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  • Plus, we stayed up a bit late, drinking vino and back-yarding and chitter-chattering Barzak and I have lived disturbingly parallel lives. Forlorn
  • It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
  • A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
  • Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized. Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
  • The entire outside of the building is lit up every night in a disturbingly bright shade of aubergine.
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  • Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
  • Most disturbingly for friends and relatives, the disappearances have been seized upon by religious zealots in what they say is an attempt to have the men killed. Times, Sunday Times
  • That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
  • I looked forlornly past the celebratory bottle of champagne, consoling myself that it could be saved for New Years, and selected a bottle of Barbados dark rum from my disturbingly overstocked bar.
  • That blueberry 'dollop' looks disturbingly like oversized caviar. New Year's Diet Aid
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a disturbingly alien face, with holes instead of eyes. THE EXECUTION
  • Rising tensions over the South China Sea disturbingly recall the naval race between Britain and Germany during the dreadnaught era that played a key role in triggering World War I. Eric Margolis: The Road to War in Asia
  • This is work that disturbingly demands its audience's complicity, and leaves an indelible stain on the memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just as a virus Brooks calls "Solanum" turns people into zombies, the four contagions we describe below can create a zombie workplace — where creative people and good ideas disturbingly molder.
  • The range of new antibiotics is disturbingly limited," she said. FDA Chief Focuses on Antibiotic Resistance
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • Me, I prefer the "Desparate Poli Sci Blogger" persona I exude, which is disturbingly close to my own personality (except it's a lot less strident in person-SEL is a lot closer to my real personality). La Profesora Abstraida
  • A few years later a crisis of confidence led him into an almost reclusive lifestyle, where he would paint to get away from the pain and, more disturbingly, lacerate his skin because he believed he wasn't attractive to the opposite sex.
  • The violins in this piece dissonated disturbingly
  • Lawrence Solomon may well be a great communicator, but the author of The Deniers also is a frontline voice for a disturbingly large and influential denial industry, writes George Marshall .
  • Yet, by cautiously placing precious melodies in the heart of his soundscapes, Octavius creates with this album a disturbingly chilling cinematic piece of work.
  • At the helm of this dysfunctional clan is Bernard, played by Jeff Daniels, who is disturbingly effective as the over-educated, passive-aggressive father.
  • With the country once again plunged into political turmoil, Rudd's insights should prove disturbingly relevant.
  • KINETON/Warwickshire Time allowed 02:24 It's a training exercise ... but for the bomb squad this scenario is disturbingly real.
  • Others were disturbingly abstract, and Hawk could give her no clue as to their exact meaning.
  • Indeed, throughout the occupation, the stream of images continues to feel disturbingly discordant with our national identity.
  • And a body disturbingly contoured in a snug jacket and a pair of hip-hugging trousers. Earl of Durkness
  • On this disturbingly upbeat new record, mimsy acoustic numbers such as Lonely Girls drown the victim in sentiment, and when Richard Oakes does plug in his guitars they sound anaemically scratchy.
  • Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace.
  • I mean if something is "profoundly and disturbingly evident" why is the hour "indeterminable"? Archive 2007-04-01
  • Avatar" 's desire to have its anthropological cake and eat it too suggests something deeply unself-aware and disturbingly unresolved within Cameron himself. 'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • I would have passed on my compliments to the artist, had it not been a drawing from the disturbingly popular Japanese art form manga.
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • The Mariner's conceptuality is resonant in the sliminess of "a million million slimy things" (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), 4.230); a register picked up again in Sartre's disturbingly phobic Being and Nothingness (601-15) .13 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
  • Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.
  • More disturbingly, the government has inaugurated a policy of forcible expulsions from camps for the displaced.
  • Not only were his eyes lacking their normal cobalt hue and his pupils disturbingly restricted but now his eyes were blood shot as well.
  • All too often, Keyes comes across as almost-disturbingly unpolitic.
  • But there was something disturbingly thought-out and aesthetic about it all, as if it too were a painting. THE EXECUTION
  • So what if the movies were little more than bookends for the disturbingly graphic short subjects, it was those inserts from whence the satisfaction, salaciousness, and serious dinero flowed.
