Sentence examples for sensitize us from inspiring English sources

Mr. Allen had hoped to sensitize us to long-buried horrors of America's racial past.

It may, on the contrary, so sensitize us that we get a pang in the gut if we accidentally step on a moth.

Stepped up training, he added, "helps to sensitize us to try do what is right, and it prevents brokers from even inadvertently collaborating with owners to do something that the city has decided is not legal".

These displays emphasize how Mr. Marclay has pushed Cage's idea that all sounds are music into the visual realm, and sensitize us to the sounds of visual, seemingly silent things all around us.

For the theologian, an ironic temperament should sensitize us to the fact that even if we long for the good, we may still commit the sin of pride, whereas for the philosopher, irony helps us understand that even if we want to be liberals, we cannot ground our liberal commitments on any firm foundations.

(ORT Part III; EHO; CIS Part II; AC) The task of the intellectual, with respect to social justice, is not to provide refinements of social theory, but to sensitize us to the suffering of others, and refine, deepen and expand our ability to identify with others, to think of others as like ourselves in morally relevant ways.

Beautiful undulating concrete ceilings help channel the air from north to south, sensitizing us to the natural world waiting outside.

"The events of Sept. 11 sensitized us; people have a new appreciation of life and of what it means to leave a portrait legacy".

And all of it is amplified by the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has sensitized us to examples of the powerful taking advantage of the powerless.

Thankfully, we are not serving rations (though spam did get some press attention), but our presence in foreign countries sensitizes us to their cuisine while the economic climate has had a profound impact on our food choices.

I've long known about the special privileges of officially married people with regard to Social Security, various tax breaks, hospital practices and all the other issues to which same-sex marriage debates have sensitized us all.