And I don't think I was saying anything particularly discomforting.
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Perhaps most obviously, it is discomforting to UP's 40m Muslims.
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All of this change may sound discomforting and certainly unfamiliar.
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Movement can be liberating, or it can be profoundly discomforting.
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That may prove to be what is most discomforting for many.
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For many woman, a discomforting déjà vu hangs over the discussion.
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Effective protest often only works when it is disruptive and discomforting.
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It's especially discomforting in the context of Pixar's own #MeToo problem.
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That same discomforting entanglement—beauty bound up with suffering—characterises the South.
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It is Mr Joyce's ejection from parliament that is discomforting for him.
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That's a familiar, if discomforting, tune for suburban Republicans across the country.
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I get that white people who aren't familiar might find this discomforting.
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I had never seen it happen before, and it was a little discomforting.
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The primary result is both disappointing and discomforting for the state's senior senator.
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I was surprised by how discomforting it was to be a beginner again.
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And much of it is transgressive, too: discomforting, or political, or nakedly sexual.
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But PSVR sacrifices too much, delivering an inconsistent and too-often physically discomforting experience.
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Its fate is much less certain when the government decides to censor discomforting views.
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The film takes pains to cast Marta as an outsider in other discomforting ways.
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Is that discomforting or do you see it as similar to why people love horror?
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But by writing about yourself, you expose your choices in ways that can be discomforting.
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The works were perhaps too timely, too relevant and therefore too discomforting for Chinese officials.
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No longer, in the latest discomforting milestone for a country facing a steep population decline.
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The idea that authorities could comb through an individual's private communications as well is discomforting.
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You describe any baby you meet as 'tender and mild' and it's discomforting to the parents.
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If that knowledge is discomforting to those of us who are not Indigenous, it should be.
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The idea is a bit discomforting, not least because it sounds like forced labor or slavery.
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But it's also discomforting evidence of economic inequality, a subject her parents seem hardly to discuss.
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Moreover the boundary between discomforting opinions, which ought to be accommodated, and the abhorrent kind is unstable.
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A discomforting odor here, of moldering old books, a young man's heated skin, your own animal panic.
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Opponents of the idea say that trigger warnings coddle students and allow them to avoid discomforting perspectives.
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Similarly, we heard from African Americans when Trump took a discomforting amount of time to disavow the KKK.
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It 's so discomforting because it 's not outlandish—it 's not the shock of Trump grabbing women.
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The passage of an unpopular GOP tax bill going into a hostile midterm election rings with discomforting familiarity.
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Dalio said the "warlike" trade talks have probably gotten to a point that is "discomforting" for the Chinese.
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Conversation is the thrust of Firewatch, and when you aren't talking the air fills with that dreaded, discomforting silence.
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News Analysis It's a familiar and discomforting spectacle: A woman who alleges sexual assault is also put on trial.
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Instead, they just seem vaguely dirty and wrong in a way that is confusing, generally discomforting, and almost definitely inappropriate.
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That the words are often impenetrable, and the material often discomforting, is also true, but perhaps not the primary issue.
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The colors pop bright and hard in "Zola," a kaleidoscopically hued, periodically discomforting, comically ribald adventure from Janicza Bravo ("Lemon").
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It's a discomforting premise that plays a lot better on screen than it sounds, mostly because it's only a starting point.
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"Without being overly dramatic, it is certainly discomforting to have individuals make their way it your home with unknown purposes," Kinnard said.
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Here's a big, discomforting fact about the current coronavirus outbreak in the United States: We have no idea how large it is.
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As if all of this wasn't discomforting enough in itself, the political establishment appears hamstrung, unable to agree on how to respond.
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It's discomforting, for sure, but pales in comparison to the President using social media to share racist misleading videos and conspiracy theories.
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"Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" is not that funny, but the more discomforting question is: How funny does it really want to be?
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The most discomforting things about earthquakes, I've found, is that there is no warning; I've never heard of anything called an earthquake siren.
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And what's happened is Trump has just given voice to all of it, now we see it instantly and that's what's discomforting about it.
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This, I think, is why MANIC / LOVE, the first of Wolfson's two-part series at Stedelijk called MANIC / LOVE / TRUTH / LOVE, is so discomforting.
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Genre was invoked as one reason in 2018 more voters didn't enthusiastically embrace "Get Out," a discomforting, great horror movie about race in America.
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As Twitter's problems continue to multiply, I'm faced with the discomforting possibility that the entire enterprise might implode like a gargantuan chewing gum bubble.
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His film is brave and urgent; it's also shockingly discomforting, and stamps on our expectations of objectivity and respect in depicting the least fortunate.
