"Little Charlie Manson was a disagreeable child," Jeff Guinn writes in "Manson," an otherwise brawny, deep-digging biography that's much more riveting than might be expected.
And on days when I feel like what I'm working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like "a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry", like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
He decided that his favorite play was "Richard II," because of the way it forced you to confront a disagreeable man-child who ruined his life and killed people, and yet, by the end, made you feel compassion for him.
You probably already know the story of the orphaned Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen", and her rehabilitation of the spooky walled-in garden with the killer tree (the one the late Mrs Craven fell out of).
She is a disagreeable, self-centred child, sent to stay in the Yorkshire house of an invisible, absent uncle.
The truth is that though many found shooting unarmed Jews, especially women and children, highly disagreeable, there was no great desire to step out of line.
The dock was now occupied by two working-class men, of ordinary, pleasant countenance, who were standing between policemen to be sentenced for a series of disagreeable sexual offenses against children.
As a small boy, bullied and teased by six sisters and four brothers, he sat under the nursery table chanting 'Mama, papa, all the children are disagreeable except me', to the tune of Gentle Jesus'".
Avoid and discard any activity that is disagreeable to you and/or the child -- causes anxiety, frustration, that the child does not wish to accept, etc. NOTE: The age groupings below are approximate.
