Word: discomforting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Perhaps the most unsettling aspect, however, to the entire Emma Watson “debacle” is the allegation that The Voice harassed her in any serious way or that it contributed to her discomfort. Surely, those updating The Voice’s blog or tweeting during the game were not the first to fawn over the actress, who would turn heads from Los Angeles to Dubai. Their actions were harmless, meant in an unfortunately misunderstood satirical manner, and were devoid of the mean-spirited motives that often define celebrity journalism...
...participants had all heard of the virus, but they had a lot of questions. In an Atlanta group, the organizers had people read a news story about a real-life, healthy teenage girl from Milwaukee who had caught H1N1 in the spring and died. The group reacted with intense discomfort and then did what humans do: they looked for a way to fit it into one of the boxes in their mind. Some speculated that the girl's doctor must have made a mistake and that's why she died. Another woman wondered if perhaps the girl had been doing...
...some Acehnese have rallied against the harsh bylaws voted in on Monday, saying that if nothing else, they violate Indonesia's constitution and several international human-rights frameworks to which the country has acceded. Indeed, Aceh's governor, Irwandi Yusuf, a former insurgency leader, has in the past expressed discomfort with the wave of Islamic laws being passed in the province. But in a region that is so firmly committed to conservative Islam, outspoken criticism of Shari'a-based criminal law is politically risky. To wit: even though several moderate legislators in the Aceh parliament declined to endorse the bylaws...
Duncan, 44, is no stranger to occasional discomfort. He grew up in Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago...
...same time, fasting also provides a fascinating form of reassurance, if only because our discomfort is self-imposed. As such, we can readily take it away, but yet choose not to. It is this ability to make such a choice that defines who we are as human beings. Indeed, what other creature acts in a manner that initially seems so detrimental to its own well-being, with the sole purpose of achieving a higher, perhaps not readily comprehensible goal...