discomfit

Example Sentences

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And the revisions pertaining to Jocasta’s marriage to Laius, who was killed in a car accident decades before, bring a discomfiting and topical contemporary edge.

From The Wall Street Journal

His calm and deadpan delivery of Teddy’s crazy talk gives it a discomfiting authority.

From The Wall Street Journal

The author says Prescott was in a "class of his own when it came to discomfiting Charles".

From BBC

I came away from “Notes to John” feeling discomfited and saddened — though literary scholars may read it as providing context with which to deconstruct a great writer’s oeuvre.

From Los Angeles Times

But when the movie reaches an admirable capacity with its ideas about parenthood, authoritarianism, mortality and connection, it falters in bringing everything to the reverberating conclusion its discomfiting first two-thirds merits.

From Los Angeles Times