"I'm sorry to keep asking the unpleasant questions, but we still don't know what that thing was on Philosophers' Walk."

Some unpleasant questions are asked and bitter issues raised throughout the drama.

But first I'm going to ask you a very unpleasant question, and I insist on an honest answer.

There are those unpleasant questions of how the prosperous county managed to go bust in the first place.

"If I turn up empty handed, there are going to be lots of unpleasant questions."

This unpleasant question inevitably arose, and ensuing events made the answer seem highly doubtful.

And even the methodical business of getting very drunk so that their meeting could end without unpleasant questions or undue suspicion.

The news raised an unpleasant question in Marcus' mind.

And the sometimes unpleasant questions asked of witnesses would probably be asked at a trial anyway, they said.

"Tell about the cats, please," said Demi, feeling that he had asked an unpleasant question, and sorry for it.