If you're uncomfortable, the tendency is to keep your arms close or to let them hang limp.
Committee members wrote that they were uncomfortable with his "tendency to seek publicity in the press, television and so on".
Thick, greasy ointments undoubtedly exhibit good emollient characteristics, but are not very popular with patients because they are not well absorbed into the skin and leave an oily residue which can feel uncomfortable and has a tendency to soil clothing and bed linen.
Women, with their tendency to "ask uncomfortable questions and make uncomfortable connections," as Rich puts it, are pathologized for the very traits that make them so formidable.
While on that visit I got a sense of the sweet, wholesome magic of the place that comes across so well in that book; what struck me when I came back to the Shore to live several years later was the darker undercurrent, the thick sticky mud of uncomfortable history that had a tendency to bubble up from under the fertile soil of the place.
A few months ago, Kelly said, "Unless confronted by an immediate, visible or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.
Also there is a tendency of asking uncomfortable questions when the teacher is in class regarding the issue", said a female student.
At times she was visibly uncomfortable with the show's tendencies toward homogenization, but she wasn't rebelling against the system.
But the tendency of a society uncomfortable with change to come together around easy opprobrium and shared clichés is, unfortunately, still very much with us.
More important, there is a queasy feeling that the decline of the euro makes an uncomfortable statement about Europe's chronic tendency to underperform the United States in economic growth.
