Word: discomforting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Mus?e du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed to eliminate drips, washers and howls of discomfort from the modern home's most intimate space...
...designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed to eliminate drips, washers and howls of discomfort from the modern home's most intimate space. Nouvel says his faucet design was inspired by a water-worn stone, but it looks more like a Zen master's TV remote control fixed to the lip of a basin. It has one button to turn on or increase the water...
...collegiate debut, the first game back after the injury, Kessler recorded 21 saves in an 8-1 win over Brown, and felt only mild discomfort in her knee...
...more severe cases. So about three years ago the Agriculture Department asked experts at the National Academies of Science to weigh in, and their committee agreed that "hunger" should be reserved for cases when persistent food insecurity results in "prolonged, involuntary lack of food," and the result is "discomfort, illness, weakness or pain that goes beyond the usual uneasy sensation." But that pain was not what the USDA was measuring - researchers were not going out and interviewing poor or homeless people about how they felt when they'd gone for a day without eating. What they could quantify was exactly...
...children to be the cream of the mainstream. I think [taking the safe route] is more of a hazard than it is beneficial.” Asian Americans feature relatively little in the UC, and even less so in national politics. Often, Asians and the American majority feel mutual discomfort with the weaving of Asians into the political and social fabric, and that discomfornt manifests itself in a reluctance for either side to get involved in the public sphere. An unfortunate consequence is that Asians then continue to be marginalized. “There’s not even...