Word: discomfort
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Whatever Palazzo’s reason for the costume change, opponents and teammates alike would be astonished by any claim of discomfort...
After that, we were introduced as part of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College. We sang spirituals, gospel and contemporary music. I wonder if the alums felt as uncomfortable hearing what we sang as I was singing it. The discomfort arose from the fact that all of us went in with the expectation that they would not understand what we were singing, that they would not understand the message. It is sad that we went in there that way; what’s even sadder is that the audience lived up to our expectations. I could not even make...
...Esera Tuaolo never told a single colleague he was gay. He will become one of the few retired athletes to reveal his homosexuality when he appears this week on the HBO show Real Sports. Tuaolo retired in 1999 because of failing knees and shoulders but also because of the discomfort he experienced hearing players make disparaging comments about gays. He says that withholding the secret made him so depressed he contemplated suicide. "I would make sure somebody saw me kiss a woman. I would do all of those things just to throw off the scent of the dogs," he reports...
...competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest. If you are of a certain gender and age, this is the funniest stuff in the world. Knoxville created a new kind of comedy, one in which he gets laughs not out of the audience's surprise but their discomfort...
Chemotherapy can damage the small blood vessels lining the liver, thereby disrupting the liver’s circulation and leading to swelling, discomfort and the possible failure of other associated organs...