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"distasteful" Definitions
  1. unpleasant or offensive

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Viewers felt the twerking was distasteful and not suitable for children but the complaints were not upheld as the ASA maintained there was a difference between distasteful and offensive.
" Dunham later said her comment was a "distasteful joke.
" Added another: "Please don't tag your Hermes scarf. Distasteful.
We always take risks, but sometimes it can be distasteful.
Some of them, yeah, I thought they were extremely distasteful.
It's a way of recycling, albeit a somewhat distasteful one.
The mere promotion of entertainment has also been deemed distasteful.
While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes.
And anything that spreads hate is personally distasteful to me.
Perhaps the very reason why this seems distasteful needs revising.
On a very basic level, Trump's tweets are highly distasteful.
It's all incredibly distasteful, yes, but it also doesn't jibe.
This statewide race seemed to reprise the same distasteful dynamic.
"I think what he did was very distasteful," he said.
I'm not surprised, but in my opinion it's extremely distasteful.
Even a tip jar on the bar is considered distasteful.
Still, distasteful designs will probably continue sneaking onto store shelves.
But in some ways, the scene was just as distasteful.
Three of us find this distasteful, to say the least!
Anything more would have made the narrative incoherent. Uncomfortable. Distasteful.
Such a state of affairs would be distasteful, of course.
And it was not the most distasteful of her tasks.
Had I become complicit in his strange and distasteful project?
There was a prevailing sense that too much was distasteful.
Many people had a slightly distasteful look on their faces.
When did we quit teaching/understanding that free speech means protecting the distasteful, lest we open the door for govt/3d parties to decide that whatever they oppose is "distasteful" and therefore to be banned?
Spraying graffiti on a dead whale ... distasteful, unnecessary and disrespectful. pic.twitter.
It's hard to explain what I find so distasteful about this.
Most echoed O'Neill's remarks, stating they found the President's words distasteful.
She found it distasteful, the way that they went about it.
And he seems to find his democratic counterparts distasteful, even pathetic.
Clinton's first jury trial was distasteful in an entirely different way.
There are some things that are legal but distasteful and corrupt.
Pork-barrel politics is a distasteful, if accepted, part of democracy.
"Drain the swamp" has long meant getting rid of something distasteful.
She presents the sometimes distasteful choices of her characters with empathy.
MITCHELL: At the time it all felt so distasteful to me.
Indeed, he helped strengthen the most distasteful elements of many conflicts.
His candidacy is widely viewed as distasteful and offensive by many residents.
Most pornographers find the vagina at best negligible and at worst distasteful.
For drunken partiers to put themselves in the same category is distasteful.
Individual sites that find this content distasteful will have to police themselves.
But he found life there distasteful and escaped after a few months.
I leaned away from the media circus, finding it overwhelming and distasteful.
Click through for a selection of his distasteful attacks on strong women.
"They find your patriotism distasteful, your concerns about immigration parochial," she said.
But suddenly the word, "lie," sounded wrong — not distasteful, but simply untrue.
To some, the idea of growing pigs to create organs is distasteful.
Mr. Young said he found the idea of becoming an informant distasteful.
"It is distasteful, hurtful, disturbing, highly insensitive and completely inappropriate," he wrote.
It's not even that I find his politics distasteful—though I do!
There is also the vital if slightly distasteful issue of the political narrative.
I know some of these provisions are distasteful and even offensive to many.
They find their squishy language, poor eyesight, and commitment to denim overalls distasteful.
As distasteful as his actions are, these actions are protected by the Constitution.
Somehow, the thought of sipping booze in his honor felt a little distasteful.
As for anyone who found the post distasteful, see Erika Jayne's post below.
" Another critic wrote, "And netflix promotes suicide and even jokes about it.... distasteful.
It felt "kind of distasteful" to turn that incident into plot, Laird says.
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It is one thing to feel that having so much money is distasteful.
Some were distasteful in the least cute way, and some were just mediocre.
His is a music that's strangely off-balance, gleefully distasteful, and totally ecstatic.
Besides, I found the idea of "making use of" my students slightly distasteful.
If CrossFire suggests an entry I find obscure or distasteful, I'll remove it.
"You might find a lot of things about him distasteful," Mr. Agnifilo said.
Presidents do not get to outlaw speech simply because they find it distasteful.
But this year, the distasteful effigy of Grenfell Tower was met with outrage.
Roberts said that while McDonnell's actions were "distasteful" the government went too far.
What could be more distasteful than the French Esperantists' treatment of Zamenhof's Jewishness?
So many people seem to miss the crux of Donald Trump's distasteful performance.
It is a tactic Mr. Murphy has repeatedly found both unfair and distasteful.
On the one hand, certain aspects — like those mentioned above — feel dated, and distasteful.
These voices must not be silenced by those who find them threatening or distasteful.
Though many find Trump's showmanship distasteful, it's often rooted in a shrewd political hunch.
" He added, "These people buy into all kinds of distasteful politics in our society.
" So naturally, now she's backpedaling with an apology, calling her words a "distasteful joke.
I don't know about you, but as a Republican, I find that very distasteful.
Netflix, to a distasteful degree, plays up the ghoulish fascination he exerts over us.
It is, in my opinion, one of the more distasteful aspects of Australian society.
Some foreign policy specialists said that was just the distasteful reality of international relations.
I found it totally inoffensive, I saw far more offensive, distasteful Pepes in 2014.
It just was a woman singing, and that was distasteful to him and punishing.
If something comes off as distasteful to consumers, they may judge the company harshly.
Such an arrangement would be as fragile as it would be distasteful, of course.
Many of us found the Election Integrity Commission distasteful when it was first created.
I quickly realized the content was way too distasteful and took the video down immediately.
" But Roberts also wrote of McDonnell: "There is no doubt that this case is distasteful.
" Namely, "really distasteful, unnecessary comments" in which commenters declare "fuck Indians," or "fuck you, India.
There are also people who find opiates distasteful: they get nauseous, feel numb or dizzy.
There was always something distasteful about Amazon's quest to find a home for its HQ2.
That is distasteful, but may be necessary to achieve a peaceful transition back to democracy.
As Quartz notes, it's considered to be distasteful and disrespectful to pose among the monuments.
The occasion was Trump's distasteful attack on two MSNBC commentators, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
"Carter's words encouraging Roy's suicide, however distasteful to this Court, were protected speech," they added.
However distasteful the content of this site [CelebJihad] may be, it is not inciting violence.
Older critics shouted (distasteful) style over substance, with Oli's obvious good looks at the forefront.
I find this invitation distasteful, as it appears to be a minor form of extortion.
"It's just distasteful, it's low class, it's hick," Mr. Karklins said of the president's tactics.
Enter Mayor Cizinsky, who was already ill disposed to the exhibit, which he found distasteful.
Crowder released an obviously sarcastic and distasteful apology video on June 3rd, 1433 in response.
"It is distasteful, hurtful, disturbing, highly insensitive, and completely inappropriate," he wrote in a letter.
"What she always found distasteful was these man things," said Stefan Kornelius, a Merkel biographer.
Only an incredibly small amount of the substance is enough to be distasteful to humans.
" In her letter, Maloney wrote, "I apologize for my distasteful, inappropriate and insensitive social media posts.
It may seem distasteful to think of drugs as a business, responding to normal economic signals.
"Carter's words encouraging Roy's suicide, however distasteful to this Court, were protected speech," her attorneys added.
Perhaps the strongest point of concurrence was that respondents from both parties found Congress equally distasteful.
The idea of tourists making a pilgrimage to a genocidal dictator's jungle hideout might seem distasteful.
True, it is distasteful to be friends with a regime responsible for massive human rights violations.
The First Amendment hamstrings government's ability to regulate speech, even speech we all agree is distasteful.
No matter how distasteful party leaders found him, they could never agree on anyone else. Gov.
Grace Poe, a senator seen as his biggest challenger, said his words were "distasteful and unacceptable".
Arrests of social media users whose posts are deemed distasteful have continued under Suu Kyi's government.
Morgan was dragged for being "distasteful" and "disrespectful," highlighting the sexism that runs through the sport.
But some find the Indians' caricature, which has existed in various forms since 1947, particularly distasteful.
His comments caused a stir among Chinese finance professionals, who said they were "distasteful and racist".
If that juxtaposition strikes you as jarring, even distasteful, it felt that way to me, too.
You certainly would be within your rights to argue that it was distasteful, or even counterproductive.
As the daughter of a leader who was assassinated, I find #Trump's comments distasteful, disturbing, dangerous.
They say it also shields online platforms from lawsuits when they police criminal or distasteful content.
For one, the species has evolved a particularly distasteful, and I suspect extremely effective, defense mechanism.
Life-reviewing, no matter how distasteful the assignment, is not just his job but his fate.
In fact, Yandy revealed the symbol of resistance influenced the Halloween costume many have deemed distasteful.
Juries — in Brooklyn and everywhere else — find "snitches" to be distasteful and it's a particularly dangerous occupation.
Until some form of brokered peace is achieved, with distasteful but necessary accommodations, the suffering will continue.
So there are benefits to a personal connection between Trump and Kim, however distasteful it may appear.
Reddit has balked in the past at removing content that may be ethically distasteful but not illegal.
Even Justice Samuel Alito, a sure vote to uphold the skewed maps, said that gerrymandering is "distasteful".
His incentives ultimately push him to rally around Trump, as distasteful as he clearly finds the exercise.
When democracy swept across Africa after the cold war ended, he called it a "distasteful passing fetish".
Because we like to imagine poets as being free in their political conscience, such fawning seems distasteful.
"There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that," he wrote.
And indeed, Hazony's book has become a hit among American conservative thinkers who find Trump personally distasteful.
The sprawling Russia scandal certainly seems more important than Trump's personal quirks, however distasteful they might be.
There will always be times when keeping Americans safe requires working with those whom we find distasteful.
Directed by James Franco and featuring James Franco, this film indulges in a distasteful brand of nostalgia.
But as distasteful as the president's statements may be, they do not constitute an obstruction of justice.
However, there are some scandals that are far too distasteful for a brand to remain aligned with.
Before he can collect his pension, Blocker is given what for him is a supremely distasteful mission.
Telling her repeatedly that she is beautiful, he photographs her, though in a slightly distasteful, pushy way.
Even though Rousseff's approval ratings are in the toilet, many also find the campaign against her distasteful.
"Finally I can comment on those distasteful and totally misleading SJW articles on internet," one review says.
It was a shocking and distasteful moment that immediately backfired on the 50-year-old former news anchor.
As distasteful as Shapiro's colleagues find his outsized ego, it was actually the first thing that intrigued Travolta.
Shoehorning them in where people are vulnerable like this and need a human touch is distasteful and bizarre.
As distasteful as some of its Middle Eastern allies are, the thinking goes, they're preferable to the extremists.
Trump is not only not a conservative; he also embraces the most distasteful elements of right-wing populism.
Beside still being more a recipe than a fully cooked dish, 5G also has one particularly distasteful aspect.
In 2017, Samuel Alito, a conservative justice unwilling to crack down on partisan draughtsmen, nevertheless called gerrymandering "distasteful".
They find the election of Clinton so distasteful they are willing to support a less than noble leader.
"As the daughter of a leader who was assassinated, I find #Trump's comments distasteful, disturbing, dangerous," she tweeted.
When ambition describes a man it's celebrated and with a woman it seems a bit distasteful and crass.
Her friend, a Javanese businessman, says he finds arguments so distasteful that he cannot bring himself to haggle.
The consensus of the student body at Yale, however, seems to be that Chu's ratings are particularly distasteful.
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Distasteful as it can seem, however, our endless appetite for lawsuits can play in favor of the individual.
Yet, the idea of someone being turned on by my disability seemed both baffling and distasteful to me.
He found sites explaining how to butcher a human body but decided they were too distasteful to include.
To many on the left and the right, there's something distasteful about buying one's way into American life.
Requiem just relishes so shamelessly in its depravity that it's not only exploitative and distasteful, it's pure posing.
YouTube also suffered a backlash from advertisers worried about the safety of their brands next to distasteful videos.
Morgan came in for some criticism for the celebration, with England international Lianne Sanderson describing it as "distasteful".
They acknowledged that some of the terms were distasteful, but they were necessary given the options at hand.
And, of course, one reader noted that Mr. Trump had revived the newspaper industry by being so distasteful.
And each time this happened, the offending party leaders repudiated the distasteful and disrespectful actions of their constituents.
Wojcicki said that there was a difference between content that is "distasteful" and content that violates a policy.
" In a memo to employees, Sandy previously called the photo "distasteful, hurtful, disturbing, highly insensitive, and completely inappropriate.
These riots, paired with alcohol-fueled Christmas celebrations, were distasteful to New York&aposs very proper upper crust.
But, he said, a continuation of aggressive price increases could invite remedies they would find far more distasteful.
I replied that he'd probably find my addition of ground cardamom to the crust to be distasteful too.
