Word: discomforted
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...whatever discomfort the beep imposes, it is an excellent deterrent to the crank or obscene caller...
...late romances, Twelfth Night's confusion arises in part from a tearful tale of past woe. Viola (Elizabeth McGovern) has lost her twin brother in a tempest at sea, and assuming him dead, disguises herself in his clothing to pay tribute to his memory. This causes her considerable discomfort, however, since she is forced to hide her love for her "fellow" friend Curio (James Bodge). Add to this Curio's lover Olivia (Margaret Reed) falling unwittingly head over heels for McGovern, and you have the makings of a maze that keeps both actors and audience in a perpetual state...
Goldwater, 75, has always been unusually candid, often to the discomfort of conservative comrades. Now that he has announced he will not run for reelection in 1986, the curmudgeon is even freer to speak his mind. Last spring he sent a scolding letter to CIA Director William Casey for not telling the Intelligence Committee about the U.S.-directed mining of Nicaraguan harbors. "This is an act violating international law," Goldwater wrote. "I don't like it one bit from the President or from you." As Armed Services chairman, he will have power to do much more than raise...
...with discomfort that I listened to Bishop Turu's descriptions of the horrors of apartheid--discomfort and shame that Harvard can deliver to the Bishop an inscribed tribute while maintaining its investment policy. It recalls that southern hypocrisy of a generation ago, not Harvard's "pursuit of truth." The premise that pursuit of truth indeed leads to justice is one of the foundations of Western civilization, however often ignored or given only lip service. Is it necessary to repeat former South African Prime Minister Verster's statement that "each trade agreement, each bank loan, each new investment is another brick...
...numberless encounters with melons, rugs, mustaches and ruins, Philip Glazebrook asks his big question: "What was the impulse which drove middle-class Victorians to leave the country they loved so chauvinistically, and the company of the race they considered God's last word in breeding, to travel in discomfort, danger, illness, filth and misery among Asiatics whose morals and habits they despised...