And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
It is designed, basically, to disorient the target. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference
But what does disorient people is very rapid change. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Patterson - An interview with author] Reference
Even so, she decided, she would try to disorient her. From Wordnik.com. [Haven]
Interrogation 101: Confuse and disorient the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Act of Treason]
Experts say sonar can disorient or scare marine mammals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2005] Reference
They're used to confuse and disorient potential threats. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2008] Reference
They're used to confuse and disorient a potential threat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2008] Reference
Some of the visual effects inside were disorient-ing, even painful. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Hole]
Can you use methods like sleep deprivation to try to disorient him?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2003] Reference
City lights then become attractive to birds, but also disorient them. From Wordnik.com. [���Lights Out��� in Boston Goes Beyond Energy Conservation] Reference
Daddy would then say "I pitched my voice high to disorient the toad.". From Wordnik.com. [BRASIL AS A GIRL] Reference
These attacks were intended to frighten and disorient the camp natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
We disorient them by keeping them preoccupied with our sporadic strikes. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Park (Part II)] Reference
AIRCRAFTHigh-power lasers disorient enemy pilots and disable cockpit displays. From Wordnik.com. [Soon, 'Phasers On Stun'] Reference
BROOKS: A "flash-bang" is a loud noise and a bright light to disorient someone inside. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008] Reference
Usually twenty-four hours was the minimum time needed to properly disorient a subject. From Wordnik.com. [Act of Treason]
This procedure was employed to disorient the prisoners to the location of the POW camp. From Wordnik.com. [Schott, Richard S.] Reference
Well, so-called stun grenades are supposed to confuse and disorient a potential threat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2008] Reference
Sdan knows mental techniques to avoid letting telepathic transmissions disorient people. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)] Reference
The blast was supposed to be sufficient to disorient, but both men were too alert for that. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
Some scientists though say loud bursts of sonar may disorient or even scare marine mammals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2005] Reference
You can't get away from music, which explains its unparalleled power to disorient and disturb. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Torture Instruments] Reference
They would both have high powered searchlights with them to disorient the emigrants even more. From Wordnik.com. [Z] Reference
Revision as used by the Soviets was a tool to disorient and disempower the plasticized masses. From Wordnik.com. [Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)] Reference
It can disorient at times, but the associative or digressive approach is the right one for the task. From Wordnik.com. [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference
They are designed to disorient, creating fleeting apparitions no matter how fast you rotate your gaze. From Wordnik.com. [A Night at the Plywood Palace] Reference
One officer fires the ship's sonic sound deflector, blasting the pirates with sound waves to disorient them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2005] Reference
You use them inside to disorient the person you ` re going after, should he or she be inside that residence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008] Reference
Her recent paintings deftly disorient and bend the pitch of reality just enough to make you fall inside them. From Wordnik.com. [Kimberly Brooks: The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin] Reference
I suppose I am a ground hog at heart for I disorient very easily when I can't tell the floor from the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Double Star]
The Israeli security forces respond with tear gas, concussion grenades meant to startle, disorient, and bullets. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Crisis in the Middle East - October 10, 2000] Reference
They will experience a kaleidoscope of contrasts -- some maddening, others glorious -- that disorient and confuse. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: The China Code: From Robotic Depersonalization to Epic Ambition] Reference
¢ Hooding, used to prevent people from seeing and to disorient them, and also to prevent them from breathing freely. From Wordnik.com. [Torture and Truth] Reference
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