For instance, in a recent book, "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers" (Viking), Malcolm Bradbury made the disturbing suggestion that Dostoyevsky's murderous student, Raskolnikov, could be seen as a herald of the modern artist.

Abbot Radulfus, too, had dismounted, and stood looking on with an uncommunicative face, for the two groups carried a curious and disturbing suggestion of a mirror image, gathered about the arriving and departing dead.

What I saw - - or fancied I saw - - was a disturbing suggestion of undulant motion far to the south; a suggestion which made me conclude that a very large horde must be pouring out of the city along the level Ipswich road.

Perhaps the most disturbing suggestion was that cardiac surgeons were refusing to accept high-risk patients.

Independent reports said that the e-mails did not affect evidence that man made global warming is a real threat, and e-mails were being misrepresented to support unfounded claims of scientific misconduct, but there were disturbing suggestions that scientists had avoided sharing scientific data with sceptical critics.

She ends her review with a most disturbing suggestion - that those of us exposed to cancer-causing agents may be "out of luck."

ONLY a month before the publication of Lord Justice's Taylor's full report on football safety there were disturbing suggestions yesterday that some clubs have failed to implement interim recommendations made in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster, writes David Hopps.

In an attempt to disprove Mar's theory of purposeful design or Phas's equally disturbing suggestion of invasion, Ezra Keroon spent that day on the link with the Yokohama's mainframe.

It held life also, for I saw a dark shape of a length to suggest that the fish of this country were of a huge size, though I was teased by the disturbing suggestion that that shadow beneath the surface did not altogether resemble any fish I knew.

And my imagination was very quick to supply me with disturbing suggestions - 1 could perhaps be visible to the normal inhabitants of this world and might at this moment be the focal point for some stalk.