How To Use Uncomfortably In A Sentence
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This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
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Meanwhile the enemy, desperate but still confident, poured in a heavy fire from his line and from a battery which enfiladed the Brook road, and made Yellow Tavern an uncomfortably hot place.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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My nose is uncomfortably stuffed up.
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Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
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Claire looked at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably in place.
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And the deadline for submitting the illustrations was getting uncomfortably close.
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While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
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I shifted slightly, uncomfortably; the chair was built for different proportions.
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So really just a bloke sitting uncomfortably on a hill.
Times, Sunday Times
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With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue.
Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
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she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted
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The digital display is uncomfortably faint to read and often gives incorrect readings.
Times, Sunday Times
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These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies.
Your college kid, plus 15
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One of the world's first live concerts by self-taught composers has shed an uncomfortably bright light on the nature of human creativity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine.
Divorce, American Style
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It sits rather uncomfortably between two camps: too childish for most adults, yet too gruesome for most children.
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It's every bit as chaotic and mad as London in its way, with a creaking, uncomfortably, rattly Metro system.
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She was uncomfortably aware of her son's developing sexuality.
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As she uncomfortably lowered herself onto the chair on the guest side of his desk, he pulled a sheaf of parchment tied together with twine from a desk drawer.
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You're kidding," I said, pushing a chocolate-covered nougat to the recesses of my cheek, where it bulged uncomfortably.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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My fluffy white pillow was uncomfortably protuberant and I couldn't sleep all night.
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While most youthful tyros either head across the Atlantic or idle uncomfortably on the benches of domestic clubs, Horne took matters into his own hands to accelerate his learning curve.
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She lowered the knife from my throat, where it pressed uncomfortably close to the jugular.
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His liking for the man made him uncomfortably aware of the similarity in their jobs.
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To explore how you create some of your troubles would bring you uncomfortably close to your unknown inner secrets.
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So they know that they were uncomfortably put in a position of being complicit in a cover-up.
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She tried to pull her hands free but winced as the rope rubbed uncomfortably against her skin.
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Within a few minutes he had lost his rhythm as the mare suddenly stopped short and he started bouncing uncomfortably on the tough leather of the saddle.
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Jessica worked up a sweat dancing so the dress stuck uncomfortably to her.
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For a show ostensibly about the future, it was slightly uncomfortably stuck in the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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The neckline is low but not uncomfortably so for Rena - it displays her curving bosom without revealing too much cleavage.
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The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine.
Divorce, American Style
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Flashes of warmth darted uncomfortably through his chilled limbs and he felt nauseous.
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I shifted uncomfortably on my feet and looked down at the ground.
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It was stuck between two narrow residential streets and rode uncomfortably up to the gutters on each side, so that there was no sidewalk adjacent to the lot.
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He was uncomfortably aware that for all her youth and timidity and biddability, Juliana Wishart was also a person — probably a person with dreams of love and romance and happily-ever-afters.
Unforgiven
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Candy got up uncomfortably from her bus seat, and straightened her ruffled skirt.
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The uncomfortably familiar grind and click of a rampaging computer sounded again, the numbers beginning anew.
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The next thing I knew I was seated - uncomfortably - on the saddle of an exercise bike in a pristinely tidy, white room with a futon and velux windows, a wet sock in my hand.
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As we had seen from our camping-ground, it was an immense undulation that we had to traverse; the ascent on the other side felt uncomfortably warm in the powerful sun, but it was no higher than 300 feet by the aneroid.
The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
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Brant shifted uncomfortably, obviously nervous about the gun still pointed directly at him and he began to lower his hands.
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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But Gwyneth and I are not uncomfortably provided for, and I no longer contribute paragraphs of gossip to the Pimlico Postboy, nor yet do I vaticinate in the columns of the Tipster.
In the Wrong Paradise
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I dozed fitfully and uncomfortably at first and then fell into a deep, heavy sleep.
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Uh, Tasslehoff," Trapspringer interrupted, coughing uncomfortably as Damaris elbowed her way through the crowd to them, "I'd like you to meet your birthmate.
Stalling
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It was a powerful, soul-searching gaze that bore into him uncomfortably.
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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If nothing else, I knew that I would enjoy the spectacle of it uncomfortably squirming through the minefields of its own institutional political correctitude.
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Sandra Oh uncomfortably clears her throat at all of this gooiness.
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Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic.
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I moved about uncomfortably, listening to the thumps on the roof as they loaded up the cargo.
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The belt, like my bearskin necklace which I am wearing somewhat uncomfortably under my shirt, has spiritual value.
