertingly soft-looking, a beige putty color, waxy in places and chalkier in others.
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But in what was perhaps an unintentionally foreshadowing description, TIME also referred to Nixon as "disconcertingly unpredictable."
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Krauss, with his disconcertingly boyish looks and his sophomoric attempts to seem thoughtful, is a callow sociopath.
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But this latest iteration of the teenage witch, played by Kiernan Shipka, confronts problems that feel disconcertingly current.
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"De Profundis," a setting of Oscar Wilde's prison cri du coeur, makes Wilde's suffering disconcertingly personal and physical.
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But he was still disconcertingly quiet, and all her bubbling attempts at making conversation bounced right off him.
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With the support of a handful of well-chosen beats, she makes a disconcertingly catchy trap-rap pastiche.
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Inside, clear liquids bubbled disconcertingly in industrial-size glass vessels above outsize versions of science-lab Bunsen burners.
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She flew in her dreams, though as she grew older she tended to crash disconcertingly into high white cliffs.
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It is, Ray writes, his favorite of his own creations, alongside Ricky Eat Acid's disconcertingly beautiful seeing ghosts everywhere.
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While some of them were unfamiliar, we provided them with the disconcertingly vague description from Starbucks' official press release.
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Disconcertingly, a police dossier relayed by the Islington Gazette suggests that the authority's response is proving less than measured.
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A disconcertingly sultry naïf, she made her mark on a culture skittishly poised between prurience and an uneasy Puritanism.
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The program also trains them to deal with verbal, physical, and even sexual abuse, often in disconcertingly specific ways.
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A moment later came a high-pitched answering squeak: his sister, P-46, uncaged, disconcertingly close, invisible to us.
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Disconcertingly, the state-controlled group said additional management actions could be required for stressed situations - without saying what they were.
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Recent scholarship has challenged some of her arguments, but the analytic framework of the book remains powerful and disconcertingly topical.
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Donald Trump's obsession with live-tweeting his morning cable news binges has made his erratic timeline...incredibly, disconcertingly, comically predictable.
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And she portrays a disconcertingly changeable, mordant yet (seemingly genuinely) hopeful Carmen, rising to stony grandeur in the final duet.
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Although adversarial images can be disconcertingly effective, they're not some super magic hack that works on every AI system every time.
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Disconcertingly I had yet to win that 20th century relic, the Nobel, but had my eye on it all the same.
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And now, most disconcertingly, he told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he is prepared to lose the election if it happens.
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One survey from LogMeIn, disconcertingly, even found that some 30% of IT managers couldn't identify just how many endpoints they managed.
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Disconcertingly, visitors must expect to be escorted to the bathroom and searched before departure (to prevent the theft of precious documents).
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The phone definitely looks the part, but pick it up and it's disconcertingly light — as if its 3,000mAh battery isn't even there.
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With them, the music ebbed and flowed, coming on disconcertingly strong at the start, then receding; increasing, then dissolving, as momentum grew.
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Even I, a card-carrying semi-misanthropic introvert, have done that for months at a stretch and found it unexpectedly, disconcertingly natural.
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When the day is windy, their surfaces pleat with convincing waves, and when the day is still, they are disconcertingly flat and quiet.
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Jenna Bush Hager has joined the disconcertingly large club of famous women who have had to defend themselves from body-shaming by strangers.
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I guess the phrase that the "X-Men were way ahead of their time" turns out more and more to be disconcertingly apropos.
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The police soon went to Gregory's house to arrest Barriss, a tall and disconcertingly gaunt man with patchy facial hair and melancholy eyes.
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I assured them that it was okay to leave, hugged each of them as they finally exited, and soon found myself disconcertingly alone.
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"She's about to squirt," he says confidently, and within seconds she does, each dramatic expulsion of liquid accompanied by a disconcertingly loud scream.
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Mohsin Hamid's Exit West is a disconcertingly timely novel, one about migration, refugees, terrorism, and the rise of jingoistic nativism in the West.
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But whether a regional, so-called limited exchange could have global ecological consequences is a question on which nuclear strategy is disconcertingly quiet.
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But the book became a tremendous success, signaling a new approach to the writing of nonfiction: deeply personal, deeply empathetic, disconcertingly self-revelatory.
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I learned to avoid the seats directly under the satellite dish that hangs from the ceiling and echoes conversations held under it, disconcertingly.
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Attributes related to mood or emotion are not among the 98 disconcertingly detailed data points the company has said it uses to steer ads.