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Facial recognition tech is a bit terrifying in theory—the idea of our movements being tracked even more than they already are is simply discomforting.
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The official reflex for suppressing discomforting information now appears to be cracking, as officials at various levels seek to shift blame for the government's response.
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How easy it would be to just sidestep that vast, discomforting lack of knowledge and choose to believe the truth is in our very veins.
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What it lacks in the perhaps purer chills of uncontrollable experiences, it makes up for in immersion, and in its discomforting distortion of the everyday.
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All this is why news Amazon has detected vendors selling "counterfeit or unsafe versions" of the glasses, per the Verge, is more than a little discomforting.
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Legally, that wasn't enough to overturn Mr. Pruett's conviction, but it should be deeply discomforting and raise serious doubts about whether he's responsible for the crime.
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In the past there's also been something discomforting about the apparent risks he's taken, which are inevitably folded into the publicity campaigns and the entertainment coverage.
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While discomforting for many and interesting for others, there is an unrecognized consequence of these public disputes and one that greatly risks our future intelligence collection capabilities.
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But even with the discomforting dynamic of their age difference, it's hard to read this section without feeling impatient for our leading men to take the stage.
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That's the discomforting results of a study that sleep-tested 16,000 adults between the ages of 20 and 74 and then tracked their health for 20 years.
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" However, some discomforting news went along with the fact that Lyanna Sark and Rhaegar Targaryen are his parents— Jon Snow's name may not even be "Jon Snow.
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His supporters also feel marginalized, dislocated and dispossessed — pushed down the economic ladder, deprived of their political clout and forced to accept cultural changes they find discomforting.
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Discomforting as it may be, there's reason to take a critical look at an even older accord that binds the nations of the West: the NATO treaty.
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It has a dark underside and some pretty sour edges, which David Ruttura, the director, is not afraid to address — but which make it discomforting to watch.
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Watching the researchers conducting the retreat (an interracial lesbian couple) lead the black participants in unpacking their resentment, anger and irritation toward their white partners was discomforting.
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Perhaps because he is a relatively fresh face on the domestic political scene, he has been able to touch on two discomforting ideas long unaddressed by politicians.
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He is swiftly earning a reputation for exploring discomforting ideas about race and sex with humour, intellectual rigour, nods to pop culture and an engaging sense of spectacle.
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The Assistant, written and directed by Casting JonBenet creator Kitty Green, looks like a tense and intentionally discomforting film about sexual assault and abuse of power in the workplace.
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Yes, it was viscerally discomforting watching them just kind of stand there while the VFX team behind 1917 accepted their award for Achievement in Visual Effects—but it was funny!
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"Although discomforting to some, the racial slurs realistically depict American history and should be addressed under the guidance of a teacher," the National Coalition Against Censorship wrote in a statement.
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The Women's March has always left me with a discomforting belief that white women continue to let down the true leaders of the feminist and reproductive justice movement: Black women.
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This is the best, most powerful breed of satire: The kind that reduces the unthinkable or unknowable to a few core, recognizable truths—no matter how discomforting they might be.
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Gamers were quickly getting used to a new level of realism in visuals, but there was something so very unsettling, so queasy and discomforting, about how the Little Sisters were depicted.
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In an intimate room in Houston, Tig Notaro blends some of the deepest vulnerability you'll see in comedy with some of the most casual jokes and delivery that it's almost discomforting.
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As such, she has written an eloquent volume that is more discomforting and more necessary than a semitrailer filled with new biographies of the founding fathers and the most beloved presidents.
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And it has opened a door for lawmakers to lead by example and confront this critical topic that is often kept in the shadows due to its discomforting and unsettling nature.
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There are a few discomforting jolts in this production, including a stylized dance sequence in which four characters race down theater aisles and move with some gestures that seem too modern.
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The opera has discomforting timeliness at a time when many Americans feel trapped in partisan battles over elites, economic justice and borders; yet the will to change things is somehow lacking.
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The answers they provide might be discomforting, the process of reaching them fraught with difficulty, but the machines in Stories Untold, authentically modeled on their real-world counterparts, offer unvarnished honesty.
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The question is discomforting because it forces them to defend a president who poses constant political headaches for his own party but who has a domineering hold on its grass roots base.
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"I think the baby heads are appealing to me because they carry with them a sense of vulnerability and fragility, but at the same time looking quite morbid and discomforting," says Lim.
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"'Big Little Man' is an unflinchingly honest, at times beautifully written, often discomforting examination of Tizon's remarkable, yet thoroughly relatable, life," Jay Caspian Kang wrote in The New York Times Book Review.