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They used to remind me uncomfortably of cattle trucks crowded with suffering humanity.
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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Do this at the Opera House and the bourgeois in the front row would be shifting uncomfortably in their seats I'll wager.
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The digital display is uncomfortably faint to read and often gives incorrect readings.
Times, Sunday Times
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We entered the interview room, which was uncomfortably hot, and painted an even pastel green that still seemed lavatorial.
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A man in good health may put up with any thing; but I would advise every valetudinarian who travels this way, to provide his own chaise, mattrass, and bedlinnen, otherwise he will pass his time very uncomfortably.
Travels through France and Italy
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Cruz gives a stoical performance that brings some tenderness to what is essentially a rather uncomfortably melancholic melodrama.
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The film in general is seriously undermined by its Wes Anderson-style obsession with ostentatious perfection books lined up meticulously in square piles with the camera dollying across as if the atmosphere is more important than the human moment, along with the distracting presence of Haskell Wexler as a bookstore customer and the uncomfortably carnal quid-pro-quo credit of “Executive Producers: George Clooney Steven Soderbergh.”
Wholphin, Eggers and Why I Can’t Believe : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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The film's fetishistic approach to auto racing is uncomfortably like the current NASCAR craze.
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Unfortunately, there are a lot of miscarriages, and infant-maternal mortality is uncomfortably high (certainly higher than one would expect in the American heartland).
Intertribal: people bleed from terrible places, for terrible reasons.
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Joe listened, shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another.
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Premier Guy Mollet, in the center of it all, havered uncomfortably. Once again irresolution was at the helm in France.
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Her comment was uncomfortably close to the truth.
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I was also uncomfortably aware of the fact that Brendan was regarding me with a steady gaze.
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But I did feel a sense of shame, uncomfortably reminded of how we'd treated him -- there's nothing like the death of someone your life has only briefly intersected with to remind you of your mortality and fragility.
Haroon Moghul: Finding Meaning In The Death Of A Teacher
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She continued walking, ignoring her hair plastered to her face, the way her clothes clung uncomfortably to her body.
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He laughed, knowing her admission was an effort to inject some levity back into a situation that had grown uncomfortably serious.
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They just weren't strong enough, and the boats were coming uncomfortably close now.
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Ellen smiled uncomfortably and lowered her gaze.
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He sat uncomfortably in isolation surrounded by empty seats and had to be sneaked away from the ground.
The Sun
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No matter what she did, after about a half hour, she began to be uncomfortably hot.
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Lydia shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
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After her surgery, she is recovering both comfortably and uncomfortably.
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Michael and Jessica were shifting uncomfortably and nervously, unsure of what to do.
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A dieresis denotes the separated pronunciation in English of two uncomfortably adjacent vowels.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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I'm not referring here to fidgeting uncomfortably while an unseasoned actor lurches turgidly through thousands of rhyming couplets.
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Instead, it's uncomfortably present-day in its stark depiction of the machinations of money, wealth and love, all heightened by Davies's refusal to sentimentalize those topics.
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I became uncomfortably aware that no one else was laughing.
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That was Thomas, I realised, looking over the plump, red-faced infant spread out uncomfortably all over my chair.
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The classroom was airless and uncomfortably hot.
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Christine squirmed uncomfortably in her chair.
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He wriggled uncomfortably on the chair.
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These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies.
Your college kid, plus 15
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She gestures to your bags, her American twang uncomfortably loud in the small area.
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Our knowledge of the vessels in use in the prehistoric period is still uncomfortably slight.
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Speculation that the Labour peer might "cohabit" uncomfortably with a Tory foreign secretary appears misplaced and Cameron has privately assured Ashton of his support.
The Guardian World News
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The song uncomfortably recalls the familiar Irish/English pub scene of men cynically complaining about women over their pints.
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They had been going steadily up for half an hour and she was beginning to get uncomfortably hot.
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They came swarming downstream, transports filled with palace servants and slaves and all their accoutrements and paraphernalia, barges laden with oxen and goats and chickens for the kitchens, gilded and gaily painted vessels bearing cargoes of palace furniture and treasure, of nobles and lesser creatures, all uncomfortably jumbled together in a most unseamanlike fashion.
River God
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His vocal performance is powerfully nuanced as he veers from a soft, uncomfortably high croon to a barely contained wail by song's end.
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Confusion and uncertainty fogged Drillian's brain as he shifted uncomfortably, unsure of what to do.