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On the one hand, it was thrilling to be the object of so much desire, but on the other hand, it was disconcertingly aggressive.
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Disconcertingly, his performance was not an outlier: The Knicks shot just 36.8 percent from the field and had more turnovers (18) than assists (17).
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He doesn't, in fact, look like an NBA player, but disconcertingly like a guy who does Crossfit on the weekend to stay in shape.
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There may be plenty of fish in the sea, yet many are unhygienic, self-absorbed, disconcertingly attached to ex-fish, or fans of Donald Trump.
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Although vultures fly disconcertingly low (the better to smell you, my dear), almost all of the dozen or so species will swoop over your head.
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I've only been in Xie Shuiping's disconcertingly spotless and almost completely unfurnished apartment for ten minutes, and he is already preparing to whip it out.
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But the White House's complete lack of credibility on issues from crowd size to foreign affairs makes it disconcertingly easy to disbelieve what officials say.
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In the interim, though, it seems very much as if we're looking at one of the most disconcertingly interesting years in a very long time.
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Tall and gaunt, with a shock of peppery blond hair, he had a glass eye that would swivel disconcertingly out of line as he spoke.
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Except we haven't—it's just the end of the first week of the Trump administration, and a disconcertingly large number of horrible things have already happened.
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Facebook in 2016 is a bubbling stew of disconcertingly specific advertising, viral content, live video, political vitriol, old classmates, old people in general, and narcissistic oversharing.
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More disconcertingly, Venezuela and Russia have announced digital versions of their currencies in an effort that's widely seen as a way of getting around international sanctions.
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But in the latter video two days later, Kohlhepp appears disconcertingly untroubled, even joking occasionally, as he describes how he killed seven people over 13 years.
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And perhaps most disconcertingly, he shares them with Steve Bannon, his White House chief strategist and an apostle of authoritarian political disruption for its own sake.
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A series of screens on the walls played clips from the show, including a Season 2 teaser that echoed disconcertingly in the high-ceilinged warehouse space.
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Disconcertingly, the administration has left nearly 200 top jobs open at the State Department, which would normally be filled with policy experts who understand geopolitical machinations.
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It helps that along with his charm and intellect (he jousts in Latin with Gore Vidal), Maurice is also disconcertingly attractive to both women and men.
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Although things have and are still clearly changing in Hollywood, the pace has been disconcertingly slow, making Berry's win more of an exception than a rule.
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In the same AV Club interview, Bamford speaks diplomatically but disconcertingly about how the 17-hour production days on her Netflix series were almost unmanageable for her.
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John speaks out as well: He sat for several hours with ABC News' Amy Robach, who tells PEOPLE he was almost disconcertingly jovial about the traumatic experience.
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The gothic overtones of Love in Arms has given way to a more subtle loneliness, something deeply affecting and, as ever, disconcertingly easy to nod along to.
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The jet is steady while in flight but makes disconcertingly sharp turns when preparing to land — I was told slow, deep breaths were key to avoid fainting.
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In person, Bibby is terse, saying little unless prompted and speaking in short, vague statements, but his best raps are almost disconcertingly direct in baring his emotions.
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Disconcertingly, the turtle cranes its head up, all the better for diners to ponder its tragic little turtle frown (oops, I meant turtle frown) as they eat.
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The two tracks we've heard so far from his upcoming debut EP 27, out May 27 on Bandcamp, were idiosyncratic blues concepts, forthright and despairing, disconcertingly oblique.
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Travelling across Germany in the past months, I met plenty of young and disconcertingly smart activists who are trying to take their country far to the right.
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Disconcertingly, white homeowners who worried that integration might erode the value of their homes may have been correct, even as their decision to flee exacerbated the problem.
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Not only is the minimum age on some nights being raised to 19, but there is also talk of "covert surveillance" within the club—a disconcertingly vague detail.
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It's disconcertingly similar to another video that made the rounds early last month, filmed in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, of four live crabs being cooked in a hot pot.
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After Donahue's swabs didn't seem to get the job done, Dreckman just got wrist-deep in his own ear canal to fish out a disconcertingly large insect—Moth?
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In that time, he's released (as Nobody) ALMS, an often disconcertingly beautiful record that carries on—sonically, at least—where the sprawling Circle, Turn, Sun & Moon drifted off.
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Ellen Reid's score is accessible in the best way, disconcertingly sweet without being syrupy, with occasional whispers of choral voices so soft they're almost more odor than sound.
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As noted, the common thread of these poorly read columns was, disconcertingly, a spotlight on injustice or humanitarian needs, and my Trump-related columns received incomparably greater readership.
