Literary notes about unpalatable (AI summary)
Literature often employs "unpalatable" to evoke both literal and figurative discomfort and disapproval. The term describes food or drink that fails to please the palate, as seen when wines or meals are characterized as bitter or harsh to taste ([1], [2], [3]), and it also extends to ideas or truths that, though necessary, cause unease or revulsion ([4], [5], [6]). Authors use it to underscore the duality of repulsion—not only does it suggest a physical distaste, but it also conveys the emotional burden of accepting difficult or objectionable realities ([7], [8], [9]).
- The vine flourishes near Yezd, and the wines used by the Parsees are not unpalatable.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - They are usually very large, but extremely tough and unpalatable.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete Historyof the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, andCommerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to thePresent Time by Robert Kerr - Any mush that contains lumps has not been properly made and should not be served in this condition, as it is unpalatable.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences - That its conclusions are so unpleasant and unpalatable is perhaps of secondary importance.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Truth, however unpalatable, or however it may be obscured for a season, must eventually triumph.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward - Truths, he said, were always unpalatable, and he who spoke them very seldom got much thanks; but that did not render them less true.
— from Lord Randolph Churchill by Winston Churchill - The first taste Faust gets of the world is in Auerbach's cellar, and he finds it at once unpalatable.
— from Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana - Joanna need bring in no more cakes for me; they have a sour, bitter taste which is decidedly unpalatable."
— from Divers Women by Pansy - The taste of the age began to find these foreign dishes, if not unpalatable, [68] at least not sufficiently delicate.
— from John Lyly by John Dover Wilson
