Word: discomfort
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...attaches to a simple melody all the florid decorations of a style five hundred miles and years away. One may call it lack of imagination when he treats a powerful song of death as casually as if it were a nursery rhyme. But one becomes aware with increasing discomfort that unerringly to perform such malalignment of styles with such flashy banjo technique Mr. Seeger must be a much more calculating man than one wants to hear simple music from...
...write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This first novel challenges neither of the masters but shows that modesty and sympathy can be enough to make a death seem both dignified and touching...
Food, drink and ordinary medicines, explained the bishop, must not be denied such patients, but "to subject the very old to the acute discomfort of a serious operation or of feeding by intravenous drip would seem to be morally wrong. Such means should be used only where there is reasonable hope of recovery or where some benefit of happiness is conferred on the patient." Out and out euthanasia, said Bishop Mortimer, is no longer "a live issue" in Britain, but doctors are certainly justified in relieving their old patients' suffering, even if this should hasten death...
Ugliest aspect of the ugly war in Algeria has been the persistent reports of torture practiced in France's detention camps in Algeria. Though prominent Frenchmen of all political persuasions have protested in shock and shame, French army zealots argue that "a few moments of discomfort are justifiable if they lead to a confession that saves many lives." Last week two cases came before a military court in Algiers, raised serious question about the operation of French justice...
...only sure way to relieve the symptoms is to stop driving, says Dr. Strauss, but small-car owners are more likely to make their malady a badge of brotherhood, like a dueling scar. "Once the diagnosis was established," Dr. Strauss notes, "the patients were content to live with their discomfort...