John Kerry politely overlooked the distasteful facts of George W. Bush's first term, starting with the bald lies about committing our troops to war.
Ignoring that the flag still features prominently as part of our own (Australians are pretty good at ignoring distasteful facts), at the Olympics both sides can happily assume as cousins that we stand now as sworn rivals.
But her escape and subsequent race against time to free Phil's other female prisoners takes us to places that are no less distasteful for the fact that it is her holding the gun rather than him.
"For an MP to have made such comments on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day is even more distasteful, and we welcome the fact that the Liberal Democrats have sought to disassociate the party from David Ward's comments".
"I find all of it pretty distasteful to begin with, the fact that they're actually having it on Good Friday and Holy Saturday across the street from the church really makes it distasteful to me and the vast population," Fayette County Judge Ed Janecka told KXAN TV.
And, if so, what's an embattled company to do? Eric Dezenhall, a communications strategist in Washington who worked in the White House for President Ronald Reagan, argues that the standard playbook is useless when the facts are sufficiently distasteful.
In the aftermath of a young man's death, this forensic speculation can seem distasteful, or worse, but the facts do matter — and that's precisely why two viewers can see the surveillance video so differently.
Whatever the rights and wrongs, the prosaic facts are that however distasteful it might be, the aspirant politician can realistically expect to have their personal life brought into the public eye.
Among some distasteful details about the list is the fact that Bowden rested at his number after the N.C.A.A. docked him 12 victories in 2009 after finding Florida State guilty of an academic cheating scandal.
Foreign secretary Philip Hammond's comment about "marauding" migrants and Europe's inability to cope with an influx of "millions" of Africans is not only deeply distasteful but a clear distortion of the facts (Report, 10 August).
