Word: offendable
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...haven from our world, but a way to cultivate the sympathies necessary to being better citizens in it. What is revolutionary about this kind of poetry is that it doesn’t discriminate between form and function: a precisely placed word invests literature with the ability to move, offend, inspire, and incite, making the act of reading and writing deeply, even deliberately, pragmatic. There is everything political about American literature...
...Negro.” Peter’s elderly billionaire client Mrs. Arness (Joan Plowright) fondly reminisces about Ivy, the unpaid black servant her family employed in her youth. These culture clashes, which provide much of the movie’s humor, have the potential to offend, but shouldn’t. Instead, these scenes highlight Peter’s willingness to let slide the racism which pervades his world...
...store for Columbia, but now that it’s headed for a winless season, people want blood. Losing, it would appear, is not Hill’s sin. The magnitude of it is. A fifth-place finish, as Hill posted last year, doesn’t offend Columbia’s sensibilities. A last-place finish apparently does...
...don’t think we have a right to take down things that offend us,” Sichel said. “We have to put up posters to the contrary...
...overlooked, a silly mistake of editors and writers exhausted from a long day. Yet when minority issues are so often misrepresented, when the consequences of such mistakes can affect the future of so many people, and when action is not taken to remedy statements that could and do offend an entire community, many begin to feel that there is something more than words being overlooked. Do more than say your sorry behind closed doors, publicly recognize this fault on behalf of your staff and it will be a big step to mending any injuries caused now and in the past...