Word: discomforting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scoured the outer reaches of the festival, you can find weird extravagance in an Asian film. The Directors' Fortnight presented Takashi Miike's latest outrage, Gozu, an entertaining yakuza saga that ends with the birth of a fully grown man from the womb of a woman in severe discomfort. (Sure, it's all special effects, but still...
...anymore. Nowadays, faced with the discomfort of these roads and bridges, most tourists limit themselves to two or three days exploring Angkor Wat and other sites within easy reach of Siem Reap and its proliferating hotels. If your idea of Cambodian magic is a scrum for vantage points, against the deflating sound of clicking cameras and revving tour coaches, and curtailed by the need to be back at the hotel bar by nightfall, then fine. But if you want to leave the tourist pack behind, you have no choice but to hit the awful dirt...
...assure that the academic experience is at the center of the college experience”—could create new artistic opportunities in the classroom, but College administrators fear this might diminish opportunities for more amateur participation in the arts. And given the University’s longstanding discomfort with the role of the arts in an academic curriculum, many in the arts community worry that Summers will not prioritize its interests...
...suggests a discomfort with political dissent, and an inclination for everyone to toe their respective ideological lines, rather than confront difficult questions. This campus missed an enormous chance to ask the questions sparked by Lo’s flag: Whose opinions are we willing to entertain seriously even if we disagree with them? To what extent do we temper our unequivocal support of free speech when faced with ideas we find distasteful...
...will feel uncomfortable too. We’ve talked this over with our parents and blockmates and lovers, mulled over how we’ll respond if hecklers jeer or an ancient uncle sees our picture in tomorrow’s Crimson. We’ve decided that personal discomfort is a small price to pay if we can confront this university with an opportunity to think hard about heterosexual privilege. We’ve decided to give you something to chew on after you’ve polished off that Chick...