| 单词 | squeamishness |
| 例句 | “But this squeamishness about work wears a bit thin when one is forced to assume his upkeep oneself.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Even Roman women had little squeamishness about the bloodletting in the arena. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace--or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons--rid of my provincial squeamishness forever. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Brought down by the destruction of the atmosphere or lack of resources or moral squeamishness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Initially I had thought with hard work I could overcome a fundamental squeamishness and distaste for my subject, that perhaps with even harder work I could simulate something like a talent for it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My squeamishness belonged in another age, but I’d brought it along with me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Depending on your squeamishness, you might scatter them at the far, far edge of your property or bury the box under one of the many succulents that will populate your post-retirement life. Social Q’s: Retiring the Therapy Couch 2013-08-15T20:17:01Z I must also confess to slight squeamishness here. Not the Booker prize 2011: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:21:28Z That aspect of the film's legacy – more than any sort of squeamishness towards sex – could have also contributed to the reluctance of theaters to screen it. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The film made headlines after revelations about its newcomer lead's stint in prison, and after Loach berated the British Board of Film Classification over what he considered their squeamishness over the use of the c-word. Michael Haneke wins second Palme 2012-05-27T19:05:02Z I beat back renewed squeamishness when I grew my own SCOBY, the weird colony that sits atop a batch of sweetened tea and causes its fermentation into kombucha. Want hooch with your booch? Make a kombucha cocktail. 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z When I told Stout about my memory of Brooklyn rootworkers, she explained that she wants her art to provoke the cultural squeamishness that some black people have about folk practices. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Dr. Kaplan and others acknowledge that squeamishness about the technology remains a hurdle. The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animal Cells. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Yet racial squeamishness would not allow Hollywood to cast him as a romantic lead, despite his good looks. Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Certainly, a general post-Vietnam squeamishness about showing the carnage of war was one reason the photo hasn't been widely seen. Why Kenneth Jarecke's gruesome war photo needs to be seen 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s not a breastfeeding mom’s job to worry about whether someone else is comfortable with what she’s doing, but we need to question why there’s this level of squeamishness in the first place. Target finally has a breastfeeding policy — the Army should be next 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z This article in zdnet.com captures the some of the squeamishness about corporate brands capitalizing on social good. South by Southwest Interactive: Games, social good and scale 2011-03-17T17:42:08Z Mere discomfort and squeamishness were the least of them. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z For all the squeamishness the age differentials and so on inspire, we’re all checking modern moral standards at the door, to a certain extent, if we want to go along with this story. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z In a culture that still unfortunately abounds in rampant squeamishness around what adults do in their bedrooms, Ocean is making a statement about love. Frank Ocean’s brave revelation 2012-07-05T18:05:00Z Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” which was apparently done in by budget squeamishness and an R rating, as he told The New Yorker. ArtsBeat: Del Toro to Unleash a Monster of a Movie 2011-03-09T19:49:19Z To what extent is this female squeamishness punitive? Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z But there is a deeper discomfort than simply reiterating a cliche about the intangible value of human creativity, and it’s more troubling than any polite squeamishness about reducing everything to money. Perspective | How record-setting art auctions are ruining the old neighborhood 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He compares our squeamishness around death to how society used to view childbirth: “Fifty years ago there weren’t many photographs or films of births, but now that’s understood as a celebration of our bodies.” Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z His health woes have raised the delicate question of his successor, an issue that causes great squeamishness for all involved. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z Will Korine's fans put aside squeamishness to snap these records up, or might they yet find their way to a more conventional landfill? Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers soundtrack is a load of rubbish 2010-07-07T16:00:00Z In “Middle School Date” Elizabeth Banks ridicules male ignorance and squeamishness about menstruation. Movie Review: ‘Movie 43,’ Crude Vignettes With Big Stars and Directors 2013-01-26T00:08:39Z PASADENA, Calif. — NBC's entertainment chief insists that it wasn't squeamishness over booze that got "vodka" dropped from the television version of Chelsea Handler's memoir. NBC says they weren't afraid of Chelsea's vodka 2012-01-07T03:03:39Z Either way, audiences will find themselves face to face with their own prejudices, assumptions and, perhaps, squeamishness. 'Breastmilk' an intimate chronicle of women's, experts' views 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Just moments before, she had opted out of a team gun practice for hunting, presumably out of squeamishness for killing. Chicken wings with a side of human flesh: A look at the meaty food cravings on “Yellowjackets” 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z While the American reserve and squeamishness about sex speak to the influence of the early Puritans, it's not entirely fair that we use their name to mean prudish and anti-sex. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z She got over her squeamishness and tied the knot in what felt like minutes. ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad and the Forgotten 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He’s also gay, though this fact is handled with a discretion that borders on squeamishness. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Agatha tests squeamishness from the start, with her beauty slightly marred and her gloves and neck-high dresses hinting at more terrifying wounds that are still unseen. David Cronenberg’s Horror Portrait of Hollywood 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z She also helped vaccinate and castrate calves on his family’s farm without any squeamishness. Chasing Their Fears and Finding Each Other 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Smith attributes Americans' squeamishness both to our Puritan forebears and to marketing. Mark Haskell Smith bares all to live nudist life for 'Naked at Lunch' 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z At the rat-baiting, a loathsome group of toffs mocks Ethan for turning away from the bloody spectacle, chalking it up to American squeamishness. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Blood and Gore Are so Entertaining 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z My squeamishness doesn’t make me a more sensitive soul or a kinder person or a better parent than anyone else. Suffer the Children: Saying "No Thanks" to TV's Child-in-Peril Stories 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Timothy Hutchings, an artist and video editor who said he’d once worked in an animal sanctuary feeding dead rats to alligators, copped to some squeamishness. Dinner at an Exhibition: Rat, Prepared Many Ways 2012-07-26T21:57:39Z “You’re not easily pleased with how other people put sentences together,” Julian accuses, “but when it comes to money, you’ve got no taste. And no squeamishness — about asking for it, discussing it, hoarding it.” In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Cronenberg is the director of physical squeamishness, of pushing past squeamishness and into the deep psychological waters that the surface of squeamishness conceals, of the mental side of the body. David Cronenberg’s Horror Portrait of Hollywood 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z I think this squeamishness about the body didn’t exist yet, but that said, the makers were very much trying to distance the Venus from death. Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18th-century dissectible wax women 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z He calls the procedure a “vampire face-lift” on one of his Web sites, though with some squeamishness about its sensationalism.. Skin Deep: ?Vampire Face-Lifts?: Smooth at First Bite 2011-03-02T21:05:10Z It’s a confusing moment of squeamishness and overstatement from a woman who was politicized as a young mother by the funky feminism of the 1970s. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It goes unchallenged thanks to age-old squeamishness and shame around women’s bodies, and our collective ineloquence on matters of grief. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z See, this is exactly the absurdity of homophobes — when they reveal their squeamishness and essentially say, “We don’t mind if you’re homosexual as long as you don’t seem homosexual around us.” Conservatives mad at Hilton for showing gay couple in ad 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The usual gallery of pundits has regurgitated the usual British squeamishness about bodily functions. The Crimson Petal and the White: Watching my novel reborn on TV 2011-04-06T14:13:06Z This squeamishness banishes all but the most vanilla facts and images. Movie Review: ?Chimpanzee,? a Disney Film Narrated by Tim Allen 2012-04-20T00:02:31Z The squeamishness around gambling in that era seems downright quaint when you look at how widespread it is today ... ‘Close to the Flame’: the rise and fall of Gordon Walgren 2013-06-28T21:40:56Z MORE: Citizen Breitbart: The Web’s New Right-Wing Impresario If pointing all that out seems to be speaking ill of the recently dead, Breitbart himself had no squeamishness about speaking his mind, mourning period or no. Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012 2012-03-01T16:24:15Z This method may provoke squeamishness, but regardless of whether it catches on, it is symptomatic of male contraceptive research. Pills, gels, customised jockstraps: are we any closer to a male contraceptive? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Ridiculous as it may seem, this would appear to come down to simple squeamishness and embarrassment – society has made menstruation so taboo that science doesn’t want to go near it. 'Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The squeamishness is most apparent in the $25 trillion market for U.S. Why Are Investors So Jittery? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “I’ve seen very, very few horror movies in my time, and I’m not a connoisseur,” says Barclay, who admits to a squeamishness about the violence associated with the genre. 'Dahmer' director Paris Barclay wasn't in it for the gore. He had bigger issues in mind 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z They do not bite but they do induce squeamishness, especially among some newer residents. ‘Just Disgusting’: A Nevada City Confronts Millions of Smelly Mormon Crickets 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Because dissection is a rite of passage into many scientific and medical careers, managing anxiety or squeamishness influences whether students follow those paths. Cedar the Goat’s Story Revealed Our Beliefs about Pets and Livestock 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z A lack of squeamishness serves her well, too. Review | Dennis Lehane’s masterful new novel revisits the terrain of ‘Mystic River’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Even in less-extreme circumstances, a reluctance bordering on squeamishness around eating skin is not uncommon. Why chefs are fleshing out restaurant menus with animal skin 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z She calls for readers to get over their squeamishness about periods and see that blood for the gold mine that it is. Overturning Roe and Other Important Reproductive Health Stories of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It shows what a renewed American liberal nationalism could do, if only the center and left could get over their squeamishness about patriotic ardor and would embrace and reinvent our national tradition. The triumph of the Ukrainian idea 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The Japanese squirting visualization research was surely not an intentional nod to our globally and persistent squeamishness around the normal and natural reality of our bodily fluids. Why are our lady fluids so often depicted as blue? 