An unknown actor plays Friday in blackface, tumbling and bumbling through a performance that strikes an inevitably unpleasant note.
"Part wacky, part unpleasant," noted Gottlieb, as the American press ran a series of gleefully critical pieces about the magazine.
While pop culture celebrations of this magnitude never accurately display the diversity of the culture they purport to represent, this year's show struck an especially unpleasant note as it is the first time a nationally televised award show was broadcast from Brooklyn, New York – one of the most diverse places in the country.
If uttered publicly in a corporate or government job, the merest hostile aside might get someone fired, or demoted, or stalled, but critics can question a movie actor or director's competence, honor, body, hairstyle, and many other things, without fear of much more than an unpleasant note or a withdrawn screening invitation — and even those two reprimands don't happen very often.
But some lawyers argue against altering the unpleasant final note of the students' legal education.
If you detect a not unpleasant bitter note in a wine, chances are it's Italian.
The desire to avoid those unpleasant feelings, Waschbusch notes, is part of what motivates young children to behave.
Although anyone afflicted with extreme social anxiety might find the experience unpleasant, I should note that not much serious interaction is required at "Hotel Savoy".
8/10 There is an unpleasant, off-key note to the sauce initially, created, at a guess, by the sugars and dried onion or paprika colliding inelegantly.
I dutifully remove my shoes, undo my belt (if I have been silly enough to wear one), take loose coins out of my pocket, put my computer in a separate bin, and live with the unpleasant pat down (note: lots of women's bras have under wires).
