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You might like to read those you style “Islamo-extremists” out of Islam, distinguishing them from “good” peaceable Muslims, and indeed they may be discomfortably embarrassing, and threatening, to some of their fellow Muslims.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism: 2007

But though that searching criticism were earliest in declaring this, I think that few of us can have read the poem without being vaguely and discomfortably aware of it.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

For although his subconscious brain was discomfortably alert and voluble, ordered consecutive thought refused to come at his bidding.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

But Lenox, drawing out pipe and tobacco-pouch, as he watched her go, was discomfortably aware that his first attempt at remonstrance had ended in strategic surrender.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

On the other hand; in much of his later work his mannerisms in prose and in verse are discomfortably glaring; the outcome of his unsurpassable literary faculty is often no more than a parade or triumph of the vocables; there were times when his brain appears to have become a mere machine for the production of antitheses and sterile conceits.

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

Castle Weelset was not much of a castle: to an ancient round tower, discomfortably habitable, had been added in the last century a rather large, defensible house.

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

Thus hard bested, and at length reduced to mendicancy, he made his way, so as least discomfortably he might, to Rome, being minded to see whether Titus would remember him: and there, learning that

The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

Anthropological respect is accorded only to the superstitions of darkest Africa, as to those of the Ndembu in Zambia-superstitions that are not discomfortably close to home, and which, for this very reason, present no threat of fantastical transmutation, of bouleversement.

Varieties of Unreligious Experience 2008