JOHN HARWOOD: But you're willing to live with those things that are distasteful to you because of Hillary Clinton?
It's unlikely its neighbors will heed the call, however, given the economic (albeit distasteful) boon provided by arms sales.
There's something that was distasteful about it, to be honest, for me personally that I think actually Robert shared.
Reddit typically opts for narrow enforcement—taking action against specific users rather than whole communities no matter how distasteful.
Sure, it is unsettling — and more than a little distasteful — to see people like Trump garnering so much support.
And, for that matter, why Facebook is always going to end up with stuff it finds distasteful or worse.
Second, as befits the wider strategic view of the US, no rash strategic decision can be made, however distasteful.
Perhaps he sees an opening where West once reigned, felled by a poorly-received album and distasteful public statements.
For Biden, the details of the hearing—pornographic films and pubic hair and sexual accusations—are sticky and distasteful.
This time, even more objectionable and distasteful is that our clean air and water is being put at risk.
"Although these kinds of high-pressure prosecutorial tactics are neither uncommon nor illegal, they are distasteful," Ellis wrote Tuesday.
" Therefore, "it would not do if, in our youth, we decided to censor things simply because they were distasteful.
The medicine they dispense is distasteful to most leaders, but it often makes them more healthy in the end.
They seemed more basic than that: relatives writing distasteful posts about politics or acquaintances oversharing about their personal lives.
I'm not a tea drinker but that's what we're connected with so I think it's a little bit distasteful.
My patient wife had some idea of what I was up to and found it distasteful in the extreme.
For all their distasteful ways, though, the tanker men say they're not the biggest villains in this sordid saga.
That is the arrangement that some opponents find so distasteful, and that has nothing to do with my case.
King owes Margaret, his own wife and daughter, and all women a sincere apology for his distasteful, condescending remarks.
Students in all grade levels reported that they viewed cigarettes and alcohol as distasteful and a serious health risk.
Some people found the way he discussed moonwalking like Michael Jackson during an apology news conference to be distasteful.
While Van Drew believes that Trump has engaged in "distasteful" conduct, he doesn't think it meets the bar of impeachment.
"I've seen some shocking distasteful things on Instagram before but that left me speechless," Wanga, 32, said via Twitter DMs.
There was something about this moment that felt like the birth of reality television, and I found that really distasteful.
This distasteful kit comes with sunglasses, a long black wig, a "white short sexy robe," and two feet of rope.
" Roberts also said that political corruption can still be prosecuted by the government, and noted that McDonnell's actions were "distasteful.
I truly hope a distasteful joke on my part won't diminish the amazing work of all the women who participated.
" Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Bernice King wrote in a tweet that she found Trump's comments "distasteful, disturbing, dangerous.
It seems distasteful to mention the economic effects of another Korean war, but they would of course be awful, too.
Looking for cover Even in the most distasteful Washington storms, political leaders grope for whatever incremental cover they can find.
As it turns out, your hatred for the word has less to do with its distasteful sound than you'd think.
" He also said that political corruption can still be prosecuted by the government, and noted that McDonnell's actions were "distasteful.
Emotional responses by the general public -- the riffraff -- are often snobbishly and disdainfully dismissed by those who find them distasteful.
TMZ Live reveals the details we find distasteful but love to read, while the show's cast revels in the information.
Many people find this distasteful, but few are taking to the barricades to suggest it should be against the law.
These melodramas, which are so distasteful to the contemporary European and American palate, play well in Kuala Lumpur and Cairo.
"It might be distasteful for the purists, but we have to work together," said Anila Ali, a delegate from California.
And of course many Republicans find Mr. Trump distasteful but believe he would be a better president than Hillary Clinton.
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"Michael told Insider he found the video "incredibly distasteful" and "disrespectful to the people and family members of everyone involved.
If a player says something recondite or distasteful, you can look for him to come walking through the clubhouse door.
He had initially written off the poisoning as part of legitimate spy games, distasteful but within the bounds of espionage.
Once a distasteful but manageable task for Congress, the debt ceiling has become a battle Washington seems unable to escape.
"I see no relevance at all, especially today at this early stage, and that's what's really distasteful," Mr. Lapan said.
At first, Ernst resisted—he found Berezovsky distasteful and untrustworthy—but eventually he agreed to become the channel's chief producer.
Whatever Houellebecq's literary merit, in the framing of this particular essay his horrid views are presented as distasteful but important.
But don't unfriend Facebook friends because they don't share your worldview—even if you find that worldview distasteful or even dangerous.
I find the idea distasteful, but after hearing it enough times I talk with my friend's dad who is a lawyer.
On the contrary, as our opinion pieces over the years amply demonstrate, we often voice ideas that many people find distasteful.
This last role is distasteful to many, but it is hard to deny that it figures in elite admissions decision-making.
Sixers coach Brett Brown called last week's loss to the Heat "distasteful," and was especially upset with his club's defensive effort.
Developing and selling spyware like Hacking Team did is not, by itself, illegal, though it may be distasteful and even dangerous.
There is a place, the company is arguing, for satire about Peppa Pig drinking bleach, however distasteful you might find it.
In the same article, Nicholas Wade reported the misgivings of leading scientists who found Venter's technical achievement remarkable, his hype distasteful.
But, if the reports are true and Afeni Shakur wasn't closely involved with the process, it also feels a bit distasteful.
When you arrive at work the next morning, eat the frog by taking on the worst, or most distasteful, responsibility first.
" These women, writes Nance, "find the election of Clinton so distasteful they are willing to support a less than noble leader.
Distasteful as such a war would be it is better than the alternative of a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP)attack.
Despite the pre-election hubbub over judicial nominees, the distasteful tweets and dire prognostications, the 2018 midterms were pretty standard fare.
What's distasteful about these creatures is that they seem to exist without a specific function except to love or be loved.
Many of them viewed using the threat of a shutdown as leverage as a distasteful tactic associated with firebrand conservative Sen.
For so long, the school had managed to inoculate itself from some of the more distasteful aspects of Wall Street culture.
But to reach that goal, Mr. Trump has to accept something he will find extremely distasteful — a diminished role for himself.
Beneath our smooth surfaces, we all contain ugliness, from literal excrement to distasteful feelings we'd rather not have come to light.
That's him, up there, wearing the kind of hat you'd find in the window of a slightly distasteful fancy dress store.
While it offered an empowering message, some Twitter users found it distasteful in the context of rampant harassment on the platform.
Meanwhile, the unidentified Domino's driver told officers that this wasn't even the first time she had a distasteful encounter with Gonzalez.
Mr. Perlmutter's remarks might have seemed distasteful, but the fact of the matter is that he was simply doing his job.
"I find the whole media circus surrounding the issue rather distasteful," he told Roger Highfield, a British science journalist, in 2014.
When we shook hands, I found his skin distasteful, the palm soft and moist, the pads of his fingers too smooth.
What is so distasteful is that the majority of subjects are in concert with these individuals in both design and plan.
Doesn't everyone have the right to speak their mind freely and plainly -- no matter how unpopular, distasteful, or disgraceful, the message?
He was the obvious outgrowth of Trumpism — utterly distasteful to established political forces, entirely unapologetic, and seemingly able to defy political gravity.
That's an aspect that can be particularly distasteful to communities of color, which disproportionately bear the weight of police scrutiny — and violence.
Like these guys, the ones who dress up as Han Solo at Comic-Con, they really find all the T&A distasteful.
They were all bathed, and they had all gone to the mosque and prayed—even Shockie, who found prayer distasteful and feminine.
However "distasteful" they were, they were part of the normal relations between a politician and a constituent, according to his absurd reasoning.
Apisuk's open-mindedness sits at odds with many societal beliefs, and she spends her days advocating a cause that many find distasteful.
If Facebook routinely showed users things they found distasteful or viewed as incorrect, its audience wouldn't want to use it as much.
It is perhaps ironic that Mr. Potts, who found playing for dancers distasteful, should be the subject of an evening of dance.
The volleys around Dinesh's ridiculous gold chain are a running joke that sprints all the way to Jared's magnificently distasteful final jab.
"This is my dream and [to] tell me that I'm distasteful while wearing my dream, that really triggered me," Mercado told NBC.
Even if Islamabad changes its posture towards the Taliban, the distasteful history of Afghan-Pakistan relations would likely hamper the policy shift.
The fire now is fueled by memes about jailing Clinton and casual remarks about executing her, among other distasteful expressions of contempt.
Philippou reportedly hesitated before writing to staff but said keeping silent had not prompted a change in the "distasteful and shameful" behavior.
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Cloudflare is well-known for defending even the most distasteful websites, and services like it are essential to the functioning of websites.
Though this is politically distasteful in Washington for appearing to put Moscow on equal strategic and moral footings, it is probably necessary.
" Much that is distasteful — and, at worst, fraudulent — about the American university system can be traced, ultimately, to "The Responsibility of Intellectuals.
One officer suggested he declare himself king; or, if that term was distasteful, to choose a different word, but wield equivalent power.
Posing as Hans Hoffmann, a German businessman, Ari must take on the distasteful task of cozying up to Nazis living in Damascus.
Teens have always been quick to embrace clothing that adults find distasteful or uncomfortable, from visible underwear to rude novelty T-shirts.
Schumer simply wants McConnell to take the heat for expediting the necessary trial, and for putting this whole distasteful episode behind us.
The Bureau, like the country, is deeply divided; even some agents who find Trump personally distasteful say that they support his policies.
Arrests of social media users whose posts are deemed distasteful have continued under the administration of Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi.
CloudFlare is well-known for defending even the most distasteful websites, and services like it are essential to the functioning of websites.
As distasteful as a pardon may be, it pales in comparison to the harm Mr. Trump can do by remaining in office.
I grew up in a Britain where "the Continent," a faintly distasteful geographical mass associated with rabies and garlic, was far away.
Battlefield in World War I, yeah, because that's a good idea and not at all distasteful, and so on, and so forth.
John Shadegg and Ducey's chief of staff Kirk Adams are some other names that have surfaced during this somewhat distasteful parlor game.
Our policies allow content that may be controversial and at times even distasteful, but it does not cross the line into hate speech.
No wonder, then, that his staff considered keeping USS John McCain "out of sight" — even if many would see it as extremely distasteful.
"Intruders," a distasteful thriller with a bludgeoning sensibility and little common sense, turns a cozy family home into a clockwork house of horrors.
Things can be legally inappropriate, unseemly, and distasteful, and still color a prosecutors' view when seeking to resolve far-flung potential criminal investigations.
I'd rather separate myself from the classroom doing something that is distasteful and try to spend my days doing things that are important.
For example, Dill's dad [represents] a certain type of religiosity that I find distasteful, having seen a lot of it in my life.
On Monday, however, Dr. Trump said he would vote for Hillary Clinton in part because of the Republican nominee's "distasteful" persona and rhetoric.
"For people within Al Azhar, there was something remarkable and distasteful about a president and a general lecturing them about religion," he said.
And it goes without saying that the AfD's agenda, though distasteful to liberals, is not remotely similar to that of the Third Reich.
"What is distasteful about Trump is not that he offends old-fashioned American values," wrote Mother Jones's Tim Murphy in one typical reaction.
Some people might say that wild speculation about whether a public figure is an infamous mass murderer is distasteful and irresponsible, even dangerous.
They had shown up for a press conference on infrastructure, only to be cast as supporting actors in a bizarre and distasteful scene.
"Because this task was distasteful and required an inordinate amount of time, low residue foods and laxatives were generally used prior to launch."
It's like Seamless, but for people who find even the very concept of a person being in proximity to their delivery food distasteful.
And their missions overseas, while perhaps distasteful to him, should not be used to further his campaign bluster and feed his fragile ego.
Her comments were seen as a distasteful attempt to use the disaster for political purposes, a charge sometimes mirrored in the United States.
Because this task was distasteful and required an inordinate amount of time, low residue foods and laxatives were generally used prior to launch.
You see, the real intention of the operation was to weaponize the bureaucracy to go after industries distasteful to the politically correct palate.
Democrats structured their bills in a way that was almost certain to repel Republicans, while Republicans responded with bills equally distasteful to Democrats.
Defense attorneys said in court that Silver's actions were "distasteful" but failed to prove that his actions fell outside the definition of bribery.
Trying to change that by paying off Cohen is definitely distasteful, but it isn't illegal — and it doesn't suggest, much less prove, collusion.
The phrase describes when a person's 15 minutes of fame are followed by an abrupt fall from grace when distasteful misdeeds are unearthed.
The phrase describes when a person's 15 minutes of fame is followed by an abrupt fall from grace when distasteful misdeeds are unearthed.
When the first ads debuted in 2005, they were a brave, if distasteful, gamble by the company's founder and then-CEO, Bob Parsons.
In a country ravaged by years of privation and death, the Winstons' brief tenure — fueled by black-market food and liquor — was distasteful.
Distasteful infighting between traditionalists and progressives and scapegoating gay and lesbian Catholics for the crisis alienate even more those stuck in the middle.
