unnerving's Usage Examples:

rhythmic cells upon which the work is built gradually swell up to an unnerving climax high in the orchestra’s range, followed by a brief recapitulation.

It was a real baptism of fire and quite unnerving.

"one-man Hollywood" by The New York Times, creating high concept films with unnerving themes and low budgets.

his esoteric novels and poems written in an accessible yet erratic and unnerving style.

opposition or the press otherwise "we are to be governed… by a set of weathercocks, delicately poised, warranted to indicate with unnerving accuracy every.

" Similarly, Screen Daily wrote "Ecem Uzun is unnervingly convincing as a girl left traumatised by her marriage, catatonic in her.

The Guardian as an "unnerving presence" and in The Independent as a "snivelling sidekick urging his master on to acts of increasing depravity".

shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness" and as "songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity.

Although Cleary will never admit it, he found his encounter with Doom unnerving.

This is done not so much to avoid engine braking per se, but rather to allow a low throttle opening 2-1 downshift as a car decelerates, to avoid a loud (and potentially abrupt) and unnerving jolt as a result of the downshift.

positively received by critics, who have noted his "moral ambivalence" and "unnervingly genteel" manner.

range of foods, are known to dig up human bodies for food, and can make unnervingly humanlike vocalizations (such as their famous laugh).

physical, his strength and pace in particular, however he also was an unnervingly accurate passer.

Synonyms:

alarming, redoubtable, formidable,

Antonyms:

alarm, disreputable, unimpressive, unalarming,