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It can be a disorienting listen, but that feels fitting when everything else is disorienting too.
This was the disorienting New South that Pen & Pixel seemed to respond to in its own distinctly disorienting way.
Stick with Swimming long enough, and Miller's lyrics seem disorienting.
The trip was disorienting, confusing — "just mean," Blanchard's lawyer said.
Part of the disorienting effect is achieved by the camerawork.
More complex and disorienting games will still turn your stomach.
Every time, it is disorienting and terrible, piercing and unrelenting.
Going home to visit is a disorienting experience these days.
It was sublimely disorienting, a mirror image of the times.
Amongst Trump supporters, news moves at a dizzying, disorienting pace.
This was isolating and disorienting to me throughout my childhood.
"That's disorienting — when every day feels like Saturday," Amabile said.
Other songwriters have also experienced the disorienting ways of Broadway.
Accordingly, the record opens with a disorienting swirl of sounds.
It's a disorienting, weird time to exist in the world.
On the field, Manchester City drew its pretty, disorienting patterns.
The section may strike some readers as unusual and disorienting.
Illness really can bring disorienting changes to the marriage dynamic.
What is the disorienting premise of In the Tall Grass?
The Wilis are disorienting: part animal, part ghost, part woman.
And that's very disorienting and destabilizing as a young person.
It's very effectively disorienting, mirroring Ellis' building confusion and panic.
Without them, the city becomes evermore fragmented, disorienting and unrecognizable.
Those moments pass quickly, they wrote, but can be disorienting.
It's disorienting and eerie, lending an otherworldly quality to everything.
"Latching" is, even for Girls, a disorienting and bleak episode.
"Sometimes it's disorienting," Mr. Obama added, "but there's so much possibility."
Major policy shifts can be disorienting, but they aren't always negative.
Even for an adult, the shadowy chamber was immense and disorienting.
The game revels in this disorienting effect, sometimes to a fault.
"Putting on Bangles" (2019) plunges us into Hasan's own disorienting viewpoint.
Diane, every little detail was eerily familiar, disorienting, dreamy, deeply unsettling.
With so many digital manifestations of reality, things quickly get disorienting.
FPV is increasingly popular because it's fast, fun, and occasionally disorienting.
People with disorienting fake McDonald's adventures can gain brief international fame.
This has occasionally resulted in an unusual and somewhat disorienting experience.
Architectural fashions go in and out of style with disorienting alacrity.
Also, the absence of running heads or running footers is disorienting.
Checking email or scrolling through Facebook can be intoxicating and disorienting.
"When you're looking in the mirror, it's super disorienting," Wheeler says.
Suspense rises from the first, pleasantly disorienting pages of her books.
Is some incoherence the point as we begin this disorienting journey?
The worlds her characters inhabit are chaotic, disorienting, nightmarish and vital.
The experience was at once inconvenient and enjoyable, disorienting and liberating.
For people with dementia, evacuations can be especially disorienting and overwhelming.
Still, black players kneeling in this way has a disorienting quality.
It was a thrillingly disorienting, keenly conceptual feat of stagecraft engineering.
The rush into cannabis farming has been disorienting for neighboring businesses.
It's a little disorienting, but the guests don't seem to mind.
But nowhere is this recommendation whiplash more disorienting than in nutrition.
Cho admitted that acting to a laptop presented its own "disorienting" challenge.
This journey through space and time has an unsettling and disorienting effect.
The video is a perfect hallucination, all flickering color and disorienting imagery.
If you need to adjust your view a lot it becomes disorienting.
It was a disorienting experience, and that's before the food even arrived.
So seeing our reality compressed or expanded can be disorienting or jarring.
"Talking to Maggie Gyllenhaal can be a little disorienting," the piece reads.
The special's diversity was welcome, but it was also a little... disorienting?
The bus trip proved traumatizing, disorienting, and exhausting for many of them.
No matter how many times she visited, it was still disorienting. Silence.
Navigating online news media in 2017 is at best a disorienting experience.
I think that is mind-blowing, a little disorienting, and awe-inspiring.
The surgery is painful and disorienting, and the recovery can suck, too.
Theirs is a disorienting world of social transformation, sometimes resented, sometimes welcome.
It was funny, or no, actually not funny, just disorienting, slightly grotesque.
This is not disorienting at all and actually feels pretty dang natural.
Watching it in real life, in real time, is disorienting and sickening.
It's a disorienting decade we live in, this decennial seems to suggest.
But progress is disorienting, so I'm sure that Marinetti would be proud.
It is shocking and disorienting, and literally made me gasp in horror.
When the show cheerily sails on past it, it can be disorienting.
Framing buildings in disorienting fashion, he created images of Hong Kong's density.
He also tended to favor a disorienting approach to looping and layering.
A worker's life was disorienting; you never knew where anything might be.
It's an experience as much as a story: arresting, disorienting and provocative.
More impressively, he conveys the disorienting and ever-shifting effects of grief.
The effect is disorienting, but to no greater emotional or narrative purpose.
Krusoe's is a delightfully quirky, disorienting world of doppelgängers, decoys and multiple manifestations.
Daylight saving time may be great in theory, but it's also really disorienting.
The show is, and I mean this as an absolute compliment, often disorienting.
It's also just incredibly disorienting to be able to work in any orientation!
Andy's inability to become a human statue amid disorienting circumstances sealed his fate.
"It was kind of disorienting to me," he said of the digital format.
Shifting from this to the isolation of civilian life can be psychologically disorienting.
One consequence of Trump's ascendance has been a disorienting inversion of traditional values.
The song feels happy on the surface but it's also sort of disorienting.
In that case, I assume this election has been utterly disorienting for you.
It's extremely disorienting and disillusioning and I haven't made any secret of that.
It's a little disorienting and off-putting, but then, so is the original.
Many people find this disorienting, especially those who are used to being heard.
The sky glowing above a city can be disorienting, leading them to wander.
The extreme suggestions show Mr. Rosenstein's state of mind during those disorienting days.
A disorienting scene midway through the film shocked even a seasoned horror fan.
But this is the sort of fraught, disorienting moment that characterizes the novel.
The first couple episodes are disorienting, even if you know the "Watchmen" story.
Comedy often depends on ethically slippery manipulation, misleading setups and disorienting punch lines.
Only as the book winds down do they reappear, but it's disorienting, strained.
Each day could be 12 hours long, which Vicente said was exhausting and disorienting.
File photo of a telescopePhoto: Getty ImagesIt's disorienting enough to have you seeing stars.
This is why algorithmic time is so disorienting and why it bends your mind.
Rather, they remember that they share a taste for asserting themselves by disorienting others.
It is disorienting to know so much and feel so much all the time.
But the intense sprawl of Gravity Rush 2's floating city is frequently disorienting.
I was unprepared for the disorienting effect of every Marlin wearing the same jersey.
Negative outcomes several degrees short of that, however, would be deeply disorienting and disturbing.
When those lines are blurred, though, the effect is disorienting even when it's subtle.
In each case, their dominance produced the disorienting effect that the painter has summoned.
When you suddenly swipe across that familiar face, it can be disorienting and confusing.
"I think it's a scary, disorienting time for a lot of people," he continued.
The extra moment it takes me to recognize my own reflection is profoundly disorienting.
Part of what makes this feint so disorienting is that it is sometimes true.
After MS, I live with often-crippling fatigue, frequent numbness and disorienting vision problems.
"Then, when you go back into the outside world, it's so disorienting," she says.
It relaxed her, made her feel less powerless in that otherwise disorienting, regimented environment.
When I re-watched the film, it's hypnotic but it's also initially pretty disorienting.
In one section, Le Parc's labyrinthine installations lead viewers into disorienting, light-infused rooms.
It's a once comforting and disorienting, like walking backwards through a familiar path home.
Game of Thrones's battle-scenes have often depicted the pure, disorienting mayhem of war.
The sudden cut can be disorienting at times, but it doesn't cause motion sickness.
As both games approached, the scene outside the stadiums was both jubilant and disorienting.
For a young musician to crash, suddenly, into renown and adoration can be disorienting.
The singer and designer wants to broaden the fashion community while also disorienting it.
It can be disorienting, and frustrating, to see the president tweet about our city.
When Cole returned to America in 1832 he found it disorienting and spirit-crushing.
Listen: Holly Herndon's "Eternal" is as propulsive as it is disorienting, writes Jon Pareles.
The treatment felt disorienting: Her unstylish clothing didn't match the way she felt inside.
It's often dense and disorienting, with contending layers of vocals, flutes and percussive sounds.
Daily life during the novel coronavirus pandemic is all about disorienting contrasts like these.
Terminal A in New York City's La Guardia Airport can be a disorienting place.
It's disorienting and overwhelming but also exhilarating — just like those "where am I?" mornings.
So it's a very disorienting, very sort of scary experience that she laid out.
On top of this, the mixed messages about race and beauty are deeply disorienting.
It must have been disorienting to win an Oscar for only your third film.
At this point, people onstage have clearly begun to pass around the disorienting news.
If you've never played a game with these controls, it will be very disorienting.
Immersing myself in the growing literature of American decline has been a disorienting experience.
For one thing, life without some kind of social order is disorienting and scary.
Déraciné's story is purposefully disjointed and occasionally disorienting, regularly jumping back and forth in time.
The Albacin (old-town) is very hilly and disorienting but M. is a great navigator.
The 2541 EP came out in January 1988, followed by the disorienting, patchwork LP, Intolerance.
It's all a little disorienting until you get the hang of ToeJam & Earl's unique flow.
The result is disorienting: Your tongue is hot and cold at the same time. The
The masses of tires and bent handlebars are as disorienting as they are beautiful. —K.
During disorienting times like these, I find myself with fewer answers than I have questions.
What seems disorienting and monochromatic at first grows richer and more rewarding upon repeated exposure.
Finding out, for example, that your spouse has been cheating is shocking, disorienting and unbelievable.
I chalked this up to not being used to the simulator—I found it disorienting.
Browsing the toothpaste category on Amazon or Google has become something of a disorienting experience.
He also knows that many of these disorienting advances should be celebrated more than lamented.
The incongruity — conceptual European fashion immediately followed by all-American spring break style — was disorienting.
As disorienting (and puzzling) as any of the additions to the rooms were the deletions.
Instead of Highsmith's disorienting, erotic discovery of character, "Window" is an enactment of Ripleyan manipulation.
" He describes his experience in Antarctica as "disorienting in the most positive and exciting way.
The calmly disorienting experience of this effect is well worth the exhibition's $10 suggested donation.
Ms. Erbe's translucent performance is poised at the bright, disorienting intersection of pain and wonder.
CreditCreditMichael Noble Jr. for The New York Times Bright, disorienting light flooded Gloria Goodson's vision.
Such is Trump's nationalism, a helter-skelter make-believe of disorienting slogans and moral abasement.
Lacking a strong curatorial framework, Gursky's retrospective at the Hayward Gallery can sometimes feel disorienting.
Joining a troupe that then included Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon and Amy Poehler was disorienting.
With the ordinary palette of the world turned upside down, the familiar has become disorienting.
For many others, the pace of change, not to mention the traffic, has been disorienting.
It's fascinating and disorienting, and also some of the savviest pop music of the year.
Washington has been pitched back into a disorienting world of ungraspable truths, confusion and recrimination.
The president uses words not for their literal meaning but for their disorienting emotional impact.
It's disorienting, like staring at a funhouse mirror that reflects the body in perfect proportion.
Those consumers should prepare themselves for an experience that is by turns disorienting and exhilarating.
" Theirs was generally a disorienting, vaguely counterfeit existence; it bore an air of "fragile unreality.
But if it ever is real, the effect is so disorienting as to polarize the audience.
Pilots targeted by laser attacks have reported disorienting flashes, pain, spasms and spots in their vision.
It was honestly more disorienting than when I did mescaline by accident thinking it was ecstasy.
Everyone would be forced to fend for themselves, and it would be incredibly disorienting and messy.
The 2010s were different, somehow more disorienting, full of molten anxiety, racism, and moral horror shows.
On a giant football field, this location-shifting is a bit disorienting but lots of fun.
On occasion the segues into gypsy anecdotes seem forced; the frequent narrative leaps can be disorienting.
Just what the hell was going on inside this disorienting kaleidoscope of primo greens, I wondered?
Having your class spontaneously drop out is a little disorienting, but they bounced back pretty quickly.
I know Rosemary's Baby backwards and forwards, but the disorienting effect made the movie seem new.
For patients, being in the ICU "is a frightening, painful, bewildering and disorienting experience," Wu said.
This rapid flashing of red and blue is pretty intense, and a little disorienting to watch.
It's a disorienting move, and judging by the episode's pointed formatting trickery, the show knows it.
The announcement comes alongside a new single, "T69 Collapse," and a disorienting video created by Weirdcore.
Despite its intended disorienting effects, AMYGDALA looks and sounds rather beautiful, as fuse*'s video illustrates.
She started it with Daniel Lopatin, who as Oneohtrix Point Never produces absorbingly disorienting electronic tracks.
But moving about in this way can be incredibly disorienting, especially when you're running or jumping.
It's hard to overstate how overwhelming this transformation was: The world became a profoundly disorienting place.
But he's pushing toward a less disorienting effect here and keeping his process in the background.
You may not agree with the approach, but it is difficult to deny their disorienting beauty.
While the frenetic nature of their creative process could be disorienting, it's actually ends up compelling.
And two movies about the disorienting horror of D-Day air on the event's 75th anniversary.
With each hit, the focus blows out, forcing the lens to refocus and momentarily disorienting us.
All of these organizations changed people's thinking by putting familiar ideas into a disorienting new context.
But it was a disorienting head space — a liminal state that rendered each measurement basically null.
The willingness of so many voters to cast their ballots for Donald Trump has been disorienting.
You can turn this mirroring feature off, but it's disorienting and takes some getting used to.
It was one of the most disorienting yet profound views of a performance I've ever had.
It was said that Mr. Wilson's disorienting posters were easily read by anyone tripping on LSD.
" He said he believed it was "designed to be psychologically disorienting and scary and just disruptive.
Amid this disorienting milieu, the actors play out Strindberg's scenes, often repeating them while swapping roles.
It is the disorienting homesickness we experience without leaving home, when home has altered beyond recognition.
Jacob, an Amish farmer and carpenter, serves as our tour guide to this disorienting psychological landscape.
The rhythm is disorienting, and Beyoncé has done the seductive, wispy voice better in other songs.   
But when the links are strained, which is often the case, the results can be disorienting.
To see that there's a difference between your genes and your child's genes can be disorienting.
The landscape Hawkins traversed was murky, disorienting, wild—a new world that no European could easily comprehend.
Is "The Lost Sister" a welcome diversion from the show's norm, or a disorienting and unnecessary tangent?