But he said the barbed wire running through Calexico is a distasteful statement, as is, he said, the president's general rhetoric about immigration.
And there are the words Dreyer currently dislikes most, even more than he dislikes "munch" and "nosh" and other distasteful eating-adjacent terms.
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Public officials for years have found themselves in trouble, and even resigned from office, over comments that were impolitic, distasteful and sometimes even racist.
" Shell later dismissed the protesters as "a small group of extremists," and likened their "distasteful" remarks to something "out of the Maxine Waters playbook.
She says both she and Montia find Kevin using the scandal "very distasteful" because Montia's enduring social media hacks, death threats and slut-shaming.
And even when the intent might not be malevolent, the whole "pay the monkey on screen to dance" thing is just distasteful and exploitative.
I used to intensely dislike negotiating, but I've worked hard to get better at it and now I don't find it quite so distasteful.
Meghan Markle has no shortage of support from female British lawmakers in her and Prince Harry's fight against the "often distasteful and misleading" press.
However alarming or distasteful some of them may find President Donald Trump, most of America's chief executives are quietly appreciative of the Republican agenda.
But the scandal has had a particularly distasteful resonance for black Britons, who say it is a symptom of lingering racism within government institutions.
"I imagine the question of the succession, however distasteful it may naturally be, will come up," said one source of Tuesday's meeting in London.
And at a lower threshold of offensiveness—merely distasteful rather than outright deplorable, say—91% of Mr Trump's voters scored above the national average.
Death was made private, a task to be dealt with by trained professionals, a distasteful labor to be performed expertly, the sooner the better.
In an interview, she called the nominating process disenfranchising and distasteful, but said she thought she had to play the game to beat it.
AUSTRALIA'S constitution has plenty of unfortunate clauses: the one allowing states to bar particular races from voting is especially distasteful, even though none does.
FBI agents are not allowed to investigate individuals based on emotion or because they don't like someone, or that someone has distasteful character traits.
The waters off Rio's coast are contaminated with raw sewage and garbage, making a distasteful arena for the Games' marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers.
It was incredibly distasteful, four days before one of the worst tragedies in our country, to say that I tried to hijack this event.
I find the play of money in politics to be not only disgusting and conducive to all sorts of corruption but also personally distasteful.
Deborah MajerovitzBrooklyn To the Editor: I was able to find the cartoon online and can see why some people might view it as distasteful.
The phrase describes when a person's 15 minutes of fame is followed by an abrupt fall from grace when distasteful past misdeeds are unearthed.
" After she was convicted, she appealed, with her lawyers writing that her "words encouraging Roy's suicide, however distasteful to this Court, were protected speech.
As distasteful as the idea has become in Democratic circles, a Super PAC may be necessary to battle Trump, some Biden donors told Reuters.
Someone also leaked the team's cheerleading etiquette book, which included how to make a good first impression and how to handle a distasteful meal.
"If there isn't anything unbelievably unusual and there's just some distasteful issues -- which there are, no doubt -- I think we move forward," he said.
Sure, the negotiations were tough and even distasteful, AMI would probably claim, but welcome to the real world of big money and big business.
No matter how unpopular the Vietnam War or how distasteful his behavior during Watergate, Corporate America for the most part stood behind Richard Nixon.
The very morning of the assassination, one unofficial leader of the Leave camp had unveiled an anti-migrant poster that many found to be distasteful.
In his note, Momoa states that he has seen the effects of rape and sexual harassment and now sees his joke as distasteful and hurtful.
But Ai's version of the Kurdi photo resembles an exceptionally distasteful iteration of the planking meme, directing more attention to himself than to the crisis. 
Last year he slammed the designer (and members of his family) for their "distasteful" style, and he's still just as bewildered by their success today.
To poorer countries, the idea that America can be rewarded for throwing a tantrum by winning a reform of the system will be deeply distasteful.
His distasteful comments about Machado's weight in the past will no doubt still resonate with any woman who has struggled with weight or body issues.
An improperly thawed turkey will almost surely result in a bird with parts that are overcooked and distasteful, or undercooked, which can be a danger.
There is something distasteful and dystopian about an economy where businesses must turn over employee evaluations and pay decisions for review by the federal government.
Like Singer, Newman was a lawyer by training, and, also like Singer, he had no problem making money using methods that others might find distasteful.
Her lack of a clear, focused agenda, distasteful attacks on Republicans, and apathy toward stagnating wages among middle class Americans all contributed to her defeat.
Others have taken the time to make distasteful jokes about women being bad drivers or tweet photos of cars covered in cloth mimicking a niqab.
Nevertheless, the question remained: Why should black women protest the manner in which Clark died when our presence was seemingly distasteful to him in life?
Though some of his subject matter is distasteful and he's been less than male feminist at times, his unfiltered id seems tailor-made for Twitter.
More and more ads [were] filling the site, and somehow when it felt unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they ended up even worse.
Khan deems this especially important, as ISIS has endured tough press within the jihadi community for killing civilians and Muslims, which many radicals find distasteful.
" In appealing Carter's conviction and 15-month sentence, her legal team said, "Carter's words encouraging Roy's suicide, however distasteful to this court, were protected speech.
Mr. Trump — of whom I am far from being a "fan" and whose antics I sometimes find distasteful — has reason to be a bit paranoid.
They already had a policy against taking tuition dollars, and decided that accepting taxpayer dollars for such a windfall might appear just as politically distasteful.
Surfaced in Byte's popular feed were videos with dick jokes and sexual humor, and problematic content including distasteful jokes about child abuse and coronavirus victims.
Though her sincerity about her characters is evident, her latest comments on Dumbledore come alongside a distasteful "trendy" commodification of LGBTQ culture in recent years.
The Europeans find this kind of thing distasteful, which is why last Friday they instituted a strict online privacy law — the General Data Protection Regulation.
Some found the posts distasteful, trivializing what had already become a deadly conflict, while others saw them as a way to laugh off their fear.
"Feels like he is piggybacking on the fame of Ariana grande and Justin bieber and says distasteful things about other celebrities," Murray wrote on Twitter.
"If it's distasteful, then we have to be the bad guy and go to the resident and say, 'This is not appropriate,'" Mr. Wurtzel said.
Meant to convey the confrontational personality of Mr. Weinstein that the story describes, the print-only image grabbed readers' attention but struck some as distasteful.
The distasteful spectacle of a President of a democratic superpower leaning on the rookie leader of a vulnerable post-Soviet state leaped off the page.
But what made it remarkable was that Judge Sturman understood the subtext — and made it as clear as she could that she found it distasteful.
"What I find so distasteful, wrongheaded and sort of bizarre is parading these things under glass boxes," said Mr. Mickens, the editor of Global Pulse magazine.
Feeding a parking meter is already distasteful; it's hard to imagine someone wanting to reach inside a toad's leathery corpse just to fish out a quarter.
"The donor's continuing effort to rewrite history by injecting one of society's most emotional, divisive issues into this decision is especially distasteful," the university's statement said.
There is no real downside to talking about addiction, now that people no longer think the topic is too personal or distasteful for the campaign trail.
It's not like there aren't a lot of things that people like me found, not just distasteful, but really important to defeat within the conservative ambit.
College athletes shouldn't be paid because they might spend some of that money in ways that I, a responsible, righteous, and deserving person, might find distasteful.
In the nationalistic climate, many people in the Anglophone democracies seem to consider the ability to talk to foreigners in their own languages distasteful, even suspect.
Clearly there are times when a President should meet with a dictator or leader with whom we have sharp ideological differences, distasteful though it may be.
Republicans are trying to take advantage of Democratic desperation to secure emergency funding for Zika by pairing it with distasteful policies like the Confederate flag provision.
We need to be wary of moralistic sex negativity—the issue is not that it's bad because it's distasteful, but that it's bad because it's harmful.
Up until that point, the two men had refused to attack one another, seeming to believe that voters would find a messy mud-wrestling match distasteful.
Interestingly, this doesn't appear to be the first time this specific Walmart location has created a display that some could consider to be distasteful or exploitative.
Breaking with longstanding precedent, political groups continued airing attack ads throughout areas in Michael's path — a practice normally seen as distasteful by members of both parties.
After all, she has served up a smorgasbord of sound bites that are distasteful to moderate and swing voters, and that energize opposition conservatives and Republicans.
I have great respect for what Biden is trying to do, and while his language was perhaps inappropriate and arguably distasteful, his larger point is important.
But the salesman's pushiness and a bluntness that bordered on insubordination were distasteful to the patrician Henry Ford II, chairman and grandson of the firm's founder.
These divides in America have become so overt and tense that the arts have become outlets to express partisan anger in an ever-increasingly distasteful manner.
With the Paralympics struggling to sell tickets, a new marketing campaign for the games has drawn ire and criticism for some distasteful and, frankly, questionable images.
I'm hoping that by the time the Reconciliation Wing opens to the public, a particularly distasteful section of the exhibition will be revised or altogether removed.
They know that illegal immigrants are here because employers need them to do jobs that most Americans reject as too hard, too distasteful or too menial.
" And yet, Mr. Medeiros added, "Nobody in Asia can afford to alienate the American president, as unreliable and distasteful as he and his policies may be.
People would use the idiom to convey that they thought so highly of someone they would attend something as distasteful as a public hanging with him.
She does not want to support events that her constituency — a majority of Israelis, though not necessarily theatergoing, film-festival-attending, book-reading Israelis — find distasteful.
How disgusting, distasteful and unfortunate that even nearly eight years later a young black life could mean so little to the person who took it away.
When they did discuss the topic, they were more likely to talk about how distasteful they found President Trump rather than endorse the impeachment proceedings themselves.
Finally there's the very real possibility, no matter how distasteful to imagine, that Republicans will not retain the majority and instead will elect the minority leader.
Charles Schwab execs explained why the firm is now having to make 'distasteful' cash offers to investors just to compete in the cut-throat brokerage industry
"Our community did a great job of shaming the Walker Art Center and Sam Durant for this distasteful and hurtful portrayal of our history," he said.
While this statement may seem obvious to some, a selfie featuring a woman's stomach has gone viral due to people finding feminine body hair shocking or distasteful.
His regime is distasteful, but so was the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong&aposs China, and Vietnam – each of which America had to eventually learn to live with.
Revisiting it at the hearings, however distasteful, could at least highlight the dishonesty and callousness of WikiLeaks and its allies in protecting a Russian intelligence operation. 103.
Built on a cross-hatching of blankets and rugs, distasteful statuettes hung from poorly vanished windowsills while a faux-fireplace precariously warmed the back of a television.
Such an approach may sound distasteful in its careerist ambition, but part of the conceptual force of Meyohas's work derives from the transparency of its career-mindedness.
Bernie Sanders believes former President Barack Obama's plan to receive $400,000 for speaking at a September Wall Street health conference is "distasteful," The Vermont Independent reported Friday.
In recent years, the justices have interpreted the First Amendment to protect material coming from sources as distasteful as anti-Semites, cross-burners, pornographers and dogfight promoters.
"I don't think I did that," she said—"that" being some distasteful, popular thing that didn't align with her own view of herself as a serious journalist.
China found North Korea's nuclear program distasteful enough to join the US-led sanctions against North Korea in late 2017, which North Korea saw as a betrayal.
Vincent Prieto, a Democrat who serves as Assembly speaker, said there were parts of the plan he found distasteful, but that it was time for a compromise.
"Draining the swamp," as distasteful a term and goal as many Trump opponents believe it is, is still one of the key rallying cries for that base.
Many (if not most) hunters find grizzly hunting distasteful and unethical, having been taught from an early age never to shoot anything they don't intend to eat.
However distasteful, it is better to have a symbolic nick from a trained health worker than to be butchered in a back room by a village elder.
The milky sap that lends milkweed its name is a distasteful cocktail of resinoids and cardioactive glycosides, with a dash of alkaloids tossed in for good measure.
While a post-nuptial agreement can help solve the issue of who gets what if the marriage ends, drawing that up can be distasteful to married couples.
So we must listen with particular concern to the protests of those for whom inaccurate portrayals represent not just distasteful generalizations but economic and even mortal danger.
While I know enough now to recognize a distasteful pitch when I see it, I was curious how people in the public relations industry navigate the question.
Such distasteful choices have locked American domestic politics in favor of a war that few see as winnable and a strategy that is widely seen as failed.
The idea of judging teams based on wealth may sound distasteful in concept, but the reality of losing night after night, year after year, feels far worse.
As I have said before, her terribly unclear agenda, lack of a plan for economic growth and distasteful attacks against Republicans all led to her inevitable loss.
The way congressional Republicans could demonstrate seriousness about distancing themselves from distasteful aspects of the Trump administration would be to take some legislative action on those aspects.
While Sanders undeniably had a distasteful duty, two sources close to the White House told CNN's Jim Acosta that they were surprised how Sanders handled the issue.