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Squirm factor: The dread that precedes the first several murders is unpleasant, though it quickly fades with repetition, and while the skull-cracking is unpleasant to watch, Mia's moral apathy is more discomforting.
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Passing the newsstand, she might receive her first discomforting glimpse of the fact that the jail cells were disproportionately filled with gods, while in the corridors of power they rarely set a foot.
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" The most discomforting statement, however, came from Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's interior intelligence agency, who said he was "skeptical of the media coverage on right-wing extremist chases in Chemnitz.
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While bringing the audience into her life, thoughts, and feelings in what should feel like a discomforting invasion of privacy, Notaro's mastery of comedy and being on stage keeps everything welcoming and warm.
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But the bigger damage came after Mickelson's third round at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club ended with a discomforting score of 81, which left him a humiliating 17 over par for the tournament.
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They tend to be scary, discomforting, and uniquely descriptive takes on the challenges of adolescence, and I finally got around to seeing one of the buzzier names from this category in recent years, Raw.
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When I sign, when I use my body to communicate, it indeed elicits a different state of mind, one that invites and guides the physical gaze, but this need not feel discomforting or unwelcome.
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Despite the cartoony avatars, the experience can have an eerie and discomforting feeling at first, as if the other person you're interacting with is just an automated program or a clever bit of AI software.
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Pundits fret that millennials in rich countries never seem to grow out of adolescence, with their constant posting of selfies on social media and their desire for "safe spaces" at university, shielded from discomforting ideas.
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"I want to thank the entire Delta flight team and the Delta attendants on the ground who helped me during this discomforting experience for their compassion and professionalism," Lewis said, according to a Delta release.
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But those two are slave and master, closer to the discomforting duo of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, whereas Stan and Ollie, despite their physical differences, are interlocked, for all eternity, like Vladimir and Estragon.
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First, inherited from "Toy Story 2," is the notion of toys becoming vintage items, and second is the discomforting presence of über-toys, who lord it over the meeker types and forbid them basic liberties.
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The activism documentary Copwatch begins with a discomforting montage: the death of Eric Garner in New York City, the Baltimore arrest of Freddie Gray, and the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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And Arielle Scarcella, who makes videos about sex and relationships from a lesbian perspective, takes the internet's appetite for discomforting voyeuristic experiments — see BuzzFeed's "People Try Moonshine for the First Time" — and adds a sexual twist.
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Brahim's inquiries take on a gradually more sinister tone as he uncovers more discomforting truths of not just his son's recent history, but also the changing face of a society that is no longer recognizable to him.
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From the perspective of our civic culture, however, I would hope that we would generally resist the president's suggestion that we use social institutions to stifle individual dissent that the president or the general public finds offensive or discomforting.
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Ms. See, a fluid and muscular stylist who emerged observant, imaginative and productive from a discomforting childhood, was a relatively late starter as a writer, though she went on to lead a full career as a woman of letters.
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"It is a little discomforting to old timers like me to see you make brand new record highs — multiple record highs — and see the hanging around ten, " speaking about the "fear gauge" that serves as a barometer of market fear.
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I can't tell how thoroughly this series will break outside the crime-of-the-week procedural format, but it definitely seems to be playing up a strong and discomforting visual style that comes with more narrative shows like Mr. Robot.
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The nature of oppression changes, but the levers of power that have helped some to prosper while allowing many to sink are hardened in place, and the persistent question, implicit in this valuable, discomforting book, is Who will unstick them?
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And when more than a dozen female lawmakers cited threats and online abuse last month as part of their rationale for not running in the upcoming election, a discomforting spotlight was again thrust on the treatment of women in British politics.
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He quickly reaches out to Ray in a way that is both charming and discomforting: he offers Ray the guidance she needs in the broken world she finds herself, but in doing so oversteps the boundaries of his role as a counselor.
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Bakke was decided in 1978, this essential framework has been absent from the Supreme Court's deliberations, replaced with a less discomforting conversation about the educational benefits of racial diversity and whether and how colleges and universities should be allowed to pursue those benefits.
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The objective of this biennial is not to promote Cuban artists (that will be up to each according to their possibilities) but to make everyone understand that decree-law 349 will be applied only to those who are independent and ask discomforting questions.
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A discomforting paradox lay beneath the whole confrontation, one that cut straight across the accepted modern vision of Asians and their adjacency to whiteness: If Liang (and, by extension, all Asian-Americans) enjoyed the protections of whiteness, then how do you explain his conviction?
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The resulting contortions, which Wurm records in photographs, are at once humorous and discomforting: One sculpture comprises a performer pressing their forehead against a stack of three oranges; in another, a spectator is asked to plank their body atop a set of midcentury stools.
