Sentences with phrase «disoriented in»

This was the situation I found myself in last year when I received a phone call from my mother's landlord telling me she had been found disoriented in the basement of... [more]

This was the situation I found myself in last year when I received a phone call from my mother's landlord telling me she had been found disoriented in the basement of her building.

Con artists prey on tourists because they know visitors are likely to be disoriented in an unfamiliar location.

We become lost and disoriented in physical space, leaving relics of our passing impervious to decay, or seek to dominate the grandeur we secretly fear will surpass and outlive our own.

D.J. gets disoriented in Fragments of Euclid, then his office supply empire gets out of hand in Universal Paperclips.

Tourists, unfamiliar with road conditions and traffic patterns, or simply disoriented in a new place, are especially vulnerable to accidents.

And then he got disoriented in a snowstorm.

Your dog may become more reluctant to go out after dark or become disoriented in low light situations.

Pets can easily become disoriented in a storm or in a shelter environment where there is lots of new stimuli.

Your friends may get a kick out of watching your cat turn clumsy and disoriented in the short term, but, if anything goes wrong, you won't be laughing when you see the resulting vet bill.

If she's a very young kitten, keep her confined to a smaller area until she gets more comfortable navigating around and knows where her litter box is and won't get lost or disoriented in the house.

It is very easy for an animal who would not otherwise wander to become completely disoriented in a storm and end up many miles from home.

Pets that have dementia may lose interest in regular activities, stop interacting with you and other pets, pace back and forth, become lost and disoriented in your home, spend long periods staring or have housetraining accidents.

A quick look inside the car proves regular drivers will not be disoriented in this new Mustang.

They are viewed here as students with high - context learning experiences and expectations (Hall in Beyond Culture, Anchor, New York, (1976), and a collectivistic orientation, with a pragmatic, rather than academic way of looking at the world, who are marginalized and disoriented in US classrooms.

From what's been said so far it may sound like Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a disaster of a follow - up to arguably one of the best action films of the decade so far, but it's more a matter of a rocky first hour that is disoriented in combining the forces of the spy organizations.

The recipe I'm sharing today is so easy that you can make it while half - asleep, which is particularly good news for those of us in the United States who just lost an hour and so are likely to be groggy and disoriented in the morning for a least a few days!

This is due to the fact that working out on a full stomach stimulates the abdominal muscles and could cause stomach contents to rumble or be disoriented in a way.

It's all too easy to become disoriented in this kind of terrain; at a certain juncture where the GPS indicated a right turn, she mistakenly went left.

Those who feel disoriented in the world of sports wagers, should look at the football betting over under guide before visiting an online bookmaker.

It is my hope that this hasty survey will allow the general reader to turn to several of Niebuhr's most important books without the feeling that he is totally disoriented in the mass and variety of Niebuhr's writings.

For a time I was physically and spiritually disoriented in the sense that I lost interest in everything.

Wonderful as well is the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix — all that over-the-shoulder barking is disorienting in the best way, and the subwoofer is far more exhausted by the end of the show than one expects, not because of the picture's miniscule cost (everybody has ProTools nowadays), but because of its old - school vibe.

It's not simply that Final Fantasy XII is a good game — indeed, it's excellent — but more than that, it is a game ahead of its time, built on conventions which were disorienting in 2006 but which have since become stock - in - trade for many of the RPGs we play today.

«Night Landings: Nairobi» is not disorienting in the least: we know where we are; we know we're in a plane, we know the plane is landing, and we even know roughly what time it is: we are looking down, and we see vividly the city named in the title, with the surrounding land and water.

The only unifying thread amongst the works is the age range of the artists who made them, resulting in an exhibition that is almost disorienting in its wide stylistic and thematic breadth.

Florian Hecker pointed a speaker with blippy noises at a tiled area of the wall, and that was a little disorienting in a good way.

That's not so disorienting in the case of Franz Kline's black - and - white

That's not so disorienting in the case of Franz Kline's black - and - white New York, N.Y., 1953, but it's a weird shift for Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle, 1952 — 53, with its reds and greens, creams and pinks — and yet not so weird, for we've all seen these works in black - and - white.

Not exact matches

A report released in mid-April by the Transportation Safety Board showed the near - disaster was the result of «sleep inertia,» the disoriented and drowsy feeling caused by fatigue and taking naps for too long.

In a disoriented daze, Holley got out of bed, went into the bathroom, and grabbed a Q - Tip.

But both men, intelligence officers working under diplomatic cover, would later say they heard sharp, disorienting sounds in their homes at night.

There is a manipulation technique that was successfully employed by Donald J. Trump, now being used by Jason Kenney and others in the UCP to create a politically charged atmosphere with the sole purpose of disorienting voters.

Economic development and an increasingly global commerce in movies, TV, and other forms of popular culture weaken traditional Islamic institutions and disturb and disorient many Muslims.

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The problem, of course, is that any solution the disoriented and despairing choose in times of crisis will be to some extent an extremist simplification relative to the bewildering abundance of life in which they must find their reorientation.

But in the Gnostic view the extremist reactions from the disorienting complexities of our condition are only the means the Demiurge employs to enlarge his domain in which the entertainments of abundance beguilingly promise a triumph over matter and time.

In this situation, threatened by the disorienting complications of abundance, we can be pushed automatically «into dreaming of the life of the past, archaic, early, and primitive» or into some passionate and clarifying reduction of the bewildering complexity of life.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

Not a simple mind but rather a committed mind allows us to tune in to the signal of divine wisdom amidst the disorienting trials of the world.

This class of people rarely feels disoriented by rapid changes in the demographic makeup of society because they see the system working for them.

In our family, we use the phrase «out of sorts» to describe our heart or mind or self when we are in the midst of shifting or changing or even just growing or feeling disorienteIn our family, we use the phrase «out of sorts» to describe our heart or mind or self when we are in the midst of shifting or changing or even just growing or feeling disorientein the midst of shifting or changing or even just growing or feeling disoriented.

I hardly knew where to look first or where to go first: it's a disorienting feeling to stand in front of a building you sort of recognize from dozens of movies but have never been to yourself.

Along with no - fault divorce, this disorients lower - and middle - class Americans, contributing to a decline in marriage.

I don't care very much to debate the nature of the Iranian revolution then and now but one thing that seems to be a hard fact is that their revolution of 1979 has left the west disoriented, delusional, and in a fixed state of constant fantasy about its nature and eventual collapse.

This is always a little embarrassing for me because I save my best, most personal writing for my books and tend to hammer out most of my blog posts before I've even had my second cup of coffee in the morning, which is a hazy, disorienting time in which I am strictly prohibited from making important life decisions or ordering things from the internet.

The resulting belief system involved four layers: a redefinition of «Jew,» a redefinition of «Nazi,» a denial of the concept of «left» and «right» in politics (to totally disorient the believer); and, for Jewish LaRouchians, a guilt trip and special fears.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

A disoriented, confused, frustrated, troubled, lost person can find a new center of meaning — a new power for living in the Man of Nazareth.

Political discourse therefore is no less oriented, disoriented, and reoriented than any other form of discourse; and the specific way in which it is oriented and disoriented is that it becomes the place for the insertion of an impossible demand, a demand that we can validly interpret in utopian terms, meaning by this a quest that can not be exhausted by any program of action.