| 单词 | unpleasant |
| 例句 | Late the next morning I woke with an unpleasant start to a knock at my door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We work away silently, until I ask, “What about things that aren’t categorically mean but just unpleasant?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Owens had an expression for two things he found equally unpleasant: “I’m between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” he would say. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “I have no desire to have things turn unpleasant. So I am asking you, kindly, to get me what I asked for.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Army had given him a tentative diagnosis, probably the best diagnosis he would ever get, and he had been left with the unpleasant task of trying to salvage the lives of the remaining animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry interrupted, with an unpleasant, hollow sensation in the pit of his stomach. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever; to look at her, you would think nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes she tried to think of other things, even unpleasant ones, to drive the pain and the distorted fingers from her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But already he sensed that Mr. Benedict did not speak lightly—if he promised something unpleasant, Reynie was sure that something unpleasant would come. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He carried a jug to the bar, walking with a strange and not unpleasant grace. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A not unpleasant warmth rushed up from my center. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A few minutes later Hermione, who had become so tired of Ron’s recent unpleasant behavior that she had not come down to breakfast with them, paused on her way up the table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I shivered, it was unpleasant, like a cold finger. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Delsa and Norma were supposed to help, but most of the time they refused, especially when I tried to get them to do the unpleasant tasks like changing Raymond’s diaper or scrubbing the rice pot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Your boyfriend seems to think I’m being unpleasant to you — he’s debating whether or not to come break up our fight.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When she slipped it on her finger, she had the disquieting sensation that she was being swallowed by him, that he was all around her, and though it was uncanny, it was not entirely unpleasant. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, what seems pleasant or unpleasant is partly a matter of opinion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I do not want to remind you of an unpleasant experience, but your sponge bag—remember.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama brought the baby, wrapped in a brown shawl that had the unpleasant smell of ogiri. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “If you receive the ring, I trust you’ll glean Miss Terranova, and thus put an end to this unpleasant chapter of our history.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I want to find out once and for all what all this secrecy is about. And I’m going to get quite unpleasant if I don’t find out soon.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He felt an unpleasant emotion, though, seeing Odenigbo’s hand placed on her shoulder and, later, imagining them together in bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There followed an unpleasant scene in the Manager's office with the Manager, my grandmother and me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I’m glad I don’t blush; it must be extremely unpleasant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z This was very unpleasant, for Shasta felt all the time that this young king was the very nicest kind of grown-up and would have liked to make a good impression on him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He himself had been enmagicked as a young boy, and he knew the consequences of the action—the odd eruptions, the disruptions in thinking, the unpleasant extension of the life span. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It would mean a swift and unpleasant death, starvation, or attack by predators. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She said it as if it were an unpleasant chore she was still going to honor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z What, now, would be likely to give them just a little, not unpleasant shock? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, as everyone had warned us it would be, unpleasant and unsuccessful. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I pressed my thumb against the edge of the piece of glass and felt an unpleasant tugging sensation followed by a sharp pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Through all my time in Tarbean, I continued to learn, though most of the lessons were painful and unpleasant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I can hardly look at him without a welling of confused, unpleasant emotion. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In the face of this mass action, Mr. de Klerk said that if the ANC made the country ungovernable, the government might be forced to consider some unpleasant options. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to work around any unpleasant hindrances and give full attention to the talk I am involved in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The music made the hair on Harry’s neck stand up, and yet it was not unpleasant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I stand still, and every part of me is still, like it weighs more than it used to, only the weight is not unpleasant. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He grumbled at me in a most unpleasant manner. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z As roommates, Bobby and I were neither more nor less compatible than would be, say, an exceptionally live-and-let-live Harvard senior, and an exceptionally unpleasant Cambridge newsboy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z However, I think that any visit by aliens or people from the future would be much more obvious and, probably, much more unpleasant. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Leave me alone,” Uncle Jet said, with a snappy, unpleasant tone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there is no way to get around this unpleasant fact. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was an unpleasant tone in his voice. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z A powerful pecan essence wafted into my face, not at all unpleasant, considering how sick I was of pecans. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z May 10—I asked Professor Nemur about it, and he insists that I’m an innocent bystander and there’s no reason for me to become involved in what would be an unpleasant situation. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Like other unpleasant things, I began to blot it from my memory. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z F to B was considered so unpleasant that it was given the names ‘the devil in music’ and the ‘wolf tone’, and disallowed from the list of perfect fourths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Seeing the two of them curled in the same bed, one slowly emerging and the other losing ground, put me back onto familiar, unpleasant thoughts of Adah and me in the womb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some very unpleasant memories were beginning to come back to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “It is naturally an unpleasant thing to have happen,” said Mary Debenham quietly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Polly-girl” had been her father’s pet name for her, and it angered her to hear it pour so carelessly from the mouth of this unpleasant young man. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or did he consider the details too unpleasant for precious Potter’s delicate ears?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Driving in convoy is not unpleasant if you are the first car and I settled back in the seat and watched the country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She watched how the flesh under the mayor’s chin bulged in and out as he spoke, and then she turned her eyes from this unpleasant sight and looked carefully around the room. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was one thing to be done before I left, an awkward, unpleasant thing that perhaps had better have been let alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Then he looked at me and his expression turned all serious again, like he’d remembered something unpleasant. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She was staring at Thor and Loki as if they were the lowest, most unpleasant vermin she had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The water was cool but not icy, and it had an unpleasant taste, at once bitter and oily, or so they would have said at home. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She felt that time had stopped and she was inside a not unpleasant vacuum. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The victim turned out to be the bandit chiefs mother—an unpleasant, haggling sort of person. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a cheap brand of Chinese tobacco, and it has an unpleasant taste.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For a few days, I'll be able to function with unpleasant symptoms of dehydration, but after that I'll deteriorate into helplessness and be dead in a week, tops. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was an unpleasant reminder of Sodom, Gomorrah, and so forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If I tilted my head too much, I felt my whole body start to roll, and on the long list of unpleasant ways to die, “facedown in soaking-wet white boxers” is pretty high up there. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z With an unpleasant jolt of the heart, he remembered the dragons said to be guarding vaults in the wizards’ bank. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “You find it unpleasant to destroy your old camp?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And he doesn’t ask me to do anything difficult or dangerous or unpleasant. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Snape approached their table, stared down his hooked nose at the roots, then gave Ron an unpleasant smile from beneath his long, greasy black hair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Over the next few months, a series of increasingly unpleasant and accusatory letters from Berkeley arrived in Pocock’s mailbox. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Before, I’d treated it as a job, an unpleasant job to be gone through as fast as possible so it could be over with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The former means not accepting other people’s opinions, always blowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I’m known. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Mostly you just turn a fairly unpleasant orange color, but a couple of people have also sprouted tentaclelike warts all over their bodies. As if St. Mungo’s didn’t have enough to do already!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A very unpleasant way to spend an afternoon Gemini 10 departs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The medical student gave an unpleasant little snicker. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Her heart fluttered in a strange, unpleasant way. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the rhythmless is unlimited, and the speech should be circumscribed but not by meter; for what is unbounded is unpleasant and unrecognizable. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She had heard such unpleasant things about Anthony that she was quite surprised when she “met a dignified, quaker looking lady.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He too was forgetting the unpleasant realities of the situation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever lack of food coincided with Ron’s turn to wear the Horcrux, he became downright unpleasant. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I felt it as deliberate, as though something wanted to give me an unpleasant shock.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He had small, watery eyes, a pointed nose, and wore an unpleasant simper. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z If you are ever going to be involved with the work on this preserve, you will need to learn to cope with certain unpleasant realities. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There were only two choices, and both were equally unpleasant. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was something inquisitive about her eyes, something unpleasant. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z These two clashes are enough on their own, as in the Herrmann shower scene, to be unpleasant, scary and painful to listen to. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Every time I write to you, something special has happened, usually unpleasant rather than pleasant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z However, in the meanwhile, walking was not unpleasant. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Just how much I don’t know, but the whole situation is very unpleasant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The forcible recalling was simply an unpleasant memory. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Though the messages were unpleasant as ever—and came more frequently now that Mr. Curtain had some sessions recorded—the children were getting used to them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don’t surprise you when you’re not expecting them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But I guess she’s used to seeing unpleasant things only on a screen. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “To tell you the truth, my friend, I did not care for him. He produced on me an unpleasant impression. And you?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z If they visited earth, Librans would also find windstorms most startling and unpleasant, compared to the gentle air currents they knew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t anything he said nor was his expression unpleasant, but he was sulking just the same. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The expression on her face suggested that give-and-take was a new and unpleasant concept to Bonnie of Greensboro. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Your world is unpleasant, your truths are unpleasant, the hunt is unpleasant.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I felt an unpleasant mixture of fear and shame — fear that I would get some cosmic comeuppance and shame that I had abused the trust of my adopted family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All her encounters with Negroes who had established themselves in businesses or trades in those small midwestem towns had been unpleasant. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how cold and unpleasant it might be, he rinsed his uniform whenever he could. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Its rider, a helmeted police officer with an unpleasant frown, growled at Marietta: “What business have you with these colored children in the city tonight?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z To warn us of the unpleasant odor, he tacked a sign to the bathroom door: “RSVP—gas!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z ‘Did anything unpleasant happen in your city three nights ago?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Zebras have the unpleasant habit of biting a person and not letting go. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For one nasty moment, Harry thought that Hagrid was going to lead them into the forest; Harry had had enough unpleasant experiences in there to last him a lifetime. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “You are determined to make this as unpleasant as possible, aren’t you?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I silently wished for the sun to bounce off the window, blinding Trent and cloaking me from what was sure to be an unpleasant encounter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z To compound this—all these unpleasant recollections to the contrary—so much remained of the old Bunny, the one I knew and loved. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had her doing all sorts of activities: walking on her hands, juggling blades...It wasn’t anything new, but it was unpleasant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The importer was extremely unpleasant, friendless, and I had no other avenue to get to him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The job is unpleasant and forbidding in at least two significant ways: the likelihood of violence and the lost opportunity of having a stable family life. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He screamed and shouted “Wooeeeee!” at Guitar’s list, but because his life was not unpleasant and even had a certain amount of luxury in addition to its comfort, he felt off center. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But these he did not learn from them, these child-like pleasures and follies; he only learned the unpleasant things from them which he despised. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They met unpleasant ends at the hands of their own people for losing the masks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Both troopers seemed to breathe in simultaneously, like they had a long day ahead of them, a long unpleasant day. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The chemical industry is perhaps understandably loath to face up to the unpleasant fact of resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was sweetish and not at all unpleasant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Here,” she had whispered, her tone intimate and unpleasant, “I want you to accept this small commission in return for bringing your patron to my shop.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It even creeped up on me and made my rock fishing go real unpleasant for both me and the fish. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Like a lamb to the slaughter”: Something that you say about someone who goes somewhere calmly, not knowing that something unpleasant is going to happen to them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z And if Kate and Constance were drawing no such unpleasant attention themselves, it was only because they were having a terrible time with the quizzes, which was even more discouraging. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The closer I got, the more unpleasant it looked. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When an unpleasant thought occurred, she shook her head to clear it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered how near he was to the sea and that brought another unpleasant thought. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes, as she sat knitting, aware that William’s eyes were on her face, she felt her breath tightening in a way that was strange and not unpleasant. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Then her life will end on schedule. It would be a more unpleasant choice, but the ultimate result is the same.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Harry felt the Horcrux beating fast, faster than his own heart: It was an unpleasant, agitating sensation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z From what I know of Samuel, he will be a big flop as a ranger, but the allegory, I know, will be challenging and controversial, full of unpleasant truths. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But he found the process “distinctly unpleasant”— especially following a prolonged and ultimately fruitless wrangle with the patent office a few years later over his methods for producing radioactive isotopes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Your rather unpleasant secretary already hinted at something like that," Max Hartlieb said, "but—" "My secretary?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But she found out the next day that it concealed unpleasant truths. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As I stepped deeper into the room, unpleasant smells flooded the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They showed up, did their unpleasant business, and were gone. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He braces himself for fury or suspicion or disappointment—something unpleasant—from her. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Yes, the presidency was a thankless job, “a most unpleasant seat, full of thorns, briars, thistles, murmuring, fault-finding, calumny, obloquy.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Best to head home and worry about unpleasant letters later. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The label seems to have unpleasant connotations, such as that human creativity counts for nothing, or that we humans are passive robots helplessly programmed by climate, fauna, and flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whatever else Mrs. Clarke intended to say was drowned out by the rising wail of a most unpleasant sound—high-pitched, unhinged, emanating from the vicinity of the piano yet entirely unmusical. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z As she grew older she developed a scattergun method for dealing with unpleasant facts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness, and fear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Averting his eyes from this unpleasant sight, Harry saw a gigantic, hairy brown suit and a very horrible yellow-and-orange tie hanging from the top of Hagrid’s wardrobe door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A dangerous smell, an unpleasant smell, a totally unnatural smell—quite close outside: a smoke smell—something was burning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma closed her eyes, in the way that people do when they want to remember something unpleasant. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The thick book made an unpleasant dent in my stomach. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z So far, Mr. Benedict had said nothing that struck Reynie as particularly unpleasant. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z When I was little, it was just unpleasant. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At first he thought that he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream that still hovered on the edge of memory. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In small and spiteful ways, the authorities did their best to make Winnie’s journeys as unpleasant as possible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By African standards, Winnie was from a well-to-do family and had been shielded from some of the more unpleasant realities of life in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bellatrix’s mouth twisted as though she had taken an unpleasant dose of medicine. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At the same time the expression on her face suggested that she and the artist shared an unpleasant secret. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In a strangely kind voice, the principal says, “Please don’t make this any more unpleasant than it already has to be.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The tone of his voice was like a volt of electricity in Sergio’s body, unpleasant, familiar. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Not one to keep his thoughts to himself, Larsen told Bobby, “Most people think you are unpleasant to play against.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It would be distinctly unpleasant proving that we had the real priority in the matter,” he conceded. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was not wholly unpleasant, and Jasper was doing the bulk of the work. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In the end the growers were faced with the unpleasant truth that their cotton yield would have been greater had they saved themselves the trouble and expense of spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it’s to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z An interesting and not altogether unpleasant little ripple went up my spine, but I ignored it. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Braced this time, Harry was ready for the Apparition, but still found it unpleasant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Frisby looked again at the sun and saw that she faced an unpleasant choice. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z When I left Fort Hare at the end of the year, I was in an unpleasant state of limbo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “These shoes are unpleasant, are they not?” she said. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “He’s never faced anything as long as I’ve known him. He thinks anything peculiar or unpleasant will just go away if he turns on the radio and some little schnook starts singing.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Only Violet didn’t cry, but merely trembled with fear and revulsion, a word which here means “an unpleasant mixture of horror and disgust.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The room was full of a heavy, unpleasant scent I couldn’t place. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They do what no one else wants to do, attending to the unpleasant bodily needs of the very ill. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I pressed myself to him just a moment longer, gently, holding my breath because of the strong, unpleasant smell of cassava that clung to him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The man scowled as he studied Ucho, as if the boy were smeared in fresh llama dung that was unpleasant to the nose. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A strange and unpleasant sensation started at Harry’s shoulder and spread all the way down to his fingertips. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It was the same way someone might talk in front of a building or a painting they found particularly unpleasant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties, so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “We are just agents of God picked out of all humanity to perform this unpleasant task. Do you think I like the fact that I have to do this, Ben?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The stranger had an unusual smell, but it was certainly not unpleasant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Abrupt changes of key can seem unpleasant and jarring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then he felt weary; if something had really happened it would be very unpleasant upstairs now, and he did not want to face it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It was a sure way of bringing back unpleasant memories of lower school. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His voice trailed off, as if he’d had an unpleasant thought. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was turning muddy now—unpleasant going for rabbits—but at least it led straight to the river and was open enough for Kehaar to spot them if he should turn up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He also recalled in surprising detail his one unpleasant ride on Seabiscuit three years earlier, when the horse was still with Fitzsimmons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Chlordane, another chlorinated hydrocarbon, has all these unpleasant attributes of DDT plus a few that are peculiarly its own. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It’s...just a place you go when you’re waiting to meet with Mr. Curtain. An...unpleasant place.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Every night unpleasant things are happening in Baghdad,’ the Sultan said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If they got the answer wrong...Even with antidotes on hand, it would be unpleasant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He didn’t look like Senor MacGregor in the book, but there was definitely something unpleasant about him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai noticed, out of the corner of his eye, that one was burly like a prizefighter while the other was slender and somehow unpleasant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Korn stopped with an unpleasant expression and took a step back down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The man laughed, and Richard was not sure if it was a pleasant or an unpleasant laugh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was not unpleasant, but it was full, like the hush before a sudden downpour. