The comfort was measured by a 5-point scale: 1 = extremely uncomfortable, immediate withdrawal; 2 = very uncomfortable, withdrawal imminent; 3 = unpleasant, no reason for withdrawal at this time; 4 = no specific sensations, continue the observation; 5 = pleasant sensation, continue the observation.
But the rest of us are not in that position, and so the tone of Janet Maslin's review of "Once Upon a Secret," by Mimi Alford, as she is now known after two marriages, is genuinely unpleasant, for reasons that go beyond Alford's story.
I simply couldn't go on" (I:1) Physiological reactions such as pressure on the bladder while jogging or the frequent need to urinate during aerobics were perceived as unpleasant and reasons to switch to other forms of exercise.
Fish oil has a taste and odour that most people find unpleasant, and for this reason it has been largely distributed within capsules.
His charming style, his resolute meliorism, his careful excision of anything remotely unpleasant or (for good reasons) to do with sex: these all improved his popularity".
For reasons too unpleasant to dwell on, this problem does not affect most of the four-legged male competitors in jump racing (though some of the jockeys manage to over-compensate), and they come back to Cheltenham year after year, sometimes with their own fan club.
She has had no negative impact on my life that I'm aware of, so I have no personal reason to be unpleasant to her.
Backland says she couldn't remember that incident, and you suspect she might not recall this one either, but it stands to reason that something unpleasant has gone down and the finger's pointing firmly at her.
That matters for their fast-changing economies, which increasingly demand either highly skilled workers or people willing to do unpleasant and tiring jobs.One reason why much of the world has enjoyed a sustained economic boom with low inflation in the past decade is that the effective global workforce is expanding so fast.
Forgetting your fears sounds appealing, he says, but these unpleasant memories exist for a reason.
The fact is that they continued to carry out a task that they found to be unpleasant, when there was no reason for them to do so.
