Ever Decreasing Circles BBC One, 1984-89 THERE are plenty of reasons why the family-friendly, pipe-and-slippers sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles should be better remembered, the ever-so-slightly
discombobulating theme music being one of them.
Pound on the door at any hour - seriously, it's OK to arrive at four in the morning - and the 67-year-old former auto worker will escort you through his
discombobulating, floor-to-ceiling collection of photos, records, figurines, cardboard cutouts, candy wrappers, clocks and other random kitsch featuring the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
Come on, all you discombobulators out there, join me in a bit of
discombobulating.
Online learning can be overwhelming and
discombobulating for learners due to uncertainty and lack of clearly expressed expectation.
The disconnect is
discombobulating and distracts the prospect from the message, even to the point of reading no further.
The reports were a tad
discombobulating, inasmuch as Perle has inveighed for years against both the Chinese menace and the Arab world.
Where the energized rays cross, the electrical disturbance is
discombobulating. I'm eager to get back to my dancers and collaborators.
1 Gary Boas, Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan (Dilettante Press, Los Angeles; Deitch Projects, New York) The intensity of the star moment captured by one of the great fans (a disappearing type) in all its
discombobulating glory: the flash blurring vision, deranging time and being (who am I?
The effect is fascinating if
discombobulating. Having not done my homework with Nahum Tate's libretto, I was seldom able to follow the events that his verses dramatize; it did not help that the activities of the libidinous young schoolmaster and the ladies of the school bore only a tangential relation to the words they sang.
I found former chief justice Artemio Panganiban's comment about Supreme Court justices retiring and leaving thousands of cases unresolved
discombobulating ('Why SC's plan to end backlog failed,' 5/5/19).
I drink gallons of the stuff in the belief that it keeps at bay dreaded muscle cramps in my legs, which can be extremely
discombobulating if trapped in an aeroplane or train or lying in bed half asleep.
All but a
discombobulating dolt would understand, that has nothing to do with racism.