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And yet Mariam saw that, oddly enough, the whole of these unmemorable parts made for a face that was not pretty but, somehow, not unpleasant to look at either. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s unpleasant, but I’m grateful for the lack of urine. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Why was she so prone to strange, unpleasant dreams? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When he was satisfied he stepped out into the morning’s dark, his head churning with unpleasant possibilities, and he returned to the graveyard, to the chapel spire where he slept and waited out the days. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “You can’t tell me. I understand. But why are you warning me? A sudden, unpleasant thought struck him. “Hang on — this hasn’t got anything to do with Vol- — sorry — with You-Know-Who, has it? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Molly lets out an unpleasant noise, like a snort or a grumble. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z No. It was the absolute last thing Ekon wanted, but at the same time his heart was beginning to pound in a new, unpleasant way. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The unpleasant sound was repeated, twice; there was silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z These intervals are all considered to be somewhat unpleasant or tension-producing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He went on looking me up and down in his amused way with those familiar, unpleasant blue eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Or if they have, the sight is probably waking some very unpleasant memories. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was not unpleasant or frightening; it was merely quietly insistent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z After all, Call had always been my best friend, but, I said to myself, one must face facts however unpleasant. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never noticed what an unpleasant, nasal voice she had, and I was surprised by the malice in it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her voice is pious, condescending, the voice of those whose duty it is to tell us unpleasant things for our own good. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands had a strange orange color and she had a distinct smell, not unpleasant but very strong. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “You just rest for now, and I will take care of these unpleasant details.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They had an unpleasant musky smell but she still didn’t like to see them held fast in the traps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s such an unpleasant place that I spend almost all my time out of it. Besides, what could be nicer than these grimy mountains?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mother,” he repeated loudly rubbing in the science; and, leaning back in his chair, “These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something unpleasant about this waiting, he felt everything around him to be holding back some kind of violence. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He preferred, as a rule, not to think unpleasant thoughts. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Certainly, I didn’t want to fill her mind with all the unpleasant images from my day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weston’s communications furnished Emma with more food for unpleasant reflection, by increasing her esteem and compassion, and her sense of past injustice towards Miss Fairfax. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z A big yellow funnel collecting for some children’s charity that’s really unpleasant to think about. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Notes that are dissonant can sound harsh or unpleasant when played at the same time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He asked why I had such an unpleasant face when looking at him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z One voice was certainly the old Gaffer’s; the other was strange, and somehow unpleasant. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He used his Yiddish like a secondhand suit, something worn at the elbows, ill-fitting, and a touch unpleasant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I still feel a little unpleasant about the whole Abby and Martin conversation, but I think I may be on my way to feeling better. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z A heaviness hung all around them, a staticky, unpleasant feeling that seemed to coat the inside of Sierra’s lungs every time she breathed in. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Alkahest on the foot was an unpleasant prospect to consider. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Mr. Trabb,” said I, “it’s an unpleasant thing to have to mention, because it looks like boasting; but I have come into a handsome property.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “The pleasure is mine,” I say, painfully aware that I haven’t shaved in two days, my clothes are stiff with manure, and that manure is not the only unpleasant scent rising from my body. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Or rather, more bitter, for he had always been an unpleasant man. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “I am glad everything is settled then. An unpleasant matter, but amicably settled.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She asked him to clean her eyes, and even though he found the task unpleasant, he did as she asked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I have only one unpleasant memory of the summer holidays in Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I sensed something cold and unpleasant—the presence of evil. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But sitting beside the fire, bending over the lute, I felt the hard, unpleasant parts of myself that I had gained in Tarbean crack. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Evelyn’s mocking smile twists like she has just tasted something unpleasant. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She had the unpleasant suspicion that he knew exactly where the meat had gone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The smaller fifth has traditionally been called a wolf fifth because of its unpleasant sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His chest heaved, and his shoulders slumped, as if expecting something unpleasant. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Once again the white man made those unpleasant noises. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose I should have been amused, but I was too lost in worry that the uncle would be as unpleasant as the niece. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z An unpleasant scurrying told him the roach’s family was searching for the dishes that were usually stacked there. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It started to snow, a wet, Pacific Northwest snow that fell in clumps, soaking and unpleasant. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He had lost the grey colour now, and the old unpleasant smile was forming on his lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “You and I are about to prepare a most unpleasant surprise for Capricorn!” he whispered, a smile lurking in every one of his wrinkles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They exchanged a few anodyne words—“it certainly was not unpleasant,” recalled Oppenheimer, who stayed only briefly and left first. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This was part of the ritual of drowning fearful or unpleasant thoughts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z All the little green hands closed tight, because Montana’s terror was so unpleasant to see. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The name struck Lazlo as an unpleasant twinge behind his eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I smell something acrid and unpleasant on his breath. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The ranges of the four voices overlap, but singers may find themselves straining or getting an unpleasant sound at the top or a weak sound at the bottom of their ranges. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Again she had the unpleasant understanding that this place must have been built by Fabrikator craft in some distant past. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z With Francis, on the other hand, things were more pointed and unpleasant. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He knew Todder, a short ugly boy with an unpleasant voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The most risky and unpleasant adventure outside my home when I was very young was to go grocery shopping where a white man, Mr. Waylans, owned the store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But Don Luis’s warm smile soon melted my fear into awe at finding myself in his house, away from the unpleasant implications of a student face-to-face with the school principal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The outside world obliged Hazel by being as gray and unpleasant as possible. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Two days after this unpleasant exchange, the ill will between our team and the South Africans remained high. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant, it's probably feminine. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I think about spending the entire weekend indoors, and suddenly sledding doesn’t seem so unpleasant. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I understand it was the big American—a man with a decidedly unpleasant face. He sat at the table at meal times.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z An unpleasant piece of wondering came to her, too. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He has, in fact, in his own unpleasant way, genuinely been trying to prepare me for this. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Jam whirled through the door just in time to see both Aloe and Bitter sit up, sleep slithering away from them, leaving that unpleasant disorientation of an unexpected awakening. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In poured a crowd of excited waiters, cooks and dishwashers brandishing mallets, cooking forks and other unpleasant weapons. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked startled by an unpleasant thought, then cross. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And, though this new lucidity of vision was frequently nerve-wracking, there was no denying that it was not an altogether unpleasant sensation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was like having a bucketful of ice water tossed in my face—unpleasant, but attention-getting. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A dissonance may sound surprising, jarring, even unpleasant. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The honest old family retainer, she thought, proud and loyal and thoroughly unpleasant. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I read about Klinefelter’s Syndrome, where an extra X chromosome renders a person tall, eunuchoid, and temperamentally unpleasant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He didn’t know, couldn’t know, how he or his people would perform in a chaotic situation involving intense fear of an unpleasant death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed harmless, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that his accommodating manner, his eagerness to help us, was masking something unpleasant, something more sinister in him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was very unpleasant to think of all those nice people imagining him a traitor. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z We did have fuses, but the fuse box was at the rear of the dark warehouse, which made this a particularly unpleasant job at night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “He’s always sniffing around to see that nobody wastes time. A most unpleasant character.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The others jest too, unpleasant jests, but what else can a man do?—The coffins are really for us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “You probably don’t know this, but the Cullen family has an unpleasant reputation on the reservation.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z At this suggestion everyone grew quiet, looking at one another with unpleasant feelings of suspicion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked as sour and unpleasant as ever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Everybody then murmured “True!” and looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “They didn’t mean well. The older one is an unpleasant conniver like her mother and the younger one is a simpleton. It never entered their heads to mean well.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I was accustomed at this point to fighting off negative thoughts, sticking to the good until I was absolutely forced to contend with something unpleasant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z From the bathroom came an unpleasant and characteristic sound. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a circumstance which Darcy could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady’s family, it would be an unpleasant thing.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Shortly before the case resumed, the state played another unpleasant trick on us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was glad to find another use for Deydey’s gift besides the usual unpleasant one of scraping hides. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z As she put her hand out to touch the parapet of the bridge, a duck startled her with a high, unpleasant call, almost human in its breathy downward note. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “But I don’t know how. Why do women always have to do such unpleasant things? Heels, thongs, shaving, plucking, bleaching. It’s really not fair.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His life had taken a most unpleasant turn since he had come home for the summer with his end-of-year report. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Dark skin, big lips, and hair the texture of a briar bush—they were just plain unpleasant to deal with. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have no desire to see the poor girl in such an unpleasant state.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He was becoming a super-celebrity in the world of chess, but the more fame he achieved, the more unpleasant his behavior became. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A statement, I’m aware, that has all the unpleasant earmarks of a build-up, but quite the contrary is true. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z If they accept certain statements and then are shown that some other unpleasant statements follow from them, they associate the unpleasantness of the conclusions with the vehicle of their expression. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The She Elephant’s cook fires always had something vaguely unpleasant about them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My day went smoothly enough until seventh period, when I had an unpleasant surprise. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not quite sure what to make of him, and it’s annoying that he’s not all that unpleasant to look at, because that could cloud my judgment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At best, it is an unpleasant sensation, scaly and cold, similar to holding on to a small, narrow snake. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Her manner was fawning again, intimate and unpleasant. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Violet said, but just as she said it, one of the telephones rang, in a loud, unpleasant wail. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z A chemically vanilla smell wafts around the car—the kind you spray to mask pet or unpleasant cooking odors. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The Mexican blanket was scratchy, which did not bother me: sex was supposed to be unpleasant the first time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Unpleasant. Extremely unpleasant. Even when you know he’ll do the same to you, it’s still a very indelicate thing to do.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The shorter priest’s voice had an unpleasant edge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Weston, his son, Emma, and Harriet, only remained; and the young man’s spirits now rose to a pitch almost unpleasant. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “A very odd man, an unpleasant man,” Henry Kissinger would later say of his new boss, Richard Nixon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The indignities of segregation continued to make travel frustrating and unpleasant. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Some minutes passed in this unpleasant silence, with only one attempt on Emma’s side to talk of the weather, but he made no answer. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I don’t even dare to contemplate the fact that I might need to perform something unpleasant. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z After a long, uncomfortable silence, Heqet said wryly, “Do I make myself unpleasant, as the viper said to the asp?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The bank battle was an unpleasant interlude, but it didn’t interrupt what was becoming the key portion of most of Bobby’s days: reading. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No photo-banks—well, death by slow broiling is one of the more unpleasant ways of being done in. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Elowen was regarding her coolly, as if she were merely an unpleasant task to take care of, little larger than an insect she could crush beneath her shoe. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In fact, most people would find the effect very unpleasant and would say that the notes are not "in tune" with each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That was unpleasant, but not as unpleasant as falling off the platform from sheer weakness would have been. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I read in the paper that Thurgood Marshall said he didn’t know how much more unpleasant treatment we could take at Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m told she’s extremely disagreeable and unpleasant. Why have you introduced her at a moment when I desired to talk of you?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Our neighboring world turns out to be a dismally unpleasant place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mike was unpleasant after he passed a certain point. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “I wonder if you really mean it. Of course under the circumstances it’s the wisest thing he can do. Gossip is an unpleasant thing to some people. It’s more pleasant to avoid it, isn’t it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one that had to be said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s alive, you know,” says the master-at-arms—a seasoned crewman in charge of the cannon, with unpleasant tattoos up and down his arms. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Ryan Dean, sometimes when boys take it upon themselves to look out for one another, there are unpleasant consequences.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Thinking back to that moment made something unpleasant and bitter squirm in his stomach. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The other two seemed to have experienced the same unpleasant sensation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Afterward, all that was faked turned bad and gave an unpleasant feeling. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The contamination of milk and of farm produce in the course of the gypsy moth spraying came as an unpleasant surprise to many people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet hopefully as the industry may turn its face the other way, the problem simply does not go away, and it presents some unpleasant economic facts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was another pause, an awkward and embarrassed one, and then Lupin said, with an air of forcing himself to admit something unpleasant, “Tonks is going to have a baby.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z An unpleasant taste bloomed in my mouth now as I bit the end of the yam and threw it into the street; it had been frost-bitten. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The sleeping pill was an extraneous gesture; I didn’t need it, but the mere possibility of restlessness, of an afternoon full of bad dreams and distant plumbing noises, was too unpleasant to even contemplate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We freshers now constituted the official House Committee and we assigned the seniors the most unpleasant chores, which was a humiliation for them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sight of them had prompted an unpleasant reminder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was on a roll and was about to say something else; but then, quite suddenly, he stopped, his face souring as if something unpleasant had occurred to him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They spent a miserable day in this lonely and unpleasant country. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I went on with my dressing, puzzled at her attitude, so different from our last encounter, and wondering whether I had the unpleasant Favell to thank for it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A smell came from her which would not have been unpleasant had it belonged to someone else. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know that I can explain. You looked older suddenly, deceitful. It was rather unpleasant.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “There’s something unpleasant about that question, isn’t there?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The flies were equally as unpleasant as the stench. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His face was without expression, but there was something unpleasant behind it that Winnie sensed at once, something that made her instantly suspicious. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Once you are there, the rest of the universe seems nothing but an unpleasant dream. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “I’ve watched Alexia be unpleasant to all of you. I hoped that one of you was going to stand up to her and tell her to stop. You didn’t.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Nivea hoped that the successive and unpleasant stages of growth would bring her daughter a few imperfections, but nothing of the sort occurred. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Being caught between black and white as a working adult was far more unpleasant than when I was a college student. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, what irked him was the mirrored lenses; it was unpleasant having Perry’s eyes hidden behind the privacy of those tinted, reflecting surfaces. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Nick planted himself in front of me, a distinctly unpleasant smile on his face. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “You took that from Sirius’s house,” said Harry, who was almost nose to nose with Mundungus and was breathing in an unpleasant smell of old tobacco and spirits. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Something unpleasant is in the air around this place, like the electric charge before a thunderstorm. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It started to snow, a wet, Pacific Northwest snow that fell in clumps, soaking and unpleasant. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His eyes studied me intently—deep brown eyes that I didn’t understand—but at least he didn’t dangle me off the ground like a dead animal or look at me as if I smelled unpleasant. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He stared at the candles as if remembering something unpleasant. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Their opulent clothing, elaborate and glittering, could not hide their disfigurement, and their unpleasant expressions made them hideous. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She found his expression decidedly unpleasant and made a point of averting her smoke-stung eyes from that harsh, heavy- lidded gaze. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her face twisted into an unpleasant contortion that made it hard to see how beautiful she was. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “If it’s not today, then it’s tomorrow, or the next day. When there’s an unpleasant job to do, it’s best to get it over with. Putting it off won’t help.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For the rest of that week, Ana took it upon herself to be particularly unpleasant to her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a feeling the sorceress was about to turn him into something unpleasant if he didn’t shut up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His gesture would have been unpleasant if his eyes had not been so astonishingly sweet and bright. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an unpleasant chorus of clicking, probably from some evil type of insect, coming from the eleven-to-twelve-o’clock wedge. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The other group was going to challenge Jiang Xi-wen, an unpleasant woman who lived in a house behind the school yard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And I will not end up with the unpleasant task of killing him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Troublemakers or brawlers, or other sorts of unpleasant characters who required restraint, and God knows where they go under martial law. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She stopped moving, and turned, and stared at him, as if she were examining something quite unpleasant a very long way away. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “But unpleasant things must be done for unpleasant purposes out of unpleasant necessity.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They were unpleasant enough, these private inquisitions, but I cannot find words to adequately express the torments I suffered when he chose to ply this art of his in public. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Ah yes,” she sighed; “I keep forgetting that many people do. But I suppose they are necessary, for you’d never really know how pleasant one was unless you knew how unpleasant it wasn’t.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z It gave me the shivers, but not in an entirely unpleasant way. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z All the sudden a stranger boy came up ’longside of me and gave me some unpleasant looks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important: and when one tried to get the thing straight the argument sheered off, bringing up fresh, unpleasant matter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He visited Antonapoulos so much at the fruit store that Charles Parker was unpleasant to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Perhaps I was denying this prospect because it was too unpleasant to contemplate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t unpleasant, but only added to my sense of being overwhelmed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She sounds like an unpleasant sort, but her story is true. Social Q?s: It?s All About My Mother 2011-05-05T19:03:45Z Refusing to accept photographs or statistics as actual evidence and searching for “alternative facts” to explain away unpleasant occurrences are pretty much defining characteristics of childhood. A malicious child acts out: Donald Trump, Jim Comey and the toxic triumph of “kidult” culture 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z It rained a lot, too, she said, which was unpleasant but ended up having a positive effect on the production. TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z This can trigger anaerobic decomposition of compost, which smells unpleasant and can also attract unwanted pests. Why shouldn’t I pour oil or paint down the sink? And what should I do instead? 