Word: discomfort
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...scars. You overreact, improvise and over time maybe learn what works; with luck you improve. It is characteristic of the baby boomers to imagine themselves the first to take this trip, to pack so many guidebooks to read along the way and to try to minimize any discomfort...
...speed. But the Victorians' emphasis on appearance rather than performance changed all that. Over the decades, changing fashions encouraged exaggerated, distorted features such as massive heads, squashed muzzles, hairless bodies and highly folded skin - all traits that can diminish the quality of an animal's life, cause serious discomfort and in extreme cases even prove fatal. More pernicious still has been the overindulgence in irresponsible inbreeding, which has spread inherited disorders among pedigree dogs. The Kennel Club, the top canine body in Britain, working with breed-specific dog clubs has laid out the "right" looks - a narrow set of desirable...
...often clever, hammering at the outer band of humor that gets laughs from discomfort. Like listening to a gay man perform oral sex on a woman for 'N Sync tickets. Or playing the silent game, where they book bad guests and let them wallow in dead air. They call it cringe radio, at once punk and frat, like Blink-182 or Fred Durst. It's The Man Show without all that annoying polish. The program has a real garage feeling, with staff members walking in and out of the studio, twisting knobs, grabbing papers. There is no separate producer...
Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures to make the reader feel the same discomfort and paranoia that his characters experience. His intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to reveal its beauty...
...people contract the condition each year, 15 of them fatally. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, northern England. "And the one place that 99% of us sit still longest, in the most discomfort, is on an airplane...