He felt he had got over that letter from Trudi, yet when his mother had cast a slur on her he felt offended. |
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He arrived with attitude as well as ambition, but those who were offended at the time concede now that he has the game to go with it. |
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Although talented, he was always a difficult colleague, proud, tactless, short-tempered, and easily offended. |
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To surrender to political correctness is simply to sanitize controversy so that no one's sensibilities are offended. |
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Again, I'm not offended by your skepticism of me as a babe magnet because I'm not, but please don't act as if I am claiming things I am not. |
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We go back and forth like this until one of us gets bored or offended by what the other said. |
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If you are not offended by Iowa's pink locker room, it may be because you recognize a joke, a tease, and a riff. |
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Shoppers yesterday said they were surprised anyone would be offended by the window display of lingerie-clad mannequins. |
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She sounded scornful when she said this, and William was offended, for he loved his older brother dearly. |
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Much less, don't be offended if they take the master tapes home and record over them. |
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We have reduced all and everything to the level of mediocrity so that nothing and no-one stands out or is in any way offended. |
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Please forgive me and know that I likewise extend forgiveness to all who have offended, insulted, irritated, or otherwise ticked me off. |
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The court was told the defendant, who has nine previous convictions, offended on bail. |
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It cannot be said that it offended the sensibilities of consumers generally or was discriminatory. |
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That he has stood on toes and offended some sensitivities along the way was inevitable. |
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I'm not offended, just a little surprised that anyone could seriously think there was a connection based on seeing some people at a show. |
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If I speak to you less often and seem less cordial than before, do not be offended, I beg of you. |
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Whatever your political or religious bent, you're not likely to be offended by this movie. |
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I have never witnessed anything like this before in my life and was shocked and offended at the lax attitude of the policeman during all of this. |
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While others were quite shocked or even offended by the waitress's behaviour, I was very amused. |
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Those who might be shocked and offended by the political message will stay away. |
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My Birman, Karma, was quite offended at this intrusion, but he finally adapted. |
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If Jennie got angry or offended she might shout at me and what would I do for company then? |
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Just when you're about to get offended, the scene breezes over to a sight gag. |
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Kirsten had probably been mortally offended when Sunny had labelled her a cheerleader. |
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I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making. |
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Apparently someone in the far corner of the room let out an audible yawn, and Father David was mortally offended. |
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I hereby forgive everyone who offended or angered me, or sinned against me. |
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The workers' mischievous behavior deeply offended the General Motors umpire's middle-class sense of propriety. |
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If you ask to be friended for what I have to say, don't be offended if I don't comment on what you have to say. |
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Instead of helping me, he became offended and childish in his unhelpfulness. |
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He is unimaginably offended and dishonoured through the infinite guilt and abominable wickedness of the world. |
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She also offended Berliners when she told them that she prefers the company of Bostonians. |
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Local Kentucky natives are deeply offended, claiming his work denigrates Appalachia and the South. |
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No slug has ever harmed, offended, or otherwise done ill to me and it's in their nature to eat plants. |
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He has not offended anybody and he has not brassed off any of his colleagues. |
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If a stranger solicited us who was too friendly or too overbearing, we would be offended. |
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The valets in LA are kind of offended if you say you want to park your own car, and I never know how much to tip. |
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Most nobles were offended by peasants attempting to act higher class than they truly were. |
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I wouldn't be offended by dubbing, since the words are nothing but a nod to convention. |
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Though the animals could not understand his words, they heard the derision in his tone and responded with offended noises of their own. |
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The squeamish and easily offended will find a lot to complain about, but what's new? |
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People are very much offended that their patriotism has been called into question. |
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Ian thought he had offended her, until she began speaking, in slow, halting tones. |
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You have a right to be offended by that, and if you are you can choose not to buy the records. |
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He laughed and I pretended to be offended, but ended up cracking a smile anyway. |
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She's upset and she's offended that anyone would try to profit from such photos. |
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If it was any other person, I would have been offended and annoyed that someone should try and exert such force over me. |
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We too have strong convictions, we too can be offended, insulted and annoyed, and we have to say we're not going to put up with it. |
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She told me so, and she made it clear to me that my comments upset and offended her. |
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Aboriginal people are deeply offended by it and that's quite understandable. |
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With regard to the first, if in the course of a discussion an offence is offered, the person who has been offended is the injured party. |
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If your sensibilities are easily offended, you have no business attempting to work in a creative collaborative situation. |
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I am also offended at the waste of food in America, especially by young people. |
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Aborigines sometimes killed straying convicts, but officialdom usually assumed they had offended in some way. |
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This was wrong, not only because it offended against the principle of equality but because in practice many women did have dependents. |
