"It's proved very disconcerting, and provided more than a little trouble."

And particularly in a country where postal mailboxes are protected by federal law, the notion that reading e-mail messages is no longer a private act may prove disconcerting.

Such alterations will prove disconcerting to those who wish to see "The Merchant" in familiar Shakespearean surroundings.

Nevertheless this proves a rewarding dramatic discovery of a play that still proves surprisingly disconcerting.

Still, for a listener who has serious misgivings about the New Romanticism to begin with, this opera proves doubly disconcerting in some respects.

The rowdier atmosphere of Bang on a Can may at times prove disconcerting.

What proved more disconcerting for many residents here than the deadly fight were what the authorities described as efforts by the partygoers to cover it up.

This was a doubt induced by cold consideration, grim enough to prove disconcerting.

"If they had got closer, a force screen miles from the ship might have proved really disconcerting."

Many are very fine, and some may even prove disconcerting.