Sentences with phrase «as insensitive»

Given their moves to shore up balance sheets and reduce leverage, «REITs should be as insensitive to rising rates today as maybe they've ever been,» Rubin said.

Do you sometimes get the impression that your clients were taken back or possibly even irritated by your agency lecture / explanation, which they viewed more as an insensitive tirade or unwelcome diversion from the subjects that mattered to them and were uppermost on their minds?

Family and friends may also be a source of support, but it may also be difficult to connect with those who are expecting children when one can not conceive or who may say things that are well - intentioned but may come across as insensitive.

Some may see this statement as insensitive, harsh, or hasty.

Don't sweep your feelings under the rug, confront him with each comment or behavior that you deem as insensitive.

The judge sued the Herald over a series of stories in 2002 that portrayed him as insensitive to crime victims.

But if climate really is as insensitive as he claims it to be, the climate forcing producing the ice ages must have been huge, much larger than the radiative forcing from orbital changes, surface albedo, and greenhouse gases.

I was criticized for my early essays by colleagues because talking about even the broad issues of uncertainty, transparency, losing trust etc was viewed as insensitive to the feelings of the individual scientists involved (and not helping the»cause»).

Students at Minneapolis College of Art and Design criticized their Estrogen Bomb poster campaign, describing it as insensitive towards transgender people since it ties the female gender to estrogen, the same sort of essentialist link the Guerilla Girls aim to critique.

Sorry, I don't want to come off as insensitive, because I do think this game looks great.

As insensitive as the announcement of 12 DLC packs may be, 505 said they'll be releasing them over the course of three months following the game's release.

Despite an abysmal trailer, pre-emptively dismantled online as insensitive or worse amidst revelations about his personal crimes, 2015's Irrational Man proved a surprisingly gritty respite from Allen's nostalgic euro - tourist cinema of the Aughts.

The film received some boos at its press screening, apparently because some in the audience took offence at the portrayal of a Sicilian police detective as an insensitive, somewhat clownish figure.

Affleck's disaffected performance allows Jim's behavior to come off as insensitive and funny all at once.

... audacious in the way it portrays a developmentally challenged adult as an insensitive jerk without seeming insensitive itself.

Yes, Houston, you do have a problem, and — as insensitive as it seems to bring it up just now — some of it is your own making.

If you cut dates short, or tell them right away that they aren't your type, you're likely coming across to your dates as insensitive, arrogant, or picky, which isn't going to help you in your pursuits.

I don't want this to come off as insensitive it's really about losing the attachment to my phone.

«Totten has been called the sleeping giant because it's huge and has been seen as insensitive to changes in its environment,» said lead author Chad Greene, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).

The result is a kind of perfect Goldilocks sensor: not as insensitive as common, flexible metallic sensors, but not as rigid or cumbersome as popular, more sensitive semi-conductor sensors.

In the run - up to the 2016 general elections, the restoration or otherwise of nurses trainee allowances became a topical debate with the then opposition leader (now president), Nana Akufo - Addo bemoaning the cancellation of the nurses allowance, describing the John Mahama administration as insensitive to the plight of nurses.

Some residents counter that police have failed to build sufficient relationships with the community, due in part to what they describe as insensitive conduct.

The President of Women Arise, Joe Odumakin has described Nigerian Senators as insensitive and not in tune with global reality.

«Curb Your Enthusiasm» star Larry David is in hot water with «Saturday Night Live» viewers after making a joke about the Holocaust that's being slammed as insensitive.

The statement read in part, «Governor Ortom commiserates with families of the victims, describing the attack on the young protesters as insensitive to the current mood of the people who are in grief over the killing of many innocent persons by armed herdsmen in Guma and Logo local government areas of the state.

Instead, her supporters are ruling out criticism as insensitive.

Confirming the procession in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, he said, «the governor commiserated with families of the victims and described the attack on the young protesters as insensitive to the current mood of the people who are in grief over the killing of many innocent people by suspected armed herders.

If there are electronic records that might portray Saints and NFL officials as insensitive on issues of gender, it would be wise for the Saints and NFL to resolve the dispute with Davis before those records become public.

No one who reads Gregory's letters can dismiss this man as insensitive to the dispossessed.

Atheists have free speech too... how come we can not look at Christianity as the insensitive notion, at least atheists are not out to make money with their beliefs.

So please forgive me if the following comes off as insensitive to your plight.

It makes them look petty as well as insensitive.

I am concerned now that my comments may be construed as insensitive, but that is not my intention.

from minimum - wage Walmart employees who view her highfalutin lifestyle as insensitive and ignorant to the plights of many workers.

Though she never took an active role in running the superstore like her brothers, she's become the target of pushback from minimum - wage Walmart employees who view her highfalutin lifestyle as insensitive and ignorant to the plights of many workers.

Not exact matches

Far from offering the sort of insightful, well - informed take that has brought the site as many as 35 million monthly uniques and won kudos from everyone from Nas to Junot D?az, they were more akin to the sort of juvenile remark one might find buried in the comments thread on a low - budget news aggregator: cruel, idiotic, shockingly insensitive, and misogynistic.

Last week, Royal London Asset Management branded the proposed increase in Dudley's pay as «unreasonable and insensitive» and said it would vote against the report.

After calling out a tweet by Amazon C.T.O. Werner Vogels as being short - sighted and insensitive, he reached out to me to explain how I had misread the situation.

Yet another large company has found themselves the subject of the outrage of the internet as a result of culturally insensitive advertising.

The airline dug itself into a deeper hole with its response to the incident, which many perceived as being insensitive.

Over-sharing comes across as self - obsessed and insensitive to the balance of the conversation.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Watch out for phrases that can be read as potentially sarcastic, insensitive, passive - aggressive, or patronizing.

I have to agree with Susan and Sarah although their comments seem to come off as belligerent and perhaps insensitive, given the nature of this article and the congruence of their posts to the word of God they have a much more biblical stance than the chaplain.

Please, IM4FREEDOM, don't talk like an ignorant atheist, what I mean is there are intelligent atheists, as well as ignorant atheists; also there are intelligent Christians as well as ignorant Christians, but your remark sounds more like an ignorant, accusing, sarcastic, insensitive atheist.

The Mahatma replied, «Gurudev, I am not so dumb or insensitive as not to be moved by the beauty of the rose or the morning rays of the sun or the divine music of the birds.

As an African American Christian who grew up in Robertson's neck of the woods with aunts and uncles who absolutely experienced racial discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, I find his comments about happy, singing Black people to be insensitive and unconscionable.

As an African American woman, it tells me that the Church is not interested in Calvary - like reconciliation; we'd rather stop short at empty words of «I'm with the blacks» and insensitive generalizations like «they were godly; they were happy» and uneducated assumptions that, because you have not heard, seen, or have been party to mistreatment, it doesn't exist.

His real name was George Pease Williams, but to ward off insensitive school - yard taunts as a young boy he constructed a more elegant middle name for himself, and this is how he was known for the rest of his life: George Huntston Williams (1914 - 2000).

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.