Unlike that famed cerebral sleuth, William Arrowood is the detective of last resort, relying on instinct, impulse and sudden brainstorms to resolve distasteful cases for unsavory clients.
"All of us are career women, and not one of us would have put up with an environment that's as distasteful as has been described," the colleague insists.
" He told Pentagon reporters at the time, "Some of the recommendations might be distasteful or out of the box in terms of some of the policy makers thinking.
The most popular one — a logo of a Native American headdress, designed after the school's sports team, with the victims' names in the feathers — she finds particularly distasteful.
At least Hornacek was not escorted out the building after showing up for work, which was Don Chaney's fate one distasteful Garden night during the 2003-4 season.
If the Republicans see a winner, many are willing to line up behind whoever can bring them the White House even if they may find Trump's personality distasteful.
"That we can believe and say what we want no matter how distasteful or disruptive—that is a vital right in this amazing country of ours," he continued.
While it's easy to find Aoki's on-stage antics and musical ideas either distasteful, or just plain lame, it must be said that he doesn't seem hopelessly unfulfilled.
That includes members of the University of Kansas College Republicans (who called it "absolutely disgusting" and "distasteful") and some powerful Republicans, like Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
LONDON -  Viewers have criticised Channel 5 show Celebrity Big Brother for broadcasting Angie Bowie's reaction to her ex-husband David Bowie's sudden death, calling it disgusting and distasteful.
Remember, this is what we knew at the time: Sending children through the portal was distasteful to us for obvious reasons, and we were searching for an alternative.
In the case of more distasteful crimes, like sexual assault or misconduct, this sheds a poor light on carefully groomed and protected brand images, such as Mercedes-Benz.
Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump has weighed in with her thoughts about Kathy Griffin's woefully distasteful video and photograph, depicting the bloody head of President Donald Trump.
"For anyone to target one of our Marines, online or otherwise, in an inappropriate manner, is distasteful and shows an absence of respect," he said in a statement.
Janine and June may not always have seen eye to eye (I apologize for this distasteful pun), but in this moment, they're linked by fate and by friendship.
Sunnis in Baghdad—those that remain, that is, after years of communal violence that has driven many of them out—find such Shia triumphalism distasteful, even deliberately intimidating.
Where previous presidents might have seen distasteful selling out, Trump sees lots of his guys – and they're overwhelmingly guys – building art-of-the-deal style fortunes for themselves.
John Kasich of Ohio, said he has found the convention so distasteful that he was prepared to pay the airline change fee so that he could leave early.
Savvy rulers know that ideas prepare the psychological terrain for future actions, habituating people to consider a distasteful notion as "out there" in the realm of the possible.
But there is something to all this — as distasteful as it may be, the cause of peace does require things like inviting Gerry Adams to the White House.
These players, 99.99% of whom have not served their country, simply do not understand why I and my veteran and active duty comrades find their behavior extremely distasteful.
Talking to Wimbledon fans in the hours before kick-off, the general consensus seems to be that attending a home game against MK Dons is a distasteful necessity.
The journalists said they were dismayed by the recent arrests of social media users whose posts were deemed distasteful, as well as of journalists critical of the military.
Basically, you are looking for a tray that allows you to extract the ice easily and one that doesn't impart distasteful odors — or freezer-burn — to the cubes.
Allen, by contrast, comes across as a grouchy neurotic who, in his late 50s, had a distasteful affair with Mia Farrow's adopted, barely adult daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
What's painful about the stance of many now claiming the #MeToo mantle is the apparent commitment to shutting down voices and discussions that might prove distasteful or unnerving.
People find self-promotion so distasteful that they like you more when you're praised by someone else — even if they know you've hired an agent to promote you.
The (often facetious, but sometimes deadly serious) public condemnation of someone whose behavior or belief system is so distasteful that the person is no longer relevant or desired.
Directing his first feature (from a screenplay by Nable), Stephen McCallum fashions an unremittingly vicious, leather-and-ink slugfest whose women are just as distasteful as its men.
This theory, formulated by psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, can be broadly applied to all sorts of "distasteful" bodily fluids (pus and vomit, for example), but period blood is pointedly gendered.
Indeed, one can disagree with Trump's agenda or find him personally distasteful but that does not give license to ignore unlawful behavior by America's law enforcement and intelligence communities.
Is it a night of bad sex where you were harassed and assaulted, or is it a night of bad sex where you had a disappointing and distasteful time?
Xi'an, home to the famous terracotta warriors (a UNESCO world heritage site), wants to publish recipes for the city's five most famous foods, to guard against distasteful rip-offs.
Most teachers find cursory treatment of letters distasteful, but this is one way for teachers to make clear how much time they devote to their jobs outside the workday.
His blatant disregard for Negan's orders — paired with his penchant for savage violence — seems to be setting up Simon as a standalone villain that even Negan would find distasteful.
The new revelations are all the more distasteful because McCain, who has served his country at great personal cost, is now suffering from a deadly form of brain cancer.
The President also increasingly found it distasteful to be siding with the Republican establishment in trying to push out Moore, because it put him at odds with his base.
As a target of Mr. Trump's high-profile rebukes, Mr. Sessions has gained cautious support even from some rank-and-file lawyers who find his culture wars zeal distasteful.
Iranians, who would surely down theocracy in a free vote, have a political system that gives them the option of voting for Mr. Rouhani or even more distasteful candidates.
What's more, even after deactivating his account, Stephens still doesn't seem to grasp why so many found the email he sent to be so distasteful in the first place.
"There is some value in treating counterparties with respect, in trying to build relationships with them, despite the distasteful nature if it," said Mr. Bader, the former Obama official.
"I felt like it was distasteful," Rand Cole, who helps to manage the local cemeteries and works part time as a personal trainer, said of the sage grouse coverage.
To do business in China, the company adopts to local dictates, distasteful as they may be to its CEO Tim Cook, an outspoken gay rights advocate and privacy crusader.
He's respectful of the company's ambitions and accomplishments, but also points out the distasteful irony of a high-end hipster brand trading on its location in a struggling city.
Even if the current President or attorney general finds a federal law distasteful or unwise, the government is still obliged to defend the validity of the law in court.
If you're already familiar with this box, you should probably stop (or at least go easy on) using the "It's annoying or distasteful" and "It goes against my views" options.
And so I felt like we should do something, but banning it feels wrong because I'm not actually angry or hurt, I'm just kind of annoyed, I find this distasteful.
One view — certainly Clinton's view and the Obama administration's view — is that distasteful as these bailouts were, they would also be necessary and correct actions to take given the circumstances.
Yet many find the idea distasteful, particularly in European countries where past use of state informers created a climate of fear and destroyed trust among colleagues, family members and friends.
She took aim at liberal politicians and commentators who "find your patriotism distasteful, your concerns about immigration parochial, your views about crime illiberal" and "left wing, activist human-rights lawyers".
That may partly explain why some visitors still cleave to work that is glossy and glamorous, and fail to understand why more and more people find its moneyed character distasteful.
"Someone who I invite to present an award to use that time to postulate a personal political belief I think is not only outrageous, it's distasteful and dishonest," he said.
"We believe that a cornerstone of our democracy is the right to free speech, which sometimes means tolerating opinions that one may disagree with and find distasteful," the company said.
"We have watched Choudary developing a media career as spokesman for the extremists, saying the most distasteful of comments, but without crossing the criminal threshold," Haydon said in a statement.
It is clear that Alan's sons have chosen this distasteful public smear tactic to bully Tanya, by stirring up the tabloid media, filing a bogus lawsuit, and refusing family mediation.
Woodley tells TMZ Sports he found it "distasteful" for White to say the judges scored the fight incorrectly by awarding Tyron the majority decision over "Wonderboy" Thompson at UFC 209.
The fact that the meme was posted was a reminder of how distasteful and cruel people can be without background knowledge of the person in the bullseye of the target.
"Tide's in an unfortunate position because this 'game' has had serious consequences, beyond being offensive, inappropriate, and distasteful, which are setbacks that are much easier to recover from," Schildt explained.
Most people in the industry avoid specializing in deceased artists, either because they find it distasteful or because they prefer the spark that comes when musicians actively engage the public.
And Ms. Choy-Kee brings an easy radiance to her performance as Marie-Belle, making her giggling suggestions of continued sexual relations with her dead husband more amusing than distasteful.
However, while her letter was a step in the wrong direction, retaliatory action taken by President Trump was just as distasteful and arguably rose to the level of being juvenile.
NRA leaders ripped into NRATV content as "distasteful and racist" in a new court filing linked to a lawsuit with the ad firm that created the now-defunct TV station.
Taking Backpage's side is awkward enough for Google; to take the side of both companies is outright distasteful for those of us who oppose both sex trafficking and tech monopolies.
I know that sounds distasteful but I am not suggesting that President Trump travel down Pennsylvania Avenue to Southeast D.C. to meet or, shudder, to shake hands with poor people.
Though I am persuaded by the rational argument for why machine care should be acceptable to me, I just find the prospect distasteful—for reasons I cannot, rationally, account for.
I feel about parenthood the way I do about blues-rock from the '60s and '70s: It's boring and borderline distasteful — fine for other people but definitely not for me.
At the same time, no one wants to be perceived as linking the Viewing Platform to a broader marketing campaign to revitalize New York's tourist economy; this would be distasteful.
Mr. Putin, seeking his fourth presidential term after 18 years as the most powerful man in Russia, does not really need to campaign, and appears to find the activity distasteful.
"The ploy is not working," the ministry said in a statement, "but their behavior is cynical and distasteful, as if Washington has stepped completely beyond the bounds of common decency."
If the book-buying public had found "A Place for Wolves" as criminally distasteful and insensitive as Twitter did, it would have sunk the novel in slower, more deliberate ways.
While his predecessors considered authoritarians like Mr. Sisi to be distasteful and at times shied away from them, Mr. Trump signaled that he sees international relations through a transactional lens.
However, we as Americans enjoy and respect competition, which is why the American public, both Democrats and Republicans, found this collusion between Clinton and the DNC to be so distasteful.
He was a priest who ponced around academia all week, dealing with unhealthy and distasteful subjects, and helped out at a local parish on the weekend — how graceful of him!
Others, like plague water, required some inventive substitutions, either because the ingredients were unavailable, or they had been found to be toxic — or at least distasteful — over the intervening centuries.
Universities should be battlefields of ideas where open-minded students, armed with reason and facts can joust and prepare themselves for the real world of offensive, outrageous and distasteful ideas.
By the early aughts, gold was deemed so distasteful that Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw actually vomited after discovering her boyfriend planned to propose with a gold engagement ring.
But as I wrote in a previous story, Cruz's personality – however distasteful he may come off to some voters – probably won't be a major determinant of his chances at the presidency.
As numerous college presidents have noted while defending their decisions to allow him to speak in the face of protests, freedom of speech applies to those whose rhetoric many find distasteful.
Some have distasteful if utterly banal goals; one man was in love with his female friend and wanted her to feel the same way; another wanted to date "higher-value" women.
Including the photo, which did not come with a graphic image warning, has been called "distasteful, disgusting and deplorable," and was a major talking point on Twitter in Kenya on Wednesday.
It's a distasteful choice to be sure, but not many people would choose a candidate who they believe habitually breaks the law over someone who habitually breaks the rules of etiquette.
Though other disturbing shows like Game Of Thrones have gotten wine lines without backlash, since the entire premise of The Handmaid's Tale revolves around sexual assault, this collection seems especially distasteful.
On one hand, critics might find the hiring of a Trump property employee distasteful, but supporters may understand the role can only be filled by someone the family is comfortable with.
The millions of documents on international tax havens leaked in the Panama Papers are not accusations of criminality, but it can still be distasteful to be associated with questionable accounting practices.
" In a lengthy Facebook post published Monday, Takei attempted to explain himself, saying the comments are "distasteful" when taken "out of context" and apologizing for "making fun of a serious matter.
"The words President Duterte used are not just extremely distasteful, they are extremely dangerous," Josef Benedict, Amnesty International's deputy director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in an emailed statement.
An Air Force airman stationed in Hawaii said she is "disgusted" after a patron outside of a coffee shop allegedly told her it was "distasteful" to speak Spanish while in uniform.
Smear /smeer/: noun Bork, Thomas, Hill, Clinton, Clinton, Beck, Imus, Palin, Biden, Obama, O'Reilly, Sanders, Trump, Hannity, Kavanaugh, Northam, Klobuchar, Carlson ...  Smears have become a distasteful staple in our media diet.
And yet, the willingness of Ms. Salazar's supporters to look past her fabrications sounds eerily familiar to the justifications Trump supporters made in 2016: Yes, he's distasteful and prone to exaggeration.
The public evidently needed to know only whether Sanders expressed this skepticism at all, as opposed to the far more consequential matter of why it would be distasteful if he did.
" When asked about the Sandinistas' shuttering of newspapers a week later, Sanders also told the Burlington Free Press, "It is very distasteful to me to hear of censorship in any form.
