He's trying to be as apolitical, and inoffensive, as possible.
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They're colorful, they're otherworldly, they make an inoffensive desktop background.
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Everything has to be inoffensive and guarded enough for everybody.
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Why would the squeaky clean, rigorously inoffensive comic even care?
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There is no defecatory equivalent of the inoffensive, neutral 'sex.
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Apart from a missing apostrophe, the game is mostly inoffensive.
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This is the most timidly inoffensive "Shrew" I've ever seen.
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As it is, "Dealt" remains a pleasing — if inoffensive — portrait.
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So the pitch was Inoffensive Republican 2.0 (John McCain was 1.0).
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As e-readers go, the Kobo Aura H2O is entirely inoffensive.
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The sources described the conversations they heard as inoffensive and commonplace.
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My god, Ed Sheeran is highly inoffensive and very, very popular.
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It's inoffensive clothing that works well on most people's body types.
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I grew up in Australia, which is a quiet, inoffensive country.
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It is, in short, the most inoffensive way to consume alcohol.
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It's chuggable and inoffensive, and people either loved or hated that.
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Marvel movies are usually a safe bet for an inoffensive crowd-pleaser.
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Estimated price: $2,250,000 - $2,750,000 American Motors used to make affordable, inoffensive cars.
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Commercial radio stations will begin playing "inoffensive music" before making the announcement.
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It's a bit first-time-thrifter for my taste, but largely inoffensive.
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The orange juice was sour and watered down from concentrate, but inoffensive.
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He is inoffensive with the added bonus of being really good looking.
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But the same problems can creep into labels that might seem inoffensive.
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Politeness and polish ruled; human energies were reduced to inoffensive good form.
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Everything there, it seemed, was designed to be inoffensive to the eye.
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In China, celebrities often try to keep their reputations' positive and inoffensive.
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Everything's been painted over in an inoffensive palette of white and gray.
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It's easy to watch, easy to find and—on some levels—fairly inoffensive.
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Even the sweetly inoffensive Ellen Degeneres recently felt the heat of the humorless.
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How it all startedFor Cirakoglu, it all started with much more inoffensive work.
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She's beautiful, she's inoffensive, and she doesn't really have to act very much.
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Unlike Apple's safe, inoffensive, uniform look, it's a parade of bizzare, impractical machines.
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At first glance, the movie looks like another inoffensive summer road-trip comedy.
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This new MoMA is inoffensive, which sounds snide, but is not meant to.
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While Cloud Cream isn't unscented, the fresh, slightly citrusy scent was light and inoffensive.
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Even if you think you can clue it in an inoffensive way, just don't.
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I found it totally inoffensive, I saw far more offensive, distasteful Pepes in 2014.
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I would like to believe in the inoffensive nature of this four-letter word.
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Singapore is safe and politically inoffensive, but it is still 3,074 miles from Pyongyang.
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It has clean, inoffensive text, a standard picture, and an unobjectionable call to action.
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That core is bland and inoffensive, doing just enough to feel like Mario Kart.
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Baseball has captivating athletes, but many have similar personalities: polite, polished and perfectly inoffensive.
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For whatever reason — the eternal richness of the entirely inoffensive desperate-to-get-married shtick?
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We need musical wallpaper, something utterly inoffensive, something that we can leave on without thinking.
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The reboot is inoffensive and doesn't try to smarten up (or lower) the original's tone.
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"Axel F" is, after all, catchy, inoffensive, and the video features a friendly cartoon frog.
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At some point, presumably, a sufficiently inoffensive woman from the favoured region could be found.
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In the context of the generally nasty political discourse these days, it was relatively inoffensive.
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They're inoffensive, easy to eat, and low in calories compared to other fast-food options.
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Not to mention, the simple, inoffensive gameplay makes it easy for all generations to participate.
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The Artist is an inarguably inoffensive movie meant to make us feel more than think.
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Zo is still alive and well today, and largely inoffensive -- if not always on topic.
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They're both approachable, inoffensive artists creating music that will, like it or not, define this generation.
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"Closer" is a deeply inoffensive song, almost to the degree that this in itself becomes offensive.
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But the filmmakers chose to sand off all the edges, and leave something palatable and inoffensive.
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Like Google Home, they're designed to be inoffensive gadgets you won't mind scattering around your house.
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An unbroken line of inoffensive, drop-laden pop hits, stretching into the furthest eons of time.
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I suspect Amazon was going for something inoffensive, something that could become invisible in your kitchen.
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If my hangover was a celebrity, it would have been Chris Evans—thirst-inducing but inoffensive.
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Is it always good when an artist's best quality is being inoffensive and never taking risks?
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Better to screw up with inoffensive stuff than to compound the problem with sex and violence.
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Rasmussen's voice is so inoffensive that it could mellow out a soda-addled 8-year-old.
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But it's fun and mostly inoffensive, never taking itself too seriously while it rewards its inexplicable fans.
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It's an inoffensive design, but for something this substantial I wish it had a little more character.
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Onkyo's H500Ms just don't do anything particularly well, turning the E700Ms inoffensive politeness into an unsatisfying tribulation.
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Salads, sandwiches (not egg salad), chicken soup, wraps, fruit, yogurt, and grain bowls are all relatively inoffensive.
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Perhaps it is better in 2016 to be intensely loved by a few than inoffensive to many.
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It's an inoffensive beef patty with American cheese melted on top, sandwiched between two classic McDonald's buns.
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Lightweight and inoffensive posts like these have made Bored Panda one of the biggest attractions on Facebook.
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But if you are among those who regard rosés as inoffensive at best, these wines prove otherwise.
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Everything Morrison and Gilman and Díaz and Roberts might have been saying is subsumed into inoffensive, vague niceness.
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I followed the taco up with a bite of my hot dog, and had a similarly inoffensive experience.
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In reality, most of Stitch Fix's clothing is on-trend or classic, so generally inoffensive to most shoppers.
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He was wearing just a white button down and beige slacks, a pretty decent and inoffensive get up.
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J.Crew was a dinosaur before Lyons came along; it was polite, genteel, eager to please and utterly inoffensive.
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It's pretty clever, largely inoffensive, and allows a lot of people to participate in something all at once.
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For every inoffensive pair of skate sneakers in Watch Dogs 2, there's a pair of lime-green Crocs.
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M&Ms are, despite the best efforts of the brand's creepy anthropomorphized spokescandies, a perfectly inoffensive candy option.
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Many are less than $10, which is fine if you are only looking for an inoffensive alcoholic beverage.
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It was entirely inoffensive and actually not as bad as I'd thought — the lemon flavor wasn't too strong.
