To be sure, tight wages are an unpleasant reminder of growing competition around the globe.

Jones was again left without a command, an unpleasant reminder of his stagnation in Boston from late 1776 until early 1777.

The memory left him oddly sad, as if it were an unpleasant reminder of something forever lost.

When his uncle came back it might be an unpleasant reminder to find the substitute of his former wife still there.

The thought brought an unpleasant reminder of things best forgotten.

Make sure no one else stumbles on any unpleasant reminders of the past.

The church registers, which date from 1787, contain an unpleasant reminder of legal processes of not so very long ago.

Either way it went, I figured they didn't need any unpleasant reminders.

It was an unpleasant reminder of the fact that not all violence was political.

One had a ring in his ear-an unpleasant reminder of Ortega.