Pilots targeted by these laser attacks have reported disorienting flashes, pain, spasms and spots in their vision.
It was disorienting to realize I had reached adulthood without a firm grasp on who she was.
In short, it's a disorienting time for anyone trying to triangulate truth amid all these sneaking lies.
This is an alarming, disorienting moment for a party used to being the party of the young.
It is disorienting, almost, to watch Lady Gaga play a different role other than, well, Lady Gaga.
Disorienting, too, was the sense of quiet concern I encountered among all of the people I met.
The set has disorienting differences, mainly of scale, and much of the camera work is genuinely ridiculous.
It was also the most disorienting, and hard to categorize through the prism of conventional political analysis.
But watched week to week, it can be disorienting (not that it's hurt, say, Game of Thrones).
The record is a disorienting masterpiece of textured, carefully organized chaos, as perplexing as the band's identity.
The new beach, uniform and flat, is disorienting to be on, without markers for perspective or scale.
Nobody brought torches but we had this weird star projector laser thing and it was very disorienting.
When life throws you a curveball, it can be challenging — and somewhat disorienting — to stay on track.
But it's disorienting for its almost 100-person team at a time when clear direction is crucial.
This shift can be disorienting for those who are used to traditional enterprise-software sales and marketing.
How disorienting that first half must have been, then, with the Browns soaring and the Jets flailing.
The Checkup Halloween masks and makeup can be disorienting to children who are still developing the skill.
We had gone from brutal campaign to disorienting election night — was it a wave or a realignment?
If there is a higher reality, experiencing it for the first time would probably be completely disorienting.
It is almost disorienting chaos; when you get to the end of the movement, it's almost frantic.
The effect was at once analytical, clarifying every element, and immersive, even disorienting, in the best way.
The disorienting space is kept dark on purpose for conservation reasons, but flashlights are available if desired.
Roky is ebullient; he's back to the familiar, having escaped the disorienting demands of the outside world.
Kids are conditioned to think that the good guys always win; when they don't, it's downright disorienting.
It's been so effectively disorienting that Lahren's own parents might even forget Tammy's name at this point.
But I had wanted to want those things, and the loss of that phantom desire was disorienting.
Meanwhile, this small, exquisitely disorienting black hole of a meditative space dwarfed the massiveness of MASS MoCA.
One disorienting thing about the video tweets may be their lack of a visible or implicit audience.
Such a disorienting perspective befits a work that asks us to think about how we see others.
To be a group's game-winning hero, if only for a day, was a complete, disorienting novelty.
It's a disorienting scene, not so much because of what happens as because of what doesn't happen.
"The whole process is disorienting," said Laura Lynch, senior policy counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
His lessons are exhilarating, but also disorienting — she doesn't know where (or when!) she'll find herself next.
The depiction of Atticus in "Watchman" makes for disturbing reading, and for "Mockingbird" fans, it's especially disorienting.
Entering is like venturing into some marvelous, yet disorienting elsewhere, a space at once heavenly and alarming.
But even as a metaphor, far away from missiles and drones and nerve agents, weaponization is disorienting.
The labyrinth he designed to contain the bovine Minotaur was so disorienting that even Daedalus got lost.
That resistance to the genre's longstanding norms feels disorienting — not a new paradigm but a provocative one.
"It's going to be fun," Judge said while conceding that the roster turnover was a bit disorienting.
The show begins with disorienting bursts of light that finally converge on a conventional black box stage.
It was disorienting but inarguable in its logic, and to my ears it definitely qualified as something new.
Within the music industry, all of your goals are linked — so hanging out outside of that is disorienting.
The disorienting results were arguably the first time anyone tried to use sampled sound on a rock song.
Soft gradients are alluring because they cut through the noise of social media, but they also are disorienting.
In other instances, the game sheds its VR trappings and dares to throw you into disorienting combat scenarios.
But watching The Social Network in 2017 is also weird, disorienting, gag-inducing, and full of unintentional laughs.
And his illusion tech enables some terrific scenes of fast-moving, disorienting environments that shift every few seconds.
It may appear disorienting that Kanye West, at age 42, has made a hard turn toward worship music.
At Sqirl, Ms. Koslow has pioneered day starters that come across as simultaneously comforting and disorienting, on purpose.
The end result, Schlesinger said, is that noisy, restless nights in the hospital can be disorienting for patients.
This was a disorienting experience for Lee, whose professional identity had for years been entirely subsumed in Jeezy's.
The Trump era is scrambling traditional partisan loyalties, sometimes to disorienting effect for leading thinkers on the right.
I had to be very clear about it and keep it simple since it was so disorienting underwater.
Chronologically, it starts on the third floor, and it feels mildly disorienting when you step off the elevator.
What followed was a disorienting trip into a world of myth and symbolism for Shadow and the audience.
It's gloriously disorienting, and still, it's hard to miss the real live bear chugging a stein of beer.
As mine is probably somewhat literal, stressing the disorienting, body-enveloping, all-surrounding kind, I was often disappointed.
It's a terrible, disorienting experience, and I'm relieved that we know which medications help her weather that storm.
The extreme suggestions show Mr. Rosenstein's state of mind in the disorienting days that followed Mr. Comey's dismissal.
Myth and geography have a disorienting effect on the poem and each other, unsettling the contents and reader.
But soon I returned to my beloved thinkers and found they offered new comfort in a disorienting world.
So trustworthy is her voice that when it shifts in the third section the result is initially disorienting.
Retirement seems to function in this way for many people: as an orienting goal but a disorienting reality.
RUSSONELLO The composer Tim Hecker has long explored the immersive, disorienting realm of vast, edgeless, sustained electronic tones.
They are thriving in ways that are unfamiliar and disorienting but that also reflect their circumstances and personnel.
My head ached relentlessly, I was nauseated around the clock, and my partial vision was disorienting and discouraging.
Wuhan's expressways are empty, and lives that seemed secure a month ago are now in a disorienting limbo.
This sentence describes a common but slightly disorienting experience: seeing the moon in the still-bright daytime sky.
Disorienting opener "Walk Away" clouds things even further, with Giannascoli pitch-shifting, looping, and distorting his own voice.
At the moment, the image reflected back is of a city undergoing a rapid, and sometimes disorienting, transformation.
" She appeared in a psychedelically disorienting commercial for Apple's Memoji, with an animated Grande head performing "7 Rings.
All of this goes a long way to explain why, at least at first, TikTok can seem disorienting.
To see such disturbing images depicted in colors and made with materials that evoke stuffed animals is disorienting.
Each image seems more disorienting than the last, and they're all tied together by a playfully bold aesthetic.
It's a full-on, distortion-heavy assault of powerviolence—as disorienting as falling down a flight of stairs.
He usually achieves this with disorienting combinations of spatial, visual and aural elements that are rarely devoid of politics.
The overall effect of the interwoven and crosscut narratives is disorienting — more of something half-glimpsed than fully seen.
It is a disorienting moment, but a promising one—for female artists, the studios themselves and for their viewers.
As weird and disorienting as the "HUSTLE, HUSTLE, HUSTLE" vibe can be sometimes, it's nice to be so pampered.
In the end, the effect of these faintly imagined voices speaking on their own faint history is disorienting, unsettling.
His portraiture is intricate, blunt, and impeccably choreographed, ranging in tone from dark and disorienting to uplifting and iconographic.
Raw reality is meaningless and disorienting and almost impossible for any human to accept on a full-time basis.
Each scene ends just when you think you've got a handle on it, disorienting you with the next one.
And when I inevitably hit a wall, it's very disorienting trying to figure out the new direction I'm moving.
Speaking of the economy, how disorienting is it to see an anti-trade protectionist become the next Republican president?
It's all a little disorienting, if only because most professional athletes save their candor for their post-playing days.
It is the periwinkle blue of the sky, and the dark, ivy covered tree trunk that are most disorienting.
Would the VATS combat system, which drastically slows down the world and zooms in on your target, be disorienting?
It's very disorienting, like coming out of a movie theater and immediately having a meet-cute with an architect.
Filmmaker and cinematographer Arthur Jafa's Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death presents a disorienting and disquieting history.
For many Londoners, waking up on the wrong side of an almighty national decision was a vertiginous, disorienting feeling.
Some stone structures have landed at odd angles, to disorienting effect, as if gravity were pulling in every direction.
Once a wanderer has crossed the border, though, the foreign surroundings may seem frightening and disorienting — or comfortingly familiar.
The peloton of four Ski-Doos and sleds navigated a disorienting landscape with no landmarks or signs of civilization.
It's impossibly fleet-footed stuff, often flying along at upwards of 180 BPM, but it's never heavy or disorienting.
I wanted it to feel as trippy and disorienting as a lodge actually felt to me the first time.
You might find it disorienting at first — until you embrace it and make it part of your own story.
The architectural historian Michael Kubo has written about how disorienting this was, to both historians and the popular press.
The contrast between that Ru and the Ru pantomiming masturbation onstage was so disorienting it made my head spin.
To publishers, the rise of platforms has been disorienting at best, as it threatens many of their business models.
One step too close, and swirling masses of these birds propel themselves into a disorienting snowstorm of whirring wings.
These are four people whose bond has transcended the disorienting, lonely, and exhausting nature of life on the road.
They fired tear gas, water cannons, and flash grenades, which exploded in large, disorienting bursts of sound and light.
And providing detailed playing instructions — and a disclaimer that the experience may be disorienting at first — wouldn't hurt, either.
Even as a child, she agonized about homeless people, and complained that the playground was too loud and disorienting.
Also disorienting, albeit for different reasons, are Najjar's composite images that stitch together terrains from space and from earth.
The threat of Kaminsky launching from deep makes him merely raising the ball a disorienting experience for a defense.
It's both seamless and spatially disorienting, as if the various body parts could belong to a single multiracial being.
So imagine how hilariously disorienting it would be to have this happy place be usurped by a toilet-bowl cleaner.
Basotect, chemically similar to the foam made for Mr. Clean sponges, can dampen sound in a room to disorienting levels.
It can be disorienting, intimidating, and make you feel like you're stuck in the spotlight for all enemies to see.
Edut advises, however, that no one should make rash decisions during the eclipse, as they can tend to be disorienting.
The show suffers from a slow start and a disorienting tonal mix that makes its early episodes feel off balance.
Researchers believe a monochromatic palette is a disorienting visual cue, making you more wary of piling your plate with food.
It's groundbreaking, and almost disorienting, for women's stories to be believed, and for men in power to be held accountable.
Schlesinger said it's important that the device not muffle or distort other sounds, which can be disorienting for the patient.
Opening with a disorienting blast of feedback, the track is actually fairly understated backing subtle backing vocals from Devendra Banhart.
Xaviera Lopez's dreamy mental condensation is as elegant as JMcKeehen's skyward vortex is trippy and Kenaim's glitchy sunset is disorienting.
The barrage of allegations and finger-pointing is so frenzied that it is disorienting for anyone trying to keep up.
This is partly a result of personal preference, since I've always found the methodical jumps of Myst's HyperCard format disorienting.
Whatever disorienting swirl of historical and present violence had flown about the room, it all came to a standstill now.
It's like a marriage of "Lost in Translation" and a Chuck Jones Looney Tunes short, haunting, disorienting and ingeniously slapstick.
Frank Bruni It has been forever since Britain was single, and there will be many lonesome and disorienting nights ahead.
This chronological shuffling is gently disorienting, forcing the viewer into a small seizure of empathy, a taste of lost control.
It is pretty disorienting when you first move somewhere and you realize you can't just run to the local CVS.
Inner8's productions transcend the sonic content from which they are sculpted, creating a truly hypnotic and disorienting listening experience.
The conceit of this work has a catch-all diffuseness that manifests in the series' disorienting scalar and perspectival shifts.
At the end of "One Minute," the only song featuring a guest — Kanye West — XXXTentacion howls in disorienting metalcore style.
The 12-minute video is an emotionally disorienting, heart-wrenching look at a family tree whose roots are suddenly exposed.
Doom Eternal, which comes out Friday for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia, begins with a disorienting immediacy.
Over time, he grew into an unlikely, disorienting and insistently unserious political identity: He became YouTube's very own populist reactionary.
The blacked-out screens allow the game to cross-cut between scenes across different times or locations without being disorienting.
This was evidently an everyday domestic scene, but the moment had a disorienting, shivery vibe that felt very Derren Brown.
Travel is disorienting, and there's so much to look at in McClintock's lavishly detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations.
It follows the lives of half a dozen young women in disorienting, whip-fast edits of bling and scornful gazes.
Claudia Hart's installation with a virtual reality headset activates this principle by putting you in a new, disorienting sensorial environment.
It is only for African-Americans who grew up in such a place that watching Mr. Trump is so disorienting.
In the months after our son's death, travel was a constant reminder of our loss, his absence distracting and disorienting.
As the smoke thickened, disorienting Winter, it was the steed that found the path out to the beach, Winter said.
It's full of feedback and noise and twisted field recordings, which only add to the disorienting effect of the punishment.
Pity the overwhelmed American who tuned into the Super Bowl looking for a few hours of relief from a disorienting world.
The rebels are able to take advantage of this disorienting layout when escaping, since even stormtroopers seem lost within the corridors.
When I was at university, I found the flexibility and freedom of being able to get up when I wanted disorienting.
It can also be painful, exhausting, and disorienting; a constant fight to stay grounded while everything around you goes to hell.
"It was a bit disorienting — we weren't hearing what we expected to hear," Cassini scientist William Kurth said in the statement.
And then — then, by god, they break into eruptions of torrid violence that are nothing but loud and disorienting and painful.
While its gifted with poppy melodies, Misty's offerings can be anxious, violent, gentle, and disorienting, sometimes all within the same song.
This surreal and disorienting world, built with the Unreal Engine 4, is full of odd characters and psychedelic death trip visions.
Ms Tawada, though, has a deadpan wit and disorienting mischief all her own, nimbly translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
In a series of colorful yet disorienting paintings, warped perspectives and oddly layered objects pile up in a mashup of commodities.
Her most formally radical film, "The Headless Woman," is deliberately disorienting, putting the viewer in the position of its discombobulated protagonist.
Past, present, and future collide in this disorienting swirl, and I'm pretty sure the overall message is that drugs are cool.
It's been a hectic election full of vicious identity politics, disorienting misinformation, and increasing paranoia among Catalans about Spanish governmental overreach.
Lizzie: I can't say you'll miss much if you skip around, but the koala face at 0:18 is truly disorienting.
Larsen's genius merges perspectival rules with meaningful content, from the stiff poses of the figures to the disorienting upside-down room.
It was a little disorienting, but with the sole mission of playing video games all day, I decided to carry on.