This is extremely distasteful — there is probably no single person responsible for more human suffering in the 21st century — but if we want to end that suffering, it may be necessary.
The program itself was not particularly distasteful or lucrative, but served as a foot in the door for the company to pursue more government work that may very well have been both.
"This personalized license plate should never have been issued; it is offensive and distasteful," the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said in a statement provided to Fox 9, a local Fox affiliate.
The relationship between Ketzel and Meryl is one of the highlights of the book, and does something to make up for Ketzel's increasingly annoying observations about everything modern that she finds distasteful.
They start with a very hardheaded look, [saying] he's not good and the tweeting is horror, he's a jerk, and the tweeting is distasteful, but you know, we'll get this and this.
Republicans have been remarkably successful in delinking taxes from fiscal policy, "framing" taxes as a distasteful personal burden unconnected to widely desired public goods like roads, food-safety inspections or clean water.
While he found incentives like offering cash rewards for opening brokerage accounts to be a "distasteful approach," his firm would have to be willing to match those offers or risk losing business.
And I remember finding the Karajan recordings brilliant and electric, but somehow a bit too slick and slightly distasteful, whereas I found the Furtwängler recordings more enlightening and a lot more profound.
Dannenfelser has said that making exceptions for rape victims in abortion bans is "abominable," and has made clear that she thinks supporting bills that contain such exceptions is a distasteful "political" concession.
One thing none of those products have is a viable messaging product for six-year-old children, which Facebook is now happy to provide, regardless of how distasteful it appears to be.
"The fact that the meme was posted was a reminder of how distasteful and cruel people can be without background knowledge of the person in the bullseye of the target," he wrote.
I also realize that many people looking at this strategy will find it all too Machiavellian and distasteful in a way that would make even "House of Cards" President Frank Underwood blush.
"I awoke in Australia to the justified reactions by many people to a distasteful joke I made years ago in Hall H for which I am sorry," he began the Thursday post.
One more thing:The administration has also expressed interest in acontroversial measurethat would limit how much drug prices can rise in Part D — an idea distasteful to both pharma and free-market Republicans.
More than 70 female members of parliament have signed a letter in "solidarity" with Meghan Markle, as the Duchess of Sussex wages a legal battle against the "often distasteful and misleading" press.
"A distasteful feature of the men's singles was the decision once again to play two rounds over the best of three sets and the rest over the best of five," it read.
This entire new storyline -- that the calling of Gold Star families by the commander in chief has somehow devolved into some sort of competition between presidents -- is distasteful, to say the least.
Perhaps, he hoped, his online acquaintance was simply engaging in yet another distasteful troll—more elaborate than before, sure, but could one of their own have really committed such a vicious act?
And while linking commerce and religion may seem distasteful to some, modest-fashion entrepreneurs like Melanie Elturk see it as a natural way to live out their faith and serve their communities.
It's not too difficult to imagine what Mullin finds distasteful about a career fate hanging on the whims of teenagers and those — parents, friends, the shoe-company crowd — whispering in their ears.
Despite Mr. Sanders's status as the front-runner, many rivals seemed more comfortable hitting Mr. Bloomberg and his lengthy past record of issues and comments that are seriously distasteful to many liberals.
That Andrei, who'd spent his life protesting the abuses of Russian power, should have been killed by those fighting Russian power — it was as distasteful an irony as I could have imagined.
In August, it was linked to cases of cyclospora -- a pesky parasite that can cause stomach upsets, headache, fever, diarrhea and other things too distasteful to mention here, according to the CDC.
That's frightening or alienating for people who find it distasteful for a young guy — and one without a college education — to be wielding that kind of power, especially on the political side.
" Asked why he believes Gillis deserved another chance, Yang said he believes "as a society, we have become unduly punitive and vindictive about people making statements that some find offensive or distasteful.
The passion for social justice that many students feel — a beautiful passion for social justice — leads them to be keenly aware of the distasteful opinions held by many writers of earlier generations.
But Iran is an adversary, so it can be distasteful for Americans to acknowledge that its hybrid system lies in the vast gray area between US-style democracy and Saudi-style autocracy.
But more than that, on the 2 XL the colors look muted in a way that many Android users I've shown it to found distasteful (even with the "vivid colors" setting turned on).
More than anything, I find it ugly and distasteful that Apple, the company that the stock market values at over a trillion dollars, is being so greedy in the treatment of its customers.
As distasteful as that phrase is (one Black Friday is more than enough per calendar year), it's worth bearing in mind that Amazon isn't the only place to score deals on Prime Day.
"It was incredibly distasteful, four days before one of the worst tragedies in our country, to say I tried to hijack this event," Rapinoe said after the game, according to The Washington Post.
Some people might say that making completely baseless criminal accusations against an organization that helps women receive birth control, safe abortions, cancer screenings, and sexual health information is distasteful and irresponsible, even dangerous.
On a spiritual level, it seems distasteful to imagine a living person as a piece being moved around on a narrative chessboard, his every move calculated to advance a maximally entertaining story line.
But as distasteful as the practice of throttling customers with unlimited plans might sound, AT&T got in trouble for failing to disclose it rather than for doing it in the first place.
That offered little relief to Ms. Morgan's lawyer, however, who said her legal team pursued a lawsuit because it was concerned the commission might reject future license plate applications its employees found distasteful.
"NRATV's messaging strayed from the Second Amendment to themes which some NRA leaders found distasteful and racist," an amended complaint filed on October 25 in the NRA's lawsuit against Ackerman McQueen (AMc) stated.
The directors of the play used the modern context of the presidency to illustrate the play's point, although continuing to do so in the wake of last week's violence was distasteful and unnecessary.
If the party writes off these voters – viewing them, to use Clinton's distasteful word, as "irredeemable" – it will struggle to hold the House or Senate and to accomplish its goals for the country.
The problem for the Kremlin is how to generate excitement in a lifeless campaign with a preordained outcome and a candidate who finds campaigning distasteful and the idea of a presidential debate unthinkable.
Given that the Democrats had publicly stated as early as June 2016 that they believed Russian operatives had infiltrated their computers, the Trump campaign's eagerness to benefit from pilfered documents might seem distasteful.
Mr. Agnifilo argued that although Mr. Raniere had taken part in many activities that might seem distasteful to jurors, he had done so while honestly trying to help people, not with criminal intent.
After last week's distasteful partisan horror show ended with now-Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's elevation to the Supreme Court, the question everyone's asking is how this unseemly episode will affect the forthcoming elections.
It is these points that have prevented any solution, not the settlements, even though I find the fundamentalist claims to be distasteful to this modern American Jew who grew up in New York.
Those who found both candidates distasteful opted for the outsider over the experienced insider — Trump won voters who saw both candidates in an unfavorable light by a 85033 percent to 15 percent margin.
In a memo to employees sent before the photo was released, Sandy called it "distasteful, hurtful, disturbing, highly insensitive, and completely inappropriate" and ordered for all copies of the photo to be destroyed.
AMI's alleged conduct here was so over the top, so distasteful, that I'd be confident I could sway a jury that it crossed the line from aggressive business tactics and into criminal extortion.
The collection is called "Homens Que Amamos" (Men We Love), and it's distasteful enough to compete with the world's most famous brands: It celebrates the great deeds of our heroic husbands and boyfriends.
These are the years when phoniness chafes, when inherited morality reveals itself to be deserving of interrogation, when choosing safety and sameness over adventure and difference seems not just distasteful, but often impossible.
The new policy is also the latest example of YouTube's taking a more aggressive approach to content that many find distasteful even if it is not in violation of the service's community guidelines.
The world's biggest video site, which has struggled to deal with extremist and distasteful content, will add links below videos that refer to conspiracies — like the idea that the moon landing was faked.
Also, given that Carlson pocketed nearly $2 million for a historic relic that arguably doesn't belong to her, and instead belongs to the public trust, her quest for even more money is undeniably distasteful.
They diluted potatoes with water, held bites in their mouths for a long time without swallowing, or labored over combining the food on their plate, "making weird and seemingly distasteful concoctions," the researchers reported.
They are distasteful and ignorant to all of us, but they should not be shut down unless they pose a credible threat to the physical safety of others, such as through threats of violence.
Administrators can't censor political speech they might find distasteful, nor can they punish students more harshly for missing school to take part in a political protest than they would for any other unexcused absence.
The Republican party is left with those who are not liberal enough to support Mr Macron but find Ms Le Pen's strident nationalism distasteful—and there do not seem to be enough of them.
Memes can keep people in check, allowing them to correct behaviors framed as unsavory or distasteful, because the core feature of viral content is its ability to tap into common, relatable emotions or experiences.
I felt bad supporting the Warriors in a way; I'd lived in London a lot of my life and found the rapid bandwagon-hopping between teams like Arsenal and Manchester United and Chelsea distasteful.
But she declined mentally, was devastated by Denis's death, and was then let down by her dysfunctional children, Mark, who barely avoided prison, and Carol, who wrote a distasteful account of her mother's dementia.
In the week since the event, social media chatter about the GEA spiked and tens of thousands of users shared pictures of men and women mingling at the show to disparage it as distasteful.
Reichert seemed to walk that line in an interview, where he described Trump's comments as personally distasteful — but carefully avoided laying any of the blame for the dysfunction in Washington at the president's feet.
There are reports out that Cosby cracked a joke that another inmate found distasteful and reacted by removing a chicken patty from the bun and throwing it at Cosby, smacking him in the face.
The latest Forsa poll gives them a combined total of 40 percent compared to 37 for the conservative bloc, and analysts expect another right-left alliance, distasteful as it is to everyone in it.
If they blocked her new plans, they ran the risk that Parliament might then feel constrained to vote later this month to stay in the European Union's customs union — an even more distasteful outcome.
We, the undersigned, refuse to support Hauser & Wirth and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego for their support, promotion and facilitation of a distasteful and violent project sponsored by a white supremacist group.
"To bow to pressure to reject the town's heritage simply because some elements of that history are distasteful to some is a disservice to history," Ms. LeFevre wrote in a letter to the Council.
He's also signed below market value and is under team control through 2019, so if you're into contracts, and you have to be no matter how distasteful, you know it makes him worth more.
" The report noted that the arrangements made for anatomical studies were "distasteful at a minimum," but that the practice of donating "unclaimed" bodies to medical institutions "was legal and commonplace, if not widely known.
" Later in the show, he acknowledged the absence of female director nominees with this distasteful joke: "I've had a word with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and they've guaranteed this will never happen again.
Asked to provide proof Wilson was wrong, Sanders told reporters the congresswoman made "quite a few comments that day" that were not caught on video and that Kelly and others found to be distasteful.
Should it later emerge that Americans in Florida were losing their lives or in great danger while he was onstage slamming "radical" Democrats and mocking the #MeToo movement, his behavior might later seem distasteful.
Long, who has scored early high marks, seemed to acknowledge that it could be seen as distasteful to have a news conference touting successes while the final toll of Hurricane Harvey isn't yet known.
Seeking to defend artworks that buttress racial, sexual, or class domination using the 19th century concept of "art for art's sake" is not only distasteful, it is also without either historical or aesthetic merit.
Read the whole post, below: "I awoke in Australia to the justified reactions by many people to a distasteful joke I made years ago in Hall H for which I am sorry," Momoa wrote today.
But now he's come under fire from a different corner of the internet that's been busy in recent days, culminating in Harmon deleting his Twitter account over manufactured backlash to a distasteful video from 2009.
Still, the spectacle of a President-elect calling for someone to be disowned by their nation for exercising their constitutional rights -- albeit while acting in a way many Americans find distasteful -- is a shocking one.
One more thing: The administration has also expressed interest in a controversial measure that would limit how much drug prices can rise in Part D — an idea distasteful to both pharma and free-market Republicans.
It just seemed a bit distasteful for lack of a better word and I think it's important for women, for men to encourage women to embrace their ambition and it doesn't necessarily mean a career.
Image: ViveBack in the 783s, companies tried making virtual reality a thing, most notably Nintendo, whose Virtual Boy was so distasteful that it caused people to abandon the entire category for the next 20 years.
This exposes a false choice: in an increasingly interdependent world, countries must often opt not between pure sovereignty and the pooled sort, but—however distasteful the choice may seem—between the pooled sort and none.
And on top of such distasteful scenarios, it seems odd to give certain people legal privileges—the right to act in a way that would otherwise be unlawful—simply because they identify themselves as religious.
Top NRA officials found content on NRATV to be "distasteful and racist," according to a federal lawsuit between the gun rights organization and the ad firm that created the TV outlet, which no longer exists.
In this opinion piece, Caroline Paul uses her personal experiences as a female firefighter to deconstruct the myth that little girls should be sheltered from scary or distasteful experiences that boys are encouraged to see.
It's easy to see why: it's camp and distasteful, brilliant and badly acted and contains the kind of cameos you rarely see on the same screen, from Chloe Sevigny and Natasha Lyonne to Marilyn Manson.