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Even more disconcertingly, she told press that she was changing it to promote a new accessories line, Frances Valentine — a mash-up of names found in her family tree.
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" After that, he continued: "If this risk were not contained - and the probability of a European banking debacle is already disconcertingly high - there would be a further negative spiral.
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Indeed, his memoir is written in a sort of Bertie Wooster pastiche, a little disconcertingly given that its material is the very un-Woosterish one of drive and success.
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The list of possible carriers who get in chilling proximity to the president will, I predict, only keep growing disconcertingly — just like everything toxic associated with this pernicious virus.
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Items range from punny T-shirts declaring that "It's Mueller time" to enamel pins featuring the special counsel Robert Mueller's disconcertingly square jaw to many rather uncomfortable prayer candles.
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With pointed dialogues and paired-down settings, Marques creates a world that feels disconcertingly of the moment, yet also hints at an even more heavily polarized and militarized dystopian future.
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Boston Dynamics, the robotics company famous for sending the internet into a frenzy with videos of its disconcertingly life-like robots, is getting ready to foray into the real world.
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Indeed, it often seemed disconcertingly as though Trump had built his entire campaign around nothing so much as his singular ability to fill cable news's endless demand for engaging content.
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Haiti has not emerged from the shadow of the earthquake: amputees are disconcertingly common on the streets of Port-au-Prince, the squalid, chaotic capital; 50,203 people remain in tent cities.
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The tale is told in flashback, either in voice-over or to the camera, with Frank looking directly—and disconcertingly—toward us, as if he were being interviewed for a documentary.
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Increasingly, she experiences strange "flashes" when she not only feels she can glimpse the future but, most disconcertingly for those around her, seems to absent herself mentally for minutes at a time.
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The story illustrated how imperfect information, aggressive defense postures and minutes-long response times brought both sides hurtling toward possible nuclear war — a set of dynamics that can feel disconcertingly familiar today.
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It's in writing those memories that the audience travels back into LaBeouf's childhood and sees his heart-wrenching, often disturbing relationship with his volatile father, played in disconcertingly meta fashion by LaBeouf himself.
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To those who knew them, the couple seemed disconcertingly normal considering that they began a sexual relationship when Fualauu was a 12-year-old sixth grader and Letourneau was his 34-year-old teacher.
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The word "delay" disconcertingly flashes across the electronic arrival time clock, followed by the announcement that No. 2 and No. 3 trains will be running on the local track because of an earlier incident.
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They, in turn, invited artists showing elsewhere in the fair to consign objects that bend the line between art and design, like a lamp by Dorothy Iannone or Dike Blair's disconcertingly plausible Windex bottle.
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He pointed out that the participation rate of minorities in clinical trials is already disconcertingly low; even if E.P.R. proved to be a success, it could further undermine efforts to recruit people of color.
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There's still more going on, like Jeri Hogarth's (Carrie-Anne Moss) compelling solo spiral and J.R. Ramirez as a disconcertingly handsome superintendent who doesn't trust people with abilities (but his eyes tell a different story).
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Even as, according to news reports, the United States has been engaging in back-channel diplomacy with North Korea for months, we appear to be moving disconcertingly closer to the possibility of a nuclear exchange.
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So even though Anders and the people around him can be sorted into recognizable types (a fault, mostly of Mr. Thompson's book), they are also amusing and awful in ways that can feel disconcertingly real.
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And as for the resulting reality, was it not disconcertingly like the sea level rise and heat and wind we knew, long ago, would come with climate change but have since come to call normal?
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On Thursday, Mr. Jacobs brought New York Fashion Week to a close with a disconcertingly depressing if very well-merchandised ode to the documentary "Hip-Hop Evolution" and a moment in time when everything changed.
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Disconcertingly, her idea of a big belly laugh comes in the form of a short audio snippet from an episode of 1980s political sitcom Yes Minister, the central joke in which is built around NHS cuts.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads As the economic divide between the uber wealthy and everyone else continues to grow disconcertingly wider, more and more people are questioning the morality and inevitability of late-stage capitalism.
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The picture of the place where Till's body was recovered, "Deep South, Untitled (Emmett Till River Bank)," is at once as shocking as an open grave and disconcertingly ordinary — an uncommemorated site calling out for a reckoning.
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As scholars have noted, that sumptuary laws were repeated so often, and contained such disconcertingly specific guidelines, suggests not that many people followed them, which is perhaps why they fell out of use in the 17th century.
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While the Trump team's vision for personnel and agencies is as yet unclear (in some cases, disconcertingly so), many of the Gulf and some of the U.S. officials who collaborated closely during the Obama years remain in place.
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At first sight, Bruguera's intervention appears to be subtler: a large patch of the hall's floor is painted in a dull black; a loud, low-frequency rumbling emanates disconcertingly from massive speakers at the end of the hall.
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Perry appears in Celeste's (Nicole Kidman) flashbacks, in charged conversations between his wife and mother, Mary Louise (Meryl Streep), and most disconcertingly, in the behavior of his two sons, Max and Josh (played by twins Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti).
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"It is not over until every legally casted vote is counted," Mr. Gillum declared at the end of another chaotic day — nine days after the election — in which the state's two marquee races remained disconcertingly up in the air.
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Shades of Apple's overreach in inserting an unsolicited U2 album into its users' iTunes libraries abound — at least until the music gets glitchy and Tiana's face is disconcertingly zombified, like a Japanese horror movie about a cursed MP3 file.
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Mr. Zhou led a move over the last two years to make it easier for Chinese companies and families to invest their own money overseas, only to find in recent months that the outflows have been disconcertingly fast at times.
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V. Prominent guests from Mavis Staples to Pusha T line the credits of Gorillaz' new album, but the young rapper outshines them all, spinning an apocalyptic tale of police brutality and lynching over Damon Albarn's disconcertingly peppy electro-pop groove. —E.
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement after the hearing that "public corruption — especially at such a disconcertingly high level in Albany — contributes to the frustration and eroding faith" of New Yorkers in their government.
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Composed by Lisa Bielawa with a libretto by Erik Ehn, the 12-part series follows the titular character, a 14-year-old girl, as she explores historical connections between female visionaries, hysteria, and witch hunts — subjects which are disconcertingly relevant.
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Fortunately, the U.S.-Japan alliance has many influential domestic stakeholders — in Congress, state governments, and throughout the business community — who recognize mutual interests in current trade arrangements and a strong security alliance in Asia, although they have been disconcertingly quiet so far.
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Others are more elongated, entirely abstract, and, compared with the their companions, disconcertingly monumental in proportion and visual heft; one can imagine these as maquettes for much larger works (although there is no particular reason to think they are intended as such).
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Their love for him grows separately, but whenever the three make a new acquaintance, the boy disconcertingly announces that Davíd is not his real name (all immigrants are assigned names upon arrival) and that these two adults are not his real parents.
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On the tax bill, five of the ten mainstream press stories featured a headline with an obvious slant against the Republican tax plan, while just one Journal story carried an obviously favorable headline (disconcertingly, less than half the articles carried an impartial headline).
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And perhaps most disconcertingly of all, physics teaches us that physical time happens to be astonishingly different from how we intuit it: runs at different speeds, at different altitudes; is distorted by matter; is not organized in a straightforward past, present and future.
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Recalling the last phone conversation she had with Yoselyn Ortega hours before the 55-year-old nanny allegedly killed 6-year-old Lulu Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim, Miladys Garcia, 64, said in court Monday that her younger sister sounded disconcertingly strange.
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Sure, you can glaze them with whatever you want or just roast them until they're disconcertingly wilted and limp, like an unconscious human or old leaf of bibb lettuce discovered in the crisper long after its use-by date, but people are judging you.
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The room at the International, which is now the Westgate (about two blocks from the Strip and connected via monorail, though closer to the disconcertingly in-transition end near Circus Circus, which was only a year old when he began his run) wasn't too big to connect.
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It's there in the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian but all-too-timely "The Handmaid's Tale," where the long red gowns and severe white bonnets worn by the show's subjugated women serve as visual markers of oppression, while also managing to appear suddenly, disconcertingly fashion.
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The longest piece, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," is about people who invent childlike artificial intelligences called "digients" to sell as novelties — disconcertingly compared to pets throughout — and then refuse to give up the care of them when their popularity wanes and learning environments become obsolete.
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Welcoming and disconcertingly polite, anyone BuzzFeed News spoke with said they had real sympathy with those fleeing the US. But many also voiced worries about the length of time the new arrivals would stay, and whether Canada really would be able to house, feed, and care for them.
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He may not be a dead ringer in appearance alone, but his disconcertingly charismatic delivery offers the same optical impact—a demonstration of what an attractive, confident white man might be able to get away with, even when we know that his smooth cheeriness hides a twisted, tactical mind.
