Just as they reached the peak, the helicopter took an unexpected, discomfitingly sharp turn, Brinkley recalled.
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Up there, we could feel the wind causing the tower to sway back and forth, discomfitingly.
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Milx careens between guttural rasps, hoarse roars, gritted-teeth spoken word, a husky croon (see the breathless vocal harmonies on the discomfitingly pretty opening of "Lights in the Sky").
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J.P. In 2003, Eamon released the lavishly profane, discomfitingly spiteful ballad "______ It (I Don't Want You Back)," which became something of a minor too-raw-for-prime-time, hip-hop-soul classic.
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Early reviewers lavished praise on Ms. Hall's performance in "Christine" — Variety described her as being "discomfitingly electric in the best role she's yet been offered" — but the film's subject made for a tough sell.
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In the intervening years, he has become one of America's foremost playwrights, winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama for "Disgraced" and seeing his work — which digs deeply, often discomfitingly so, into the Muslim-American experience — produced at theaters around the country.
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TV remakes are a form of comfort food, but they're also spreading at precisely the time that TV's past has been returning, sometimes discomfitingly: the conviction of Bill Cosby, for instance, and the controversy over Apu, the Indian-immigrant character on "The Simpsons" since 1990.
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The filmmakers made the frustrating choice to cast caucasian actors in key Afghan roles (Girls' Christopher Abbott acquits himself decently as Kim's soulful fixer, but Alfred Molina is discomfitingly plummy and over-the-top as a high-ranked official), but at least they take the time to make a few of the locals human.
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In demanding church leaders up to the pope himself resign, Viganò and other Catholic conservatives are using the scandal as an "opportunity to reform the Church from abuses as a counter-revolution ... against the Church of Vatican II itself," Faggioli told Vox in an email, referencing a 1962-'65 council many conservatives see as pushing the Vatican in a discomfitingly liberal direction.
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And, as it turns out, the investigation she has set up makes intuitive sense to both observers and detectives because they know it so well from TV. The Law & Order franchise has shaped Americans' understanding of the law to such an extent that the actual legal system can sometimes seem discomfitingly unreal, because it is so little like the version we know from television: the one where prosecutors are incorruptible crusaders for justice, defense attorneys are conscienceless sophists, and trials take place in gleaming edifices of dark wood and marble—and where, perhaps most crucially, the viewer's own belief in the defendant's guilt can allow them to cheer for all sorts of systemic injustices and dirty tricks, because that's how you have to play the game, sometimes, if you just know you have the right guy.
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She then starred opposite Johnny Depp in Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence (2014). In 2015, Hall starred in the romantic comedy Tumbledown and Joel Edgerton's directorial debut The Gift. In the 2016 biographical drama Christine, Hall played the role of real-life news reporter Christine Chubbuck. Variety called her "discomfitingly electric in the best role she's yet been offered".
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