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No matter how much I tried to make a sequence out of the songs, it just seemed like you were taking a Miles Davis record and putting it in the middle of an Iron Maiden record, it had an' Oh, that's interestingly jarring thing' to it, but it wasn't breathing or flowing. – Jack White	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The career was one thing. I didn't know what was coming, and that's been nothing but blessed. ... It was more personal stuff that I had expectations about that sort of shape-shifted, so to speak, that was what was jarring, that we all had an idea of what the future was going to be, and we were going to go hunker down and focus on this or that, and then it all just changed overnight, and that was it. – Jennifer Aniston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think it's somewhat jarring to a lot of people in the area, considering we had a considerable dry stretch this summer where it didn't rain for a while and we had the heat wave as well, so kind of bouncing between opposite ends of the spectrum this year, so it's been pretty dynamic for folks in the area. – Maddie Kristell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We kind of thought maybe the car behind us had slightly come off or something like that, but it ended up being much, much worse and a lot more jarring to see when we got off the train, the car behind ours was slightly off and then the one behind that was kind of in between two sets of railroad tracks, and the one behind that one had like completely tipped over and fallen over and that was kind of the most shocking part. – Passenger Megan Vandervest	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Where the community is is different. Maybe it’s because we just came out of this (coronavirus) pandemic and we’re starting to feel a regular pace again, we still remember, we still respect, we still honor. But it’s not raw like it was, and jarring. It just feels more hopeful and peaceful. – Tennille Pereira	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think for many people this' return to normal' feels awfully abrupt and jarring. – Kristen Carpenter	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you had done the obvious and saw the problem as it's manifesting itself -- it's no accident that you're facing an avalanche of criticism following that first trip you made to Guatemala and then to Mexico, she's declaring victory but it seems kind of hollow when the reality is so jarring compared to what she's actually accomplished. – Geraldo Rivera	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
China's playing a real balancing game, it's painted India's response to its deepening health crisis, for example, as feckless and ineffective. And it's used pretty jarring propaganda images to do that. And then to external audiences, it's portrayed itself as a great friend to India. – Jessica Brandt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's a place where seeing someone sleeping on a park bench would be jarring. – Alex Martin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When someone says,' Shut up,' that to me reminds me of being silenced as a rape survivor, of not believed as a rape victim and so it's very jarring. – Zoe Stuckless	Found on CNN 4 years ago
After everything was over with and all the shaking and jarring, the sirens went off. – Rachel Garrison	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you go through that metal detector and those series of locked doors, and then you see children playing and women walking around carrying young children, it's just sort of a surreal experience, i don't think you can experience that without questioning,' Why are these children in a secure facility ? Why are these children in what used to be an adult prison ?' It's jarring. – Pamela McPherson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It will be jarring if other countries don't immediately follow. I'll be disappointed. But I guess I won't be too surprised if other countries thumb their nose at us and don't follow immediately. – Jeffrey Guzzetti	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Too many people still believe the opioid crisis is abstract and will not impact them. Many still do not see it as a major threat to them or their family, these data show the gravity of the crisis. We have known for some time that opioid overdose is an everyday killer, and these odds illustrate that in a very jarring way. – Maureen Vogel	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It will continue to be jarring when we hear the names of some of our faves connected to sexual violence unless we shift from talking about individuals... and begin to talk about power. Sexual violence is about power and privilege. That doesn't change if the perpetrator is your favorite actress, activist or professor of any gender. – The Times	Found on CNN 5 years ago
And you know, after that, we've been able to work together to sort this out. We're both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, ‘No one wins in court—it's just a matter of who gets hurt worse.’ And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you're right and why they're wrong, and it's just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart. – Brad Pitt	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I just refuse, and fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart. – Brad PittBut Pitt	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It was pretty jarring and it messed with my relationship to other people in a way that took years, I think, for me to kind of adjust to and become comfortable with, as an actor, the way I was trained, my job was to observe life and to observe other people, and so I used to walk around with my head up, and really engaged and watching people. – David Schwimmer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It was great, but it's very jarring to go to the store and have people want to take pictures with you, you can't really understand until it happens to you. – Brian Dunkleman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If on the first day of class your professor is referring to you as a man, and you identify as a woman, even if you're not trans, you could understand how that might affect you, it's jarring. – Michael Burke	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We want to acknowledge that hearing laboratory conversations about research out of context can be jarring, especially when the conversation is being manipulated for the purpose of attacking women's health care, nevertheless, this coordinated attack on women's health will not deter us from providing essential reproductive health care and from advancing important medical research. – Vicki Cowart	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Just moving around so much, literally every two years, i didn't feel like I had a friend until I was 18. If you're moving to a different school, let alone a different country every couple years, it's kind of jarring as a kid. There was no consistency for me in a cultural context. – The Indian-born producer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns. – Jerrold Mundis	added by anonymous 14 years ago

No matter how much I tried to make a sequence out of the songs, it just seemed like you were taking a Miles Davis record and putting it in the middle of an Iron Maiden record, it had an' Oh, that's interestingly jarring thing' to it, but it wasn't breathing or flowing.

