Word: unpleasanter
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The idea, of course, was to give the waiting millions back home an absolutely glowing account of Teng's triumphant journey. Accordingly, no inconvenient details or unpleasant incidents were to be photographed or written about. Violent protests by ultraradical Maoists in Washington's Lafayette Park and demonstrations by...
Harvard has tried to teach me otherwise, but it has not succeeded. I still believe that a sliding scale of ethical values can only slide so far before it runs into unpleasant human realities: that people who lose their jobs do not eat, that people who lose their homes suffer...
Scientists still do not know how it produces its psychic effects, but they believe it somehow causes a buildup of "neuro-transmitters." substances that make possible the movement of impulses across nerve endings. It also causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and some of its other consequences...
Not that it ever hears anything unpleasant. Official N.G. Church policy, issued after a 1974 synod, has dropped old racist theology in favor of nominal support for racial equality, but holds that South Africa's system of apartheid is morally acceptable. "The New Testament does not regard the diversity...
Even before the twelve black men and women filed into the White house Cabinet room late one afternoon last week, they knew the meeting was going to be unpleasant. For more than a year they had watched Jimmy Carter, the man they had helped make President, moving toward a more...