Sentence examples for distressing speech from inspiring English sources
Mr. Cassidy's lawyers with the federal public defender's office argue that even offensive, emotionally distressing speech is protected by the First Amendment when it is conveyed on a public platform like Twitter.
Through ongoing tears, distressing words come out.
Are the effects of certain forms of speech so distressing and potentially dangerous that we should take steps to curtail them?
Adele Stan transcribes some remarks I made yesterday about communicating progressive economic ideas; as always, it's distressing to see how disjointed my actual speech is, but I think I do get a point across.
"If your speech is so hostile or threatening or distressing to me that I go silent, then my freedom of expression has been impinged upon," said Susan Benesch, adjunct associate professor at American University and director of the Dangerous Speech Project.
I was doing a ski industry tour at the time and had to present a speech about an hour after hearing the distressing news that my grandfather had passed away.
She then says: "You defended Assange!" This is a distressing and inaccurate conflation of my defense of his free speech rights to publish state secrets with what sounds like a defense of sex crime.
Vilém Tauský, one of his pupils, described his encounters with Janáček as somewhat distressing for someone unused to his personality, and noted that Janáček's characteristically staccato speech rhythms were reproduced in some of his operatic characters.
Head-and-neck cancer is a particularly distressing human cancer, because both disease and treatment profoundly interfere with everyday functioning such as eating, breathing, and speech, and may lead to severe disfigurement (Hanna and Sherman, 1999).
And a distressing solipsism..
