Sentence examples for publicly acceptable from inspiring English sources

Mrs Whitehouse had been thought a Canute, now she was publicly acceptable.

There should be some edge of ugliness that passes beyond the publicly acceptable.

And where this subject is concerned, there is, she notes, "no publicly acceptable margin of error".

They appear to have completely lost their handle on what's publicly acceptable these days.

It is both more publicly acceptable and commercially essential for the group to milk what it has.

Tarot cards and personal soothsayers have since been replaced by the more mainstream, and publicly acceptable, religious convictions of the authors of the 2003 Iraq invasion.

A professional player who doesn't want to sign autographs, graciously grant press interviews, or comport themselves publicly within acceptable norms of behavior has an alternative -- he can play on a sandlot.

The next stage in real equality will be when the natural faces of older women are also acceptable publicly.

For instance, there may be consensus on the list of reasons that are acceptable publicly but disagreement on the weight of the different reasons.

Where do kids get the idea that bullying is permissible and that callously exposing someone's private life, secret struggles and woundedness publicly is somehow acceptable?

These are fictions of consensus, fictions that are tacitly accepted and not publicly denounced because their acceptance insures a satisfactory compromise with mutually acceptable and desirable results.