Discomfiture

On the rising spate of political motivated bomb attacks in the state, Osagiede said “We wish to express our discomfiture with the recent spate of bombings and other forms of violence recorded in the state recently.

The facial discomfiture will vary, though the transition between mild indigestion and suppressed “Eureka!” will be as subtle as it is sudden.

But what would have stayed in the minds of many viewers was Mr Hawke's discomfiture on the subject of the bugging of Mr Toohey's telephone and the whole security area.

In recent times the discomfiture has been strengthened by wild statements made by the leaders of the Dravidian parties that India should resort to military means to solve the ethnic problem.

He never strays far from the comfort of his discomfiture, but he seems to have had a comedic haemorrhoidectomy.