Word: unpleasanter
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It is 2 a.m. You did poorly on the midterm you got back today, and earlier you had an unpleasant call from home.
Particularly disturbing is that MCAD's decision does not even find this type of discrimination against women--if not illegal--to be unpleasant. Only in a disclaimer added after the decision's publication did Allen mention that her decision "does not constitute Commission approval of such restrictive clubs."
"They make life unpleasant for a while, but Icertainly don't think that [last year] they hadany impact on our continued efforts [to hireminorities]," said Boalt Hall Dean Jessie H.Choper. "No one's happy with the numbers, but Ithink it's going to be a process that will takesome time...
Lettice Douffet is a sometime actress reduced to working as a rather fanciful tour guide in an ugly and, truth to tell (which she rarely does), unimportant English mansion called Fustian House. Faced with the unpleasant fact that hardly anything consequential or colorful ever happened there, she makes things up...
Valerie Martin's grafting of a new novel onto Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is cleverly done. But the best part of this engaging novel is the diarist herself. Spunky, passionate within the grinding limitations imposed by her station in life...