Sentences with phrase «squeamishness in»

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In optimistic moments she tried to convince herself that she suffered no more than a heightened form of squeamishness, which was bound to pass.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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