What could Mansour see in this schlemiel?The exasperating Schmidt is surrounded by secondary characters who are downright disagreeable; in fact, Charlotte's distastefulness seems overloaded ("She giggled unpleasantly", "she snickered", etc).
If the mimic, however, is abundant, its predators may eventually learn to dissociate its colour pattern with distastefulness because enough mimics would be inadvertently consumed and found palatable.
Palatability is a matter of degree; whole ranges of distastefulness therefore exist, even in the mimics, model and mimic in the case of Müllerian mimicry being equally unpalatable and sharing the same warning coloration.
Some fungicides and other compounds have been shown experimentally to inhibit feeding by deer and granivorous (feeding on grain or seed) birds, although it is not generally clear whether the effects are a consequence of distastefulness or olfactory repellence.
The potential for inflicting harm on viewers — incoherence, idiocy, general distastefulness — increases exponentially when the people creating programming are intoxicated, and television already has more than enough incoherence, idiocy and general distastefulness.
Most important, Mr. Bush's distastefulness helped to blind Westerners to the momentous marriage of Islamism and democratic ideas.
"To silence a fringe messenger because of the distastefulness of the message," the brief said, "is antithetical to the First Amendment's most basic precepts".
But despite the distastefulness of the posts, it does seem like Kaminski has only reacted to, although possibly fuelled, anger about the link between the nude photos and the earthquake – which already existed.
Even supposedly sophisticated shows such as 30 Rock, Breaking Bad and The Office indulge in it, often with a knowing wink to viewers at the distastefulness of it all.
The distastefulness of the writers' claim, repeated through the piece, that opponents of same-sex marriage care about children while gays and lesbians are just interested in themselves and their "desires" is tempered only by its absurdity.
The distastefulness of his greed for power, after a twenty-two-year-long stay in office, in which he reportedly amassed a personal fortune, may be what has pushed other West African nations to propose as a mediator a politician who forced out an incumbent himself, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
