By focusing on the differing objectionable behaviors we face in the workplace (or elsewhere in our lives), rather than on objectionable people, a less defensive and more revealing dialogue becomes possible.
Watched again now, Phantom Menace seems flat rather than actually objectionable: there is something almost exotic in its intricate dullness, and characters like Jar-Jar are now too boring to be offensive.
But he showed that one can put in a strong showing in a GOP debate without being a bile-spouting rage machine, and he may peel off some people who are attracted to the other candidates' confidence rather than their specific, objectionable policies.
Q: Why don't moderators just remove the bit of a comment which is objectionable, rather than deleting the whole thing?
This is better understood as indicative of an underlying awareness of human limitations, rather than as expressive of an objectionable impulse to mastery over nature.
Delays of live feeds are also widely used, though they are usually employed to bleep out objectionable language rather than to counter upsetting footage.
But rather than identifying many of the objectionable parts of the agreement and suggesting alternatives, the Bush Administration sent a terse letter to the U.S. Senate stating its intent to pull out of the treaty.
God might make this decision on the basis of some personal, non-morally-objectionable considerations rather than on the basis of considerations salient from the moral point of view, or God might just pick, in Ullman-Margalit and Morgenbesser's sense (Ullman-Margalit and Morgenbesser 1977).
Bowing to pressure from Republican leaders in Congress, the Smithsonian institution capitulated and decided to remove the work of art, found objectionable by an elite, rather than stick to its curatorial standards.
Even a pinch on the tush seems more continental than objectionable.