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, to stabilize the climate, we need to abandon squeamishness and embrace several forms of geoengineering. Review | How to deal with climate refugees? Probably not like this. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z This progress, she said, extended to areas where squeamishness about sex had stifled conversations about matters that demanded attention. Nafis Sadik, U.N. Official and ‘Proud Champion of Choice,’ Dies at 92 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Emma Cox from Endometriosis UK says: "We need to challenge the squeamishness and silence around menstrual health". UK charities call for menstrual leave for severe pain 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Adult squeamishness should not cost well-intentioned educators their jobs or children the chance to access books that may change their views of reading, the world or themselves. Perspective | She wrote a book on body safety for kids. Will it get past the adults? 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Coast to coast in state legislatures bent on curtailing abortions, there has been an odd male squeamishness about women’s bodies. Perspective | Like many Texas women, I had a safe, legal abortion. What happened to our state? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z "We're just not quite there yet," she says, adding that squeamishness remains an obstacle. The South African farm turning flies into food for pets - and maybe people 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The Family operates in a penumbra of secrecy formed by the overlap of lax IRS disclosure laws and law enforcement squeamishness about scrutinizing organizations that appear even remotely religious. Bias, theocracy and lies: Inside the secretive organization behind the National Prayer Breakfast 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “I was like, ‘Yep, it is, it’s pretty awful,”’ Damon said, his voice cracking as he relived his squeamishness. Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Ms Cohen said that there was "a weird squeamishness" around speaking about female health issues "stopping us from speaking up and getting proper medical care". 'Shameful taboo' around sharing female health issues, women say 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Cue the bleating anger from some fans, the weak-kneed squeamishness from some retrograde corners of the league. Cheers for Carl Nassib Show a Changing Football Culture 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Years later, McLagan, an Australian native who now lives in Toronto, noticed that the squeamishness around cooking with blood persisted in Canada and the United States. Blood is a respected ingredient around the world, but less so in the U.S. A new book aims to change that. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The easy, and often silly, part of this is a kind of squeamishness at individual voices that clash sharply with the brand. Survey Says: Never Tweet 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The only thing precluding commonsense curbs is political squeamishness about doing anything to limit gun ownership. Recent Missouri editorials 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Some of the squeamishness over the sex scenes has been playful, with viewers dubbing the adaptation Fifty Shades of Sligo. Fifty Shades of Sligo: Normal People poses a challenge for Irish tourism 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But there are complications, aside from corporate squeamishness. News Outlets Want More Advertisers to Act Like Burger King 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z As a palliative care doctor, I am intimately acquainted with our reluctance to square up to dying, and with the unintended harms of such squeamishness. Coronavirus: death is coming and we have to talk about it 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z He says his clients, as they get older, have become frustrated by this squeamishness. 'My search for the boy in a child abuse video' 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z So squeamishness about a billionaire buying democracy isn’t much of a gut check at this point. ‘We’re in trouble’: How some Democrats have learned to stop worrying and love a gazillionaire 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Even Queen Elizabeth shared the general squeamishness; seven years into Thatcher’s rule, she let it be known through her press secretary that she considered the Prime Minister to be “uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive.” It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z I get the same mild squeamishness when I read about Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s anthology, The Book of Gutsy Women. My heart sinks every time I hear women called ‘gutsy’ or ‘badass’ | Emma Brockes 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z The pricey shellfish would lend its sweet, mild flavors to the roll without causing squeamishness among newcomers. Made in America 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z This squeamishness is one reason that impeachment has been off the table for party leaders, until now. Voters are anxious and wary as Democrats pursue impeachment 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He got over his squeamishness and decided to specialize in surgery, but kept wondering if the practice could be refined. Paging Dr. Robot 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z She noted that Christian squeamishness about vulgar bodily terms arises out of the Victorian era, not the early church, and can change with the times. Trump uttered what many supporters consider blasphemy. Here’s why most will probably forgive him. 