"It's sad that the chapter is so rooted in the unpleasantness, as I used to call it, the recent unpleasantness," Starr said.
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"It's sad that the chapter is so, shall I say, rooted in the unpleasantness, as I used to call it, the recent unpleasantness, that it was so tragic for the country," Starr said.
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Dr. Hamilton is not interested in dwelling on past unpleasantness.
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The unpleasantness of (some) Rick and Morty fans is well-documented.
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Sure, she starts the book by describing grit as persevering through unpleasantness.
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When Mallory left, many of his colleagues were unaware of any unpleasantness.
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Yes, it's unpleasant now, but you're saving yourself from more unpleasantness later.
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That's especially true for vivid critters, which may well be advertising their unpleasantness.
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To get through the very public unpleasantness, Kelly faced the challenge head on.
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In some romantic comedies, the leads' sheer unpleasantness is part of the humor.
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This unpleasantness isn't swept under the rug or converted into something readily digestible.
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When your thoughts return to the unpleasantness of the heat, just notice that.
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He referred to his investigation and the impeachment process as "the unpleasantness," it said.
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And if this current unpleasantness passes, then you probably want to hold some stocks.
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What surprised me, although it probably should not have, was how that unpleasantness arrived.
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But in VR, every one of those segments is a moment of clear unpleasantness.
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It's unhealthy because people do it to avoid facing the unpleasantness of being rejected.
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But now all of the unpleasantness around it just makes me like it more.
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But for the average researcher, an email from someone at Data Colada signaled unpleasantness ahead.
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Superagers are like Marines: They excel at pushing past the temporary unpleasantness of intense effort.
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"I wanted to test the resilience of the social avatar when faced with unpleasantness," continued Lamba.
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That leads to anorexia, that leads to plastic surgery, it leads to all sorts of unpleasantness.
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I have virtually never had any moments of unpleasantness with a student of mine, for example.
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The French state has neglected the Jungle, hoping that its unpleasantness would stop the migrant flow.
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The worst thing about nightmares may be that the unpleasantness doesn't end when you wake up.
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"Usually when you get under-the-hood with something like this, you uncover unpleasantness," he said.
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His path to adulthood was marked with blue-chip resume highlights, but also struggle and unpleasantness.
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Maya's flashes of unpleasantness are some of the most honest parts and relatable parts of the show.
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"That unpleasantness in our psyche signals in our brain that we are insecure and unsafe," explained Cole.
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He pointlessly confronts Eric about what he's been saying, and there's some low-key unpleasantness between them.
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Respondents were, not surprisingly, put off by the unpleasantness that would be involved in collecting stool samples.
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There's a price to pay for the happiness that comes with delighting in the unpleasantness of others.
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On the internet, African-American names are more likely to be surrounded by words that connote unpleasantness.
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Its unpleasantness is something sound editors usually try to avoid, so it became a particular challenge to include.
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You can't avoid breaking your heart over Rimmer's self-loathing and resentment, the engine behind all his unpleasantness.
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Despite the unpleasantness that appeared in Stirrup's mailbox last week, it's still business as usual inside the bar.
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Lean into the messiness, accept your unpleasantness, and refuse to settle for less than you want from life.
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Now that we've gotten that unpleasantness out of the way, we can move on to the fun stuff.
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Even when begging for his life from a child, he somehow manages not to shed his innate unpleasantness.
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Overall — and after a lot of iteration — I'm pretty satisfied with the end result, KNEECAPPING's general unpleasantness notwithstanding.
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Only white people can cordon off Mr. Trump's political meaning, ignore the "unpleasantness" from a position of safety.
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But part of the unpleasantness of how Twitter works is that harassment tends to operate on a continuum.
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"Leave aside the unpleasantness, his genuine empathy for human beings is absolutely clear," Starr said of the former President.
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" On Monday, Hurt chalked up the golf-course unpleasantness to "the erratic behavior [Trump] has exhibited his entire life.
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I spent two years in the Army during the Korean unpleasantness (although I never left the continental United States).
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On the plus side, the campaign's recent unpleasantness has provided a wonderful opportunity to randomly torture irritating Republican officeholders.
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And though unpleasantness may be a condition of drama, in "Peace for Mary Frances" it is also the result.
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So far, the breakup has seemed to be amicable, but now some unpleasantness is leaking out in the tabloids.
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She says she especially wants to provide a corrective to the public unpleasantness being disseminated by bitter Markle relatives.
