Sentences with phrase «squeamishness about»

It pushed him get over his squeamishness about vaginas and his awkwardness in doing something new.

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.

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»).

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.

What this squeamishness about «ideology» reflects is a phenomenon that has been pointed out often, and in depth on this blog.

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.

David Lee claimed this may have been because of the Tate's squeamishness about honouring a «mere photographer» rather than an artist.

My squeamishness about writing about her, distorted my first Artletter, and only in 1992 did I have the courage to point to her real importance.

Despite our squeamishness about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between Chinese and Westerners when it comes to parenting.

If the Oscars need an excuse to get over their squeamishness about the film's genre, all voters need to do is look at Black Panther's scores on Rotten Tomatoes (97 percent) and Metacritic (88) to have those tastes validated.

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.

Isn't it better to just have some people get over their squeamishness about breastfeeding?

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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

(A squeamishness that doesn't apply to movies about torturing hippie saviours to death, apparently.)

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.

The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.