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z After an unpleasant email exchange last week, the charity canceled the event on Saturday. It’s a Streaming World After All: Scuttled Benefit Is Back. 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Classes at the school were sometimes laborious and unpleasant, with strict, demanding teachers. ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z The book alternates between Harker's efforts to find the boy and her memories of his manipulative and unpleasant late mother. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z A man driving to work this morning on Chicago's Northwest Side got an unpleasant surprise when his SUV tumbled into a sinkhole. Car tumbles into sinkhole on Northwest Side 2011-08-20T16:10:00Z She said she is "delighted" with the outcome of the "unpleasant episode". Willoughby gets newspaper payout 2012-12-04T16:44:56Z The pour is calculated for each resident to be just enough to stave off the shakes and sweats of detox, which for alcohol is particularly unpleasant – seizures from alcohol deprivation can be fatal. The shelter that gives wine to alcoholics | Tina Rosenberg 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z And that was also very painful to her – quite apart from the fact that there's a passage in the book that's rather unpleasant for her mother to read, about the mother's snoring or something. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z “I can barely get through a single double tour. How am I going to do this? And that’s really unpleasant, frankly.” After a Severe Injury, James Whiteside Is Dancing on a New Knee 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The photo showed a three-tiered cake in a rather unpleasant brown shade, with a “Mr and Mrs” sign plonked on top. Bride and groom slammed for wedding cake icing fail: 'This is a disaster' 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z John Updike zinged him on several occasions and gave an unpleasant lawyer the name Gilman in his novel “S.” Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Franco shrewdly does not shy away from depicting some of the more unpleasant and humiliating things Marianne encounters while held hostage. Michel Franco's dystopian drama "New Order" is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z But an unpleasant surprise was in store for anyone who came unprepared. The Pros and (Considerable) Cons of Budget Bus Travel 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Then a few simultaneous and unpleasant events happened in my on- and offline life. Why I purged my Facebook friends list 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Why do you think stars force themselves to eat unpleasant foods? Rebecca Harrington follows celebrity diets and lives to write about it 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Jonathan Wright Last week's instalment was an unsettling watch, with Joan forced to "take one for the team" in truly unpleasant fashion. TV highlights 05/06/2012 2012-06-04T19:00:01Z Despised by his unpleasant colleagues because they've pegged him as a loser, foolish Thomas repeatedly falls for their tricks. Review: Mike Bartlett waves red flag with 'Bull' 2013-05-03T01:53:08Z Walter Isaacson did not avoid the unpleasant side of Steve Jobs, but acknowledged he had bonded strongly with the dying Apple CEO. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z Some great unpleasant moments here but what makes it so special is the stunning performance from Robin McLeavy as Lola, one of the most terrifying yet pitiful creations in horror cinema. Simply the best of the rest 2010: films the critics forgot to mention 2011-01-10T16:45:33Z He'd discovered unpleasant truths about Elijah Muhammad, including extramarital affairs and unacknowledged children. When Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's friendship changed history: The new book 'Blood Brothers' explains 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z If she can make something as unpleasant as Observe and Report bearable for even two minutes, logic suggests someone should give her more starring roles with closer to 90 minutes on screen. Movie review of What's Your Number starring Anna Faris 2011-09-28T11:05:00Z You may be in for an unpleasant surprise. Don’t get pumped up about great gas prices until you read the small print 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Our myth is about dark deeds and unpleasant doings.” David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z These are only stopgap measures, but they should help you avoid unpleasant surprises until the long arm of the law catches up with hotels that charge resort fees. Hotel resort fees, hidden charges bemoaned by travelers, are climbing higher than ever 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It's one of the most genuinely unpleasant things that I've ever written, but I stand by it. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z It is a heart attack that introduces laughter into what has hitherto been a most unpleasant encounter. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The light fills the empty parallelogram of the room with an unpleasant sickly pallor. Artist Bruce Nauman's carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind 2013-01-30T18:12:43Z He finds Gay’s book “exhaustingly unpleasant” while Doerr’s is merely “sentimental.” Stephin Merritt, “mean” book judge: Why his merciless reviews ruffled so many literary feathers 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z What might be considered unpleasant but acceptable behaviour from a comic book artist takes on a different flavour thanks to the platform from which Krahulik is now speaking, and his King Geek status. PAX Australia: can it escape controversy? 2013-07-19T00:32:35Z There’s a quote that takes up its own wall at the American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibition: It’s more important to tell the truth about the president — pleasant or unpleasant — than about anyone else. Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z All in all, it wasn’t an unpleasant revisiting of a great musical; it just wasn’t a particularly coherent or revelatory one. Review: ‘Hairspray Live!’ Had Power Voices but Still Lacked Power 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Industrial cider is often sweetened, adulterated, made from concentrate and altogether unpleasant. When ‘Drinks’ Is the Only Box Left Unchecked 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Sitting through the film isn’t as unpleasant as that; it’s more like suspended animation. | 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead': Off Broadway Vampires 2010-06-04T00:33:00Z That signature Ne-Yo unctuousness — not altogether unpleasant, it should be said — is in full effect on his rendition of “The Christmas Song,” the best chestnut on his debut holiday collection. Holiday Tunes That Soothe, Provoke and Share a Joke 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The original article in the Day asked teenagers to consider whether it is possible still to enjoy great works of art by “deeply unpleasant people” such as Pablo Picasso and Richard Wagner. Children's news website apologises to JK Rowling over trans tweet row 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Poor children live a very unpleasant life and to avoid that would be untruthful, and I don't think one should be untruthful to children. Blue Peter awards drop 'unsuitable' finalist 2010-12-07T17:27:00Z But part of me worries there will be unpleasant repercussions in the not-too-distant future. Small minds crimp my style 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z And I I took ‘chilly’ very literally to mean that she found the climate very unpleasant,” Davies said. Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The restaurant maintains a notional greylist and a blacklist of unpleasant diners. The secrets of a maitre d’: what it’s really like feeding the 1% 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z And bawdy farce ensues when Rob begins to change the day’s script and uses his newfound ability as a superpower to escape unpleasant situations. ‘Premature,’ a Teenage Comedy, Mixes Sex and Sci-Fi 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But the film, and the Elizabeth Gilbert book of the same name, obscure an unpleasant reality that has been brewing for years: Bali is struggling to cope with its own popularity. This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The weather is least unpleasant between December and March. Explorer : Mud, Leeches and Stunning Beauty in Tasmania 2013-01-25T17:51:24Z But there was method in his seemingly random slayings: because Rick’s people had slain some of his, frankly quite unpleasant, Saviours, he needed to send a message. The Walking Dead season seven premiere: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s a time of year when more infrequent air travelers take to the skies — often, they are not sober — adding to the unbelievable but often true catalog of unpleasant in-flight encounters. How to avoid the worst flight ever 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Eli may not care much for the black man one way or another, but he viscerally dislikes the Klan and wastes no opportunity to make the Cyclops' stay in custody as unpleasant as possible. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z It’s a drab, unpleasant line of work in which cheesy slogans and gimmicks pass for creativity.” Television Review: ?The Pitch,? A New Reality Show on AMC 2012-04-06T23:32:51Z The next day brought leaden skies, a cold drizzle and a brisk wind from the north: unpleasant for the traveler, perhaps, but perfect for harvesting hamsi. Journeys: Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast 2012-12-14T15:56:50Z According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.” Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z While “bad behavior in marketing departments is unpleasant,” he concludes, the real scientific outrage and the big public danger lie in uniformly dubious practices of drug development. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The researchers did an experiment to see if the student volunteers would even do an unpleasant task rather than just sit and think. Would you rather sit and think or get shocked? You'd be surprised 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me,” she told the newspaper. Actor Uma Thurman accuses Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z By the end of this episode, it’s clear that the Jeff problem is not that big a deal — more an unpleasant inconvenience than mortal threat. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 10 Recap: Sweet Revenge 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z She plays an accessories designer who travels the world and communicates largely by unpleasant video chat. Television Review: ?Jane by Design? on ABC Family ? Review 2012-01-03T00:20:55Z Though I was advised that a single bath would not accomplish this goal, I nonetheless slathered myself in the mud, withstanding the unpleasant smell of sulfur in pursuit of soft, perfect skin. T Magazine: Turkish Delight 2012-07-12T21:02:17Z Managing those "unpleasant issues" can be hard, and the temptation to just avoid food altogether can be immense. Food allergies are on the rise — are they causing an increase in eating disorders? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z The sartorial feline world is the wild west, and every possible option is just as unpleasant as the last. Cats: the fur, the tails, Judi Dench's cannibal coat – discuss the film with spoilers 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The actress, a recurring Sia collaborator, ultimately replaced “a beautiful young girl nonverbal on the spectrum” who found the experience “unpleasant and stressful,” Sia said in a tweet. The Golden Globes Celebrated Sia’s ‘Music.’ Autistic Activists Wish They Hadn’t. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It just seems as if Frankie Boyle is a bit unpleasant. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-20T22:00:00Z Your boyfriend knows his behavior is unpleasant, indefensible — and that it bothers you. Perspective | Miss Manners: Correcting meal trays in first class 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z As unpleasant as some of these tasks he has taken upon himself have been, there is something else that drives him. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z For example, very high temperatures in Russia in 2010 were unpleasant, but the bigger consequences were forest fires and loss of wheat production. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z "Pushy little Princess Pinocchio tried her utmost to cancel me, and she will be in for a very unpleasant surprise when I emerge, like Lazarus, from my den." Trump bonds with Piers Morgan over hatred of Meghan Markle, claims Prince Harry is "whipped" 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Irascible, unpleasant old Don Pasquale, or those who mercilessly dupe him? Don Pasquale – review 2013-07-19T17:22:52Z He drinks, curses, complains and is generally unpleasant. Ask Amy: In-laws welcome neighbor, drive family away 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z If you’re trying to get a refund for a canceled trip, prepare for an unpleasant surprise. Perspective | Confusing coronavirus refund policies frustrate travelers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The aftermath was unpleasant: family upheaval, a mother’s tears and a promising career cut short. Ozawa: A pioneer who dedicated his life to Western music 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z “Our alliance to the Lannisters remains every bit as necessary to them as it is unpleasant to us,” Lady Olenna says. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: A Regression to the Mean 2014-04-21T02:01:11Z Even just trying to get myself to that place — it was very unpleasant. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Plans ‘Our Version of a Happy Ending’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z This radio series for Canada's public service broadcaster traces the evolution of spin, considering the methods used by various industries to conceal certain "unpleasant" truths. Catch-up TV Guide: From The Larry Sanders Show to Spin Cycles 2012-07-13T23:10:39Z Every surfer encountered on the beach warned of vague, unpleasant consequences if we entered the water. California's surf wars: wave 'warlords' go to extreme lengths to defend their turf 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z It has a very grisly history and unpleasant things went on. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z One is left with the unpleasant feeling that the monster has been seriously dissed. Why does Judy Murray have to take these punches? 2013-07-13T23:06:05Z But mostly this crass, witless, and unpleasant attempt at comedy showcases Ritchie's lack of sense and taste. Guy Ritchie's 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z His red-rimmed eyes are at half-mast and he’s pale, pudgy, pasty—as unpleasant to look at as to hear. 42: The Jackie Robinson Biopic Is a Solid Hit 2013-04-12T09:45:25Z Unfortunately, anyone for whom adolescence is a distant and unpleasant memory is unlikely to feel like screaming, not in ecstasy, anyway. Review: A High School Meltdown Heats Up ‘Be More Chill’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z He asked me to write her an unpleasant letter. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z Many parts of the city were dirty, trash-filled, unpleasant and even dangerous. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z But his newspaper interview with Le Matin comes as an unpleasant surprise. Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z There’s an unpleasant sense that Ondaatje is regaling us rather than simply putting across a story. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z In interviews, officials from two networks described the conflicts between Lewandowski and reporters last week as an unpleasant but routine part of campaign coverage. TV networks can’t find common ground in dealing with Trump 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z And everyone has seen how certain things have played out with my daughter, which has been very painful – it's been really unpleasant. Alec Baldwin quits Twitter after row with Daily Mail reporter 2013-07-03T13:05:39Z They were apparently so averse to dwelling on the unpleasant business of failure that they had neglected even to keep samples of their own disasters. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z This would be merely unkind and possibly unpleasant if the “Forbidden” performers didn’t replicate and exaggerate their subjects’ vocal tics with such loving exactitude. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!’ at 47th Street Theater 2012-09-07T02:00:00Z Compounding the unpleasant nature of Maher’s wheat-grass pomposity is that, from vaccines to the news items he discusses, he’s just not very well informed. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z To be fair to all us complainers, having a cold right now is particularly unpleasant. Is It Just Us or Does Everyone Have a Cold Right Now? 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Or maybe it was the unseasonably cool air; a cold chopping block could make for unpleasant butchering. Explorer: In Cajun Country, in Search of the Boucherie 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z Robert Morse played the character based on Mr. Prince, presenting a caricature of the man himself — excitable, phone-obsessed, overly mannered, generally unpleasant. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Oh, and if that wasn't enough, there's one of the most breathtakingly unpleasant scenes seen on British TV in a fair old while. TV highlights 15/01/2013 2013-01-14T20:00:02Z Just based on how different the novel is and how unpleasant but necessary its narrative is, are people ready for a film adaptation of that? “Racism is really just a mask for greed”: Salon talks to Alice Walker on the 40th anniversary of “Meridian” about the power of revolt 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Going over the grandmasterly games felt too much like school – occasionally interesting, often straining my mind in unpleasant ways. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – extract 2013-02-23T08:00:19Z There is a feeling in this book, new and unpleasant in my reading of Lerner, of being frog-marched toward a thesis. Speech and Violence Collide in ‘The Topeka School’ 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “Tons of bags left in every corner” take up street space, attract rodents and make outdoor dining unpleasant, he said. Back to Normal? It’s a Tall Order as New York City Restaurants Struggle. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Each on its own would tank it, but combined they create a viewing experience that is singularly unpleasant and painful. Sia's directorial debut "Music" is a baffling and patronizing cringefest of ableist minstrelsy 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The actress did not speak further about the specifics of her “unpleasant” working relationship with the director and instead related her time in Hollywood to her “Thrones” character, Sansa Stark. Sophie Turner: Working with Bryan Singer on "X-Men" was "unpleasant" 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The story of how Ms. Hall, who died in 1979, returned Rubens’s “St. Catherine” highlights her painstaking work and the unpleasant fact that some of the art left Europe with American servicemen. Not All Monuments Men Were Men 2014-01-29T18:13:42Z It's not clear what the point is of this unpleasant character study, suffice to say it's rendered as authentically as the morose navel-gazer of side one. New band of the day – Robert Ellis (No 1,301) 2012-07-04T16:01:37Z For most women, the experience is like a very bad menstrual period — the kind with cramps, clots, heavy bleeding, nausea and so forth — definitely unpleasant but within the range of normal. One pill the first day, four to follow: Why a safe alternative to clinic-based abortion is underused 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z For a brief moment it brought up old unpleasant memories of being mocked and laughed at for being a boy who danced. Perspective | Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z But the dialogue assumes the blurry, unpleasant loudness that brings to mind strangers fighting on the streets. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The creators of “Johnny Baseball” might argue that they’re using stock devices to highlight the unpleasant truths behind period fictions. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z One thing is certain, however: It sure leaves an unpleasant aftertaste. Review: ‘The 9th Life of Louis Drax.’ So, Little Boys Get Nine Lives, Too? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z If this sounds unpleasant, rest assured, "Hunt Club" is a feminist revenge flick directed by a woman, Elizabeth Blake-Thomas. Casper Van Dien's career reflections, from "Starship Troopers" to his recent "creepy white dude" era 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z His skin was the color of an oompa-loompa, and his hair ... there was something very unpleasant about this man's hair. Donald Trump's "Today" interview: What you didn't see 2011-04-07T19:01:00Z The reason being that the stringy part is unpleasant to eat. A God Among Vegetables 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Another of the political provocations is a gruesome and unpleasant torture sequence — conducted by the player — that casts waterboarding and other violent methods as games played for the entertainment of the interrogator. Video Game Review: Grand Theft Auto V Is a Return to the Comedy of Violence 2013-09-16T14:04:49Z It's so unpleasant; it was the state song of Kentucky until 1986. 'Mad Men' stars remember biggest bombshells hurled at them on series 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Taking shape and losing it would become an unpleasant spectacle, with horror-film moments. Elena Ferrante: ‘Beauty triumphs in childhood photos, along with charm, joy, happy laughter’ 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Mabel dispelled the coping mechanism that made her black out unpleasant events from her memory, like what happened the night of Bunny's murder . . . and the real reason she felt her father abandoned her. "Only Murders in the Building" boss on that killer party, other possible suspects and next season 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Outsourcing: pay experts to do all the tedious, unpleasant bits necessary to grow little darlings – including paying for potty training programmes at $3,000 a pop. ‘Snowplough’ and six more controversial parenting techniques 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Not that all of the meals are unpleasant. Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z The movie’s humor can be full-on unpleasant, as when an obese delivery man begins stripping, then urinating, while on a stalled elevator car. In ‘Set It Up’ and 2 Other Netflix Comedies, No One Emerges Unscathed 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Both of them spend the next day suffering the unpleasant consequences. Still Life: Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids by Elisabeth Luard – review 2013-06-28T16:30:00Z "I think a lot of comments strike us as pretty unpleasant – what he says about the Chinese in particular," Ze’ev Rosenkranz, who edited and translated "The Travel Diaries," told the Guardian. Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In particular, they probably harbored an array of unpleasant prejudices: You would’ve hated your heroes: Why history’s great men seem so morally deficient 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z I’d just roughly chop them, though; ground they disappear into the muesli, which, though not unpleasant, is far less interesting texture-wise. How to make the perfect bircher muesli 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Bell sleeves, unfortunately, triggered unpleasant flashbacks to Lorelei Linklater’s gown at the recent Screen Actors Guild awards. Cool Girls Keep It Comfortable 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z This is jarring at first, and remains slightly unpleasant even once you’ve adjusted to it. Is Restaurant Noise a Crime? Our Critic Mounts a Ringing Defense 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z There’s a lot to be said for sparing people the raw first response — especially sparing a 14-year-old, who might carry that unpleasant memory further than an adult would. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Daughter comes out but won’t tell Dad. What now? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Cooper’s script and lyrics are commendable in their willingness to take on unpleasant subjects without flinching. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z Writing for television can be challenging and lucrative, but there are limits to how deep one can venture into the unpleasant realities of crime. Review | Ready for a psychopath on the level of Hannibal Lecter? Check out ‘Sunrise Highway’ 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes, scummy foam develops at the top of smoothies, making them pretty unpleasant to drink. The most common smoothie problems (and how to solve them) 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z And as the petition asks flatly, in light of his “especially unpleasant, nasty and despicable behavior, “Why is Macy’s celebrating Trump?” Will Macy’s dump Trump? 2012-11-13T19:52:00Z It’s almost harsh, almost unpleasant on the front end. The great cider shakedown: how do you like them American v European apples? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The lyrics are spiteful and raw, and sometimes downright unpleasant. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z And just like learning Portuguese or writing "King Lear," the goals we set for ourselves in this incredibly anxious, enraging, grief-riddled time don't have to be lofty, unpleasant, or against our talents and interests. Give up on that sourdough and embrace the tao of "I Hate to Cook" 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The reasons for its premature demise are complicated and unpleasant. The Last Days to Catch ‘The Great Comet’ Are Here 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z “That would be an unpleasant experience,” she said. This Life: Snooping in the Age of E-book - This Life 2011-09-23T21:38:47Z Elsewhere there are rhythmic foot stomping, snapping strings for bullets and, at the very end, a slow, surreal, unpleasant slide down to the final harmony, as if death itself were being enacted. Music Review: A Far Cry, in the Schneider Concerts at Tishman Auditorium 2013-01-17T22:50:08Z But when you hear Friedman’s description of it, the whole thing starts to sound unpleasant. Perspective | Don’t blame MeToo for ruining the most iconic kiss in history. The photo was never romantic. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z I assumed, rather arrogantly, that a lot of the ill-behaviour associated with dementia – the hostility, the anger, the violence, the unpleasant side – were to do with external factors, because people weren't being looked after well. The raw horror of Alzheimer's 2010-06-01T20:00:00Z There’s much in the trailer to get fans gasping – fireballs, fjords, a flying motorbike – but the biggest shock is Rami Malek’s unpleasant parka. Selling James Bond: why No Time to Die is a product placement dream 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Cavazos, a Mexican actor who appeared in productions at London’s Old Vic theater during Spacey’s time, said he had experienced “a couple of unpleasant encounters with Spacey that verged on what you could call harassment”. Actor accuses Spacey of harassment during stint at London theater 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The lingering shots of Portland are not unpleasant. You Me Her: the retro romcom with three-way chemistry 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He and Rosie would watch The Lion King together: in the final, unpleasant stages of his last illness, he was at the point where he didn't mind watching the same film over and over. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z And “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is one beautiful cosmetic makeover of a life and ignores a whole lot of other unpleasant realities associated with that time period. “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in its anachronistic unreality 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “Killer on the Road” is a small book that carries a heavy load of unpleasant but important freight. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z The concern about edibles is that if someone overindulges, they have to wait out what can be an unpleasant experience. Dream catchers, succulents and joints: a visit to an LA cannabis shop 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s a frequently amusing, occasionally hilarious, rarely unpleasant grab bag of mild mockery and inspired lunacy, decked out with cameos from beloved comic performers and random celebrities. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z Sadly, over-emulsified sausage is crumbly and unpleasant and cannot be rescued. I know how the sausage gets made — and you can, too 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But he also opens his most unpleasant parts up to her, warning her that if she continues to participate in his journeys into his own memory, she will not like what she sees. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 3: Days of Future Past 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z This leads to a deeply unpleasant exchange of words, including assorted “well-meaning,” poisoned clichés that we are all of course beyond now. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z This is a profoundly unpleasant association, however; a reason to walk past such a product briskly, possibly gagging, if I see it on a shelf at Homebase. The new Polycell advert 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z Windsor Castle “was very unpleasant and the palaces in Whitehall were all higgledy-piggledy,” Professor Mandler said, referring to her London home. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Despite those and a few other unpleasant events, Murphy was met with hospitality and kindness. Review | This summer: Audiobooks that make you feel like you’re on a vacation 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “But I think they’ve turned him into an even more unpleasant person than he was already.” Dominic West in ?Appropriate Adult? on Sundance Channel 2011-12-04T03:49:03Z It's not even midday, and already my head is filled with stuff both unpleasant and grimly compelling: murder, violence, organised , the lower-grade parts of the sex industry, you name it. Get Carter: In search of lost Tyne 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z An oversmart, overachieving Brooklyn high school senior, Quentin shows up for his Princeton interview at an alumnus’s house, only to find the college admissions process even more unpleasant than he supposed. Book Review: ‘Magician’s Land’ Ends Lev Grossman’s Trilogy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Just bad, as in unpleasant to play and watch. Video Game Review: 14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End 2011-06-17T22:56:13Z Life itself is a multi-episode series that will eventually lead to a finale that you may find drawn out and unpleasant. We Have to Go Back: Hope, Disappointment and Re-Watching Lost With My Kids 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The participants are chosen based on their willingness to say and do the most ugly, unpleasant and extreme things to each other while cameras roll. Reality TV: A blood sport that must change 2011-08-18T14:59:00Z Scurrilous poems did the rounds, including an exceptionally unpleasant piece of work called The Un-sex’d Females. The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In the second movement, after a smoldering solo from cellist Knut Weber, the group’s brash and loud approach forced violinist Andreas Buschatz into some unpleasant shrillness, continuing into the devilish third movement. Review | Berlin Philharmonic helps Dumbarton Concerts series mark 40th anniversary 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z This means that many folks are gazing at the expiration dates of their dusty passports for the first time in a while, and perhaps finding an unpleasant surprise: It is time for renewal. The Promise of a Really Great Passport Photo 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z After that it was hard for me to trust any time he used his disease to avoid doing something unpleasant. All the single mamas: Raising kids isn’t always easier with a partner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s mean-spirited to say that a movie based on the director’s personal experience of a brutal 26-year civil war is unpleasant. | 'Flying Fish': Amid War, Fierce Adversaries of the Creepy-Crawly Variety 2011-07-06T22:34:46Z The way Twitter rewards and amplifies a combination of hyper-victimhood and the sick desire to always be right has produced a delusional user base of the most unpleasant personas on the planet. Quitting Twitter is easy — changing ourselves is harder 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Imagining all this about Ms. Karan’s handsome collection was easy and not at all unpleasant. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Vera Wang and Theyskens? Theory 2012-02-15T00:09:46Z A girl whose head twists all the way around her body and emits something thick, green and unpleasant from her mouth. ‘The Exorcist’ on a Los Angeles Stage 2012-06-22T00:23:01Z “No sense in arguing with people and making things unpleasant. We always get along at Thanksgiving.” The Big Question This Thanksgiving: Are You Vaccinated? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Where Carell's "The Office" character, Michael Scott, combines outrageously bad judgment with vanity and self-delusion, Barry Speck is enough rungs down the IQ ladder that laughing at him is nearly unpleasant. Cast rises above indignities of "Dinner" 2010-07-16T21:38:00Z But Mr. Schley said that the neighborhood still faces a number of challenges, including a lack of charm not helped by the street’s wide girth, unpleasant car traffic and tourist-clotted sidewalks. The Gentrification of Canal Street 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z They were included in the Sweethome tests, and I found them unwieldy and unpleasant to use, even as I was asked to express preferences among them. One Wine Glass to Rule Them All 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Lessons are being taught, and faces rubbed in unpleasant reality, in multiple dimensions. Critic?s Notebook: Criminals, Addicts, Misfits: That?s Entertainment 2011-01-20T00:30:21Z If it turns out that she is saying something negative, our sociometer, says Leary, will cause us to experience unpleasant emotions: we might, for example, experience anger. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z "Given the present unpleasant circumstances, I feel it would be best if I exit the stage," Beal told the audience in a video posted to YouTube. Willis Earl Beal arrested for alleged assault 2012-05-28T09:37:59Z He postured as a TV antihero, the unpleasant guy it takes to get results in an unpleasant world. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z They are very different books, but all exhibit the two qualities that Orwell said made him a writer: “a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts.” ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Second, commitment can be not only unpleasant but also oppressive. ‘Dedicated’ Makes the Case for Choosing Something and Sticking With It 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Time moved slowly, in a not unpleasant way. Eating Ramen by Yourself Is an Antidote to Everything 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Though it is not very good, “Darling Companion” is not actually unpleasant. Movie Review: ?Darling Companion? From Lawrence and Meg Kasdan 2012-04-19T22:35:40Z Eliot recognized when he paid them homage: “How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!/ With his features of clerical cut. . . ” Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The short-term effects of consuming extremely spicy foods range from a pleasurable sensation of heat to an unpleasant burning sensation across the lips, tongue and mouth. Spicy food might burn in the moment, but it likely won’t harm your health in the long term 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z These people are the "suitors", those unpleasant creatures who, in Homer, colonise Odysseus's estates in his 20-year absence, vying for Penelope's hand – before being dispatched in a gruesome bloodbath by the returning hero. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z It’s an unpleasant emotion, though comedians play it for laughs and politicians for votes. For a Sweet 2020, Look to the Bitter in Wine 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z “There was always a kind of ending that was unpleasant that was percolating under the surface of his songs,” Lyonne says, “even at their most upbeat and certainly at their darkest.” ‘Russian Doll’: What to Read About the Hit Netflix Series 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z As we go into the finale, people are anticipating something unpleasant for Pete Campbell. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Reflects on the Season So Far 2012-06-10T19:42:36Z Bennett himself once said that northerners can never compliment something with a positive statement but would be more likely to say something was "not unpleasant". The Village is yet another 'grim up north' TV caricature 2013-04-22T07:18:00Z The view can be a shock—not necessarily unpleasant, but uncanny. How High Can High-Waisted Pants Go? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z After that, it is no surprise to me now that he descended into decades of low-level depression and became quite an unpleasant person. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z They were portrayed as being confused about their racial identity and their transgressions were punished in a host of unpleasant and sexist ways. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “Will M.B.S. mature into a wiser monarch, or will unpleasant surprises continue to punctuate his reign?” ‘MBS’ Chronicles the Shockingly Young, Powerful and Ruthless Saudi Crown Prince 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “Seeing Florence was always unpleasant,” Mr. Morton writes. Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z More worryingly, the novel voices a number of unpleasant generalisations about Muslims, variously characterised as intolerant, misogynistic and fanatical. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z Although no humans have been killed by the tide, local residents have felt its effects: red tide can cause respiratory inflammation and unpleasant itchy or burning skin reactions. A Red Tide on Florida’s Gulf Coast Has Been a Huge Hit to Tourism 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z As unpleasantries go — and it will be unpleasant — it's still better than letting people walk all over you emotionally and wreck your house and blame you for it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A caregiver-spouse struggles with feelings of emptiness and resentment 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z They might not rival the experience of sitting on a Caribbean beach, but they do avoid the unpleasant side effects of sun exposure. Skin Deep: Beauty Spots 2011-01-19T23:30:42Z I think they are harmless, but rather unpleasant looking. Making (Bad) Vinegar at Home: A Critic’s Confession 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The proper responses to unpleasant remarks by Elizabeth are silence and a change of subject. Perspective | Miss Manners: Time to cut ties with longtime friend? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In Rome, the use of “modern” is typically a red flag that accompanies menus featuring gummy sous vide proteins and unpleasant deconstructed classics. A New Roman Restaurant With a Young Chef Celebrates the Classics 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z But beyond that, Musk just gave off the sense that the most unpleasant aspects of the site were his favorite parts. The Twitter Watch Party Is Over 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet the Internet outpouring of astonishment mixed with glee over her changed appearance has been the truly unpleasant sight in all of this. Sinead O'Connor's latest shocker: Not being 20 anymore 2011-08-10T18:59:00Z He comes across as unpleasant: arrogant, racist and constantly borrowing money off Engels. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “He said some unpleasant things about my wife and just various little things, and I just thought, ‘What did I do to this guy?’ Meet the new Howard Stern. He’d like to make amends for the old Howard Stern. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z A few days later, I went on the scandalous history of Seattle tour — we walked around Pioneer Square learning about the slightly unpleasant early days of Seattle with tour guide Bobby Bogdan Mihoc. Forge a knife from a horseshoe? Attend a concert in a secret mansion? AirBnB Experiences show visitors a different side of Seattle 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z They tasted boiled, not broiled, and the red-onion jam had an unpleasant chemical taste. In Ballard, burgers meet fish and chips for a happy 'fast-food' meal 2012-07-27T16:22:03Z As unpleasant as it must be for my sister to see her abuser so often, I understand that she wants her daughter to have a relationship with her father. My sister’s husband yells 2012-08-20T00:00:00Z Many people did, and they found it impossible, or at least unpleasant, to imagine downtown Manhattan without Barbuto. Chicken Reported to Be Doing Well After Successful Restaurant Transplant 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z “If you don’t get out of the weather, then it’s really, really unpleasant,” he said with a grin. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It's an unflinching, in-your-face, decidedly unpleasant journey that dares viewers to hop on a rather nightmarish tour bus. 'Maps to the Stars' a nightmarish tour of Hollywood narcissism 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But the story leaves a very unpleasant taste in the mouth. The Book of Genesis, part 7: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 2011-01-24T10:00:04Z The combination of the interior’s honeycombed white skin and the curvaceous, layered seating areas creates the not unpleasant impression of being in a beehive. What does this critic hear at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall? The sound of the future 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z How do we enjoy the work of bad, unpleasant, corrupt people and institutions? The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z By contrast, the festival’s crowd control was often unpleasant, angering many people trying to get into KeyArena Friday. Bumbershoot 2016 wrap: It’s clearly a pop-music fest, and a very good one 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Reviewing it, Julian Gewirtz calls it a “gripping novel” that “forces readers to reflect on the side of the world that is ‘too absurd, too cruel and too unpleasant.’ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z These are unpleasant days for the former Jell-o spokesman. Cosby’s lawyers go on the attack against sexual assault accusations with the “volume does not make it true” defense 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Although “The Force of Things” is an unpleasant experience to sit through, it has an ominous elegance that speaks to Ms. Fure’s command of her art. Review: An ‘Opera for Objects’ Makes Music Out of Fear 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Of particular note was an unpleasant director character in the third episode, who bore a superficial resemblance to Mr. Fukunaga and thus seemed to reinforce longstanding rumors of a rift between the two creators. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z We procrastinate on tasks we find “difficult, unpleasant, aversive or just plain boring or stressful.” Why do we procrastinate, and how can we stop? Experts have answers. 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z The changes don’t make for an unpleasant viewing experience — “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” is great to look at. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z In real life, the end result of dip plus carnival ride is as unpleasant as it is inevitable. 20 Things We Learned About The Sandlot After Talking With Scotty Smalls 2013-04-09T16:03:08Z Expected to debut in November, O'Brien's as-yet-untitled TBS talk show will return him to the air after an absence that began in January with his unpleasant exit from NBC, his employer for 17 years. Richter, O'Brien's writers to tape TBS special 2010-05-26T20:44:00Z He has undergone quadruple-bypass surgery and has other health problems, and he has filed for bankruptcy, an unpleasant element of personal history he does not want widely known. Online readers identify Nazi photographer within hours 2011-06-25T22:35:25Z It will resemble more a tickle or a tingle than anything unpleasant.” Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Over the next few months the same thing keeps happening in restaurants and cafés: I order espresso; I am served a cup of something sharp and unpleasant. The coffee revolution 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z They’ll encounter an ominous dragon bone yard in a land where dragons are lured to unpleasant deaths by a Siren-like song. Review: ‘Dragons: Race to the Edge,’ a Dark Animated Series on Netflix 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Remove all items from the freezer and inspect the foods for any spoilage, freezer burn or unpleasant odors. Here’s why your freezer smells bad — and what you can do about it 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Any agency working directly with Amazon may find its behaviour constrained in unpleasant and unpredictable ways. US authors blame publishers for Wylie Amazon ebook deal 2010-07-27T14:55:00Z You see, a lot of my dances are really ugly and horrifying and unpleasant, and I’m very sweet as a person. Q. and A.: Paul Taylor and Robert Battle Collaborate on ?Arden Court? 2011-12-02T17:10:10Z His upbringing with his mother was equally unpleasant. Obituary: Influential improv comedian Jonathan Winters, 87 2013-04-13T05:49:15Z Human beings are forced to see themselves as young newcomers in an ancient cosmos; they come to realize that cosmic adulthood is going to be a pretty unpleasant experience. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z If that sounds unpleasant — agonizing even — it hasn’t stopped people from tuning in. Doom Watching ‘Euphoria’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z They shared a common frustration at the time: most gyms struck them as uninspiring, even unpleasant. SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z But eventually you have to acknowledge that this unpleasant drama set on Coney Island isn’t deadpan; it’s just dead. | 'Lucky Days': A Creepy Hostage Thriller by J Blakeson 2010-08-06T02:02:00Z Gerry, the young Manhattan fellow who was caught on video berating a man, is deeply unpleasant. That drunk Manhattan kid is obnoxious — but even he deserves privacy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z We thought that just feels unpleasant within the context of our world. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z After several unpleasant encounters, Emily vows to disguise her identity, at one point christening herself "Abby Bliss" while chatting with the staff of the teen shelter. 'Close Your Eyes' looks at normal moments amid nuclear horrors 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z It is thoroughly unpleasant, and a stark warning that you should never give the come-on to psychopathic stuntmen you meet in pubs. Ill-advised car journeys on film – ranked! 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The book also reveals some of Trump’s unpleasant qualities, even though he wrote it with a co-author and was clearly doing his best to seem charismatic, reasonable, and good-natured. He’s always been a jackass: I read Donald Trump’s favorite book — his own — so you don’t have to 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z As they learned more about the Red Planet, they realized that frequent dust storms on the planet’s surface may stir up an unpleasant taste. This Brooklyn kitchen offers the Earthbound a taste of outer space 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z A few judges commented on an unpleasant aftertaste. Chocolate hazelnut spread taste test: You’re welcome. Ella is, to be frank, a perfectly dreadful human being — casually bigoted, wantonly unpleasant, the sort of parent who fawns extravagantly over one child and habitually belittles the other. ‘Anno Domino’ Review: Long Married, but Open to Adjustment 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z She is plain, unshapely and unpleasant in ways that are only occasionally endearing. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z Llewyn is, all in all, a fairly unpleasant guy, though the other inhabitants of his world are not much better. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z It's a good horror story that touches on some very unpleasant things. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z It is true that we can, if we are strong-willed, voluntarily do things that are unpleasant, such as put our finger in a candle flame. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z Real silence, by all accounts, is an unpleasant sensation. The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence 2010-10-25T14:33:00Z Having ordered the pills from Amazon, she started having unpleasant side effects almost immediately. ‘I thought it was a miracle. Then I started shaking’: the danger of buying diet pills online 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Those same folks likely know that Americans are excellent at ignoring the unpleasant roots of their good time traditions. How (not) to do Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Mainly they build unforgiving walls of riff, and unpleasant ones too. Playlist : New Music From SpaceGhostPurrp, Jana Kramer and 2:54 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z But she’s been distant, angry and, frankly, unpleasant, since we found out. My mum is having an affair and has left. Now she won’t talk to us | Dear Mariella 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z We are, in fact, doing the hard, unpleasant work of figuring out who belongs in jail pens and who belongs in pig pens. Perspective | Chris Hardwick is back. So is Ryan Seacrest. So, no, #MeToo isn’t going ‘too far.’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The episode is followed by the series premiere of ‘THE TOE BRO,’ about a chiropodist who can handle the most unpleasant of foot problems. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Story of God’ and ‘The Dawn Wall’ 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, distinctions like these are now too eagerly ignored, perhaps because they bring up such unpleasant future possibilities. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The music itself is exciting enough that it washes out some of the unpleasant taste of the film’s early “white people discovering stuff” tone. ‘We Intend to Cause Havoc’ Review: Zambia Rock, Rediscovered 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Maybe he still would have made that bet, but still, clearly he had a few unpleasant days. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z It’s the summer of 1984 and Ebony-Grace is up from Huntsville to spend part of her vacation with her father in Harlem, while her mother and beloved grandfather attend to some unpleasant family business. Holding Fast to High-Flying Dreams 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z No, I don't begrudge any veteran who feels bitter because for a long time this was a particularly unpleasant and unfair business. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z He finds a changed world and endures unpleasant encounters that show how no one much respects him, the work he’s done or the idea that he deserves a graceful retirement. | 'Mammuth': G?rard Depardieu in ?Mammuth? ? Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z He used its salvaged Cordoba leather for my dining room walls, but the leather always retained a funny, unpleasant smell. | The Masterful Work of Renzo Mongiardino 2013-08-15T18:00:00Z Maybe because I found Steinberg a bit more unpleasant than I was hoping. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z The 10-minute scene is just long enough to make me feel I have something invested in this mildly unpleasant trio. Adrian Searle encounters ... a teacup falling 70 times in a 14-hour film 2012-06-01T10:16:31Z Nowadays it’s funny, like meeting a throwback, someone still doing Harry Enfield impressions or quoting Withnail & I. Back then, it was plain unpleasant. Twenty-five years of the gastropub – a revolution that saved British boozers 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The home of the State Department is, like so many federal properties in Washington, a hostile, forbidding, unpleasant and unneighborly manifestation of the security regime run amok. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In the rain, the solid fabric will just collect a pool, which is unpleasant to sit in. Makers: Who Made That Butterfly Chair? 2012-03-09T20:59:00Z It's a brazen satire of some of the most unpleasant aspects of American history, from both sides of the political spectrum. Review: Brilliant 'BioShock Infinite' takes flight 2013-03-26T12:26:15Z Rockwell doesn’t see the point of this unpleasant probing; and if Gray’s grandmother is more indulgent, it would seem she doesn’t either. Movie Review: Spalding Gray on Video in ‘Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road’ 2014-04-30T21:34:06Z It was such an unpleasant and foolhardy experience that now, if I’m driving up on Dartmoor and it’s wet, I find that I just think, “I’m going to go that little bit slower.” A black pudding saved my life 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z His explanation of frat culture is rife with qualifiers and defensiveness, as though he’s trying to mask an unpleasant truth. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Variety described it as "accomplished but singularly unpleasant." Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes 2013-05-16T13:20:13Z To help get the patient to consume the unpleasant medicine, chemists would suspend the herbs in sugar. The history of candy canes and why they taste so cool 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z It is likely that because of your unpleasant experiences, Internet dating is no longer the fun, casual activity it once was anyway. I think this guy is stalking me 2013-05-17T00:00:00Z Its grim slums, incessant Ambassador taxi horns and unpleasant street odors tested us at first, but we eventually developed a great affection for the place. T Magazine: Kolkata, India's Cultural Bedrock 2011-11-17T22:30:42Z Both Janes understand the world in all its happiness, melancholy, unpleasant surprise and moments of resilience. Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Cavazos, a Mexican actor who appeared in productions at London’s Old Vic theater during Spacey’s time, said he had experienced “a couple of unpleasant encounters with Spacey that verged on what you could call harassment”. Actor accuses Spacey of harassment during stint at London theater 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Then there’s the unpleasant fact that the technology just doesn’t seem ready. Where Wearable Technology Ends Up (Hint: Not Your Wrist) 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z This may lead to an unpleasant pause, but the rudeness will not be yours. Perspective | Miss Manners: To hug, or not to hug, an acquaintance 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z She seems like such an unpleasant and perplexing person, Olive Kitteridge, until you start to recognize yourself in her. In HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ the power of negative thinking Mr. Henze’s own unpleasant encounters with insidious authority figures of the sort embodied by Dionysus began early. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z I made this mistake a few times back in the day, and it's laborious and unpleasant, resulting in crispy, delicious bacon being hamstrung by pieces of paper towel that feel impossible to remove. An absolutely genius trick for mess-free bacon 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Given that jazz is essentially an African-American art form and the movies were made by white producers, the association is both all the more unpleasant and all the more unfortunately explicable. