Sentence examples for squeamishness from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker's crude, cool and vaguely transgressive stand-up persona and the cartoonish, no-concept-too-sick mentality of her sketches has won her impressive ratings, an Emmy nomination and an ever-expanding fanbase, who appreciate the way Schumer bulldozes through the squeamishness that surrounds women talking bluntly about their sex lives.

The Republicans ban women from having sex (except with them) In 2011 America's right wing, and especially the Christian right wing, at last let slip what their problem is with contraception and abortion: it's not squeamishness, morality or a fondness for hanging outside Planned Parenthood clinics toting misspelt placards – they just don't like women having sex.

It would have none of Mr Blair's squeamishness about confronting vested interests.

It has to counter a powerful legend that, since the second world war, its army has been a peacekeeping operation not a fighting one, and that Afghanistan has sullied this noble ideal.Similarly, in Germany, where even today there is squeamishness about seeing the country's soldiers going into action, Afghanistan is a huge political issue.

These bespeak a national yearning for perfection, bodily and otherwise.Sensitive China, perfidious AlbionSome Chinese euphemisms also stem from squeamishness.

Moreover, the IEA's projections assume that the Europeans overcome their squeamishness about building ugly LNG terminals.

Its thinkers blame the party's rout on weak leadership and a shortage of allies without acknowledging the squeamishness the BJP instils in other parties.

Even if one could compare the number of lives lost through action or inaction, a Kantian squeamishness about means and ends might properly stop people acting on the conclusions.