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The plaintiffs attacked this plea on the grounds that it offended against the repetition rule. |
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He said that the question the judge put to the jury was improper and offended against the principle of random selection of the jury. |
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His submission in this context was that the scheme offended against elementary principles of public law. |
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What great art or entertainment is stillborn today, afraid of reprisals from some easily offended group with an axe to grind? |
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If he spits in the face of deeply held Labour beliefs, he must not be surprised if offended party members retaliate. |
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The offended students said the flier had disrupted a meeting, an assertion that became the basis of disciplinary action. |
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I was certainly caught off guard by this casual remark, but after mulling over what he said I decided I was not in the least bit offended. |
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Jag gasped as his shoulder was nearly dislocated, then heaved himself up with the offended arm. |
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So-called conservatives today are so Hellenized that they are offended when this is pointed out. |
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He said that his words were taken out of context and he was sorry if he had offended anyone. |
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With a slightly offended air and a breathtaking ability to ignore the facts he says there is no foundation for such a suggestion. |
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Essentially, he came out sounding like a high priest offended that the hoi polloi were infringing on his turf. |
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It is also true that some children are supersensitive, easily offended, and quickly angered. |
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Her tan skin offended the pale students around her, all but Codwell, who aggressively accepted her with a scoff at first. |
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The post above has been revised to correct the error, and I apologize to any offended Hoosiers or Californians. |
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The pundit was obviously offended by the shoes being carried in the left hand. |
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If this week people are clingy and dependant, easily offended and insecure, don't be manipulated by their whims of steel. |
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Rather than being offended, Luke was absolutely thrilled by her strange and peculiar reaction. |
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In the first place, I want to apologize for my clumsiness to the people who I offended. |
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In any event, Miss Y was offended by the suggestion that she was cohabiting with Mr X, and the newspaper had to pay up. |
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It forthrightly dealt with all conflicts, without personalizing issues in a way that offended sincere believers who also respect science. |
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I can't imagine anyone, of any political or religious persuasion, who would not be offended. |
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I couldn't tell if he was offended or joking, but I was leaning towards the comic side. |
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We know we have transgressed His laws, broken His commandments, and offended His holiness. |
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She also said she was offended when people confused her with her neurotic character. |
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It's not the pretentious air of intellectualism and pre-programme boasting which offended. |
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In another setting, a firehouse was ordered to take down its largely secular holiday decorations, because neighbors were offended by it. |
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This is a new generation that isn't offended by gay marriage, interracial love, or diverse religions. |
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She reported this to the Archbishop and she also offended him by not inviting him to manage her convent school. |
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Other causes may be the evil eye, witchcraft, possession by an evil spirit, or a curse by a sorcerer or an offended neighbour. |
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And if this has pleased the socially-conscious, it has deeply offended many freak show performers. |
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I kept backtracking in the conversation, thinking I had offended her, only to be met with gales of laughter. |
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Most significantly, the bull offended those in the church and especially the parlements who were loyal to the Gallican tradition. |
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He is just offended by an incongruous adaptation, which, in his opinion, undermines his own concept by degrading his heroine. |
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In short, on the frontier Americans imagined themselves to be on an imperial mission from an aggressive, easily offended, intolerant deity. |
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When Pamela first realises what her master is up to, she expresses herself with a vivid mixture of moral outrage and offended propriety. |
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Well, there are people out there who are offended when we say good evening. |
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To say the pullback offended customers and distributors would be putting it mildly. |
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To start with, I was quite offended by people pushing in front of me as if I didn't exist. |
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The lady was grievously offended, and changed her whole behaviour in regard to me. |
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While some people were comfortable with it, many more were disquieted, even deeply offended. |
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He was offended to receive a clump of pasta with a token dollop of tomato sauce on it. |
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This probably offended the odd sensitive viewer, although Brown is so thunderingly wholesome that it seems unlikely. |
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Some of his prickliness was an expression of offended authority, but much of it also had to do with his own quick temper. |
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Why watch a programme, broadcast well after the watershed, if you know you are going to be offended by it? |
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Tom, I am sorry if you, Meg or any other weblogger has been offended by anything I've written. |
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I marched to those old Jody calls while serving my country and they didn't offend me and nobody around me was offended either. |
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People offended by raw language, and even rougher depictions of street life, should steer clear. |
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My read of the story tells me that this man is easily offended and a persistent complainer. |
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Yet it is deeply worrying that some of those whom he has offended appear to have taken the law into their own hands. |
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I actually get quite offended if anyone dares to use that revolting word when referring to me. |
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If I said something that offended one of my students and they didn't tell me, I wouldn't know. |
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If anyone sent us a Diwali card or a Yom Kippur cracker we would be delighted, not offended. |
