Word: discomforting
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...legs and flexible ankles. His conditioning is exemplary and his heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber...
...forth, hypnotizing me - until I notice that seated behind me are five of their silicone sisters. Startled, I turn to look them in the eyes. Maureen Kelly, a 40-ish California blond with a rock 'n' roll outlook and a cat tattoo on her ankle, laughs at my discomfort. She does makeup and dresses the dolls. "See that one?" she says, pointing to a fairly haggard-looking specimen. "She did the Realdoll movie with porn star Ron Jeremy." Jeremy, built like a hairy, oversexed walrus, was apparently more than the poor thing could take...
President Bush's policy on carbon dioxide emissions demands serious opposition, and this can only start with the American public. Having spent three months in Houston during the summer of last year, I had firsthand experience of unacceptable levels of pollution and suffered considerable discomfort. I found it amusing that the locals believed plant allergies and pollen caused the majority of respiratory problems, and yet there was hardly a piece of greenery in sight! DAVID G. HARRIS Cape Town...
...himself through a lot of risk and discomfort for me," Falikov said...
...attitudes - the prickly sensitivity, the lurking sense of humiliation and the obsession with uniqueness - never entirely disappeared. You notice it in the common ambivalence toward "foreign understanding." Japanese often complain of not being understood by the outside world. But foreigners who appear to understand Japan too well sometimes cause discomfort, as though they were spies or intruders in some sacred place. There is often an air of triumph, a happy sense of being reassured, when Japanese critics can point out how yet another foreign attempt to analyze Japan is based on fatal misunderstandings. It is as though the Japanese...