agitatingly

Even men's love-writing about men, including Shakespeare's, has tended to find the beloved love-object more agitatingly reactive than Petrarch ever found Laura; the attraction of the male is too firmly fastened to his being something, rather than simply being contemplated.

Love in literature 2011

Mr. Lee agitatingly insisted that only an African-American could do justice to the story of Malcolm X, and since he was doing all the agitating, why not him?

General Lee 2008

The term, like any musical categorization, is agitatingly vague — "Flattering the worst people and insulting the best, like 'New Wave' when I started out," says Elvis Costello — but it remains helpful in describing the clutch of mid-90s guitar groups whose music displays a fealty to mid-60s ideals of catchiness and concision.

London Swings! Again! Kamp, David 1997

And, above all, thick and hard and agitatingly distinct, arose the throbbing of her frightened heart.

The Rocks of Valpre 1910

[Illustration: "Betty looked nervously around -- the scene was agitatingly unfamiliar"]

The Incomplete Amorist 1891

Betty looked nervously round -- the scene was agitatingly unfamiliar.

The Incomplete Amorist 1891

"Betty looked nervously around -- the scene was agitatingly unfamiliar."

The Incomplete Amorist 1891