In fact, the committee behind the report found the words "homosexual" and "prostitute" so distasteful they substituted them—"for the sake of the ladies on the committee"—for "Huntleys and Palmers," a 73s biscuit manufacturer.
And as distasteful as it is to put people out of work, the postal service itself has already reduced its workforce by 225,000 people over the last several years, mostly by not replacing retiring employees.
The theory behind it, an essentially generous one, maintains that we are all, as human beings, acculturated to certain distasteful perceptions and attitudes, some of which we may not even be aware that we carry.
Don't get me wrong, I love action movies and horror movies and creature movies, but the older I get, anything with too many guns or a young girl in her underwear, I just find distasteful.
Leaving aside how distasteful this is, and how statistically dubious, it's also very revealing: if you're relying on the Grim Reaper to help you, you're admitting you can't win the argument by force of persuasion.
"AMI's alleged conduct here was so over the top, so distasteful, that I'd be confident I could sway a jury that it crossed the line from aggressive business tactics and into criminal extortion," Honig wrote.
Now, by contrast, conservative intellectuals find themselves defenders and allies, in the name of free speech, of the most distasteful by-product of the market society: the déclassé, bohemian mob leaders of the alt-right.
The Senate hearing meant to find the truth about Christine Blasey Ford's accusation that President Donald Trump's nominee assaulted her in the 1980s degenerated into one of the most distasteful political spectacles in many years.
For Buttigieg, the choice is distasteful, but he VERY reluctantly seems to pick the one he thinks is the lesser of 2 evils ... or maybe it's more accurate to say he doesn't choose the greater evil.
Led by the lawmaker Holly Lynch, the members of Parliament wrote to Meghan that they stood in solidarity with her against "the often distasteful and misleading nature" of some articles about the duchess and her family.
Although many people perceived the comments as distasteful, taking advantage of the worst mass shooting in United States history, it's true that this was probably the first time a major Republican politician directly addressed gay people.
When Kennesaw State's Zuckerman Museum of Art hosted an "Art AIDS America" exhibit in May 2016 that some lawmakers, including Ehrhart, found distasteful, he reminded the school of the $47 million library request that had died.
And as distasteful as it is to talk about form when confronted with this content, it is the stunning abstraction of textures, tones, and touch woven into the ugly power struggle that shares the drawing's core.
Tarantino himself expressed the care he took to avoid yet another distasteful scavenging of Sharon Tate's tragic death to sell movie tickets — even managing to convince Tate's sister that his approach would be unlike any other.
Fortunately, United recently released a statement saying that going forward it won't call the cops anymore,   As distasteful as it is, the airlines hold a virtually stacked deck when it comes to the rights of passengers.
When one visitor made the distasteful discovery of the poison gas Pokémon Koffing at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., it seemed like developers Nintendo and Niantic Labs had been too careless for their own good.
Paul, on the other hand, was behind the widely criticized recording of a body in Japan's "suicide forest" and made "distasteful and insensitive" comments regarding abortion and KSI's sex life in a press conference last month.
In a 2012 opinion essay in The Times, I cited the Obama campaign's successful social media and data strategy to warn about the potential dangers of polarization and distasteful political methods, like misinformation on social media.
When people are described as Trumpian, it is generally just a wised-up way of saying that the people in question are coarse, extremely distasteful, and—if you'll pardon the political science jargon—suck a lot.
Mr. Moon argues that however distasteful the North Korean leadership is, South Korea, the United States and others must use dialogue and economic exchanges to build trust and persuade the North to negotiate away its weapons.
" As for China, Henry Kissinger wrote, "A policy that is perceived as having designated China as the enemy primarily because its economy is growing and its ideology is distasteful would end up isolating the United States.
Of course, if you're willing to exploit a distasteful attitude in public, then you at least tacitly agree with it, which is a big hurdle when it comes to engendering any sort of sympathy for Riggs.
She says tons of people have told her that her late son looks like the famous TV P.I. -- and that if she really thought the comment was distasteful ... she wouldn't have laughed along with everyone else.
The green-skinned Elfo (Nat Faxon) is introduced in a distasteful scene that ends with his fellow Candy Elf villagers trying to lynch him with a licorice noose for sleeping with the chief's pink-skinned daughter.
Snapchat users might be more forgiving on the whole than, say, Rhianna was of the apology she got from the app after a distasteful advertisement, but they'll have to actually get their hands on the update first.
Bill Weier, the father of one of the two girls charged in the 2014 Slenderman stabbing, has spoken out against Sony Pictures's new Slenderman-inspired horror film, calling the movie "extremely distasteful," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Though some found his ego and naked ambition distasteful — he was "very much in need of adulation," according to one peer, and called "a starfucker" by another — few dispute the caliber of his intellect and work ethic.
Maybe, as a cat person — moreover, one who finds having to watch people pick up dog feces on a daily basis one of the more distasteful (albeit necessary) aspects of city living — I am a touch biased.
It might seem counterintuitive during a time when much of the American public is enraged at Russia for allegedly engaging in election-related cyberattacks and finds the idea of cooperating with its authoritarian government to be distasteful.
Honestly, no, and some of the things they've said are unbelievably distasteful, and I don't even think represent their members well, right, from the people that I know from my heritage in the South and so forth.
" Professor Elizabeth Price Foley of the Florida International College of Law, writing in The New York Times on May 17, 2017, agrees: "... as distasteful as the president's statements may be, they do not constitute obstruction of justice.
In November, Mr. Kerry zipped through Central Asia on a tour of some of the world's most repressive states, including Turkmenistan, whose leadership shares Mr. Sisi's approach to anyone who utters a thought the government finds distasteful.
Now and again, a show from my childhood might have a "very special episode" to tackle a serious issue, but such compartmentalization tacitly suggested to viewers that life's most distasteful moments could be confined to sweeps week.
Pruitt's casual collusion with industry and hostility to his agency's core function are morally distasteful, but at least to date, they haven't broken any laws (though a number of his regulatory moves have been challenged in court).
It can be frustrating to read of South African lives so cut off from the reality of their country, but then again, Sheila remembers that race-based legislation was treated as a distasteful enigma during their youth.
Two years ago, Carlson and his younger brother, Buckley, were e-mailing about a liberal communications director whom they found annoying; she was accidentally copied on one message, in which Buckley described her in startlingly distasteful terms.
We have now had the distasteful scene of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heading to Riyadh to hear its explanation, as leaks hint the Saudis may be edging toward saying this was an abduction gone wrong.
"If the government were to support the move, there would be a huge backlash domestically," he said, adding that in his opinion as a trained lawyer the poem was "distasteful" but within the limits of artistic freedom.
"So much of [Rent] is universal, and sometimes it gets missed because — I always say 'the wrapping' [of AIDS and drugs and gay lovers] — can seem distasteful to some people," Julie Larson, Jonathan's sister, told Playbill in 2016.
But Pennsylvania political analysts say Toomey may have taken the safest path given his need to stitch together a coalition of working-class, white voters who support Trump and moderate, college-educated suburbanites who find his rhetoric distasteful.
After sharing the image from her Kentucky trip with Mnuchin — in which she noted labels including Tom Ford, Hermès, Valentino and Roland Mouret — many were quick to comment on social media that the designer-touting post was distasteful.
Easter Mini Log Cakes Courtesy Pinterest/Handmade Charlotte Of course, if you find the butts distasteful, you can make all sorts of other fun and festive treats, from this decadent carrot cake to orange-glazed hot cross buns.
"I have found [Trump's] theatrical persona and lack of content to his positions distasteful and particularly some of the rabble-rousing rhetoric and hostile rhetoric I think is distinctly out of place in public discourse," said the oncologist.
For many Republicans, this will come down to balancing political and self-interest with the difficulty of supporting a candidate who is genuinely distasteful to them and who risks bringing them embarrassment and anger from people they respect.
Even if Republican members of Congress find Trump&aposs conduct distasteful or even impeachable, Trump still enjoys strong support among his core base of Republican primary supporters, making it politically dangerous for those members to go against him.
The idea of unwittingly ingesting appreciable amounts of plastic is obviously distasteful, and several papers have explored the possible negative health effects of these ingested plastics, which can remain in our bodies and might disrupt our endocrine systems.
Related: 'Rick and Morty' co-creator Dan Harmon apologizes for 'distasteful' video "In 2009, I made a 'pilot' which strove to parody the series "Dexter" and only succeeded in offending," Harmon said in a statement provided to CNN.
But aside from painting disease as a kind of moral rebuke — an idea that many people with cancer, and their loved ones, will find distasteful — "In the Body of the World" seems to flow in the wrong direction.
It didn't take long for virtually all Republicans to realize that, distasteful and disgraceful though he is, Trump was their best bet to win them power: Because that is all they really want, they rolled over in turn.
Gyasi Ross, a member of the Blackfeet Nation tribe and author told the Washington Post that he thought the portrait was deliberate: "It's an incredibly distasteful wink in front of people who have sacrificed so much," Ross said.
As distasteful as many people find unapologetic advocacy for public policies that favor white people, the truth of the matter is that immigration laws have been among the longest-standing and most strongly defended cornerstones of our government.
But he never resolved the core vulnerabilities at the heart of his campaign: a record of cutting deals with New Jersey Democrats that conservatives found distasteful, and the perception that a legal cloud hung over his administration in Trenton.
" She continued, "Milo has every right to say what he wants to say, however distasteful I and many others find it to be... [but] I'm not interested in doing business with a publisher willing to grant him that privilege.
In the meantime, for those of us not on the Cabin route, the same distasteful choice persists, between a plane, train and automobile that might offer the shortest travel time or the lowest cost but definitely no California dreaming.
The film has enjoyed enduring acclaim from critics, as has Bertolucci's other work, dredging up the old question of whether one can enjoy a film if we know the artist behind it has done distasteful or even abhorrent things.
Save one or two particularly distasteful lyrical moments — the infamous Taylor Swift line on "Famous," the spiteful jab at an ex on "30 Hours" — the most memorable moments on The Life of Pablo are supplied by its guest stars.
Kripke (along with fellow producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg) grasps that this could be unbearable if not handled just so, and he's smart about alleviating the crasser, more distasteful elements with moments of connection among the vigilante team.
A fair amount of this episode is spent on the people around the Commander finding what he's doing vaguely distasteful, and finally, Nick just outright tells the Commander's superior that he thinks something is rotten in the Waterford household.
NRA leadership thought its own TV channel was airing 'distasteful and racist' contentDemocratic primary voters think only three candidates could beat TrumpBernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon
When the highly popular governor said that both parties in Washington share responsibility for the failures that make politics in Washington so distasteful to so many Americans today, she was speaking an obvious truth that is told too rarely.
Sometimes "The Money Cult" reads like something straight out of the 1920s, when the Young Intellectuals who invented an American literary canon (Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford, et al.) made Puritanism a metaphor for everything distasteful about American culture.
Some might suggest unilaterally going big in the other direction — accommodating Kim with a peace treaty, meeting him, formally conceding nuclear status, perhaps less robust and less hostile — but that should be equally distasteful to us and our friends.
Afghan blood sports of many kinds take place unchecked, despite the opposition of mullahs who denounce them as sinful, and growing criticism from an educated younger generation that finds them the distasteful domain of warlords and their armed followers.
Ms. McGrath, so far, has not run attack ads against Mr. Barr, an approach that makes this contest a laboratory to test the long-held proposition that while voters find negative ads distasteful, candidates use them because they work.
For Democrats like 41-year-old Kelly — a clean-cut Irishman and University of Notre Dame alum who's prosecuted corruption on both sides of the aisle and sat on the school board — entering national politics is no longer distasteful.
Reddit users responding to the company's blog post on the topic have already flooded the comment section with fears about the site devolving into a distasteful combination of Twitter and Facebook, overrun with viral news farms or advertising-in-disguise.
Then, wielding both the sarcasm and the toxic sexism that were his act's trademarks, he promised to appoint a winner based on criteria equal parts extraneous and distasteful: Which developers did a better job drawing their competition's leading man in drag.
Nevertheless, its most admirable qualities have increasingly been overshadowed by its more distasteful ones -- not merely in demonstrating just how brutal humanity can be, but by toying with its audience, dangling plot twists the way somebody plays with a kitten.
"The Asian male figure was conjured as an Other who is threatening and dangerous at worst, and distasteful and dismissible at best," said L.S. Kim, an associate professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz, of that era.
In October, when the justices heard Gill v Whitford, a 14th Amendment equal-protection challenge to a gerrymander engineered by Wisconsin Republicans to hurt Democrats running for the state legislature, even Justice Samuel Alito admitted that highly skewed districts are "distasteful".
Negan, being the clever strategist he is, doesn't want to waste any lives, as he's explained in the past how distasteful he finds unnecessary killing when it's much more resource-efficient to keep people in line and producing for the Saviors.
The fascinating (and disheartening) thing about a film like Chuck & Larry is that it wants to exist in the space between what's tasteful and distasteful, good and bad; it wants to promote tolerance while retaining the ability to make intolerant jokes.