Wagner also said the creators intended the battle scenes to be intense and disorienting — like it would be in real life.
And, at this time of year, this disorienting planetary transit will throw our travel plans and online shopping orders into peril.
While it felt disorienting at first, Franklin taught us to look up at our body as a way to reorient ourselves.
Sure, it has its specific traits; in particular, anime's highly stylized visual language can sometimes be disorienting or confusing to newcomers.
When combined with popular discontent and disorienting change it can make a travesty of democracy and it can disfigure a society.
The clip, which features a disorienting and somewhat disturbing deconstruction of digital flesh, was directed by Hirad Sab and Dalena Tran.
But like many similar games, its twitch-reflex movements and nimble jumps made it disorienting at best and nauseating at worst.
Remind Me Tomorrow deals with this rush of mostly welcome (but occasionally disorienting) emotions without creating an impenetrable swirl of sound.
" Some Clinton aides, still recovering from a disorienting loss in November, said watching Trump on Tuesday was like "Hillary Groundhog Day.
I had no idea what to expect, which was exactly how to approach the show's surreal and disorienting double-header kickoff.
Trump has brought to the White House bully pulpit a disorienting habit of telling lies, big and small, without evident shame.
But the frequent flashbacks are disorienting, and the detailed descriptions of various sports matches are only sometimes relevant to the plot.
Before she came out as transgender, she despised her male body and found it disorienting, given how feminine she felt inside.
I have to admit, seeing a European-style castle on the hill just off the highway in central Kentucky was disorienting.
It is full of dread and doom and disorienting screaming, which makes sense—that's kinda how the world is these days.
The rest of Ms. McIntyre's cast, too, catches the disorienting breeziness of a piece that comes gracefully by its thematic import.
Never-seen-before videos, drawings, and sculptural 3D works with mesmerizing flickering elements fuse to create a dynamic and disorienting timeline.
Wandering through Says Hi, the debut EP from Gothenburg producer sir Was premiering on Noisey today, can be a disorienting experience.
The moving images aren't in synch, and the effect is disorienting, with viewers restlessly shifting position to take it all in.
It's almost always a disorienting thing to begin with — we don't know them, they don't know us, and everyone's pretty shy.
Here, though, the disorienting effect of audio and visual synchronicity feels more affective because of the religious content of the chants.
One lawyer, who graduated from an Ivy League law school in 8403, recalled that her own experience was dismaying and disorienting.
I like intentional AR experiences because I think it can be disorienting if you're not sure what's reality and what's not.
While images of hippies and be-ins may be overfamiliar, an 87-minute immersion in countercultural exuberance can still be disorienting.
Many residents said their lives that seemed secure a month ago have been upended, and their futures are in disorienting limbo.
Meanwhile, J and K board their plane and brace themselves for a very long and disorienting plane ride forward in time.
For the person who self-harms, it can be confusing and disorienting to find comfort in something that seems so destructive.
When he moved from Tehran to California for graduate school in 2013, he found the similarities in climate and landscape disorienting.
Because a trailer is fast-paced and filled with rapid cuts, the lights were changing nonstop, to an almost disorienting degree.
Compared to something like Goat Simulator, there's no disorienting chaos or points assigned to how hard you can head-butt people.
Mr. West may well perceive himself as still aligning with the persecuted, but the view from the top can be disorienting.
His dances surely seemed as disorienting as those Rauschenbergs at first; it's worth being reminded that the dances, too, were masterpieces.
They missed the disorienting power of Bishop's poetry to imprint itself on your imagination like a dream, sometimes like a nightmare.
It can be disorienting to feel you're back at square one with a person you already have a shared history with.
Disorienting news: She comes back to life, in the bathroom of the same downtown New York apartment, at the same party.
There is often a disorienting tension in his work,   where the tough and the lyric, the operatic and the intimate   converge.
Hassan said these types of exchanges have a cumulative, disorienting effect, which makes a target less reliant on their own conscience.
King has done it deliberately to bring us into his world, however disorienting it might be for the rest of the room.
A landscape from the West Coast popping up cross-country can be disorienting, but the exhibition is geographically confused for a reason.
Instead of fighting the inherent disorienting weirdness of VR, Accounting leans into it, overwhelming you on purpose so you embody the joke.
It was disorienting at first, but after a few minutes I was comfortably accelerating, steering, and braking in full control the board.
Thirty minutes dinking around on Instagram instead of going to sleep at night is probably going to feel disorienting and vaguely depressing.
A tense battle played out as the two foes circled each other and kicked up a disorienting dust-cloud in their wake.
Copeland's disorienting album—first released as a video file, but due for a vinyl release in June—was not actually captured live.
It's basically Day of the Dead meets the Truman Show, a disorienting, surreal experience, and one I'll miss with all my heart.
Just minutes from the city, faint tire tracks blow away in the wind, and the vast expanse of sand quickly becomes disorienting.
Most astronauts have sensory motor deficits as their inner ears begin readjusting to Earth's gravity, and that can be disorienting, Robinson said.
The sensation is disorienting at first, teetering on the edge of discomfort even with all VR's recent advances in minimizing motion sickness.
The difference between a menu opening left or right or up or down may seem slight, but the effect is very disorienting.
Levinson learns how to use the disorienting haze of living in between rollercoaster drug trips and harsh sobriety to sharp, bracing effect.
In my limited experience, the effect is striking—-it's truly transformative—but in its current iteration, it's also more disorienting than enlightening.
Arriving on a hot but blissfully dry July night was a disorienting experience, and not just because of the thin alpine air.
But soon we entered a disorienting simulacrum of the past: a labyrinth of imperial gardens, stone bridges, and pagodas with crimson eaves.
But a truly fine war memoir — and "Pumpkinflowers" is certainly one — almost always shows just how disorienting and ambiguous combat can be.
The shift should be disorienting, but because of the song's dream logic it takes a moment to realize you've been jolted awake.
For the most part, a flight on a Zero Gravity plane is a pretty easy, breezy ride, though it can be disorienting.
When they first moved from the Bay Area a few years ago, he said, it was so quiet as to be disorienting.
As disorienting as this all seems, even the most complex program is really only doing simple math at mind-bendingly high speed.
Like Adele , Sheeran represents pop's terra firma, an antidote to the disorienting blitz of viral hits, social-media stunts, and genre splintering.
Returning to the role he originated nearly 19733 years ago, the 76-year-old actor considers its disorienting impact on his life.
And while researchers are still investigating the causes, experts believe that many can be attributed to the disorienting allure of artificial light.
The meatballs take on the appearance of tiny marbles glossed with ruby-red sauce; the dish's tartness is energetic, but not disorienting.
"Iridescence"—which landed at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart—is dense and disorienting, with hyperaggressive bursts and abrupt tonal shifts.
They were raw and disorienting, and for a child, dull, as dull as seeing a home movie after going to the cinema.
Watching her 2019 films back to back — an anti-trilogy of performances as precise as they are irreconcilable — is a disorienting experience.
It would see a disorienting game of rhetorical appropriation, in which it is constantly unclear who stands for which principles and why.
The rest of the book describes one long, disorienting nightmare, a national descent into labor camps and torture chambers and martial law.
So much of late-night television these days is about making sense of what can sometimes feel like a disorienting political reality.
Desierto de la Tatacoa, in southwest Colombia, is a disorienting badland of prickly pear cactuses and wild goats, trenches, crags and bluffs.
Before his debut album, Blake had made a reputation as a club D.J. playing and producing fractured, aggressively disorienting British dubstep tracks.
The writer-actress behind the wild, disorienting comedy of "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" is bringing her sneak-attack humor to New York.
For Rohingya women, who rarely left their rural homes because of religious traditions, the density of the refugee camps can be disorienting.
For me, hearing her talk openly about having written a suicide note and preparing to end things — that was disorienting and scary.
Sedaris also does some top-flight work with the video component, no-nosing Jones for a few shots, among other disorienting effects.
Clinton, who unsparingly details two surreal years of campaigning and the first disorienting months that came next in a new memoir, What Happened.
In our era of idées fixes it's almost disorienting to read an opinion that's held lightly, so lightly it's presented expressly for overhaul.
It is probably disorienting to walk around with one headlight out, considering that a pair of antlers can weigh up to 40 pounds.
It's a flagrant violation of painting's essential flatness, a disorienting and funny take on what a straightforward collection of geometric shapes can do.
It's a disorienting, transportive experience that places the viewer in a role similar to that of the protagonist of a found-footage film.
More disorienting still, when her mother's friends come to take J. to live with them, she learns that, in fact, she was adopted.
And yet, disorienting and disturbing though that thought can be, as that Buddha statue hints, the present moment is all we really have.
Defined by Cheung's difficulty communicating with the cast and crew, the film is about disorientation, and it can be a bit disorienting itself.
Events have unfolded with such disorienting speed that it's difficult to find emotional equilibrium — giddy disbelief and nameless dread alternate and sometimes mix.
So is a sense that the anxieties of the late imperial period, years of disorienting change in politics and society, overlap with today's.
As authorities would come to discover, the Kennedy plane had crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in disorienting fog late on July 16, 1999.
According to people who have tried the prototypes, it feels variously "like seasickness" or "disorienting", so there's still some work to be done.
My wand (the controller) sometimes disappeared from view, and at one point the phone forgot which way I was pointed, immediately disorienting me.
Wagner says the battle scenes were intended to be intense, claustrophobic and disorienting -- like they would be in real life -- but not confusing.
After a few disorienting minutes of traveling through the wormhole, my ship materializes amid a cluster of other ships, mostly large-scale freighters.
Icke and Macmillan have conceived of a thrilling, disorienting production in which the audience is forced to depend on a relentlessly unreliable narrator.
And with Hannibal's Bryan Fuller as a co-creator, you can bet American Gods will have some unforgettable, inevitably disorienting visuals to boot.
It's significantly cooler than it sounds; there are mirrors everywhere, and the experience is almost disorienting when you're in the middle of it.
They take the ostensibly dark, disorienting environs of nightclubs and make them inviting, enveloping, coherent places for the world's weirdest and most unwelcome.
As a trans person in tech, seeing major companies take up the banner of transgender rights can feel bittersweet if not downright disorienting.
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"untitled 02," a woozy, disorienting thing with an on occasional unsettling piano and anxious saxophone, finds Kendrick three wholly distinct, equally masterful flows.
It's a lot more natural than the old note highway, even if it's still disorienting to not see your fingers on the frets.
They marvelled at their early, disorienting days under Kohan: she had everyone build ornate Lego models of prisons and go on extended hikes.
Framed by the perspective of man's encroaching senility, this production – directed by Doug Hughes – offers one of the most disorienting experiences in town.
Even the best plane-sleepers can have trouble feeling rested, and landing 22018 time zones away from the departure city can be disorienting.
Takahashi instructed him not to touch the bottom with his hands or fins because he might kick up a disorienting cloud of sand.
She said she was in a very "dark place" growing up, and it was disorienting that nobody knew what was happening to her.
Framed by the perspective of man's encroaching senility, this production — directed by Doug Hughes — offers one of the most disorienting experiences in town.
As a traveler, it was fascinating and disorienting — but even those who permanently live in Mirny struggle with the long hours of daylight.
He's made a habit out of chunking out disorienting and otherworldly electronic music at a pace that's pretty hard to keep up with.
Watching him romancing the cameras, and seeing him transformed into an army of simulcast selves, is one of this production's great, disorienting pleasures.
In the disorienting weeks and months after Jamie died, I'd go online to process my emotions, sharing how overwhelmed and alone I felt.
A bare-knuckled fist of a movie, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's "A Prayer Before Dawn" is grueling to watch and disorienting to listen to.
These shrewd juxtapositions save the collection from feeling jumbled or disorienting, as do the book's elegant design and its succinct yet informative captions.
But buy-and-hold investors often find this action disorienting, and it can chase them out of their holdings at the wrong time.
Browsing the wine aisle at a supermarket or convenience store can be disorienting for someone used to shopping at a fine wine retailer.
"Die a Legend" is delivered with cold emotional clarity, and the howls of sadness and vitriol on "AI YoungBoy 2" are almost disorienting.
To this end, she'd tried various disorienting strategies, such as standing perfectly still throughout a show, or opening it with a bloodcurdling scream.
Some were crying in fear as the blazes created a disorienting, thick black smoke and intense heat without a safe exit on campus.
No rule of physics or game design is sacred — even the horizon can flip this way and that, proving disorienting for many players.
It can be disorienting to feel like you're back at square one with a person (or sibling) you have a shared history with.
The effect is impressionistic, almost painterly, with each new shot a brush stroke that fills in the picture, but also a little disorienting.
Soldiers often carry other types of less-lethal grenades which can create disorienting noise and flashes, illumination, or intense heat for destroying equipment.
It's an adrenaline rush prickling with a disorienting eeriness, thanks to nose-diving sound effects and disembodied, girlish vocals that pop up sporadically.
Complicating this picture, however, is a large photo fragment that covers one of the tripod's legs, disorienting our sense of foreground and background.
Take both sides of the tape in one go and you're in for a disorienting affair unlike much else you'll hear this year.
Through their assertive and disorienting digital compositions, PussyKrew plays with gender in a way that challenges our preconceived notions of heteronormativity and the patriarchy.
As abrasive and disorienting as these tracks can be, the end goal for Amobi is to push past sheer revulsion and communicate revolutionary ideals.
An all-too-common narrative of gun violence and mass shootings whose ultimate reveal is heart-wrenching and disorienting — and that's precisely the point.
The views of diehard Trump supporters are unrepresentative, a fact that may prove more than usually disorienting for some of them on November 9th.
Seeing Gwen Stefani without her red lipstick, Zooey Deschanel without her bangs, or Cara Delevingne without her bold brows, can be a little disorienting.
They were all on a timer, and the whole intro was so disorienting that I flat-out didn't finish reading a few of them.
TikTok's rather disorienting lack of timestamps, non-chronological feed, and hidden comments section have mostly kept the app free of those first two miseries.
Though "Paradise Now" treats only five of them, it spans the entire disorienting period, with its maelstrom of awakenings and revivals, booms and busts.
What's been disorienting for the Republican intelligentsia is how their desires have run into seemingly intractable conflict with what most of their voters want.
So here's a guide to grief, courtesy of A Series of Unfortunate Events: After the Baudelaire's tragedy, the plot moves on with disorienting speed.
Her home, with its disorienting passageways and walled-off rooms, was said to have been purposely designed to outwit and escape these restless spirits.
For parts of the fall, she would return to New York, but being back in the city between stints at Standing Rock was disorienting.
"Play is super important to them and to me," Hess says; indeed, in ways both large and small, the home's design feels mischievously disorienting.
It's not the waiting that is destroying Hafiz Abdalla, although existing in the strange limbo between asylum seeker and German resident is constantly disorienting.
