Sentence examples for potential to offend from inspiring English sources
And he's dismissive about his songs' potential to offend.
Just see Bang Radio's decision to edit out the "Anna Mae" reference on the airwaves as an example of Drunk in Love's potential to offend.
It is a comic, bold hybrid of political satire and farce, extraordinary to see on general release from Hollywood, since it has the potential to offend everyone, from big business to Democrats and from Jews to blacks.
There have been any number of works at Tate Britain carrying the potential to offend: with six centuries of art on display you can spot examples of latent sexism, xenophobia, racism and just about every other human prejudice.
The regulator said at the time: "While the remarks could have had the potential to offend some viewers, after careful assessment we decided that, in the context of the programme, the remarks were not derogatory about people with hemiplegia".
But in Japan, where controversy is traditionally shunned, even news coverage is nonconfrontational -- and for politics, television producers have confined themselves to the safety of the distant past, serving up countless samurai dramas with scant potential to offend.
Even Mr. Khade, with all his wealth and newfound status, does not want to offend potential upper-caste clients.
You're the last person in the universe I can imagine the press secretary of a potential presidential candidate wanting to offend.
Manoj Rai, a tea vendor who was approached by the B.J.P. but declined to brand his stand a NaMo tea stall, said he did not want to offend potential customers.
After critic James Poniewozik wrote about that question recently, there was a Twitter discussion about it, and the consensus was that TV writer/producers often don't know much about religion, don't care much about it, or simply don't want to offend potential audience members by getting something wrong.
He, like a number of others, spoke on condition of anonymity -- no one wants to offend a potential future player.
