Sentence examples for seem insulting from inspiring English sources

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But horrified realism is not her style, and her lunges at historical gravity seem insulting and uncourageous; she should have kept her nerve and stuck to the fripperies — to the noisy, brightly decorated void in which her characters spin.

I would hesitate before giving somebody a bar of soap for the holidays, no matter how expensively perfumed and fancily packaged the soap may be, because it would seem insulting to suggest "you really need this".

But horrified realism is not her style, and her lunges at historical gravity seem insulting and uncourageous; she should have kept her nerve and stuck to the fripperies to the noisy, brightly decorated void in which her characters spin.

It might seem insulting to call a beloved book like "Mockingbird" middlebrow, but such works — "Gentleman's Agreement," "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "Exodus," and "Fear of Flying," to give a few examples — are the ones that shape public consciousness.

Exhortations to eat up your greens and go to the gym can seem insulting to women struggling to keep food inside them or get to work on time, and it is hard even for sensitive people, if their own health is sound, to imagine the daily botches and compromises that people in pain make to keep themselves going.

While such songs seem insulting but harmless, they have the potential to impact the mindset of their listeners.

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Playing black music never felt odd, but singing it — a more intimate gesture — seemed insulting.

("You can't help but respond," Jared said. "But that seems insulting. But so does not responding").

(When you waste hours surfing the Internet for ways to convince yourself that death is imminent, courting a legitimate gestational health risk seems insulting).

It seemed insulting, but the reviewer had simply been responding to his temperament — eager, energetic, more at home with interviews than with texts.

This 46-year-old author of hits like "Rebel Yell" is so blatant a mix of James Dean swagger, Sid Vicious scorn and futuristic cool that it seems insulting to not call him a collage.

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