But passing up the chance for diplomacy would risk two far more unpleasant options.

Vicious Tradeoff When legislators in Congress and elsewhere wake up to the tradeoff between accountability and choice, they will face unpleasant options.

This [military action against Iran] is, to be sure, a risky, unpleasant and unattractive option.

That did, of course, leave a number of other unpleasant options available-but Jamie knew that as well as I did.

This ruled out one particular range of unpleasant options and was very welcome.

This is, to be sure, a risky, unpleasant and unattractive option.

Without a strong successor to Suharto, many unpleasant options are possible.

That leaves Mr. Clinton only one, unpleasant option: Fight off Mr. Stenholm's misguided challenge.

Morton's Fork, a choice between two equally unpleasant options, is often a false dilemma.

Books Etc's demand gives publishers unpleasant options.