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For there is an unnerving tension at the core of "That Used to Be Us, " a discordant emotional counterpoint.

This time, his relative calm was unnerving. "It was one of the few times at Apple when I got a chill, " says someone who was in the meeting.

Perhaps it was that he smiled slightly too broadly and gave people the unnerving impression that he was about to go for their neck.

But trying to write something that made up its own rules as it went along was always going to be unnerving.

Ask to speak to Creepy in private. It might be unnerving, but confronting him in public is not only bad form, it will most likely backfire.

She began peppering me with unnerving questions -- like why planes crashed, how frequently, and whether I knew that this one would be safe.

It was an unnerving honour to have the great man sit down to watch us eat.

Truth is, the detailsI'm about to relate are especially unnerving, taking place as they didin such a picturesque setting.

It is unnerving, for instance, to hear so many employees insist on their deep contentment at the company.

As you might recall from Greek mythology, Zeus was the supreme god, the one with the unnerving ability to throw thunderbolts .

Disagreements like this give rise to an unnerving question: How do we rationally defend our most fundamental epistemic principles?

The unnerving sound of a catfight woke Charlotte from her nap.

There is a sense of emptiness in the energy of the month that might be unnerving for some people.

So far, though, the financial wobbles, however unnerving, look like a healthy repricing of risk.

Britain is not about to collapse into anarchy, even if the experience of Northern Rock's depositors is profoundly unnerving.

Some of its efforts to deal with an ageing society are positively unnerving.

The image of a baby cooing in a pile of lettuce is actually kind of funny, if a bit unnerving.

Interestingly, this marks the last thing I can do to help myself, which is a little unnerving .

In fact, the most unnerving encounter I've ever had took place in the CompuServe adult chat area.

She admits it's a "little unnerving, to say the least" .

THE price of oil has had an unnerving ability to blow up the world economy, and the Middle East has often provided the spark.

It may seem odd to patients, but most doctors forget that going to the doctor is generally unnerving.

The market plunge was unnerving during the brief period it lasted, and there may well be reforms that should be implemented.

Even more unnerving to privacy advocates is the work of two researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.

Used to paddling in steep, narrow creeks, I found this experience unnerving and awkward.

We've tracked down satellite photos of these unnerving places, based on a report from Forensic Asia Limited.

All of the weapons were scary, but there was something especially unnerving about the sharpened ruler and the deadly ladles.

In fact, the most unnerving encounter I've ever had took place in the CompuServe adultchat area.

Beijing's sagacious gestures of goodwill cannot obviate -- and may be intended in part to conceal -- this unnerving reality.

when i returned to the guest house , however , there was another unnerving surprise.

That was eight years ago. It was an unnerving experience.

This fragmentation sounds unnerving -- yet another blow to the deep-focus linearity of the print-book tradition.

The display of muscle was almost equalled by the display of unnerving efficiency.

It's a familiar and unnerving sensation: the false belief that you can hear your mobile phone ringing or vibrating.

The phrase "to tell you the truth" and "actually" were also unnerving to many people.

But an unnerving pattern is also emerging: Mr. Buffett looks to be committing his capital too early.

As unnatural and unnerving as this may seem, it could be your single best defense against orchestrated attacks.

What makes this episode particularly unnerving are signs that the pain is spreading from hedge funds to banks.

They shamble, unused to walking on two legs, and find the human's mild sensory depravation unnerving.

In the middle of an unprecedented and unnerving global experiment is the short answer.

Office oddballs are rarely dangerous, but they can be unnerving. Before you resort to a restraining order, try this approach.

And what is unnerving today is that the key element, the trigger for the sudden change, appears to have been carbon dioxide.

But the speed of China's military development is unnerving its neighbors and the United States.

The most unnerving thing about child abuse is the number of cases that go unreported.

It must be said that there's an unnerving similarity between our predicament today and the situation in 1974.

In the video, released on the internet, the shaven-headed soldier says being a prisoner is "unnerving" .

However, more imports from Africa will only serve to magnify an issue that has been unnerving China's leaders for decades.

Sheldon: Meh. That poster of Halle Berry is a little unnerving.

It's kind of unnerving knowing that my exact location is being recorded at all times.

I have found experiences like this unnerving.

Sometimes, that's actually a little unnerving.

The current environment is more unnerving than the one he described then as a governor of the US central bank.

It will be a rather strange, possibly unnerving experience for some.

THE banking crisis that started last August has been an unnerving mix of the new and the old.

Non-euro-zone Britain has let its currency fall, but its budget deficit is unnerving.

For Chinese officials, such demands could only be unnerving.

She found the whole interview rather unnerving.

Rick Alexander finds it unnerving to sit near other people.

"It was unnerving, " she says.

It is very unnerving to be a prisoner.

It is unnerving sometimes when you look at your friend and remember how accidental your first meeting was.

The entire morning was unnerving him.

She has dropped into obscure working groups and shown an unnerving knowledge of their details.

At the same time, a high rise boom creates a precipitous, sometimes unnerving and sometimes thrilling new landscape.

That is unnerving customers and making it harder for banks to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Hello, my friend. I was hoping you'd return. It gets very unnerving here. . . especially when I'm alone.

But that doesn't necessarily mean the problems won't be as costly or as unnerving;

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