The most unpalatable thing of all was that her body still ached for him; still hungered for his possession.

The "ability to wall up the most unpalatable facts about oneself will always elicit my unwilling admiration."

"I think your lord would find me most unpalatable."

President Gorbachev will now be able to push through some of the most unpalatable parts of a programme to take the country into a new era governed by market forces.

This attitude, Lucy noted, was most unpalatable to his brother Harold.

But that effort foundered, and the City Council had no sooner adopted the budget than the Mayor moved to restore some of the most unpalatable cuts.

He defended his support for the Taliban, saying: "We need to be engaging with those people who we find most unpalatable.

We could, of course, use the same ingredients to make a different meal, perhaps adding a few spices and removing the most unpalatable ingredients.

She sighed heavily, her face creased with a worry she was careful never to allow anyone else to see, and faced the most unpalatable conclusion of all.

And that hard fact would be the most unpalatable truth of all for these untutored mammoths, if they ever had to face it.