Two hours of relentlessly hostile questioning awaited Mr Entwistle who was on the back foot from the start, looking uncomfortable when asked about current sexual harassment complaints in the BBC.
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With former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt writing a forceful essay backing Bush in the International Herald Tribune and even squeamish Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien looking more uncomfortable than ever over his recent anti-US rhetoric, the world once again is looking openly for American leadership.
But many of the objects exhibited are clunky, ungainly, garish, ugly or, stunningly uncomfortable-looking, like Kamsai Yamamoto's (for a "British Design" show, ever so slightly anomalous) knitted-wool stage costume for David Bowie.
For a while now, skinny and narrow has been de rigueur (thanks to Hedi Slimane, formerly of Christian Dior fame), but that has left men with, ahem, wider thighs, bigger bottoms and thicker waists looking, well, uncomfortable at best and rather silly at worst.
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Wearing a splendid pair of high heels and a black wrap dress with cuts and slashes entwined with what looked to an untutored eye to be medical bandages, Dame Vivienne found the large, soft-looking armchair too hard and uncomfortable.
Tobey Maguire, looking ever more costive and uncomfortable, returns as Peter Parker, who finds himself doubly transformed first into the crime-busting arachnid whom we know and revere, second into a black-suited alternative who revels in violence and, for some unknown reason, keeps breaking into dance moves.
All that said, the big message of the results for the first six months of the year is that - although Barclays is in the uncomfortable position of looking for a new chief executive and chairman, because of the damage to its reputation caused by the LIBOR scandal - its profits are holding up better than some rivals around the world.
" Of course, we then mentioned the very aluminum-looking Nokia N9 images and Marko grew uncomfortable, avoiding eye contact, and responded, "we see lots of things online, and you publish them occasionally, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Mel Gibson, who has not taken a leading role not in the movies, anyway for quite some time, returns looking older but no less determined, with an uncomfortable hint of despair.
"From where I was in the first round last week, where I was still looking for a swing and the changes were feeling very uncomfortable, I've done a total about-turn, " he said.
Once you start looking at evolutionary reasons for human behavior, you very quickly run aground on some very uncomfortable ideas.
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