Sentences with phrase «making insensitive»

Thus our defenses threaten to make us insensitive.

«This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.»

In order to make your baby feel more comfortable around family, friends and even strangers, be sure to remind these people not to make insensitive remarks, stare or point at him.

Moore is quoted in the Democrat & Chronicle as saying that he made an insensitive remark and he regrets making it.

It is as if these subjects find themselves in a situation of perpetual, extreme activation in relation to their emotions, which appears to make them insensitive to changes in them, to differences, to the color shades that enrich our daily lives.»

You must apologize for your behavior, if you did anything wrong on the date, such as if you made an insensitive remark, overlooked your manners, or did not pay attention to what the other person is saying, etc..

I was just made aware that my aide made an insensitive and inappropriate allegation about Parkland students today.

A husband who criticizes your accomplishments, puts down your dreams and goals and makes insensitive comments possibly has resentment or built - up anger from another issue.

Judges will all too often make insensitive and flippant remarks to both parents such as «knock your heads together and try and work this out!»

Not exact matches

There are probably a very few owners who are insensitive to her plight and would make her stick to the company's vacation and sick day policy, assuming there is one.

In my experience, 100 percent of the time that I've made the decision to let chronically insensitive staff go, it's been the right choice for the business.

First Call is tailor made for aggressive, risk - insensitive investors who have one goal in mind: wealth creation.

We have christians fighting to make public school give them time to pray and have church clubs, but when jews or muslims do it in a public place it requires a call to the FBI and they claim the jews are being insensitive?

It makes them look petty as well as insensitive.

This matter is deadly serious and to make it a subject of insensitive fantasy is equally serious» (S: Nomanul Haq, «Salman Rushdie, Blame Yourself,» February 23, 1989)

But when it happens to Mihee, something within me stirs to make sure that I am never that insensitive to another.

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.

In other words, he's not too bright so he just made an ignorant, insensitive gesture rather than doing anything that would actually help, like donating to the victims» families.

I find it quite contradictory and insensitive on his part that he would take the time and make the effort to do this for the victims... and then say something like this.

Still, when the physical therapist tells me I shouldn't make certain movements and I should work on other exercises, they're not being insensitive, but trying to help the healing and preventing me from further harm.

It has turned attention away from the natural world in such a way as to make us collectively unobservant and insensitive to the ecological destructiveness of our economic practices.

Such a view would make the «cosmic artist» monstrously insensitive, and I think we may categorically reject this idea.

In the second place it still seems to make God monstrously insensitive to the particular suffering of individuals.

It is difficult for someone who does not have any food allergies / sensitivities to understand this — making yourself more educated may give you a better understanding of how some people respond to certain foods — only an intelligent person would know better than to reply with such an insensitive response.

1) Special Teams Coordinator Mike Priefer made offensive and insensitive (read: Anti-Gay) remarks in Kluwe's presence.

As I recall jpq made what some might call an insensitive joke.

The most painful part of his recovery has been coping with insensitive remarks made by acquaintances who have known him for years.

Parental smoking, drinking, and drug use make parents insensitive to their babies and can be dangerous.

One person claiming to be a «lactation activist» made a stupid, insensitive comment.

Dear Abby: A recent letter mentioned insensitive remarks made about those of us who do not fit «the norm.»

Good care can not remove the pain and devastation that bereaved parents experience, but poor or insensitive care makes things worse, both immediately and in the months and years that follow.

«Julie Killian has a long history of associating with and accepting campaign cash from Daniel Loeb, who has a history of making racially insensitive comments,» said Jonathan Heppner, a spokesman for the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

The Cookie Monster Experiment was devised to test the hypothesis that power makes people stupid and insensitive or disinhibited.

The members of the club said what the councilman was saying wasn't true and that they weren't sure he understood the «insensitive» decision he made.

If Conservatives look insensitive to the needs of hard - pressed consumers and Labour naïve about the impact on jobs their less business - friendly policies could have, the Lib Dems could make hay as the moderaters.

«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.

It's the law and people like Mr. Yearwood (who in my opinion is an arrogant and insensitive man) does not care if a concerned mother like Mrs. Kimberly Puccia (who was only waiting to make sure that her child got into the dance school building safely) receive's a ticket by one of his Traffic Agent's under his command.

Twenty - five people will join other Native Americans from across the state at 3 p.m. Monday on the steps of City Hall, in lower Manhattan, to protest comments Bloomberg made that they say are racially insensitive and offensive.

To make the bandage simple to interpret, the team also incorporated a green oxygen - insensitive reference dye, so that changes in tissue oxygenation are displayed as a green - to - red colormap.

To determine the level of a particular pollutant in drinking water — which the EPA does before making a regulatory ruling on it — the agency relies on analytic testing methods so insensitive that they can not identify the contaminants at levels expected to cause health effects.

The failure to diversify the faculties and student populations in most earth and space science departments suggests that there may be prohibitive barriers, inappropriate pedagogical practices, or insensitive policies that make the academic environment unattractive to underrepresented groups.

But he warns that the gene could have undesirable side effects in some plants: «If we indiscriminately make a plant insensitive to ethylene, we may affect its response to diseases or to pests.»

«Making the switch to polarization diversity: A new silicon - photonic chip paves the way to truly integrated polarization - insensitive switches.»

«I told them, «I know how to make really good shoes for people with diabetic, insensitive feet.»»

The variants that are insensitive make less of a key protein that senses ascarosides in their olfactory system than those that are sensitive.

Similarly (and perhaps relatedly), the magnitude of the change in aerosol forcing from ~ 1975 to present relative to the change in all forcings is much smaller than from pre-ind through present, which I think should make the TCR estimated over that period insensitive to the value of E.

In the article Chavez, of the High Explosives Science and Technology group, details two materials never before synthesized, the first, a dinitro - diamino compound, displays performance approaching that of conventional high performance materials, but is insensitive to impact spark and friction, making it very safe to handle.

We decided to investigate whether the acquisition of a secondary JAK inhibitor resistant mutation in the kinase domain would make JAK1 V658F insensitive to JAK inhibition.

It can make you appear naive and insensitive and lead to more conflict.

Hearing the words «breast cancer» from a loved one might make you curious and afraid, but you'll want to avoid these insensitive remarks.