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Unlike the inoffensive bubblegum pop and monotonous club-happy dance music, Gaga&aposs hits had personality and edge.
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Surely my love for literally the most inoffensive song in all of human history wouldn't harm my chances?
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"What may seem inoffensive to you could be offensive to others in your community," the slide presentation later warns.
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I believe that none of these things apply to contemporary art and my performance is intended to be inoffensive.
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And yes, I know that Christmas is, at its heart, inoffensive, but... isn't it also meant to be fun?
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Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate, is often seen as a generic, establishment, inoffensive conservative who balances Trump's chaos.
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Beattie confirmed to CNN at the time that he spoke at the conference, stressing that his speech was inoffensive.
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Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) are coasting to victory on an inoffensive manifesto offering something for everyone.
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Donald Trump gave a series of surprisingly inoffensive answers to fans in his Reddit "ask me anything" session tonight.
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As far as Google's design decision, it says Home is designed to be invisible and inoffensive in your home.
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That aside, the wine was light-bodied and relatively inoffensive, unless its lack of varietal character would bother you.
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He is undecided on his political leanings (for now), inoffensive, instantly recognizable, and affable on TV and social media.
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Very happy to get TRANSGENDER into a puzzle, and with a hopefully inoffensive clue — not always guaranteed these days.
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It's easy and inoffensive and it pays the bills, but you deserve better than a job that's just okay.
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The remotes that come with Roku boxes are typically pretty inoffensive little things that don't get in the way.
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My friend Carla found it "pleasant and inoffensive" with a good, creamy foam and a "floral, almost vanilla" taste.
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This sandwich's combination of lettuce, tartar sauce, and crispy, inoffensive fish was, at first bite, much better than Arby's.
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It's a pop-up shop in SoHo, selling a limited collection of inoffensive holiday gifts to last-minute shoppers.
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Plus, the service has been dogged by rumors that it's bland, sexless, and inoffensive for nearly a year now.
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The party is betting that candidates like O'Connor — centrist and inoffensive — can compete in historically Republican districts like the 12th.
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It's, like, mostly inoffensive and Amber Coffman—formerly of Dirty Projectors—does a pretty spot on impression of Del Rey.
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She appears relatively inoffensive to left-wingers, while hewing as close to the centre as her party's leftward drift allows.
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The black matte finish on the plastic back is inoffensive, but that's the nicest thing I can say about it.
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Well, for my day job, I'm the CFO of a midsize plastic-plant company that specializes in inoffensive office decor.
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Related: If you like Friends, watching all 10 is an inoffensive way to power through the holiday with your family.
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Elsewhere, LG's interface changes are mostly inoffensive, but they result in a phone that feels less smooth than the Pixel.
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This unique and inoffensive species, the subject of international concern, has been done in by the lack of local concern.
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Direct brands are data-driven, so when their analytics reveal conservative programming systematically outperforming inoffensive content, they trust the numbers.
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The new "Aladdin" is pretty inoffensive and pleasant, with some needed modernization, but critics were mostly muted in their response.
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Putting aside all of the things it actually does for a second, the wristband it came with is generally inoffensive.
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Ms. Kelly wryly suggested that she and her husband, Douglas Brunt, dress up in inoffensive costumes: letters of the alphabet.
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But for a time, it became blasé, an inoffensive theme to gives some justification and context for games' mechanical combat.
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It's a lame premise, kept afloat by eager performances and inoffensive songs, better suited to a jukebox than a stage.
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Ugly painting — even expensive ugly painting — defies a bloated art market, in which inoffensive works all too often become trophies.
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I found its flavor pretty inoffensive for a multivitamin that's not loaded with a ton of sugar or artificial flavor.
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We ranked them from best to inoffensive to call-the-manager egregious... and some of our reasons may surprise you.
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Gramatik makes inoffensive instrumental hip-hop that would have been charming in the mid-56193s, and now sounds pleasantly antiquated.
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It is a perfect storm of a debut single: technically astounding falsetto vocals, inoffensive-but-memorable production, a rousing chorus.
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It's music that's so inoffensive and odorless it's almost homeopathic; something you could bottle and sell as a backne cure.
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It runs Oppo's ColorOS 6 software, which I found to be pretty inoffensive on the Reno 10x Zoom flagship last month.
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It&aposs a totally non-gender specific, noncompetitive, no age limit event with safe inoffensive categories bound to upset no one.
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I can confirm that all those gadgets are inoffensive to the palate, ranging from plasticky to metallic depending on the materials.
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Now, longtime users are criticizing the company's auto-detecting algorithms, which appear to be incorrectly flagging some inoffensive images as explicit.
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Who would've thought that Fuller House, of all shows, could manage an entertaining and inoffensive — albeit utterly random — Bollywood flash mob?
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I mean, good luck to them—this song's so inoffensive I feel bad for slagging them off back in the day.
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Perry caught the eye when he faked a handshake to talk trash to the largely inoffensive Lim ahead of his debut.
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People turned to white because if they wanted to sell their houses, they needed the color to be simple and inoffensive.
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Instead, those who champion entomophagy are trying to smuggle bugs past our defenses, often ground into a blandly inoffensive, uniform powder.
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It's one of nature's most inoffensive critters, which is perhaps why the Dinocampus coccinellae wasp is such a troubling one by comparison.
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Forget the days of inoffensive rag + bone skinny jeans and black booties — Kendall Jenner's adventurous taste is redefining model off-duty style.
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"So hot out tonight," my mom might say, trying to lighten the mood with a little inoffensive small talk about the weather.
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In my experience, almost every tweet I've reported — often due to violent, gendered language — has been ruled inoffensive by Twitter's abuse team.
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Memedom is inherently difficult to track, but nobody could've expected it to land on the most inoffensive newspaper comic in the world.
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Surveillance footage seeps in for good measure, along with newsreels from the neo-Nazi descent on Charlottesville and disarmingly inoffensive home videos.
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And that's because Timberlake's inoffensive male whiteness has allowed him to walk away from situations that punish women and people of color.
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This becomes an issue because a corporation like Etsy needs to maintain a clean image, but sometimes art isn't pleasant or inoffensive.
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Even if all these amendments were completely inoffensive, they accumulate and increase the cost of the legislation both in time and resources.
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Mild, mushy, and inoffensive, this sausage croissant may make a great meal for someone who enjoys their food bland and very chewable.
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The venue is huge, with two floors and a stage where a band is playing a medley of inoffensive feel-good tunes.
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"This is one of the problems with being by design so inoffensive is that it's not interesting to people," he told me.
