Sentence examples for gave offense from inspiring English sources

This view gave offense to the religious authorities, who denounced it as heretical.

Other banned composers gave offense with lurid subject matter or musical innovations that the regime considered decadent.

But the play's satiric references to opportunistic Scottish countrymen of the newly crowned James I gave offense, and all three authors were imprisoned.

Voltaire himself left France for England, after he gave offense to an aristocrat, the Chevalier de Rohan, and remained in exile for almost three years.

In her novel "Lucy," the teenage narrator, soaking in the "pleasant" scent of her employer's yellow hair, reflects, "By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense".

But it gave offense to the academy, not so much by the formlessness of its construction as by its fidelity to a subject matter deemed unworthy of an academician.

His anxiety about giving offense to Latinos has itself become offensive — a classic high-minded blunder.

hesitant to give offense?

(Bütt­ner called his friend "a virtuoso at giving offense").

To the contrary, it will only give offense and alienate".

It was clear that she had given offense.