The show's disorienting first moments show Kaneisha, played with a hoarse drawl by Teyonah Parris, dressed in a slave's rags and sweeping the floor.
But fame of that nature, for a performer who had been plugging away at the margins for years, felt disorienting, and a little ephemeral.
Dr. Eugene Keller, who had treated Ms. Saldana at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, told The New York Times in 1984 that the filming was disorienting.
The distortions and arguments are disorienting and distressing, but the process helps Trump determine who can be co-opted to participate in his deceptions.
Berger's eye for absurdity, coupled with his disorienting editing techniques, coax out the uncomfortable ugliness beneath the surface of a host of smiling creeps.
The latest edition, which wrapped in early November, featured a number of digital arts exhibitions, ranging from disorienting audiovisual installations to conceptual photo series.
Good, because you'll be pleased to know that they've got a new video out for "Gender of My Animals" that is snappy and disorienting.
They're the beat that builds into a guttural, disorienting jackhammer at the end "I'm Afraid of Americans," confounding the state of things with emotion.
To emphasize its immersive and disorienting dimension, the main video is sountracked by a dual-channel piece created by new media artist Kurt Hentschager.
Yet the Facebook situation may be the clearest expression of what a transitional media environment actually feels like, and how disorienting it can be.
The audio-only form frees the story to play with disorienting notions of time, place and identity that might not be possible on film.
The emission of light on these disorienting structures is so low, it's almost as if Benjamin invented a never-before-experienced shade of indigo.
In "Simulacres," the Werktank founder D'Haeseleer creates a disorienting stream of flickering images that alternately synchronize with and stray from Vigroux's pulsating industrial rhythms.
At once dazzling and disorienting, this frenetic montage prompts us to pay more attention to the deluge of objects we've ushered into our lives.
Connections proliferate like reflections in a house of mirrors, fascinating and also vaguely queasy — the narrative is disorienting in every sense of the word.
Because this is a weighted photograph within a photograph, the discordant image enclosed versus the dominant image enclosing, it is disorienting and intensely memorable.
Beyond that, the game looks and plays smoothly, and there was never anything truly disorienting about the experience that wasn't clearly intended by design.
One of the goals of "Miss Americana" is to render Swift as human-scaled, which makes the imbalance of these encounters even more disorienting.
But for many of the cheerleaders at Navarro, cheer provides order where there was none, a path through what was a disorienting blank space.
It is a disorienting moment: one in which Democratic politics seem at once to have changed completely and to have not changed at all.
Earlier maps relied on straight lines, which riders found disorienting, according to studies conducted by a psychologist who helped the redesign effort, Arline Bronzaft.
If the camera followed the character like it normally would, the camera would turn upside-down with the character, which would be nauseatingly disorienting.
That YouTube is simultaneously one of the largest and most accessible hubs for children's entertainment is, for a parent, disorienting to say the least.
From the disorienting, 20-minute freeform concept of "Birch Polygon" to the distant, sax-led closer "A Tunnel," Tomorrow's Gift demands its listener's attention.
Living independently in a new environment can be a disorienting experience, especially if you've moved away from friends and family to an unfamiliar town.
If Mr. Trump has had a disorienting effect on the Republican primary campaign, his second-place finish in Iowa had a similar effect on him.
So yes, even the HyperSmooth-ed video is completely disorienting, but you can still clearly see the Hero7 handling the madness better than its ancestors.
I know most of these headphones and the music I tested them with very well, and at first, the feeling can be disorienting and otherworldly.
With Jupiter in Mercury-ruled Virgo, you possess the luck of finding small objects or vital information buried in obscure, chaotic, messy, or disorienting places.
It can sometimes be disorienting to look back at old photos of myself and know that person had no idea what was in their future.
Last week, as a paying customer, I tried an escape room experience that was perhaps one of the most disorienting VR titles I've ever tried.
A government in perpetual crisis, and anxiety about its possible demise, is still disorienting for people not immediately affected by a raid or executive order.
There's a distinctly digital quality to everything, and pass-through can get almost disorienting if you turn it on in a loud restaurant or bar.
Donnie Darko, a dark, disorienting science-fiction film about a plane crash, crawled into about 50 theaters in October 2001, with the country still reeling.
That sameness meant that my familiarity with American Christian Protestantism was an anchor in the midst of a disorienting transatlantic move when I was 21978.
But for Bryant, the visit to Word of Faith quickly became disorienting, she says in People Magazine Investigates: Cults, which airs tonight at 8 p.m.
"Wearing a full latex outfit and mask, your senses are constrained — it's difficult to speak, listen, walk, or do much, actually … it's disorienting," Handal explains.
The first few minutes of The Matrix (1999) are ominous and disorienting: a torrent of lime-green characters trickle down and then jam the frame.
It's the goggle-eyed swooning, the media's noisy, disorienting insistence on packaging, branding and marketing what was, in the end, a natural, altogether professional impulse.
Built on the push and pull between a characteristically heavy trap drop and a sparkling, weightlessly jazzy section, the track has a wonderfully disorienting effect.
It's a truly disorienting song, with hypercompressed percussive thuds crashing through the swell of ambience and almost breaking apart into nothing but harsh white noise.
The ICU experience is so profoundly disorienting, especially for patients, but also for family members and even, to some extent, the people providing the care.
The varying scale and medium of the work is disorienting, not to mention the pile of pillows and begging in the middle of the gallery.
No matter how good the tracker is, it's a little disorienting to grab something and get only a visual confirmation that you're actually holding it.
Chewing Gum also frames its views on race, class, and sexuality in a through-the-looking-glass way that might be disorienting for many viewers.
It's a bit disorienting to watch a media company stand trial for posting the type of content that began to feel somewhat regular and ubiquitous.
The group locates a link between vaporwave and gabber—with its adrenaline rush of quick kicks and garish, disorienting synths—in their shared "punk" origins.
You can dive in and experience the disorienting orbs of light and the gentle rattling sound they make, not to mention the new-balloon smell.
Emerging from the darkness of O'Neill's tragedy into the crisp sun of a fine Cape Cod day was disorienting, but in the best possible way.
For hundreds of Fox News employees gathered in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention, the abrupt resignation of Roger Ailes came as a disorienting shock.
Then Mr. Cardona and Jennifer Lacey adapt, in their own purposely disorienting postmodern fashion, what he has learned — at best, an approximation — into a show.
"Self-care in the age of Trump is very important," he said, explaining that the president incites "a level of chaos" that can be disorienting.
In one of my more disorienting mornings in recent memory, I woke up to the sound of crying and a flickering light hitting my face.
Jeff Stein (JS): [to Doug] I think the great thing you said earlier was how disorienting this was to you as a ten-year-old.
"We are taught to look at art in an almost disorienting and intimidating way, that art is about distinct styles and theoretical concerns," he added.
That the facts have emerged so quickly is disorienting, but it shouldn't blind us to the basic reality that the whole saga has played out.
Of course you don't need to be in that room of drummers to see his special, which is what makes watching it on Netflix disorienting.
In Rainbows in 2007 began with "15 Step," which put several different programmed beat patterns into a disorienting blender along with Phil Selway's live drums.
Perhaps the crowds would not have been so disorienting and all the craziness would have been easier to swallow had I arrived from somewhere different.
But the existing coaching situation is confusing to fans and disorienting to women's players, who have to change routines in the tournaments that matter most.
Partying in unrelenting daylight for 72 hours straight was a disorienting experience, one certainly not helped by the bountiful cases of Viking lager on hand.
While the juxtaposition of cute talking animals and excerpts from Colebourn's actual diary entries is disorienting, the overall result is a work of undeniable charm.
Coming up from underground is the most disorienting experience — I always pretend to know that I've picked the right way, but I'm just confidently guessing.
In their novels, the disorienting clash between Soviet gloom and American gaud is the source of dramatic tension, exploited for tragedy and, more often, comedy.
Listen: "Eye in the Wall" is a disorienting, mesmerizing nine-minute excursion from Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) and the choreographer Kate Wallich, writes our critic.
Listen: "Eye in the Wall" is a disorienting, mesmerizing nine-minute excursion from Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) and the choreographer Kate Wallich, our critic writes.
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Then I'm shocked that such a tired cliché has actually come to pass, and that it nonetheless feels so sharply disorienting, like an elaborate prank.
For the most part the site is intuitive, though a few too many holiday sale buttons on the home page made for a disorienting start.
Some, like the darker ones with all the colorful suspended lights, make you feel like an astronaut floating untethered through the disorienting vastness of space.
In all, the music industry and listener machinations made for one of the most disorienting, and often exhilarating, years of hit music in recent memory.
It can be a little disorienting for newcomers to be immersed in a virtual world without the ability to use their actual hands for things.
Opening up with a woozy and disorienting pitch-shifted vocal—now a hallmark of his catalog—"Gretel" unfolds into a dense and knotty slow-burner.
It literally feels like a nightmare, in the way people, recognizable landmarks, and fixed spaces all drop in and out, frequently lost in a disorienting muddle.
Embarking on a disorienting journey down a narrow, uneven pathway through dark cavernous spaces, you encounter a gigantic plant, robots, and ultimately a dystopic extraterrestrial world.
Its tracks are playful, multilayered and even a bit disorienting, with warm synth pads nestling up against spectral vocal samples, and delicate melodies swaddling rugged rhythms.
Karen had been the one to give me the skills to cope with what was coming next: The disorienting newness of yet another stage in life.
Instead, Loplop is the watcher, a conduit between the hapless artists, placed in a disorienting and indifferent environment, and the Surreal world they seek to project.
The awesomely disorienting routine most definitely has to be seen to be believed—and even then, we're not totally sure how she managed to do it.
Juxtaposing the action of a post-apocalyptic video game with the serenity of Bob Ross's green landscapes and pastel skies is more than a bit disorienting.
Although a headache is just one part of a migraine (there's also the disorienting visual aura, nausea, and vomiting), it's pretty brutal in and of itself.
Originally and still used as a sedative for people and animals, it's also a common party drug, since it can cause a euphoric if disorienting high.
They're reminiscent of both their whipped cream-topped namesake and an unrelated cupcake, which makes the fact that you can't eat them that much more disorienting.
In an email sent after he received the news of his son's death, Kelly wrote of the moment, "It was disorienting, almost debilitating," per the Post.
This is a disorienting and challenging experience—finding out that what you're meant to do with your life is different than what you feel like doing.
It was the end of a disorienting winter, with more tropical weather than snow flurries, and the weather had been tough on maple syrup producers everywhere.
They are made narrower still by pillars, homeless people and puzzled tourists, since these pathways do not typically show up on smartphones and can be disorienting.
The scene, photographed in lovely, woozy close-ups by Arnaud Potier, is disorienting and metaphoric, a microcosm of one culture mushrooming in the heart of another.
This vision, with which celebrated depressives such as Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe might have sympathized, is achieved through a thoroughly disorienting medley of means.
It has either wiped out their job or transformed their workplace in ways they find disorienting — or has put stressful demands on them for lifelong learning.
The poetic utterance adopts many of the strategies of contemporary postmodern poetry, disorienting the reader with jarring word combinations that distance language from its referential function.
"When we first moved in, it felt gigantic — it was so huge it felt disorienting," Mr. Huth said, adding that the feeling has gone away. Mostly.
There's a period of transition that's so disorienting that you're confused and horrified by it, you can't get a grip on it, but it does pass.
A combination of frenetic cutting, "Saving Private Ryan"-style hand-held camerawork and driving drum 'n' bass music amount to a disorienting facsimile of war's senselessness.
Dr. Niederhut had the patients take four or five doses over a month, making sure a friend or family member was present, given the disorienting effects.
Between the ghostly light, the flickering between timelines and the giant flocks of birds, the episode in its final minutes becomes — to say the least — disorienting.
Kids are resilient and adaptive, but there are few things more disorienting and lonely than leaving all you've known and arriving in a radically different society.
For anyone who has followed sports — or has written about it, as I have, over the course of several decades — it is shocking, if not disorienting.
The victory for the government of President Bashar al-Assad will open another violent, disorienting chapter in their lives, and a dangerous one for the opposition.
"Color trance" is a good way of describing Gangloff's work: In her portraits, contrasting neon hues — blue and orange, purple and yellow — intersect to disorienting effect.
By midsummer, during the high vacation and indictment season, we could see empty hallways in the West Wing and a disorienting incompetence shortage emanating from Washington.
Pop songs arranged orchestrally are always a bit disorienting at first, but by the time you get into it, you're sure to be supplying the vocals.
Passengers involved in the Brooklyn episode and those in the station at the time described the terrifying moment of impact and the disorienting scene that followed.
The stations are also built deeper underground than much of the existing system, evoking the feel of Washington's subway, with long (and sometimes disorienting) escalator banks.
Shopping there was experiential and disorienting, just as intense as in the Sharper Image across the hall, which still had a "Back to the Future" sheen.
How to Revive a Friendship It can be disorienting to feel you're back at square one with a person you already have a shared history with.
He was "held" to 26 in that fourth showdown, a disorienting 23-point annihilation in which Cleveland showed how unafraid they were of Thomas' supporting cast.
Most of us don't know how to watch most of these events in a basic sense, which is disorienting in a way that can still be fun.
Full VR mode is oddly a bit disorienting despite the fact that it's such an iconically basic blocky game, but there was something odd-feeling about it.
Saini Kallat's perversity is gentle, subtle, and transient, functioning in a different tenor from the erotic, polymorphous, and disorienting hybridity of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, for instance.
When she finally released the song, an anthem about picking up ones life after heartbreak, Grande admitted she was still finding her footing after the disorienting tragedy.
That's unusual and still a little disorienting to see on screen, even in 2018, when the majority of screen time and lead roles still go to men.
It tells us he didn't endorse Trump merely out of a sense of obligation to do the bare minimum on his party's behalf at a disorienting moment.
It seems like a small detail, but it was transformative; I had rented the home for nearly a year, and suddenly it was completely foreign and disorienting.
At a time when beloved destinations are closing at a disorienting pace, the survival of a symbol of Jewish culinary history comes as a relief to many.
Talking on the phone via Bluetooth can be disorienting because of the stereo sound, but 1More allows you to pick either ear as your "phone call" ear.
"The carpet is confusing everyone," says Verhoeven, gesturing to the gender-disorienting hot pink floor covering in the men's washrooms, and the royal blue in the women's.
When she finally released the song — an anthem about picking up ones life after heartbreak — Grande admitted she was still finding her footing after the disorienting tragedy.
If your circadian rhythm is thrown off, you might wake up in the middle of a cycle rather than after you've completed one, which will feel disorienting.
The somber "In the End" felt better suited to solo bedroom listening, and I would have found it disorienting to hear the track in a group setting.
