Sentence examples for sort of harmless from inspiring English sources

Time has lent them a sort of harmless homogeneity that they did not have at the time they were made.

Juli Weiner: From what we've seen of Marnie, she seems sort of harmless and impotent post-breakup.

Gail:  I'm ignoring that because I'm already thinking of clever repartee for our script about the return of Mitt Romney, who would be like the Incredible Hulk, sort of harmless until someone reminds him he lost the election, and then, watch out!

Most of his fellow councillors traffic in this sort of harmless pap.

Parker flirts with Stanley but it isn't real flirtation, just the sort of harmless flattery women indulge in when they believe that's how best to get what they want.

If he broke into the mainstream five years ago he would have been clumped in with the Keith Lemon crowd, a sort of harmless nod-nod, wink-wink "ooh-me-gooch-hurts" ITV2 panel show staple.

Unfortunately, in the United States, where even serial killers are considered innocent until proved otherwise, all sorts of harmless pleasures are routinely described as guilty.

This yearning for universal mathematical laws to govern the behaviour of human beings has burdened the west with all sorts of harmless and less harmless nonsense, from phrenology to economics.

Those are the sorts of harmless actions that satisfy the need of Republicans to let everyone know how much they dislike the president without inflicting harm on the country.

It was the sort of utterly harmless image that many women of her age put up on their Facebook page but its use here was blatantly exploitative, freighted with a nudging insinuation but having no bearing on the subject's role in the story.

I think we think they're kind of harmless….