• Away from the hubs, routine indignities and sweaty discomforts are made worse by the infrequency of connections.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • The suave discomforts of this masochistic minimalism is something that only the superrich can afford.

    WSJ: When the Outrageous Became Mainstream

  • It's an endurance test, an endless stream of delays and discomforts with little resolution in sight.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr Howard is a marvellously effective House of Commons performer who frequently discomforts the bulldozing chancellor, Gordon Brown.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • For all the discomforts, the long hours, and no days off, there is an incentive - extra pay.

    BBC: HMS Triumph: Life on board a Royal Navy submarine

  • Cartoonish images of gender relations have created offense and highlighted persistent discomforts.

    FORBES: Can Duke Fix Its Broken Reputation?

  • People with this disease often have mild abdominal discomforts such as bloating and gas after consumption of breads and cereals that contain gluten.

    CNN: Does eating gluten cause eczema?

  • He makes light of the difficulties, delays and discomforts of voyaging through a part of the world where bureaucrats and bedbugs plague the traveller.

    ECONOMIST: The lost people of Central Asia

  • The drugs also share some potential side effects, namely headache, flushing and gastrointestinal distress, mild discomforts that could nonetheless take the fun out of a lusty romp.

    FORBES: Technology

  • The discomforts and agonies that attend ill-health and old age afford the opportunity and the invitation to participate in the redemptive value of Christ's suffering and death.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Helgeland and the production designer, Richard Hoover, re-create the shabbiness and the discomforts of pre-television baseball before the big money poured in the cruddy, dun-colored dressing rooms and the scrappy fields.

    NEWYORKER: Artful Dodgers

  • Jill Rako is all too familiar with the discomforts of children's hospitals: Her 15-year-old son Daniel, born with spina bifida, the incomplete development of the spinal cord, has logged dozens of surgeries and stays at Nationwide Children's.

    WSJ: Children's Hospitals Make Room for Mom, Dad and Diversions

  • When confronted with evidence which undermines the fashion du jour or your own prejudices simply lift your hand and say " whatever" and you can avoid all the discomforts of the value of truth or objectivity or of being plain wrong.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: From fashion to fortitude: the road to resilience

  • But they soft-pedal such discomforts.

    NEWYORKER: State of the Union

  • Ms Thompson recounts the little that is known about her and, drawing on her own experience, imagines, beyond the perils and discomforts, the attraction that must have existed on both sides, in particular the discretion and forbearance of the Maori whom she herself encountered in her husband's village.

    ECONOMIST: Maori and Europeans

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