inoffensiveness

This attachment to inoffensiveness can be seen in many ways.

He reminded me of a salesman with nothing to sell but his inoffensiveness.

Will separate editions of newspapers be required for total inoffensiveness?

It was neither attractive nor interesting, aspiring to nothing more than inoffensiveness.

Its cheery inoffensiveness, though, is in some ways disappointing.

Indeed, its inoffensiveness - if not its wit - seems broadly accepted.

Its naughty talk and violence are kept carefully within the industry-designated bounds of inoffensiveness.

They represent inoffensiveness with a dirty face.

Perhaps the most that can be said for its style is that it is a triumph of inoffensiveness.

Jorn's immediate impression was one of total inoffensiveness, even of timidity.

Huge brown eyes, cowlike in their gentle inoffensiveness, moved back and forth as the big face examined Mercer's wrappings.

Mr. Raine said, though, that he sympathized with the laureate's enforced inoffensiveness.

Mr. Richie has always been a craftsmanlike, chameleonic songwriter, with a gift for inoffensiveness.

But the court said it "took no view on the offensiveness or inoffensiveness of defendants' conduct" in Mr. Sanders's case.

A contemporary once dismissed him as "an infantile lunatic whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement."

When asked about the budget, the governor's race or his play for control of the public schools, Mr. Bloomberg usually chooses silence or inoffensiveness.

In general the picture is so committed to inoffensiveness and to hammering home its uplifting, bootstrap message that it lacks the necessary element of malice.

Whenever the opportunity presents itself, the newspaper person in quest of inoffensiveness will choose the fancier phrase: "undocumented resident" is better than "illegal alien."

Unwilling to accept the State Department's preference for diplomatic inoffensiveness, he denounced, in the loudest possible terms, the hypocrisies of third world dictatorships.

Dr. Johnson commented on the inoffensiveness of his nature; Edmund Burke noted his "strong turn for humor".

Like most teen idols, the New Kids on the Block are a prefabricated package, but their determined inoffensiveness is sunny and not too sugary.

And we export considerable waste, carefully treated into inoffensiveness, as important organic fertilizer-every bit as important to other worlds as the food is to us.

But Mr. Reed snips that subtext away, and his movie takes the mandate of inoffensiveness much more seriously than its winking, tongue-in-cheek predecessors ever did.

Ryan Wasoba from the alternatively weekly magazine, Houston Press wrote favorably of the record, commenting that 11 's appeal laid in its "inoffensiveness" and "digestibility".

By the mid-1950s, only Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman retained a sliver of their prior popularity, although effort towards complete inoffensiveness led to stories that many consider silly, especially by modern standards.