America is badly divided and we are forgetting how to disagree without being disagreeable.
Even the patient Nelson Mandela thought Inkatha a pain and found visits to KwaZulu-Natal disagreeable.
In other words, they have some character flaw or disagreeable trait that bothers you.
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Yet the Ehrlichs, whose own tone is disagreeable, have done little in this book to remedy that defect.
And if we end up disagreeing on something, I promise you we will not be disagreeable about it.
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It was, for the French and Germans, a disagreeable foretaste of the fiercer reactions a real delay might produce.
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The president of the Basque branch of Spain's governing Popular Party, Carlos Iturgaiz, said the announcement was "very disagreeable news".
It's about -- as President-elect Obama noted this week -- Americans learning to agree to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
Russell Muirhead, searching for a new ethic of work, often seems to assume that work is inherently disagreeable and tedious.
And I think -- I think the President hopes that, again, we can have disagreements without disparaging and being disagreeable toward others.
"The finance ministers did not want to see anything disagreeable which they would be forced to deal with, " the 86-year-old Frenchman says.
There are some deals that would undoubtedly be very bad and disagreeable.
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When he rails against foreigners and homosexuals, Mr Nujoma can sound disagreeable.
Obama, who has been close to Wright since law school, has likened him to an "old uncle" who sometimes says disagreeable things.
The life-long bachelor also had a misogynist streak - he found the lawyers and civil servants he knew in Calcutta had "disagreeable wives".
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In part, at least, "success" was achieved by the United States' refusal to be disagreeable, for example, by demanding the withdrawal of Soviet advisers from Iraq.
An assertive woman knows that it takes a strong sense of self to succeed she has to make boundaries and even be disagreeable to be the best boss.
Even the storied Rio Grande, which she and Brian had seen on a disagreeable weekend trip several years ago to Matamoros, was hardly more than a drainage ditch.
The couple will then fly to the French-speaking province of Quebec where a small, radical separatist group has vowed to make their brief stay as disagreeable as possible.
We ought to be able to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
And they know how to disagree without being disagreeable, and there's a sense of civility and a sense that there are moments where you set politics aside to do what's right.
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After reaching her thirties, she suffered a medical event that pretty much pushed over the wall from being strange, difficult and disagreeable to strange and sometimes rapid mood swings and a highly volitile dangerous personality.
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Most are what psychologists call deliberate practice: tedious, disagreeable, often painful training techniques, both physical and mental, that can lead to big gains but which golfers typically avoid during the season because, well, they are having too much fun.
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Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.
By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications.
The foreign ministers looked happy enough when they headed for the links after their epochal meeting in Kuala Lumpur last week, but then that's the ASEAN way: "agreeing to disagree without being disagreeable, " as Malaysian academic Noordin Sopiee likes to put it.
Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country, that we can do without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any professional walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.
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