Sentences with phrase «so taboo»

Some great tips, there is no reason salary requirements should seem so taboo in a first contact.

Your topic is so taboo that very few publishers will touch it.

Suddenly, it wasn't so taboo for the two video game juggernauts to be seen in the same room, and soon after Nintendo assigned Sega's subsidiary, Amusement Vision, to the next installment of its futuristic racing series, F - Zero.

Every relationship establishes its own rules and guidelines on how polyamory works for them, and these folks are often looked down upon for their involvement in something so taboo.

It normalizes something that is typically so taboo.

That used to be so taboo for me, but now I absolutely love it.

It's hard to believe that it's so taboo to talk about something so common.

It's only natural for people to try to understand and come to terms with their inevitable demise, and as the book reveals, it is only in modern Western society that the topic of death has become so taboo.

Breast Milk Baby seems so taboo in comparison!

What was it that made talking about birth so taboo from the pulpit?

questioning religion is not so taboo nowadays.

Plus, I do believe I raise an interesting (if entirely tangential) idea of why swearing is considered so taboo to some people.

The Youngs say the church has been silent about the issue of sex for too long and that they believe the issue should not be so taboo.

Not exact matches

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

«Salaries are one of the last great taboos, and like anything that's taboo, once you puncture it and deflate the mythology, it doesn't seem so special anymore.»

Controversy sells so if you're willing to break taboos and speak truths that people usually prefer to ignore, you can turn heads.

If you're planning a date for Valentine's Day, you'll probably want to avoid talking about money: Most people are so reluctant to engage that they would prefer to discuss other taboo topics like politics or religion.

With talent pools drying up and essential roles remaining vacant for more than a month, the taboo surrounding hiring these so - called «boomerang employees» is fading fast.

Another party would doubtless have argued that «This is taboo» means roughly the same as «I disapprove of this; do so as well.

So a person who would never have become a heroin addict in the old days of the opioid taboo could now become the equivalent of one, in a more antiseptic way.

Restoring the taboo against anti-Semitism is made more difficult precisely because Jews are so very much part of American life.

Then the first man and woman were cast out of paradise for breaking the taboo, raised two sons to adulthood, at which point one became so jealous of the other that he killed his brother.

Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

For so potent has the revivalistic image become that anything resembling the word by which it was principally known, «evangelism,» is taboo.

Where the taboos were simply pushed aside by reason, as in India and Greece, rational reflection on the nature of the good life became possible, but the sense of ought, expressed so powerfully in the taboos, remained unrationalized, whereas among the Hebrews the question of what one ought to do preoccupied rational attention.

It is a difficult enterprise to maintain in a time when taboos lie strewn across the cultural battlefield, but Ms. Brown, being British, knows that there is still a giggle to be milked from an audience that only vaguely remembers what was supposed to be sacred about the institutions and ideas now so casually mocked.

What's worse, the good Muslims of which you speak don't even speak out against the extremists, it being taboo to do so.

(Unfortunately, we must constantly remind people that prohibitions and taboos do not come from Christianity, and that as far as situations that create guilt are concerned, you can find nothing better than the tangles of prohibitions among so - called primitive peoples.

It is perhaps no surprise that someone who has spent a lifetime opposing the teaching of his own church on so many different issues (to the complete confusion of Protestants such as myself, I hasten to add) should choose to end his life in breaking one last church taboo.

So it was a time when many listened «without taboo» to arguments in favor of complicity with Nazi domination of Europe.

So if «two men shall be lying in the bed,» is what God wanted it to read (and I believe it is because it was really for the latter days in which we live and two men in bed is not taboo and is almost norm), then one or both of them can be saved just as anyone else.

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

He sought to find commonly accepted patterns of behavior, to avoid becoming conspicuous, to observe the taboos, and to bend before the pressure of events so that he would not be broken.

There are so many questions that so many people are asking, and so many of us are afraid to ask them because we think we are all alone in our questions, and if we ever voice them, some tell us these are «taboo» questions....

(I Samuel 26:19 [Marginal translation]-RRB- Indeed, the whole complex of taboo, custom, and rite, revealed in the Old Testament, went back originally to this primitive desire to do something, however non-moral or bizarre, so to Yahweh's taste that it would ward off the troubles that he held in his control.

I suspect that our difficulties will soon become so critical that even respected statesmen will disregard the taboos of the past and begin talking about and helping to delineate a distinctively American socialism.

But to depict the Jew on the cross after the war was to confront a stronger taboo, for to do so required the victim to borrow from the oppressor's cultural tradition.

Thus, for truly international distribution, films had to have slightly different versions so as not to offend local taboos.

So jealous was the god thought to be of this «devoted» loot that when, as at Jericho, tabooed property was secreted, his wrath was ruinous, (Joshua, chap.

Gambling, like so much else, is no longer taboo.

It is odd that Walker, who writes so much about sexual abuse of women, should be so insensitive to the incest taboo in By the Light of My Father's Smile.

That's why there are so many words to describe forbidden religious opinions, like «blasphemous», «sacrilegious», «profane», «irreligious», «taboo», «irreverent», «heresy» and all the way to «sinful», just to name a few.

Old notions of «taboo» may still survive here; but even so we may well prefer this sense of appropriate distance between God and man to the all too common representations of chumminess which are characteristic of popular religion in our own days.

Before, questioning bullfighting as a cultural tradition had been taboo in Spain — to do so was to be seen as a traitor, unpatriotic.

The home run, the quickest way to a fat paycheck, is so driving baseball that striking out is no longer taboo for batters, who last year whiffed at a higher rate than ever.

And that is not to knock Marshall, because I think it's admirable that not only did he get help for his mental health issues, but that he is now also an outspoken advocate of other guys doing so — which we all know had been taboo in macho sports like football for far too long.

I feel like I am secretly partaking in a sexual taboo, so reading all thecomments is really helpful.

Swearing in relation to children's» behaviour is taboo in itself so particularly in writing, best not to do that.

When I'm out and about, a lot of moms do a double take when they see other moms breastfeeding, I feel like if they saw images like this when they're out and about it wouldn't make it so weird or taboo.

And, worst of all, it's such a taboo subject that makes others feel so uncomfortable, you often find yourself suffering alone and in silence.