Sentence examples for fear of offence from inspiring English sources

And fear of offence shows you are scared of what happens if people express their opinions.

That is despite the site never showing ads on British television, for fear of offence about their content.

Poehler could make this joke without fear of offence for the simply reason that it was self-evidently a joke.

Eh? Franzen doesn't want to tell his brother that he is better than Crichton, for fear of offence; but he is sure he is better than Crichton anyway!

He said that if Charlie Hebdo stopped printing satirical work because of pressure or fear of offence, it would be reduced to selling 16 blank pages every week.

"The fear of causing offence, the fear of ruffling the careful layers of comfort, becomes a fetish," Adichie said.

He is not even that keen to talk about it, for fear of causing offence.

In the event the debate was cancelled for fear of giving offence at a sensitive time.

In national guidance for the country's coaches they cite "embarrassment" and "fear of causing offence" as reasons for this.

He said he wouldn't answer that, for fear of causing offence to any team-mates he didn't name.

We kept our lingo simple: you tend to keep well away from conventional religious phraseology for fear of causing offence.