Word: discomfort
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...beginning of her hospital stay, with a grin on her face and a clenched fist in the air, she told me that she would beat the disease. Despite harsh chemotherapy side effects, opportunistic infections and pure discomfort, my mother was always the fighter...
...audience members questioned the mixed message sent through the frequency and regularity with which the St. John Passion is performed around Easter time. Stephan Jay Gould, whose participation was more appropriate than one would think (he actually sang in the chorus for each performance), eagerly responded that despite the discomfort that both Christians and Jews feel in performing parts of the piece, Bach's St. John Passion deserved to be performed on its artistic merit...
...Anita Hill case, far from expanding women's rights, was a disaster for civil liberties. That Hill, an articulate graduate of the Yale Law School, could find no job-preserving way to communicate to her employer her discomfort with mild off-color banter strained credulity. That Thomas could be publicly grilled about trivial lunchtime conversations that occurred 10 years earlier was an outrage worthy of Stalinist Russia...
...children. There is a fine line between wanna-be fashion and no-clue fashion. Right now, that line is the stripe. Many people my age and older seem to pull off the racing stripe, but even they appear uncomfortable at times. The most conspicuous example of stripe-discomfort is found in the person who just can't quite believe that the black and white stripes lining his or her blue jeans are really supposed to be there...
...Sandel expressed a different opinion,saying that certain levels of discomfort promotelearning and interaction with different cultures...