What is "disconcertingly"

Usage examples of "disconcertingly".

Another couple sat, knees up, on a futon against the wall, a light-skinned black with a large Afro, faint mustache, and mild eyes, and his girlfriend, a somewhat older-looking woman with choppy short black-dyed hair who, when she spoke, disconcertingly revealed a German accent.

A man of imposing stature and a full head of snow-white hair which billowed in waves over his high-domed skull, Archbishop Peter Rippon looked out upon the world through disconcertingly direct blue eyes.

The sun was bringing out the little gold flecks in those slatey dark eyes, making them sparkle disconcertingly.

Those treating abductees might explain to their patients that hallucinations are normal, and that childhood sexual abuse is disconcertingly common.

De Bonneville was disconcertingly light, like a child, and Malenfant was able to turn him over and lay that balloonlike head on his lap.

Then Sartol allowed himself a smile, just as Baden had smiled at him so disconcertingly the day before.

He waved Collard to a protuberance which, when he sat on it, changed shape disconcertingly beneath him and became a comfortable full length chair which adjusted itself immediately to every change of position.

On slow nights-and there were, disconcertingly, a growing number of these-we'd have fun with food color and sweet dough.

Leon Gambetta was as unprepossessing in person as he was in reputation—short, fat, bearded, of swarthy and oily complexion, looking very much what he was, the son of an immigrant Genoese grocer—and, for a time, Rouleau wondered how the man could nervously eye both of the far-apart balloons at once, until he realized that Gambetta's left eye was of glass, and disconcertingly independent of his good one.

Disconcertingly, there were people carrying tri-d cameras and flashing legitimate reporter idents, who wanted to ask the Gringg questions: a tiresome but necessary interview.

When he was about to get up, he found that the shrivelled skin that had been his third arm was flapping disconcertingly with every movement of his body.