Sentence examples for distasteful work from inspiring English sources

He ends up lying alongside the skeleton of Colonel John Blackbeardd" Mohune, and, amid the bones and the hair – "I buckled to the distasteful work of rummaging the coffin" – finds a valuable locket with clues to a lost treasure.

It's to discover the utter disinterestedness of those who love you, to find out when you can give nothing back, literally nothing but distasteful work and pain, they still want to look after you; they still care for you; yes, they still love you.

Finally, embittered with the knowledge that dealing with party members, each with his own constituency to answer to, was infinitely more difficult and distasteful than working with a handful of genro, all of the same background and inspiration, he resigned as president of the Rikken Seiyūkai in 1903.

After training to become a doctor, Ravenal decided that he found medical work distasteful and turned instead to the study of microscopy, natural history and physiology with the noted Harvard scientist Louis Agassiz.

To many, there's also a distasteful professionalism about his work, which involves near-perpetual touring and TV.

"It was like this slowly dawning realization, that all these things we found distasteful were all the work of one man".

Soon Mary is making enough money to drape herself in the flamboyant garb of her trade, and, despite the distasteful nature of her work, she enjoys herself after hours.

Sullivan wrote that comic opera had "become distasteful"; he wanted to work on something loftier, where the music would be "the first consideration," the words secondary.

If a collective strategy means working with distasteful Syrian strong man, Bashar al-Assad, so be it.

Intelligence work can be distasteful, but it is an aspect of self-defense.

I find some of the work of Charlie Hebdo distasteful, because there is a preponderance of bigotry of all kinds in many of their cartoons' sentiments.