This is pretty par for the course for a Marilyn Manson show, but it's also possibly terrifying if you happen to be an audience member, not to mention distasteful considering the scale of the shooting that had happened so recently.
Source: Reuters/ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data), accurate to July 9 Beyond that, though, a variety of critics contend that South Sudan's relationships with US power brokers are the latest, distasteful instance of a cash-for-influence in Washington.
"Guardians" blasts off with an initial burst of good-natured energy before indulging in some ill-advised sequences, foremost among them a slow-motion fight scene that cavalierly notches a distasteful body count, even in this over-the-top setting.
On the one hand, there's no specific community of people who would hear this joke and think, "Well, that seems distasteful," but on the other hand, it provokes a sort of viscerally negative reaction in every single person with ears.
The video went viral, earning 23 million views as culture vultures relished in Culkin's rare embrace of the character which defined his childhood, led anonymous internet people to make hoaxes about his death, and caused other distasteful byproducts of childhood celebrity.
" Judge Yeakel acknowledged that "the evidence before the court is graphic and distasteful," but concluded: "This evidence is germane only to the state's interest in the dignity of fetal life and is weighed on the state's side of the scale.
He might find some of her positions too centrist, and her coziness with the financial elites distasteful, but he knew and I knew that the alternative was a person who would put the very future of the country in peril.
Men have sometimes been prone to disbelieve victims' stories, and one of the most distasteful aspects of the Harvey Weinstein scandal was a rush to refocus blame by questioning why female victims didn't speak up earlier or go to the police.
To some Talladega alumni, the possibility that policies long opposed by African-Americans could now be enacted by a Republican-dominated Congress and executive branch was what made the notion of a black band marching for Mr. Trump seem so distasteful.
And citizenship for those who reside here must be a stand-alone cause, unencumbered by compromises that are not only distasteful but also politically ineffectual — and that today would provoke opposition from the nativist right and the grass-roots left.
The underlying question is whether Mr. Assange is too reckless, undiscerning, unprincipled and morally damaged to merit defending for his work in getting hugely significant information to the public, via some of the same news media that now find him distasteful.
On the other hand, I was startled and disturbed to see Walter Jacobi's distasteful 1942 book Golem, a flagrant anti-Semitic propaganda text concerning a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory within the Czech Jewry, issued during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Bringing the lens down to startups, I think that when a startup hits the rocks or turns out to be a stupid idea or to fail or whatever, there's actually, to me, a distasteful glee that people take in that.
To mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, the CIA Monday "live tweeted" the special forces raid on the al-Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan in a move that was slammed on social media as "inappropriate" and "distasteful".
Here's our exclusive (and very fake) early preview of their promo site copy, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like this one for Spectacles: Facebook's exclusive eyewear conveniently edits out the parts of the world that you'd find distasteful or unpleasant to look at.
Online, sandwiched between the legitimate anguish people felt at this pair of losses and the anecdotes about chance encounters with Bourdain and Spade, Newsweek created a number of distasteful headlines to blare those answers, optimized not for humanity but for search engines.
So, instead of fasting for 24 hours before a colonoscopy and having to drink a salty, distasteful liquid, patients could start their pre-colonoscopy process with eating the bars and a beverage for lunch and dinner, and then a smoothie for the morning.
If you're looking to boost your social media presence on Twitter or LinkedIn, Buffer could be a great tool to use, but also, by planning out posts ahead of time, it eliminates the possibility that you might share something awkward or distasteful.
What's distasteful is that Trump has won the allegiance of coal communities by reinforcing and amplifying the lie they have been told by right-wing media and politicians for years: that Obama is responsible for the coal industry's (and their) recent woes.
Despite the multiple levels of approval required at some of these companies — many of which are large, publicly traded enterprises — items that shoppers perceived as sexist, racist or otherwise distasteful still managed to find their way through the pipeline and onto shelves.
The state of play: "Gerrymandering is distasteful ... but if we're going to impose a standard on the courts it's going to have to be manageable," conservative Justice Samuel A. Alito said during oral arguments last month according to the New York Times.
"Gerrymandering is distasteful," Justice Samuel Alito conceded, "but if we are going to impose a standard on the courts, it has to be something that's manageable, and it has to be something that's sufficiently concrete" for the public to comprehend, he said.
We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues.
EISENBERG The way I think about it is, if I'm writing the part and I'm playing the part, I can make the part as distasteful on the page as possible, and then every other ounce of me will try to humanize it.
Add into the mix myriad thinkpieces and public figures noting it's immoral or distasteful to try and make entertainment out of things that are actually awful, and it's clear that it's one thing to read about a scandal—but it's another to watch.
We have to be open to the possibility, however distasteful, that our goals are ultimately best served by allowing Assad's regime to remain in place for now and focusing on a negotiated peace deal that his regime and its foreign backers can accept.
On Tuesday, Mr. Nelson vaunted Mr. Rosselló's support and slammed the Trump administration's Maria response, referring to the day when Mr. Trump tossed paper towels to storm victims, a gesture that many Puerto Ricans found distasteful in the wake of the disaster.
Wojcicki's letter comes after months of criticism about distasteful videos and comments that appeared on the site, including a high-profile dispute between Vox journalist Carlos Maza and conservative YouTube host Steven Crowder, who had targeted Maza with racist and homophobic slurs.
While Americans have long accepted most forms of speech, even the distasteful kind, they have been less tolerant when that speech is widely distributed, he said, noting that broadcasters are subject to regulations on what they can and can't say or show.
He clearly hopes that liberal voters will ignore the distasteful things he's accused of saying because they think his giant pocketbook, which he's opened for gun control and climate change since leaving office as mayor of New York, can help him defeat Trump.
"The City must act in accordance with the law, even if doing so is distasteful to members of the community who disagree with the views espoused by the 'Unite the Right' organizers," the organizations said in a joint letter citing First Amendment concerns.
If the term "Disney princess" evokes, for a certain kind of parent, a distasteful ethos of sparkly dresses, impossible wasp-waists and fables of princely rescue, then "Frozen," which centers on not one but two princesses, seemed, sight unseen, to be doubly odious.
As distasteful as it was to some observers -- and however often it was pointed out in bad faith by critics of the peace process -- rapprochement and the chance of ending war in Korea was simply more important than the death of one man.
He continued, he said, to support the essential movement toward sexual equilibrium that was upending the old order, and the world appeared willing to let him do it — few people seeming to demand that his distasteful persistence leave him expelled from public life.
While our universe's Thanos gamemode is almost comically distasteful in an MCU context, it's possible that a more cathartic mode — for instance, where players could work together to exact some sort of fantastical revenge on the universe's greatest villain — could exist at some point.
If a country like Israel wants to allow in only Jews, and a country like Poland agrees to absorb Middle Eastern refugees on condition that they are Christians, this may seem distasteful, but it is perfectly within the rights of the Israeli or Polish voters.
"In the presence of many of us, the professor went to the extent of drawing an extremely distasteful analogy as to why the student should not wear shorts and said, "We all know why parents marry their children off - so that they can have sex.
In their way stand 650 exhibitors, a cacophony of booth distractions ranging from delightful to distasteful, buzzwords assaulting their eyes in hundred-point font offering a cure for the latest and most vicious threats – threats that are more likely fantasy than reality for most attendees.
Charles Schwab execs gave a 4-1/2-hour business update, and Rebecca Ungarino broke out they key takeaways, including how the discount broker is prepping for its planned mega-buy of TD Ameritrade, and why it's making "distasteful" cash offers to win clients.
"27 years ago I wrote a tawdry book depicting consensual events in 1973-45 years ago-I've deeply regretted its distasteful & disrespectful tone & have refrained from speaking about it-I'm embarrassed & profoundly sorry to those mentioned-I have & again apologize to anyone offended," Rivera tweeted.
Trump's threat in a tweet provoked a response from California lawmakers, who in discussions on the floor of the state senate called it distasteful and an abuse of power, marking the latest clash between the Republican president and officials in the Democratic-majority state.
"To have the man at the helm of the most powerful nation of the world tweeting and threatening the University of California and talking about withholding funds, that's unique and I find that very distasteful," said Senate leader Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat.
Canada Goose, known for its cold-weather, fur-lined parkas, ventured into raincoats and light-weight jackets a few years ago to cater to its customers' seasonal needs and to move away from fur, which has increasingly become distasteful and is even banned in California.
"I understand there's hard feelings if you weren't picked for the team or whatever, but the comments are, I think, as a team guy and as a guy that stands by my teammates win, lose or draw, it's a little distasteful," Backes said Wednesday.
Yet I would say that while I have heard distasteful boasting and crude talk about the attributes of a recent date or a new girlfriend — wives never seem to come up — I've never heard anything that could be described as an assault, or any crime.
As the Supreme Court has ruled, we can and should ban speech that leads to "imminent lawless action" but when dealing with opinion speech, even flaky and distasteful opinions, we should be very careful not to exceed the limits set down by the highest court.
Russian President Vladimir Putin likely hopes to diminish America's power and influence in the world by cracking the country's unity, making it ungovernable, and turning it into a distasteful spectacle to other countries that might be looking for systems to emulate or allies to befriend.
But Trump broached the topic in a most distasteful way, one that is familiar to nationalist demagogues around the world, exploiting the tragic story of two families whose daughters he said were killed by gang members who he said were in the United States illegally.
Trump is signaling his intention to rewrite the political map by pushing a policy that -- however distasteful it seems to Wall Street or costly for consumers -- will be popular with a narrow slice of voters he needs in order to get a second term.
Axe's claim that he's never lied to Lara in 15 years doesn't scan as entirely true, but it's not as if Lara ever found his line of work distasteful or ever questioned whether their family deserved the stacks of $10,000 bricks lining its coffers.
"There is a tendency I think for the whole nature of the political polarization to become so distasteful that there's a large number of people who are just stepping back from it altogether and just sort of don't want to choose a side," Dixon said.
These most recent sentiments expressed by the president, however, are so universally unacceptable and distasteful, and it was handled so poorly and unapologetically, that many brands had to flee, and the council disbanded to save the others from having to make the same decision.
But once it comes down to Clinton or Trump, a lot of rich people are going to look at Trump's distasteful statements, hate-mongering, shady career, and questionable foreign policy and decide that what they really want in life is to pay less in taxes.
It would have been easy to, for example, acknowledge that his remarks about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado's weight gain were offensive and distasteful, say he's gained perspective and humility from his bigger responsibilities as a politician rather than a pageant owner, and apologize.
More recently, those in the community who find Epic's strategy distasteful have been claiming Epic is using its store to spy on users because of its connection to the Chinese government — Epic received a substantial investment from the state-controlled tech giant Tencent back in 2013.
"As Women MPs of all political persuasions, we wanted to express our solidarity with you in taking a stand against the often distasteful and misleading nature of the stories printed in a number of our national newspapers concerning you, your character and your family," the letter states.
President Donald Trump and Republicans seeking to hold onto their Senate majority for years have rallied their evangelical base -- including those who might find Trump's personal behavior distasteful -- around the promise of a right-leaning court that could lock in conservative victories for years to come.
In 2016 Theresa May, his British counterpart, rallied her party by attacking "citizens of nowhere" who "find your patriotism distasteful, your concerns about immigration parochial, your views about crime illiberal, your attachment to your job security inconvenient" in a speech that could have come from UKIP.
And the racism of polite, cultured people is a gateway drug to the racism that's more visibly distasteful: By co-opting the FN's ideas to try to poach its voters (or indeed to reflect their own opinions more closely), mainstream politicians have lent the party legitimacy.
Even though it seemed distasteful to many viewers for Trump to trot these alleged victims out as props for the debate, sitting them in the front row as heartbreaking reminders of the evil that men can do to women, at least it kept them in the discussion.
Canada Goose, known for its cold-weather, fur-trimmed parkas, ventured into raincoats, light-weight jackets and knitwear a few years ago to cater to its customers' seasonal needs and to move away from fur, which has increasingly become distasteful and is even banned in California.
Last summer, the idea of being Donald Trump's running mate was so fraught and distasteful that Trump was forced to choose from a shortlist of Republican Party mediocrities, has-beens, and hangers-on—including ethical basket-cases like Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Read more: Here are all the Republican lawmakers who supported or refused to condemn Trump comparing impeachment to lynchingThis is because even if Republican members of Congress find Trump's conduct distasteful, unwise, or worse, Trump still enjoys strong support among his core base of Republican primary supporters.
Frey says that his own view is that Trump won in 2016 for a variety of reasons, including economic difficulties affecting some groups, a distaste for Hillary Clinton and, for some, the idea, floated by Trump, that immigrants and nonwhites were changing the country in distasteful ways.
The exhibition addresses "Marco" as one might use a distasteful pseudonym for an ex-lover, while also specifically referring to Marco Polo, one of the earliest European travelers to explore China, India, and Japan, and an emblem of white supremacy as it relates to East Asian identity.