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That unpleasantness out of the way, the speaker was able to return to the subject of what he would create.
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The surveys and reports about the fraud rates of ICOs and other unpleasantness kept underlining our concerns report after report.
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But there's a good argument that no progress can be made on a difficult front without a bit of unpleasantness.
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Season 5 dragged in a way I don't feel like this year did; its general unpleasantness vastly outpaced its substance.
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For the anonymous Twitter user who wants to develop their social media unpleasantness, the reading options have been sadly limited.
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Sessions invited the GOP senators to the meeting, which was scheduled before the current round of "unpleasantness," according to Cornyn.
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MCS participants, compared with controls, reported greater perceived odour intensities, more unpleasantness from the exposure, and increasing symptoms over time.
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Black Thursday has variously been used to describe days of devastating brush fires, bombings and athletic defeats, among other unpleasantness.
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None of this dismisses the unpleasantness of being criticized by former neighbors or maligned by figures in the Irish establishment.
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If you go public with your "no" this late in the game, you unleash unpleasantness upon yourself from party leaders.
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But the audience squirms more here under unrelenting interpersonal unpleasantness than any violence, with some harrowingly realistic depictions of gaslighting.
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Let's face it: Our car-centric culture has forced much unpleasantness onto our cities, from traffic to parking shortages to pollution.
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It's true that every time I make it I think of the 28 tram, but the unpleasantness is momentary — chocolate heals.
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It's easy enough for the filmmakers to make a case about D'Amato's unpleasantness, but they can't do much about it, either.
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Here, humor and unpleasantness are intertwined, and that leads to laughs — many, many laughs — that are part gleeful and part appalled.
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If you're a public "yes," meanwhile, you might invite unpleasantness from your constituents—without any assurance that the bill will pass.
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Unpleasantness ensued at international sports encounters, with Greek delegations frequently taking umbrage and stomping out when Macedonian teams were not labeled FYROM.
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"Careful..." SNL gave us the perfect sketch to deal with a minefield of unpleasantness following allegations of sexual misconduct against Aziz Ansari.
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Still, as the song that opens the show reminds us, there's nothing like a "long-handled whisky bottle" to blur any unpleasantness.
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And if a writer is enraptured enough to go that route, what to do when there's lots of personal unpleasantness to address?
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It's been a contentious primary, and online it's often felt toxic, but talking to people at their homes, that unpleasantness melted away.
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Hiro's reflexive unpleasantness is gradually unpeeled to reveal how the trauma of her childhood has turned her idea of relationships into transactions.
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The big question is, will you watch this near-certain slaughter, or will you avert your gaze and try to ignore the unpleasantness?
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Why not just skip all the unpleasantness [of hiding] and cut to the chase so you can start having more fun right away?
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Chronic pain sufferers who took guided tours of art museums felt less discomfort and unpleasantness related to their pain shortly afterward, researchers found.
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Eric Greitens, a Republican, is a 43-year-old up-and-comer who was rumored to nurture presidential aspirations until the recent unpleasantness.
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We only have to survive 19 more days until the unpleasantness of the 2016 presidential election turns into the whining about whoever we elect.
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Rarely depicted with any sort of nuance or insight, the condition of being poor is often treated as a disease-of-the-week unpleasantness.
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WANTED To use Britain as a patsy/battering ram for all the unpleasantness the Danes don't want to throw their own moral weight into.
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This is not the canyon's fault but mine; as a guest here and a paying customer, I am the direct cause of its unpleasantness.
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Apropos the sublime, there's possible unpleasantness galore about Serra's sculpture: gross materiality, bombastic scale, and perhaps the all-time aesthetic quintessence of passive aggression.
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Indeed, these did seem to be comfortable shorts to run in, as the soft material didn't give way to chafing or any other unpleasantness.
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This is coming from a man who described the sexual assault at Baylor as "interpersonal violence" and "unpleasantness"—words he used during the Tribune interview.
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As psychologists have long known, sounds that reach our ears provoke at least a weak valence — an emotional reaction to their intrinsic attractiveness or unpleasantness.
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""Yeah, I know that I don't have an 'allergy' but milk, certain cheeses and cucumbers will result in hours of painful cramps, vomiting and other unpleasantness.
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"The Reform Party will acknowledge that the party was taken over by the far right in 2000," reads a recent press release explaining all that unpleasantness.
