And there seems an element of psychological discomfort as well.

"This level of area occupancy can only be sustained for short periods of time without physical and psychological discomfort," he continues.

An area of two square feet or less -the crush rush-hour subway load -"causes physical and psychological discomfort," he said.

"Man can take the physical discomforts a lot better than the psychological discomforts," he said.

The latter plan, he claimed, would have intensified the heat and produced psychological discomfort, a comment he does not elucidate.

It was meant to be comic, and at the same time to cause discomfort, both psychological and physical.

Only years later did she realize how much these drawings expressed the increasing psychological discomfort she felt in the waning years of her marriage.

The unchangeability of an "all-sales-final" purchase can lead to a larger amount of psychological discomfort at the point of the decision.

On these stages people take their overweight as a cosmetic defect rather psychological and physical discomfort.

Schopenhauer draws the conclusion that, if one has enough internal warmth, one can avoid society and its attendant exchange of psychological discomfort.