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' Accuracy' is always focusing on the distasteful aspects of a society, but never the pleasurable ones. – Eleanor Janega	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Europeans have considered the last four years extremely distasteful. They've been bemused by Trump's envoys, like Richard Grenell in Germany, who have turned up and started behaving like Fox News anchors and insulting the country they were supposed to be building relations with. – Tyson Barker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If there isn't anything unbelievably unusual and there's just some distasteful issues -- which there are, no doubt -- I think we move forward, we have an election, and then we take it from there. – Jeff Van Drew	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is a tendency I think for the whole nature of the political polarization to become so distasteful that there's a large number of people who are just stepping back from it altogether and just sort of don't want to choose a side. – Tim Dixon	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't like the word' stealthing.' It sounds like something tricky and distasteful, but kind of like a fad, by calling it nonconsensual condom removal, we make clear what the harm is. – Alexandra Brodsky	Found on CNN 6 years ago
As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers, all the Israelis felt this was very distasteful. – Meir Bulka	Found on CNN 8 years ago
All the Israelis felt this was very distasteful. – Meir Bulka	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community like Phoenix, cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence, and certainly can't be used as a justification to carry out an act of terrorism. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community in Phoenix cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's one of the most difficult, distasteful parts of the job, and I'd rather be spending much more time out there than doing this. – Jersey Gov. Chris Christie	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're creating a group of sort of pseudo citizens who live overseas, but can take advantage of the fact that they are U.S. citizens on paper, there is no question this is a threat to our national interest at worst. At best, it is something very distasteful because it cheapens U.S. citizenship. – Immigration Studies analyst Jessica Vaughan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's been almost a Wild West environment, i think a lot of women find that distasteful, to be in a situation sort of resembling a locker-room. – Hillary Clinton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find. – Pindar	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple. – Charles Lamb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. – William James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago

' Accuracy' is always focusing on the distasteful aspects of a society, but never the pleasurable ones.

– Eleanor Janega

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Europeans have considered the last four years extremely distasteful. They've been bemused by Trump's envoys, like Richard Grenell in Germany, who have turned up and started behaving like Fox News anchors and insulting the country they were supposed to be building relations with.

– Tyson Barker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If there isn't anything unbelievably unusual and there's just some distasteful issues -- which there are, no doubt -- I think we move forward, we have an election, and then we take it from there.

– Jeff Van Drew

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is a tendency I think for the whole nature of the political polarization to become so distasteful that there's a large number of people who are just stepping back from it altogether and just sort of don't want to choose a side.

– Tim Dixon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't like the word' stealthing.' It sounds like something tricky and distasteful, but kind of like a fad, by calling it nonconsensual condom removal, we make clear what the harm is.

– Alexandra Brodsky

Found on CNN
6 years ago

As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers, all the Israelis felt this was very distasteful.

– Meir Bulka

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All the Israelis felt this was very distasteful.

– Meir Bulka

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community like Phoenix, cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence, and certainly can't be used as a justification to carry out an act of terrorism.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community in Phoenix cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's one of the most difficult, distasteful parts of the job, and I'd rather be spending much more time out there than doing this.

– Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We're creating a group of sort of pseudo citizens who live overseas, but can take advantage of the fact that they are U.S. citizens on paper, there is no question this is a threat to our national interest at worst. At best, it is something very distasteful because it cheapens U.S. citizenship.

– Immigration Studies analyst Jessica Vaughan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's been almost a Wild West environment, i think a lot of women find that distasteful, to be in a situation sort of resembling a locker-room.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

– Pindar

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

– Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

– William James

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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