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Disorienting shots of competing papal candidates add urgency to the reveal of election results, while an accusatory confrontation between two cardinals is punctuated by the anachronistic reveal of an espresso machine.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists” became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog” and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,” creating an extraordinary sonic vista.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

Disorienting and frigid fog that socked in the Firehole River valley greeted us as we awoke on day two.

From Washington Times • Mar. 30, 2016

Disorienting strangeness and spaciousness are qualities that electronic musicians have often pursued, including Louis and Bebe Barron’s soundtrack for the sci-fi classic “Forbidden Planet” and Morton Subotnick’s 1967 LP “Silver Apples of the Moon.”

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2011

Disorienting, then, to confront the sometimes fatal precocity of the young in Finnegan's marginal world.

From Time Magazine Archive




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