Word: discomfort
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With that resolved, I attacked a deeper source of discomfort-collegiate aluminum bats...
Klugman still plays tough guys as well as anyone in terms of face and gesture. But the voice is an essential instrument for an actor, and his now lacks both resonance and nuance. Some spectators ache for him, others squirm in discomfort, but few can immediately lose themselves in the character and story line. Randall, who played comedy with depth and complexity on his TV series Love, Sidney, is hammy onstage, if less excruciatingly so here than in a Feydeau farce last season...
Powell will make some students uncomfortable--that is the nature of hearing different and opposing ideas. Discomfort leads to thought and discussion though. So think, discuss, and protest, but let him speak...
...about the latest revival of the "grade inflation" debate, spurred recently by Prof. Harvey "C." Mansfield's short-tempered comment that grades became devalued because professors fear giving low grades to minority students. In addition to the familiar round of inter-ethnic name-calling, this infelicitous statements provoked additional discomfort among faculty and students by raising the question of whether grading policies reflect objective academic merit or subjective agendas and power relations...
...true, but it didn't affect my decision," Edley said of his discomfort with the faculty's diversity...