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Overall, 57 percent of participants reported pain relief after the tour, and most of them reported feeling less unpleasantness due to pain when it was over.
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The whir of activity comes not from conditions in the world but from the ceaseless mechanism by which unpleasantness can be laundered and made fathomable, even manageable.
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Since then, we've watched our favorite characters (and a whole lot of expendable randos) compete valiantly or end up stabbed, shot, frozen, and burned in the ensuing unpleasantness.
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The sharp, flat back of the S6 edge has lost its unpleasantness and has been replaced with lightly curved edges that feels exceptionally more comfortable in your hand.
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In a finding from other work by Ms. Whillans, outsourcing unpleasant tasks may also cause some people to feel guilty, because they're transferring the unpleasantness to someone else.
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For many people (myself included) it's a far worse experience than seeing the movie in regular 2D, so now you've paid extra money for two hours of unpleasantness.
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Chike Eleazu, jogging in Central Park over the weekend, said he associated snow with "a lot of unpleasantness," but worried about global warming when it did not come.
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Moreover, time would work in the House's favor here: The unpleasantness of being in custody while the issue was being litigated might make some contemnors decide to cooperate.
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It has gone to the place where we keep Billy's racism and Max's domestic abuse, the Stranger Things Upside Down where unpleasantness goes to sit quietly in the shadows.
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" WHAT OUR CRITIC SAID It's an "intimate, carefully tended new musical" that "proceeds in a melancholy, tuneful and slightly hesitant trickle that seems to be apologizing for any unpleasantness.
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Perhaps all of this unpleasantness could have been avoided if John Podesta turned on two-factor authentication, which is among the most basic security advice we could possibly offer.
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The owner, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions, said the phone calls had been heeded because the venue "did not want any unpleasantness".
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Moser's anecdotes of the unpleasantness that she allowed herself as she grew older ring true, but recede in significance when viewed against the vast canvas of her lived experience.
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Still, Mr. Cuomo seemed to want to glide past such unpleasantness on Sunday, saying that "all Democrats are not the same," and thanking the legislative leaders for their hard work.
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In the past year, social networks and search engines have been blamed for undermining the news media, fostering echo chambers, and spreading misinformation, hate, misogyny and other general social unpleasantness.
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The engine of unpleasantness that drives "Rainbow Time" is a sex-crazed, 40-year-old virgin who answers to the nickname Shonzi (played by the writer and director, Linas Phillips).
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I'd follow any religion built around Pooh aphorisms Christopher Robin advocates for the power and necessity of playfulness in the face a social climate that demands good citizens face unrelenting unpleasantness.
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The filmmakers (the script is by John Kare Raake and Harald Rosenlow Eeg) cook up the sort of unpleasantness that turns the better disaster pictures, like this one, into nail-biters.
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Unfortunately, what should've been an otherwise forgettable breakfast turned into a failed drug test, a call to Child Protective Services, and two months of drug counseling, home visits, and all-around unpleasantness.
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And though the unpleasantness in Washington is wafting its way across the country, intensifying divisions on the right and left, not every political event is a roiling cesspit of fear and acrimony.
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I think she'll make it until near the end of the season (and her sheer unpleasantness will mean she puts up a surprisingly good fight), but in the end her death seems inevitable.
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By nature, an absurdist, anarchistic approach to creativity in the face of unceasing unpleasantness, it shouldn't be surprising that the Dadaists went on to influence the alternative comedy scene of the mid 1980s.
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The women answered six questions each day, mainly by text message, including reporting their current level of pain, their highest pain level in the prior 24 hours, and the "unpleasantness" of the pain.
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What had once been described as a badge of ignominy that could put a company out of business was now just a bit of unpleasantness: a passing hassle, like a parking ticket. ♦
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Chike Eleazu, jogging in Central Park, said he grew up with tropical weather and associates New York snow with "a lot of unpleasantness," but worries about global warming when it does not come.
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Whatever fleeting pleasure you have in someone applying a laudatory adjective to your book is totally washed away by the unpleasantness of remembering the negative things for the rest of your life verbatim.
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""Employee turnover is pretty high and most leave the job within a year but I don't think it has so much to do with the unpleasantness of the videos; it's more the schedules.
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Sweat-wicking underwear not only prevents that unpleasantness, but they're also an easy garment to wash in a sink and dry on a clothesline if your camping trip will be a long one.
