Paul Hawken

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

American Environmentalist

Neil MacGregor

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed.

British Historian

Alberto Manguel

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

Argentinian Writer

Umberto Eco

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Italian Novelist

Nic Pizzolatto

We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.

American Novelist

Brian Ferneyhough

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

British Composer

Kenneth Oppel

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

Canadian Author

Tom Brokaw

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.

American Journalist

Robert Gottlieb

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

American Writer

Disquiet as a noun often conveys a deep sense of discomfort, more than simple worry.

Emotional Weight

'Disquiet' can describe a range from mild unease to intense concern depending on context.

Intensity Variation

Sometimes disquiet represents a positive caution or awareness, not just negativity.

Not Always Negative

To use disquiet as a verb means to actively cause someone's unease.

Imposing Discomfort

When 'disquiet' is used as a verb, it often implies a temporary state of mind.

Transient Effect

'Disquiet' as a verb focuses on the individual's experience of concern.

Personal Impact

 chuffed to no avail there is something deeply disquieting about watching a mother looking for her baby without success fear for the beloved cub began to build as the hot silent afternoon wore on and tandi's efforts continued to burn no fruit

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 the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. Short sleep predicts all-cause mortality. And if increasing your risk for the development of cancer or even Alzheimer's disease were not sufficiently disquieting,