"Now, yes, that's an offensive notion when you put it out there as a rule.
EVAW explains that he has pontificated on rape not being bad, tweeted other rape myths and voiced "the oxymoronic and offensive notion of 'mild paedophilia'".
In the end, the defence for hanging on to contested cultural goods boils down to the deeply offensive notion that Britain looks after the Parthenon marbles or Benin heads and plaques better than Greece or Nigeria ever could.
It's even there in the gleeful cruelty of Scaramanga's dwarf sidekick, Nick Nack (an effortless assemblage of offensive notions in one sketchy character), who hires killers to take out his boss, with the boss's full approval.
(The uncensored version of the video was banned for a spell by YouTube, which Thicke's manager, Jordan Feldstein, said "was the best thing that could've happened to us").. Critics have said that the song and video — in which Thicke sings, "I know you want it" — are degrading and that they shore up offensive notions about women who say "no" but supposedly mean "yes".
I find that notion offensive: it implies that liberals ascribe no value to the concepts of fidelity and commitment; and it implies that wanting equal civil rights for everyone is less than noble.
All three towns lie north of the main areas of the latest American offensives, supporting the notion that, as in numerous earlier operations, insurgent cells have flowed away from high troop concentrations, or affiliated cells have been activated in areas unaffected by those offensives.
The respondents focused on Justice Gaudron's decision in Chu, in which she said: "Detention in custody in circumstances not involving some breach of the criminal law and not coming within well-accepted categories of the kind to which Brennan, Deane and Dawson JJ refer is offensive to ordinary notions of what is involved in a just society.
I realize that the Schwarzenegger and DSK (as we're now calling Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in keeping with the trend set with KSM and OBL) scandals are irresistible, but let's resist perpetuating offensive, outdated, stigmatizing notions of propriety, respectability and shame in covering the story.
The effort was so noxious, so offensive to the notions of fairness and the rule of law that we need in the modern world, that it must be repudiated with an opposite force -- a skilled and conscientious presence aimed at ensuring the election is as democratic as possible, and publicizing its shortcomings.
She found this notion deeply offensive: I mean the notion that human population growth is slowing.
