Sentence examples for disagreeable ideas from inspiring English sources

Universities are meant to be bastions of open-mindedness and free speech, they say, but are more prone to censoring disagreeable ideas or drowning them out — a practice some have labeled "the heckler's veto".

A figure, which is not justly balanced, is ugly; because it conveys the disagreeable ideas of fall, harm, and pain" (EPM, 245).

It was pointedly apt that the main body of marchers filled Boulevard Voltaire, evoking that patron saint (secular, of course) of free speech, whose famous adage about defending our rights to voice even deeply disagreeable ideas I have had occasion to celebrate, and probe, during my own previous Parisian assignments.

The rebels have made the beer factory in the suburb of Duala their main base, not an entirely disagreeable idea under the circumstances.

A disagreeable thought, but not an inapposite one in 2017.

(E-mails between the two show a  friendly, if disagreeable, exchange of ideas).

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote in the decision that "if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable".

He wrote, "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive and disagreeable..

He wrote, "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive and disagreeable...

In June the Supreme Court released a controversial 5 4 ruling in which it upheld the appeals court decision that desecration of the U.S. flag was constitutionally protected, calling the First Amendment's protection of speech a "bedrock principle" and stating that the government could not prohibit "expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable".

"If there is a bedrock principle underlying the 1st Amendment," the Supreme Court has said, "it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable".