She had been expecting an inoffensive remark about the weather, so this rather aggressive observation threw her completely. |
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The debates was little more than a cosy session of swapping inoffensive historical anecdotes about libraries. |
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Despite the lack of extras, the movie is nice-looking, inoffensive fun, and a welcome addition to any DVD library. |
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The letters require tactful, delicate, inoffensive, non-confrontational responses. |
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It has to be said that the overwhelming feature of the 2005 long-list is just how orthodox, inoffensive, and non-contentious it looks. |
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Docile and inoffensive by nature, the anteater's principal enemies are the puma and the jaguar. |
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The warm salad of puy lentils and mixed beans again seemed inoffensive but not wildly memorable. |
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He is fondly remembered by his neighbours and friends as a kind, helpful and inoffensive man. |
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A man of impeccable character, his quiet and inoffensive manner endeared him to all who had the pleasure of knowing him. |
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A woman of great religious beliefs she was of a most inoffensive nature and was very popular in the local community. |
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A quiet, kind and inoffensive woman she enjoyed the simple things in life and looked forward to a weekly game of bingo. |
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The need of the electorate was to reject and eject a corrupt administration, Labour being an inoffensive alternative. |
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The film might end up being completely inoffensive for all I know, but I see why they are worried. |
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Even fish are transformed from a mass of scales, bones, eyes and heads into a neat, inoffensive and anonymous fillet. |
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It seems that being merely nice and inoffensive gets you nowhere on the telly. |
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Still, it is inoffensive and harmless, and even a little bit cute in its own way. |
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I'd rather have a sliver of prosciutto or a wheel of spicy sausage than neutral, inoffensive chicken any day. |
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He was a quiet, inoffensive gentleman of the old style, who devoted his time to his work and family. |
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Of a kind and inoffensive disposition she died as she had lived ever so quietly and peacefully. |
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A quiet, inoffensive person, she was the essence of gentleness and kindness. |
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Here he portrayed his wife, not as mild or inoffensive, but as argumentative and idle. |
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He was a familiar sight around the town where his kind and inoffensive disposition endeared him to all. |
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Also I suspect at least some of the selections were carefully vetted by campaign staffers to be as inoffensive as possible. |
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What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another. |
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Do I not like the group because they are the dernier cri in insipid and inoffensive, and you can't tell one song from the next? |
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The drink was served in a wine glass, straight up, no ice and tasted inoffensive. |
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I moved into my new antiseptic apartment, anonymously beige and thoroughly inoffensive, and became a relative recluse. |
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Our tester's black-trimmed cabin looks anonymously inoffensive at first, but a few areas will rouse persnickety observers. |
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He is too sweet, too nice, too inoffensive for the dig at hypocrisy to hit home, and many of the jokes lack the audacious punch of old. |
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Continue to look at them and their placid, inoffensive appearance draws you in with a curious and unexpected power. |
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A navy two-piece with an inoffensive hat should help the day pass without incident. |
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A cool restrained world of subtle lighting and blond wood, air-conditioned, sanitised and utterly inoffensive. |
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The result is a highly inoffensive, passable sound which has its interesting, if unremarkable, moments. |
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In general, in-flight films are supposed to be as inoffensive and unstimulating as possible. |
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In short, the film is a pleasingly inoffensive diversion in which Philip Seymour Hoffman, in the guise of splenetic gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs, almost steals the show. |
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The movie is pretty inoffensive in the sense that jokes are not mean-spirited, there's no toilet humor and there's not really a whole lot of violence. |
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Of a quiet, kind and inoffensive disposition, she was a real lady. |
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The present sign on a wall is inoffensive, out of the way and informs the public that here is to be found something which is necessary and desirable. |
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Compost is a stable, inoffensive product that can be handled safely and used as a soil conditioner. |
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On the other side of the room, a DJ spins some inoffensive Motown choons. |
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You know that red mist thing where you find yourself punching some inoffensive article of furniture for no better reason than that you have just banged into it? |
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Not terrible, not brilliant, not good, but amiable, uneventful, inoffensive. |
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In a music scene dominated by inoffensive pretty boys singing bland pop for teenage girls, So Solid were something fresh. |
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The music throughout is nonvocal, so there's little distraction, and is fairly generic dance-style music that most viewers should find inoffensive. |
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What School Disco largely deals in is not nostalgia, but inoffensive, singalong pop and rock hits, the sort of thing you'd find on your average pub jukebox. |
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This is a man who is slick, talented and articulate, and who is cloaking his agenda of hatred behind rhetoric calculated to seem inoffensive. |
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These two substances, which were at first reputed to be inoffensive, are also quasi imperishable in nature. |
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War games and toys make war inoffensive because they do not involve its consequences. |
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He was a kind, quiet, inoffensive man who was a wonderful neighbour. |
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Ollie, who was well known to all, was a quiet inoffensive man and his popularity was evidenced by the large concourse of mourners who attended the funeral. |
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Seemingly inoffensive lozenges may contain ingredients that will interact with your medication. |
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At the same time, the programmes did not generally filter out inoffensive sites, including those where the name could have caused confusion. |
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On the other hand, although green tea seems inoffensive, it could interact with certain medications you are already taking. |
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In many cases, inoffensive people are injured in unprovoked assaults. |
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The choice of the fire-resister has been determined for its inoffensive character concerning sanitation. |
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My husband was, as always, in charge of drinks and music and once the small sherries had been decanted he selected some light inoffensive background dross. |
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This allows the contents of the full pit enough time to transform into a safe, inoffensive, soil-like material that can be excavated manually. |
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This drama is proving frillier than a petticoat but sometimes inoffensive telly is just what's needed. |
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They also know that the biotechnologies to produce human insulin from inoffensive bacteria are also those that can produce highly pathogenic germs for bacteriological warfare purposes. |
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Eco-san systems based on dehydration or decomposition reduce the volume of material to be handled and transported and result in a dry, soil-like, completely inoffensive and easy-to-handle product. |
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Terms formerly considered blasphemous or irreligious are today non-religious and inoffensive to the population as a whole, even if perhaps in poor taste. |
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Watching them wage battle in the streets and fields of East Sussex, I couldn't help wonder if these inoffensive, though incontrovertibly rustic, people are the last Europeans about which programme-makers can be casually rude. |
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My point is that the movie, which is sometimes very funny in the usual zany, pop-surrealist sketch-comedy manner, is studiously inoffensive and thoroughly chicken-hearted. |
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They even admired his inscrutability, his ingenuity in using a metaphor borrowed from American folklore, from the myth of the West, to mask a demagogy that was all the more inoffensive because it seemed credible. |
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Luckily it's inoffensive, with big floral, jasmine-y notes and wild berries that make it smell almost caramelly. |
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On Saturday the group which was probably responsible for blowing up an inoffensive statue of Tsar Nicholas II in April planted three pounds of high explosive around the base of Peter's galleon. |
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You're supposed to hire a DJ who'll play inoffensive tunes staler than the catering-grade bread rolls, for which you've forked out a fortune. |
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At a particularly fevered moment during last summer's Tory leadership contest he was even touted as a possible caretaker candidate, so universally inoffensive was he found. |
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When polymerisation is slow, solid and inoffensive polystyrene is formed. |
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It had a duty to show, if applicable, that it considered and reasonably rejected any accommodations that would reduce the risk by making the kirpan reasonably inoffensive. |
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Mr van Miert added that this inventory would allow manufacturers to do without additional animal testing since it would list known substances proven under the current legislation to be inoffensive to man. |
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Did the CSMB discharge its burden of showing that it considered and reasonably rejected all possible options that would make the kirpan reasonably inoffensive so as to maintain the necessary level of safety at school? |
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However, several recent studies seem to indicate that this active ingredient, used by farmers as well as by public road services and Sunday gardeners, could well not be as inoffensive as its promoters claim. |
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For example, some words and phrases that are inoffensive in the US are offensive in the UK and vice versa. |
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Notwithstanding their celebrity in war, the people were generally very quiet and inoffensive. |
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Ceviche is inoffensive but not great, tackily served in a carved-out pineapple, and even more tackily served with those same smoky crab claws. |
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In the islands he captured some inoffensive natives and returned with them as captives to Sagres, excusing his failure by recounting the dangers of the trip. |
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To her surprise, a few of them were furnished like midclass hotel rooms, with plain industrial carpet covering the floor, standard-sized beds, and inoffensive decor. |
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