Sentence examples for innocuous act from inspiring English sources

"Flash mobs" consist of dozens or even hundreds of well-wired folks who gather suddenly, perform some specific but innocuous act, then promptly scatter.

As the museum's executive director, Amelia Parker, explained in an interview, one purpose of the museum is to remind the visitor just what was at stake in the seemingly innocuous act of approaching the lunch counter.

Thankfully the Court of the Judiciary in Alabama acted courageously by recognizing that displaying the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is not only a deceptively innocuous act, but an illegal one as well (editorial, Nov. 14).

The innocuous act reminds me of the lipstick kisses on Oscar Wilde's memorial in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

This seemingly innocuous act caused the author of the aforementioned fanfiction to create a sequel involving the two world leaders, which was sent to us directly.

Some who attended waved rainbow flags—an innocuous act in the West, but one that's far more political in a country like Egypt, with a deep history of anti-LGBTQ persecution.

Yet beyond grandstanding political speeches or the more familiar family picnics, parks in Pakistan have on occasion been the scene of controversy stirred by pretty innocuous acts.

Language, social conventions, and many aspects of life have changed because men listened to women's accounts of how seemingly innocuous acts felt, and of why those acts held not-so-innocuous implications for their self-realization and social participation.

As I've learned through the voices of other women and my own experience, our seemingly innocuous acts of inhumanity -- those little nudges, slights, and outright cruelties -- aren't static events that happen in a vacuum.

The difficulty concerns the wildly unpredictable or unforeseeable nature of an act's total consequences across time, particularly when the identity-affecting dimensions of an act, which need not have an explicitly reproductive character, since many ostensibly innocuous acts will have decisive implications for how, and when, couples meet and then mate, are taken into account".

That may not sound like much, but this year Senate Republicans filibustered the relatively innocuous DISCLOSE Act, which would have required groups spending more than $10,000 on a campaign to disclose donors who gave more than $10,000.