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Parties must swallow their squeamishness and vote the Labour leader in if that’s ever required. If Boris Johnson quits, MPs should back Jeremy Corbyn to avoid no deal | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet even now, there remains some squeamishness about calling Trump what he is. Opinion | Trump has done the impossible: He has united the Democrats 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But maybe there is also a squeamishness about showing off such a fraught piece of history. ‘The haunted houses’: Legacy of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion lingers, but reminders are disappearing 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z I understand that their offense and squeamishness may even be delightful to some of the president’s supporters. Second accuser claims rape by Virginia Lt. Gov. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Springmann says if we do not get over our squeamishness about making these changes quickly, things are going to get a lot worse. Could flexitarianism save the planet? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z He has his share of issues—a melancholic squeamishness, a longing for affection that is undermined by flashes of coldness—but they’re particular to him. The Home-Cooked Pleasures of “Please Like Me” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “Under the Trump administration, any senior-level squeamishness about Nigerian military abuses has evaporated.” Nigerian Army Uses Trump’s Words to Justify Fatal Shooting of Rock-Throwing Protesters 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z And there should now be no squeamishness about the urgency of enlarging the Supreme Court if Democrats have the power to do so after the 2020 elections. Opinion | We need to stay angry about Kavanaugh 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Butler agrees: going to medical school, doing operations, and working in emergency departments gives medical people a high threshold for squeamishness, he says. These 3D X-rays are spectacular and really gross 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z As I ask these “vulgar” questions of friends, family members and random strangers, I detect two main reasons for squeamishness. How much do you earn? ‘It’s not something you want to talk about’ 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z One post castigated other forum users for their squeamishness under the title, “most of you guys are all talk”. Toronto attack: Facebook post may link suspect to 'involuntary celibate' group 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z If the water companies can get past their squeamishness about dissolved dead people in the sewers, Britain will soon follow suit. Why undertakers are worried 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z And, since such animals are already raised for their flesh and skin, their use to grow more valuable things should meet with no objection beyond squeamishness. Using domestic animals to make human organs 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z I observe my reactions as if from above, lifting and weighing each thought as it comes to me, alert for squeamishness. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The problem here isn’t Trump’s repeated ethical lapses alone, although they do induce a certain squeamishness. Opinion | What should scare us about Trump’s porn star scandal 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But it seems unlikely this squeamishness will derail the proposal once the Senate and House tax bills are meshed and sent to Donald Trump’s desk. 'We're fighting for our way of life': Republican tax bill presents grave threat to Alaska's tribal groups 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z This was in part due to institutional squeamishness – the law prohibits US agencies from examining the private communications of US citizens without a warrant. How Trump walked into Putin’s web 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z He thinks a squeamishness about the right to privacy of people being recorded is to blame, though he believes people will soon be more comfortable with interventions like his. When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Rudman writes that the project caused considerable squeamishness with U.S. government officials. 25th anniversary of Russia’s ballistic goodwill gesture with Northwest 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Even as he professed a squeamishness about interviews, he calmly and tearlessly shared a heap of humanity beside the barn, all in a manner perhaps unusual for a billionaire. A son of a horse player, a Trump nominee, and now, co-owner of a Triple Crown hopeful 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “The horror of HPV cancer is tremendous,” and not to be “whitewashed” by squeamishness or reluctance to discuss prevention, he said. Vaccine may cut HPV infections, an oral cancer risk, in men 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I once confessed to Lund my squeamishness about the risks he and other Pakistani activists were subjected to during a visit to Muzaffargarh. The mysterious murder of an NGO worker in Pakistan 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “There’s a squeamishness in the U.S. about body parts I think that goes back to the Puritan tradition, and has never completely died out.” The Banned Books Your Child Should Read 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Was there ever a squeamishness in having your mother hear some of these lyrics? The Weeknd: ‘Drugs were a crutch for me’ 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z After centuries of misperception and squeamishness, we finally have a good grasp of rat ecology. Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? | Jordan Kisner 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Filmed as an investigative mystery story, “Tickled” often resembles the first-person explorations of British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, inducing similar feelings of squeamishness. ‘Tickled’ takes viewers to the dark sides of the Internet and the human psyche 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z And even as front-runner Hillary Clinton expects to clinch the nomination on June 7, the squeamishness of these voters threatens her ability to unify the left. Why so many Sanders supporters don’t want to be Democrats 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But he says that his colleagues' squeamishness around controversial research was unscientific. The spectrum of sex development: Eric Vilain and the intersex controversy 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Fielding articulated a squeamishness about Richardson that outlasted either man’s lifetime. