Word: discomfort
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Reaching a common understanding of the "language of courtship" may not be an easy process. It may be awkward or embarrassing. It may not always seem "natural." But a little discomfort is not too much to pay to end the perennial problem of acquaintance rape...
Despite the discomfort the students faced in the filming of the hour-long documentary, the students interviewed say they are glad that the program was made...
...with implants, small bags that are inserted under the muscle of the chest wall and filled with either silicone gel or saline solution. The inflation must be done gradually over a period of weeks to allow time for the muscle and skin to stretch, a process that can cause discomfort and sometimes lead to infections...
...here to stay. But then, all of a sudden -- zap! -- it is not enough anymore to make you happy. You say to yourself, 'Now what? I know that I don't have anything much better to do, but I am going to quit.' I wanted to go again for discomfort, to create the old hunger, to get into acting. Because I knew it was going to happen...
...point in rendering her decision. While she acknowledged that sentencing Milken to community service would permit him "to work productively with others," she asserted that "a prison term is required for the purposes of general deterrence." Moreover, she added, Milken had committed "serious crimes warranting serious punishment and the discomfort and opprobrium of being removed from society...