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The right-wing intelligentsia has seemed to see this as a kind of respectable fascism — without all the 20th century unpleasantness with which the term is associated.

That the unpleasantness turns out to be time well spent is a credit to Leigh’s curiosity about miserable jerks and the joy-sucking traps they set for themselves and others.

And that personality, rather than changing from an "old" to a "new" Carter, had to be examined as a set of layers of faith, of action, even of unpleasantnesses.

Those who fall ill can still suffer from the unpleasantness of being acutely sick for weeks.

I’d been impatient with everyone I encountered on the way to the subway, adding some measure of unpleasantness to their mornings.