As a glyceride (an ester containing an acid and glycerol), it makes up 3 4 percent of butter; the disagreeable odour of rancid butter is that of hydrolysis of the butyric acid glyceride.
I had flattered myself that I'd found its purpose buried in a chapter towards the end, when Trudy rids herself of the disagreeable sensation of guilt by deciding that as she never really meant to do anything bad, that meant that she hadn't, and therefore everything must logically be Claude's fault.
It is then placed in baskets or holes, and covered up with earth until the following morning, when it is washed repeatedly to deprive it as much as possible of the disagreeable taste of coral which it possesses, after which it is spread out on mats, and dried".
It appeared that a lethal trinity of special forces, drones and local proxies was being brought to bear in a way that would spare the British public the disagreeable details of the nature of modern war, and relieve parliament of the need to debate the wisdom of waging it.
Though a lengthy extract accompanied it, the reviewer concluded that 'we found Phantasmagoria very hard reading indeed, and at the end of it experienced the disagreeable feeling of having been sold.' New editions of the Alice books were printed regularly, though not always successfully, to keep up with demand.
Mrs. Zichner tells about the trials of breeding mink; about the disagreeable disposition of the animals; about the feeding of them; and about how the farm is protected against robberier, etc.
Of all the disagreeable species of humanlike beings Jonathan Swift invented in "Gulliver's Travels," the Yahoos are the worst and most human of all.
Furthermore, Sprint has just announced that it has taken a whack at one of the most disagreeable aspects of cellphone ownership: programming the phone's address book.
To invoke human nature as the root of all the disagreeable consequences of the way we work and live is about as helpful as primitive magic.