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Humor almost always found a place in his plays, sometimes expressed in vaudeville style, but behind the laughter lay shrewd, often acerbic, sometimes discomforting observations: of the family, of marriage, of human foible, of Britain's colonial past, and of the state of Britain itself.
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It hurries from singalong melodies and arena-rock guitar melodies to brutal noise and discomforting wails; it's lushly electronic one moment and jaggedly analog the next; it's changes rhythm and tempo without ever sounding mathematical—there's just too much chaos for any sort of dull precision.
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" The appeals court said that while it found "such marks in commerce discomforting" and was "not eager to see a proliferation" of them in the marketplace, the First Amendment "protects private expression, even private expression which is offensive to a substantial composite of the general public.
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In the August issue of the arts and culture magazine As If, Johansson discussed what she finds to be a discomforting "trend" in casting, one that encourages routine interrogation of who can play what types of roles and advocates for diversity and inclusion both onscreen and off.
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I've played the album several times across 19.073, and certain parts of it still hit me today with a discomforting queasiness: squeals and drones drift in and out of focus atop crisp folktronica beats of no little beauty, while woozy chimes stagger about in a fog of radio static.
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However, imagine if the optics of Swift's 2014 party — people posing in American flag bikinis and draping themselves in American flag towels — were transplanted to the year 2018, which has seen an array of discomforting progressions, from erosion of democratic institutions to the separation of children at the border.
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Sometimes, warnings help I think trigger warnings are necessary, they let you know what type of content you're going to be exposed too … No one wants to read a book that discusses an incident they find discomforting, although that might be different things for different people all warning are necessary.
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For other swimmers, cold water may offer what Nicky Mayhew, one of the co-chairs of the Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association, described to me as the appeal of "safe jeopardy"—an excursion into discomfort and extremity for people who, in their daily lives, are fortunate enough to experience little that is discomforting or extreme.
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When a white character spoke of race in Slave Play — like Dustin, the white man who insists that he is not "white" because he doesn't go to as many gentrified coffee shops as his black boyfriend Gary does — it was taken for comedy, or in less discomforting stride than when our black characters spoke up.
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The leaked video was discomforting enough to prompt calls for a boycott: A German shepherd, filming a scene for the coming movie "A Dog's Purpose," fought with a trainer to stay out of a pool he clearly didn't want to go in, then later briefly sank as humans raced to lift him out of the water.
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In our political climate, as Republicans promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and as Democrats debate the merits of a single-payer system versus an expanded version of Obamacare, it is discomforting to see that Big Pharma is keeping its watchful eye on the proverbial ball: manipulate public opinion, misinform patients about alternatives, drive up prices and privatize well-being through fear.
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PARK CITY, Utah — When the writer-director Benh Zeitlin was unexpectedly thrust into the middle of the Oscar melee in 2012 with his debut feature, "Beasts of the Southern Wild," it was a surreal, discomforting experience filled with stiff tuxedos and awkward small talk — light years away from his ragtag existence in New Orleans, where he makes lyrical, atmospheric movies with his friends.
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A traveler's mohawk zigzags in a riot of colors; a chubby woman pushes a cart, her skin a vibrant neon purple; two bodies, black and brown, are patted down by airport security in a corner — a pleasurable patchwork of texture and color presses against a discomforting realization that the War on Terror has deadly serious consequences for those targeted as threats to national security.
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The volunteer was asked to rate the discomfort of the perceived sensations in the phantom hand using a scale from -1 to 10, where -1 is something enjoyable or pleasant, 1 is very light pain like an itch, 2 is a discomforting feeling like a pinch, 3 is uncomfortable but tolerable, like an accidental cut, and so on, During this experiment, the highest level of pain was ranked as a 3.
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With its polyglottal cast of voices—evangelical salesman promising that you'll "COME BACK FAT AS A RAT...ALL DOWN THE WAY DOWN THE EAST COAST" battle with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, who in turn battle with road accident news reports—gliding over and under the shimmering heat haze of synthetic ambience, Chill Out is just discomforting enough to ease you into the necessary state of unreality needed for dealing with the moment the (club) music stops.
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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch sort of came back and basically gave him an opportunity to clean up the answer, and he gave an attempt at that, and basically said I don't remember having any conversation with anybody from that firm about it, I haven't had any inappropriate conversations about the Mauler investigation with any lawyer, but it was discomforting, I think to watch that he was getting what should have been a rather simple yes or no question, and he either felt like he was being tricked and wouldn't so wouldn't answer or didn't really know what the answer was.
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