Sentence examples for harmless words from inspiring English sources
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.
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 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.
The missives may have been rather crude and bloody-sounding, but they were just words—harmless and worthy of constitutional protection.The exchange on Monday was lively, with multiple views bandied about on which characteristics and what level of knowledge should be attributed to a hypothetical "reasonable person".
I use the words "harmless hobby" with caution, however.
Who in law enforcement looks at a video of a man wielding a shotgun, openly admitting that he plans to kill activists and decides that he's harmless, but that words on a website are worthy of the posters being jailed?