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No—it's soothing and inoffensive at best, like an Instagram of someone's bathwater right after they dropped a Lush bomb in it.
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The important thing was just to get as broad a slice of the pie as possible by being as inoffensive as possible.
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If murdering and yelling are the apotheosis of male power in the gaming imagination, inoffensive prettiness is the apotheosis of female power.
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In 1909, he founded the French Company of Inoffensive Hair Dyes (the translations here can be wonderful), which he soon renamed L'Oréal.
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A neat line of red stools is bolted beneath the restored counter and inoffensive tan booths have replaced the repulsive blue ones.
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Comet Ping Pong is a completely inoffensive setting, which is part of why it's been home to so many photo ops by politicians.
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Critics, including Mr Schulz, accuse her of "asymmetric demobilisation"; that is, of deliberately lowering turnout among supporters of her opponents by being inoffensive.
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Will it continue to offer an inoffensive selection of voices and sounds, or will it feature music that has more of a message?
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Interestingly, the derogatory translations seem to have been provided by an unspecified service, while the inoffensive translations were explicitly performed by Microsoft Translator.
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Most contemporary rose scents in the mainstream market are aimed at young women, who presumably want to smell like an inoffensive, dewy bouquet.
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Safe, and inoffensive: The taste of the lionfish is so mild, it tends to take on the flavor of whatever it's cooked with.
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But as is the case for many long-serving Republicans, the Trump era is removing some of the sheen from his inoffensive reputation.
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This close to the election, the governor may be inclined to err on the side of caution and pick the most inoffensive appointee.
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With its oversimplified emotions and dumbed-down depiction of the creative process, this inoffensive time-filler dissolves in the mouth like vanilla pudding.
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Despite hailing from the famously rough city of Glasgow, Bishop's tone is bland and inoffensive enough to be used by, well, a bishop.
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The fried fish slab was relatively inoffensive, and the addition of guac to the taco's quality toppings made for a pretty delicious bite.
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In its inoffensive infectiousness, rootsy trappings, and ominous portents of biblical doom, "Turn Around Don't Drown" is the one true song of summer 2018.
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But it was not enough to push him over the top in a one-on-one race with a largely inoffensive Republican in Handel.
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Even a halfway decent bar has a controlled climate, a little bit of décor, some inoffensive tunes, and, in the summer, available, comfortable seats.
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Thus, the Oscars mostly followed the form of Kimmel, who was blandly pleasant and inoffensive, making the obvious Trump jokes—he Tweets too much!
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Thankfully, there are (mostly incredibly young) vloggers out there making largely inoffensive, not entirely insipid, and sometimes even — get ready for it — good content.
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This is a far cry from the situation in the late 20th century, when Italian white wines were dismissed as inoffensive, innocuous or worse.
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The car is handsome and inoffensive looking, falling under the same "melted bar of soap" umbrella that seems to be infecting every car brand.
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Also, like JB earlier on in the week, this track is aurally inoffensive and, I hoped, might show any potential matches my softer side.
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An outrage almost beyond description has been perpetrated upon an inoffensive gentleman staying in a country hotel, and the guilty person has to be found.
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"Then, he made this bold claim: "He knows what Bachelor nation wants, so I think his season will be the most inoffensive, uneventful Bachelor ever.
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When gentle, inoffensive Coldplay was chosen as the 2016 Super Bowl halftime act, lots of folks were immediately disappointed by the implied lack of spectacle.
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In "Fantasy" (1995), her sexuality is nothing less than adorable, as she succumbs to a sexy roller coaster ride, all doe eyes and inoffensive suggestiveness.
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Because their actions were seen as inherently apolitical and inoffensive, ladies could assert themselves in opposition to the North in ways their husbands could not.
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But Hannity is something more covert, an inoffensive looking Trojan horse filled with rancid opinions, making his way to the stage next to presidential candidates.
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Last Friday, hackers targeted the accounts for Now This News and BBC Arabic Alerts and pushed a stream of inoffensive but probably not authorized tweets.
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Overall, the flavor profile was gentle and inoffensive, with most of the flavor coming from the cheese and onions for a moist and pleasant bite.
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One quick spritz of this surprisingly inoffensive lemon-scented formula and that roach making a beeline for a crack in the wall is dead meat.
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Franchises are built on exploitable intellectual property and diluted to be as legible (and inoffensive) to the biggest global audience possible — especially those in China.
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But despite the resolution's inoffensive syntax, which condemned anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bigotry broadly and did not mention Omar by name, the damage was done.
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And fashwave—with its sonically inoffensive, largely lyric-free instrumentals—is the first fascist music that is easy enough on the ears to have mainstream appeal.
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Those who grew up in the early 2000s (most of you!) understand the mid-rise skinny jean to be the standard — inoffensive, unprovocative, and totally neutral.
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In past elections her rivals have accused her of "asymmetric demobilisation": seeming so inoffensive and inevitable that her opponents' supporters simply don't bother to turn out.
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Smh Complicating the anger for many was lingering outrage over YouTube's problematic tendency to algorithmically flag inoffensive content simply because it contains references to LGBTQ subjects.
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While the ad was clearly an effort to portray a relevant but inoffensive message of social unity, people are calling it an inauthentic, opportunistic marketing ploy.
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Apple just wanted to remind us that it's coming, via some very heartwarming photos and a nice man with an inoffensive voice and an acoustic guitar.
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Most importantly: This throwaway scene makes no effort to consider that the book — and by proxy, Apu — may not have been "applauded and inoffensive" to everyone.
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A nice compromise might be the fairly inoffensive Beats X neckbuds, which don't plug into your device but do retain a wire connecting the two buds.
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There, it's Darren Soto—this bland, soft-spoken, inoffensive, malleable centrist—not Alan Grayson, who appears to have the best shot at winning the Democratic nomination.
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The revisions will "increase the basic system of managing foreign ships entering and exiting territorial waters, inoffensive passage, right of hot pursuit and expulsion", it added.
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"Reset" sounds so careful and inoffensive and technocratic; after seeing a glimpse of the franker, free-wheeling Ellen Pao, one can't help hoping for something more.
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The playlist predominantly includes indie critic-beloved, synth-based dance music, with a few deviations into Billboard 100-charting hip-hop and inoffensive acoustic folk music.
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Madison's post-show life got off to a bumpy start when she was part of a pretty inoffensive (especially by Bachelor standards) controversy back in January.
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Johnston Regional Airport is such an effective and exemplary target because it seems to be a modest and inoffensive place to those who pass its gates.
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In particular, progressives and suburban swing voters, all vital to the Liberal coalition in 2015, lacked strong impressions of Scheer, a barely known, blandly inoffensive rival.
