"I find that I can often put things out of mind which are disagreeable," she once said.
"We are obliged to sleep on our arms which is extremely disagreeable".
I'm not sure which is more disagreeable to him – having to think about the flip-flop man, or being invited to try to think like him.
Disagreeing without being disagreeable, which is one of "Point Taken" 's laudable objectives, has become difficult.
The latter represents the "servile tradition perfected", which is to say, disagreeable of aspect and dedicated to pointless hard work.
That in turn means that the taxpayer pays, which is much less disagreeable when the taxpayer can observe the satisfactory results of that investment.
A figure, which is not justly balanced, is ugly; because it conveys the disagreeable ideas of fall, harm, and pain" (EPM, 245).
As Hume formulates it, the problem is to explain the nature of the relationship between our approbation, which is pleasurable, and the presence of "sorrow, terror, anxiety," and other naturally disagreeable emotions (OT, 258).
To be sure, there are specific contexts in which we might call something that is disagreeable good, or something that is beautiful disagreeable, but these are the exceptions, not the rule a medicine that is good for one, for example, may nevertheless be disagreeable (Kalligone, pp. 672 3n).
"I was living a kind of hermit's life, which was not altogether disagreeable, for 10 or 15 years," he said.