  • And more disturbingly for the other clubs with ambition, the display promises even greater deeds.
  • But if he thinks that the auction is within sight of completion, he is disturbingly out of touch. Times, Sunday Times
  • Horrendous twitter and jaggies mar the three dimensional pans, which mask the disturbingly uniform trees and empty dirt.
  • A disturbingly perky androgynous sprite tries to spread the joy of music to an unpopular putz named Buzz.
  • These photos look disturbingly similar to the infamous George Bush-Angela Merkel backrub. What were they thinking? (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • She mainly supplied drinks, chit chat, and that disturbingly cheerful smile of hers.
  • The play is set in the 1970s, but almost 30 years later this story of society's need for scapegoats remains disturbingly relevant.
  • Police say that the hoax calls are often disturbingly graphic. Times, Sunday Times
  • His eyes were disturbingly intense, their deep cerulean blue hypnotizing me.
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The reality is a disturbingly different film, dark and sombre, a 17th century candle-lit England, a portrait of the poet and debauchee John Wilmot, and one that ultimately bows out to a feminist heroine
  • He looked awful; his skin was pale and his washed-out eyes had disturbingly-dark circles under them.
  • Disturbingly, many people were honking their support for him.
  • Disturbingly, it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture…
  • Police say that the hoax calls are often disturbingly graphic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others were disturbingly abstract, and Hawk could give her no clue as to their exact meaning.
  • A youngster from a disturbingly troubled background, he was left to wander the woods near his home, armed with a gun and a headful of demonic thoughts.
  • Provided that sun creams can be used for protection, the problem is only - though disturbingly - a cosmetic one, seriously so for dark-skinned people; small patches of depigmentation can also occur in the iris.
  • Often, the tone of the letters is disturbingly frank. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The flexible, permanent set consists of a curved wall, covered with a disturbingly lurid purple wallpaper whose pattern varies in scale from normal to absurdly large.
  • But also, confusingly and faintly disturbingly, a childlike innocence that appeals to us all. Times, Sunday Times
  • Disturbingly, it also contains creatine, a compound taken by athletes to help them to gain weight and build muscle.
  • It's nice to think there was a time when I was small and cute and didn't list disturbingly between being a lanky gawk and an oafish lump.
  • Mocking a few for not knowing the band's hometown heroes the MC5, the Suicide Machines joked and jested throughout a powerful (but disturbingly short) set.
  • More disturbingly, military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith.
  • Is it because both snakes and spiders move in a disturbingly counter-intuitive way? Times, Sunday Times
  • The colonel is an unstable hard-ass with disturbingly huge eyebrows and a gun given to him by John Wayne.
  • Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.
  • KINETON/Warwickshire Time allowed 02:24 It's a training exercise ... but for the bomb squad this scenario is disturbingly real.
  • More disturbingly, Gonzalez's aesthetics, confirmed by his own poetry, seem overly obsessed with language and esoterica.
  • Matters come to a head when the star is expelled from the team, leading to a climax at once disturbingly intense and morally dubious.
  • Sections of the audience let out a disturbingly approving cheer.
  • More disturbingly, military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith.
  • The two quickly formed a suicide pact, as 'cami' soothed Nadia's worries, eased her guilt and, most disturbingly, repeatedly tried to persuade her to kill herself in front of a webcam, while she watched. Dose.ca Celeb News
  • Disturbingly ventriloquial: you know it's out there, but where? Times, Sunday Times
  • The scenes of the brutal carnage of the sacking of Troy are disturbingly timely.
  • The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
  • He's a great orator and a disturbingly good actor. The Sun
  • Political conventions have become distressingly routine and disturbingly predictable.
  • the details of the kidnaper's letter had sounded disturbingly convincing
  • As recently as last spring, a violent public response flared in Cincinnati under disturbingly familiar circumstances.
  • The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
  • Matters come to a head when the star is expelled from the team, leading to a climax at once disturbingly intense and morally dubious.

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