unsettling

Example Sentences

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This is the Christian tradition: questioning inherited norms, unsettling comfortable hierarchies, insisting that the ethical imagination can go further than traditional society allows.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

It could be an empty office block, a hallway or a corridor - unsettling between-zones.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an effectively unsettling horror film from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

When one, an unsettling nine-minute experiment about a warren of dingy carpets, taffy-yellow walls and gridded drop ceilings clicked with 78 million viewers, he made sequels.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The harmony is in meltdown because Wagner has used chromaticism, the promiscuous use of all the subdivisions in the scale, to put you in an unsettling place.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall