Sentence examples for a distasteful experience from inspiring English sources

Singing in "Porgy and Bess" put food on the table, but it had become a distasteful experience.

Watching him convince communities to give up their birthright is a distasteful experience, made more palatable by trying to convince oneself that it's an essentially pre-modern tale.

It's a distasteful experience, and saddening, watching a keeper stab anesthesia into a thrashing bear, then locate the groggy animal's gall bladder with a small sonogram machine and withdraw a fat hypodermic's worth of bile.

Cal Ripken Sr. and Jr. had a similarly distasteful experience that resulted in Senior's dismissal as manager of the Baltimore Orioles.

"This incident was a very distasteful experience that lasted for over 40 minutes and with families, dads, granddads and youngsters all watching the games as well as some quite experienced players who were all left shaken".

In 2007 Cyrus Massoumi ruptured his eardrum on a flight to New York and turned his distasteful experience of trying to track down a physician into ZocDoc – a service that enables customers to quickly book appointments with doctors and dentists online.

The aversive effect induced by this substance in visual discrimination experiments would be based on a distasteful gustatory experience rather than on a post-ingestional malaise.

On one hand, retardation could be due to a distasteful sensory experience generated by the contact with these solutions.

Hence drinking time values indicate that the aversive effect of quinine was not determined by a post-ingestional malaise but rather by a distasteful gustatory experience.

Adjacent trials were spaced by 12 13 min. We reasoned that if the contact with aversive substances generates a distasteful sensory experience, pairing the US with them would lead to reward devaluation, and thus to CS devaluation.

While the former option would consist in a distasteful gustatory experience elicited by quinine solution, the latter option would consist of a post-ingestional malaise induced by the quinine solution, which would not necessarily taste bad to bees but which would be toxic once ingested [25].