Sentence examples for uncomfortable background from inspiring English sources

Yet many were pricking their ears to some uncomfortable background mood music.

The lingering fallout from the Somerset sackings made Botham a brooding, uncomfortable background presence in media centres when Roebuck was around, something then exacerbated by the latter's subsequent Taunton conviction for common assault.

Many Americans, particularly older ones, are uncomfortable with his exotic background.

"What we are seeing is an upsurge of minor racist, antisemitic, anti-Islamic, anti-foreigner xenophobia – not major things – just comments being made, things being said which are for the people who grew up in those backgrounds seriously uncomfortable, really quite frightening".

Steinbrenner looked uncomfortable and stood in the background.

For all the blathering over foreign policy coming from Republicans these days (the Senate in particular), there's an uncomfortable truth lurking in the background.

This is not to say he's uncomfortable with people of different backgrounds.

Still, he said that the stripper's performance made him so uncomfortable that he watched from the background.

Those with less preparation can dwell longer on background material without feeling uncomfortable about how they might be perceived by classmates or the instructor.

Maybe you discover you are uncomfortable with a person from a background you have never spent any time around.

How uncomfortable may depend on the viewer's background.