Sentence examples for unpleasant quality from inspiring English sources

But nobody seemed to have put any work or imagination into it, so it had an unpleasant quality, like a piece of half-used sandpaper, its coarseness uneven.

Itches have an unpleasant quality to them which normally makes one want to scratch the spot where one itches.

The resulting sound waves overlap in a way that causes the volume to rapidly rise and fall, giving the sound an unpleasant quality.

Human brain imaging studies have revealed new roles of cortical neuronal networks in chronic pain, including its unpleasant quality, and mouse studies have provided molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying relevant cortical plasticity.

The writer disliked his brother, Richard, a small man, who had a number of unpleasant qualities.

Woolf's language about her servants exposed some of her most unpleasant qualities: scornfulness, snobbery, disgust at "inferiors".

By John Cheever The New Yorker, October 10 , 1959P. 38 The writer disliked his brother, Richard, a small man, who had a number of unpleasant qualities.

This is to be expected, for pain is the least-pure sensation; it startles, it excites, and it has unpleasant qualities.