unnerving [医] 除神经法
unnerving[ adj ]
inspiring fear
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the formidable prospect of major surgerya tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic
something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall
- Japanese dealers have begun blaming program trading strategies involving huge blocks of stock _ and the U.S. firms that generally employ them on the Tokyo exchange _ for the recent wild and unnerving price swings in their market.
- Mainly this is a highly unnerving two hours, likely to keep viewers' eyes riveted on the screen.
- The UK equity market has had a lot to cope with this week: the upward creep in European interest rates, the further collapse of the Tokyo market and the unnerving hints of renewed hostilities between the US and Iraq.
- The EC's formal line is that no more than technical adjustments are needed to fit in the Efta four. Yet already the intra-EC factions are staking out their positions for 1996, and this is unnerving the applicants.
- Once futures rallied, the cash markets in New York followed suit, and the Dow began a slow ascent from its unnerving 104-point loss.
- McDaniel, who left the show to appear in the television series "Cop Rock," had a sinuous charm, a quality that could be ingratiating and unnerving at the same time.
- "The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is born is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all." Dahl was also known for his unnerving short stories.
- Both factors were unnerving to stock-index traders, said Gerald Walsh, a stock-index analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities Inc., New York.
- The unnerving Mr. Conway was replaced by Danny DeVito, who has patented a kind of adorable nastiness.
- Although he found the sight of the placenta a little unnerving, Eric watched the 30-minute event from beginning to end, his father said.
- More likely they believe that uncertainty offers the best chance of unnerving the Tory sceptics. Some in the government disagree.
- As those who lived through the 1940-42 bombing of London can attest, "The Blitz Experience" is unnerving.
- The change makes for a remarkable reworking of what is still the most unnerving musical ever to reach Broadway.
- In an unnerving series of transformations, he changes from the bewildered Lee to his defiant brother to the boy's haughty mother.
- There is an unnerving, on-the-edge menace to their work.
- From here the descent to the start of the Vallee Blanche is steeper than the French side but at least there is no unnerving ridge to negotiate.
- Another factor unnerving the markets is today's Paris Match poll on how the French will vote in their referendum.
- His wife pretended to pat him on the back of the head and, believe you me, watching it slide back up was pretty unnerving,' he says.
- "It's quite unnerving to us all," Somlyo said in a telephone interview before going to break the news to the cast.
- Could I really deliver the goods? My business is public relations, an inexact science with unnerving potential for inadvertently inducing client displeasure.