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These episodes can cause brief public discomfiture with the GOP, but never lasting damage.

“We’ve put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes,” he said, delivering his spiel to dining companions who heard him out with increasingly evident discomfiture.

The House Republican leader was a study in discomfiture.

They’re reveling in what they see as the discomfiture of authorities at the destinations forced to scramble to bring care and services to the passengers.

Yet instilling confidence and solidarity among democracy’s friends — and discomfiture among its foes — has intrinsic value.