disjoining

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It can be disjointing to go from a state representative discussing immigration reform to Gibson quipping about the bad coffee he’s drinking at Denny’s.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2020

The snippets of dialogue have a somewhat disjointing effect; reading the novel feels like laboring over a 1,000-piece puzzle.

From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2017

Arriving in a new place — even if it’s in the same dimension — can be disjointing and chaotic, because each new destination is governed by an invisible set of rules.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2016

He grew up in the exclusive Los Angeles section of Brentwood, an experience he called disjointing.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2012

To emerge from underground after the perfect insect is hatched, the bluebottle's device consists in disjointing her head into two movable halves, which, each distended with its great red eye, by turns separate and reunite.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander