There is a disturbing quality to China's preparations for next week's visit by President Clinton.

When she spoke again there was a disturbing quality in her voice.

From the first I had felt a disturbing quality in their timbre.

But the skull had developed another disturbing quality.

"It might be a disturbing quality in a wife," said Gwenda.

Doctor Winchester was the first to recover; blood in itself had small disturbing quality for him.

Stated flatly, the call lost all its darker, disturbing qualities.

Knowing the profoundly disturbing quality of those images, he inflicted them on John without a second's thought about the consequences.

Yet its most disturbing quality is not specifically Japanese at all.

Things happened all round him, perhaps, but he wouldn't know about them, because he had that rather disturbing quality of innocence.