Macintyre actually did a lovely job, and quite possibly was able to put up with the disagreeables by virtue of having been flown to Istanbul, Beirut, Moscow, Washington and, rather trickier access surely for the producers, somehow whisked inside London's hallowed Athenaeum club.
At one well-established upscale food shop, he said, a young clerk tried to dispatch a particularly disagreeable customer by pricing salad at $86 a pound.
Stephen Fry has a nicely judged cameo as Mr Johnson, who reproves Sevigny's disagreeable American by informing her that the Atlantic passage is very cold at this time of year.
But some investors in renewable energy projects say they are troubled by a more disagreeable topic: slowness by Turkey's government in moving to privatize its energy markets and take advantage of its capacity for generating wind power.
In general, sponges are protected from predators by their disagreeable taste and smell and by their hard skeletal elements (spicules).
The music is organized barbarism, disagreeable if played by a lesser talent but very satisfying here.
The naturally disagreeable emotions aroused by the plot provide a subordinate and contrary emotion, the "movement" of which "fortifies" the predominant passion.
While Wallace cautions that "the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable", later descriptions by westerners are more graphic.
In addition to the portrayal of Katherine, Hazlitt likes that of Cardinal Wolsey and of King Henry himself, which, though "drawn with great truth and spirit [is] like a very disagreeable portrait, sketched by the hand of a master".
And whether they engaged me directly or not, many of them had to acknowledge the presence of someone who disagreed with them, but who did not fit their stereotypes by being disagreeable.
