Sentence examples similar to shocking discourse from inspiring English sources

The idea that people might speak casually or caustically via e-mail has been portrayed as a shocking breach of civilized discourse.

In the case of Green, his "Napoleon complex" led him to make a string of decisions that seem shocking once exposed to public discourse.

Freedom of expression requires that I tolerate the expression of all ideas--traditional or radical, shocking or offensive--in public discourse.

Have you left no sense of decency?" Last week Inhofe released a report by his Minority staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that represents a shocking new low in the public discourse on global warming.

But it fails to take account of the way that every one of these once-shocking utterances changed not just our political discourse, but our standards for acceptable conduct.

"It is shocking that it is not even in the discourse," Dr. Finkelstein said.

"This kind of language is shocking, offensive and has no place in public discourse.

I'm not really interested in shocking but I am interested to provoke a discourse and also I'm interested in presenting work that destabilizes me.

I'm not really interested in shocking but I am interested to provoke a discourse and also I'm interested in presenting work that destabilises me.

"It is shocking and there is no place for that in our public discourse," she said, when a reporter recounted Sanchez's words.

In large Western democracies, the political discourse has been so highly controlled for so long, that it is no longer shocking when Western experts fill in to speak for third world victims, or when an American president stands up at a podium to accept his Nobel Peace Prize, and makes the case for war.