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Unpleasant in sentence

458 examples of Unpleasant in a sentence

There would never be a fresh start – with all of the unpleasant consequences that this implies.
It concerns a man, a pleasant quiet individual who walks soundlessly through the Kremlin's corridors, someone who uncomplainingly takes on (and completes) many hard and unpleasant tasks neglected by others who fight noisily for high position.
The unpleasant reality is that today’s Middle East is what it is because its people and leaders have done such a bad job in shaping it.
The UK’s withdrawal from the EU is a hitherto unprecedented move and will no doubt throw up many unpleasant surprises.
Riding the Subway often brings unpleasant surprises, while JFK Airport is hardly a favorite among travelers (and there remains no fast rail link to it).
This France endorses Sarkozy with enthusiasm; others view him as the unpleasant but necessary medicine France needs to cure its malaise.
It is clear that the world is not ready for the unpleasant surprises that climate change will force upon it.
The team was also subjected to shameless verbal bullying by Sri Lankan officials (a deeply unpleasant experience to which I, too, have been subjected).
But while that is unpleasant, it is not disastrous, especially given that the decline in prices is partly a result of a supply – not demand – shock, in the form of very low oil prices.
Private investors are acknowledging the reality that repayments will likely be drawn out, because insisting on existing terms could cause an untenable bunching of debt-service payments, with possibly unpleasant consequences.
How Parasites Pull the StringsLIVERPOOL – Science fiction has long explored the terrifying possibility that we are devoid of free will, and that some unpleasant creature could control our minds or turn us into plodding zombies.
Otherwise, they may find themselves again in the unpleasant business of mitigating financial instability.
Even if the result would have been longer-term stability, the immediate political consequences were too unpleasant.
Robots can do jobs that are highly dangerous or exceedingly unpleasant.
These processes combine to produce the private and unpleasant bodily awareness that we call pain.
My last point is that crises, while unpleasant, are also widely thought to facilitate growth-enhancing reforms.
Ricard could, on request, empathize with others’ pain, but he found it unpleasant and draining; by contrast, he described compassion meditation as “a warm positive state associated with a strong pro-social motivation.”
But theory does not always translate into practice; while the BOJ’s introduction of negative rates almost immediately pushed the interest-rate structure lower, as expected, the policy’s effects on the yen and the stock market have been an unpleasant surprise.
Indeed, on February 10, 2004, he woke up to an unpleasant news story in the Washington Post: ”President Bush’s top economist yesterday said the outsourcing of US service jobs to workers overseas is good for the nation’s economy....Mankiw’s comments come as the president struggles to shore up support in manufacturing states that have lost millions of jobs....Mankiw’s conclusions may prove discordant during an election year...”It happened again on February 11: “Democrats...lit into President Bush’s chief economist yesterday for his laudatory statements on the movement of U.S. jobs abroad....Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.)
The process is so long, and the side effects so unpleasant, that, in the absence of community-based treatment programs, many people with TB stop taking their medicines midway through the regimen.
Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.
Although the major Italian banks were constructed on the same model as the German and Austrian banks whose collapse had ignited the global conflagration, and although the Italian banks were just as insolvent, the press never discussed these unpleasant problems.
Many non-Japanese Asians will dislike most or all of Fujiwara’s message, for they will hear unpleasant historical echoes.
Private credit, moreover, would disappear from the US economic system, confronting the Federal Reserve with an unpleasant choice.
It is very disturbing to take someone’s life, even a murderer’s life, but sometimes highly unpleasant actions are necessary to prevent even worse behavior that takes the lives of innocent victims.
An honest politician, in short, pursues a pragmatism built on principles, on the courage to say unpleasant things, but always with a constructive attitude.
Those concerned should take to heart what American President Barack Obama said in his inaugural speech: “Our time for standing pat, for protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions – that time has surely passed.”
These and many other facts speak to an unpleasant and unusual reality for the United States.
Deposit insurance creates what economists call "moral hazard," people who are insured against an unpleasant event are not as careful as they would otherwise be in trying to avoid that event.
For most people most of the time, work is mostly unpleasant.
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