Word: discomforting
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...bands and hugs and little American flags, these men and women are not exactly heroes. They are soldiers and aviators who did their jobs admirably under intense pressure, but nothing that transpired off the coast of the China truly smacks of heroism or nobility of spirit. There was discomfort, yes, and inconvenience—a Chinese barracks on Hainan Island isn’t quite the Charles Hotel—but never once, it seems, were our captive countrymen required to go beyond the call of duty, or endure anything more onerous than sleep deprivation...
...mastering the strategic realpolitik of managing relations with Beijing weren't hard enough, President Bush now faces the additional discomfort of having China policy emerge as a domestic political issue. Even as the President comes out swinging now that the 24 U.S. personnel are safe, his handling of his first international crisis is taking a hammering on the right, where commentators are lining up to bash it as dangerous appeasement. And it has to sting a little when a president seeking to model himself on Ronald Reagan is accused by true-blue conservatives of having handled the matter as Bill...
Several weeks ago the world was outraged at the total closure imposed on several West Bank cities including Ramallah. The closure lasted for a few days, causing the Palestinian people significant and unacceptable discomfort and humanitarian and financial loss...
...visible effect. There are the Western TV cameras greedily gobbling up every bit of finger-wagging offered up by mid-level foreign ministry clerks in Beijing. For Jiang, it may have looked like payback time. An opportunity to back the U.S. away from some positions that are causing great discomfort for Jiang and his allies. An opportunity to ritually humiliate the Belgrade bombers, force them to lose face to China's leaders and demonstrate Beijing's power to its own people and the region...
...President Bush's discomfort is exacerbated by the sense that Washington has few immediate options at its disposal for pressuring the Chinese - and it's palpably clear that visible forms of pressure are more likely to make them dig in their heels. But he may be helped by the fact that President Jiang may share an interest in speedily resolving the crisis, because a drawn-out standoff will likely harden both Chinese and American public opinion, further diminishing the leaders' room for maneuver...