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Any student claiming to be offended by a professor's remark about a group or class or individual can invoke anti-discrimination laws. |
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We deeply regret that this ad ran and we apologize if some individuals have been offended by its content. |
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He never specifically admits wrongdoings, but if anyone was offended, he apologizes. |
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The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing her. |
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They want to be sure that nobody rocks the boat and no major donors are offended. |
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The Argive king Tantalus began a pattern of destruction for Argos after he offended the gods by feeding them his son Pelops at a banquet. |
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Cromwell's Puritanism was offended by bacchanalian revelry, led by the Lord of Misrule. |
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I rocked back on my heels and pretended to be offended, though the effect was probably ruined by the badly suppressed grin on my face. |
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When the lectures were first delivered, Bernstein's rejection of atonal music deeply offended many avant-garde composers. |
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And if someone tells you to go stuff it, don't be offended, just do it. |
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Why is Brandeis University giving in to the growing hordes who believe they have a right to not be offended? |
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And Kelley bristled at the notion that women were supposed to be offended by the video. |
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The smell offended her nose a bit more then she would have liked. |
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The smell of burning flesh still offended his nostrils, but he ignored it. |
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Gripping a stone the size of a grapefruit, he strode toward Ueli Steck, a Swiss climber who had offended him. |
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There have been cases which have been very successful and in the case of the young boy who stole the bike, he hasn't offended now for many, many years. |
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The Earl is no doubt offended for by law, I am betrothed to his daughter. |
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Miss New York spoke to Mallory Hagan to let her know there was no validity and to apologize if she was offended in any way. |
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Jeff Sessions was deeply offended by the KKK's embrace of reefer madness. |
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His offended love, and Malvolio's humiliated suffering, are reminders of the harm done by mistake, mischance, drink, thoughtlessness and unkindness. |
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Those of a delicate conscience may be offended by the movie, but the images it conjures in the mind are more disturbing than those depicted on screen. |
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I fear that my Aunt Morag will be offended, so don't look alright! |
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If we must confess it, they are quite offended and downcast when the cartoons stop. |
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So there has to be some causal connection, however remote, though, does there not, between the acts done and the race of the person who is offended? |
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Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour. |
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Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution. |
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Treo is a project that works with young people who have offended. |
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The Prince's Trust has also been given money to fund a mentoring project to support young people from the borough who have offended or may be at risk of offending. |
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Other people might have been offended by such directness, but she was not. |
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Did the spurned person do something that offended the ghoster? |
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I was mortally offended by what you wrote about him in your last article. |
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So Labour inherited that situation, but we asked what would happen in a case of someone who has offended against a victim, but who has been rightly punished by society. |
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People are well within their rights to be offended by such publications. |
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I think the publisher is just playing favourites and I'm very offended. |
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The two judges said their feminist sensibilities were offended, and the book was subsequently pulled from the shortlist. |
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One does have to have a certain mindset, though, one that isn't offended by vicious killings committed by actors with spicy hunks of Greek gyro hanging off their cheeks. |
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This horizontality has always puzzled and offended Americans. |
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Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. |
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No doubt, the Italians would have been offended if he had chosen to marry anywhere else. |
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Admittedly they were a bit manky, but I still felt offended. |
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Never mind that your average youth will hit you in the head or laugh at you out loud when you are wearing a mankini, the one thing he won't be is scared or offended by it. |
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Alternatively, he would launch into misleading speeches on the customs of Sicilians and their hot-bloodedness which led them to react violently when offended. |
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There was no evidence that persons in the public area were ever offended, nor that the public area was frequented by gentle old ladies or convent schoolgirls. |
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There hanging on the wall is the declaration that you are a sophisticate, incapable of being shocked, and far removed from the booboisie who are offended. |
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Later, when he purchases a massive TV set for her living room, she's offended by the imposition. |
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I did so, and he explained that he did not mean to be inappropriate and he was sorry if I was offended. |
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Should women be offended when men dress up as them for Halloween? |
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I was offended, rather than rattled, by the rampant fear-mongering. |
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I am sorry if I have upset or offended anyone that is reading this. |
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I appreciate that this is a very emotive and difficult subject to discuss openly, and I therefore apologise unreservedly if any part of my opinion has upset or offended you. |
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I should not bear ill will even against those those who have offended against me, and I must avoid getting into a rage, and I must make a firm effort in that direction. |
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I must first off say that I am completely offended by your good looks. |
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They learned their deadly trade in Syria, where they offended Arab sensibilities by sunbathing naked and practicing free love. |
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It also irks me that anyone could be genuinely offended by this image. |
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He offended sensitive members of the staff and press with arrogant quips about artists and audiences, but he revitalised an elderly board and ran a tight set of budgets. |
