I trust that few RHSU readers will mistake my concerns
for squeamishness or kind - heartedness.
Not exact matches
Other reasons, as suggested by Elle's Chloe Schama in her recent story on the need
for better pumps, include our
squeamishness around the topic, as well as the fact that most of the people with the skills and funds to improve upon it are men.
For her part, Gerry looks forward to further elucidating the biomechanics of leech muscles, despite the
squeamishness of some colleagues.
We all have people in our lives who avoid meat and / or animal products in general
for multiple reasons — health, ethics, the environment,
squeamishness, animal welfare — but we care about them.
The only things keeping Dawn of the Dead from soaring are a quartet of characters (the doomed dad, the slut, the slack - jawed yokel, the cross-dressing émigré) who function as distracting padding — and the sort of
squeamishness in regards to hardcore gore that our culture of creeping sanctimony has made par
for the course since the grand guignol of the original.
Perhaps America isn't ready
for a lusty gay relationship between two big stars like Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor — or
for yuks like one where the former scoffs at the latter
for spitting rather than swallowing — but the movie seems cheerfully oblivious to any
squeamishness on the audience's part.
Squeamishness, if not revulsion, is the effect the artists are looking
for.
Instead, it is
squeamishness about what our shopping habits do to forests that drives the argument
for international regulatory frameworks, and it is hard to see how focusing on land, trees and cows will raise the standard of living
for people whose labour and lives are cheap.
Nowadays our wilderness is not managed
for predators because of
squeamishness about poisons and guns, and because of lack of funds (conservation money goes to some peculiar urban movement called «Environmentalism»).
But Justice Stevens had never before shown any squishiness or
squeamishness about giving full effect to the Sixth Amendment jury trial rights he championed in his Apprendi and Booker opinions
for the Court.