Word: disconcerting
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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
...Cosindas' trip to Greece in 1960 started her career as a creative photographer, but she has come a long way from the conception of drama that "Greek Lady, 1959" shows. Her recent portraits have left black and white tragedy for what seems a puppet stage. Her precisely-composed arrangements disconcert. A personage like Vionnet may be thought of in terms of pure design, color, fashion and grooming, but it somehow reduces Imogen Cunningham to see her elfed in this very miniature lens. Ezra Pound's hands, large and blurred between his knees in front of the camera, couldn...
...characters tend to be puppets who are twitched to demonstrate the central the sis. James Earl Jones' Hickey is over wrought, a manic-morose evangelist given to fits of hysterical joviality. In a production not conspicuously endowed with strength or cohesiveness, Jones' prizefighter style makes him disconcert ingly and divisively strong, as if a born winner had stumbled into the company ofbornlosers...
...found in another French aphorist, Baudelaire, who said that "Everyman who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul." As a corollary, he who accepts the conditions of life-as Genet accepts the worst life can dish out-presumably finds his soul. The discovery would disconcert most men. Genet indeed suggests that he has fulfilled the Baudelairean aspiration to "inspire universal horror and disgust." Few books are so thoroughly nasty and disquieting as Miracle of the Rose...