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"The unpleasantness for me usually had more to do with the surfaces we have sex on, or the temperature of the room, or who is looking over my shoulder with a camera," Zeischegg says.
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I was very frightened when I had to publicly come forward, and I experienced a lot of unpleasantness in those months after, which to varying degrees has persisted and has come back in waves.
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On September 7th Mr Peña tried to put the unpleasantness behind him by accepting the resignation of the finance minister, Luis Videgaray, his most important deputy, who had hopes of becoming president in 2018.
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If any mucous membranes or open wounds come into contact with that bacteria—or if people who touch it fail to wash their hands before eating—it could cause bloody diarrhea and other unpleasantness.
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There was conspicuously no mention in the Saudi news media of the unpleasantness of the earlier trip by Mr. Hariri, the leader of Lebanon's main Sunni Muslim political coalition and a longtime Saudi ally.
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The hour is dusky and tense, and we are bracing ourselves for unpleasantness, or for something worse, when Roy picks up the boy—who, instead of struggling, puts his arms gently around Roy's neck.
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And third, it does seem like Flake and Corker, and perhaps other Republicans, did face the unpleasantness of having large sums of money thrown at them by the Mercers and other Bannon-affiliated donors.
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"Indeed, we think the recent unpleasantness represents the readjustment in the anticipated angle of ascent in share prices over the coming year, due to increasingly challenging year-on-year GDP and EPS comparisons," he wrote.
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Obviously he's been through a lot of unpleasantness on the way, but all we're saying is that there must be some wider purpose to those long, cold scenes of him traipsing through the barren North.
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In addition to human tempers, a Mars and Saturn meetup (with Mercury Rx in the mix) creates a state of general unpleasantness: traffic snarls, court summons, app crashes, looming deadlines, insecurity, and fears of failure.
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Some third-quarter unpleasantness erupted between Thompson and Boston's Marcus Smart, whose fiery play kept his team somewhat alive — his flying slam on a rebound with 2.8 seconds left in the third igniting the crowd.
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These findings are consistent with those of previous research that has shown parts of the brain, those tasked with processing critical thinking and reasoning, literally going dark to avoid the unpleasantness of discommoding political information.
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Chemicals squirting through my brain ramp up the associated feelings of unpleasantness, while other chemicals compensate by inducing hallucinations of desirable activities, such as vibrations I might emit to Jessica to make her like me.
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So, why on Earth would a company decide to elevate the perceived unpleasantness of safe sex by pairing it with one of the rankest, most foul-smelling foods that the natural world has to offer?
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Disaster, in other words, is for other people: "It would soon be resolved," Nathan thinks; "once they had all recovered from this unpleasantness," James tells himself, as he plans briskly for a more orderly future.
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And it's here where the movie gets a little mean, because doing this requires glossing over a whole bunch of unpleasantness that Fogelman's vision simply doesn't have space for, other than as something to overcome.
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Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and celebrity attorney, banged a hard right turn from establishment Democratic Party politics toward Trumpian apologia late in 2017, for reasons that seem to boil down to his own personal unpleasantness.
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So let us return to airline baggage fees, the general unpleasantness of the rental car industry, banks that use scare tactics to try to keep you from using new apps, and price transparency in college shopping.
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Already stomaching the poison pill of watching his son Steph take a Game 7 loss after leading the NBA Finals 3-1 on Father's Day, Dell Curry was treated to some additional unpleasantness by a Cavaliers fan.
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Other potential unpleasantness may loom should President Bolsonaro of Brazil encounter President Emmanuel Macron of France, who exchanged mutual insults last month via social media over Mr. Bolsonaro's handling of fires and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
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Other potential unpleasantness may loom should President Bolsonaro of Brazil encounter President Emmanuel Macron of France, who exchanged mutual insults last month via social media over Mr. Bolsonaro's handling of fires and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
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Both play ingeniously against type, but while she is an anti-princess from the start — with some of the thrilling unpleasantness that galvanized "Rachel Getting Married" — he takes his nice-guy persona and turns it inside out.
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"She rejected wholesale the idea of herself as a victim, glossing over unpleasantness so that her experiences were more consistent with those of other internationally renowned artists," said Kirsten Pai Buick, an art history professor and Lewis biographer.
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"Spoke with Belle earlier and she is pragmatic about this unpleasantness and determined to take forward steps continuing in the work instead of drawing interest to this kind of blind-sightedness," another internal Apple message revealed in court reads.
