Sentence examples for permissible about from inspiring English sources

When we talk about belief we talk about what is permissible — about the sex abuse scandal or school prayer or whether the church should open its basement to 12‑step everything.

I remember wincing at the sight and sound of Fisher Stevens in "Short Circuit," saddled with dark makeup and a gobbling accent as late as 1986; no one in Hollywood had been forced into blackface for decades, so what was so permissible about brownface?

It might be permissible to bring about a less than optimal outcome.

The Making Inferences subtest of the Test of Language Competence [Pragmatics; Wiig et al., 1989] involves participants being read a description of an event; they are then asked to make a permissible inference about the cause of the event by answering a multiple-choice question about the causes of the event.

Being a bad, rebellious girl, in the style of Amy Winehouse or Lily Allen, may just about be permissible, but the socially defined limits of what is considered "sane" quickly narrow with the arrival of babies.

Still, physicists talk convincingly about "permissible doses" of radiation.

"We show what is just about permissible to show.

But the White House has no interest in detailed talks about permissible testing and deployments.

At what stage of seeking a job is it permissible to ask about the salary on offer?

Think of these dresses as the most discreet conversation starters – now it's permissible to talk about what you're wearing even at the cleverest of dinner parties.

"With all that garbage out there, I would hope it would be permissible to talk about God, too," Mr. Goldberg, an Orthodox Jew, said.