Van Etten named one of her songs for the instrument, a hazy, anxious dirge about how disorienting it is to finally find the right person to love.
Yet the scenes from this Staples Center scuffle were especially disorienting — not so much because of the severity of the punches thrown but because of the calendar.
It begins with what seems a disorienting call to attention: thin, reedy chords, sometimes sustained and sometimes slippery, are played in high registers by woodwinds and percussion.
It has also highlighted how disorienting it can be to lose the gendered cues, like pronouns, names, appearance and mannerisms, that shape so much of social interaction.
Washing the screen in carmine and ink, he paints a brittle, self-consciously arty veneer that, matched with Flying Lotus's dreamily insistent score, creates disorienting sensory overload.
So we descend to the entrance, on Level 2, where an attendant takes us on a disorienting trip down a long hall, down (up?) a floor (two
Ever since Johnson received her disorienting DNA results, she wondered if her saliva sample might have been accidentally mislabeled or she had been sent someone else's results.
A different sort of bot — undercover but public-facing, highly political but comparatively primitive — was implicated in toxic and disorienting online conversations throughout the 2016 election cycle.
Rebecca Solnit's "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" — a collection of essays on becoming untethered, literally and metaphorically, in the natural world — is both disorienting and grounding.
Walmsley drew level with us, for a moment, before his hypnotic loping stride — metronomic and bounding, below a straight back — propelled him past in a disorienting flash.
Listen: "Eye in the Wall" is a throbbing, swirling, disorienting, mesmerizing nine-minute excursion from Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) and the choreographer Kate Wallich, our critic says.
While lidar technology is giving archaeologists new ways to analyze the ancient world, the change in perspective has been shocking and a little disorienting for some researchers.
The supernatural results are disorienting and dazzling, but Link's characters are so familiar and human — even when they are not — that it's easy to fall in love.
To members of the media, this is disorienting, bizarre and crazy-making; through Twitter, the arrival of new statements from the president becomes an event unto itself.
But it reflects an unprecedented uncertainty: There is a disorienting kernel of doubt about whether we can fully trust the man who will occupy the Oval Office.
Fired from launchers or thrown by hand, the grenades detonate on impact or soon after, creating an explosion that is supposed to be disorienting but not wounding.
Yet when I say that I have lost the America I knew, I'm not talking about policy, or even fundamental rights, disorienting as their loss would be.
The patient's statements and behavior simply don't add up, and the flurry of dissociated statements and actions can quickly begin to produce something like a disorienting fog.
No matter who you are or where you come from, everyone can relate to the absolutely terrifying, disorienting and sometimes absurd experiences that come with getting older.
While it is strange and disorienting to hear the song sung by rugby fans at a match, I say, if it gives them joy, let them sing.
The rotation was faster than I thought it would be — a 360-degree turn per hour — resulting in a slightly disorienting feeling that went well with alcohol.
There was an odd and disorienting friction to our informal hangout, suddenly set against the backdrop of the well-lit gallery, but Moyer seemed perfectly at ease.
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I think that that has been the most disorienting thing is that, almost in both directions, like the way people weigh in on what I say and what I do, from thinking of me as like an entity is really, really disorienting, and it's just something that I don't have ... There's nothing who can tell you like, "Here's what it's like," when you're disembodied from your true self for public consumption.
" In fact, she says, "it can be even more confusing and disorienting because it does not fit into the traditional social script of what qualifies as sexual assault.
The effect is also disorienting: there is no center, no "event," nothing to see (on the contrary, the viewer is rendered partially blind), and there is no narrative.
While, sans tracklist, you might not necessarily learn any of the history lessons they intend, there's few releases that do a better job of conveying acid's disorienting effects.
After all, I had managed to make it through being separated from others, the total darkness punctuated by disorienting strobe lights, crawling about, and the various jolting scares.
Think about this too hard and it quickly becomes disorienting, in the same way that words lose their meaning if you focus too closely on how they sound.
Where one side of band found beauty in subtlety, quietude, and patience, the other side saw blinding blasts of noise that are as disorienting as they are mesmerizing.
But there's a new descriptive phrase for our present condition, which is disorienting for those of us who live in societies which do have a substantial democratic history.
Maybe it's because he produced work that mattered to me, or that his personality was so big, but the thought of him no longer physically existing is disorienting.
We've tried VR versions of Minecraft on both the Rift and the Gear VR, and our impressions have varied — some of us love it, others find it disorienting.
There's something disorienting about that; we've taught ourselves to equate precision cutting and passing with basketball excellence, which casts Durant's postseason bombing runs as something of a rebuttal.
When you have your short-term sights set on a job you are interviewing for, it can be disorienting to be asked about your vision for the future.
This is definitely the funnest part of our MUNCHIES Guide to Boston, and crucial to have on hand, because a bar crawl in Boston can easily get disorienting.
Tracks like club banger "Hot Shower" evoke Valee's flow on "Womp Womp" too closely while the title track features a disorienting profanity-laced breakdown that doesn't quite land.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, and in light of our current president, it can be disorienting to remember that this other type of man also exists.
Stores were overwhelmed with long lines of customers waiting just to enter what would be a disorienting space of packed aisles, backed-up checkout lanes and weary employees.
We may have traded 221s-level poverty and hunger for a resurgence in racism, sexism and environmental cataclysm, but our problems are no less serious — or spiritually disorienting.
Kawi, now two months old, can be disorienting in its own way, but at least you can have a seat and a drink while you get your bearings.
Otherwise, this deliberately disorienting "1984" would seem to be trafficking in the same kind of titillating violence with which Big Brother keeps his populace both cowed and entertained.
Magar, who recently directed "Underground Railroad Game," another disorienting treatment of slavery in the black and white imagination, manages to find the sweet spot between shallowness and overthink.
It's disorienting and strange, but it helps to convey the feelings of the protagonist — suddenly in over her head, not entirely sure of how things got this way.
The filmmaker Garth Davis tried a few disorienting techniques with his actor Sunny Pawar in this scene from the movie "Lion," which was nominated for six Academy Awards.
But as far as I'm concerned, this biographical treatment of Salvador Dalí's sister Anna Maria is one of the most peculiarly disorienting movies I've seen in some time.
But even though the techniques are immersive — plunging you into a disorienting reality that mirrors the drug-fueled frenzy you are witnessing — the effect is also curiously distancing.
Maniac presents loneliness as the most fundamental of human problems and uses the disorienting and fantastic to deliver a clear message about a simple solution: it's easier with friends.
Years prior, Nobari had undergone chemotherapy for an aggressive form of lymphoma, and he had since been experiencing intense, disorienting waves of "chemo-brain" that derailed school and work.
Receiving a follow in return is sometimes disorienting because it can feel a bit like imposter syndrome: are they really interested in seeing the useless treasures of my life?
It's largely built around the same toolkit that Sutton's developed over the past several years, building busy vocal samples, airy synthesizers, and stuttering drums into a disorienting mood piece.
Carr shared his story until his death in 2013, but memories can be tricky, especially decades removed from a nighttime drive through the disorienting, windy mountain roads of Appalachia.
The new addition zooms in on an object while the drone flies in the opposite direction, creating a disorienting shot familiar to anyone who's ever seen a Hitchcock film.
The chapters often toggle between moments of heightened drama and past scenes of Molly at work, which is a nicely disorienting way to build tension while delivering expository details.
Conversation with her generally moves between excitable anecdotes and slow, thoughtful—and notably, very heady—exegesis on metaphysics, which is how results in disorienting moments the one that follows.
It bounces between sounds in an almost disorienting way, a pointed way of avoiding the sort of pandering pop that sometimes follows a consensus-building behemoth like Modern Vampires.
He blamed the late hour and the heavy dust for "disorienting" the pilot, but he said he did not think there had been any "recklessness" by the helicopters' crew.
What's more, many important glaciers are in politically unstable regions and the extreme, disorienting conditions at high altitude make it difficult to even measure one glaciated area, he explained.
It's a disorienting experience, which is aided by the production production which makes the guitars feel like they're trying to burrow in (or maybe out?) of your tympanic membranes.
It's a deeply sad moment, and Zootopia directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore turn it into something out of an emotional horror film, all disorienting close-ups and shadows.
Whether Wick is dispatching baddies with balletic grace or trapped in a disorienting, hall-of-mirrors gallery space, we're always meant to be awestruck by the film's visual grandeur.
This bifurcation, as Clark called the split between her public life as an artist and the new one as a tabloid cartoon, was disorienting to her, and even sad.
The game's shift upwards from a details-obsessed walking simulator to rebuilding the infrastructure of society is disorienting at first, but soon I couldn't imagine the game without it.
In the voluptuously disorienting music she has been releasing since 2012, love has been pleasure and pain, sacrifice and self-realization, strife and comfort, public performance and private revelation.
Not surprisingly, the sculpture is attracting throngs of passers-by, who detour into the museum, slowly walk the sculpture's strangely disorienting path, and then briskly continue on their way.
Sunlight comes through a glass pyramid over the lobby, but there are very few windows, which makes roaming through the complex disorienting, like spending all day inside a casino.
So did we, first to Iquitos, then to a four-star hotel in Colombia, and finally, armed with our newfound survival skills, into the disorienting wilderness of married life.
There's something disorienting — and exhilarating — about the mixing of fiction and nonfiction, performance and "reality" (though of course, you can argue that everyone who appears on camera is performing).
Aviation crews admit that experiencing turbulence can be frightening and disorienting, even sometimes for them as well, but they emphasize that planes are designed and manufactured to weather it.
The gap between her reality and real reality is so vast that our conversations have become disorienting drives through the English language, with the road eventually disappearing behind us.
If you're a current Lightroom CC user, then moving to the new Lightroom (which can automatically import your existing libraries when you install it) will feel a bit disorienting.
At least as disorienting, he said, was the return of Anthony D. Weiner to his television — a turn that seemed to confirm everything already so odd about this election.
"Saving Private Ryan" exposed a mass audience to war as a disorienting assault, where you can never get your bearings or know where the next bullet is coming from.
The adjusted to fit abstractions lay bare the classical elegance undergirding Lawler's compositions, accentuating the importance of horizontal and vertical alignments and the disorienting effects of diagonals and curves.
The disorienting nature of Trump's presidency has already managed to obscure what should be an obvious fact: Viewed from the broad sweep of history, Donald Trump is the resistance.
But from within the disorienting, incomparable quasi-quarantine where you can practically feel your mind carving the memories up already, there's no intellectual distance or fluid act of comparison.
But there is something disorienting about seeing Obama look so genuinely blissful, cavorting around the world with celebrities and billionaires, while so many others freak out about his successor.
The verdant, V-shaped tableau, as absorbing as it is disorienting in this metropolitan context, evokes the fantasy of being a parched desert traveler stumbling across a fecund oasis.
In a map room, one of many small chambers scattered through a pleasingly disorienting environment, they may be handed a compass and instructed to consider the geography of desire.
"Since Trump took office, his pledge to ignore his own interests has been almost forgotten, lost in a disorienting hurricane of endless news," New York magazine's Jonathan Chait writes.
The holes and debris left behind after protesters dig up sidewalk bricks and scatter them across roads to disrupt traffic render pathways disorienting for people with a visual impairment.
The effect is disorienting, especially since the mirror interrupts the center of her figure with pattern, and her left breast is replicated to create an anatomically improbable right breast.
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Those images were beamed down to the Google Maps team who stitched them all together to create this virtual tour you can take without the disorienting effects of zero gravity.
"Oracle" is disorienting and vaguely portentous; you feel submerged, possibly in the bowels of a slave ship, or trapped in a dystopian nightmare where nature has begun dismantling the structure.
VR is a visually overwhelming, disorienting experience under the best conditions, and VRChat users can create their own environments and avatars, so you never know what you're going to see.
The extra viewing angles were especially important because high-level Fortnite play can be disorienting, with players rapidly destroying and rebuilding the world around them to better suit their needs.
Seeing a tweet in the wild for the first time is like seeing someone act out a diary entry for a public audience: disorienting and maybe even a little embarrassing.
I can't pinpoint the cause — there's mention of a cave, but I'm not sure if that's it — but crew members talk about seeing disorienting geometric patterns burned into the sky.
I don't even know if Black Panther will get the Oscar nod it deserves, so its soundtrack showing up in the running for music's highest honor is a little disorienting.
The exteriors were shot in MunichRematching the film, it's a little disorienting that this very Old European-style village seems to be populated by British and American children and adult.
Just say "no" to pesticides Pesticides can have disastrous effects for the bees, from simply disorienting them so they can't get back to the hive to killing them on contact.
"Illuminating helicopters with lasers at night is dangerous as it creates a navigational hazard that can impair vision and can be disorienting to pilots using night vision goggles," Urban said.
Last night, the couple had planned a seemingly romantic nighttime bath — complete with a tub the size of a New York City kitchen and flashes of (potentially disorienting) green lights.
"Soft Scene" is a tantalizing appetizer to Pussy's Dead as it rides a bass-and-programmed-drums groove that would make Radiohead drool into five minutes of disorienting, creepy bliss.
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But Bowien's cooking is more fluid and disorienting than the rest, lacking the British working class core of Bloomfield's food or the locavorism of Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson (season three).
The director, Hans Petter Moland, brings flashes of "Fargo" and Quentin Tarantino to the telling, with disorienting camera angles and cryptic characters who say little and often don't last long.
Vine-by-Vine, the animations seem like weird blips in your daily media consumption; but one month's worth of these in one place is truly disorienting: many even resist words.
A lot of it's the disorienting sound-collages and twisted noise for which the musician best known as DJ Sprinkles is most acclaimed, but there's also stranger things collected here.
But when you are me, ten or so drinks in, right after a Tarantino flick in a gay bar inspired an uncharacteristic feminist rage in you, it is extremely disorienting.
Many wondered aloud on Friday whether Mr. Trump's erratic late-night behavior is the result of disorienting insomnia, since he regularly boasts of needing only a few hours of sleep.
Airbrushed men and women in advertising-style tableaux, balanced against exposed black matting in black frames, feel curiously weightless, while a low glass table with sharp corners is positively disorienting.
The look of the area reminded her of a horror or science fiction film she'd seen, but the ferocity of the fire was so disorienting she couldn't remember its title.
Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — It is very disorienting when those who are supposed to be our highest moral exemplars have no morals — not even of the alley-cat variety.
But the perfumes from her new collection, Henry Rose, range from the delightfully disorienting (like a Jeff Koons balloon dog) to the unsettling, like a Spielbergian poltergeist-filled TV screen.
The set is a deceptively simple trio of unfinished concrete buildings with labyrinthine colonnades and staircases out of Piranesi, but also the disorienting forced perspective of Borromini and de Chirico.
