Drifting listlessly through Tokyo's discombobulating neon landscape, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with Scarlett Johansson's bored tourist in what must be one of the most touching romances in modern cinema.

Martin is also hopeful the Portway experience will have the same discombobulating effect on Rosslyn Park it had on Blaydon when a fixture clash at Damson Park shunted Bees out to their training base a few weeks ago.

Which means it is only suitable for the following applications; being on a car seat (for purposes of evocative aroma and making small children vomit), being in an office (for purposes of discombobulating job applicants), being in gentlemen's clubs (for purposes of - I've got to say it -hygiene), being in the homes of people who hold dinner parties which involve retiring to the best room for cafetiere coffee and home-made petits fours (for purposes of making sure everyone leaves by 10.30pm), being made into Chesterfields (for purposes of being able to say "oh, but it's a design classic!", while spending most of your time on a bean bag), and, finally, being on a cow.

As if a black-robed black man weren't discombobulating enough!

Stern's account of his abortive 1994 run for governor of New York on the Libertarian Party ticket similarly illustrates his penchant for discombobulating standard procedure.

In much the same way that his texts serve at once as foil and lyrical counterpoint to his art, the film's voiceover is powerfully evocative, while it is also distancing and discombobulating, obsessing over minutiae such as crystal formation and the symptoms of sunstroke, revealing the Spiral Jetty to be, above all, an explosion of scale.

Shoved into the discombobulating social life of young people her age, Anna begins to 'unravel.'

British drinkers are, in the main, an extremely conservative bunch with even the slightest prospect of change discombobulating them very easily.

28 PUZZLES & STARS YOU'LL be flummoxed, foiled and frustrated as you marvel, muse and mull over our discombobulating, devious distractions.

Like the Unabomber, Stoll, Birkerts, and Slouka characterize technology - a term that refers to everything from stone axes to particle accelerators - as disruptive and discombobulating, never enabling or enriching.

Moreover, can you imagine how peaceful the world would be if these monsters could only 'hear' all the self-entitled whining and know-it-all cynicism on Facebook and Twitter in the discombobulating age of social media?

You might not think this would be too difficult a manoeuvre, but my drive has a slope of one in three and the position of lying on my back with my feet much higher than my head was quite discombobulating. Still, needs must, and I crawled backwards and downwards beneath the car and vaguely recollected something Graham, my chum and mechanic at Bridge Garage, had told me about it being a heat shield.

Ramos said the administration's mixed statements on Philippine-US relations were 'discombobulating,' including Mr.

Shorn in an unflattering but character-appropriate buzz cut, Costner transcends the movie's discombobulating distractions by reinventing himself as the hero-antihero he's tasked to breathe palpable life into-and he doesn't disappoint.