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  • "Unsettling": Chief Justice John Roberts On Changing Supreme Court

    Michael Winship: Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You ... 2009

  • One of the editor's comments said this: Unsettling.

    I told you they'd never be practical pabba 2009

  • Unsettling stock swings have become the norm on Wall Street over the past few weeks, a sign of deep disagreement among investors about whether it is time to buy or sell.

    On a Wild Ride With Bulls, Bears E.S. Browning 2011

  • Unsettling stock swings over the past few weeks reflect deep disagreement among investors about whether it is time to buy or sell.

    What's News: Business & Finance 2011

  • Unsettling, visceral, a shell-shocked fug of love, loss, then more loss, then the brink of despair, with anything leftthen battered and blown up again.

    Grace Dent: Birdsong 2012

  • Unsettling even to one accustomed to the freedoms allowed women among his kind.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Unsettling times are moments when people have an option to look around and see how they will make sense of things, and religion is one of those options, Tony Carnes says.

    9/11 traced new spiritual lines 2011

  • Unsettling, folklore-inspired images comprise a ceramics debut from Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione, while a high-heeled shoe-enlivened espresso cup retailing for £39 by London-based urban artist INSA has 24-carat gold dripping down its side.

    The Dark Side of Fine Bone China Nicole Swengley 2011

  • Unsettling times are moments when people have an option to look around and see how they will make sense of things, and religion is one of those options, Tony Carnes says.

    9/11 traced new spiritual lines 2011

  • In big ways, the modern food movement goes back to an eccentric, powerful, and often beautiful book by Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America.

    Jedediah Purdy: Environmental Imagination: The Food Movement and Climate Change Jedediah Purdy 2012

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