Word: squeamish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...purpose of Moral Reasoning? FM thought it was “just” that the reasoning, moral or not, of those brave enough to speak up in Sandel’s lecture be published for our devoted followers. He’s just a little “squeamish:” “Despite the fact that logically you should push the fat man and kill one to save five, I’m so personally squeamish about killing other people that I couldn’t force myself to push a man into sudden death...
...customers at Harvard this year and that only four claims are still pending. Collegeboxes’ national record, however, is far from sterling. At New York University and Columbia, Collegeboxes appears to have performed as poorly this year as it did at Harvard last year. Students are understandably squeamish about Collegeboxes and will likely remain so until the horror stories abate. The issue of on-campus storage is a different story. To begin with, the College does not insure storage like Collegeboxes and makes it clear that students store belongings in Houses entirely at their own risk. Such storage...
...find sex, or even the aura of sexuality, in films by the current generation of pop-referencing auteurs. They swarm all over the violence in '60s-'70s grindhouse movies but are squeamish in showing the eroticism that once was crucial to the genre. The generation of "kids with beards," as Billy Wilder called Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, took their cues from a wide range of movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs...
...range from simple and straightforward (ham-and-gherkin sandwiches, croque-monsieur snacks) to elaborate and exotic (jugged wild boar with spelt-and-saffron risotto, pot-roast confit with lemon-flavored coriander salad). All are enticingly photographed by Marie-Pierre Morel, though some of the dishes are not for the squeamish. For example, a hearty stew introduced early in the book lists pig's liver, pig's kidneys and pig's heart among its ingredients, while an entrée named "Pig's Head and Parsley Pâté" was conceived to use up the meat leftover from a slaughter...
...Looking for reviewers of a certain ethnicity simply because of an ethnicity makes me a little squeamish,” Gewen, a 17-year veteran of the Book Review, said...