Sentence examples for physically harmless from inspiring English sources
Solzhenitsyn described the use of bedbug-infested boxes in the Soviet gulags, but it seems that these were intended to cause physical suffering — and the Central Intelligence Agency operatives evidently planned to use a physically harmless insect.
And that's not counting all the physically harmless but psychologically toxic kids stuff for sale, like the line of sexist J.C. Penney T-shirts that somehow hit shelves earlier this year.
Sure, we played "girls chase boys" and vice-versa as some way to physically exorcise some harmless, pre-sexual tension we didn't quite understand, but mostly, we just hung out with whoever's parents packed them the best snacks.
With a National Union of Students study revealing that 68% of female students experience sexual harassment during their time at university and one in seven are seriously physically or sexually assaulted, these "harmless" pages feed into a wider student culture which increasingly treats young women as sexual prey.
But writing for the Court, Justice Mary Jane Theis declared: "The use of a physically coerced confession as substantive evidence of defendant's guilt can never be harmless error".
This kind of self talk may seem harmless, but researchers have shown talking this way to yourself repeatedly can really bring you down emotionally and physically.