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As dumb as this all is, at least it's completely inoffensive, which is more than anyone can say about the decorations inside one of its Massachusetts restaurants.
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Formerly known as a pro-business conservative, he is airing ads that accuse his equally inoffensive Democratic opponent of being an enabler for a Salvadorean drug gang.
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As far as kids shows go, it's markedly inoffensive, using classic nursery rhymes and little branding, but it still had an incredible effect on his young mind.
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"He has assumed an ever more childlike appearance as the ratty character of Steamboat Willie became the cute and inoffensive host to a magic kingdom," Gould writes.
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And since its composition is meant to be simple and inoffensive, it's easily compatible with different skin types and especially helpful for sensitive or allergy-prone skin.
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Treble response is inoffensive — which is important to avoid fatiguing the listener — but is still there when you turn the volume up on tracks with high sections.
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Sharp Edge was more radical, and intended to counter r/LeftWithoutEdge's "inoffensive, milquetoast brand of socialist," ziq, one of subreddit's members, told me in a direct message.
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It's an inoffensive chillwave ditty originally released on their 333 self-titled debut album, which reached #7 on Australia's ARIA charts and promptly sank into the depths.
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Harambe's fatal encounter, caught on tape, has raised the specter of animal cruelty over images of human-animal alliances that were previously widely consumed as inoffensive delights.
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Among the dizzying panoply of beverages available in the modern bar, you'd be hard pressed to find a single drink arguably more widespread or inoffensive than wine.
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No. The greatest compliment one can give Kenny on this trainwreck of a show is that he just seemed like a fine, inoffensive, even intermittently funny guy.
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The other is that DOE accelerate and prioritize infrastructure development, which in itself is inoffensive, except the only instances of infrastructure mentioned are hydro, nuclear, and coal plants.
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It might be hard to remember now, but presidential Twitter accounts used to be anodyne things, serving up inoffensive sentiments only occasionally written by the chief executive himself.
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The extension, called Make Trump Burger Again, does pretty much that very thing: it replaces every picture of Donald Trump with a photograph of a juicy, inoffensive cheeseburger.
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Yet Pence is anything but generic or inoffensive when it comes to right-wing "culture war" issues, like women's health, LGBTQ rights, immigration, and basic trust in science.
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Innocuous, inoffensive holiday fun, but users quickly began mocking the insinuation that brains are anything to be afraid of because it's quite common to eat them in China.
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Today, only Mounier remains from the original line-up, and he's turned his crew into an inoffensive tech-death also-ran who release material independently to decent reviews.
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"By sanitizing its source material and presenting only the ostensibly inoffensive bits, Studio MDHR ignores the context and history of the aesthetic it so faithfully replicates," he writes.
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Both songs are, relatively speaking, toothless, with borrowing so casual as to be inoffensive — there is no play for authenticity, only an acknowledgment of the genre's universal appeal.
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The dealership was brick and glass, a version of traditional modern that implied the late nineties of Andrew's graduate-school years: inclusive and hopeful and almost glaringly inoffensive.
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There's a slightly odd atmosphere in the room—at one point, when the UK don't get the number one spot people start booing—but overall it's totally inoffensive.
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But the McCourt might as well be a Lululemon as long as it's housing "Dragon Spring": a product involving acres of spandex and designed to be internationally inoffensive.
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But what are small, inoffensive streams in summer can grow into powerful water flows with fall and winter precipitation, especially with the increasingly heavy rains of recent years.
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Ultimately, Democrats on Thursday settled on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination, and "bigotry against minorities," a blandly inoffensive document that didn't seem to satisfy anyone.
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And that's because most places use cheap cuts of overcooked meat, throw them in a tortilla, and cover them in enough lime, onion and cilantro to be relatively inoffensive.
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So grab the polish remover, swipe off that inoffensive nude, and let the pros steer you in the right direction to start the new year on the right note.
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Forever tainting the otherwise inoffensive gray-to-beige color palette, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live today to address his company's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Instead her calm presence—inoffensive, stable, unpolitical even—has allowed the radical changes introduced by her predecessor to settle in, giving the cautious German public time to digest them.
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She did, however, have qualities Democrats value in their recruits: thoroughly inoffensive centrist politics, fundraising prowess, endorsements from Washington insiders, and a willingness to stick to Democratic talking points.
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He stood accused of failing to show due care to his journalistic offspring, namely the highly inoffensive question he had just asked about a couple of contentious refereeing decisions.
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"Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect," Lisa says, her eyes flicking over to a framed picture of Apu on her nightstand.
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Pence is often seen as a generic, establishment, inoffensive conservative who balances Trump's chaos — someone who, unlike Trump, doesn't think name-calling has any place in our national politics.
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This is why I tend to think that the theory that "all Democrats need to do is nominate a bland, inoffensive guy and let Trump beat himself" is wrong.
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The Playlist A D.J. spins inoffensive, upbeat tunes from the likes of M.I.A. and Lykke Li. Getting In A doorman patrols the Orchard Street entrance, but table reservations are available.
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If the Apple Watch is the best-looking and most refined smartwatch and the Galaxy Watch is the most inoffensive-looking, then the Fossil Sport is the most playful-looking.
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His theory of the campaign was that Donald Trump is unpopular, and by running a bland and inoffensive race, he could benefit from Democratic anger without activating a Republican backlash.
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Obviously I fucking love Taylor Swift and she's done her career her own way, she's decided to be this inoffensive kind of figure, but I'm quite incapable of doing that.
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The new Kickstarter Collection is now available at Amazon Launchpad, the... Donald Trump gave a series of surprisingly inoffensive answers to fans in his Reddit "ask me anything" session tonight.
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If I'm going somewhere I feel unsafe (Midtown bars, finance-people happy hours, clubs, etc.), I'll just wear inoffensive basic hot stuff, but maybe with a bright lip or something.
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We're far enough along in the Lonzo Ball to know that he would say exactly this; it's the most inoffensive answer, and that is Ball's public default at this moment.
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The Home Mini comes in three colors — light gray, dark gray, and coral red — all entirely inoffensive and designed to blend discreetly into a modern, HGTV-slash-Apple-Store home décor.
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It's almost impossible to remember a time when Ellen DeGeneres — the inoffensive pastel-palette comedian beloved by Pantsuit Nation moms and Holiday Inn lounges everywhere — was actually something of a radical.
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All Good is clean, inoffensive-smelling (no strawberry daiquiri scents here), and has a short list of high-quality, easy-to-pronounce inactive ingredients in addition to the (active) zinc oxide.
