I tried to get to my feet, but the dream had disoriented me.

This entire experience is disorienting for you - I understand.

Actually a series of rooms, all small, disorienting for me.

Women in all kinds of jobs can find it disorienting to leave the work force.

He tried to break free, but the lack of gravity disoriented him.

But the dark, and the sheer size of the place were disorienting.

Even then, the weight and size of the new body disoriented the shade.

The shock of the fall and the blow disoriented me.

The night sky in the Martian south always disoriented him.

Either the fall had disoriented her, or she was emotionally shattered.

It was disorienting, in a way, to look at her image, but to project the words through the link.

Special goggles will show students how they can be disoriented by alcohol.

Perhaps the sun dead ahead on the horizon disoriented the pilot.

At first, I found the early morning hours disorienting.

But the Administration seemed to find all these new quandaries disorienting.

Watching an instant company get built has been slightly disorienting.

When the Editor cuts to a close shot of that person it would be disorienting if he/she were looking the other way.

This can be disorienting when the actresses share the stage.

All had given up looking for ways to see anything but a blackness so thick it disoriented them.

Disorienting the prisoner is a good start to breaking him, and I knew it.

He imagined it had to be disorienting to suddenly lose that sense.

It is disorienting to be with him here, where we are both clean, rested and safe.

Even Tasha, gone for only a few minutes, had been disoriented on her return to the ship.

He still found it disorienting to cradle the infant to him.

In addition, American schools are disorienting for these children.

This very different look was disorientating at first, but easier to understand later on.

We condemn as disorientating the talk about changing the gender composition of power.

Mary's mind had been primarily responsible for disorientating the aliens in a wild round of the Game.

It would have been disorientating in normal circumstances and to make matters worse they hadn't done the drill.

Even the corners were rounded, and the light was so even it was disorientating.

This could be disorientating to the contestants.

The sensation of waking from her long life with Kalizkan had been disorientating in the extreme.

Make the action disorientating if you want but give us results of the madness that aren't unbelievably minor scratches across the forehead!

They also disrupt Nightcrawler's teleportation with a sonic attack, disorientating him.

As well as inkwells and school desks, there's a row boat on the roof, which is disorientating after a few drinks.

Moments of disaster are disorientating.

A trainee is strapped to the multi-axis chair which spins on three axes, disorientating its occupant.

The car goes through the mouth and into a revolving tunnel, disorientating riders and giving them the illusion that they are turning upside down.

Due to the strong winds and turbulence, the BE2e began to spin, disorientating Fysh in the process.

Keret explains that his work is influenced by Franz Kafka: "Kafka tries to reach his moral goal by disorientating the reader.

This led to the Shadows' preferred tactic, to run head on at a player and then teleport just as their about to hit, disorientating the opposing player while they vanish with the ball.

Case in point: It can be disorientating to travel in a foreign country at the best of times, but even more so if your transportation plans are a harried hodgepodge of mobile means.

But they are, arguably, problematical from an accessibility perspective - in that they can be disorientating to users of screen-reading software (as the iframe links off to a whole other site).

Labyrinth of Lost Amsterdam: A disorientating and eerie mirror maze themed around the winding, disorientating streets of Amsterdam.

They are also the mechanism for buying off consciences, disorientating the grassroots movement and limiting support for the public sector, by gradually privatising and commercialising services of general interest, especially at local government level.

The song then hits a tricky guitar riff which acts as if it is actually winding the song down not introducing it; the effect is disorientating until Marriotts' vocals enter, soft and controlled.

For example, in Rooms by Sara Ludy computer-generated effects process physical spaces into abstractions, making familiar environments and items such as carpets, doors and windows disorientating, set to the sound of an industrial hum.

It may simply be the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, or it could be the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorientating the victim.

Phil Hardy's The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: The Western notes that "Hellman's calculated style, replete with disorientating close-ups and strange moments...confirm the detached fatalism of his story.

However, more often than not its used because the director has no clear idea how to cover the scene so they decide just to bamboozle the audience with quick and oftenly poorly chosen cuts which take you out of the action by disorientating you.