disorient

The balance of the new story will disorient anyone trying to mentally dovetail the old version into the new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Kiko always tends to disorient people somehow,” Deanna shares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

To add a touch of mystery, contestants will travel and sleep on a coach with blacked-out windows to disorient them.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023

Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.

From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Goldin disorients the reader by deploying multiple timelines — the present, several days ago and two years earlier, when Liv told the police she was being harassed by a stalker.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

She said the quiet has been smothered by the whir of the mine and created an “ecological dead zone” that disorients wildlife.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020

The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

She lost the ability to speak, began to vomit violently and became disoriented, as her dad Scott called for an ambulance to take her to hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Just when he’s got you disoriented and distracted, he strikes, boring you to death.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The hovering putti Titian portrays seem, like Europa, disoriented by the powers of a primal world in which Zeus is like an untamed force of nature, beyond human control or understanding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Those unfamiliar with Jenkin’s work may come away from “Rose of Nevada” as disoriented as Nick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

People disappeared and then were found far away, disoriented and confused.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

Ross's murder and the disorienting mission ultimately confused everyone, with the round table being the most random of the series so far.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

They save their most disorienting trick for last: a reality-bending sequence that could qualify as video art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

It’s also important to remember that grief is disorienting.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

There is something genuinely disorienting about reading all of this in a Senate oversight letter and arriving at Taco Bell as the comparatively lucid party.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The stairs curve and stretch toward an unseen bottom floor, so tall and disorienting that it looks like an optical illusion.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer