Sentence examples for rather innocuous from inspiring English sources

Or maybe you have a small, rather innocuous one that you indulge once a week.

Mr. Polakoff defended his actions last week, saying that with BankUnited, it was a "rather innocuous accounting mistake".

Most dramatic moment: my friend Nick Clegg being handbagged after his actually rather innocuous remark at The Observer fringe meeting.

When introducing a trio by Gaurav Mazumdar that combined Eastern and Western instruments, Mr. Hope said that the British had taken violin playing to India, and that the Indians immeasurably improved it, a rather innocuous version of colonialism.

A couple weeks ago, we broke the news that Apple had required Robert Berry, the artist behind the project, to censor any nude images, including rather innocuous ones (like one of Buck Mulligan taking a bath).

Acetic acid is a rather innocuous substance, which itself is oxidized [by chemical agents present in all body tissues] with the final formation of water [H2O] and carbon dioxide [CO2]." And, of course, heat, or calorie energy.

According to Corcoran and his then-editor, Joe Bargmann, the quote was altered in the article by the magazine's editor-in-chief, who swapped the word "pussy" for the rather more innocuous "talent".

"I just hope he is going to go out there and play well and win some points," the USA captain said, as if he had stumbled into a Congressional inquiry rather than an innocuous query about the world No1's role in the team.

Thus early versions of non-cognitivism were proposed by these theorists, not so much because they were interested in moral philosophy but rather to render innocuous a seeming counter-example to their own theories (Carnap 1937, 24 27; Ayer 1952, 107 109).

We conclude that children's animated films, rather than being innocuous alternatives to the gore and carnage typical of American films, are in fact hotbeds of murder and mayhem.

Most foreigners probably find this innocuous practice rather endearing.