Sentence examples for fear of offense from inspiring English sources
The suggestion that citizens should withhold political criticism for fear of offense is preposterous — far more embarrassing to Singapore than any videos by Yee could be.
This is most obviously happening on college campuses, in the guise of microaggressions, triggers, and their ilk; in some cases, the effects of checking one's speech can be to reasonably protect members of the community, but in others the fear of offense can create anxiety and can even become a kind of censorship.
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But we have killed far too many people, wasted far too much time on this nonsense for us to keep going in this direction for fear of offense.
Being British, I'm allowing for a lil' bit of that fear of offense coming as a result of that -- but really, it's entrenched in the way we talk about gendered positions online.
The jar is sealed, allowing visitors to get as close as they want without fear of olfactory offense.
It's a substantial leap from there to concluding that GPs can talk freely to their patients about their weight without fear of causing offense.
Most are dealing with these vicissitudes privately, out of fear of causing offense to one side or another and in the hopes that it will soon pass, like some kind of pernicious storm.
In many parts of Europe, moreover, images of Muslim protests — however manipulated for political reasons — threaten to produce a mind-set where open debate itself is limited for fear of giving offense.
The player, who was speaking casually and not for attribution out of fear of giving offense, is one whose performances are typically passionate and persuasive, and his comment seemed startling at the moment.
It's a mighty queer gambit, and one that aligns Murphy with a subset of gay showrunners whom I've rarely seen lumped together in critical conversation, perhaps for fear of risking offense.
