Sentence examples for without giving offence from inspiring English sources

Even when being maddening, he could do so without giving offence; few other men could have got away with turning down a proposition from Brigitte Bardot.

Milton, travelling to Italy, was given advice on how a Protestant could visit Rome and stay true to his convictions without giving offence: keep "your thoughts close and your countenance loose" – or: shut up and smile.

"Under this system, it is possible in a city-street neighbourhood to know all kinds of people without unwelcome entanglements, without boredom, necessity for excuses, explanations, fears of giving offence, embarrassments respecting impositions or commitments, and all such paraphernalia of obligations which can accompany less limited relationships".

Punch the following into your phones – giving offence is sacred, taking offence is nugatory.

For giving offence is as nothing compared with the grotesque offences that eventually transpired.

It is also too fearful of giving offence.

Giving offence is a necessary tool in a democracy.

They are idling at half-speed, scared of giving offence".

Afraid of giving offence, we reach instead for evasive euphemisms: curvy, solid, big-boned, etc.

State what is revolutionary, but avoid giving offence.

Fear is a despot that ties the tongue--fear of labels, rejection, giving offence, being ostracized.