Closeness, after all, has proved pretty uncomfortable of late.
Lobban seemed to be the most uncomfortable of the trio with being in the limelight.
It deals with the most uncomfortable of real-world issues, from elder abuse to grooming.
The actors never lose sight of its emotional core: Tennessee Williams understood pity, that most uncomfortable of human emotions, better than any playwright.
"As a disabled person travelling you always have an element of fear, feeling very uncomfortable, of panic, of just wondering if you are going to get off".
The mainly white Democratic party also feels forgotten; some of its leaders are rumoured to be on the point of joining the ANC.The rulers of the ten black "homelands" are the most uncomfortable of all.
If Warren Gatland, head coach of the Australia-bound British and Irish Lions, thought he had completed the most uncomfortable of his pre-tour tasks by finalising the 37-man party, he will find himself thinking again tomorrow night.
And the most uncomfortable of all comes when your friend (inevitably) asks, "How did you like the house?" and you have to lie because you don't want to sound like an ingrate.
The geisha tradition has long held a fascination for culturally inquisitive Westerners, perhaps for its unusual ability to infuse the most uncomfortable of commercial transactions, the exchange of money for sex, with decorum and delicacy.
He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief.
Always the most uncomfortable of rock stars – it is hard to think of anyone who made heavier weather of being a vastly successful musician than Waters did once Pink Floyd went stratospheric in the 1970s – he is also, legend has it, far more prickly and defensive than you might expect someone who's sold more than 250m albums to be.
