Sentence examples for offensive a from inspiring English sources

His anxiety about giving offense to Latinos has itself become offensive — a classic high-minded blunder.

Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the rebels considered this latest offensive a last throw.

Frankly, I find this somewhat offensive, a desecration of a long liquid legacy.

"If you check my prior history with elected office, I've always had a ground offensive, a grass-roots campaign.

And this was nine months before the Tet offensive, a year before the massacre at My Lai.

He finds their use of the Terri Schiavo case particularly offensive, a form of pandering to religious extremists.

Apparently in retaliation for the offensive, a series of terrorist attacks killed at least 166 people in a 12-day period.

On Tuesday, she said, she had a senior turn his T-shirt inside out to conceal a logo she found offensive: a beer mug.

Offensive," a character in his play "The Tooth of Crime" (1972) says, adding, "You can paralyze a mark with a good set of eyes".

On October 24 (when the Italians launched their very timely offensive), a Hungarian National Council prescribing peace and severance from Austria was set up in Budapest.

The fact that crippling sanctions have finally been applied means that Israel is more likely to give these sanctions and the related diplomatic offensive a chance to work.