Sentence examples for harmless word from inspiring English sources
Even a fairly harmless word like 'work', when used in conjunction with 'fidelity', strikes a militant pose; for me, after all these years, the term Werktreue still smacks of credulous, parade-ground solemnity.
This one, little, seemingly harmless word gets inserted in sentences all the time, and 99.9% of its use weakens the statement in which it occurs.
In essence, these seemingly harmless words mattered.
Left unchecked, seemingly harmless words can steal attention from performance.
Who would guess that by uttering a few harmless words you could trigger lawsuits in the millions, a furor in the literary world, and a….
But a simple laboratory experiment using what are, after all, ultimately harmless words, is not the same as a case of child abuse or the horrors of war.
Who would guess that by uttering a few harmless words you could trigger lawsuits in the millions, a furor in the literary world, and a Broadway show?
Choc ice, Bounty bars etc, are harmless words on the surface, unlike the N-word, which is well established as a racial slur.
— Erin Overbey and Joshua Rothman, archivists "Who would guess that by uttering a few harmless words you could trigger lawsuits in the millions, a furor in the literary world, and a Broadway show?" Read more.
This micro-trend is telling because whilst artist names are mostly harmless word-play, and are rarely given a second thought by fans, there's something that pinches at me about men who choose names that are either explicitly female (Lucy, Millie and Andrea) or imply femininity (Miss Modular, She Works The Night, Body Issues), and do so in an attempt at anonymity, or playful indulgence.
