Punches were thrown, the chain ripped off Carberry's neck and deeply unpleasant racist language used.
Frowns, glaring, and other unpleasant body language convey anger and contempt.
"One of the commonplaces of Fitzgerald criticism, for decades, has been that he avoided unpleasant topics and realistic language in his magazine fiction.
"I think there is a broader risk for Ukip here because they position themselves as the patriotic party, they plaster the Union Jack all over their leaflets, but actually there's something very un-British about this kind of language, very unpleasant," Hunt said.
This extremely useful football term, referring to the sacking of a quarterback from out of his field of vision, did not enter the language as a metaphor for unpleasant surprises until the nineteen-seventies.
The secret languages of workplaces can often be unpleasant – but they serve a deeper purpose of binding people together in a common cause, of rousing them for the fight and of supporting them in that fight.
The campaign, created pro bono by the New York office of Arnold Worldwide, urges an end to using derogatory language, particularly labeling anything deemed negative or unpleasant as "so gay".
It's unpleasant, this entrenchment, but the protesters have cause for intemperate language.
Unfortunately, while the play in scenery and costumes evokes the post World War I ethos, its language cranes into the present in a most unpleasant way including some sexual references best left unsaid.
Woolf's language about her servants exposed some of her most unpleasant qualities: scornfulness, snobbery, disgust at "inferiors".
