Sentence examples for uncomfortable discussions from inspiring English sources

As a cultural phenomenon, "King and the Clown" has led to sometimes confused, sometimes uncomfortable discussions here about the nature of homosexuality, something that was rarely discussed publicly until a few years ago.

So maybe we don't have to keep nudzhing our parents, bracing for uncomfortable discussions.

The filing of the complaint has led to some uncomfortable discussions about race, aided by the anonymity of the Internet.

Many white Americans are quick to embrace the so-called post-racial world and leave behind all the uncomfortable discussions about diversity.

"It is a sexually transmitted virus, so that by itself obviously creates uncomfortable discussions between my patients and their partners," said Dr. Robert I. Haddad, the disease center leader of the head and neck oncology program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

I was translating my personality into language he might understand — he who used "psycho-chick" as a stand-in for "noncompliant female" and he whose idea of helpful counsel was "You're too smart for your own good," "my own good" presumably being some semivegetative state of acceptance which precluded uncomfortable discussions about our relationship.

This is an uncomfortable discussion.

At the recent PreMoney conference in Silicon Valley, an uncomfortable discussion about racial diversity happened on stage.

What began as an effort by political opponents to block Mrs. Cabrera from the ballot for a seat on the City Council has mushroomed into an uncomfortable discussion of just how fluent Arizona officeholders need to be.

In the dialogue "21-11-12", forevolvinge, revolving around a uniquely uncomfortable discussion of abortion, Doyle manages to hint at a larger and more serious point but in a comically oblique fashion, so that the relieved comment "We're over the hump" is both an amusing gag and a nod to a social issue outside the confines of this slim and entertaining book.

To use machine learning and public data responsibly, we need to have an uncomfortable discussion about what we teach machines and how we use the output.