Word: offendable
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...Christmas symbol so devoid of content that it could not possibly offend anyone is probably what is needed. But nobody would be interested...
...most outrageous acts of cold-blooded civic slaughter in recent memory. In a speech at the Piazza Palitearna, the Pope cautiously sympathized with Palermo's anguished citizens. "Facts of barbarous violence, which for too long a time have bloodied the strengths of this splendid city, offend human dignity...
...also made attendance at regular morning chapel compulsory. In protest, they started a magazine, called The Collegian, in which they vented their frustrations in verse and satire. Here they wrote imaginary dialogues condemning compulsory religion; here they lampooned a pompous Latin professor in dactylic hexameter; here they managed to offend the Harvard faculty so thoroughly that then-president Thomas Hill called the group into his office and threatened it with expulsion after just three issues...
...perplexing question. Like the Israeli Minister, I tried picking at random a combination of numbers which would add up to this desired number, and the results were ominous: 1984 can be written as 1300 (thus frightening triskadecaphobes for an entire year) plus 666 plus three sixes (which would offend religious people as well as those who saw the "Omen" movies...
...periods of unpopularity, Noël Coward sat down for a heart-to-heart with the wisest man he knew. "I don't care for the present trends either in literature or the theater," he confessed. "Pornography bores me. Squalor disgusts me. Garishness, vulgarity and commonness of mind offend me." Was it possible, he asked, that he was out of touch with the new decade...