Sentences with word «squeamishness»

Despite breastfeeding's undisputed health benefits to infants, women who choose to breastfeed and work encounter all manner of obstacles, among them employers who won't let them take breaks to pump milk at regular intervals, or who relegate women to bathroom stalls to pump milk; squeamishness over breast milk; and distinctly American sexual and cultural mores that surface on any matter involving bared breasts.

And yet Barry Sonnenfeld's Big Trouble, the long - delayed (because of 9/11) adaptation of Barry's novel of the same name, is, despite a slow opening featuring just too much of Tim Allen, frenetic and often hilarious — facts likely obscured by an understandable squeamishness in this climate towards mocking airline security and the easy acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.

The particular topic he takes to task is our society's squeamishness around the topic of sexuality, which in reality is a natural facet of human life.

You have no reason beyond squeamishness to even complain about what they do in the bathroom or in the bedroom.

Legislators, business owners and family members are debating how to reconcile the health benefits of nursing with the prevailing cultural squeamishness toward nursing in public.

So faced with this status quo, I'm willing to overcome understandable squeamishness about marketing to children and try to beat the industry at its own game.

Labour must «shed its metropolitan squeamishness about England», Hunt recently wrote, as he called on the party to embrace ideas including an English Labour and an English Parliament.

Anyways, it probably is just squeamishness.

It loses squeamishness about the decencies.

It is public and it is entrenched in practice, there to be exploited by others who view our abhorrence as no more than irrational squeamishness.

That's because he wants to breastfeed, and his need to breastfeed comes before whatever kind of public squeamishness I may encounter.

Sometimes I wish my husband were a little less squeamish about the whole thing (you should have seen him when he saw the TV ultrasound «probe») but on second thought, I'll take squeamishness anyday over this sicko.

Even doctors recoil from faecal transplants — but you might get over such squeamishness if it was your only hope of beating a killer infection

It'll be done better in a few years and with less squeamishness by Paul Verhoeven's The Fourth Man, but in the annals of American»70s cult, B - exploitation cinema, The Witch Who Came from the Sea is in roughly the same neighbourhood as Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Wes Craven's Last House on the Left, Meir Zarchi's I Spit On Your Grave, and even Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha.

-- The Village Voice «Finds insights and forges connections that transcend squeamishness» — Film Comment Magazine «Breathtaking.

The Lovely Bones finds Peter Jackson regressing into his worst instincts and a newfound squeamishness in a film about, ick, a fourteen - year - old girl's rape and murder, leaving the most unsavoury details of Alice Sebold's revered source novel to the golden - lit imagination.

Consider our curricular squeamishness in acknowledging that Columbus «discovered» America; of course those who were already here didn't see it that way, but from the perspective of fifteenth - century Europe it was indeed a newly discovered place — albeit one found by accident!

I trust that few RHSU readers will mistake my concerns for squeamishness or kind - heartedness.

Squeamishness Ironically, the only highly tipped name not included was photographer Richard Billingham, whose unsettling portraits of his family and west Midlands low life have been praised for their raw truthfulness.

The one major roadblock is getting over our North American squeamishness at the thought of eating crickets, mealworms, grasshoppers, buffalo worms, locusts, and the like.

Given the urgency and scale of the global climate challenge we face, continued squeamishness about its inclusion in a corporate sustainability strategy is a luxury the planet can ill afford.

Meanwhile, Chinese industrial progress will continue largely unconstrained by green squeamishness.

And analysts expect the sector to remain strong throughout the rest of the year, despite investors» sudden squeamishness.

The other media moguls I wrote about regarded the prospect of their businesses being scrutinized with varying degrees of squeamishness.

While there are some similarities between Britain's squeamishness over immigration and pre-Freedom Party political correctness in the Netherlands, the UK's historical immigration patterns have been vastly different.

I have a problem with hell that goes beyond squeamishness.

Also in the book, Dagenham MP (and Labour policy co-coordinator) Jon Cruddas says Labour's «metropolitan squeamishness» meant it struggled to relate to English working - class voters in the run - up the election.

If it seems like there are more in the adult film industry, it's because the very nature of the business tends towards the sensational (this article's existence is proof of that... the only «news» here is that a Christian marriage hit a rough patch, and it'd be hard to find one that hasn't), and also because societies guilt and squeamishness in this matter essentially pushes fringe elements of the industry underground.

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.

Dozens of companies hope nutritional and ecological benefits can overcome diners» squeamishness

After all, there's no better way to make a group of men squeamish than to show them an X-ray of a fallopian tube, and squeamishness is not an emotion that usually precedes funding.

What's more, Snap's proposed valuation could be the Snapchat founders» way of drawing more prospective investors in by allaying any squeamishness over too rich a price, while also setting the stage for the company to increase it after its IPO road show, as Fortune's Erin Griffith points out.

The precariousness of those numbers, and the company's squeamishness about them, became evident even as the process wended toward finalization, providing just one more reason to hit the pause, if not the stop, button.

There is no squeamishness here about the phrase «organic unity.»

I suspect that what prompted this tamer version of the movie was not merely the squeamishness of Aunt Martha and Uncle Harry but the fact that the original film had stirred up a surprising and unintended reaction: it caused some people to question the very goodness of God.

and when I expressed to her some squeamishness about asking you to do this, she pointed out, correctly I think, that such accolades give needed visibility to those of us who are trying to get the word out about healthful eating, school food reform and the rest.

Our squeamishness with breastfeeding in public has consequences we refuse to acknowledge.

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.

Squeamishness?

Last year, researchers at Cardiff University in Wales uncovered one source of this squeamishness: Although studies of healthy sexuality are few and far between, there are more than 5,000 published studieslinking autism to inappropriate behavior such as stalking, public fondling or sexual obsessions.

Pragmatism has won out over squeamishness, and acceptance will probably keep growing.

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.

Hill delivers a smooth comic performance, registering incredulity and squeamishness.