Technically speaking, though, Cruz didn't start this, though he has taken it in unpleasant directions.
Radically changing traits that have been shaped over time runs the very real risk of tipping the balance in unexpected, and potentially unpleasant, directions.
The driver of a black sport utility vehicle, who was standing with the woman, "directed unpleasant comments in the direction of Guzman and Bell," prompting Mr. Guzman to say, "Get my gun, get my gun".
The one-factor solution representing a general measure of sensitivity appeared to represent primarily pleasant sensations (i.e. feeling good and relaxed), with substantially smaller loadings (in the opposite direction) for the unpleasant items (cough, sick, nervous).
"It's very unpleasant because it moves us in the direction of countries like Iran and Syria that apparently give out entry permits according to people's political views," Mr. Segev said.
As critical news consumers, our job is to find those underlying frames that might shed light on the story, even if that light shines in a direction that is uncomfortable or unpleasant.
Every time we find ourselves gormlessly grinning in the general direction of someone paid a frankly unpleasant sum of money to play records one after the other, we aren't just having a night out.
Thus, a primary distinction among emotional events is whether they are appetitive or aversive, positive or negative, pleasant or unpleasant, which clearly relates to the motivational parameter of direction.
The National Research Council had unpleasant medicine for NASA in its just-released report on the vision and direction of the agency.
The 90 minutes spent with them, at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater under Michael Michetti's direction, involves what appear to be theater games the men play in the form of auditions for the unpleasant assignment they're taking on.
