Investors who have stuck with Vivendi Universal, the water utility turned media conglomerate, say they like each of its businesses, even if they feel uncomfortable with the ability of its embattled chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, to weld them into a solid, consistently profitable whole.
Talking to strangers can be uncomfortable, but the ability to speak positively and succinctly about your accomplishments can go a long way.
If you are at all uncomfortable about your ability to edit the system BIOS, you may want to get someone who is more knowledgeable about computers to help you.
Kripke felt that this fit greatly with the series' storyline, because Sam was uncomfortable with his developing abilities; the writers wanted to explore one of the psychic children who took his ability as a gift.
Not all scientists are uncomfortable talking about their abilities; some are too comfortable--but bad at it.
However, Ken Livingstone, the former London mayor, said he was "distinctly uncomfortable" with a court's ability to remove an elected mayor.
Surely Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and "The Aristocrats" would have gotten nowhere without the ability to push uncomfortable but giggly buttons about sex, race and language.
Brilliant technocrat he may be: but does Mr Singh possess the gutsy political skills he needs to hold together his ramshackle coalition, and the communicative ability to sell uncomfortable changes to the electorate?
Secondary aims examine whether (a) trauma- and substance cue reactivity and (b) distress tolerance (i.e., actual or perceived ability to withstand uncomfortable emotional or physical states) are significant mechanisms of change.
We have to build up our ability to feel uncomfortable without allowing the Chicken Little of our self-identity to squawk that the sky is falling.
