He nodded, somewhat disconcerted by his mother's sudden generosity, and jogged up the stairs. |
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Finally they all swooshed to a halt and we clapped heartily, while feeling a bit disconcerted by the whole thing. |
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She looked up at him with a disconcerted, unfocused gaze, her normally clear ice blue eyes covered with a dazed, cloudy film. |
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Pipes, though a little disconcerted, far from being disabled by the blow, in a trice retorted the compliment with his truncheon. |
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Others, shaping to play defensively, were beaten by turn and Steve Kirby was disconcerted by a ball that spun the other way. |
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Whatever was flashing through the visibly disconcerted president's mind, he could not come up with a direct answer. |
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In fact, they used the front door so infrequently that when they did, their mothers were disconcerted. |
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As the grande dame of French film, it's easy to appreciate why Baye was a little disconcerted by the film's title. |
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People are disconcerted, even frightened by that kind of lack of personal control. |
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Compulsive early music fanatics might be disconcerted by the variety of composition and performance styles. |
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Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before. |
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I've always been disconcerted as to why cities fall all over themselves trying to win the burden of the Olympics. |
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Evelyn was momentarily disconcerted by his response, until she saw his eyes focussing on her neck. |
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The adorable couple next to me and their equally adorable daughter looked disconcerted at my ungraceful maneuvering around their seats. |
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Edie hesitated, and shook her head, being too disconcerted to say anything. |
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Nevertheless they gave a good account of themselves for 40 minutes and disconcerted the visitors by their upbeat attitude. |
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If this were to be over within 50 years I think people would be disconcerted. |
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Slightly disconcerted by the lack of clues from the stranger as to what his ailments are, I look around. |
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In short, the clinician can feel disconcerted or annoyed with several aspects of the interview. |
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He has paid 5,000 for his genuine Second World War German submachine gun, but is disconcerted when I point to his Iron Cross and ask if it, too, is the real thing. |
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People who have tussled with four-wheel drives before will be accustomed to this slightly squidgy feel but first-timers might be little disconcerted. |
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Aren't you worried some of your early fans might get disconcerted by this? |
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Do not be disconcerted if your insurer appoints a loss adjuster. |
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Suddenly they stop, disconcerted by the noise of disturbed leaves. |
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Except the one night before my marriage, I'd never stayed in a hotel, and I was disconcerted when Pete leapt out of bed at 7am to get to his ship by eight. |
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The committee was disconcerted, surprised, confused by this, and therefore rejected my amendment. |
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We were disconcerted, though, by the absence of a paper trail to indicate what was or was not shared with the foreign agencies. |
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Vishneva, however, looks genuinely disconcerted when I ask if this has any basis in fact. |
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I also confess I'm vaguely disconcerted by the rise of the Euro hipster in this year's songfest. |
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Advocaat is nothing if not self-assured but even he seemed disconcerted by his team's surrender. |
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For Bagehot to have used the word correctly he would be claiming that the Conservatives are disturbed, disconcerted, upset and confused. |
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Investors, who are desperately needed in the ailing economy, are disconcerted either way. |
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Some are disconcerted by their newborn's appearance, or feel unsure of their ability to look after a baby. |
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I imagine that they might even, on occasion, have been disconcerted by the tough nature of the negotiations. |
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I must say that everything that has happened regarding this resolution has left me somewhat disconcerted and also highly perplexed. |
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This announcement disconcerted investors and the financial markets, although some observers had expected it. |
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I was a little disconcerted, as was my colleague, to hear the minister's response to that concern. |
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I know that some of you have been disconcerted not to find in this document the usual broad range of UNESCO's principal activities. |
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The organisers, visibly disconcerted, hastily improvise a disjointed discussion with the representatives of the troublemakers. |
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The young American bemoaned the wet and cold of the Pennines, disconcerted by their bleakness that inspired the Brontes more than a century before. |
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We were disconcerted by Northern Ireland's aggressive vegetation, all of it a deep dayglo green and sprouting in every available thimbleful of soil. |
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The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate. |
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And of course what people become most disconcerted about when they come out to Stonehenge, is to discover they're not the star sign they thought they were all their lives. |
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There is considerable diversity in the national systems, and recipients may sometimes be disconcerted by the information provided, particularly as regards sentencing. |
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Businessmen who warmed to his economic policies were disconcerted by an ill-advised and quill-advised andresidential suggestion that the government should buy a stake in the Peruvian assets of Repsol, a Spanish oil firm. |
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Not a few of the invocations of trans-Atlantic harmony in this debate today would, no doubt, cause Austrians to be greatly astonished and seriously disconcerted. |
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As a poet of extremes, he created characters which disconcerted his contemporaries but which became more intelligible as psychoanalysis developed. |
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Additionally, some men are disconcerted and uneasy with regard to the women's more assertive attitude and their resolve to make family and business decisions. |
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The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. |
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When we are disconcerted by the incomprehensible suffering of the innocent, enable us to be witnesses to the gospel by our lives and to make the consolation of your Holy Spirit more visible. |
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Those who hear many confessions and see how people ordinarily approach the sacrament can be disconcerted by the way certain penitents come to confession without even a clear idea of what they want. |
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The change, so audacious, so unorthodox, disconcerted the Costa Ricans. |
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The new sound no doubt disconcerted some of her fanbase, but the singer herself remained convinced that her change of direction was the right way forward. |
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Both attracted and disconcerted, the audience still came. |
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Lysicles was a little disconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito. |
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He was disconcerted by their classification as genre fiction. |
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