Word: discomforting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...such interrogation tactics are legally questionable, are they at least useful? Is there any reason to believe that discomfort, nudity and sexual humiliation actually persuade men to share secrets...
...employing sensational stories in their report or using ridiculous rhetoric to gain support for their cause. But the issue is not the BGLTSA’s methods of bringing attention to this problem; rather, the fact remains that there are some in the Harvard community that experience extreme discomfort and pressure when going to the bathroom. The move to render single-occupancy bathrooms open to both genders would entail insignificant costs and ensure that students and faculty have equal access to more gender-neutral bathrooms. There is no good reason to oppose the BGLTSA’s suggestions, regardless...
...battle for gender non-specific washrooms to the much more significant fight for handicap-accessible bathrooms. Her comparison of the plight of a transsexual person to the plight of a paraplegic is not only absurd but also highly offensive to both the disabled and transsexuals alike. Suggesting that the discomfort felt by a transsexual choosing whether to enter a door marked with a stick figure in a skirt or pants is comparable to that suffered by someone who does not have the physical capacity to enter an inaccessible bathroom is a parallel drawn in extraordinarily bad taste...
...endless, fruitless speculation among the President's critics about the nature of his certainty, his allergic reaction to doubt or introspection. Is it religious, Oedipal or congenital? No doubt the President gets a kick out of these sorts of mind games. He probably enjoys the secular left's discomfort with his religious references as much as he "enjoyed" going up against the stony Gen eral Assembly (and despite a few awkward moments, he probably had a ball frustrating the reporters who asked him to admit mistakes or make apologies in his recent press conference...
...debate. "Six months ago, the Prime Minister stood before his party conference and said, with all the lip-quivering intensity for which he has become famous, 'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.' Today we could hear the gears grinding," he scoffed, to discomfort from the Labour benches and guffaws from his own. But for Blair, Britain and the E.U., the referendum is no joke. By championing a cause many in his own party consider unwinnable, Blair is risking his premiership - a humiliating rout could drive him from office. His about-face not only...