inoffensiveness
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One of the most prominent thinkers on this issue, journalist Wesley Lowery, has written that some defenders of objectivity are more interested in inoffensiveness and appearance, less so on journalistic rigor.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
It might leave them out in the name of ecumenicism, of inoffensiveness, of being something for as many people as possible — what an uncharitable person might call the lowest common denominator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
Their freak-flag-flying zaniness almost looks progressive next to Rogue One, which is almost pedantic in its inoffensiveness.
From Time ● Dec. 13, 2016
As the caboose of this franchise, a movie about Colton’s celestial experiences was as likely as the big-tent inoffensiveness of its message.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2014
It is perhaps partly because, in spite of that inoffensiveness, it fixes on one a grasp superior to anything of Beyle's and equal to anything of Flaubert's or Maupassant's.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
