The phrase
"delicate sensibilities" refers to someone being easily offended or upset by things that others may not find offensive or upsetting.
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Your feet may end up leading you to the Church of St Francis, which plays host to the grave of Portuguese mariner Marco de Vasco who first ventured to this part of the world in 1498, as well as evidence of the more
delicate sensibilities of other travelling Europeans.
With the exception of the fact that somebody has been bumped off, the cozy tends to be light in tone; that is, it is crafted so as not to
offend delicate sensibilities.
Fancy schmancy For those humans whose
delicate sensibilities just can't deal with the sight of a litter box, there are tons of options out there.
I even tried to temper the intensity of this confection for more
delicate sensibilities by arranging actual edible flowers on top.
Perhaps the lone surprise of «Fifty Shades Freed» is just how incidental its erotica has become: There's no shortage here of lightly spiced bump and grind, staged and shot with salted - caramel smoothness, with nothing more than Johnson's nipples or a fleeting brush of Dornan's pubic hedge to
prickle delicate sensibilities.
The two separate parts of the dog's odor detection system, the nose and Jacobsen's organ, work together to
provide delicate sensibilities that neither system could achieve alone.
Like the insects he collects or the canaries he lets fly around his studio, whose presence he convokes in most of his work, his drawings and sculptures all border on a
highly delicate sensibility.
Those of you with
similarly delicate sensibilities should steer clear of David Mackenzie's adaptation of the carnal pulp noir Young Adam, penned in 1957 by Glasgow beatnik Alexander Trocchi.
This is very dangerous for lawyers, who can't afford to let their
personal delicate sensibilities impair their duty to clients to be tough enough to withstand scrutiny.
With photography and film, Jimmy DeSana, David Benjamin Sherry, Jack Smith, and John Waters fly in the face of stodgy modernist quests for beauty unadulterated by flamboyant colors or subjects that
offend delicate sensibilities.
Since they obviously offend
your delicate sensibilities, you can avoid it all by getting rid of yourself.
If this offends
your delicate sensibilities, tough sh!t.
Good intentions and
delicate sensibilities are not moral arguments.
Feel free to ignore the people that offend
your delicate sensibilities.
Is it better that these people don't show up at all because it might offend someone's
delicate sensibilities and fashion sense?
Pacifists do not ask for a special exemption because of their high moral views or
delicate sensibilities; they refuse to participate in war because it is immoral.
I won't tarnish
your delicate sensibilities with what I said but here is a hint: a word said often was the long form of Mofo.
Giroud is NOT contracted to satisfy
your delicate sensibilities.
I wonder what level of aggressiveness is just enough to appease the pundits but not too much to upset
their delicate sensibilities.
Someone should explain to him that the team with the most goals wins — not the team whose play satisfies
his delicate sensibilities.
Anyone with
delicate sensibilities shouldn't be watching football, let alone posting on an internet sports forum.
Maybe we should go for someone like Lee Cattermole, that should give you a proper hard - on and he wouldn't offend
your delicate sensibilities.
Ultimately, I decided that my baby's comfort, as well as my own, had to be more important to me than other people's
delicate sensibilities.
«Aaron apparently listened to me on NPR this morning and got all
his delicate sensibilities out of sorts and panties bunched up over a reference I made relating to getting the raccoons out of the basement, interpreting it as a racial slur,» Paladino continued.
This was too much for
the delicate sensibility of the New Statesman, which abandoned its traditional support for the Labour cause and urged people to vote Liberal Democrat.
Sneered Michael Caputo: «If this offends
the delicate sensibilities of the liberals who have ruined this state, it is time for them to pull up their underpants and understand that the taxpayers are bringing change this election.»
This inherently feminine style has certainly moved past its provocative beginnings, when wearing a corset over your jeans offended
thy delicate sensibilities, branching out into endless expressions and variations of what lingerie, sensuality and femininity have come to mean.
My delicate sensibilities were offended.
It's more than a bit stuffy and tailored to
the delicate sensibilities of the fine arts crowd, but it's impossible not to be impressed by the pageantry and technical achievement.
Their antics offend
the delicate sensibilities of the PTA's Queen Bee and her inner circle, leading to a feud between the rival women.
Nocturnal Animals is not intended for mainstream audiences, the easily offended, or those with
delicate sensibilities.
Contemporary e-books are normally full of profanity and some of the classics use verbiage that upset
the delicate sensibilities of readers.
You've commissioned the most beguiling of covers, invested in an ace editor and painstakingly tweaked the interior formatting to ensure
the delicate sensibilities of your reader will not be unexpectedly jarred by a rogue font pairing or flubbed folios.
Indeed, blood and gore is one of the big selling points here it seems, though it can be turned off if the sight of a sheep getting splattered in a variety of ways is too much for
your delicate sensibilities.
When a construction crew blocks a lane and causes traffic to pile up, the rest of us might have to politely merge and endure the slight delay with quiet dignity, but it is far too much for
the delicate sensibilities of Road Royalty.
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