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The train is not full because, due to the delays, it is now past rush hour but the carriage I sit in is uncomfortably hot and stuffy.
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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Women who are taught not to speak up too loudly or too forcefully or too adamantly or too demandingly are not going to shout “NO” at the top of their goddamn lungs just because some guy is getting uncomfortably close.
Thor's Day
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He shifted uncomfortably in his seat when I mentioned money.
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The programme is clear, succinct and uncomfortably vivid.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's surprising then that the it's the Jelly who take to the stage with dark grinding guitars leaving the pill poppers gurning uncomfortably.
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The locked-out crowd had two choices: remain uncomfortably warm in the plaza, or crowd into the box-office area and swelter unbearably.
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You become uncomfortably aware of stasis - standing roadside with your thumb out, waiting in Seattle for a three-hour layover, sleeping in an Alberta hostel.
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The sun had now more-or-less burned away the remains of the sea fret, and it was a very pleasant, not uncomfortably warm afternoon.
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Andrew's slightly parted lips were resting uncomfortably on the back of her neck, his horrid breath and snores now directed quite frankly right at her nose.
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I've already entered the Half Marathon and am musing over my options: I'm not fit enough to complete it comfortably but I reckon I could do it very uncomfortably.
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He awoke to find himself lying uncomfortably on a pile of firewood.
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Summers in this climatic zone are warm, rainy and uncomfortably humid.
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Miriam clasped and unclasped her hands on the table in front of her, uncomfortably aware of her sweaty palms.
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In fact, using its with an apostrophe in its possessive sense sits uncomfortably within the orbit of ‘applied excellence’.
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Bran shifted uncomfortably under the harsh stares, strong team that he was.
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But afterwards Ginny was uncomfortably aware that each time Caroline's eyes roamed about a room, she seemed to be costing everything.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The krone is still uncomfortably weak, testing the central bank's tolerance for movement within its permitted band against the euro.
Denmark Shifts Policy to Keep Euro Peg in Check
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The other man, in nondescript garments that were both of the sea and shore, and that must have been uncomfortably hot, slouched and shambled like an overgrown ape.
Chapter 14
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So really just a bloke sitting uncomfortably on a hill.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was dressed very well, he was turned out, he had presence and manner and she felt a little shambly, but not uncomfortably so, in her denim and old sandals.
Underworld
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It is growing apparent from your vicar's shortening sermons that it is becoming uncomfortably warm weather in which to wear a cassock.
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Kim spun her car around quickly and punched the gas, accelerating hard as she upshifted, turning the wheel onto Mountaindale Road, watching as Belial shifted uncomfortably in the racing seat.
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I became uncomfortably aware that no one else was laughing.
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But an ‘Ivy League’ plus the rest sounds uncomfortably like the old bipartite system of grammar and secondary moderns, and it would need careful handling to avoid creating a political backlash.
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Her hair was in rollers and she had an avocado green clay mask on that was pulling her skin uncomfortably tight.
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Visiting a London art gallery once, she became uncomfortably aware that she was being followed by three men in suits.
Times, Sunday Times
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And so she was committed -- the more helplessly for her dense misintelligence of both sides of the question -- to the policy of conciliating the opposing influences which had so uncomfortably chosen to fight out their case on the field of her poor little existence: theoretically siding with her husband, but surreptitiously, as he well knew, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, who were really defending her own cause.
The Fruit of the Tree
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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That poignancy cannot be recaptured now, and the choreography's mass yearnings and grievings feel uncomfortably religiose.
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She shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
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I asked him, shifting in my seat uncomfortably before playing with the paper band on my wrist.
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Sky Blues fans were uncomfortably quiet on the terraces, clearly punishing their side's recent poor form with a wall of near-silence.
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She became uncomfortably hot and removed clothing without stopping.
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Her comment was uncomfortably close to the truth.
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She was uncomfortably aware of her son's developing sexuality.
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He squirmed uncomfortably in his seat and pushed the speedometer up a little.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Alexander was pushed up against the side of the carriage and bound with hemp rope that chafed uncomfortably against his bare wrists.
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Those who work in deep mines experience this heat flux at uncomfortably close quarters.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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He could feel his voice becoming huskier and his member was becoming uncomfortably hard in his wet jeans.
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Arial shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other.
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Ian shifted on his feet uncomfortably but did not speak.
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But it illustrates yet again the uncomfortably cosy relationship between those in power and those charged with policing them in the nicest possible way.
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I shifted uncomfortably from one foot to another.