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I suspect that's why I was offered the job in the first place; newcomers need a friendly face, someone nonthreatening, inoffensive, and polite to ease them into a strange, new world.
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All Good is clean, inoffensive smelling (no strawberry daiquiri scents here), and has a short list of high-quality, easy-to-pronounce inactive ingredients in addition to the (active) zinc oxide.
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Ms. Wolf was not the first comic to cause a ruckus; Stephen Colbert's 2006 appearance so discomfited the tuxedoed audience that Rich Little, an inoffensive impressionist, was invited the following year.
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Dunkin' worked with Homesick to launch a collection of three doughnut-scented candles, an inoffensive premise that resulted in a neutral evil rendering of what a Dunkin' in Massachusetts smells like.
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But the notion that I should be expected to take down a completely appropriate, inoffensive picture of my friends because the C.E.O. doesn't like it feels like an abuse of power.
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When I tried to ask inoffensive, but probing questions in the empath Facebook groups and forums in order to understand more, my posts would be deleted, ignored, or removed by admins.
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And I'm not sure how snarky you can be about an inoffensive app like Aloe Bud, which reminds you to do the simple things in life: drink water and go to bed.
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It would be as stately, inoffensive and barring a few surprises highlighted by the rousing coronation of "Black Panther," kind of boring as the Screen Actors Guild Awards were on Sunday night.
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He, Saul Fleet, had no idea why anyone would harm Mr. Taunton, a hardworking, inoffensive man who did some blacksmithing on the side, was a regular churchgoer, and neither drank nor smoked.
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" The Natchez Courier denounced "a horrible and deliberate murder" that was "committed upon an excellent and most inoffensive man" who held "a respected opinion on account of his character, intelligence and deportment.
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Yeezy being Yeezy, many expected a scandal, or at least something they could tweet about; he gave a short, inoffensive speech wherein he mentioned gun violence in Chicago and spoke about his idols.
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Using the a6400 these past few weeks, I found out that it's not quite the game-changing compact mirrorless camera I hoped for, but rather an inoffensive camera with a few good qualities.
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The fraud is growing, experts said, because it easily bypasses many existing technical controls, and the small sums stolen are inoffensive enough that they can be folded into the cost of doing business.
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The researchers worked with mouse immune cells that had been treated either with lipopolysaccharide, a bacterial compound that reliably triggers an aggressive immune response, or with inoffensive saline solution and left as controls.
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It's a sheer delight, but it also has the courage to explore the darker aspects of a character who could have all too easily been polished to an inoffensive, family-friendly Disney sheen.
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Moreover, weapon sales to Vietnam (like to anywhere else) will still need to be approved case by case, and the first purchases are likely to be of relatively inoffensive systems, such as radar.
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My wife can't stand the looks of the Echo, but she found the Home to be cute and inoffensive, which might be the most praise she's ever given to a piece of technology.
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Ossoff's effort to stay bland and inoffensive let hazy personal and culture war issues dominate the campaign — and even in a relatively weak Trump district, that was still a winning formula for Republicans.
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Go through enough of these conversations, and you'll slip into an inoffensive corporate patois, like the self-deprecating "haha" that renders requests less threatening and deflects questions about who exactly is making them.
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The stresses of parenthood and illness are the main emphasis here, and if the film follows the formula of an inoffensive Lifetime movie, that works well enough to keep the tale perfectly watchable.
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This is because Adele is a good skin, and she is nice to Stormzy, and she is a Beyoncé stan, and she balances the independent UK music industry atop her magnificently inoffensive shoulders.
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Gone is the original's joyful sense of mischief; what's left is an inoffensive piece of twaddle that never fully appreciates the ineluctable bond between community spirit and a drop of the hard stuff.
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However, in a country where top celebrities are forced to keep an inoffensive public profile to stay in the Chinese government's good graces, people have drawn their own conclusions about the actress' location.
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NORFOLK, Va. — The inoffensive images show photographs of aspiring doctors in white lab coats tending to patients, or lounging on the beach in swimsuits, or posing with family members in their Sunday best.
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That's the role she played for seven years on one of television's most enduring sitcoms, and it's the persona she maintained in the public eye, in decade after decade of pleasantly inoffensive interviews.
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Unfortunately, that mediocre episode mostly just involved Lisa Simpson shrugging off the whole issue: "Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect," Lisa says directly to the audience.
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Lounge music is, to me, the lowest common denominator, so bland and inoffensive as to be an affront; it is the indistinct gray that emerges from mixing too many colors on the paint palette.
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It's a perfectly pleasant, totally inoffensive piece of music that fits well enough—but for me, it's one of the few times where I really wanted more from the game, from its licensed tracks.
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For those who follow his account, the tweet is vintage Griffin: a nugget of breaking news, packaged tightly with a line of inoffensive but somewhat incredulous analysis — as if to say, 'omg, I know.
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It's not quite as small as an Eero, but it's small enough and looks inoffensive enough that you might actually be willing to set it out in the open, where Wi-Fi works best.
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To do that, the bet the party is making across the country in districts like this one is to run more candidates like O'Connor — moderate, inoffensive, vying for crossover voters in historically GOP districts.
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In the office where I work, it tends to function as a sort of easy, inoffensive supplement—ever faithful, sitting there in the communal fridge between the Chobani yogurts and the cans of La Croix.
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This seemed strange because UNESCO is such an inoffensive-seeming organization: Its most prominent function is designating and protecting official international landmarks, called World Heritage Sites — places like The Alamo and the Great Barrier Reef.
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The size of the above catfish examples are on the small and inoffensive side of the spectrum, like these: The other side of the spectrum is the actual false identity, gigantic 600-pound whopper catfish.
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But, during last year's presidential election cycle, the initially inoffensive character was used by the alt right (including by a certain faction of Trump supporters) to illustrate racist, anti-immigrant, nationalist, and anti-Semitic ideals.
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He was painting himself as a martyr for that maleness, and he was using beer — along with weight lifting, football, flatulence jokes and what he mendaciously insisted were inoffensive yearbook high jinks — to do it.
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Yet, even more than in their 2014 collaboration, "Everywhere We Go," Mr. Stevens has produced an inoffensive collection of pastiche orchestral sections, lacking the kind of sustained organization that George Balanchine said a choreographer needed.
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Not only does beef stroganoff and fruit cocktail feel distinctly anachronistic, so much so that it might have seemed old-fashioned 20 years ago, but it's stricken with the rigor mortis of bland, inoffensive Americana.
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It probably goes without saying that none of this is likely to please Android software purists, but I find the visual design inoffensive enough and it's a lot less onerous than previous efforts from the company.
