It's precisely the hyperrealism of his scenarios that makes them so
disquieting.
These days such deathly still memorial silence in the theater may not be rare, but this silence is itself
disquieting, unnatural; the audience collectively exhaled held breath when the minute was over and the performing could resume.
Provocative, entertaining, even personally
disquieting, it deserves a wide readership.
The Texas plan, chronicled by McNeil, is
disquieting not only in what it tells us about Texas but also in what it reveals about George W.
Merhige does cast a
disquieting "anything can happen and does" mood over his film.
"Cell death, neurogenesis, synapse elimination?" Because the theory carries such explosive political implications--homosexuality as "defect"--Breedlove finds its shortcomings
disquieting.
Somehow, the prospect of a quiet Microsoft is very
disquieting.
Satan, Maggi writes, is a pure, sourceless,
disquieting scream in the air, possessing no idiom or language of his own; instead, by assaulting Maria and splitting her identity, he is able to enter her being and perform a language without being able to speak that language himself.
This year the HDR tracked two
disquieting trends: the concentration of global wealth into fewer and fewer hands and a parallel concentration of the world's information resources--from Internet databases to patents on bacterial life forms--into fewer and fewer minds.
Full-page, fantastic, and
disquieting watercolor illustrations combine subtle humor and unsettled movement to capture the mood of the story.
There is something similarly
disquieting about how the boomers are discussing the experience of "the greatest generation." During World War II, Tom Brokaw wrote recently in Newsweek, "ordinary people found common cause, made extraordinary sacrifices and never whined or whimpered.
This thinking is not only fuzzy, but
disquieting. I have no real idea about how you establish the authority of a "non-sectarian" deity, unless Gingrich has been thinking so much about religion in the past two years that he has resolved all those pesky theological points of disagreement that have led to church schisms and the existence of over 1,500 different faiths in this country alone.
The author, on the very first page, details a
disquieting exchange between a lawyer and the lawyer's spouse.
Crossing the threshold of the new gallery from the lofty confines of the King's Library, the visitor experiences a palpable and slightly
disquieting sense of entering into a different time and place.
