Sentence examples for seems inflammatory from inspiring English sources

Instead, counsellors are trained to deploy language that at first seems inflammatory: "You must be devastated" is a common refrain; so is "That sounds like torture".

When Microsoft presents its side of the case later, Mr. Neukom said, comments that seem inflammatory when taken out of context will be shown to be workaday business communications with a company renowned, and respected, for its competitive drive.

Here's a line that seemed inflammatory then but looks practically clairvoyant today: "At worst, it will relegate Texans to Draconian cuts in critical areas like education and health care for at least a generation.

He remembers that when he first ran to represent Kentucky in the Senate in 1984, he never got one question during the campaign about the increase in the Social Security retirement age included in the changes enacted on a bipartisan basis the year before – an issue that would typically seem inflammatory.

It may not seem inflammatory to Americans accustomed to presidential meet-and-greets of many shapes and sizes.

While it's true that latchkey children are a problem for the public libraries, Thomas Omestad's article (July 12) seems deliberately inflammatory.

To Hanson, Holder's speech seemed somewhat inflammatory; it was, he wrote, "not aimed at binding wounds".

There did not seem anything inflammatory about Hodgson's comments at the time.

After all, the allegedly inaccurate information about Robins doesn't seem that inflammatory, and he doesn't say for sure that he lost a job opportunity as a result of Spokeo's site.

Publishing links to the doctors' names and faces pending a fair investigation seems irresponsible and inflammatory.

Food for thought for our contentious age, when discussion of perfectly solvable problems seems to turn inflammatory so easily.