Their support ran counter to the statements of other influential white evangelical Christian leaders, who said they found Trump's remarks about his treatment of women distasteful and were unsettled by his relative silence on social issues like gay and lesbian rights and access to legal abortion during the campaign.
Her lawyers cited a recent decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court in a suicide case, which held that "speech in support of suicide, however distasteful, is an expression of a viewpoint on a matter of public concern," and that the speech is entitled to protection under the First Amendment.
In his June 1 op-ed ("Kathy Griffin's distasteful act reflects media's war on Trump") for The Hill, Bill O'Reilly chastised the "left wing national media" for desensitizing Americans to the point that they can't tell right from wrong, using the recent Kathy Griffin photo controversy as its basis.
Suetonius, adopting the tone of a very proper, upstanding Roman citizen, criticizes the emperor less for his violence and lewdness, though he finds these deeply distasteful, than for absconding into private debauchery and leaving the wheels of government and the Senate without the motive force of a leader.
" The Deseret News reported that the photo of the boy's costume first gained traction after it was shared to a Facebook group for moms in Weber and Davis Counties, and that the woman who shared it wrote that it was as "ridiculous and distasteful as one could get.
That poor countries could become the saviors to their richer, more pale northern neighbors was somehow treated as a shocking plot twist was distasteful to say the least, but "Fear the Walking Dead" has bypassed that unfortunate political sinkhole by reminding us of the purity of the zombie code.
And while the 2375-year-old—who's also currently under investigation for an alleged rape in Las Vegas—may be a particularly distasteful example, it's just the tip of the international tax-evasion iceberg in modern soccer, which thanks to whistleblowers and investigative journalism is now slowly being revealed.
Their public feud, which featured Democratic claims that the President made a distasteful sexual reference about the New York senator in a tweet, also carries long-term implications and previews some of the arguments that are likely to dominate the early exchanges of Trump's 2020 re-election race.
But some athletes, unaware of the potential damage an ill-judged selfie or distasteful joke could cause, were caught out—like the Swiss footballer sent home after directing a racial slur at the South Korean team, or the Greek triple-jumper banned after racist tweets about African immigrants.
When harassed in the street, I'm silent, other than the occasional "fuck you" I mutter under my breath (thank you, noise-canceling headphones, for limiting the number of times I hear unsolicited comments in the first place); when faced with a distasteful advance one-on-one, I'm still sweet.
Written by Jeanine Cummins, the novel has been the talk of American publishing due to what many have called the book's stereotypical portrait of Mexican immigrants, the author's reshifting of her ethnic background, and a distasteful rollout that included barbed wire centerpieces at a party for the book.
The charge of hypocrisy didn't stick, not so much because it placed its proponents, unwittingly, in the distasteful position of advocating the deportation of someone for a long-ago and common transgression, but because Mr. Trump wasn't just breaking the rules of political conduct: He was destroying them.
The two appeared to patch things up over the following months until Broner made a scene at a local Walmart this last March by throwing change into the air and walking away, a distasteful attempt at flaunting his questionable wealth, akin to when he flushed 20-dollar bills down a toilet.
Fine's leery of making categorical statements about what is and isn't a Kickstarter level project—while she, personally, might find anatomical sex toys distasteful, she recognizes that they appeal to many people—but feels that, at a minimum, all Kickstarter-supported sex toys should be quality products using body-safe materials.
The nation would be saturated and inundated for more than a year by a bitterly divisive and nationally distasteful ordeal of angry debate about impeachment — with little national discourse about great and appealing issues where Democrats would lift the lives of Americans, and are widely supported by majorities of voters.
Together, he and Lipinski offer not only analysis but amusement, brilliant color in an often drably cream-colored field, a lure for those who find the general mien of sports distasteful, as well as proof, as Jim Buzinski of Outsports noted, that sexuality and being different need not be career hindrances.
Produced under Greg Berlanti's factory of CW dramas (which includes "Riverdale"), and loosely inspired by the experience of NFL player Spencer Paysinger, the series deals with some of the more distasteful aspects of the football industrial complex, where money begins flowing into high school, seeking the next potential NFL star.
" Sutton added: "Just like in the Parkland shooting I have to face the facts and treat matters like this legitimately and so when there is a screw-up or when there is an embarrassment like this, I have to be truthful about it as much as I find it distasteful to talk about.
General Robert Neller, the Commandant of the Marine Corps issued a statement: I am not going to comment specifically about an on-going investigation, but I will say this: For anyone to target one of our Marines, online or otherwise, in an inappropriate manner, is distasteful and shows an absence of respect.
It is the easiest thing in the world for the Chinese government to signal to them that, if they want their investments to prosper, they should donate money to certain politicians back home, or even purchase a media outlet that propagates views considered distasteful by the Chinese leadership, to institute friendlier coverage.
This, of course, is the man who tore off his own CGI skin in a music video: he is the master of going over the top but in a kind of distasteful way, that resonates with everyone who has ever fell on their arse dancing to "Toxic" in a pub (NOT me) (me).
As members of the House go about the distasteful work of mapping out a plan to mortgage the country's future, it is vital that conservatives insist that an increase in the debt ceiling be tied in part to expanding a reform of House rules championed by a Democrat over 85033 years ago.
The Senate runoff, with its racially tinged and distasteful comments from Cindy Hyde-Smith about public hangings and voter suppression, and President Trump asking a crowd in Tupelo "How does he (Espy) fit in in Mississippi?" are echoes from another era, one that 40 years ago pushed many of my generation to leave.
"Then there's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan, which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful," LePage said in a radio interview.
It remains unclear how a book about vaginal health runs afoul of Twitter's "inappropriate content" ad categories, a broad, vague classification of prohibited material "that is likely to be seen as" vulgar or distasteful, among other categories, or "adult sexual content," which primarily covers porn, sex work, sex toys, and penis enlargement.
The historian John Milton Cooper, in his classic 1983 joint biography of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, identified them as the archetypes of two breeds of reformer: the warrior (Roosevelt) who reveled in political combat, and the priest (Wilson) who found it vaguely distasteful, like raised voices at a faculty tea.
"Then there's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful," LePage said in a radio interview with Howie Carr.
Since then, however, the meaning and role of the trigger warning has broadened in popular discourse to include prefaces to content that some might find uncomfortable or distasteful—such as a discussion on the history of racism in America—explains Guy Boysan, a psychology professor at McKendree University who has written on this topic.
But then at New York Comic Con in early October, Marvel canceled the show's panel, recognizing that promotion of the show, which features a lot of gun violence, could be seen as distasteful and disrespectful in light of the real-life gun violence that claimed the lives of more than 50 people in Nevada.
"I've never ever heard someone be so aggressive in that view, and also to drag Gabby into it, I thought, was so distasteful and so disgusting," he told the AP. Hernandez was an intern for Giffords at the time of the shooting and was credited with saving her life, according to the Arizona Republic.
"As distasteful as it may seem to some people, there is strong evidence that allowing local communities to sustainably utilize wildlife resources is a proven way to ensure species and habitat conservation — as well as derive important livelihood opportunities to people and ensure the conservation of important indigenous culture," Waller wrote in an email.
The more politically engaged they become, the more they are likely to be required to make the kind of unsatisfying compromises they once decried, to join in the same ugly debates they once found so distasteful, and to reconcile themselves to the slow, even halting pace of democratic decision-making they once found so exasperating.
His ascent in Republican politics came through his willingness to be the face of party prerogatives — fighting against campaign-finance reform during the Clinton and Bush presidencies, impeding a then-popular president's agenda during Obama's — that were distasteful to the general public, his shrugging willingness to play a villain when a villain was required.
The play makes clear how this structure forces increasingly distasteful choices on all the workers, whether deciding to become a mercenary shark to survive; or stealing from the man, as Yusuf does; or taking back your time from the capitalist machinery, as Danilo does; or losing yourself in human interaction, as Isabel chooses to do.
Well, earlier this year she released "The Big Big Beat," a track so good it was impossible to ignore until Banks started spouting out all manner of distasteful opinions on Twitter, culminating in her being kicked off the service (something which, arguably, should happen to everyone if we are to make humanity a more wholesome, positive place).
Some are arguing that the sentiment above is one shared by Walmart—and to a lesser extent The Coca-Cola Company—who are both facing backlash after a Walmart in Panama City Beach, Florida was discovered to have created a distasteful tribute to 9-11 a few days before the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
Yet while the annual gathering is generally characterized by fans enthusiastically interacting with celebrities, a darker side of fandom has been in the headlines of late, reflecting the sort of distasteful minority that can give fans a bad name -- and might eventually prompt some talent to think twice about how much exposure they want to that culture.
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No, neither had been politicians in the classic sense of the word but even if they had dedicated their whole lives to political careers, I would have found it distasteful, to say the least, to turn either funeral into a political event aimed at attacking a living political figure, no matter how much I disagreed with that person.
Putting aside for a minute, the distant and distasteful asterisk of Newt Gingrich's proposed "Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996," as conservative and liberal Americans in California, we wonder: How could social mores in the Philippines descend so low it becomes acceptable – and more than that, praised by the government – for vigilantes to kill over drug crimes?
When these outcasts are deplatformed from the "mainstream" platforms and have nowhere else to go, it's not difficult to surmise that they will take their activity to more covert corners of the web where their words and actions can become more dangerous and nefarious, especially as they find connections with other "distasteful" outcasts who have suffered the same fate.
Meanwhile, Leslie (a brilliant Felicity Huffman) was pushed out of the school and replaced by a new person (Season 1's Benito Martinez), Kevin's family was on the verge of being relocated after his mother's (Regina King) employer read distasteful comments in leaked emails, and Dan's (Timothy Hutton) drug dealing daughter was sent to a detention center.
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Yet in the electoral arena, Mr. Trump's political survival has long depended on his ability to marry the unbending support of his fiercest followers with the ambivalent backing of more traditional right-of-center voters — people who view him as a distasteful character but favor his economic policies, or who preferred him over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In the case of something like this, the challenges are harder because the line, as you can imagine, is sometimes blurry between what clearly might be hate speech versus what might be political speech that we might find distasteful and disagree with, but nonetheless is coming from, you know, candidates that are in elections and the like.
But it was the statement of Iran's then-President Mohammad Khatami that shows how distasteful the White House response to the attacks in Tehran today really was: "My deep sympathy goes out to the American nation, particularly those who have suffered from the attacks and also the families of the victims," Khatami said on Iranian television.
Some employees once vaped in the VICE office, which I found distasteful (it has since been banned on the premises); in college I knew a guy who got an e-cigarette and would insist on using it indoors, constantly, saying it was "just water vapor" and bragging about how he'd taken it on a plane and hadn't been kicked off.
Protest organizers say they plan to stage demonstrations in some 50 cities around the U.K. "We hope that wherever Donald Trump goes, he hears and sees the strength of a British opinion that rejects not just him as a person and however distasteful he is as a person, but the policies and politics that he represents," said Asad Rehman, organizer of UK Protests Against Trump&aposs Visit.
There may not have been collusion in 2016, but Trump is arguing here that what a lot of people would classify as collusion is perfectly OK. Trump has been the victim of dirt That experience, which was clearly distasteful for him and may be at the root of his clear distrust of the FBI, has obviously not had the effect of turning him away from dirt.
" US State Department spokesperson Robert Palladino declined to provide details about Barghouti's case citing confidentiality restrictions, but told reporters at the time that US law does not "authorize the refusal of visas based solely on political statements or views if those statements or views would be lawful in the United States, no matter how distasteful or objectionable some may find those statements or views.
Fraser writes: Indeed, one measure of that equanimity was the ease with which the notion of a "paranoid style in American politics," invented by Hofstader and others, became a kind of smug conventional wisdom ... so then whatever fell outside the framework of the corporate liberal consensus was not only treated as a distasteful form of extremism, but was not even regarded as fully grown-up politics.
Likewise the WTO, NATO, the COP climate talks, the IMF, the World Bank, nuclear test ban treaties and accords on energy, water, maritime law and air traffic all require Britain to tolerate the sort of trade-offs that Eurosceptic souverainistes find distasteful: influence in exchange for irksome standardisation, laws and rules set mostly by foreigners not elected by Britons (regulations that Britain would not apply, or would apply differently, if left to its own devices).
There are a lot of men who say "no" to this system because they see it as immoral or distasteful or unappealing, but it's a lot of ask all young men to reject the system, and so a lot of them do participate, or they participate a little bit, or they participate once or twice, or they jump in with both feet and they play that game as hard as they can.
It happened when he found himself embroiled, and caught out, in something distasteful: doing too much for lobbyists from the gambling industry (he loved to toss $100 chips round a craps table, lucky feather and penny stowed in his pocket); accepting favours and funds from Charles Keating of the savings-and-loan scandal; trading low blows with rivals in his runs for the Republican nomination in 2000 and for the presidency in 2008—and then failing at both.

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