Few fixtures, in recent history, have been quite so disorienting for fans as the second Manchester derby of the season; few games have inspired such shifting loyalties or unfamiliar motivations.
The numbering system evokes the runaway sequencing of a computer virus while the composition takes on the homeyness of a warm, quilted blanket, a disorienting sensation to say the least.
"Mollusca & the Pelvic Floor" (21970), a colorful and spasmodically disorienting 218-D video installation that you watch with specially programmed glasses, spins the slippage out into vertical layers of images.
That's disorienting for everybody because they're reacting to loss, but it's not like there's some winner on the other side who can just sort of move forward with the agenda.
Most disorienting was the ineffectiveness of the Capitals' top line, headlined by Ovechkin and the resplendent center Evgeny Kuznetsov, which had combined for 22 points in 238 games these playoffs.
If you're looking to be pulled every which way by an ever-evolving and consistently disorienting narrative, Dispatches from Elsewhere is the mind-bending scavenger hunt you've been looking for.
It's just that after years of information trickling out in dribs and drabs on "Game of Thrones," this season's weekly avalanches of answers can feel overwhelming and a bit disorienting.
"Terms like 'alien' and 'illegal,' which I grew up hearing on the radio and TV and reading in newspapers and magazines, had an isolating, disorienting, dehumanizing effect," Mr. Vargas said.
I walked back to the abstraction classroom and there had a disorienting, time's-accordion sensation that the instructor, an affable middle-aged man, looked familiar, though I couldn't say why.
She darts through the story, weaving contradiction, disorienting the reader, lying sometimes, to herself, to her parents, to a subsequent much more upstanding college professor, and yet also not lying.
Mostly, though, the instrument engages the vocal lines, shifting from moments of folkloric melody to passages of disorienting sonorities, or to stretches that become obsessed with a strange repeated riff.
"The depiction of Atticus in 'Watchman' makes for disturbing reading, and for 'Mockingbird' fans, it's especially disorienting," Michiko Kakutani wrote in a review of the book in The New York Times.
It's a clattering, disorienting scene of people hawking goods, offering rides, asking questions -- a flow of humanity in all directions, all happening right at the border crossing, which continues to function.
The recording is mildly disorienting but gratifying as it encircles visitors — I only wish it was given a single large room, like the Tanks galleries at the Tate Modern in London.
It's an interesting point of connection, and one might also imagine that deaf actors (and viewers) could identify intuitively with the principal characters' disorienting sense of alienation from the dominant culture.
Seeing Cory's distinctly unprofessional (though lovable) older brother Eric (Friedle) in a suit was disorienting enough — even before noticing Mayer's unexpected cameo in the background (he was one of Karp's groomsmen).
His bat wags and his front foot taps in tempo, his bat comes through with a disorienting lack of hurry, and his follow-through tells you where the ball will go.
Depending on how you play, it can be painfully difficult, but it's the apex of Dishonored level design — a piece of interlocking architecture just disorienting enough that mastering it feels meaningful.
In contrast to the austere rust and steel canvases, these layered works respond to mass-produced excess with jarring optimism by recycling and repurposing discarded metal toward disorienting and ebullient ends.
It's disorienting at times, but Saterstrom calmly guides you through the book's internal logic and magic; even if an essay falls short of its aims, you're acutely aware of those aims.
It's still disorienting to grab at something you can't feel As we found out nearly three years ago, though, Leap Motion has a huge inherent weakness: the lack of tactile feedback.
While it's true the camera allows you to navigate while wearing the headset, the view was still somewhat distorted and seeing the screens from three other headsets simultaneously was extremely disorienting.
It was just indelible, and I think there's moments in visual art that are also like that; moments that can be incredibly subtle and delicate but also strong and and disorienting.
It's a little disorienting to hear a studio audience, a broadcast TV staple, laughing at punch lines that include a strong obscenity, or to catch a flash of Colt's bare backside.
Still, patients suffering from toxoplasmosis say that the process to get the drug for free is too complicated for those battling a disorienting illness that disproportionately affects the homeless and indigent.
If you've been a Radio Motherboard listener, you know that the themes in Mr. Robot, USA's moody, disorienting hacker drama, track closely with the infosec news we cover here every day.
In this short, disorienting verse and the little Auto-Tuned yelps that ride the rest of the song out are the roots of the Young Thugs and Lil Yachtys to come.
Although She Gone Rogue can be a disorienting watch, it reflects the winding path of self-identification, creating a multiverse instead of a single universe for the complex narratives of queerness.
Often chaotic but never disorienting, the movie's spirited set pieces — like a wriggling ribbon of undead clinging doggedly to the last compartment — owe much to Lee Hyung-deok's wonderfully agile cinematography.
Knowing what I do now about how disorienting and confusing this part of the train experience was for me and other travelers I spoke with, I would definitely recommend planning ahead.
In this particular room of the gallery, the high ceiling, bright lights, and white walls are a disappointing contrast to the warm, disorienting low light seen in the other exhibition rooms.
If there was a disorienting note, it was the fake snow that drifted down from the rafters, insidiously clinging to clothes and shoes and hair and, one hoped, not one's lungs.
This year, I reported from the subarctic village, where, crossing sea ice by snowmobile with a hunter, I learned about this majestic, unforgiving landscape, which is changing at a disorienting rate.
And it must be vindicating and also somewhat disorienting for a figure like Lee, a man who hasn't changed one bit but whom the wider culture has increasingly come to resemble.
I found that getting the hang of the tablet, its various scanning features, and maneuvering the world using the arm-swinging motion felt disorienting at first, as most VR experiences do.
Trump is a propagator of mayhem at the head of a TV- and Twitter-driven movement whose goal is to circumvent democratic institutions through the exercise of hypnotic and disorienting power.
Shirley is a thoroughly engrossing, sometimes disorienting tale that plays out like a mystery, the kind where you're never quite sure where reality ends and delusion (or maybe the truth) begins.
Working in a faded-tapestry palette of mostly black, dark brown and white tinted with green, rose and yellow, he energized his images with disorienting shifts in scale, perspective and form.
There was the occasional glimpse of a creature in the woods, a blurry photo of a sprintarrow speeding past, the disorienting shadows of what may have been a gloomfang creeping by.
The disorienting visuals are also right up DSTRY's well-established brand of meaningful murk (disclosure: former VICE Canada employee Jake Kivanç co-directed the video along with technical direction by Limmidy).
As Dietz experiences disorienting jumps back and forth in time, she learns that the key to her entire predicament comes down to taking control of her situation in order to save everyone.
With no set path to follow and, most disorienting of all, no captions accompanying her designs, visitors don't receive the sense of time, place, and context cultural institutions are expected to give.
"She also mused about going to Cardiff, drinking some whiskey, and whether she could possibly become prime minister while she's there, which she admits "WUD BE A VERY DISORIENTING TURN OF EVENTS.
In this excerpt from Darcey Steinke's Flash Count Diary, Steinke explains that she's experienced menopause as a kind of "ungendering" — and lays out what comes with that: It's disorienting, thrilling, and freeing.
Like "Everybody", this play also has a disorienting beginning, with an unnamed man in a wheelchair (a captivating Michael Emerson) stumbling through an awkward and often humorous monologue to an unknown audience.
Where to watch it: Amazon Prime Writer-director-producer Sam Esmail used his cyber-thriller Mr. Robot to help change the look of television, disorienting viewers with off-kilter compositions and lighting.
You feel as though you're pleasantly outside yourself—not enough to be alarming or disorienting, but enough to make you feel alienated from your sense of shame and trepidation at being alive.
Though manatees do migrate, wind and sea changes from Hurricane Irma may have sent him further from his home than he'd planned over the course of eight to 12 long, disorienting weeks.
A few months later, the call did come with the introduction: "You're on speaker with the writers' room ..." which is a surprisingly disorienting phrase when your day job is not in Hollywood.
Bowie and Beck collaborated on a trippy version of "Diamond Dogs," transforming it from the rollicking 1974 dance track to a disorienting, alien song for the chaotic floor of the Moulin Rouge.
But my demo experience felt strangely laggy — it wasn't enough to make me sick, but it was slightly disorienting, and it belied the promise that StarVR is virtual reality at its best.
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.
It was a little disorienting to see the outline of my nipples through my dress, to see them resting a little bit lower than they were when I had the bra on.
In its first season, "End," written by Charlie Covell based on Charles Forsman's graphic novel, was exactly the type of show — unpredictable, sardonic, disorienting — that didn't call out for a neat resolution.
The big display of an iPad creates an eye-popping experience that can be disorienting at first: You find yourself twisting your head left and right when speeding around freakishly tight bends.
America has long been a country of hate and prejudice, of war and belligerence, but the last week was the latest evidence that there is something new and disorienting and dangerous afoot.
Ms. Minter's images possess a disorienting doubleness that forces you to examine them with extra care; they put you on intimate terms with the motif, the painted surface and your own suggestibility.
While the troops involved in the raid were wearing body cameras, that footage was not relayed to the Situation Room in real time, as it contains disturbing images and can be disorienting.
Mr. McQueen's "End Credits" circles back to the spatial austerity and the aural immersion in political reality of Ms. Fraser's opener, "Down the River," but it is more powerfully disorienting and scathing.
Between the freneticism of her songs, the elaborate light show behind her, and the sheer volume of both the music and the crowd's cheers combined, the show was an overwhelming, disorienting experience.
Less windy than windblown, it is a film full of jarring shifts, disorienting angles, and sudden jumps to close-up — an expressionist style that let Welles accommodate all manner of mismatched footage.
But for some longtime drinkers, including many among the 11,000 who gathered in Chippewa Falls for the anniversary party, watching trendy shandies eclipse the workingman's beers their grandparents once enjoyed is disorienting.
Yet in the latest revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," written in 1978 and now on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, the director, Jamie Lloyd, declines this opportunity, to disorienting effect.
Every drop is disorienting, but eventually Dietz understands that she's experiencing the war out of order, jumping back and forth within her own experience of it every time she's turned into light.
"Nothing else on TV (including Netflix, Amazon and Hulu) has a surface texture as disorienting and attention-grabbing," Mike Hale wrote in his review of the season for The New York Times.
The richly colored, soft-edged abstractions can be woozy and disorienting, as in "Raining Down South" (1968), a predominantly pink painting with cloudy, gray underdrawings that could be South America or Africa.
But he found that laparoscopic equipment was disorienting to use—among other problems, depending on the position of the probe inside the body, the image that the surgeon sees can be backward.
It's disorienting for a young colored girl to see her father, say, reduced to the world's small vision of him, especially when he looms so large in her own life and imagination.
And though his lateral mobility remains limited compared to his competitors, his forehand is huge and his serve-and-volley style is even more unusual and disorienting in this baseline-focused era.
And I remember something that happened that night, something that raised an equally disorienting set of questions about ethics, not aesthetics, that I'd like to try to unpack now, after all these years.
In "Red States, Blue States" (2017), inspired by the recent election, a medieval map of the world places Rome at the center, encircled by Europe and the Middle East, in a disorienting manner.
Friday's events offer a microcosm of the disorienting speed of change inside the Republican Party in the age of Trump, as emboldened extremist groups take traditional Republican and American political institutions by storm.
Field of view has been a big issue for past Leap Motion systems; it's very disorienting to accidentally move your hands out of the sensor's range and see it lose track of them.
We all know the disorienting feeling of realizing we've lost a memory—forgetting your best friend's birthday party from ten years ago, or the road trip you took to Florida as a kid.
My perpetual dragging also made for a disorienting series of pats and gestures from my teacher as I spun and crashed, and I was rarely sure what I was supposed to be doing.
"It's been a little bit disorienting and a little bit overwhelming to go from healing and grieving to be right into the busiest I've really ever been," she says about her hectic schedule.
When they first arrived on the scene, movies must have had the same thrilling and disorienting visual jolt that anyone who experiences virtual reality now receives the moment they strap on a headset.
No Joy, "A Thorn in Garland's Side" Montreal quartet No Joy makes rowdy, noisy shoegaze, and "A Thorn in Garland's Side" — cut from their upcoming EP Drool Sucker — is typically messy and disorienting.
With uncomfortably intense closeups, disorienting angles, harsh contrasts, and abrupt editing, along with dream imagery and fantasy sequences, he evokes his prime subject: the inner life, and, above all, his own turbulent visions.
The amount of intense listening Camille does in Sharp Objects is overshadowed by the amount of blurry, disorienting remembering she does, which is again overshadowed by the amount of talking other people do.
It is at once intimate and awkward; he is aware of how disorienting it is for people to be meeting the president of the United States at the worst moment of their lives.
Colors are rich and deep (the gorgeous wide-screen cinematography is by Luis Armando Arteaga), and the atmosphere is so tranquil that the whoosh of action in the final third is powerfully disorienting.
It has a disorienting effect as you first walk through the colorful maze of bazaars, trying to discover its borders, to eventually return to your starting point without having made a single turn.
Directed by stop-motion artist Hayley Morris, it's as intricate and engrossing as the track itself, shifting from image to image—a hand, a deer, the nervous system—without ever disorienting the viewer.
She explains that her husband has sloppier movements and doesn't notice her body language cues after initiating sleep sex, while she finds the experience of waking up mid-sex somewhat confusing and disorienting.
Not to mention, the very celebration of their wokeness must be wildly disorienting: How confusing would it be to have everyone congratulating you just for being an empathetic human being all the time?
Though Guitar Dream isn't as experimental (and definitely not as disorienting) as his previous solo efforts, Vassalotti's songwriting is as strong as you might expect from the prolific architect of Merchandise's gritty shoegaze.
On the trip, I experienced a total of four different time zones, and while I thoroughly enjoyed the journey, these time zone changes were way more disorienting than I could have ever expected.
Most of the stories take place in prosaic settings — shopping malls, theme parks, hospitals, suburban neighborhoods, college campus libraries — but Mr. Adjei-Brenyah renders prosaic scenarios unfamiliar by adding a surreal, disorienting twist.
In the first movement we're walking at a leisurely pace down these very gradual stairs and encountering these familiar yet weirdly stylized objects that are placed very regularly but are also totally disorienting.
Being back in the Waterford house as everyone insists with a placid smile that they're just so happy to have her back after she was "kidnapped" is as disorienting as it is infuriating.
It's not just that the footage is often grainy, and that in older broadcasts the absence of modern staples like the on-screen score, time clock, and yellow first-down line are disorienting.
In most cases, they seem to have gone through a very disorienting time in which they are forced to pick cotton and also do all the other operations of a slave labor camp.
WESLEY MORRIS Phoebe Waller-Bridge's television comedy is so disorienting you almost feel compelled to see it in person — to try to inspect its seams and figure out how it all fits together.
