Definition of Disconcerting

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Definition of Disconcerting
	Disconcerting of Disconcert Related Definitions: Disconcert, Of

Disconcerting Quotations

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Learned Hand

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
Morris Raphael Cohen

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Penelope Lively

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
Michael York

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
Eliza Dushku

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
Elizabeth George

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Lance Morrow

Disconcerting Translations

disconcerting in French is ennuyeuse
disconcerting in German is verdutzend, peinlich
disconcerting in Italian is spiacevole

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