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Doyle designed the austere set, which features an imposing chain-link fence that severs the back of the theatre from the bare stretch of fluorescent-lit stage where most of the action takes place; a door, connecting the two spaces, clangs disconcertingly each time an actor passes through.
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Even before I had a daughter of my own, I noticed the particular anxiety of friends who would seek the advice of others on Facebook about the best place to find something for their child to wear on an important occasion that isn't silly, stuffy or disconcertingly sexy.
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Many of Gallace's paintings feature scenes that are disconcertingly close to images common on postcards, in calendars, and in innumerable amateur paintings — the kind of local flavor, Sunday-painter paintings that one might well find among the bric-a-brac and musty furniture in a Cape Cod antique shop.
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When walking around it, the gap narrows disconcertingly at one point between the box and the gallery's walls, forcing us close to a painting that hangs behind glass in the corner and has the words "MÄNNER" (men) and "FRAUEN" (women) written in huge white letters on a slick black background.
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You want to turn away from the confused soup of conflicting human monologues and Broad City screengrabs, but here you are at three in the morning, scrolling through a conversation chain about squashed tomatoes between a guy you went to school with and a disconcertingly chipper social media manager pretending to be Tesco.
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Perhaps the most surprising work of this trio and the one that looks the most disconcertingly new — as if painted by a young zombie formalist feminist artist — is "Voyage," in which appliquéd bits of textile melt into the surface while other textile patterns appear as silhouettes, not literally collaged on but, rather, spray-painted.
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Mass shootings are disconcertingly common in America, and by now a standard part of the aftermath is to learn that the shooter, statistically almost certain to be a man, had a documented history of violence or threatened violence against women, and that said history had absolutely no effect on his ability to get a gun.
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Newitz, who is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica, the founding editor of io9, and the author of many previous books, including Scatter, Adapt, and Remember : How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, shared the experience of creating this disconcertingly believable vision of the future, and its undercurrent of timeless tropes like forbidden love, vigilantism, and survivalist grit.
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He's a high school girl's fantasy of a college grad boyfriend, which might sound dreamy in teen-focused erotica, but makes him look disconcertingly predatory on the screen.) Their romance is one of the many elements in the film that feels like it's working from a checklist: distrust (he could be an alien!), cautious alliance (he's super useful, though
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Farther north, where the forest thinned, there were macaques, mean little creatures with flushed faces and disconcertingly human noses that walked on all fours as a bear cub might, but here, in its thickest section, there was nothing: The eye and ear searched and searched, but nothing was able to disrupt the dominance of the sugi themselves.
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And most disconcertingly of all, the aftermath of the election brought the conclusion — now shared by 17 separate government intelligence agencies — that Russia was behind the hacks of both the Democratic and Republican national committees, and shared Democrats' emails with WikiLeaks (which then released them to the press) but kept Republicans' under wraps with the express purpose of electing the Putin-friendly Trump to the presidency.
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This is followed, swiftly, by a clingy sauce of ground pork and fermented soybeans; small rubbery umbrellas of wood-ear mushrooms and kernels of corn; dense pressed bean curd, invoking havarti cheese, and limp bean-curd skin like shredded bandages; suancai (pickled mustard greens) and garlic chives; panels of canned ham disconcertingly akin to Spam; and a chicken wing steamed over soy-tinged water.
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As I chewed a Meatball Parm Sandwich ($11, excellent bread), sipped a She's So Modern cocktail ($12, made with Jim Beam, Amaretto, and Orgeat, and probably named after a song by the Boomtown Rats), and avoided a disconcertingly salty order of Disco Fries ($9, served with a sprinkling of desperate-looking parsley), I tried to parse the level of ironic distance and / or total obliviousness required to fully enjoy the meal.
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A 60-year veteran of film and television, Ms. MacLaine first captivated audiences as a winsome elevator operator in the 1960 film "The Apartment"; touched hearts in "The Turning Point," about an emotional rivalry in the world of ballet; won an Oscar for "Terms of Endearment," the 1983 chronicle of a spiky mother-daughter relationship; and resurfaced more recently on "Downton Abbey" as a waspish, disconcertingly progressive American dowager, a role that reignited her career.
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EVEN BEFORE the assassination on Malta in 2017 of a journalist and anti-corruption campaigner, Daphne Caruana Galizia, the EU's smallest state was a cause for concern—a tightly knit Mediterranean society in which reciprocal favours and obligations frequently trumped respect for the law; an island with a financial centre that had outgrown the regulatory capacity of its authorities; a country some of whose politicians had disconcertingly cosy relationships with tax havens, illiberal democracies and outright dictatorships.
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