"It was reminiscent of the old saying that gossip is a three-pronged tongue: it can hurt the speaker and the listener, as well as the target".
While looking at the door suggest a longing to leave, looking at the clock would suggest boredom and could hurt the speaker's feelings.
There are decent reasons to keep French around, more than the obvious fear of hurting French-speakers' feelings.But the balance of power is different from a century ago.
Responding to criticism that his surprising support of the tax's repeal had hurt New York City, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver argued that the city had a fat surplus and could afford the loss.
Against the claim that the contextualist must make a lame and costly appeal to "semantic blindness" to escape certain problems, it is shown that the way in which contextualism actually implicates speakers in such blindness does not hurt the view, because speakers are implicated in equally problematic semantic blindness whether or not contextualism is accepted.
Asked if Ryan's chances to become president will be hurt by being House speaker, Boehner said: "I think he recognizes that," noting that not since James Polk in 1845 has a House speaker become president.
More important, the mayor sees helping the speaker as hurting Mr. Hevesi, who shares with Mr. Vallone a base of Queens voters.
I refer to the way various groups of people use expressions of hurt feelings to trump speakers they disagree with.
Though it may seem paternalistic, it never hurts to remind speakers to prepare high-quality visual aids that are legible and uncluttered.
Obviously, certain factions of the House did not like his remark, and this hurt his fight to become speaker tremendously.
The resolution would demand that the U.S. stop aiding NATO in its mission in Libya within 15 days -- a short timeline that the speaker said could hurt American interests.