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This pathetic prestidigitation offended the spirit if not the letter of the origination clause. |
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Even the ricketiest old chap can be terribly offended if offered a seat by a 40-year-old woman. |
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Khrushchev was offended by that likening of him to a dog barking. |
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I was speaking off the cuff and if I offended anyone of course I am very sorry about that. |
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A year later, his uncle Svyatoslav, offended by his ousting from Vladimir, went to the Horde to secure the throne for himself. |
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It is very likely that Zhu Gaoxu's arrogance, well detailed in many historic texts, offended the emperor. |
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The Quebec Act offended a variety of interest groups in the British colonies. |
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This offended Philip to the point where relations with the League were severed. |
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The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended. |
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The British too were offended by what they considered insults such as the Little Belt Affair. |
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To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason. |
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But most were offended by a skit that showed a boy who spoke with an Azeri accent brushing his teeth with a toilet brush. |
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The Xtra Factor host, 32, offended some right nutcases after pulling the 17-year-old ONE DIRECTION star. |
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But he has chosen to squander them in ways that have offended me. |
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I'm offended by his implication that women can't be good at mathematics. |
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I want to say that, on behalf of my friends, family, and associative knuckleheads, I am deeply sorry to anyone who was offended by the video. |
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The elderly woman was offended when she saw the young couple performing dirty dancing on the dance floor at the reception. |
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By which ensamples this thing shall be made manifest unto such as may be offended at any part of this my book. |
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If that was really insulting, please don't be offended. I certainly don't think of you as my errand-ghost. Actually, I think of you as my friend. |
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The Federation house claimed a unique place in architecture, even if it offended architects. |
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I was so serious that I probably offended a lot of people who didn't appreciate my stern attitude and hyperdisciplined approach. |
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Moreover, Richard had personally offended Leopold by casting down his standard from the walls of Acre. |
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Although the marriage made sense in terms of foreign policy, Henry was still enraged and offended by the match. |
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Having offended many in their quest for wealth and power, the Woodville family was not popular. |
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When Robert Hooke criticised some of Newton's ideas, Newton was so offended that he withdrew from public debate. |
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Elagabalus was an incompetent and lascivious ruler, who was well known for extreme extravagance, that offended all but his favorites. |
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This value could also be used to set the fine payable if a person was injured or offended against. |
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Anselm argues that, owing to the Fall and mankind's fallen nature ever since, humanity has offended God. |
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When Albert Coates presented the work in London in 1922, its atheism offended some believers. |
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The public sensation caused by Alec's novel so offended the school that it became impossible for Evelyn to go there. |
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When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks. |
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The Jesuit missionaries had offended the Orthodox faith of the local Ethiopians. |
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The Jesuit missionaries had offended the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo faith of the local Ethiopians. |
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Although Knox had not targeted Elizabeth, he had deeply offended her, and she never forgave him. |
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He had recently been offended on a visit to GHQ, when Haig had been too busy to pay much attention to him. |
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Near contemporaries described his dignity as offended when lesser men were promoted to high positions. |
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Even from an aesthetic point of view the sight of the bulging child offended him. Ogden Ford was round and blobby and looked overfed. |
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Matholwch was deeply offended, but was conciliated by Bran who gave him a magical cauldron which could bring the dead to life. |
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Matholwch is deeply offended until Bran offers him compensation in the form of a magic cauldron that can restore the dead to life. |
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Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular. |
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The pigeon, very offended, flew back to the Bird Woman and, to pay out Mary Poppins, stuck the rose in the ribbon of the Bird Woman's hat. |
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If these payments were not made, or were refused by the offended party, a blood feud would ensue. |
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It's OK for her to shove on a pair of your comfy PJs when she chooses but she's offended that you'd like to see her wearing a big pair of unsexy plaid pyjamas in bed. |
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Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus by their rebellion in Hera's scheme, were temporarily stripped of their divine authority and sent to serve King Laomedon of Troy. |
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We now know that Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, was offended by the enshrinement of Class-A war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine. |
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I wasn't particularly offended by the wolf-whistles and topless calendars. |
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In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities. |
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During the Philadelphia campaign, British officers deeply offended local Quakers by entertaining their mistresses in the houses they had been quartered in. |
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De Courtonne's claims struck a chord at a time when French patriotism was offended at the success of the Dutch and the English in making new discoveries in the South Pacific. |
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According to his own letters, Ivan, along with his younger brother Yuri, often felt neglected and offended by the mighty boyars from the Shuisky and Belsky families. |
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Emin and Childish had remained on friendly terms up until 1999, but the activities of the Stuckist group offended her and caused a lasting rift with Childish. |
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We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. |
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