Example sentences for: sensibilities

How can you use “sensibilities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An article argues that the Princess Di hoopla finally brought American emotional sensibilities (i.e.

  • Those who like the show call it "immensely enjoyable" (Jess Cagle, Entertainment Weekly ) and say it "takes a new bead on the familiar old target and hits the bull's-eye with ease" (Richard Zoglin, Time ). Those who don't like it say that the new version (expurgated of several un-PC songs) is an uneasy mix of '40s and '90s sensibilities and falls flat.

  • I am not persuaded that a speaker who offends a hearer's sensibilities directly suffers loss of face: loss of face could come about only by some retaliatory action of the hearer's.

  • British writers (among whom I number journalists, who, after all, probably write more English than most people) sometimes go to great lengths to avoid using the subjunctive, resulting in writing that jars what poor sensibilities might remain to Americans:

  • President Bush approved military plans to attack Afghanistan in meetings with Central Command's General Franks and other advisers on September 21 and October 2. Originally titled "Infinite Justice," the operation's code word was changed-to avoid the sensibilities of Muslims who associate the power of infinite justice with God alone-to the operational name still used for operations in Afghanistan:"Enduring Freedom."


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