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “In the mid-nineteenth century, arsenic poisoning was commonly the resort of women. But unpleasant husbands were not the only people you might want to eliminate.” Sunday Reading: Crimes of Passion 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Two tales in “Pulse” give us simplistic portraits of unpleasant, controlling men. Books of The Times: Love, Loss, Change and Being English 2011-05-06T05:48:02Z Yet, against the odds, it's possible to fail well – to rise above the unpleasant basket of emotions that come with the territory and to not allow disappointment to sour one's very soul. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z That’s unpleasant for our noses, and plants don’t like it either. Scientists can recycle sewer waste into garden soil. But if it stinks, it won’t sell. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z There are many questions to answer about any potential legislation: where would we draw the line between unpleasant behaviour and abuse? It’s time to make emotional abuse a crime 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z On low settings, it was not unpleasant, except for the noise. Three Ways to Make Winter at Work More Bearable 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Jackson said that the unpleasant incident – which did not, apparently, lead to the actor’s arrest – made him aware that racial discrimination was still a major problem. Samuel L Jackson says he was racially profiled by police during Pulp Fiction filming 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z As exciting as those missions are, my line of work also involves quite a few unpleasant tasks. From dodging bears to dissecting deer doodoo: Life on the front lines of America’s conservation movement 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z I had come off a few years of not unpleasant but not totally satisfying film experiences, and I’d forgotten that you’re allowed to have a process. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain on ‘Interstellar’ 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z An Instagram strike action like Adam’s is unpleasant enough, but what happens when a bad reply arrives? Reddit’s RoastMe Forum Is the Anti-Instagram 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “We didn’t want anything too spiky or unpleasant or anything too fast.” An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The company's factory — perhaps you're suspecting something unpleasant by now — was in Dachau. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The animal’s unpleasant but rather hilarious fate is the first of a series of memorable dome-induced special effects. Television Review: In ‘Under the Dome’ a Small Town Gets Smaller 2013-06-23T20:59:48Z I've been putting off this unpleasant job for far too long. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: A little trick to help unclog a shower head 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Cacophonous outbursts, eerie violin lines that unfold over a double bass drone, frantic pizzicati and an underlying urgency hint at an unpleasant outcome. Music Review: ‘collected stories’ at Zankel Hall Explores a Tragic Tale 2014-04-27T20:52:58Z But with larger objects, in houses, trains, automobiles, factories, the human element sometimes becomes startlingly unpleasant. Man and Things 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Lane, reduced to tears, drank, made unpleasant comments to Joan, went home and vomited at the sight of the brand new Jaguar his wife had kindly, but unfortunately just purchased for him. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z This Liev Schreiber-starring US drama about a reformed criminal charged with "fixing" the LA elite's unpleasant little problems begins its Sky Atlantic run next week. Catch-up TV guide: from Glastonbury 2013 to Ray Donovan 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z Not just because he is such a brilliant screenwriter, but also because he is a constant reminder that there is someone around whose mind is more unpleasant and twisted than my own. TV review: Islam: The Untold Story; Accused 2012-08-28T21:40:01Z Several reviews of Matthew Dunster's Children's Children at the Almeida this week suggested that the characters were so unpleasant that it was hard to spend time in their company. Lyn Gardner's theatre roundup: Monsters have a ball on stage 2012-05-28T15:02:04Z Instead, it's a beautifully shot mystery, wrapped in an unpleasant thriller that's also a morality tale, which is in turn woven through with ancient myths and tart observations on feminism. Top Of The Lake: a mystery that's impossible to get a handle on 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z I suspect what prevents people from trying ice fishing, besides its reputation for being unpleasant, boring and dangerous, is not realizing that guides exist. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z But a curious and far from unpleasant mixture of excitement and frustration is likely to remain for as long as you stay. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z Winter produce is foreign to even dedicated main season farmers market customers as many markets only run through October or shopper attendance drops significantly due to unpleasant weather spoiling an outdoor market experience. Why we celebrate winter vegetables 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z But we know that in X number of years, we won’t be here, and between now and then something unpleasant is gonna happen, or at least potentially unpleasant and scary. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z “Dystopia Gardens” — a “sketch play about an unpleasant future” — delivers steady laughs, most of them silly. ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Dystopia Gardens' 2011-08-19T16:24:38Z And, conversely, it’s just as hard to find a truly unpleasant heroine of a network drama or sitcom. | 'Body of Proof': Feisty Types? Try Looking in the Morgue 2011-03-28T23:02:39Z Whatever the proper etiquette is for quietly removing something unpleasant from your mouth, Mr. Bognar doesn’t follow it; he just spews the stuff out. 2010-01-21T04:45:00Z Even the most brazenly crowd-stirring moments, though, are persuasively shadowed by an unpleasant sense of the threat these men were always under. Theater Review | 'The Temperamentals': The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution 2010-03-01T06:03:00Z Into this unpleasant stew she then adds the cynical and greedy Zardari. Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z The idea behind this deep freeze is to slow the aging process, which will theoretically retain more of the whiskey’s fruit flavors while keeping at bay the unpleasant woody notes associated with over-aged bourbon. A Gamble That Bourbon Can Grow Old Gracefully 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Compulsions, in contrast, are all about avoiding unpleasant outcomes. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z By making everything so grimy and unpleasant, it made the humour funnier. How we made Monty Python’s Life of Brian 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The latter is “closed off and uninviting. It’s unpleasant. If tackiness is about joyfully becoming, trashiness has already become, and there’s not one joyful thing about the thing it has become.” ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, the sea potato had a salty but not unpleasant taste of metal. In France, a Yearly Feast of Fish 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z But are you ever unpleasant and they just don’t show that on the show? ‘Project Runway’s’ Tim Gunn on how he’d fare on the show, the FBI and being nice He paused, then corrected himself: “Well, I couldn’t — my character could be really unpleasant. Which helped the Palin image, I think, by tarnishing it a bit.” Nobody Expects Michael Palin: A Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Back in Twin Peaks, Cooper’s room key, posted by Jade in episode three, returns to the Great Northern – coincident with the arrival of a not unpleasant humming noise – which Ben discusses with his secretary Beverly. Twin Peaks recap: episode seven – welcome back, Agent Cooper! 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s unpleasant to be talked about in those terms.” Roman Polanski victim: extradition refusal 'the right thing' 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Despite being aware of unpleasant rumors, she says she wants to bring light and air and warmth to this dark, dank, closed-up place. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.” The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Still, the game drags on, limply, because without it, unpleasant things will be said, and people will express how they really feel about one another. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z Or maybe it's because it looks like buckwheat honey or chocolate syrup, but tastes like the bottom of a pan you just burned something in, that lends to its unpleasant reputation. Nigella Lawson's divisive Marmite spaghetti is cozy perfection 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Most of the original castle was destroyed in the English Civil War, but you can still get a sense of how imposing, drafty and unpleasant it must have been in its day. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z JC: And you had that unpleasant incident with the watermelon joke. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Dr. Tweedy was filled with unpleasant, uneasy questions, and not just about his own newbie incompetence. Review: In ‘Black Man in a White Coat,’ a Doctor Navigates Bruising Terrain 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Ambition is not very “feminine” so you frequently see the unpleasant alternative: lady writers doing the disgusting drippy-syrup act. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z "And Just Like That" writes these women as pushy, clueless jokes or simply unpleasant, as if pushing Carrie's fear of aging closer to the graveyard instead of showing off that cohort's vitality. Kim Cattrall deserves her own "Sex and the City spinoff," as her time on "Glamorous" proves 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “Listen Up Philip,” his pocket epic of literary bad manners, was one of last year’s most inspiring unpleasant releases. BAMcinemaFest Opts to Be Unlikable and Thought-Provoking 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “I was always dealing with unpleasant behavior from men who, if they were not actual gropers or wannabe bed partners, took delight in slyly bombarding me with sexual innuendo.” Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The numbers don’t sound terrifying high, particularly for a disease that, while very unpleasant, isn’t usually fatal. Here comes chikungunya: The painful, mosquito-borne virus is continuing its assault on the U.S. 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z But whenever I was in a plane, some very unpleasant things would happen to me. Do you ever wonder why people worry? 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In other words, they’re acutely aware of and responsive to their surroundings, and they respond, in kind, to both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Luckily, all others present were also determined to be fully themselves, which ended up all but drowning out the unpleasant memory of much of this. Oscar Night: Hollywood’s Truest Self 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z After the death of their unpleasant father, two sisters return to the family home, but are blackmailed by their father's former nurse. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z It is a strange, unpleasant twist to this saga that the law went into effect on the fiftieth anniversary of the U.T. The Many Costs of Campus Carry 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me,” she told the newspaper. Actor Uma Thurman accuses Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z But all of that drama only made the lives of the jurors more contentious, tenuous and unpleasant. The People v OJ Simpson episode eight – bring on the Dancing Itos 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Ever so faint, and not unpleasant, but yes, if magnified, that was the beginning of it. Porgy is the trash fish of the summer 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z When he asked me about my previous experience, I told him I was a rookie, not feeling the need to rehash unpleasant memories, and this seemed to please him. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z Strikes are always deeply unpleasant and we are not the first administration to have a bin strike on our watch and I don't suppose we'll be the last. It was very disruptive for the community. Caroline Lucas: 'Politics is about everything we do' 2013-07-27T23:05:02Z To walk among the bright columns is to endure a deeply unpleasant, threatening thickness of scorched air. Artist Cerith Wyn Evans fires up the White Cube 2010-05-13T11:51:00Z And this soul-searching is generally an unpleasant experience. Lena Dunham’s “race problem” is not really her problem at all 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Others note that many architects work with unpleasant regimes in order to build. Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z And then it suddenly turns very unpleasant when Michael goes off on a violent fantasy about flying an Apache helicopter. Alan Partridge's top 10 hits - in video 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z We know the people that need to learn that lesson but it’s really an unpleasant thing. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season That Almost Wasn't: An Interview With Matthew Weiner, Part 1 2012-03-07T13:00:32Z I find the men’s behavior appalling, but to say something might introduce an unpleasant note or spoil the party for the hosts and guests. Must I Keep This Useless Gift? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And there was nothing unpleasant about this cry for joy. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Llewyn is a fairly unpleasant guy, though the other inhabitants of his world are not much better. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z Listening to the Fuhrman tapes, even dramatic recreations of them, is harrowing and unpleasant. The People v OJ Simpson episode nine – Manna From Heaven 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s true that Amy’s character is portrayed in the beginning as unpleasant, even “broken.” Schumer’s unfortunate “Trainwreck” lesson: Amy’s casual racism isn’t one of her bad habits to overcome 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z “I was really shocked to see that random, unpleasant word printed across the top of my sides after waiting so long for my lunch,” he said. KFC gravy sold with vulgar insult printed on it: 'S---face' 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z But the actual behaviour is often unpleasant – or at least not particularly rewarding, especially after umpteen rounds of it. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Apparently, Webster was not meek and grateful enough for the alms she received: She developed a reputation for being unpleasant. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Other performers freak out and get unpleasant, but he has incredible fortitude. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z What an unpleasant man, I thought as I returned to the office. He made a fortune from his trademarked Bikram yoga, but now his empire is in tatters 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z That's a benevolent example but there are plenty of malevolent atheist regimes that could serve as unpleasant examples. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z She's going to change things, is the fear, even though all parties understand that the change is needed, if only because it's unpleasant to work around stacks of Christmas decorations on the dining room table. Marie Kondo, Mary Poppins and magical adulting fantasies for a hostile world 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z He seems to both be a public nuisance — stumbling with apparently drunk friends through the city streets — and possessed of a deeply unpleasant sense of self-worth. That drunk Manhattan kid is obnoxious — but even he deserves privacy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z If those guys think a “FU*K CANCER” message is unpleasant, it’s not even close to how unpleasant the experience of watching someone you love die of cancer is. Kicked out of the mall — for an anti-cancer hat 2013-05-22T20:33:00Z Instead, busy parents may spend more time finding ways to deal with the unpleasant homework instead of confronting the school. Motherlode Blog: Should Preschoolers Have Homework? 2012-02-22T16:49:08Z The treatment occupied the better part of a day, and it involved spending time in close quarters with some rather unpleasant people. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Trapped 2013-07-01T15:07:20Z Do that, and hopefully your holiday season will be memorable for happy gatherings without any unpleasant fallout. Don’t touch that movie popcorn! Avoid these six germy situations this holiday season. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Even if we don’t possess Coop’s other gifts, that notion of soldiering on in unpleasant, intractable or downright desperate situations is something all of us can manage. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “There was something very unpleasant going on for quite a while in the fashion system,” Margiela says. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z In December of 2012, many Harvard students woke to an unpleasant surprise that had been slid under their doors. Who’s really demanding to be coddled on campus? Yale students aren’t the spoiled brats for refusing to be racially trolled on Halloween 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Winstone is such good actor that it’s saddening to see him in such a bewilderingly unpleasant and homophobic role. London Boulevard Calling: Don't Answer 2011-11-11T16:36:07Z Maker of the bisque and breaker of the bowl, he works in a hospice kitchen to help pay for his education, and has his own unpleasant sexual encounter with Bert, whose father is dying there. For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z I try not to trigger these comments and shrug them off, as they account for only a few unpleasant moments during several good hours spent together. Perspective | Ask Amy: DNA testing reveals family secret 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z When I smelled something for the first time again, it was so unpleasant, it made me gag: the stomach-churning reek of spoiled milk. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Yes, Beethoven could be unpleasant, sometimes cruel, and his politics defied easy categorization. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It makes it unpleasant for the next user. Cruising California’s coast on the tall ship Lady Washington 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “When something’s unpleasant, you remind yourself that this is just temporary, and that ‘when I look back at this, a year or two from now, it’ll just be nothing’,” says Sutton. You're not alone: how to survive your horrible boss 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z That means it’s about an imaginary society that is unpleasant, even frightening. Lois Lowry’s ‘The Giver’ makes movie debut The whole photo starts to look unpleasant, too: the way her head is locked into the crook of his elbow, unable to move or avoid his lips. Perspective | Don’t blame MeToo for ruining the most iconic kiss in history. The photo was never romantic. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z At his induction Friday he told reporters that “The whole process is unpleasant” and needs to be changed. Rock and Roll Hall of Lame: This year’s litany of petty spats prove Steve Miller right — “this whole industry f**king sucks” 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Tannic wines served too cold can seem tough and unpleasant. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z They see my unpleasant shape and like a magnet I must repulse, whereas Eddie, he too like a magnet draws in their adoration like so many iron shavings. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In the vast majority of cases, the symptoms are unpleasant but harmless, and get better without treatment. Everything you ever wanted to know about vertigo (but were too dizzy to ask) 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Yet the imagery becomes ever more dangerous and unpleasant. Reading group: What does William Golding's Spire stand for? 2013-04-09T12:35:20Z This sequence yields another vivid image, albeit a far more unpleasant one. "The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z "The Last Five Years" is not unpleasant to watch — the leads are delightful — but as a movie experience, it's not especially satisfying either. 'The Last Five Years' feels a bit stage-bound 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I think the show itself is cute, but I have reflexively changed the channel on more than one occasion because the song is so unpleasant. Nahnatchka Khan on ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ Chinese New Year and Michael Chang 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z “Sometimes they want specific advice. Sometimes it’s hard — our connection is through something so unpleasant. But you’ve been through something that really binds you.” Leaning In? Won’t Help if Guys Are Leering, Writes Ellen Pao 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z These areas tend to be hotspots for unpleasant odors, as they collect dirt, grime, hair, and drool. How to eliminate pet odors in your home 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Though I didn’t really understand the details, I gathered from them that dieting was tied up with the other unpleasant parts of mainstream society: crass consumerism, soul-deadening materialism, the subjection of women. My lifelong diet 2012-08-02T23:40:00Z Nearly drowned in a flooded canal lock, though shallow water blackout is actually not unpleasant. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z And to that end, he does what he would probably describe as a lot of unpleasant things. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z But, mentally, the experience of pregnancy and birth made sex an unpleasant chore. 'My teeth moved so much I needed braces' – readers on how childbirth changed them 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Not Now, Bernard takes its name from the David McKee classic, a tale of a small boy ignored by the rest of his family, even when he gets eaten by an unpleasant purple monster. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-26T06:00:13Z This year's hot trend was the "game layer", a design system that makes unpleasant things fun by giving punters rewards for repeated interactions. SXSWi ? a bigger game, but is it better? 2011-03-20T00:05:31Z I didn't know what to expect adding chocolate to citrus, but the flavor was jarring in the most unpleasant way. A Treat for Lemon Lovers and Beyond 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Sounds unpleasant, but still better than facing off with the Mountain. Yes, That Game of Thrones Exploding Head Thing Could Really Happen (Probably) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z That meeting was part of Berlinger's aim to examine both the musical origins of "Graceland" but also its unpleasant political fallout. Sundance doc traces Simon's 'Graceland' hit album 2012-01-25T16:56:13Z There was an unpleasant edge to the violins as Strauss’s “Sunset” passage arrived; murkiness from the brasses; and an overall need of focus. Review: The Philharmonic and a Conductor Get Reacquainted 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Parnassus is about to confront an unpleasant turn of events: the arrival of an Amazon brick-and-mortar store in the nearby mall. Ann Patchett Will Eventually Discuss Her Book 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z “She said, ‘Let me tell you, you’re a very unpleasant, lousy drunk.’ The Carpetbagger: Christopher Plummer Gets Oscar Buzz 2011-12-21T22:58:47Z Tweets something unpleasant about her avatar photo and says good riddance. Justin Bieber: Teen pop idols never die. They're gradually unfollowed 2013-01-27T19:59:01Z Simon Keenlyside in the title role brings virility to the unpleasant, usually buttoned-up hero. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z I grew up in a rural Kentucky town where Dodge Rams and Ford F-150s may well have outnumbered people, and walking on a sidewalk tended to give one a distinct and unpleasant feeling of exposure. What it's like to live in Kentucky and sell your debut novel to Hollywood 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Their nicely rendered love injects beauty into an often unpleasant tale. Book review: ‘Irene’ by Pierre Lemaitre 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z And something happens on a yacht during a storm that shifts the narrative in both unexpected and unpleasant ways. Adam Driver is impressive, but can't save Amazon's audacious & sexy rock opera "Annette" 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z “We did a bunch of things to try to compensate for that,” Mr. Squyres said, “but it was unpleasant to look at.” The Real Message in Ang Lee’s Latest? ‘It’s Just Good to Look At’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Pretension gets sticky with a mess of unpleasant traits; narcissism, lying, ostentation, presumption, snobbery, selfish individualism. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z But watching a despondent Lucy walking through the rain following an unpleasant discovery is gilding the lily. Jokes aside, Nicole Kidman is commendable in Aaron Sorkin's mostly watchable "Being the Ricardos" 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Extremely unpleasant men are making life miserable for ordinary citizens. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z He did have a caveat: “The authors have such a picturesque yarn to spin that their insistence upon thrusting bespattered conversation down the throats of the audience is as superfluous as it is unpleasant.” Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It tastes … well, it tastes like something from my childhood I can’t put my finger on, but which, though not unpleasant, definitely isn’t a sausage. Felicity Cloake: my week as a vegan 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Don't get me wrong — there's nothing inherently unpleasant about any of the ingredients: potatoes, of course, and mayonnaise, mustard, relish, maybe some chives or onions, paprika or hot sauce. The genius potato salad that converted a potato salad skeptic 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Instead, they met at the Jockey Club for an unpleasant, unsuccessful rapprochement. Marc deCoster, Hairdresser to High Society, Dies at 81 2012-07-29T02:07:03Z That way, no one gets any unpleasant surprises. The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The unpleasant bodily facts of disease are entirely ignored: a single graceful seizure signals that Annabel’s final crisis is at hand. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z This makes him seem very unpleasant, which he wasn’t. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z A character’s death resulting from an anaphylactic reaction to a bee sting is unpleasant to read about, which isn’t surprising, but also medically and emotionally implausible, which is. Ann Patchett’s Latest Novel Follows Six Siblings Over 50 Years 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He was dismissive of pacifists because he thought that if war were really as unpleasant as they made it sound it would have gone out of fashion long ago. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z But even leaving aside such unpleasant details, another unsettling truth lingers for religious conservatives opposing abortion rights: the chain of causation between the Christian right and antiabortion violence, even if unintended, is undeniable. The religious right is neither: The real history of how decades of radical, violent rhetoric led to the Planned Parenthood shooting 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z An unknown actor plays Friday in blackface, tumbling and bumbling through a performance that strikes an inevitably unpleasant note. Georges Méliès's Robinson Crusoé film resurfaces in Pordenone 2012-10-10T14:22:02Z It had texture, sure, but the flavor was, to my buds, unnatural and unpleasant. Our love affair with fake meat couldn't last 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z This is not unpleasant; rather, it’s disorienting, then hypnotic. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The people given savoury mousse liked it, but the people thinking they were eating ice-cream found it "digusting" and even "the most unpleasant food they had ever tasted". Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z The characters lie uneasily between old and new, live in rural and urban areas and struggle to deal with the unpleasant surprises of independence. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z Then I noticed that the people around me were sort of slowly edging away, giving me a wide berth, as though I had emitted something unpleasant. Perspective | With embarrassing stories like these, he belongs on Mount Blushmore 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But the more Daphne opens her eyes to what is happening around her, the more she begins to grasp the unpleasant truths lying just beneath the surface. Winter Games by Rachel Johnson – review 2013-03-24T11:00:01Z In addition, acupuncture — unlike morphine — led to no unpleasant side effects and has no risk of addiction. So you want to give acupuncture a try. How do you pick a provider? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z But Yan’s fable, joining a long lineage of so-called “records of anomalies” in Chinese literature, forces readers to reflect on the side of the world that is “too absurd, too cruel and too unpleasant.” In a Brutal Chinese Satire, Villagers Surrender to Their Worst Impulses 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The characters in this atmospheric, gripping film don’t respond to the sight in any way; the explosives are just one more unpleasant component of their unpleasant day-to-day living. ‘The Load’ Review: Meeting History on the Road From Kosovo to Serbia 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z He was, Gordon-Reed and Onuf conclude, a man with “the capacity we all have to tell stories about ourselves that obscure, elide, and overlook unpleasant truths.” ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Another night we awoke with the unpleasant revelation that we’d pitched our tent next to an enormous termite mound, and they were swarming. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Sadly, much is either too intellectual, unpleasant to the ear, boring or repetitive — if I am permitted to generalize. Is ‘Playing It Safe’ Bad for Classical Music? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z They imagine an unpleasant taste and sensation in their mouth. Are kids ready to eat insects? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The phrase, which typically tasks the listener with coming to grips with an unpleasant new reality, topped the list. "110 Percent": The 10 most hated business buzzwords and jargon 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Expected to debut in November, the as-yet-untitled show will return O'Brien to the air after an absence that began in January with his unpleasant exit from NBC, his employer for 17 years. Conan O'Brien heads to TBS, not Fox 2010-04-13T17:20:00Z “I could be really unpleasant,” Mr. Palin said, excitedly describing the role in a recent phone interview from London. Nobody Expects Michael Palin: A Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Her cry was sharp and unpleasant, like a bleating sheep lost from the heard, and everything in me wanted it to stop. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z But there’s a nasty jolt at the end when we learn why the dead body from the opening scene deserves such an unpleasant fate. Far From the Shore, a Happy Couple Takes a Turn for the Worse 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Meeting those for whom the decision to pawn is often forced by desperation, divorce or bereavement, the friendly patter of Borro's sales team leaves a slightly unpleasant taste. Tonight's TV highlights: The Pawn King 2011-01-14T08:00:01Z But it was “Proving Up” that left me ruminating in its wake, torn between an experience that was in many ways deliberately unpleasant and the power of the statement its creators were unabashedly hammering home. Review | The American Dream as American nightmare: An opera for our time 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Heider looked at the fact that the Driver interview was not an investigative story but acknowledged that good journalism also entails asking subjects questions they find difficult or unpleasant. Adam Driver told NPR he didn’t like to hear himself sing; they played a clip anyway, and he walked out 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the crop is not being grown by benign hippies, but by a pair of very unpleasant characters, one of whom happens to be a corrupt policeman, DI Dickens. Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z All the characters were funny and well imagined, but Aubrey Plaza was particularly memorable as April, the unpleasant, uncooperative and deadpan office intern who kept being promoted. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Finale Ends Show’s Run, Sunny as Ever 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Later, unpleasant marks show up on the children's bodies. Dark Skies – review 2013-04-04T21:15:01Z Being in her company has gotten so unpleasant that we have started canceling or shortening family calls or gatherings, because we don’t want to exclude her but also can’t last long listening to her monologues. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Brother’s girlfriend dominates every conversation 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s the euphemism of choice to save face and explain away unpleasant disputes among performers. H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z Etiquette has many rules to protect people from the unpleasant sights, smells and sounds of their nearest and dearest. Perspective | Miss Manners: Repeatedly mispronouncing a name is disrespectful 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z I wondered what Betsy would say if she knew I'd replaced the canned cream of celery soup with fussy homemade bechamel and its unpleasant byproduct of extra dirty pans. A casserole redux befitting of leftover turkey 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Repellent odors are unpleasant but often helpful in terms of not dying. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z However, I was less concerned that I would view my sons’ adolescences and changing bodies through the lens of my unpleasant middle school experiences. Motherlode Blog: If Acne Doesn’t Bother My Son, Why Should It Bother Me? 2014-02-19T19:17:46Z Wallace at one point playfully describes himself as “pleasantly unpleasant.” Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “That has a lot of social capital online … to be self-deprecating, to not take yourself too seriously, to make light of unpleasant topics.” Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z When working with eggplants — especially in eggplant parm — I find that the skin can sometimes get in the way, add an unpleasant texture to an otherwise lovely bite or negatively impact the overall flavor profile. Your ultimate guide to making the coziest, cheesiest, crispiest eggplant parmesan 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps Sanders knows just how unpleasant his live coronavirus roundtables are. Perspective | Bernie and Biden have been courting voters virtually, and it’s not going well 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z I don't smoke – it's a vile-tasting form of self-harm which funnels money into the coffers of grotesquely unpleasant people and is something in which I have never taken any interest. Rooms not of one's own 2010-04-13T09:37:00Z The Black Keys have described inducting Steve Miller into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame as an “unpleasant” experience. The Black Keys Regret Inducting 'Unpleasant' Steve Miller into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z A coarse grind will ensure that the coffee doesn't become overextracted, which can lead to an unpleasant, bitter brew. How to make French press coffee, according to baristas 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z But the single question I'd most like to have asked Ginger Baker – and which should have been asked in the film – is a variant on Simon's: Why are you such an unpleasant man? Beware Mr Baker 2013-05-15T08:10:20Z Brain-imaging studies show that there are two components to physical pain: an unpleasant emotional feeling and a feeling of sensory distress. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z These unpleasant little chats add a touch of class to the surreal subplots of mutants and medical experimentation. TV highlights 11/12/12 2012-12-10T20:00:02Z Their teeming presence, the unpleasant surprise of their crunching underfoot, and yes, the racket they brought with them, was an intrusion of nature into our hermetically sealed and sanitized daily lives. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z It was not unpleasant — “Break My Heart” was cheerful, “Don’t Start Now” was punchy, “Cool” was ethereal. Dua Lipa Brings Her Lockdown Anthems to the Arena 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z In Adams’ case, these seem to blur into a complex kind of synaesthesia: he understands music as something he can touch, and experiences the colour yellow as a profoundly unpleasant taste, like mould. 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z It's also probably true that Ford was unpleasant company. A Moveable Feast was written at a time of struggle but seems hopeful – and fun 2012-05-25T13:18:02Z Yes, but even before that, I always played unpleasant people. Paul Giamatti, a Baseball Commissioner’s Son, Makes His Own Calls 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Sometimes when we purchase something, we get an unlooked-for surprise — either pleasant or unpleasant. Treasures: Author's note trumps all else 2010-12-07T17:06:00Z I never wish to see something that unpleasant again.” Reddit users share 'wrong' and bizarre ways to eat certain foods: 'It was absolutely horrifying' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z So it’s not surprising that makers of lasting hair color have long sought an ammonia-free alternative that offers thorough gray coverage and a less unpleasant experience. Skin Deep: Can INOA Make Ammonia-Free Hair Dye Mainstream? 2010-03-11T05:32:00Z Mr. Saatchi, 70, has offered various explanations, some of them verging on the unpleasant. Nigella Lawson: Another Star Chef Becomes a Cause 2013-07-05T20:08:27Z “Now picture one of your classmates, someone you really don’t like. Ready? So you’re walking along, and you see two kids beating up that unpleasant child. What do you do?” “Let’s Say” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Have you ever bitten into a nut or a piece of chocolate, expecting a smooth, rich taste, only to encounter an unexpected and unpleasant chalky or sour flavor? Rancid food smells and tastes gross — AI tools may help scientists prevent that spoilage 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Marine scientists said the seaweed is not harmful but it is quite unpleasant. South Florida, in effort to save tourism industry, spending millions to remove seaweed invading beaches 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But the beast itself is less uncanny than merely … unpleasant. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 5: Running With the Devil 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z According to Karen Falk, historian for the Jim Henson Company, the character was named after a notoriously unpleasant waiter or restaurant proprietor who once served “Sesame Street” creator Henson. Oscar Brand, folk troubadour and radio host for seven decades, dies at 96 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z “When it gets personal, it’s unpleasant,” he said. His Ancestors Were German Kings. He Wants Their Treasures Back. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z She is savage, acerbic, rude, unkind, and really very unpleasant. "She Will" star Alice Krige is haunted and haunting: "There must be something a bit odd about me" 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “I suppose I don’t paint such unpleasant pictures as I used to,” he told American Art magazine in 2002. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z A random comment I made in response to a broadcaster provoked a very unpleasant tirade from him. Ask Amy: Brother-in-law’s growls intimidate visitor 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Your behavior was not only deeply unpleasant and distressing for anyone who has to suffer it but also has the potential to cause complete havoc and endanger safety. Nurse sentenced after getting '8-out-of-10' level drunk on plane and scratching friend's face 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z I knew this, but nevertheless I’d accumulated a lengthy list of small, mildly unpleasant tasks that I kept putting off — in many cases, for months. The No-Fail Way To Stop Procrastinating 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z At that, I thought about how every unpleasant relationship involves a skewed exchange of resources—and how normal it seems to me, wanting to extract something positive out of someone who has hurt you. What Bill Cosby’s Accusers Have to Endure on the Stand 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The audience is in a familiar and by no means unpleasant state of ambivalent dread. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z We don't necessarily need that top of the line food processor, but there are things that can make it a little less stressful and unpleasant. Ali Slagle takes the stress out of cooking because "it’s only dinner" 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z There's also a slightly unpleasant section on Edinburgh's junkies. Andrew Maxwell ? review 2011-08-25T16:59:43Z Yet the points the artist raised often seemed primarily conceptual and the greasy surfaces and exaggerated light seemed contrived, unpleasant. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Lane, reduced to tears, drank, made unpleasant comments to Joan, went home and vomited at the sight of the brand-new Jaguar his wife had kindly, but unfortunately, just purchased for him. “Push Girls”: Cocktails, guys, wheelchairs 2012-06-04T21:00:00Z "Gone was that subtle look that his time with you was something to do between writing sessions, that you were a pleasant or unpleasant distraction." 'Townie': Andre Dubus III's memoir of growing up literate and tough 2011-03-10T23:04:33Z The dinner-party guests, all deeply unpleasant, have little to distinguish one from another. The Butler 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z It would have probably been more interesting to shake expectations more boldly and make the unpleasant, annoying detective a woman. Rainn Wilson Plays a Caustic Investigator in ‘Backstrom’ on Fox 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting,” author Salman Rushdie once observed. Perspective | Mark Zuckerberg is a horror show. But there’s a glimmer of truth hidden in his latest blunder. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z She’s bitter and sarcastic and is so unpleasant to be around that she has almost no friends. Before binge-watching Jessica Jones, read “Alias,” the feminist comic it’s based on 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Equally strange, though, has been the discovery that this new form of busyness doesn’t feel very busy, in an unpleasant way. No spare time in lockdown? That's not such a bad thing 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z What drives neighbours to blight their daily lives with unpleasant, bitter and confrontational disputes? Why being wrong really hurts 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z We meet the Hubbards at home, at a dinner party which is a clever exposition of family history, much of it unpleasant. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z Is there a more unpleasant conjoining of nouns in the English language? Dance Review: Lauri Stalling?s gloATL Drafts Viewers at DMAC Center 2010-06-14T01:40:00Z “Horror gives us something that other genres can’t: a sometimes dark, sometimes unpleasant take on emotions and experiences that are still too taboo to discuss openly,” Bogutskaya said. Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z But “The Line” can also refer to the one that the lawyers of The Good Wife have regularly dance up again–the line separating the merely distasteful or unpleasant from the unethical or illegal. The Good Wife Watch: Locked Up 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z However politically sharp, the gag is an unpleasant reminder of all the profoundly unfunny ways in which this world, with its visible and invisible hands, tries to control women, putting them into little boxes. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Yet there’s something to be said for those lazy expectations, including a desire for pleasure even in unpleasant things. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Because a day on the hardwater replicates being alive like nothing else: it’s sometimes successful, sometimes unpleasant, always beautiful. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z As unpleasant as those may have been for the organization, they did drive a certain amount of interest. It’s Beyoncé’s Time to Shine at the Grammys … Right? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z OK, OK, we’d cast Evelyn as the Queen: an unpleasant, overbearing lady we just made up, who is overly fond of her son the Prince and never stops talking. The Princess and the Poconos 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The malevolent beauty of “Mr. Robot” Season 2 is such that knowing and not knowing are equally unpleasant options. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 9: A Bad Dream 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z "They're very unpleasant," he says, speaking from his home in Stockholm. Carsten H?ller: deers of perception 2010-12-21T21:59:00Z His character, Jack Torrance, is a would-be writer who gets a caretaking job in the Overlook, an isolated Colorado hotel with an unpleasant history. The Shining: No 5 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:50:00Z It's gratuitously unpleasant, but I think that's what he likes about it. TV review: Hunted; Red Dwarf 2012-10-04T22:00:01Z She described the press coverage at the time as "intrusive and very unpleasant". Magdalena Ko?en?: 'I'm not scared of the big maestro' 2012-05-16T18:00:01Z I find the generally tense, ugly feeling in the Veda-Mildred scenes credible, if unpleasant. Is Mildred Pierce's daughter bratty beyond belief? 2011-04-04T09:05:00Z Skuibida described the weather as unpleasant and "very similar to Chicago weather." Chicago mom flies to help Ukrainians at Polish border: 'I could not stay at home' 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But his recent experiences in the wine business, he said, had been unpleasant and had left him somewhat shellshocked. In Deepest Mendocino, Rebuilding a Life in Wine 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z One of the most unpleasant occupations of the day, of which there were many, was that of the night soil man. Would you use human waste in your garden? 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z At the front desk the staff was so friendly I suspected they were overcompensating for some unpleasant news they were about to spring. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z But the recurring theme, underlined by Daniel Stern’s voice-over, is that Kevin is learning about the larger world just as the larger world is learning unpleasant things about itself. Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z His role as a "crazy and abrasive and unpleasant and tough" drug addict is likely to do little to distance Owen from the "B" word. 'The Knick' is a new twist on the TV doctor show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Lard, however, melts at a much higher temperature, and leaves a residue in the mouth some find unpleasant. The best butter substitutes for baking (that actually work) 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Stuck in that unpleasant limbo, he was casting around for something that would allow him to address the kind of “big, knotty problems” that he dealt with as foreign secretary, he said. David Miliband’s New York Life 2013-12-07T00:03:18Z Here the likability question arises, whether readers will invest in characters they find unpleasant. A Lakeside Family Vacation Goes Awry in This Debut Novel 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Bollen gracefully shifts between Mills' perspective and that of Beth Shepherd, an Orient native who's recently returned to the town with her equally charming and unpleasant Romanian husband, Gavril, a majorly successful sculptor. Christopher Bollen's 'Orient' a literary thriller with wit and style 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Photograph: Chris Buck for the Guardian I'm going to begin by addressing four unpleasant questions that novelists often get asked. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z Mr. Angyan said that he understood the Met’s needs but that “it’s the way it’s done which was unpleasant.” Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z This is not the first time, of course, that Hollywood has averted its gaze from an unpleasant topic. Bill Cosby allegations meet with mostly silence in Hollywood 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z People were behaving in this really unpleasant, hyper-nationalistic way – so I got away. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z People who are greedy, unpleasant and employed in a job purely out of a desire to make money are likely to be boring. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z Eliminating those unpleasant odors is one of the top benefits of running a dehumidifier. Six reasons you may need a dehumidifier 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z But it was Grundtvig's ideas that perhaps also created Denmark's unpleasant side. Something puzzling in the state of Denmark 2012-12-21T22:55:08Z But everything that goes around it is so unpleasant: the auditioning, the hierarchy of who’s the star. John Lurie Doesn’t Paint Happy Trees 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The blind man and his creepy amanuensis are inspired characters, unforgettably disturbing and unpleasant, sitting in the corner of the pub, parasitically soaking in all the neurotic whisperings. Dirk Bogarde's Victim shines a light on London's shadowy past 2011-08-08T09:42:02Z The unpleasant fact is that an obsession with identity is, finally, self-indulgent. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z As this becomes increasingly apparent over the course of an hour, the world of “Hora” becomes unfunny, unpleasant and finally chilling. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z The setting: Plain, a bit noisy when full, but not unpleasant, with blond wood tables and benches. U:Don – a Japanese-noodle shop where the slurping is good 2012-11-29T23:09:09Z I'm not sure this skit quite justifies the unpleasant associations raised, with its references to water-boarding and so on. Kieran and the Joes ? review 2011-08-24T11:24:21Z The midnight slate at this year’s South by Southwest film festival will include haunted houses, unpleasant dinner parties, not-so-sweet dreams and a little bit of cannibalism. SXSW Film Festival Announces Midnight Slate 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It's just because it's so unpleasant, people don't want to say it's in that category. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z Giving away your hard-earned money may seem counterintuitive or unpleasant, like paying off credit cards and student loans. She Gets Paid Just to Humiliate Her Fans 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z I get we are a big, loud family that may be stressful or unpleasant for them. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It’s a wonderful life, minus the in-laws 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z I was similar as a child, and my parents told me repeatedly that my attitude stunk and that I was unpleasant to be around. Perspective | Don’t blame genetics for daughter’s sassy demeanor. It’s more nurture than nature. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The book spotlights an unpleasant and complicated problem — the lack of proper waste sanitation in rural America — and the phenomenal toll it takes on public health and dignity. How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z If your job is to make a depressing movie about a particularly unpleasant medical condition, poverty and ruined lives, maybe you should look for a celebrity narrator. Review: ‘Shout Gladi Gladi,’ on the Fight to Curb Fistula 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z They finish the drink with a double strain to further protect against any unpleasant textures. Looking for a holiday cocktail? Try a hoary old chestnut. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This isn’t much motivation to undertake the immense, unpleasant work involved, but Thisbee has another card to play: The Dig Effort is also a rescue operation. A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s not just the routine police brutality, or the latest bon mot from Donald Trump or Paul LePage, that shows us the unpleasant reality. “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z But different versions of genes do influence behavior in some people, some of it unpleasant indeed. This is your brain on murder: What the mind of a psychopath looks like 2014-03-09T18:30:00Z How could someone like this be guilty of all these unpleasant charges? Let the end of Cosby be the true end of ’80s moralism: Are we done looking for “strict father” figures yet? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z And podcast audiences tend to be a relatively friendly bunch: There are no comments sections to elevate unpleasant behavior, and podcasts by their nature require a level of active engagement that discourages drive-by detractors. Paris Hilton Has a Podcast, With a Twist 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But it's never bothered me – better to be thought that than to be thought vile and unpleasant. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z Singularly unsympathetic, Päffgen presents as a longtime neglectful mother, unrepentant junkie and temperamentally unpleasant artist. Review: ‘Nico, 1988’ Dramatizes the Singer’s Tormented Final Years 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Admittedly cycling in snow is next to impossible, and or heavy rain unpleasant, but improvements in breathable waterproof clothing make that much more bearable, and doesn't stop my daily commute. Why I love … cycling 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z But it is so crammed with unpleasant people and degrading stories, and so helplessly clotted with Scientology jargon and acronyms, that it's not easy reading. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z Most notable is the depiction of Colin Craven, a cousin of Mary's even more unpleasant than she is. The Secret Garden's hidden depths 2011-08-05T11:42:29Z But if “Burnt Sugar” is often as unpleasant as a sinus infection, it’s just as hard to shake off. Review | ‘Burnt Sugar,’ a challenging Booker Prize finalist, is hard to take, but harder to shake off 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “This last film was literally, without question, the most unpleasant experience I’ve ever had in my professional life,” Cross told Indiewire. Alvin and the Chipmunks, or The Burdens of Parenthood 2011-12-16T11:58:18Z “As unpleasant as it was to live with, I think it helped my painting a great deal. I made leaps that I don’t think I could have made without the illness.” Cult favorite John Lurie is back, with an old alter ego 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The brash boyishness lends the character a certain pathos: it seems cruelly unfair that this gilded youth should be required to sully his spirits with the unpleasant task of avenging his father’s death. