Sentence examples for innocuousness from inspiring English sources

Although a lot of people are honest enough to say they don't know enough about it, among those who think they do, the government's assurances about the innocuousness of the new constitution are not believed.

New acquaintances of Mr Quill's are sometimes struck by the contrast between the belligerence of his public outpourings and the innocuousness of his private life.

The elderly spinster at Somerville College Oxford who taught me Norman history, had the edge on each of these exemplars by dint of her surface innocuousness.

Casual observers often contrast the vigour of Dr Godfrey's rhetoric with the innocuousness of his personal life.

Moore does that, perhaps too well; the distinguishing feature of the record is its innocuousness.

It's easy on the ears, and some of the bubbly innocuousness can be put down to an attempt to mimic the slick, synthesizer-driven sound of the fanfares on shows of this ilk.

By her account, the fluffy innocuousness of the show drove her ambitious co-star, Larry Hagman, to a combination of drink, drugs and therapy, but Eden endured even his most boorish antics with typical show-must-go-on equanimity.

"Avé" is directed nonintrusively by Konstantin Bojanov (who wrote the film with Arnold Barkus), who is content to let Ms. Nedyalkova's combination of innocuousness and steel do much of the heavy lifting.

The nine stories in Mark Haddon's debut collection are exuberant, lusty exercises in juxtaposition: intimacy and estrangement, exoticism and domesticity, innocuousness and malevolence, the cataloguing of minute detail and the expansiveness of the zoomed-out lens.

It reveals a truth which is easy to overlook in the innocuousness of the day to day: there are things for which a people are – and should be – willing to die.

But it's Barbie's perceived innocuousness that makes her so very dangerous for young girls.