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Aside from the unnecessary bloatware, Huawei's EMUI 224 skin continues to be a relatively inoffensive take on Android, but at the same time, its somewhat cartoony look and occasionally overly simplistic UI is hard to love.
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The face of mainstream British music for the past five years has been defined by the deliberate absence of politics, with Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Adele, and Coldplay acting as spokespeople for palatable and inoffensive pop.
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It has the right to brush off whatever criticisms it wants, but to pretend like Apu was always inoffensive, just because the writing team never heard or considered otherwise, is as disingenuous as it is disappointing.
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And so: Pizza is probably the world's universal comfort food because it mixes those two most comforting foodstuffs—bread and cheese—and lubes them up real smooth and nice with a lovely bit of inoffensive tomato.
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The report suggests that users could set these filters and avoid being shown tweets with racial or gendered slurs, or they could use it for inoffensive tweets about events or conversation topics they're not interested in.
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Except for one or two small labels, many of the wines seemed generally to be inoffensive, made by producers who had taken the temperature of what the audience wanted and given them no more than that.
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It's unlikely to be groundbreaking or shocking—Foo Fighters have been a mostly-inoffensive stadium act for well over a decade—but they seemed to be having fun on the album's first single, "Run," released in June.
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With a movie like La La Land, it would be all too easy for the screenplay to be inoffensive and incidental, a bridge between big moments designed mostly to move viewers from one sequence to the next.
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There are a some general fail-safe qualities for good streaming content for heavy petting: casual, low-investment, mostly inoffensive, nothing too intense, kind of missable but also good, and able to be tuned in and out.
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I want bass, and plenty of it, so that my hard-driving playlists can drown out the treadmill motors and ambient grunts that ride atop a soundtrack of inoffensive bubble-gum pop played over my gym's loudspeakers.
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That's something it shares with the original, by the way, which far from being a transcendent masterpiece of cinematic imagination was a nice paycheck for the artists involved and an easy, inoffensive night out for the audience.
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Empire of the Sun is like the Law and Order of festival bands, but not SVU: You'll watch it if it's the only thing on—and it's always on—reliably palatable and too inoffensive to actively dislike.
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The box, for him, was recurring form; it was not a reference to a so-called shared cultural experience, which has devolved into the replication of inoffensive objects from popular culture blown up to a monumental scale.
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But with any luck, Jackson will say something outrageous (but ultimately inoffensive), the rout will go unnoticed, and these quietly determined Knicks will continue to improve until they're in a position to make some noise come April.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show churned out great episodes through most of the 19733s that are not just inoffensive, but feel right at home in today's more inclusive, forward-thinking culture — and will still make you laugh.
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At first blush, Bird Box's flaws seem inoffensive, if plentiful: A poorly written script, half-baked world-building, paper-thin characters, and the waste of the talents of an Oscar-winning actress on five-year-old screen partners.
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But ultimately we know that much of the posturing taking place during these proceedings is simply that — posturing and pageantry to appear as palatable and inoffensive a candidate as possible to get confirmed to the country's highest court.
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The episode, titled "No Good Read Goes Unpunished," featured a scene with Marge Simpson sitting in bed with her daughter Lisa, reading a book called "The Princess in the Garden," and attempting to make it inoffensive for 2018.
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Other apartment blocks, like Grenfell, have been prettified with what we now know to be combustible polyethylene — if a council cannot prize poor people from its borough, then it can at least conceal them behind inoffensive pastel shades.
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"The director is either too polite or too timid to push Mr. Turner to reveal more details than he's comfortable sharing," Monica Castillo wrote in The Times, adding, "As it is, 'Dealt' remains a pleasing — if inoffensive — portrait."
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The Saoirse Ronan-starring mother-daughter film operates at a completely inoffensive level of noise for most of the movie, even if the titular character and her mother (Laurie Metcalf) do get into their fair share of verbal tiffs.
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The federal Election Assistance Commission was formed after the disputed 22015 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore and given an innocuous name and a seemingly inoffensive mission: to help state election officials make it easier to vote.
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Legalism and art rarely mix well; lawyers will always err on the side of caution, which in a creative context can mean censorship and encouraging artists to make things that are inoffensive, toothless and of little interest to anyone.
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Foer's other concession to nostalgia, in the form of an inoffensive command to return to the "sustaining nourishment of the contemplative life and the deep commitment to text," is overshadowed by a vigorous and novel call for regulatory intervention.
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A source familiar with the situation said Coons' briefing card was inoffensive but that Coons' office gave the White House Office of Legislative Affairs a friendly heads-up that their briefing material had found its way to Capitol Hill.
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Watching him spy on her each night as she stands gloriously naked in her kitchen window, rubbing lemons on her skin to banish the odor of a job she detests, there is something innocent and inoffensive in his peeking.
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When Jon Goldwater became Archie Comics' CEO and publisher in 2009, the company was still dominated by the rudimentary, inoffensive stories and visuals first published by his father, John L. Goldwater, and Goldwater's co-founder, Louis H. Silberkleit, in the 1940s.
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Each of the stories they landed on, briefly, had the tone of those final local news pieces: ephemeral and inoffensive—a particularly large piece of livestock, a local festival or parade, a winner of a race found to have been cheating.
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By virtue of its hosts' connections (one of their first guests was Barack Obama), their very swear-y yet inoffensive charm, and their pedigree, Pod Save America was a hit from its inception, even in the crowded field of political podcasting.
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I soon found out that sharing a protest song with the world wasn't as easy as putting it to tape when my otherwise inoffensive country-emo song, "Punch a Nazi in the Face," got censored by the internet music distribution apparatus.
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And while the Senate has proved incapable of accomplishing very much with McConnell's approach ... the majority leader can at least keep divisions within his party under wraps and thus present the electorate with a unified — and inoffensive — message during elections.
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Allbirds makes just a few categories of shoes: runners (a clumped silhouette that looks like it was dreamed up in a bootlegging operation), loungers (inoffensive slip-ons), tree toppers (a Chuck Taylor manqué) and skippers (which are, like, the worst Keds).
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Yet while it's the kind of inoffensive movie that will likely divert younger children over a holiday weekend -- so kudos for the timing -- shrewder adults will politely let some other mom or dad be the one saddled with squiring them.
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It's perfectly inoffensive stuff, until Robert Downey Jr. opens his mouth and starts speaking with a bizarre Welsh accent, one that you'll refuse to accept for about a third of the movie and yet somehow he just keeps doing it.
