Sentence examples for harmless terms from inspiring English sources

They're just words, after all – harmless terms of affection, in fact.

Nor can we shirk our duty to challenge any anti-immigration sentiment we suspect is being expressed, just because it's embedded in seemingly harmless terms.

Reasonable people can disagree about the cultural semantics involved in the Spanish words he chose to direct at Evra, but no one can argue that they were meant as the harmless terms of affection some claimed them to be.

Her defenders, he noted, argued that instead of denoting a falsehood, "alternative facts" is a "harmless" term in common legal usage.

But organizers should give pause before using the seemingly harmless term "Chinese auction," as there is nothing culturally Chinese about raffling baskets.

Any empty-headed student with a powerful voice can claim someone (never specified) will be "hurt" by a hitherto harmless term, object or activity and be reasonably assured that the dons and professors in charge will show a white feather and do as the student demands.

Algorithms, decimals, division, fractions, sums-these seem like harmless math terms.

Nevertheless, our study reveals evidence that: a) Full head sham or SAR 2 W/kg exposure of adult male Wistar rats can be regarded as harmless in terms of hippocampus-dependent neuronal plasticity.

When the medicines are harmless in terms of toxicity, public health is still damaged as patients go untreated.

Higher intensities are feasible but would not be harmless in terms of the risk of burning the subject's skin [ 132].

Though scores of genes were disrupted in the sleep-deprived, the scientists cannot say whether those changes are a harmless short-term response to poor sleep, a sign of the body adapting to sleep-deprivation, or are potentially harmful to health.