perturbing

What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports.

Free Trade With the U.S.—Only in a Dream World 1996

The energy she displayed, to judge by the cheerful noises of it, was almost perturbing.

CHAPTER VI 2010

As for the album itself, there was something a little perturbing about Batcow's assessment: "Ejaculate of the gods."

Readers' Reviews 2011

This perturbing mix of architecture and the body is typical of Hatoum, renowned for her eerie transformations of familiar household stuff into potential instruments of torture.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

NKOTBSB, a perturbing amalgamation of 90s boybands New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys, are also peddling their ballads on a global tour this spring.

Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here 2012

Filmmaker Liz Canner took on the subject of the female orgasm and pharmaceutical companies in her film 2009 Orgasm, Inc. I interviewed Ms. Canner regarding her film as well as a couple of well-known psychoanalysts on the topic of women's sexuality, the medicalization of female sexual desire and the perturbing idea of the "right" kind of orgasm.

Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Woman Behind Tamara McClintock Greenberg 2012

Still, the process, while far less perturbing than Grandma Moses feeling me up, was still a bit unnerving as I am naturally bashful when it comes to taking my clothes off in front of people.

The DC Damsel: Lifting the Ladies: Adventures in Bra-Fitting The DC Damsel 2010

From face to face and speaker to speaker his eyes would turn, boring like gimlets of incandescent ice, disconcerting and perturbing.

The Mexican 2010

Filmmaker Liz Canner took on the subject of the female orgasm and pharmaceutical companies in her film 2009 Orgasm, Inc. I interviewed Ms. Canner regarding her film as well as a couple of well-known psychoanalysts on the topic of women's sexuality, the medicalization of female sexual desire and the perturbing idea of the "right" kind of orgasm.

Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Woman Behind Tamara McClintock Greenberg 2012

He had even thought that night that her feeling for him had passed, and he had taken delight in the thought, and caught visions of the satisfying future friendship that would be theirs with this perturbing love out of the way.

Chapter XII 2010