Sentence examples for seeming offensive from inspiring English sources

The operetta, rather than seeming offensive kitsch, was, in these fragments, light-headed, suffused with a nostalgia emphasized by rubatos and gleeful returns to familiar melodies.

But offering to split the cost doesn't seem offensive.

Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but dare he admit it?—strangely on target.

Don't call yourself a feminist, if the label seems offensive in some way.

What can seem offensive to one group isn't to another.

As Hawes himself writes, "My opinion will seem offensive to many".

Depicting the Pope to be a sort of superman, a type of star, seems offensive to me.

If this view seems offensive, what is being insulted is the belief in literature as a value in itself.

The only constant reminder is Mr. Bonnabel's imitation of his parents' voices, which seems offensive, coming from a hearing person.

Physical proximity amplifies and distorts the behavior of others, and can make even innocuous activities seem offensive.

So inoffensive was the design that it seemed offensive, leading Mr. Ulrich to wonder "what VW executives really think of American tastes".