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  • Unnerving and yet somehow comforting to see a side of myself I didn't know existed.

    Mia R. Benenate: Captured in Collodion Mia R. Benenate 2011

  • Unnerving comic precision’: Andy Nyman (Stanley), left, with Scott Bakula (Jake) in Terrible Advice.

    Terrible Advice – review 2011

  • Unnerving and yet somehow comforting to see a side of myself I didn't know existed.

    Mia R. Benenate: Captured in Collodion Mia R. Benenate 2011

  • Unnerving me with its blown out tires rotting on the highway like dug up corpses.

    So Much Silence, So Much Space 2010

  • Unnerving as it is to read, at least it breaks through the illusions of that era and, by implication, exposes the ones we encounter today.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

  • Unnerving when someone near my age, who appeared healthy, dies so unexpectedly.

    Tim Russert Has Passed Away 2009

  • Unnerving some investors, Merrill increased the conversion rate on more than $2 billion of its liquid yield option notes (LYONs) by 17%, offered additional dates for holders to put the notes back to the company and extended the deadline for cash and other distributions.

    Wal-Mart, H&R Block Buck Trend 2008

  • Unnerving Experience The experience of having one's bank fail was certainly unnerving for people, particularly at a time when many already have financial woes of their own.

    With J.P Morgan, Many WaMu Customers Relax 2008

  • Unnerving, on occasion, but at least he did not have to wonder if she was going to know how to fit his pieces back together.

    The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992

  • Unnerving in its literal definition, for all bodily sensation was absent.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

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