"Bad" emotions have an important role to play, while sometimes "positive thinking" leads us away from uncomfortable truths into the realms of wishful thinking.
We are especially uncomfortable when asked to engage with realms of human experience that don't fit within the accorded norms.
Would he feel uncomfortable being an active athlete and a knight of the realm?
Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation, has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015, but she is running up against the traditions of the computer world and an obsessive fact-loving realm that is dominated by men and, some say, uncomfortable for women.
But whereas Mr. Ives took us up into the realms of mythology, Mr. LaBute stays closer to home, providing some uncomfortable insights about.... Well, I've said too much already.
It is beyond the realm of possibility that the millions of people who are uncomfortable with technology can become comfortable with it in less than two months.
Third Day were initially uncomfortable at first working with Benson, as the band's achievements in the Christian music realm meant nothing in the world of mainstream record production.
Ewings is also moving into the realm of 360 videos, and in each one the viewer is put into an uncomfortable position, usually with a front row seat to something terrible happening.
But then the Captain, and the movie, zoom permanently back into the cartoon realm, springing into action to fight a villain so crazy and diabolical that he makes the Nazis uncomfortable.
The arena of practical politics is the place for constructive and responsible approaches to identified problems; the realm of art is the place of dangerous imagination and the vision of terrifying, or even merely uncomfortable, possibilities.
