It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Quotes about disconcerting (16 Quotes)
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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.
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.
The administration has totally mishandled the issue now we're hearing that the Coast Guard doesn't feel they can sign off. As I understand it . . . Homeland Security had initial concerns which were basically later on muted, and so I think there are serious issues here. It's very disconcerting to say the least.
He's upset, extremely angry and frustrated. It is extremely disconcerting for a student at an urban university to be identified as a shooter in a case in which he has no involvement whatsoever.
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.
This was the obvious thing that they should have done about two years ago. I think they lost a lot of ground by being indecisive between now and then. And it's a little disconcerting that they're waiting until December to actually get this up and running.
After four years in New York, this young woman still finds it offensive when someone flashes the 'OK' sign. She knows that it means 'OK' here, but it is still disconcerting to her -- she is translating body language using her understanding of what that particular gesture means.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Everybody knows 'blue' Monday. Sometimes we see 'red.' 'Black' looks are disconcerting. Often the weak hearted show the 'white' feather or a 'yellow' streak. And that 'dark brown' taste is not unknown. But if you want to keep in the 'pink' of mental condition you mustn't let disturbing riots of color mess up your environment.
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.
The whole era when I was busy being a big movie star was terribly disconcerting. I was cared for and cosseted, and yet I was totally dependent.
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.
It is disconcerting that no one associated with the Guild has yet been able to provide a detailed accounting or basis for these fees, despite the fact that they come directly from dues and fees paid by Guild members, who expect the Guild's leadership and management to be dedicated to furthering the members' health and welfare.