disconcert

Example Sentences

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“Not a smile. It’s not the smile that will disconcert me. Not at all. Or his eyes that will make me afraid. Because I’m not afraid of him.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2017

Questions like this disconcert me, because I’m sort of an omnivore, apt to go from the latest John Sandford to D. H. Lawrence to Cormac McCarthy.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2015

Clark wants to make us recognise the difficulty and strangeness of Picasso's modernism: yes, of course, Picasso is an artist who should shock and disconcert you, if you are looking at him properly.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2013

The poem's athletic feats of wit may entertain readers, or disconcert them, but it has a purpose beyond rhetoric: it is an act of mourning ... and, maybe, an act of self-heartening, too.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2012

He didn’t like it, so he thought he’d disconcert her.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman