Word: discomfort
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...whatever it takes. "We're enjoying the fruits of our labor," Dianna says. The couple recently spent $1,500 for massages on a weeklong getaway. They visit a day spa once a week near their home. "We like the deep-tissue massages that really help ease any physical discomfort," Dianna says. "It's our therapy for stress and anxiety...
...choice community needs to play upon the discomfort most Americans feel with abortion. They must not write off what are most certainly valid moral qualms but should instead seize upon the controversy surrounding EC to make the pro-choice lobby into something as widely inclusive as its label...
...TIME: So is nationalism - rather than its political system, or the build-up of its military, or the destabilizing role the Chinese Communist Party once played in Southeast Asia - the main reason behind the suspicion about China? LEE: The discomfort [with China] is primarily that it is becoming a very powerful country and that it's not averse to making its power felt. For instance, when we did not sufficiently make amends for having visited Taiwan, they just froze all economic ties at the official level. We are a very small part of their economy, but they are a significant...
...really sure if Dylan's long-delayed, much-ballyhooed autobiography would ever get written, and if it did, if it would actually make any sense. It did both: skipping forward and back in time, Chronicles covers Dylan's Minnesota beginnings, his influences (Bertolt Brecht?), his studio sessions, his grouchy discomfort with fame and his sense (while on tour with Tom Petty in the 1980s) of being not so much tangled up as washed up. It's coy and revealing at the same time--in other words, quintessentially Dylanesque...
...bumping” with boys on the dance-floor. Of course there have been more than several situations when saying no to getting down seemed impossible and when I felt forced to step in the name of love, but I won’t deny my accompanying discomfort or my subsequent disgust. Who doesn’t feel slightly embarrassed pressed up against their partner, hands stuck to a sweaty back, and onlookers watching on with slight disdain? Dancing today, if you can call it that, has become so mortifying even the semantics make me cringe. Grinding sounds like factory...