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  • adjective Not disturbing

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Examples

  • 2002-04-23 Disturbing nightmare, because really why would it be an "undisturbing" nightmare?

    hemopoetic Diary Entry hemopoetic 2002

  • The piece thus also lampoons the socially activist art that balances on the verge between would-be controversial attacks on national character and undisturbing decoration of an official space.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • All that, and a laugh track that 's strangely undisturbing — we may be starting to miss them — equals good reason for those viewer ratings.

    Make an Appointment Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

  • He added that Entropa “lampoons the socially activist art that balances on the verge between would-be controversial attacks on national character and undisturbing decoration of an official space”.

    Web Translations » Blog Archive » Can Europe laugh at itself? 2009

  • Meaning is foreclosed for the statement "Truth is tropes," the in itself undisturbing identification which "White Mythology" locates in "metaphor in the text of philosophy," as it is extended in the sentence of Nietzsche.

    Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

  • And I resign myself to the fact that I must try to reach them, for beauty cannot go undisturbed and undisturbing.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • And I resign myself to the fact that I must try to reach them, for beauty cannot go undisturbed and undisturbing.

    Archive 2003-04-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • It's deep and rich like silt on a riverbed and just as undisturbing. the currents mouth below me opens up around me. suggests and beckons all while swallowing.

    anasthesia Diary Entry anasthesia 2004

  • On the basis of existence and identity by virtue simply of labeling with names, we can establish, in an undisturbed and undisturbing manner, in accordance with our experience, what is a fault or a good quality, what is to be rejected or accepted, and the benefits of engaging in productive and constructive actions.

    The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Ten 1997

  • Nay, the social silence, or undisturbing voices of a wife or sister will be like a restorative atmosphere, or soft music which moulds a dream without becoming its object.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

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