Armies are not only for offensives.
Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.
That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more.
At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest. !
That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there. . . These are usual things.
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.