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z I’m on three different allergy medicines with unpleasant side effects. I’m sleeping in a tent! 2012-07-27T00:00:00Z "If you chill them, because they have a lot of water content, it might change the texture and become a little unpleasant," Ziata says of melons that are stored in the fridge. The best ways to store your summer fruits, from fresh berries to mangoes, melons and more 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z From coloured to negro to coloured again: Norris – American theatre's foremost dissector of liberal middle-class hypocrisy – points to the human tendency to burrow into language, to obscure unpleasant truths with names and labels. Clybourne Park ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:01Z How Logan – yes, the unpleasant specimen has resurfaced – was introduced to representatives from the “Argles Initiative” in a swanky half-lit bar. Westworld recap: season 2, episode 2 – the devil's in the Delos 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z If you want to find death in it all its most unpleasant forms, opera is the only game in town. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z But I don't think that Vic's conception of it is that having unpleasant and painful experience makes an artist better at their craft. When love and perfume lead to "a side hustle in murder for hire" 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z And in the final act, as the unpleasant racist saunters off, there is the uncomfortable insinuation that it is not always the right people who survive. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode 9 – Flatline 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z This leads to a deeply unpleasant — well, you finish the sentence. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z Their bodies react to weightlessness in all kinds of unpleasant ways, from losing bone mass and muscle density to fluids pooling in the head. 'Packing for Mars': Mary Roach's take on life in the void 2010-08-11T23:14:00Z There will be a few surprises along the way, unpleasant for Jimmy but fun to watch. ‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Bob Odenkirk of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z This opposite state, known as the “B process”, is led by the brain’s drive to return to its baseline state – and it’s why hangovers and comedowns are such unpleasant experiences. The science of addiction: a personal struggle to kick cocaine gives a neuroscientist unique insights 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Our oceans will boil off and the Earth will become a very unpleasant place to live. Welcome to a new Eden ? two billion miles from Earth 2010-05-08T23:06:00Z Fundamentally, in recent decades, the apple choice in Britain could be broken down between: deeply unpleasant and deeply boring. How to eat: apples 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z They have been quarantined separately two or three times over the past year; the longest they went without seeing each other was an unpleasant 14 days. Romance Blossoms for Seniors During Quarantine 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Hoping to avoid such unpleasant experiences, many parents are developing their own survival strategies. Testing Autism and Air Travel 2012-10-28T04:47:23Z Both climbers crave the publicity a magazine feature would bring, even though Hall is also aware that such attention is contributing to dangerous and unpleasant conditions on the mountain. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Daniel also insists on knowing the unpleasant truths about his parents and their relationship, despite the judge’s efforts to protect him, which further complicates things. "Anatomy of a Fall" inverses the formulaic whodunit and shows the "limitations of a courtroom" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z You can be thoroughly unpleasant, falling out with everyone, blaming others for mishaps, treating violence as the answer to every annoyance – and still be a brilliant musician. The 10 best music documentaries 2013-05-18T15:00:00Z As a result, many of those grapes were potentially susceptible to smoke taint, which can leave wine with an unpleasant, ashy flavor.- Wildfires Spared the Vineyards, but the Wines Could Suffer 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z I found myself agreeing with Mordden that “Lolita, My Love” “is a brilliantly unpleasant show.” A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “That was a very unpleasant experience, as the movie shows,” Rhodes says, in what seems like understatement. What was the final year in the Obama White House like? This filmmaker was there. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Their acts may have curdled in recent years, but Carr and Boyle started life as skilled provocateurs, playing at being unpleasant, needling at the margins of the acceptable. Funny men behaving boorishly 2013-01-04T19:00:01Z Presumably because so many humans are unpleasant and disliked by others in the clan, they have taken to partly covering their faces in an attempt at disguise. Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It's not that any of us think every unpleasant and challenging interaction is about race. Our group chat is a sacred space to talk openly about being Black in America 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z There is a large cast — too large, I occasionally felt, fretting over which noble was currently being unpleasant and why — in which familiar figures jostle against the imagined. A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z As Hana later explains, her teacher said to “show what’s real but not real real … if reality is dark and unpleasant, not to show it.” Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable “Taxi” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z It was so unpleasant to smoke by myself on the porch on windy Chicago nights that I eventually quit for good. My Life in Smoke 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z In short, most Americans prefer to tune out all things unpleasant. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z For most people, this is gradual, natural, manageable and healthy, albeit unpleasant. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Here again, there’s no one better for the job, as a public historian and the face of an institution that must, by definition, put forward unpleasant facts and discomfiting truths, than Lonnie Bunch. Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z "So all those unpleasant characters in the songs," I ask, "like the narrator in I Stuck Her With My Wang, they're examples of people you shouldn't be?" And God created controversy 2010-10-08T23:03:00Z To the north are the scrubby, rather unpleasant Marshlands, home to sickly sheep and a fearsome creature known as the Ickabog. J.K. Rowling’s New Non-Potter Children’s Book 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Which is a good job tonight, because the description alone is very unpleasant indeed. TV highlights 03/04/2013 2013-04-03T06:00:05Z With his side parting and tweed jacket, Forrest might look like a sitcom dad, but he’s ultimately an arrogant, selfish, cowardly and frequently unpleasant figure. Andy Daly on Review: 'There is a limit to how horrible things can get' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Ramsay has deserved a deeply unpleasant end since he first appeared in this show in Season 3. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Finale: 9 Questions That Need Answers 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Sergeant has some unpleasant plans for the evening, for which he has come fully loaded. ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ With Zach Gilford 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z "How," he said, "can you write about Morrison's music without taking into account what a completely unpleasant person he is?" Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z And once more, as in “Black,” the place is swarming with alien monsters with big, sharp teeth and unpleasant dispositions. ‘Riddick’: A leaner, meaner sequel comes into view 2013-09-05T17:12:39Z Kourosh Ahari: It wasn't anything crazy, but there was this one hotel I took my wife to, and the bathroom situation was unpleasant. Why horror flick "The Night" is the first American film to be released in Iran in four decades 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z By the mid-1980s, they had split, a dissolution so unpleasant that Rolling Stone magazine took note of it in an article last year titled “The 10 Messiest Band Breakups.” Sting, the tireless troubadour “The remarkable thing was that it was always unpleasant in a new way.” Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The unpleasant moments in his writing process, he says, had their pleasant inverses; Christgau says he never wrote more quickly than he did describing a day of passion more than 40 years ago. Robert Christgau: How One Man Survived Writing 13,000 Album Reviews 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The unpleasant optics of accepting the loan “did factor substantially” into the decision to reverse course, he said. Axios returns coronavirus bailout loan as news organizations grapple with the ethics of taking government funds 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z It turns out that Ms. Diski has two particularly unpleasant diseases, lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z When we got to her bedroom, the bed was unmade on both sides, and we stood there uncomfortably while I cringed at the thought that this rather unpleasant woman had not slept alone. Motherlode Blog: 'Sleepovers' With My 9-Year-Old Daughter 2012-10-07T12:00:10Z Tales related by my mum and her sisters paint a picture of an emotionally awry, often unpleasant parent. Family life 2012-10-05T23:05:03Z He’s unpleasant, but not in an especially interesting way, and ingratiating in a way that’s even drearier. Review: ‘Wilson,’ With Woody Harrelson as a Misanthrope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z This highly unpleasant concoction is blended together at the rendering plant and heated at intensely high temperatures until it no longer resembles meat at all. What’s really in your dog’s food? You probably don’t want to know 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Her marriage to a troubled U.S. border patrol guard is barren and unpleasant. Marvel a marvel in diffuse 'Book of Grace' in NY 2010-03-18T01:46:00Z You get the impression that just as a tiny unpleasant thing can fill him with irritation, so a tiny pleasant one can fill him with amusement. T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z Now it’s up to the others to mull over the unpleasant idea that Jack, elevated to hero-husband and perfect-father status since his death, lied to his wife and children about his brother’s existence. Perspective | ‘This Is Us’ finally delivers some of Beth’s backstory — and more proof of a master plan 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As with much of his music, Norman acknowledges, there's a chance that some listeners will find "Frank's House" as unpleasant as those neighbors in 1978 found Frank's house. Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Harsh language, bad sex, unpleasant situations — grown-up stuff, in other words. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z Discovered by a group of goatherds, including an elderly man and a young boy, they face an unpleasant set of choices, enumerated by Murphy and debated by the others. Movie Review: Mark Wahlberg Stars in ‘Lone Survivor’ by Peter Berg 2013-12-24T21:55:24Z Though not unpleasant, it adds a certain orange Fruit Pastille-like quality to the drink, which I don't think it needs. How to mix the perfect old fashioned 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z A scene where McCreadie plays Three-card Monte with them as a way of getting them to move and work for him for free is pointed and unpleasant. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z As the movie proceeds, though, it becomes grimmer and more unpleasant, its fealty to spectacle increasingly tethered to violence and death. Review: ‘Padmaavat’ and All That Useless Beauty 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Patience is the quality that allows us to respond to unpleasant circumstances with courage, perseverance, acceptance, forbearance, and forgiveness. Transcendence in Los Angeles traffic: On gridlock and mindfulness 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Although abuse is unusual, the work can still be unpleasant, particularly for women. Sun, sea and silver service: what’s it like crewing on a superyacht? 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z I don’t want to be caught wearing sandals and look down and see these unpleasant toes. Julie Kent Looks Effortless in Ballet and Beauty 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The prosecution said she was "high on fame" while the judge described the attack as "an unpleasant piece of drunken violence". Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year' 2010-10-22T23:04:00Z If a large chunk of kief or hash lands in one cookie, caramel, or piece of Scottish Toffee, the game of edible roulette risks becoming an unpleasant, anxiety-riddled experience. A beginner’s guide to cooking with kief and hash 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z There’s an unpleasant whiff of snobbery and prejudice, a depressing unkindness that’s often shown by people sharing a space with those paying less. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z An unmistakable — but not unpleasant — sense of responsibility settled on my shoulders the instant we left home. Explorer: In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy 2013-06-14T20:06:25Z Dirty tubes can lend the ice cream unpleasant off-notes and aftertastes. Next Stop, Summer: A Day Aboard a Mister Softee Truck 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z "A very unpleasant experience for my staff, a lot of paperwork for the Capitol Police, but a fairly simple story." Colbert on "shameful" Fox News coverage that painted dog puppet act in the Capitol as "insurrection 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z I try my best not to be unpleasant about it, but I wish that many things were not as they are. Spaghetti in a cone: a miracle of physics, a genius food delivery system 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Only, after chewing for a while and contemplating the pasta beneath the sauce, did I begin to notice a few unpleasant sensations on my palate. This is the best-tasting alternative to white-flour pasta (hint: it's not chickpea) 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z I remember the unpleasant drama of speaking – my mouth gaping, words stuck somewhere between my chest and mouth. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The result: a weird tonal shift and quite a few unpleasant moments. Anything goes in dark comedy 'Let's Kill Ward's Wife' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Past experiences when this has happened have been incredibly unpleasant. Perspective | Ask Amy: Going on a cruise and dreading telling a sister who won’t make her own plans 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z And miraculously, the unpleasant lunatic becomes a sympathetic, touching character. A Royal Affair: The Enlightenment Brings Sexy Back 2012-11-08T15:00:36Z To the contrary, malodorous strangers can elicit pity and inspire generosity—so long as we believe their unpleasant aroma is due to circumstances beyond their control. The upside of body odor 2014-01-07T13:30:00Z “The dragging of the downed animals, the tossing of the baby animals onto the floor, leaving them gasping and dying: It’s hard to choose any one aspect because it’s pretty unpleasant from beginning to end.” Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z Everything about the weeklong Caribbean cruise is meant to buff life’s unpleasant edges into sea glass. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z On this premise, a very unpleasant church has been built. Sports fandom doesn’t have to be miserable 2013-04-15T16:45:00Z This “New York Idea” is by no means unpleasant, but it seems to be going through farcical motions without the heat of purpose. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z I got to be known for unpleasant pictures. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z "It was thoroughly unpleasant period of conduct by you; such was your conduct that members of staff were called to deal with you and they had cause to contact the pilot." 'Boozed up' British Airways passenger convicted for racist rant targeting flight attendant 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The brief menu in the Spirits Library leans heavily on cheese and charcuterie; chicken liver mousse leaves an unpleasant tang in its wake. Columbia Room review: The return of some of D.C.’s most prized liquid assets 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z I longed for the fearlessness of “My Struggle,” its unwillingness to tame “the ugly and unpleasant,” its oceanic sense of life’s dangers and unpredictability. In ‘Autumn,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard Shows His Sweet Side 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Metcalf, spiky and floppy, is particularly mordant in this material, sometimes bullying and sometimes coddling A in an effort to get through another unpleasant day with minimal fuss. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The old festival, according to Carol K. Stone, 83, its co-founder, suffered from “serious debt, and things got very unpleasant” between the board and the founders. | Cape May: Jazz Celebration in Cape May Will Have New Orleans Flavor 2012-10-27T04:03:04Z The Russian barber whose cat meets a notably unpleasant end in Nathan Barley. Talk about Kevin 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Mr. Gelb pointed out that all foreign singers and directors at the Met had to put up with “unpleasant procedures,” and he asked for Mr. Stein’s guarantee to see the production through. Director Says He Left Met Production in Visa Spat 2010-09-03T22:21:00Z It's impossible to overstate how unpleasant this woman is. Dance Moms, awful but addictive 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z Upon entering the store, whose floors are the unfinished concrete de rigueur to the neighborhood, my nostrils were filled with a possibly piped-in but not unpleasant piney scent. Critical Shopper: Simple Living From West Elm Market in Brooklyn 2013-01-02T20:31:05Z “We are de-escalating situations all day long. They may range from a very small problem where someone is just a little bit off, a little bit unpleasant, to actually being combative.” Passengers behaving badly: The real reason we freak out on planes. 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z "Tuesday was unpleasant," he said, adding how the rest of the week improved. NY man cycling to all 50 states reaches Florida, loses 30 pounds, inspires others 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z But watching this production, in which the action plays out like unpleasant college-dorm shenanigans, you’ll be pardoned for thinking, “Oh, grow up already.” Theater Review: Ferdinand Bruckner’s ‘Pains of Youth,’ by Cake Shop Theater 2014-02-19T22:39:34Z A woman in the United Kingdom recently made an unpleasant discovery when she went to check on her garden bird feeder. Woman finds squirrel wedged inside squirrel-proof bird feeder 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “It tastes like chewing on a urine-infested mattress,” said Samuel West, who, as curator of the Disgusting Food Museum, knows a thing or two about unpleasant victuals. Rotten shark made you queasy? A vomit bag for every guest at the... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z In other words, the unpleasant work of dumping or being dumped has turned into a booming cottage industry that stands as a very clear response to our modern world. Don't text your ex: inside the booming industry of 'breakup experts' 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z This is intense, uncompromising music that's not afraid of sounding unpleasant. Coltrane's live 'Offering' shakes the room 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Notice that we don’t choose for these things to be pleasant or unpleasant. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z Cheap-looking and unpleasant — too many scenes boast a sickly green sheen, as if viewed through a haze of nausea — “Black Site” is a pointless rehash of war-on-terror tropes. ‘Black Site’ Review: Stranger Danger 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z He’s just this very unpleasant curmudgeon, a narcissistic, selfish man in his late middle age, and yet there’s something terribly endearing about him. David Tennant Craves Old English Dinners and Cigarettes After Sex 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z People who heard Lincoln speak said his voice was at times “unpleasant.” 10 things you may not know about Abraham Lincoln 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “There is no record of a mistake, nothing critical, ugly or unpleasant that is not included in the files here.” Critic’s Notebook: At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History 2014-04-08T22:44:54Z Thus Himmler could talk about the decency and heroism of those who undertook the unpleasant task. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Yet even when that outside world bears down on Pietro and especially Bruno, the movie skitters away from messy, unpleasant particulars, which makes its painful passages easier to take but also blunts its impact. ‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Likewise, an emergency C-section of a woman with a neck wound — performed at night with only helmet lamps — should be intense, but Penn’s nose-rubbing approach makes it simply unpleasant. Sean Penn directs “The Last Face” like it’s his last chance 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z And we talked about our unpleasant childhood Thanksgivings. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z There is a slight dissonance, but not an unpleasant one; the effect is more like the distortion of memory. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z By and large, they are an unpleasant, inelegant group, yet they are nonetheless visited with some form of divine grace. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Torture is unpleasant, we are often told by video games, but it works, delivering accurate, actionable information. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Exploring Meaningful Violence 2013-12-27T13:01:52Z And “Thin Ice” itself, while not entirely unpleasant, is gnawingly familiar, a slice of room-temperature heartland quirk that tries to blend low-key comedy with violence and mayhem. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z I would like to think there is room in the cinematic diet for various flavors, including some that may seem, on first encounter, unfamiliar or even unpleasant. Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z He rang her five minutes after she put down the phone on Jordan, having raved about the film, and was very gracious, she says; he didn't bring up "anything unpleasant". Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z Live And Die is deeply unpleasant: drippy fake folk as hollow as their stupid fiddles. This week's new tracks 2012-11-17T00:05:28Z He had a particularly unpleasant relationship with General Motors, who had spent time and money trying to discredit him. Mad Men recap: season six, episode 12 – The Quality of Mercy 2013-06-19T22:00:00Z Being an adult means, as Orwell put it, having the “power of facing unpleasant facts.” 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Their activities mostly consist of friends being excessively complimentary of each other and excessively unpleasant about strangers. This Is How to Stalk Your Teenage Children Online 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z You can make it through most of the film in a state of queasy, not entirely unpleasant ambivalence. ‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, that famously bored, monotonous voice of hers can wring laughs out of some otherwise dull lines, such as: "When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time." Comedy gold – Jo Brand's Barely Live 2013-07-12T14:09:37Z Racism, anti-Semitism, each is unpleasant on their own. “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in its anachronistic unreality 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Embarrassing in the moment, unpleasant when he had to tell her no. Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z These kinds of jobs aren’t new; content moderation is just a late-capitalist iteration of work that is dangerous, traumatic, or deeply unpleasant and therefore delegated to those who are less privileged. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z And though it’s grim and unpleasant and bodes ill, it’s still, from the point of view of the artist, exciting and new. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But no, this was the most unpleasant shower yet, a collection of bankers, property developers and mortgage brokers scrabbling to succeed at each others' expense, made more desperately back-stabbing, not more empathetic, by hard times. If The Apprentice is capitalism, bring on the revolution 2010-10-07T13:30:00Z Here’s her retelling of what sounds like a pretty unpleasant experience taking drugs and rubbing her corduroy pants: Maureen Dowd ate a large dose of a marijuana chocolate bar, freaked out, wrote about it 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z So she has not worked a lot, but she gave a committed performance as an unpleasant neurotic in American Beauty – impressive proof of how little vanity she has. David Thomson on Annette Bening 2010-10-27T22:40:00Z When the pieces of fruit are cooked unpeeled, their skins will curl up into tough, unpleasant bits throughout the salsa. Canning Class: Peachy Tomato Salsa An unpleasant middle-aged man named Wang runs a noodle shop with his wife and their staff. 2010-02-14T12:43:00Z I bit into the bitter cacao underneath and made another face at the strong, unpleasant flavor. Bitter cacao nibs and bleeding hands: My 10-day chocolate-making nightmare 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z That startling, unpleasant image reignites the uncertainty and fear that rise in Marta like bile, as her fragmented memories struggle to focus. How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman – review 2013-02-08T08:00:01Z Four unpleasant hours in an upstairs room is not like the death of a child. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z And that was an unpleasant feeling, and it would’ve been even more so, if I had actually created the show. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z Some of it remains very unpleasant – as any production of Salome should – but it's also riveting from beginning to end. Salome 2010-07-05T21:45:00Z He opened an energy speech to the nation by saying, “Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem that is unprecedented in our history.” Was Jimmy Carter the Most Underrated President in History? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z I have subjected my children to a host of unpleasant travel experiences around the world, usually while pursuing some elusive undiscovered paradise, and I wondered if Gili Air would be worth the bother. This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It was a really tough time, it shook us to our core, and we found it very, very unpleasant to go through. Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z Rather than treating the role of songwriters as an unpleasant secret, “Songland” attempts to celebrate them as the magic ingredient in music. How “Songland” Tries and Fails to Honor the Songwriter 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z I don’t think either of us really intended for it to go so fast, so far, but it wasn’t at all unpleasant, just somewhat out of sequence. How do I survive the morning after having sex on my first online date? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z How many unpleasant aspects of life might people like to outsource to another version of themselves — or even to make someone else forget, with the aid of a little brain snip? ‘Severance’ Review: That Makes Two of You 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z While the Kims worry about money, the extravagant Parks worry about poor people’s unpleasant smell. ‘Parasite’ and South Korea’s Income Gap: Call It Dirt Spoon Cinema 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z And it just raised the question for me, "What did this great prophet of totalitarianism, this person renowned for facing unpleasant facts, what the hell was he doing planting roses?" George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z I know it sounds stupid, but because of low self-esteem and fear of unpleasant reactions, I have had a lot of sex out of politeness. Dating after #MeToo: I've had a lot of sex out of politeness. How do I say no? 