make uncomfortable
Example Sentences
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The folly of youth and the harsh realities of old age make uncomfortable bedfellows.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
That is likely to make uncomfortable reading for the ECB, which targets price growth of 2%, as it suggests that inflation is increasingly being fuelled by excess demand and is at risk of becoming entrenched.
From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2022
Albert Bonfil, director of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Los Angeles, doesn’t recommend trying to make uncomfortable media more tolerable; “emotional avoidance,” as he describes it, generally isn’t helpful.
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021
But it is also full of tales of denial, extraordinary lapses in leadership and awkward truths that will make uncomfortable reading for many, locally and internationally.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2018
Intolerance, page 59happily, is fading from the world, and with it that useless scrupulosity of behavior, which accomplishes no good, but whose principal result is to make uncomfortable all who come in contact with it.
From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
