The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.
It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.
I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be exposed; they panic, because they don't know which bits are true.
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.
[Listening skeptically to German propaganda coming over a loudspeaker] Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting.
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.