It's psychologically disorienting to suddenly go from narrow confines in which every aspect of your life is controlled back to an expansive landscape, free will, gravity and all the offerings of modern life.
In this coproduction by Deutsches Theater Berlin and Malmö Stadsteater, the concave reflective metallic set piece and the water-covered stage rendered dazzling, disorienting images, warping and multiplying the actors and their actions.
The inflexibility of the law, at least temporarily, is what feels so disorienting and soul-corroding — it robs us of the opportunity to connect that is implicit in the notion of personal space.
One of this week's best sequences, for example, works in large part because of its disorienting low-angle shots and André Holland's unnerved facial expressions, not merely because of what we don't know.
Parenting Memoirs by Grown-Ups You asked for novels, but you could start with two novelists' memoirs whose episodic styles are ideally structured to spell you in the early, disorienting days of motherhood.
Nearby, mirrored sculptures from his "Déplacements" series produce disorienting optical illusions as a viewer moves around them, while the projected-light installations in yet another room create disco-ball effects of shifting color.
The Peruvian-born photographer Cecilia Paredes, most notably, and the Trinidadian artist Marlon Griffith, who started out as a Carnival designer, make alluring, disorienting color photos of patterns painted directly on the skin.
The swings in time, admittedly, can be a tad disorienting at first, but they provide a narrative spine that brings additional resonance to a story that most people likely think they already know.
Rushmore is a ubiquitous American image, tattooed on the inside of every citizen's eyelids, so it felt disorienting to see it in three-dimensional space, pinned to this particular spot on the earth.
And that is why it all felt so delicious to the city's residents, who had become accustomed to a disorienting pace of bad news — one attack after another, one political crisis after another.
The Moonlight, VICE, and If Beale Street Could Talk composer made an endlessly listenable but eerie 90-second piano jam that mixes hip-hop beats with disorienting blasts of noise, strings, and electronics.
Telltale's The Walking Dead was so unexpected and disorienting on its debut that it was easy to identify with Lee Everett's escalating anxiety over the course of its opening car ride to prison.
The New York theater is obligingly presenting a host of deliberately disorienting productions from an international array of artists this month, in works designed to rearrange your mind and shake up your senses.
"Spray" is a sonic dialectic, first taught and disorienting, then slow and woozy, before Suzuki comes in around the 6:30 mark and somehow turns the thing into a prom song on Mars.
Although these contemporary photographers trade in Ottinger's brash alternate world-making for softness, their work is still steeped in the disorienting light-headedness of feeling like an outsider, fighting to live your own truth.
Where Drake makes that formula a feel-good success story, Kanye makes it a bombastic clash of supernatural forces, and Eminem makes it a dizzying and disorienting exorcism, Wayne just makes it a playground.
Wind Gap's biggest mistakes lies in underestimating girls like Amma (Eliza Scanlen) We're given glimpses into Camille and Marian's childhood through disorienting jump cuts to her wordless memories, a characteristic of Vallée's visual style.
Clive Thompson, a noted tech writer who's long focused on how gadgets and social networks impact the way we think, agrees: the influx of information from social media can be intellectually and emotionally disorienting.
While the Berkshire Museum still is committed to local arts — Piazza raved about a recent retrospective of work by Berkshire-based artist Morgan Bulkeley — a trip to the tumble-down building can be disorienting.
What's disorienting about this Burger King commercial is that it seems to abandon any hint of aspirational branding: It never once suggests that Burger King will improve these people's crappy lives in any way.
These are disorienting — and some say depressing — times for the country's diplomatic corps, which was already wilting after a year of Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson's leadership style and a lackluster department reorganization.
I tried to grow accustomed, day by disorienting day, to reading and typing with a thick, dappled fog across the right half of my field of vision, which was sometimes tilted and off-kilter.
"Revival" is probably the best of his recent albums, but like much of his post-peak output, it is a mix of the entrancing and the mystifying, full of impressive rapping that's also disorienting.
It was the Capitals' fourth consecutive victory in the finals after a disorienting 6-4 loss in the opener that made little sense in the context of how they played immediately before and afterward.
" It's "not an easy comedy to get the hang of," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, "until you realize that it's as much about emotional disorientation as it is disorienting in itself.
The blazes have forced evacuations and prompted the governor of Washington to declare a state of emergency; the skies have turned a disorienting color of brownish-orange, and the air smells of burned wood.
Her last novel, ''The Woman Upstairs'' (2013), opens with a soliloquy of rage declaimed by a middle-aged teacher named Nora who develops a friendship with an artist that turns into a disorienting obsession.
But seen in person, Hockney's experimentation with depth of field is surprisingly disorienting, as though you are drunk and keeping one eye closed to get your key into the lock of your front door.
The oscillating viewpoints (including an early focus on the hospital nurse, who turns out to be less important than this implies) can be disorienting, especially when accompanied by unexplained shifts in time and place.
Wells is an unassuming man who has become used to causing a stir, and this can be disorienting: it's odd to hear him wonder, not unreasonably, if restaurants ever think of bugging his table.
Vividly evoking the impotence of imminent motherhood (punched up by the 1970 hit "Vehicle" on the soundtrack and the disorienting tipsiness of Ryan Eddleston's camera angles), Ms. Lowe makes Ruth a deeply conflicted avenger.
And in the final disorienting weeks of the campaign, Mr. Pence came to be a reassuring presence to conservative voters and to Republican officials who were not quite sure whether to embrace Mr. Trump.
This can be disorienting for those who know Ms. Uchida — one of the great pianists of our, or any, time — only through her concerts and recordings, which are solemn and thoughtful, graceful and magisterial.
For older residents of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, the security measures following the bombings are a flashback to the country's dark days of civil war, and for a younger generation, they are entirely disorienting.
They emit a disorienting, enrapturing flood of images and music taken from broadcast television and video art and programmed to repeat relentlessly, mutate wildly and change abruptly, although a driving, danceable beat is constant.
The overall effect is rich and disorienting — our Western mindset loses its footing between the framed-drawing-as-work-of-art and the entire-wall-as-work-of-art, since both approaches equally apply.
Perhaps the only thing more disorienting than visiting the art collective Meow Wolf's permanent art installation, the House of Eternal Return, is getting a Skype tour of the place, which is what I recently received.
Built on moments of astonishing immediacy, Leviathan is an uncompromisingly immersive, disorienting experience, a series of rigorously constructed impressions and wildly free camera movements that could only have been achieved with those semi-disposable GoPros.
One of the most disorienting parts of today's geopolitical information warfare is that all sides feel and act as if they're winning, and it's not hard to know who or what has the most influence.
In the reveal video, we saw an explosive and disorienting fighting game that has characters teleporting left and right, doling out massive doomsday event-style energy blasts, and throwing punches and kicks at blistering speeds.
The frequency of such charges, the baffling quality of the narrative concoctions, and their free-floating nature, untethered as they are to anything observable in the real world, contribute to the new conspiracism's disorienting effect.
A little disorienting at first, "Catherine" essentially opens in the middle of the story, with Mirren's title character having recently assumed power from her late husband, producing plenty of loud grumbling from the chattering class.
It has been a disorienting time for the journalists like Mr. Baron depicted in "Spotlight," the film about The Globe's investigation in 2002 of sexual abuse of children by members of the Roman Catholic clergy.
The event's staging felt like a cross between a posh club and a first class airport lounge—purple mood lighting, pop music blaring, giant screens everywhere—which is rather disorienting at 10 in the morning.
And fame can be disorienting even without the utterly dehumanizing and stultifying effects of incarceration; Manning endured seven years of imprisonment, which totally disconnected her from the rapidly evolving online discourse around the extreme right.
NYC-based producer SADAF has shared an uneasily idyllic video for her single "Stillness," which pairs the song's foundational interplay between irruption and suture with a disorienting visual journey through what many would consider paradise.
The music he's released under his own name—and along with Inga Copeland, as part of defunct cult favorite Hype Williams—has largely been fractured, disorienting, and hard-to-pin down, both thematically and sonically.
While the plotline is comedic gold, it also forces audiences to sit with the all too common disorienting experience of being ghosted, especially by someone who seemed to be sincerely interested in pursuing a relationship.
Every new track threw off disorienting color and light, and when he brought out future-R&B goddess D∆WN — he produced her single "Not Above That" — it felt like a well-earned victory lap.
Villeneuve, more optimistic here than he's ever been before, deals with abstract ideas of language and sociology with astounding visual economy, and memorably conveys the completely disorienting paradigm shift of its titular first contact scenario.
A visitor to Arcosanti in the late-70s when he was ten, an experience he calls amazing and "disorienting," Aitken recalled the city when filming Black Mirror, a cross-country installation piece starring Chloë Sevigny.
The direction is clever for a disorienting first-person narrative about a colorblind killer, in which the cosmic swirls representing his protagonist's blurred vision bump up against Powell's realist urban backdrops and assured landscape drawing.
I get recognized once in a while, and it's a little disorienting, because I think we think of audio as ... Your picture is not on top of the iTunes icon, but people are googling you.
The novel's narration switches from ghost to ghost with little warning, and there are so many ghosts — 166, to be exact — that this is at first bewildering and disorienting and then becomes an exhilarating delight.
It's disorienting for all of us, no matter where you live, but it is interesting when you are in Washington, as you know, because you lived here, because you get a disproportionate amount of attention.
"He's been an incredibly positive influence in my life, and he's very happy that he gets to spend more time with me," Sharapova said, though she conceded that her more stable schedule might be disorienting.
In "Anne With an E," Anne is constantly remembering her abuse, filmed in jerky, tightly framed, intentionally disorienting flashbacks of, for example, Mr. Hammond's dying of a heart attack while beating her with his belt.
The film also bends the notion of time -- moving between the past and present in a disorienting but, ultimately, affecting manner, as the missing girl remains a presence in Stephen's life, even if she's gone.
Sung not as usual by a man, but by the courageous mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, at Carnegie Hall, it was a disorienting moment, blending earthiness and vulnerability, that began a long wintry journey beyond gender.
The New Vanguard Peter Evans brought a piccolo trumpet to his lips at the start of a recent solo performance at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and within moments he'd cast a deep and disorienting spell.
We live in strange, disorienting times, but without a Rod Serling, the debonair mastermind behind the CBS television series, to set the scene for us as he did so trenchantly more than 50 years ago.
Not many movies have been shot this way — the storytelling limitations of the device quickly become apparent — but watching "Lady in the Lake" is a uniquely disorienting experience that ought to be undertaken at least once.
Her work makes a disorienting first impression, at times nightmarish, at times deceptively conservative in its imagery; yet as the viewer progresses through the sequence it become clear that the paintings present a carefully plotted parable.
And then when you're bombarded with expectations about how you're supposed to look and how you're supposed to act and what you're supposed to say and all the rest of it, it can become very disorienting.
They sound like white noise and/or impending doom:"It was a bit disorienting — we weren't hearing what we expected to hear," William Kurth, RPWS team lead at the University of Iowa, said in a statement.
Like the better-known James Turrell (74)—who, on Boxing Day, unveiled four disorienting light works at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)—the pair have been toying with our perceptions for 50 years.
And she acknowledges that joining The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2010 was a "disorienting" experience that challenged her sobriety: "The drama started, and there was fighting and traveling, and I got overwhelmed," she says.
" Mixed Signals (2018) by Courtney Stephens North American Premiere, USA, 16 mm, 8 minutes A narrator with an undisclosed illness draws parallels between "the darkened hulls of an industrial ocean liner" and a "disorienting mental state.
Frankel has immersed herself in work, expanding the reach of her denim line and helping victims of Hurricane Florence, which ravaged North Carolina through her organization, B Strong, which she says can be "disorienting" at times.
The connection between them only starts to come into focus over the collection, but Jeff Lemire's writing is as human and imaginative as ever, and artist Andrea Sorrentino gives tremulous, disorienting shape to a delicious nightmare.
But the real audience is the few flyers who aren't familiar with safety procedures, and for them it can be disorienting to try to figure out how these beach scenes correspond to equipment on the plane.
Bazaar CafeAfter roaming the disorienting maze of Marrakesh's winding streets, pause for a break on the roof of the hotel-adjacent Bazaar Cafe to sip rosé before buying one of the homemade ceramics in the lobby.
"Luca's approach can be very disorienting for new collaborators," says Fasano, who has been the film editor on all of Guadagnino's features but also, variously, a co-director, an assistant director, a screenwriter, and a composer.
Dan Senor, former Bush administration official and 2012 Romney campaign adviser, wrote on Twitter that he and Pence had discussed how Trump was "unacceptable" and that it was "disorienting" to see him join the Trump campaign.
The first version of this video was released on Facebook on January 30th, but because of the way the images were stitched together, the horizon was warped and the resultant 20123-degree panoramic image was disorienting.
Should Democrats retake the Senate, something akin to the Church Committee, which investigated abuses by our intelligence agencies in the 1970s, could give us a measure of clarity and closure about this uniquely dark, disorienting period.
I wasn't able to fully understand that night until years later, when I saw him in the local bar my senior year and was overcome by the disorienting fear I experienced that night four years earlier.
Go deeper: For older residents of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, the security measures after the bombings are a flashback to the country's dark days of civil war, and for a younger generation, they are entirely disorienting.
Richard Foreman, the author, director and designer of more than 50 plays, is known for his "total theater," a disorienting amalgam that puts language — its soaring potentials, its limitations — at the center of his experimental work.
Still, there's something disorienting about working through a VPN, a service that essentially makes it so that an American in New York is, in a sense, accessing a streaming service through the United Kingdom or Germany.
So when she slid onto her stool in a tight sleeveless shirt that clung to her breasts and bared her midriff it had roughly the same warm, disorienting effect on me of half a Dilaudid, chewed.
Narrative ellipses and a slew of visual clichés — like vague shapes, ghostly footprints and disorienting flashes of light — make "Mary" (the name shared by the ship and the couple's younger daughter) a particularly unsatisfying possession yarn.
Or, perhaps in their mid-80s — after all of the joys, the stories, the sorrows, after all of the life that they have lived together — my parents find this final act too frightening and too disorienting.
JON PARELES "Eye in the Wall" is a throbbing, swirling, disorienting, mesmerizing nine-minute excursion from "The Sun Still Burns Here," a music-and-dance collaboration by Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) and the choreographer Kate Wallich.
The neighboring "Svartalda (Dark Wave)" is just the opposite: so inky black that at first nothing is visible, which again is disorienting, especially so, given the startling transition from the glaring white space to this one.
The storytelling was a grab bag: niftily disorienting but also, at times, humorless or claustrophobic, as if it were less a show about human beings and more a staging ground for cathartic spectacles of economic justice.
