Word: discomforting
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...there’s this feeling I just can’t shake, a discomfort with placing this season in the same company as the previous...
...sobs, and then into wails. The noise music score by Mark A. VanMiddlesworth ’10, who is also a Crimson Arts editor, was especially effective here. It provided a melancholy contrast to the intense action on the set and added to the general tone of irony and discomfort. The music escalated in volume with the wailing as the babies stretched their masks in agony, their faces seeming to melt like the faces in the painting. One began to howl like a coyote. Eventually the crying died away and the babies receded into their holes, leaving one remaining.Considering...
...rulings so California can impose its own limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles. On Thursday, the EPA held public hearings on a possible revision, and it will accept written comments until April 6 with a decision, hopefully, soon to follow. But the EPA has already indicated its discomfort with the original decision made several years ago to deny California the right. Environmentalists, take heart. (See TIME's portraits of American autoworkers...
...human evolution? Are humans now evolving? What will happen in human evolution?” Lieberman asked his captive audience. “Our bodies are not entirely designed for the world that we live in, and we run into a lot of problems. They run from the minor discomfort of fallen arches and having to wear glasses to really serious problems like diabetes and obesity,” he said. He noted that humans tend to address the symptoms of their physiological problems as opposed to their root causes, a phenomenon that he discouraged. “Our society...
...proved to be the better approach by far. Even when the ACT kids were interviewed 18 weeks after their last session, they reported less discomfort than did the control group, as well as less fear of injury and greater capacity to do things like go to school regularly. The authors conclude that drugs, while they can help in the short term, don't stimulate long-term behavior change. By contrast, with ACT, "the target in treatment is to clarify and reduce avoidance behaviors that prevent the patient from living a vital life," the study says. (Read "On the Couch Online...