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The digital display is uncomfortably faint to read and often gives incorrect readings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The programme is clear, succinct and uncomfortably vivid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who work in deep mines experience this heat flux at uncomfortably close quarters.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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On the other hand, the libertarian socialist critique of consumerism appears surprisingly, if not uncomfortably pertinent.
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They used to remind me uncomfortably of cattle trucks crowded with suffering humanity.
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She was uncomfortably aware of her son's developing sexuality.
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The monkeys cringed and chattered uncomfortably.
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The belt, like my bearskin necklace which I am wearing somewhat uncomfortably under my shirt, has spiritual value.
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When he wrote to King Henry in unhopeful defence of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell, the convoluted sentences and sentiments show, not only a constitutionally timid man struggling to be brave (and all the braver for that), but a man uncomfortably capable of believing himself deceived and of seeing the world in double perspective.
The Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer - Sermon at Service to Commemorate the 450th Anniversary.
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It seems the whole global capitalist edifice lies rather uncomfortably on the shoulders of the humble shopper.
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But it illustrates yet again the uncomfortably cosy relationship between those in power and those charged with policing them in the nicest possible way.
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The suspension bumps and thumps loudly and sometimes uncomfortably.
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Her comment was uncomfortably close to the truth.
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Joe listened, shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another.
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in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial
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I shifted uncomfortably in my position on a plastic covered sofa.
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Springtime is always welcome in Sacramento, but summertime can be uncomfortably hot.
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This mashup is overlaid with political satire that sits so uncomfortably atop the capering that it's almost offensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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He appears to be uncomfortably situated in the difference between Husserl and Heidegger's phenomenology, which heralded ‘the return to the things themselves’.
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In the Cinque Terre, seasoned travellers know to wait for the next train before they say yes to accommodation; some hotels and pensioni are uncomfortably close to the tracks.
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The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.
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He sat uncomfortably in isolation surrounded by empty seats and had to be sneaked away from the ground.
The Sun
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For long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say.
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That would be okay if the character really grabbed you, but this play was uncomfortably reminiscent of having somebody sit down next to you in the metro and tell you their life story.
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The rest of the songs aren't quite absolute parallels, but they sound absolutely and uncomfortably familiar anyway due to their paint-by-numbers chord sequences and well-worn lyrical subject matter about life on the road.
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The very mention of her singing made her squirm uncomfortably.
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She made her way uncomfortably past the piles of luggage to grab her own bags.
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Initially, we first went to sit down at another table but found it uncomfortably hot.
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The once clear demarcation in Dracula between heroine and villainess is made uncomfortably fluid by Stoker's parallel descriptions in these stories.
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It looked as lavish as they usually do and seated you as uncomfortably as they usually do.
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Her skin burned and her heartbeat sped up uncomfortably.
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Boyle's approach to the material is equally dynamic, but the screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce veers uncomfortably between maudlin fantasy, comic whimsy and outright melodrama.
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I looked through the book and in various places read uncomfortably familiar passages.
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The crowd, soon uncomfortably larger, diverted itself by taking oratorical views of his guilt or innocence: but the prevailing opinion of the prisoner personally was expressed by one in an unfastidious proverb: "Grosse crache, grosse canaille.
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making
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The client has wheeled himself uncomfortably close to me, his footless leg dressed in a brightly colored argyle sock.
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The far-fetched, last minute intervention, presumably by the hand of God, that averts tragedy from striking the family sits uncomfortably with the raw realism of the rest of the picture.
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The infrastructure funds are pure income stocks, though some are at uncomfortably high premiums to net assets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Grimms, who were eager to avoid sexual innuendo in their revisions, might have preferred rampion to parsley on account of the herbs 'different popular uses and sought to bury a different story, one uncomfortably close to daily life.
Rapunzel, Parsley & Pregnancy
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And yet this will often have uncomfortably little effect on their ability to demand love, devotion and that sort of thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Uncomfortably close to the douche-y side of the spectrum here on my site, but at my day job when the webinar is happening.
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As Von Trier was crapping his pants, he continued to look over at Kirsten Dunst, who squirmed uncomfortably while Herr Director stumbled on about his respect for the fuhrer, the demon that most people consider the most abhorrent, bloodthirsty fiend of the 20th century.
Michael Seitzman: Lars Von Trier's Real Dogma
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Sometimes the two slide together uncomfortably, with little attempt to differentiate class groupings levels of consciousness or political motivations.
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The very mention of her singing made her squirm uncomfortably.
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She liked the idea of toying with them, giving them time to ponder their failure and her triumph, and to dwell uncomfortably on just what fate she planned for them.
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