Sentence examples for squeamish with from inspiring English sources

The garden is probably no place for the squeamish, with its bugs and weeds and rot.

"Lawyers and judges," he notes, "get squeamish with this kind of talk".

As Sam Sifton, the New York Times restaurant critic, remarked in his review of Pulino's, "Goat meatballs to convert the squeamish, with a tang of yogurt: oh, man.

What follows is strictly not for the squeamish: with everything from auto-disembowelment to graphic yakuza-style finger amputation to rat-tat-tat desert massacres, there is enough gore to make Reservoir Dogs look like chihuahuas.

The boys' lives on the street aren't for the squeamish, with goats suckled for milk, blind men and cripples beaten and robbed, girls assaulted - but it is Jaibo's brutal murder of the grass Julian that seals Pedro's complicity, beginning a downward spiral into violence.

For any service member who has received these appreciative acknowledgements in public you can physically feel the humbled gratitude in your soul while also oddly squeamish with your internal recognition that there are perhaps others who sacrificed far more and that maybe you aren't deserving of that praise.

The characters talk dirty as a way of passing the time, dispelling boredom and expressing their squeamish fascination with the messy weirdness of being human.

I've always admired writers like Joyce Cary, who could master both tonalities; and, even more, writers like Svevo, who could submerge the comic impulse into a kind of squeamish surface with unreliable assistance to the reader.

Truthfully, I might not recommend this sad, funny, macabre tale of teenagerhood to anyone too squeamish or with too normal of a childhood, but if you love this book as much as I do, you can be my friend forever.

_ I've always admired writers like Joyce Cary, who could master both tonalities; and, even more, writers like Svevo, who could submerge the comic impulse into a kind of squeamish surface with unreliable assistance to the reader.

The book is not for the squeamish reader, with blood-spattered battles involving Ottoman armies, janissaries, Christian princes; at the same time, painstaking drawing retains a certain candor when paired with what appears to be a font called Comic-Book Commando.