– Jack White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The career was one thing. I didn't know what was coming, and that's been nothing but blessed. ... It was more personal stuff that I had expectations about that sort of shape-shifted, so to speak, that was what was jarring, that we all had an idea of what the future was going to be, and we were going to go hunker down and focus on this or that, and then it all just changed overnight, and that was it.

– Jennifer Aniston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's somewhat jarring to a lot of people in the area, considering we had a considerable dry stretch this summer where it didn't rain for a while and we had the heat wave as well, so kind of bouncing between opposite ends of the spectrum this year, so it's been pretty dynamic for folks in the area.

– Maddie Kristell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We kind of thought maybe the car behind us had slightly come off or something like that, but it ended up being much, much worse and a lot more jarring to see when we got off the train, the car behind ours was slightly off and then the one behind that was kind of in between two sets of railroad tracks, and the one behind that one had like completely tipped over and fallen over and that was kind of the most shocking part.

– Passenger Megan Vandervest

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Where the community is is different. Maybe it’s because we just came out of this (coronavirus) pandemic and we’re starting to feel a regular pace again, we still remember, we still respect, we still honor. But it’s not raw like it was, and jarring. It just feels more hopeful and peaceful.

– Tennille Pereira

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think for many people this' return to normal' feels awfully abrupt and jarring.

– Kristen Carpenter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you had done the obvious and saw the problem as it's manifesting itself -- it's no accident that you're facing an avalanche of criticism following that first trip you made to Guatemala and then to Mexico, she's declaring victory but it seems kind of hollow when the reality is so jarring compared to what she's actually accomplished.

– Geraldo Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China's playing a real balancing game, it's painted India's response to its deepening health crisis, for example, as feckless and ineffective. And it's used pretty jarring propaganda images to do that. And then to external audiences, it's portrayed itself as a great friend to India.

– Jessica Brandt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a place where seeing someone sleeping on a park bench would be jarring.

– Alex Martin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When someone says,' Shut up,' that to me reminds me of being silenced as a rape survivor, of not believed as a rape victim and so it's very jarring.

– Zoe Stuckless

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After everything was over with and all the shaking and jarring, the sirens went off.

– Rachel Garrison

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When you go through that metal detector and those series of locked doors, and then you see children playing and women walking around carrying young children, it's just sort of a surreal experience, i don't think you can experience that without questioning,' Why are these children in a secure facility ? Why are these children in what used to be an adult prison ?' It's jarring.

– Pamela McPherson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It will be jarring if other countries don't immediately follow. I'll be disappointed. But I guess I won't be too surprised if other countries thumb their nose at us and don't follow immediately.

– Jeffrey Guzzetti

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Too many people still believe the opioid crisis is abstract and will not impact them. Many still do not see it as a major threat to them or their family, these data show the gravity of the crisis. We have known for some time that opioid overdose is an everyday killer, and these odds illustrate that in a very jarring way.

– Maureen Vogel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It will continue to be jarring when we hear the names of some of our faves connected to sexual violence unless we shift from talking about individuals... and begin to talk about power. Sexual violence is about power and privilege. That doesn't change if the perpetrator is your favorite actress, activist or professor of any gender.

– The Times

Found on CNN
5 years ago

And you know, after that, we've been able to work together to sort this out. We're both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, ‘No one wins in court—it's just a matter of who gets hurt worse.’ And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you're right and why they're wrong, and it's just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart.

– Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I just refuse, and fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart.

– Brad PittBut Pitt

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It was pretty jarring and it messed with my relationship to other people in a way that took years, I think, for me to kind of adjust to and become comfortable with, as an actor, the way I was trained, my job was to observe life and to observe other people, and so I used to walk around with my head up, and really engaged and watching people.

– David Schwimmer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was great, but it's very jarring to go to the store and have people want to take pictures with you, you can't really understand until it happens to you.

– Brian Dunkleman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If on the first day of class your professor is referring to you as a man, and you identify as a woman, even if you're not trans, you could understand how that might affect you, it's jarring.

– Michael Burke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We want to acknowledge that hearing laboratory conversations about research out of context can be jarring, especially when the conversation is being manipulated for the purpose of attacking women's health care, nevertheless, this coordinated attack on women's health will not deter us from providing essential reproductive health care and from advancing important medical research.

– Vicki Cowart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Just moving around so much, literally every two years, i didn't feel like I had a friend until I was 18. If you're moving to a different school, let alone a different country every couple years, it's kind of jarring as a kid. There was no consistency for me in a cultural context.

– The Indian-born producer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

– Jerrold Mundis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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