Up close, the quartet seemed to deal only in disorienting extremes, like the alternating alarms and chirps, both chilling and playful, in "Abyss of the Birds," a lengthy solo played with inexhaustible virtuosity by Ms. Kim.
At the same time, it can do so with sounds that are fresh and disorienting in the genre, abrasive shards of noise and vocals that veer between the shouted patter of rap and sugary sweet choruses.
Images of stumbling through dark, disorienting hallways, the constant bass reverberating into the party's "chill zones," and echoes of the inevitable shit-talking that happens during the lulls will ring familiar to any frequent rave-goer.
With the victory, Taylor earned a two-year tour exemption and a spot in the Masters in his hometown, Augusta, Ga. The trip from pro golf's fringes to the Pebble Beach winner's circle was disorienting for Taylor.
Apple has intentionally left out finger-based touch input, because Mac just wasn't designed for it, and in use that actually tracks with what my brain expects, so it probably won't be too disorienting for most users.
It's not 100 percent clear how the airguns are causing the die-offs, but it's possible the blast throws off the receptors the animals use to navigate, disorienting them and causing them to die, according to Nature.
It was a somewhat disorienting expedition, from walking through the colorful "wind spinners" to climbing up bright yellow ladders to get a close-up view of the giant cloud of chandeliers, collected lawn ornaments, and various tchotchkes.
The art also shows the challenges of always relying on the same historical figures to represent history and how disorienting it can be during Black History Month to try and consider all of their legacies at once.
By now, we know from interviews and records that it was designed to target Muslims and green card holders, and with a disorienting speed—no matter what the official line is on terrorist threats and geographic nuance.
While some songs are so unexpected it's disorienting, like the sweeping eight-minute "Western" and the relentlessly pummeling "Near DT,MI," the band's technical skills as musicians are the only threads that manage to hold everything together.
It slammed shut and locked, placing us in a pitch-black hallway that gave way to a disorienting gauntlet of screams, moaning, banging metal, flashing red lights, and demons who would pop out from around dark corners.
At one point in our conversation, he blocked out all of the background crowd noise in such a way that I could hear him speak perfectly clearly a few feet away from me; it was borderline disorienting.
David Simons, the Air Force project officer for V-2 animal studies, reported that Albert II's heart rate was "clearly disturbed" by disorienting g-force shifts, according to Animals in Space by Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs.
It was deeply disorienting to transition out of my structured military life with its intimate personal connections and clearly defined mission to one in which I had to chart my own path in a city of strangers.
From "Slacker" (1990) onward, Linklater has been at his most fruitful when hanging out in his native Texas, so it's disorienting, to say the least, that his latest film should begin at the bottom of the world.
JON CARAMANICA The latest free release by Arca, the electronic musician who co-produced Björk's "Vulnicura," is a continuous, sublimely disorienting 25-minute mixtape called "Entrañas" (Spanish for entrails); it lists 14 titles for its internal segments.
"Run," premiering today on THUMP, is the kind of track you have to fight against to keep up with—intentionally disorienting you like an M.C. Escher drawing and exacerbating the experience with doses of anxiety and dread.
Indeed, almost every mention of Putin in the course of Trump's trip was disorienting, as he skittered from saying that the Russian President was "nice to me" to warning that NATO was selling itself into Russian slavery.
As you circulate through the T-shaped gallery — Mr. Holl favors alphabet designs, and also eccentric fenestration — the convex walls and windows of Mr. Albenda's gossamer sculpture seem to expand and contract with surprising, and disorienting, force.
The rest of the site is untouched, giving the disorienting illusion of an endless mosaic carpet wedging farther under the surrounding mountain ranges, or a side façade of a modern building surfacing from a future archeological dig.
But this was a 92-year-old man who had had trouble walking even before his hip fracture, and who was also navigating the disorienting sea of pain, medication and an institution that was not his home.
What's especially disorienting is that, despite living in the kind of hyperconnected society that makes a fast-moving global pandemic possible, it doesn't really seem like we have a real grasp on what's happening in other countries.
In the 1980s he created works that fragmented his body into disorienting black-and-white close-ups — his hairy chest, the soles of his feet, genitalia — and confronted topics that many young artists are grappling with now.
"In the voluptuously disorienting music she has been releasing since 2012, love has been pleasure and pain, sacrifice and self-realization, strife and comfort, public performance and private revelation," wrote Jon Pareles in The New York Times.
If the gum could deliver me from standard-issue horrors like those without any of the disorienting, sedating side-effects of Dramamine, could it also soothe the more existential varieties of unrest that come with everyday life?
Reviewing that show for The New York Times, Jon Caramanica wrote that the juxtaposition of her biggest pop hits with material from "Joanne," her latest album — including the title track, performed on acoustic guitar — could prove disorienting.
There's something about being a stranger in a strange land that's equal parts exhilarating and disorienting, and this messy mix of feelings is what the French word depaysement — literally, decountrification, or being without a country — means to capture.
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Death Peak's first half is more club-friendly—driving techno peppered with disorienting and unexpected deconstructions and flourishes—while the last four tracks are something of an orchestral brain dance suite, which owes a debt to Steve Reich.
The show's early episodes depend on that instability as a storytelling device; jump cuts and disorienting angles keep the viewer on the same unsteady footing as protagonist David Haller (Dan Stevens), a man plagued by voices and visions.
But the copious gore, the cruel extended rape joke, the abortion sight-gags, and any number of other vomit-inducing pseudo-goofs are so distracting and disorienting that making sense of the film would require a repeat viewing.
As the 2010s went on, the platforms adopted the live and the disappearing and attempted to reach you with what you care about most — to make the experience less disorienting by focusing on what garners the most attention.
Plus, it doesn't have the wireless freedom you get from Gear VR. I've even noticed some tracking issues where the PlayStation camera seems to lose sight of the headset temporarily, leading to disorienting jitters in the immersive experience.
He captures the disorienting social and economic shifts of Italy in the 1950s through the Bavinskys' downstairs neighbours, "a family of carpenters who, for generations, carved ornamental altarpieces but whose sons are now selling West German vacuum cleaners".
On tracks like "Complet Brouillé," premiering below, they collide disorienting and depressing sloganeering ("I don't expect to live long") with mechanized, industrial instrumentals—placing the cause of our post-modern panic in the cold embrace of technological progress.
When: November 20183, 2017–April 8, 2018 Where: Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse, the Bronx) In the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark ventured into abandoned tenements in the Bronx and made cuts in the floors, creating disorienting spaces.
Just in case Mitchell's works, a selection of porn-on-porn text collages lining one wall of the small space, weren't shocking and disorienting enough, the artist wanted to ensure that viewers felt really out of their element.
Though the singer has cut his hair and traded in showbiz threads for a bank manager's suit, the images maintain a disorienting effect, borrowing from the grit of American film noir and the cool of French New Wave.
In one particularly disorienting moment of the teaser, Deacon is shown sitting on a bed as a blurry figure in a satin robe comes into view with a strikingly similar silhouette and demeanor as the late Rayne James.
Would that brief shot of a bare-faced and stammering Audrey in a white room (I think you called it, babe!) have been as gloriously disorienting if we'd cringed over one agonizing Audrey-Charlie fight, instead of three?
In the past, someone using a Kindle device or app who wanted to save their place could bookmark a page, which works well enough but can get disorienting if you have digitally dog-eared a lot of pages.
Pace yourself, though: This is very much the same disorienting, relentless series, touching on techno-cultural themes — hacking, social-media mobs, drones, the narcotic allure of nostalgia — in stories that are both dreamily speculative and of-the-moment.
The double bill was an immersion in the black-and-white, Gauloise-enriched universe of nouvelle vague Paris, and exiting the theater onto Bleecker Street became a disorienting extension of the movies, a demonstration of the medium's power.
They are dramatized with cinematic tact, so that what you register is not horror but a sudden, disorienting absence, as if the men had vanished into space rather than crashing to earth or burning up on the launchpad.
Days after Donald Trump pulled out his disorienting win, Zuckerberg told a tech conference that the contention that fake news had influenced the election was "a pretty crazy idea," showing a "profound lack of empathy" toward Trump voters.
"It talks about the transition which ranges … from loss of purpose which can be disorienting and hard to find a second career … to issues of depression which Michael Phelps has dealt with and now advocates for," she said.
Manzanera and Ferry's co-write "Out of the Blue" is a standout on Country Life, tape phasing, oboe, and Mellotron seduction pulling you into a lovers drama with a disorienting violin solo by Eddie Jobson, Eno's multi-instrumentalist replacement.
Other options include a disorienting tangle and something straight out of Starship TroopersImage: Pence/Trump 2020Alas, the details are in the fine print—or in this case, the non-bold print in an easy to read, four-sentence email.
Summertime 06's more disorienting, strung-out "Dopeman" and the laid back "Lindo," from Fatts's Chipper Jones Vol 2, were both intriguing, too; the two grew up together and they clearly know how to work around each other's bars.
Although we associate fascism with the collapse of democracy in interwar Italy, Germany, and elsewhere, its origins lie decades earlier, in the period of rapid and disorienting change that hit Europe during the late 20163th and early 20th centuries.
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It was recorded before the election, and Young, Olson, and guitarist Jim Baljo engage in a disorienting sort of symbology—its hard to pick out the particular targets of a atonal synth squeal, or a cacophony of layered voices.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, she's said to have faced a confusing and disorienting interrogation, accusations that she wasn't as pious (or virginal) as she claimed, and even threats of torture with total patience, reiterating her commitment to God.
You could look at them, with their digitally printed, slightly disorienting silk shirts, faux patent leather dusters and slouchy sequined trousers, or you could slip on one of several virtual reality headsets and observe them in another virtual dimension.
McMurray provided disorienting loops, Pedigo would add textured guitar works and synths, and eventually a dizzy collection of ambient pieces took shape—shimmering, bright, sunburned, but not too perfect, each loop and line carrying with it a little darkness.
In the age of the internet, leaving that space is weirdly easy—log out of the forum, unfollow the Tumblr pages, delete your Twitter account—but it can also be as disorienting as suddenly packing up and moving house.
The vertical projection squeezes the images, stretching them out to a disorienting degree, an effect Al-Maria compounds with a jarring soundtrack punctuated by assaultive noises and the voices of three narrators, each of whom speaks briefly and pointedly.
Upon entering the residence, you're struck with the first of these contributions, a trippy wallpapered and mirrored elevator by the German designer Markus Benesch, who covered the walls and floors with a disorienting pattern of Op Art Dalmatian spots.
Our government space agency, NASA, told us when to expect the eclipse, made some terrific maps, prepared us for the disorienting sight of the sun's corona, and took jaw-dropping pictures and video with telescopes, research aircraft, and balloons.
The moments, near the start of the movie, leave an audience shell shocked and peppers its disorienting intensity with distinct acts of courage — a hallmark of the movie, which is led by Tom Hanks as an Army Ranger captain.
I can only imagine how disorienting it must be to have the rules change on you so fast, to have your reputation obliterated in an instant, to be suddenly unable to do the work that gives you your identity.
In a disorienting shift, the second section, "Madness," is narrated by Amar Ala Jaafari, a young Iraqi-American economist who is detained by passport control at a London airport on his way to visit his brother in Iraqi Kurdistan.
But what's left when searching "coronavirus" or "Covid-19" on the e-commerce site is a grab bag of rushed-to-publish pandemic books and protection gear, a mix of products that could be disorienting to the average shopper.
CreditCreditIllustration by Christoph Niemann A few years ago, a locally famous blogger in San Francisco, known as Burrito Justice, created an exquisitely disorienting map, with help from a cartographer named Brian Stokle, and started selling copies of it online.
I find watching anything in 3-D disorienting (this might be simply because I wear eyeglasses, and having to sport two pairs for the length of a film is annoying), but it is a novel way to experience dance.
Joan Semmel, "Yellow Sky" (2015), oil on canvas, 51 x 71 in (courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; © Joan Semmel/Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York) (click to enlarge)CH: You've always abstracted the body, made it disorienting.
Over the last year, Drake and 40's disorienting mix of screwed pacing and chipmunk R&B sample chops has become so popular that younger artists are scoring big singles and albums of their own making reasonable facsimiles on the cheap.
"A Very Long Line" (143) at the Whitney Biennial is an immersive, four-channel video installation that surrounds viewers with a disorienting pan of the fence that divides Douglas and Aquas Prieta, shot from the window of a moving car.
By the end of the movie, when Kubrick gives you a brief and disorienting glimpse of a man in a bear suit engaged in what looks like a strange act, you wonder if maybe you haven't gone a little crazy, too.
Using binaural sound, which was acted out on the streets and recorded, and a haptic custom-made wooden device, audiences are plunged into British history, led by many voices spoken throughout the often disorienting 3D stereo sound coming through your headphones.
Ultimately, that whiff of inaccessibility is what many love about Anderson's work, because it comes from his furious insistence on his own artistic vision; letting yourself lock into his way of seeing the world can be both entertaining and disorienting.
The faultlines between the Catalan "independistas" and Spanish nationalists following October's referendum madness have opened up into huge chasms of paranoia and polarization and led to an all-out information war that has only made things more aggressive and disorienting.
The absence of written and archival material, not to mention solid walls as barriers separating the various phases of the artist's work, feels disorienting, but the sheer tensile strength of Mukherjee's intricately woven universes exerts a stupendous, spellbinding rapture nonetheless.
The idea of experiencing a solar eclipse, then a lunar one, then another solar one might sound disorienting, but writer and practicing witch Julia Penelope says it's actually fortunate that the three eclipses of summer 2018 occur in this order.
This is both somatically challenging and disorienting (and even painful, if the viewer happens, hypothetically, to be slightly myopic and astigmatic and also refuses to wear glasses), made all the more so by the slight backward tilt of the piece.
Bojack's mother, Beatrice Horseman (Wendie Malick)—a tirelessly cruel old mare who seems to be responsible for many of her son's neuroses—phases back and forth from her disorienting present struggling with dementia to inescapable flashbacks of her disappointing youth.
La Farge's fourth novel is a playfully disorienting tour through the biography of the horror master H. P. Lovecraft, as well as a portrait of a number of men, both fictional and real, who try to decode his life and work.
Until this week, I'd never thought about how many twisting flights of stairs you climb in Fallout 4, nor how disorienting that might feel in VR. One of the game's earliest pitched battles takes place on a giant, multilevel catwalk.
He lived and worked his entire life in Delft, a canal-ringed city in the western Netherlands that remains virtually unchanged in shape and hue from Vermeer's time, offering the disorienting sensation that one is walking into a 17th-century painting.
Just a few weeks from the national convention, Republicans are stuck in these awkward standoffs that have come to embody everything that is uncomfortable and disorienting about this election: Our voters, in decisive numbers, picked a guy who embarrasses us.

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