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Over the last year, the FCC has consistently stonewalled seemingly inoffensive FOIA request, often using an obscure exemption to avoid releasing documents related to Pai's "Harlem shake" video or a joke he made about being in the pocket of Big Telecom.
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That is, it doesn't simply offer its customers buckets of coffee, but also a kind of neutral, inoffensive space that's familiar enough to be comforting, yet blank and generic enough to lend itself to whatever meaning people want to project on it.
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In May, after a storm of online condemnation, Sweaty Betty, a boutique British fitness-wear brand, withdrew from its website an image of three girls around 15 or 16 clad in tropical-patterned leggings and crop-tops, which, in hindsight, looks fairly inoffensive.
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It's hard to understand why a musician as seemingly inoffensive and accessible as Bruun would be inundated by hate and online abuse—unless, of course, you're familiar with black metal, and with the attitude some of its devotees hold towards percieved outsiders.
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In an effort to stop people like Spencer from allowing inoffensive-sounding labels to distract from their shocking (and, to people of color, deeply threatening) beliefs and goals, some left-leaning publications have announced that they'll reject the "alt-right" term altogether.
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By the time you reach the cliffhanger — which did not leave me excited to check out season two, even though I generally liked season one — you'll probably have recognized Sneaky Pete for the largely fun, largely inoffensive, largely unnecessary trifle it is.
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As it happened, there was no hologram, just a projection of Prince onto a gargantuan scrim as the lights turned purple, and a quick, inoffensive duet of "I Would Die 4 U" that served more as an exaltation than a musical performance.
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That system also makes it far easier for more challenging, artistic work to rise (since it is chasing a smaller pool of voters), in favor of largely bland and inoffensive choices, which are more likely to land in second place on various ballots.
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The American Century roster, as it stands when the series begins, is a terrific in-joke in itself: a shag carpet of middle-of-the-road hitmakers like Lobo, Dr. Hook, Robert Goulet, Donny Osmond, and the definitively inoffensive England Dan and John Ford Coley.
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Tumblr is giving users until the start date of the ban later this month to appeal, but the inaccuracies are causing concern that blanket bans on such content could sweep up inoffensive posts and continue to drive a wedge between creators and the Tumblr platform.
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From its inception, the NFL made concerted attempts to keep the halftime show as apolitical and inoffensive as possible, hiring University marching bands or local drill teams, Rockettes or chorales, guaranteeing it met FCC standards and kept all cohorts of its dissimilar American audience entertained.
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The episode follows her attempts to shift gears and create her own material, against the will of an abusive manager who—besides being her aunt and adoptive parent—insists on keeping her on an inoffensive track of optimistic bops even as her mental health suffers.
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A year after releasing its first modular phone, Motorola is now the only company keeping the idea of interchangeable add-ons alive (with the exception of the bizarre new RED Phone), and it's the only thing going for a phone that's otherwise simply solid and inoffensive.
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He was wearing the same outfit in all of the videos I watched (one of those silky Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet shirts and an orange trilby) and spoke with the kind of chipper, inoffensive, Scrappy Doo-esque intonation that doesn't really exist in the physical realm.
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" But at this point in the series, we don't yet know why it's able to affect Spike the way it does; that won't be clear until "Lies My Parents Told Me." And without that extra layer, "Sleeper" never rises above the level of "functional and mostly inoffensive.
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After losing Bannon and Gorka and Hahn to the White House; accepting the resignation of Yiannopoulos, who was caught advocating statutory rape; and firing the editor Katie McHugh over a string of odious tweets, Alex has left himself with a roster of writers who are startlingly inoffensive.
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Related: Opponents of the War on Drugs Are Not Satisfied With the UN's Plan to End It Having assumed the mantle of international drug warrior, the Russians are now trolling the rest of the world and maintaining staunch opposition to what many countries consider inoffensive language.
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The first indication that 365 is aimed squarely at millennials sits just outside the entrance: an empty rack offering "free air guitars" and directing customers to a specially curated Spotify playlist, peopled with such fashionable-yet-inoffensive artists as LCD Soundsystem, Bon Iver and TV on the Radio.
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Either allow Thames to crash the presser to chuck a folding chair at Lackey's dome and make out with Lackey's stage wife, or dress Lackey up like Goldust while he's saying this nonsense, or just stick to the usual hollow inoffensive Bull Durhamisms and stay out of it.
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I still love Big Will's brand of inoffensive hip-hop, but more so than any other artist I can think of, his rhymes make the inexorable passing of time painfully obvious, dropping references to resolutely '90s tech in a way that drags me out of 2017 and back 20 years.
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She makes her way among the masses of supposedly pissed off yet smiling protesters, who brandish offensively inoffensive signs, grabs a can of Pepsi, and hands it to a police officer who takes a sip and smiles (presumably due to the relief of dealing with a such docile group of protesters).
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As the commercialism of the art world expanded in the 2010s, painting became a subset of interior decorating, something that was easy to mass produce and inoffensive to live with: paintings marked by bold colors and forms, sometimes literally depicting flowers (the work of Nate Lowman) or sunsets (Alex Israel).
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With all due respect to the delightful Alicia Witt, who sometimes shows up in these things, these movies are pretty easily the least essential cultural product out there—both common and cheap, inoffensive above all things and effectively interchangeable, soft both around the edges and in their pale, gooey middles.
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But it seems that platform companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter keep finding themselves in these positions — be it for hosting ISIS propaganda or accidentally demonetizing inoffensive YouTube videos or censoring historic war photography — because it's easier to build and deploy a piece of technology before, not after, thinking through all its implications.
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Now, on those evenings when you're [working late/out with friends] and it's just me and the remote, I find myself watching some inoffensive and relatively mindless network show like [CSI/Real Housewives/Grey's Anatomy/Gotham/Good News], just because there's less of an expectation that we watch that sort of thing together.
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Instead, global power brokers like French President Emmanuel Macron, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel strode out one-by-one on to the stage of the U.N. General Assembly in New York and for the most part riffed on the same blandly inoffensive principles: Climate change is definitely happening.
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The Cole Swindell song "Flatliner" (featuring Dierks Bentley) wouldn't have been missed on a middling Poison album (because every record has its thorn) and Brett Eldredge's "Somethin' I'm Good At" is good at being inoffensive country pop (as an old Southerner, I like my country music gnarled and ancient like Willie Nelson or Hank Williams).
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I would even say that I hope maybe the tuna of tomorrow might smell inoffensive enough to enter my office (hey, if we can cure diseases and explore space and stuff, we can probably de-stink a fish), but to be honest, that might just ruin all the clandestine tuna-eating fun for me.
