Sentence examples for society comfortable from inspiring English sources

But are we, as a society, comfortable with this?

"Rich Brazilians Rise Above RuSaoHour Jams" (Sao Paulo Journal, Feb. 15) gives a graphic portrait of a society comfortable with market-based inequalities.

Even for a society comfortable with blood and gore in its movies and video games, the bombings at the Boston Marathon have sparked a new debate among news organizations about when images are too gruesome to display.

This artistic triumph isn't a new movement, then, but rather reads like one because this time around, creators aren't making work that over explains black life or that makes white society comfortable, centered or even included.

On the other, are we as a society comfortable letting profit-driven companies take the lead in public health by affording them access to value data sets — and potentially chaining any benefits to the commercial sector for the foreseeable future?

On the other, are we as a society comfortable letting profit-driven companies take the lead in public health by affording them access to value data sets — and potentially chaining any benefits to the commercial sector for the foreseeable future?

The English philosopher John Stuart Mill worried that a closed society, too comfortable in its own convictions, would retreat into dogmatism.

Marginalising an already mythical debate on race with a complacent message about a society now "comfortable with diversity" will only lead to further scapegoating of black and minority ethnic communities.

Here's an excerpt from one of my previous posts laying out how the fight over climate-related energy policy is incredibly lopsided regardless of who's spending more money: In reality, those defending the status quo in energy and climate policy have always only needed the slightest bit of doubt and distracting uncertainty to maintain society's comfortable inertia on energy.

Adult society is comfortable telling children that if they steal from a shop or smash a window, that's a crime, and there will be consequences, albeit consequences that take into account the fact that they have a good deal of growing up to do.

"I think it's a matter of society becoming comfortable with seeing women in these types of leadership roles," said Alsop.