Sentence examples for subject off from inspiring English sources

I shrugged the subject off, slightly embarrassed.

His film, which explores the sex scandal that drove Mr. Spitzer from New York's governorship in 2008, does not let its subject off easily: Mr. Spitzer's staff members, we are reminded, shuddered on the days when his body seemed to be inhabited by an evil twin they named "Irwin".

By failing to recognize and do justice to the integral entwinement of self and world that is basic to our experiential navigation of our lived environments, modern philosophy effectively splits the subject off from objects and from other subjects.

There is then no guarantee that any act of remembering does provide access to the past at all: representationist trace theories thus cut the subject off from the past behind a murky veil of traces (Wilcox and Katz 1981, p. 231; Ben-Zeev 1986, p. 296).

She has turned it into her career now, which is clearly the other end of the spectrum, but she says that one of the biggest differences between the way men and women treat masturbation is that men admit it whereas "most women I know will deny ever having masturbated and will just brush the subject off when it is mentioned".

[Laughs] I think I'll leave that subject off the books.

But some found the eccentricities of Édith Piaf, the film's subject, off-putting.

In a 1999 interview Mr. Monicelli was asked if he considered any subject off-limits for comedy.

And the square aspect ratio makes it harder still; you'd think you'd want a widescreen format so a foreground subject can be left or centered and the other subject off-center or opposed.

Just as there's no subject off-limits to art, I believe there's no subject off-limits to comedy.

First off: no one is trying to make rape, as a subject, off-limits.