Perhaps the most disquieting section is "Consequences of Climate Change," which features "before and after" images of affected sites worldwide.
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Brakhage is often described as a lyrical filmmaker but his can be a most disquieting, even violent, form of lyricism.
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This question is almost unanswerable in the absolute, but there is mounting circumstantial evidence pointing in a most disquieting direction.
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What's most disquieting about the Southern Baptists' historic support of slavery is that the church leaders weren't lacking in Scriptural support.
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What's most disquieting isn't the disruption of daily life (though it's devastating) but the ease with which people adapt to their new circumstances.
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Among the most disquieting works here is a small painting on panel from 1934 by Rudolf Wacker, an Austrian painter largely unknown in the United States.
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But though headlines have focused on Lawrence's choice to embrace nudity for the role, what I found most disquieting was the pervasive and overt quality of the violence.
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Among recent books on Nazism, the one that may prove most disquieting for American readers is James Q. Whitman's " Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law " (Princeton).
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The most disquieting encounter was with the powerful interior minister, Magdi Abdel-Ghaffar, who took six days to agree to a meeting only to sit impassively as the Italian diplomat pleaded for help.
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All of which suggests what will, for some, be the most disquieting possibility in an age of seemingly limitless knowledge and scientific inquiry: Maybe we actually don't know how to gauge public opinion after all.
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By far the most disquieting question to come out of "The Winds of Winter," Game of Thrones' season six finale, concerns an act we didn't witness: Just what was the zombified Gregor Clegane doing to Septa Unella behind that closed door?
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I once heard Toibin say that in "The Testament of Mary" he wanted to "give the miraculous its due," and his scene in which Lazarus comes back from the dead is one of the most disquieting and powerful in all of these books.
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Here is the most disquieting section of the speech, one that must be read with Trump in mind: It's that spirit – a faith in reason, and enterprise, and the primacy of right over might, that allowed us to resist the lure of fascism and tyranny during the Great Depression, and build a post-World War II order with other democracies, an order based not just on military power or national affiliations but on principles – the rule of law, human rights, freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and an independent press.
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The expressive potential of the interval was not lost on Mozart, especially when, as Dennis Matthews (1971, p. iii) puts it, “Mozart reserved a minor home-key for his most disquieting utterances.”Matthews, D. (1971) Introduction to score of Mozart Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C minor, K491. London, Eulenburg.
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The most disquieting cases are those children who are forced into the trade and then incarcerated. These children run the possible further risk of torture and subsequent death." Deputy Attorney General James Cole, of the United States Department of Justice, stated, "Most of the victimized children who face prostitution are vulnerable children who are exploited. Many predators target runaways, sexual assault victims, and children who have been harshly neglected by their biological parents.
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Gargoyles is one of Thomas Bernhard’s earliest novels, which made the author known both nationally and internationally. Originally published in German in 1967, it’s a kaleidoscopic work, considered by critics his most disquieting and nihilistic. The German title, Verstörung, translates as something like Confusion or Disturbance, but the American publisher chose Gargoyles, perhaps in order to render the array of human freaks the novel depicts to its very end. In fact, this is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.
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Pre-release audience screenings in Summer 1988 were positive, with 93% of those surveyed rating the film as "very good", the highest rating studio Paramount Pictures had received at the time. Press screenings nearer to release however were met with responses ranging from ovations to disgruntlement. On release, reviews were similarly mixed. Roger Ebert called it one of the most "disquieting, unsettling films to come along in quite some time", saying that it portrays pain and anger more than comedy.
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Anthony Boucher's 1950 detective story anthology, Four-and-Twenty-Bloodhounds, paired each story with a brief biography of the detective. In the case of "The Big Money" by Robert Arthur, Boucher apologized to the reader: :The most disquieting moment in editing this anthology came when I received the biographical questionnaire filled in by the Mysterious Traveler. In answer to the first blank, born __, he had simply inserted: ?. And the succeeding answers were equally disconcerting and not in all cases publishable--though I have forwarded a copy to Miskatonic University for its files.
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When he wrote of Gandalf's failure to meet Frodo, Tolkien did not know what had caused it and later said: "Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as concerned as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear."Letters no.163 p. 217 Tolkien's son, Christopher, has said that the early stages of the creation of The Lord of the Rings proceeded in a series of waves, and that having produced the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien rewrote the tale from the start three times.
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Powell argued, "The most disquieting voices joining the chorus of criticism came from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians." In the memorandum, Powell advocated "constant surveillance" of textbook and television content, as well as a purge of left-wing elements. He named consumer advocate Nader as the chief antagonist of American business. Powell urged conservatives to undertake a sustained media-outreach program; including funding neoliberal scholars, publishing books and papers from popular magazines to scholarly journals and influencing public opinion.
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They go about their lives quietly and submissively, > until the fantastic intervenes to upset the traditional order that has been > imposed on them. It is, perhaps, this aspect of Silvina Ocampo's work which > makes it most disquieting to readers, male and female alike. Another critic, Patricia N. Klingenberg, has argued that the "raging, destructive female characters of Ocampo's stories should be viewed as part of her preoccupation with the victimization and revenge of women, children and 'deviants' in her works." Ocampo reportedly said that the judges for Argentina's National Prize for fiction in 1979 adjudged her work "demasiado crueles"—too cruel—for the award.
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