Word: offendable
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Publicity of cases is thus not an issue in itself, but merely a symptom of the unfairness of Harvard's procedures. If all parties involved felt the case had been handled fairly, and if Harvard's approach to the problem did not offend the community's sense of justice, it is unlikely that cases would find their way to the press with such regularity...
...choke off the budding economic recovery, all right, but they may not do it-or at any rate, the damage may not be noticeable-until 1985. Meanwhile, there is no great public clamor for action. So with any luck, both tax increases and cuts in Government spending that might offend powerful groups of voters can be put off until after the elections. And if that turns out to be too late? Well...
...century B.C. would have understood him to mean. They had already been thoroughly schooled on who Aeneas was and what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been in doubt. Fitzgerald's rendition of Virgil's famous introduction may offend purists. It is not, strictly speaking, literal, but something more than that: a recapturing of implicit meanings in explicit terms...
...though: because American orchestras are rarely very far from the brink, they are forced to make their product appeal to as wide an audience as possible. On the other hand, fiscal constraints often force conservatism in choice of repertory, with unfamiliar or contemporary music slighted so as not to offend those concertgoers principally attracted by the Beethoven symphonies...
...more haunting proportions-the old self-doubt kept creeping in. Telltale signs of the well-known Mondale shilly-shallying began showing up. He fumbled his relationship with his former boss, Jimmy Carter. And he warily navigated his way through the party's numerous interest blocs, careful to offend no one. Like his own captive party, he seemed more bound up in special interests than in national interests. Maybe, political observers said to themselves, he was right about himself the first time...