Sentences with phrase «disorienting as»

There are few experiences in marriage that are as painful, devastating, and disorienting as infidelity.

The rapidity and growing accumulation of a host of upsetting, precedent - breaking developments can feel as dizzying and disorienting as being swept up in a Kansas farm house, spinning in a cyclone towards Oz, and waking up in the Twilight Zone.

As dissonant and disorienting as Salle's superimposed images are, the overall painting is held together by an uncanny compositional instinct.

Depending on what you're looking for in a wrestling sim, WWE 2K17 is either as thrilling as a last - count kickout from a pin or as disorienting as getting your face bashed into the turnbuckle.

While it isn't much of a ordeal, it's pretty disorienting as it looks like a player can explore a section, only to be blocked off a few feet before reaching it.

During this, I noticed that the camera was a bit disorienting as it would follow you, especially when jumping around, but it was easy to get used to as I progressed through the game.

Without some assistance or guidance to organize the materials, having too much may be as disorienting as having too little.

Therese, whose boyfriend keeps pushing romantic trips and long - term commitments, finds that beginnings and middles of relationships can be as disorienting as conclusions.

In fact, the film's refusal to obey genre rules can be as disorienting as it is refreshing.

For those of us who came to the Japanese filmmaker (and nearly never returned) via his hyper - violent, cult horror films Audition and Ichi the Killer, the barrage of comedies, musicals, even children's films can be as disorienting as the grisly sights of his alienating breakthroughs.

Velocity aside, Spielberg's series of racing sequence are as cluttered and disorienting as the Wachowskis» Speed Racer set pieces were linear and clarified, suggesting Spielberg isn't as interested in embodying the totality of pop culture here as he is in picking apart how things managed to get so far out of control.

As disorienting as it is, I also enjoy the challenge of learning my way around new terrain.

People have become disoriented as traditional cultural forms lose their authority over our lives.

Often the caretaker interventions are no more than isolating the child back to their cribs or beds where they remain depressed, despondent and somewhat confused and disoriented as the only stimulation they may have is their immediate surroundings which is often bleak and impoverished.

The best of these sequences is Katniss» introduction to the new arena, mere moments after watching one of her mentors get brutally beaten: initially we're as disoriented as she is, before in just a few strokes, the layout is established and the action breathlessly kicks off.

While a dynamic camera gives these actions a cinematic flourish, it is easy to completely lose one's bearings and become disoriented as it swings back around to a side - on view.

The first few times you use the OFF system, you will feel a little disoriented as you scrabble to work out where you are and what you are actually trying to achieve, but once you get used to it the OFF system is the only way to get past some of the more elite enemies thrown your way in later levels.

Over 27 years he was close to and hostile to all the other Powers at different times, sometimes in such rapid succession that his opponents felt badly disoriented as though they were dealing with «the devil himself», as many said.

Not exact matches

As the scholar Eric St. John once wrote, «There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought - provoking, gut wrenching and rest - of - your - life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.»

Coma When people consume too much caffeine, they can go into what is known as caffeine intoxication, where they become confused and disoriented.

Accept secure payments by PayPal and / or major credit cards from customers worldwide, right within our new cart that appears as an overlay «inside» your own sales page on any browser or device, avoiding any disorienting redirection to a separate card checkout page.

I can not help but wonder why you would choose to interpret this experience (which sounds to me like that fuzzy, disorienting transitional state between sleep and wakefulness that we all experience from time to time) as meeting your god.

But when that manifestation of disoriented tenderness occurs again as dissipated by an almost universal acceptance of abortion, Mother Teresa is right to say (as Percy quotes her): «If a mother can kill her unborn child, I can kill you, and you can kill me.»

What we might say is that the modern condition of the person is of a soul longing for its recovery as soul, longing for an escape from the reductionism of person to mere self, to consciousness disoriented from reality.

If a quarter of a century ago Cage had been able to foresee the cultural impact of the computer he might have seen it as further reason to hope that abundance when boldly chosen could be manageable, and certainly no reason to expect that Ortega's extremism with its disorienting complications would continue apace.

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?!)

As that epoch ends, they are disoriented — as are we, if we're honesAs that epoch ends, they are disoriented — as are we, if we're honesas are we, if we're honest.

Disorienting, because it protests my deeper persuasion that success as an entrepreneur, or any professional, requires that career takes the throne of my priorities and remain there for, at the very least, a couple of years.

Such times have often disoriented religious believers (as during the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, or the First World War).

When they landed at the United Church of Santa Fe, they often felt lost and disoriented, as if they had gone through multiple intimate relationships.

As Charles Murray documents, our leadership class now promotes a supposedly progressive moral outlook that disorients the poor and vulnerable, while the well - to - do themselves live according to neo-traditional norms they refuse to affirm.

And even though I will be just as disoriented and clueless at the next stage of my life, it's okay, because it's all just part of the process.

But whatever Nathanael's thoughts are as he arrives on the scene, he immediately becomes disoriented.

The pitcher in the first video looked like he just stepped off the teacup ride, disoriented and a little nauseous, as baseballs were knocked around the field.

, but we all say it so casually — as if it isn't just as disorienting, confusing, challenging or exhausting for dad as it is for moms.

According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma and how it affects the brain, as many as 80 % of abused and neglected infants and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures, and pathological self - regulatory behaviors.

I know an adult woman with a shellfish allergy who no longer gets hives if she eats shellfish; instead she becomes disoriented almost as if she were intoxicated.

Feed the child without major distractions, such as loud noises, which may cause him to become disoriented.

Now, as then, an angry and disoriented public is presented with two alternatives to party politics: a technocratic option and a populist one.

«Citing the performances of PDP governors as poor, and the reason for his defection, is noting but a disoriented view of an introverted personality.

SNL, famous for mocking politicians and newsmakers, portrayed the governor in a four - minute «Weekend Update» segment as confused and disoriented - often looking in the wrong direction and mistakenly walking in front of the camera when it was not his turn to speak.

On moonless nights visitors can become disoriented and euphoric in the cold, thin air and all - consuming darkness, as countless stars emerge like nameless leviathans from the heavenly depths to overwhelm the constellations.

Six decades ago, Romanians were promised economic prosperity as their country was industrialized, but in most cases, they were left with collapsed buildings, poisoned soils and disoriented communities

There was some overlap between the range of scores for patients considered to be in a «minimally conscious state,» showing intermittent signs of awareness, such as following simple movement commands, and those who had emerged from this state but were still disoriented and had limited communication.

The snail protrudes a stretchy mouth - like part and aims it like a gun barrel at fish, which become disoriented and stop moving even as the snail's mouth part slowly advances and engulfs the fish.

Sweat poured down my face as I stumbled into the bathroom, dizzy and disoriented.

Anyone who has traveled internationally or cross-country has likely experienced the disorienting exhaustion that can hit as you fight your body's familiar routine.

So if you then consider the effect of just a little spike in your hormone levels when you are premenstrual and how this can affect your mood and your physicality (it can also make you feel a little clumsy and disoriented), consider the fact that during pregnancy the level of these hormones can increase by as much as 300 %!

It's nice to feel like you're on the same page as your bestie, and when one or both of you start to drift away, it can be disorienting, sad, and confusing.

These mixed messages, as they have always ended up sending us, left us feeling confused and disoriented.