The Army said it did not find those results surprising, or especially disconcerting.

Especially disconcerting, many said, is that some people seem to have already forgotten the horror of 9/11.

New characters, in fact, are still popping up three-quarters of the way through the novel, which is especially disconcerting in a book that's only 121 pages long.

This withdrawal is especially disconcerting where Dina and Ishvar are concerned.

For instance, he wrote, the steel I-beams at the corners of Johnson's building "are clumsily detailed - especially disconcerting in a work of such purity."

Such maneuvers are especially disconcerting in a city that has only a dozen or so traffic lights, several of which have burned out or been knocked over.

The sound was especially disconcerting.

To teachers, the antispending furor has been especially disconcerting.

Even the booze, he didn't say, though that was especially disconcerting for the alcoholic.

One woman who had just returned from duty in Iraq, he said, found the sign especially disconcerting and impersonal.