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z He and his wife had chosen to sit down with the AP, he said, because they thought the AP was a reputable news organization and would not dig into those unpleasant accusations. An art loan from Bill Cosby draws the Smithsonian into a national debate As a cliche, unpleasant men with their faces painted blue runs a close second to bloodthirsty slobs with horns on their head. Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z This was the beginning of my research for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Teenage Kicks, and although the story was unpleasant, I wasn't surprised. Teenagers suffer the kicks of abusive relationships 2011-01-28T10:35:44Z He’s intelligent, funny, but also physically unpleasant and somehow both juvenile and pedantic at the same time. Are Creative Types Inherently Wicked? Ask Tom Bissell. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The ultimate triple-agent, he's a morally fascinating character who's as genuinely unpleasant as he is heroic. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z “It’s really made it much more convenient in the winter, which as you know can be unpleasant here,” Mr. Alexander said. Chicago Theaters Cultivate Night Life Offstage 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In spite of these powers, or perhaps to bring them low, Roth has been charged with a pair of unpleasant traits: misogyny and narcissism. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Screaming into the jungle seemed unpleasant and jarring to me at first, but I wanted to be a good sport. A Giant Swing. Jungle Screaming. Ice Plunges. You’ll Love It. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Michelle’s behavior, Swann says, was a skillful example of greeting someone unpleasant with grace but not warmth: “She was just cordial enough.” Why do so many Americans adore Michelle Obama? She keeps it real (even at a funeral). 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “One of the problems with defending free speech,” the author Salman Rushdie once said, “is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.” Free speech is precious. What’s happening with Gawker and Facebook threaten it. 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes people adopt unpleasant habits or objectionable political views. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z He has undergone quadruple-bypass surgery and has other health problems, and he has filed for bankruptcy — an unpleasant element of personal history he does not want widely known. In Hours, Online Readers Identify Nazi Photographer 2011-06-24T23:43:52Z "I don't know that Van Morrison is a completely unpleasant person," I said. Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Ms. Politkovskaya — she was the mother of two, dead at 48 — wrote sentences that fit her subject: her prose was mostly hard and balefully direct, wormy with unpleasant truths. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z Howard seems like a generally unpleasant guy, but the reason for Claire’s grudge is grimly specific. ‘Moving On’ Review: Cracking Jokes and Settling Scores 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The flight is just one part of this increasingly costly and unpleasant experience we call travel. Letters: Letters: Searching for Flights 2011-10-21T18:50:09Z Any I have tasted have no real flavor, other than sweet, and they have an unpleasant chew. The Funfetti Explosion 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Recently relocated from an unnamed dull suburb and low on cash, Josephine and her husband migrate among a series of dingy, unpleasant sublets that lead them deeper into a shared existential funk. Review: Helen Phillips Tweaks Corporate Culture in ‘The Beautiful Bureaucrat’ 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z “Cassie has every right to be as closed down, as abrasive, as unpleasant, as vindictive as she likes, because she’s been through hell. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t care about her.” Carey Mulligan Won’t Let Hollywood Off the Hook 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The authors concluded that people would rather do something unpleasant than nothing. Is it good to be bored (or will it be the death of you)? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It won’t single-handedly make the world a more violent place – just a slightly uglier, more unpleasant one. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Henry’s screenplay, which was nominated for an Oscar, appropriated much of Mr. Webb’s dialogue but softened the smug, unpleasant edge evinced by Benjamin in the novel. Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z In an unpleasant location, the body of a young woman is discovered. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z Hill is evidently under a great deal of pressure; he’s, now, the sort of celebrity followed all day by fairly unpleasant photographers. The next Alec Baldwin? Jonah Hill’s homophobic paparazzi outburst 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The results are unnerving, pristinely crafted and altogether unpleasant. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, she describes the first phase of her career as “totally unpleasant.” How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “There was always a kind of ending that was unpleasant,” Lyonne said this week, “that was percolating under the surface of his songs, even at their most upbeat and certainly at their darkest.” This Is That Song From ‘Russian Doll’ 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Give “Come Back to Me,” an unpleasant horror film from Paul Leyden, a shred of credit: It’s difficult to predict what it’s up to. ‘Come Back to Me,’ a Gory Horror Tale 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z And whoever ultimately sits on that spiky, unpleasant sword-throne, the ending will not be a happy one. Winter Is Here: Remembering the Plot of “Game of Thrones” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Anti-Semitism isn’t just a matter of asserting unpleasant or reprehensible attributes. Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z Tannic yet balanced, with flavors of red and dark fruits and a not unpleasant earthy, metallic tang. Finding Harmony in Ribera del Duero 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Those Who Can’t Critic, 1; Amazon users, 4.4 A strained farce about three incompetent and unpleasant teachers who plot to bring down the even more unpleasant student who loves to taunt them. Watch List: Original Pilots, Judged by the Masses 2013-04-22T21:43:18Z Instead other dissonant chords emerge, which while not unpleasant, do not provide any relief. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z For those who experience the more fleeting — but still unpleasant — Sunday scaries, there are ways to cope. What are the Sunday scaries, and how can you banish them? 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z I did my business and it was every bit as unpleasant as it was decades ago. Are the Rolling Stones worth dying for? 2013-07-03T15:49:36Z The letter goes on to say that any characterization of Aunt Marge as “unpleasant” was based on a faulty assumption. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z I got the impression that it had been a very unpleasant couple of weeks for everyone involved. I took Fox News’ sexual harassment class 2013-06-04T11:45:00Z This is how I actually answered that question in elementary school, which led to an undeserved critique by classmates during recess consisting of a most unpleasant Atomic Flying Wedgie. Style Invitational Week 1207: Clue us in — a reverse crossword 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z And it's difficult to see how we could disable the network's facility for generating unpleasant surprises without also disabling the other forms of creativity it engenders. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z The weather is unpleasant, drizzly and unseasonably cold. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z "Some very unpleasant stuff about people I cared about." Greg Bellow: My father, Saul 2013-04-27T08:01:15Z It hardly means you won’t find the experience, relatively genteel as it was, to be viscerally unpleasant. “It’s making us feel like the opposition is evil”: How cable news hurts democracy — and how to fix it 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Unattractive in the sense of: not much to look at and a really unpleasant personality. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Patience is the ability to be with the difficult and the unpleasant in a non-reactive way. Transcendence in Los Angeles traffic: On gridlock and mindfulness 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z “Whitney,” on the other hand, is thoroughly modern: Ms. Cummings’s character is bracingly whiny and unpleasant. Television Review: Three New Sitcoms Put the Focus on Young Single Women 2011-09-18T22:09:46Z With his privileged background, excellent education and meteoric rise, he may find it hard to believe but he'll be sensing something unpleasant by now. David Cameron feels the hand of history where it hurts 2010-04-25T11:00:00Z Footage was similarly removed from Men in Black 3 because unpleasant aliens had dared disguise themselves as Chinese restaurant workers. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z Parents want “to do something about it right now,” Bales said — even when a treatment carries a high risk of unpleasant side effects. Why parents are turning to a controversial treatment for food allergies 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Talking with her is not an option; she is staunchly opinionated and it would be unpleasant. Ask Amy: Remarriage brings out bad feelings Sue got a few pages but nothing unpleasant. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z But the depiction of Martin as an evil, chauvinistic braggart is fictional and highly unpleasant -- and it's tough not to notice that he's one of only two nonwhite speaking characters in the film. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z Like her father, she finds humor in life’s most awkward and unpleasant moments. Maude Apatow Is Growing Up Writing 2012-08-24T22:19:51Z “I like it to be a bit unpleasant,” she said, “so that it feels like it’s actually getting onto you.” For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Any “Romeo” abounds in fights and deaths, but this incident remains among the most gratuitously unpleasant. Review: ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ a Movielike Ballet in Need of Better Direction 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Through extreme pain the hero sets the world right . . . and it takes him years of unpleasant, irritating excursions and self-reflection to find a way back to an honestly won, legitimate version of grace. What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Obsession is the overarching theme, probably, but with a dubious premise and four unpleasant characters, the play is not involving enough to be as shocking as it aspires to be. Theater Review | 'Sex & Violence': Short Stroll to the Wild Side From the Safe Side at Home 2010-02-17T21:43:00Z Giamatti spoke to Talking Movies' Tom Brook about why he is drawn to playing men with unflattering characteristics - people who, in his own words, are unpleasant and strange. Giamatti on golden Barney's Version 2011-01-18T03:05:59Z She's appearing nightly on the fringe with sketch group Lady Garden, offering a far funnier and more inventive show than their mildly unpleasant name suggests. Comedy's family affair 2010-08-14T11:10:00Z In fact, watching a deflated Van Damme shuffling around in the snow, his mullet lank and unwashed, his face ravaged by time is a genuinely unpleasant experience. The Hard Sell: Coors Light 2011-07-22T23:04:02Z The Museum of Contemporary Art appears to be headed toward a potentially unpleasant speed bump on the road to recovery from several years of well-documented troubles: Its upcoming exhibition program is a mystery. MOCA's latest challenge: a practically blank exhibition schedule 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Although Eggers is extremely discreet—the things you don’t see are more horrifying than those you do—the picture’s relentlessness sometimes feels like torment, a quasi-Biblical punishment with an unpleasant sheen. Review: Old Fears Run Deep in The Witch 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Parked cars shifted into a strange Contemporary geometry, pinched in so it was impossible to move, even with tow trucks, The congested clogged world in a not unpleasant standstill. 2016: Our Year in Poems 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z And in an embarrassing sideshow, Mr. Miller made a series of complaints about the Rock Hall’s handling of the ceremony, saying, “The whole process is unpleasant.” Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur Lead Nominees for Rock Hall of Fame 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z I think everyone's real gripe is with the airlines for shrinking space on airplanes and making the flying experience so remarkably unpleasant. Inventor of Knee Defender insists airlines shouldn't sell the same space twice 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “If sad music actually evokes only unpleasant emotion, we would not listen to it,” those researchers wrote. Why Sad Music is Best for a Bad Mood 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z It is a difficult, unpleasant experience, braided tightly with feelings of shame and embarrassment. Envy is actually a very helpful emotion 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He says that "the responsibility is to show violence how it should be - sad and unpleasant and very dirty and a nightmare." Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes 2013-05-16T13:20:13Z They raise animals naturally outdoors, and you won’t detect a whiff of anything unpleasant from the dozens of pigs and thousands of chickens a field or two away. Secret Farm Hideaways 2010-08-25T17:48:00Z Now, on to your problem: when you find yourself chewing something unpleasant in public, simply lift your napkin to your mouth and discreetly remove the icky bite with your fingers. Social Q’s: A Parent’s Cry for Help - Social Q’s 2013-01-18T21:36:25Z It superficially promotes the Modern’s hipness while making the place even more unpleasant than usual. Björk, a One-of-a-Kind Artist, Proves Elusive at MoMA 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “So we have to be investigated just like anybody else and there will probably be some unpleasant and difficult stories to handle and I accept that’s part of the reality.” Child sex abuse inquiry to focus on churches and politicians 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Divorce remains a deeply unpleasant process, but not as hard to do as it was. Why Remarrying Isn't the Same Anymore 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Superficially chic, vibrant and full of motion, Mr. Bechtolf’s production is vague and dull at its core, swiftly fading from memory even as the unpleasant taste it leaves persists. A ‘Don Giovanni’ in Salzburg, Heavy on the Shallow 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z That adds to people not being able to deal with something else in their lives -- in this case, two very unpleasant people arriving and invading territory that is already under siege, emotionally. A Minute With: Emma Thompson as "Nanny McPhee" 2010-08-19T15:39:00Z On a recent American Airlines flight from Santiago, Chile, to Dallas, Natalie Root had a front-row seat for an unpleasant confrontation. Perspective | Are you allowed to take pictures on planes? Yes and no. 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z After all, pets track in lots of dirt, dust, and allergens, and unpleasant odors can become trapped in floor coverings, making the whole room smell. How to eliminate pet odors in your home 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Thomas Day: 'Most found his manner unpleasant and his opinions gauche.' How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-02-18T08:00:05Z It is almost equally famous for having some of the most unpleasant service this side of France. 2010-01-12T23:15:00Z It’s a free-sample assignment, and an assortment of odd and unpleasant people turn up for the handouts, with Jillian gaining some perspective on her personal problems in the process. Movie Review: ‘Free Samples,’ Directed by Jay Gammill 2013-06-07T02:39:29Z In a cold year you might encounter wines with a lot of malic acid, and those can be unpleasant. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s all too easy to focus on the peculiar and unpleasant aspects of Lewis’s life. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But as a visitor tours the village, unpleasant images show up, like the woman tied to a tree while people in robes and animal masks wave swords at her. “Burn the witch”: With Radiohead’s eerie return, they’ve lost none of their strange magic 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z For the average human, though, the enormity of this reality can actually be rather unpleasant, and the book could also be read as The Horror of Reality. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z His status ensured him access to the best and brightest women in Georgian society, but most found his manner unpleasant and his opinions gauche. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-02-18T08:00:05Z The manipulations, the stretching and the shape-making I did with her body, continued to feel unpleasant and callous, particularly after a shutdown of nearly two years, and for Tess, after a pregnancy. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Are there lines you won’t cross, things that you think would be funny but are just too unpleasant and too shocking even for you and your audience? David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Ronson contacted Reptuation.com, a company that specializes in cleaning up its clients’ tainted online presences by burying unpleasant or troublesome information underneath a heap of new Web sites and social-media posts. Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Whether it is a function of exhaustion, bickering over diapers or something inherently unpleasant about raising little children, the data doesn’t say, but parents under 30 are decidedly less happy than their child-free peers. Studied: Older Parents Find More Joy in Their Bundles 2011-04-07T23:00:35Z The markups are an unpleasant surprise, and guarantee that for most value-minded diners, the caviar section of the menu will be strictly a curiosity. Restaurant Review: Russ & Daughters Cafe 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z So she's definitely at the end of season four come to a very unpleasant awakening. Breaking Bad Q&A: Creator Vince Gilligan Talks the Finale, and the Future 2011-10-10T17:45:00Z Or is it too unpleasant to think about? Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “When I entered the building, it was dirty, dark, unpleasant, the ventilation was horrible, a kind of negative space,” Houben says by video call from the Netherlands. Review | America’s libraries are essential now — and this beautifully renovated one in Washington gives us hope 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z What if he has been conditioned so deeply, not just by experiences in adulthood but by early childhood, that his very survival depends on avoiding unpleasant truths? Are fibs deal breakers? 2013-05-13T00:00:00Z The turkey anxiety reminded us both of unpleasant past Thanksgivings with our families of origin where the meal always had to be cooked to perfection or else. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. 1 of the 'Girls,' Zosia Mamet, shines in Season 2 2013-01-10T14:36:09Z Communism is unpleasant because "I do not work well with others and I do not wish to learn to do so." "Public Speaking": Scorsese's Fran Lebowitz doc delights 2010-11-22T16:01:00Z He could explode in unpleasant ways, often conspiracy-minded and tinged with allegations of anti-Semitism. Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Some seemed frightened, as if there were somebody at Amazon who, if asked an unpleasant question, had the power to banish you to a cornfield. O.K., Who Put the Nazi Zombie Under the Tree? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Martino says: “In a way, it was a constructed scene because we put the monkey and python together, but we didn’t plan for that to be the ending … So it was really unpleasant to watch.” Chicken decapitation and battered cats: Hollywood’s history of animal cruelty 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z You can get impatient with Elias and Jenny because of how unpleasant they are together, but Baker wants that realistic friction, and she has a gift for chitchat that suddenly ruptures. Review | ‘The Flick’ playwright Annie Baker goes long again in the three-hour ‘John’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z I often end up feeling resentful and penny-pinching, which is unpleasant for me and my guests. Social Q’s: Loneliness of Secrets 2013-12-12T23:16:46Z Some prototypes had an unpleasant taste or were difficult to smoke. Big Tobacco wins fire marshals as allies in flame retardant push 2012-05-08T05:00:00Z My ample cups seemed to hint at certain unpleasant possibilities. My boobs, my burden 2014-02-24T01:00:00Z And through their stories, the series deftly engages the viewer with thorny, unpleasant social concerns, inviting us to comfortably in zones of discomfort for hours at time. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Take radishes, for example, that turn fibrous and develop a super sharp, unpleasant taste. Help! What vegetables should I be planting right now? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Stefan Zweig, Roth's compatriot and uneasy friend, describes in his autobiography the unpleasant and stifling state of relations between men and women in Austria-Hungary at that time. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z About Atwood, she declares: “Not since Edith Wharton has a female writer filled her oeuvre with so many unpleasant female characters.” In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Others produced the hardly unpleasant effect of diving into a self-sustaining sonic environment, if maybe more varied Biosphere 2 than smothering womb. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Sex scheduling can have unpleasant connotations of coerced or unwanted sex. Sex schedulers: meet the couples who diarise their love lives 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z It’s an unpleasant feeling, which we try to get rid of. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Why,’ About the Science of Curiosity 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Stewart is about to be faced is not an unpleasant thought. Rod Stewart: 'I've been a golden boy for too long' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-10-09T14:59:37Z Before this, “The Dragon and the Wolf” lays out a spread of pleasant surprises in unpleasant situations, beginning with characters long sundered by circumstance brought together again in the dragon pit outside the city walls. “Game of Thrones” recap: “The Dragon and the Wolf” is a satisfying end to an uneven season 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z But the smell was not unpleasant because you could smell the barn, you could smell the straw. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s Vacation Time, Grief Stalker Suri Krishnamma’s “Dark Tourist” takes an effectively unpleasant trip down the lost highway of a morbid mind before its bad choices start catching up with it. Movie Review: ‘Dark Tourist’ Stars Michael Cudlitz 2013-08-29T23:16:47Z It’s hard to believe that any of these unpleasant folks — including Leontes, still wild-eyed — have achieved holy redemption. Review: In This ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the King Is Insane. It’s as Simple as That. 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Drinking sediment is not harmful, but it’s unpleasant, like having a mouthful of grit. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z It was an awkward, unpleasant moment to watch. Can Will Ferrell's cruelty save "The Office?" 2011-04-22T12:01:00Z “You would require little from me. I’m not a difficult man. A little stuck in my ways, maybe, but not demanding or cruel or even unpleasant, I don’t believe.” Television Review: ‘The Making of a Lady’ Offers Slow Suspense, on PBS 2014-02-07T22:06:42Z “I was very unbearable and very unpleasant, so we parted ways after that.” Raoul Coutard, Cinematographer of the French New Wave, Dies at 92 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z I exaggerated the sabre-rattling, to bring to life how unpleasant the experience was. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Wartime Britain was a totalitarian state, Kelly writes, “with the unpleasant habits” that such states exhibit, particularly regarding intellectual life. Was Jane Austen a ‘secret radical’? 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z “There’s nothing inherently unpleasant about being substandard at something. . . . It’s just that our culture maligns and mocks ineptitude.” Review | It’s okay to be mediocre. In fact, it may even be beneficial. 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z From the start, it’s pretty clear she’s in for an unpleasant ride. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z A few parents report having had the unpleasant experience of their tweens asking exactly how one might get pregnant in a hot tub. Parents of tween Gleeks keep hands on pause button 2010-05-18T19:52:00Z I was introduced to these unpleasant surprises by Larry Black, who runs Mount Airy Bicycles. Tandem cycling tests more than just fitness It’s not unpleasant, but it’s not realism either. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z “There’s always a lot of animated and often emotional discussion in this class,” Harvey says, when her students see unpleasant or unexpected portrayals of Americans. Colleges turn ‘fake news’ epidemic into a teachable moment 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The cast is very white, which says something unintended and unpleasant about Hollywood connections. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Some of these accusations are, at least partly, true: “How unpleasant to know Mr. Eliot!” as he himself once wrote. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z There was no one left to identify with, just a series of inexplicably unpleasant events befalling them all. Desperate Housewives: getting desperate 2011-08-08T10:24:45Z This book declares, against all dictates of sense, that “even the most delicious cake is unpleasant eaten alone.” A Human Wrote This Book Review. A.I. Wrote the Book. 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z But he adds that the shoot was "pretty unpleasant". Horsing around 2010-05-06T07:26:00Z She described the experience of being given the ketamine as “overwhelming and intense”, but not unpleasant. Radical ketamine therapy could treat alcohol addiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Today's grandstanding cable news pundits may provoke nostalgia for the Cronkite days – and the Baxter days – but nostalgia has a way of blurring over all the unpleasant details. Ted Baxter pursued fame over journalism – but unlike today’s pundits, he didn't corrupt the news 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Kukulak hinted at her unpleasant working conditions in her viral TikTok video, telling followers that she had been planning to quit ever since the restaurant’s new management took over. Wendy's employee films herself quitting, leaving through the drive-thru window: 'Always wanted to' 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The unpleasant and expensive price-fixing lawsuit last year, pitting the Justice Department against five major publishers, has been settled. BookExpo America Draws 20,000 to Javits Center 2013-05-31T22:00:22Z The more unpleasant people are, the more rigorous his attention to them becomes. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The confrontation with the pissy, bullhorn-wielding customer in front of the dealership -- the son playing diplomat, the furious father smacking the bullhorn out of the customer's hand -- was look-away-from-the-screen unpleasant, in a good way. A strong, graceful finish for "Men of a Certain Age" 2011-07-07T14:15:00Z |
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