When Bernhard visits him, it is as an alien from a distasteful world of hugger-mugger: he has become the managing director of a security firm that supplies "ex-Special Forces, ex-SAS, ex-Foreign Legion, ex-Wehrmacht, ex-cops, ex-Chicago goons, Los Angeles shamuses" to whoever can pay for them.
In "Full Moon in Paris" (which begins a two-week run today), he opened the doors of his cinema to an aspect of modernity that he found particularly distasteful — the world of rock clubs — and made one of his best, and certainly his most vigorous, films.
For now, almost 500 years after the infamous explorer let the extract of the cocoa bean pass his lips (he and his crew actually found the cold, bitter and greasy Aztec beverage quite distasteful), the world may be in danger of running out of the beatific bean.
For some, this is a distasteful reality.
Trying to be distinctive but not distasteful, newsmagazines depicted the World Trade Center in forms real and imagined.
The phenomenon makes sense; because it's easier to learn about danger from a single warning system (the reason why traffic lights are the same colors the world over), distasteful organisms share the cost of "educating" their predators.
But What of the Future?" struck an especially responsive chord because it argued against returning to the mall style of building that I always found strange and distasteful when I visited the World Trade Center and its attached hotel.
The Sunday tabloids are locked in a battle to become the new News of the World, without seeming too distasteful.
He listed some of the more distasteful episodes in the history of World Wrestling Entertainment, the company she and her husband, Vince McMahon, built.
Lord McAlpine trained his vitriol on the new Prime Minister, accusing him of "stuffing up a great party", of running away from every issue, of living in a fantasy world, and labelling him "distasteful".
And of course, to admit that the government can do anything important well is distasteful to the Grover Norquists of the world — recall that Norquist, a revered figure on the Right, is the one who said that he wanted to shrink government enough that he could drown it in the bathtub.