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Kim: I used to tour with a bunch of hard-living heavy metal bands so I feel like I shouldn't answer this... Eric: This is inoffensive and I feel bad that I can't muster up anything else to say but in my defense we are almost to the end and I'm getting pretty tired.
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Her departure is more likely a ticket to a lucrative PR or consulting gig than evidence of any quasi-feminist awakening or rejection of Trump-wrought devastation — there are a lot of companies no doubt eager to hire a compliant, inoffensive woman with access to the president, and offer her substantial sums in exchange.
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The Galaxy S7 was officially released in the US on March 11, and won wide acclaim, with critics praising its high-end design (there's no cheap-feeling plastic as in previous models), the return of an SD card slot (which was removed in the Galaxy S6 in 2015), and the relatively inoffensive presence of TouchWiz, Samsung's custom Android skin.
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That would seem like a positive step, though there were some troubling signs Twitter just doesn't have enough qualified moderators to ensure a more punitive approach is rolled out fairly—for example, a fair number of anecdotal accounts suggest it's easy for trolls to game its moderation system by mass-reporting clearly joking or inoffensive tweets.
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The pop star has remained completely silent on politics in the midst of such a contentious election and its aftermath, save for two inoffensive tweets: a photo of herself at the polling booth on Election Day, and a diplomatic message of support for the people marching in the Women's Marches in January (in which she did not participate).
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By all accounts, the album should have gone down as an inoffensive project from a rapper-turned-actor; a fun piece of pub trivia about a famous actor (like how Mark Wahlberg used to be in a musical group called The Funky Bunch and also has a documented history of racially-motivated violence towards Blacks and Asians!).
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Donald Trump's short and inoffensive "ask me anything" session on Reddit this evening didn't give much of an insight into the extravagantly coiffed man who could be US president, but thanks to a photo posted to his official Facebook page, we get to see just what he was up to when he was answering tonight's questions.
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Besides struggling to find an inoffensive way to deliver the news, I was also terrified that if I spoke The Ick into existence for Nathan, then the entire glorious facade of our burgeoning relationship would come crumbling down with it, and I was quite enjoying fancying someone (every couple of weeks when their beard grew back out again).
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You, a Brand, can be sterile and inoffensive, and be ignored; you can make a bunch of corny jokes, and face death threats; you can get performatively sad and make a vaguely suicidal cry for help, and be condemned for exploiting depression; but you cannot, no matter how hard you try, actually do a Good Tweet.
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Opinion Columnist Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican who couldn't be much clearer about his values if he went around in a conical white hood, said last week that "white supremacist" and "white nationalist" were inoffensive if not honorable terms, and now his fellow party members in Congress are coming down on him like a ton of bricks.
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A lot of the time I'm ashamed of the way I look, but trying to cover my illness with an inoffensive yet artificial-looking wig or just enough eyebrow pencil to pass at a glance for "normal" makes me feel like I'm trying, unconvincingly, to hide the fact that I'm not normal, not right now anyway.
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It was only when I reapproached "Outlet" a few days later, spending an hour marvelling over its oddities rather than treating it as something I could half-pay attention to and absorb alongside tastefully inoffensive singles from artists such as the Dirty Projectors, Axwell Ingrosso, and Jidenna, that I fully came to appreciate its warped charms.
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But now that her dad is president, this has transformed into something that resembles real power, the kind that looks good in a photo op (she loves getting her picture taken with anyone and everyone), plays well in a soundbyte (all those inoffensive talking points about women's economic empowerment), and gets her positive press (publicly disagreeing with her father just enough).
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Having the winners decide who goes home makes for good television—especially when someone like BenDeLaCreme tries to rationalize it for hours on end—but I don't think that it's good for the show if the finale is just the few mediocre queens who managed to skate by and be inoffensive enough that no one wanted to send them home.
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After a relatively mild and inoffensive journey with Peter Weber (depending on where you fall on that whole champagne-gate thing), everything imploded on Tuesday night when Peter proposed to the 23-year-old and ended up taking it back when he realized he was still battling feelings for Madison Prewett, who left the show just days before Hannah Ann and Peter's engagement.
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Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Storm Lake Times, said Mr. Buttigieg appealed to rural Iowa voters because he visited frequently — Saturday was the third time he had been to Storm Lake — and because he came across as inoffensive, without the harder edges of Mr. Sanders or Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, whom Mr. Cullen's newspaper endorsed.
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Later that afternoon, inoffensive jazz played softly in the background as a new and nervous consignor, Lindley Hollender, a private-wealth analyst, watched as a strand of pearls were rejected on the basis of market saturation, along with a pair of Theory pants (accepted only with tags, or if they are suede or leather) and a floral Roberto Cavalli gown (excessive soil).
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The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air," he wrote, before going on to damn "The Empire Strikes Back" with faint praise by comparing it to the first "Star Wars": "It's not as fresh and funny and surprising and witty, but it is nice and inoffensive and, in a way that no one associated with it need be ashamed of.
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Obviously there are literally no people in the United States of America who are offended by people who say "Merry Christmas" in December, but over the past 10 to 15 years, the conservative establishment in America has spun up this weird alternate reality in which totally normal, inoffensive behavior is under siege in American life and can only be protected by electing Republican politicians.
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It is 4 AM outside Globe Burger House at Gatwick Airport—the kind of place you only get where cultures morass into one amorphous blob, where diverse footfall sands away all the rough edges of cultural identity, a lineup of restaurants so inoffensive and nationality-less that they could be anywhere, London or Bangalore or Mississippi—and I cannot stop looking at an old man sitting alone and eating a patty, chewing with his mouth open, chok-chok-chok like a toddler.
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A small and relatively inoffensive sampling (all these links will bring you to far more explicit erotica, so click at your own risk): Mike Pence gets pregnant with Trump's baby, and they haphazardly coparent the infant; Pence and Trump engage in an Inauguration Day sexual tradition; Trump and Shrek bond over their mutual interest in walls and swamps, and become foul-mouthed lovers; Trump and Putin, after sharing "tongue battling" kisses, bring a Shrek doll to life, then have a threesome with the ogre.
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WATCH: The Great Council House Scam – The Cocaine Dealer It's junior year, and everything in the first house fell apart, so you and a couple of others from your major decided to find somewhere different, only you decided too late—you started all optimistic that you could steal in ahead of the sophomores and get that one good house right by the bar and the bus to school because you went looking nice and early, but now it's May, and you're all looking at places two miles out because it's all you can find for $700 each—and just like every off-campus house, it's inoffensive with beige-colored carpets, heavy fire doors painted white in every possible corridor, and a garden where you all throw beer cans.
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