Sentence examples for distasteful task from inspiring English sources

That means the distasteful task of shaking hands with members who just lost their re-election battles, but who have to return shamefacedly for a few last votes.

Perhaps the only more distasteful task in the industry is slaving away at a 627-page biofraphy of a celebrity who has mastered these kinds of games, and Peter Biskind must at least be commended for pushing through to completion on "Star," his unlovely but ultimately satisfying book about Warren Beatty.

"The look on my face?" "You look like you're doing a distasteful task, like pulling hair out of a drain".

Dr. Richard Rawlins, laboratory director at the Rush Centers for Advanced Reproductive Care in Chicago, said he destroyed the embryos himself because so many of his staff members found the task distasteful.

And it was not the most distasteful of her tasks.

But, however distasteful it finds the task, it may be as important to co-ordinate economic policy with the government.Against the confused and disillusioned backdrop of Japanese politics, the Bank cuts an impressive figure independent, public-spirited and uniquely credible.

In this position he had the personally distasteful yet highly profitable task of collecting the hated ship money (a tax to support the Navy imposed by Charles I without Parliamentary approval).

Is the job too distasteful?

Cornwallis found this task, which occupied much of the next year, to be extremely distasteful: "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven.

Mr. Bush's defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, has compared the task to the beginning of the Cold War -- when Washington joined forces with several distasteful governments in the service of a larger cause, anti-Communism.

Since many of EasilyDo's tasks occur in a social context, I wondered whether some people might see the automation as distasteful.