Word: disconcerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news of Soffer's discovery, which is too recent to have found its way into Angier's or Hales' book, will disconcert many feminists as well as sociobiologists. After all, the gratifying thing about man-the-hunter was that he helped locate all the violence and related mischief on the men's side of the campfire: no blood on our hands! But there are other reasons to doubt the eternal equation of masculinity with aggression and violence, femininity with gentleness and a taste for green salads. In ancient Greece and Sumer the deities of the hunt, Artemis and Ninhursag, were...
Like the cocky Americans it portrays, "Purple Noon," a recently re-released 1960 French thriller, succeeds because of its ability to disconcert. Disconcerting is the premise of the film itself, that French actors speaking French and dressed in French clothing can somehow seem American if given American-sounding names like "Tom," "Marg," and "Freddy." Disconcerting is Clemote's use of the Italian setting, on which noon-strength sun gnaws, leeching color from sails, crumbling villas and driving everyone pretty much mad. Most disconcerting, certainly, are the mesmerizing eyes of Alain Delon, who, as the poor but desperate Tom, is able...
...your successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
What can happen, though, is if you're not firing on all cylinders in that offense. You can sputter. I think you stop the Multiflex, and I've looked at it on film, you stop it by doing things to disconcert that thing...
...Giving Birth to One's Own Mother will disconcert even a seasoned reader of philosophy. The book laments the treasures of past years rather than proposing any solutions. Despite his fine detail and obvious cultural acumen, Cantor does not realize that the current generation needs new questions, not hackneyed phrases. Society's questions must be answered by contemporary adaptations of old theories. This timeliness will make them relevant and realistic for the generation of people to which they appeal