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This general unpleasantness has resulted in occasional lapses in judgment that lead to piss-poor optics; for instance, his disastrously unfunny criticism of a traditional South Indian breakfast, which he somehow saw fit to liken to prison food. Haha!
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The makers of these programs often prepare you for some unpleasantness, of course: Since you're cleansing your body of all the "toxic" substances you previously absorbed, they say, you'll feel the nasty effects of those "impurities" leaving your system.
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He was asked about some recent unpleasantness that had led him to appear on the wrong side of the "v." on a criminal complaint this month, with "The People of the State of New York" on the other side.
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Thing is, having invited the hate-filled voices in, and allowed so many trolls to feel privileged to speak out, Twitter is faced with a philosophical U-turn in extricating its product from the unpleasantness its platform has become synonymous with.
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Far from fetishizing the unpleasantness of the characters' experiences, Pose focuses on the communities and relationships that make it possible for the crew to band together and love one another as the world expresses its often violent distaste for their lives.
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It mattered more in the past, when mouse movement was detected by a physical ball that would gather dust and all sorts of unpleasantness if not cared for properly — whereas now laser and optical sensors can work on pretty much anything.
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In fact, despite that face that we're only two weeks into the show, and the guys already seem to be more focused on the latter emotion, spending the bulk of their airtime discussing Chad's bad attitude, untrustworthiness and general unpleasantness.
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But the call, according to US officials, was also designed to smooth over any lingering unpleasantness from the March 17 meeting, during which Trump focused intently on Germany's defense spending, even when Merkel sought to move on to other topics.
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If they would wear loose clothes, accustom themselves to breathe softly instead of panting, walk with dignity instead of rolling or waddling, and be unobtrusive in the colors they wear, half of the unpleasantness of too much fat would be avoided.
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" Later, when Bridget's friend brings her to a music festival where they will sleep in a yurt and tells Bridget that they're not camping but "glamping," Bridget responds with, "Calling him 'Gladolf Hitler' wouldn't suddenly make you forget all the unpleasantness.
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We accuse the women of lying, or we say that something happened too long ago for anyone to know or remember the details, or we say that the man appears to be genuinely remorseful so why bring up old unpleasantness?
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Over on Vanderpump Rules, however, the decades-younger employees of Vanderpump's restaurant empire have had three nose jobs, a boob job, and countless Botox done — with all of the blood and bandages, the indignity and unpleasantness, captured by the show's unblinking camera.
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What's most effective about Koike's writing (the lively translation is by Deborah Boliver Boehm) is that she links the beleaguered family's reluctance to accept the direness of their circumstances to a kind of habit of denial, a longstanding determination to push unpleasantness away.
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Voters will get to decide whether they want to be represented by a guy who once worked at the White House or a guy who could not currently get a security clearance to walk in the door, given the current indictment unpleasantness.
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At the end of the little unpleasantness that ensued, General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington and Americans were free of our pettifogging rapacity and incompetent interference, and able to turn toward the construction of a new polity, founded upon a new Constitution.
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Usually, it's journalists evaluating if the focus remained on athletic achievements and good TV, rather than the surrounding unpleasantness—as if the suffering of thousands and corruption of city officials is simply a regrettable side story, another disposable thread in a quadrennial reality show.
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As noted, some might also be put off by the general unpleasantness of the characters, who seem to care little for the collateral damage that their high-stakes machinations inflict -- a scenario that hasn't made Showtime's "Billions," it should be noted, any less entertaining.
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Mr. Trump has had what people close to him described as a natural affinity for Chief Gallagher, seeing him as a military figure who was caught up in what Mr. Trump sees as the unpleasantness of war, but who had not intended to commit crimes.
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The long egg's use case is pretty clear if you dislodge yourself from the aggressive unpleasantness of its appearance: You can slice evenly sized coins from your boiled egg, rather than the variously sized slabs you'd get from a garden-variety ovular egg. Convenient!
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The only person tweeting anything that is helping me mildly enjoy this legal marathon — and the unpleasantness of looking at a nine-foot-tall projection of various US senators on the wall of a Brooklyn coffee shop — is former villain of MTV's The Hills, Spencer Pratt.
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In the past year, social networks and search engines have been blamed for undermining the news media, fostering echo chambers, and spreading misinformation, hate, misogyny and other general social unpleasantness (YouTube, for example, removed lots of videos of kids gets getting pretend-tortured by their parents).
