Sentence examples for felt insulting from inspiring English sources

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And while it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting.

The narrator, a mother of two boys, says of herself, "While it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting".

To a Monkees fan at the time, without knowledge of the behind-the-scenes turmoil, the movie likely felt insulting or uncomfortably different.

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If finding himself in a battle now, in his 36th year in the Senate, feels insulting or painful or a little awkward, Mr. Lugar is not saying.

Add to that the social expectation that an unanswered text feels insulting to the sender, and you've got a recipe for addiction: you receive a text, and that activates your novelty centres.

I know that feels insulting.

And I feel insulting towards them.

"Since this wasn't my first child some instructions could feel insulting, as if I did not know how to hold a baby.

But that plucked-from-obscurity story line always felt mildly insulting to Ms. McKenna, who'd been a steady presence in the folk music world for years.

The new rules felt particularly insulting when compared with those of the federal government, which limits the term of the executive branch but not of the members of Congress.

On my way to Hobart for Dark Mofo's final weekend, I was steamed about a recent "experimental theatre" performance I'd endured, which trotted out the usual hallmarks of the form – interpretive dance, nudity, sneering pop culture references, fake poo – in a way that felt both insulting to the viewer and profoundly conservative.

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