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Goodyear's story of a broken man and his monument is dramatic, but it skims over the unpleasantness of the destruction of the landscape; the commercialization of "pure" art work; and the energy and resources required to build, allow access to, and maintain art that goes largely unseen.
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There's no escaping the unpleasantness of the dynamic here: Riley is the cool dude who takes things in stride and looks to the future, and Jenai is the weak, emotional albatross hanging around his neck, clinging to the past by endlessly checking her email and crying over old voicemails.
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Popular among churches looking to frighten young people into conversion, A Thief in the Night dramatically portrayed the coming rapture (due any day in 22), a time when all Christians will disappear into heaven and all others will be left behind to face a lot of supernatural unpleasantness.
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But there are also plenty of Americans, including many of the independents and swing voters the Democrats are working so hard to woo in this cycle, who feel queasy about the depths to which public discourse has sunk and are not eager for an arms race of unpleasantness.
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I would remember the unrelenting windy unpleasantness of that first trip to the city often after I moved to it more than a decade later, walking from work past tourists by the hundreds who were similarly underdressed, unable to fathom that there could be inclement weather in California.
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If we accept that at least some anxiety is a part of life, but that your specific problem is with the unpleasantness and persistence of the sensations that follow, another way to find relief is to practice experiencing those same or similar physical sensations, but in a safer, happier context.
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With the threat of the Zika virus growing, we take a look at six of the most common disease-spreading mosquitoes endemic to the U.S. After that bit of unpleasantness, soothe your soul with sounds from "The Great Animal Orchestra," a new exhibition in Paris of soundscapes from the natural world.
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"The BBC has always been a place of quality and dedication — a place where people were proud and happy to work and were even prepared to accept unpleasantness because it was so important for them to work for one of the world's leading and most respected media organizations," the report reads.
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LONDON — Like ex-spouses who have just signed divorce papers but not yet begun the ugly business of dividing their possessions, Britain and the European Union are tiptoeing around each other as the year begins, desperate to keep their dealings civil even as they gird for the unpleasantness to come.
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That little unpleasantness aside, US-Australian relations continue apace, reinforced by robust military exchanges, sales and exercises; mutual support to increase pressure on North Korea; cooperation against ISIS in Iraq and against the Taliban in Afghanistan; and, of course, a united front against China's moves to militarize the South China Sea.
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Certain chemicals squirting through my brain tag this experience as unpleasant, while other chemicals, from a different part of my brain, override this unpleasantness, because past experience has taught me that wiggling my bony protrusions will lead to acquiring paper that I can use to obtain more bird flesh, which I require for life.
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I've also, relatedly, been thinking a lot about #MeToo and the public figures I'm now disinclined to put in my puzzles — this is the sort of thing a constructor thinks about, or should, as the premise of the breakfast test is to avoid unnecessary unpleasantness, and a smart constructor constantly wrestles with what that means.
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But Mr. Strange was not elected in his own right and his appointment carries the odor of the most recent unpleasantness in Alabama's political scene: He was handed the Senate seat while serving as state attorney general by Robert Bentley, then the governor, who not long after resigned in the face of a sex and abuse of power scandal.
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Former 49ers CEO and president Carmen Policy went on the Bay Area sports radio show 95.7 The Game to talk about the Garoppolo conundrum, and perhaps overstepped his bounds a bit: Ah yes, nothing says understanding a team from a city known for its LGBTQ friendliness like comparing a situation in which you have essentially no leverage to the unpleasantness of anal sex.
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It has not been the nastiest time on the Hill — it's hard to get too deep in the mud when you're only at work for several weeks — but there was still plenty of unpleasantness, often led by Mr. Reid, who had taken to the Senate floor to regularly beat on Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and by association, his Republican colleagues.
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In between the horror stories that make headlines, like the tale of the United Airlines passenger who was physically dragged from his seat, there's a whole lot of everyday unpleasantness: being nickel-and-dimed for baggage fees, invasive security procedures and long lines, shrinking seat sizes, and the joyous experience of being reminded how rich you aren't while waiting for first-class passengers to board.
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And it can be unpleasant, but it's not the same kind of unpleasantness when you have somebody with an Ivy League education who is pretending to be fact-based and who will lift out of an article where you're worrying about the rise of fascism a sentence that can make you look like you're supporting fascism, and in context, it's clear that that's not the case, but out of context it looks like the example I gave you at the top of this podcast.
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