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z He reportedly found Kipling’s stories too dark, and his squeamishness shows in the finished film, which keeps Kipling’s characters, some broad ideas, and not much else. The Jungle Book is Disney’s first live-action remake with a strong point of view 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr Trump claims that the obstacles to defeating Islamic terrorism are political correctness and squeamishness, proposing to keep America safe with a Muslim entry ban and torture for terrorists. Ted Cruz, false hope 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I wrote about my squeamishness, and my tendency to cry over TV finales. Baring my soul in 500 words: How I survived 16 essays and the college application process 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Where other cultures are involved, liberal squeamishness has stopped us from addressing the scandals of forced marriage, gang grooming and Muslim girls being “disappeared” from secular British classrooms. Society needs to find shared values again | Cristina Odone 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Obviously, I can’t prove that our current queasiness about organ markets will someday seem as quaint as the earlier squeamishness about life insurance. The moral case for paying kidney donors 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z She’s one of that breed of practical, commonsensical Irish farm women who thinks squeamishness about bodies is nonsense. Have I got nudes for you: Emer O'Toole on the art of being naked 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Holtby helped distract him with a story while Schmidt tried to keep his squeamishness contained. Capitals embrace new dietary supplements to improve performance 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Her unflinching scrutiny is a trademark, so why this squeamishness? Diana Athill: ‘I expected to be shattered at the loss of my baby, and I wasn't' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Together these groups represent a potentially vast reservoir of HDP voters, whose inherent squeamishness about favouring a Kurdish nationalist party Demirtaş hopes in time to surmount. The battle for Turkey: can Selahattin Demirtas pull the country back from the brink of civil war? | Christopher de Bellaigue 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z A biographer engaged in research should be shameless, free of compunction and squeamishness. Dirt for art's sake: what's offensive and what's essential in author biographies? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, a vestigial squeamishness about investing in lawsuits made its way across the Atlantic. Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Isn’t it time that we got over our juvenile squeamishness and offered our patients life-saving stool transplants initially, without cumbersome barriers? Stool Transplants Save Lives. Why Don't We Use Them Early For Deadly C. diff? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Panevsky argued that with the country fighting a war against what most Ukrainians believe to be an external aggressor - Russia - there is no room for squeamishness about going after those perceived to be a threat. Ukraine’s self-defense units look for the enemy within 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z I think there’s an enormous amount of squeamishness about this subject, which is shocking in 2015! Stop Being So Squeamish About Sex, and Other Wisdom From Robert Christgau 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Many Republican leaders in Congress say that the fight against the Islamic State should override any American squeamishness about ground troops. Threading Needle in Wording of a Military Proposal 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Saudi officials ignored Washington’s squeamishness in Cairo by advocating repression in Egypt, supporting the military’s coup and subsequent suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood and campaign against all dissent. Saudi Arabia as America's Frenemy: Obama To Visit "Ally" Which Makes World More Dangerous 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z "I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas," he wrote in a memo during his role as minister for war and air in 1919. The 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The film came to town at the height of the high-minded squeamishness that made “banned to Boston” a slogan to be reckoned with. Book review: ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ the racial debate over the film, by Dick Lehr 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Because I do see it as priggishness, prudishness, squeamishness. Stop Being So Squeamish About Sex, and Other Wisdom From Robert Christgau 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Still, the rate of menstrual cup use in the U.S. is still low, partly due to squeamishness and worries about their cleanliness. Is the Menstrual Cup Going Mainstream? 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z This squeamishness about mass voting is part of a broader conservative discomfort with mass democracy. What's Really Behind the GOP's Voter ID and Voter Fraud Claims 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Back then, Weiner explained that LinkedIn would be doing a disservice to its users worldwide if it allowed squeamishness about censorship to get in the way of signing up more Chinese users. LinkedIn Weighs Less China Censorship. Can It Avoid Google's Fate? 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z For the actor, human weaknesses like age or squeamishness are mere trifles to overcome, and his commitment to Cage’s buried decency gives the performance a rugged dignity. 'Edge of Tomorrow' review 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z This is a problem that can be solved, and the first step is getting over our squeamishness. Two girls died looking for a toilet. This should make us angry, not embarrassed 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z So it still remains an open question to what extent the entomological institute at Dachau was involved in developing biological weapons of mass destruction, despite the Fuhrer’s squeamishness. The Nazis’ Biowarfare Program at Dachau 2014-02-21T18:59:57Z Democrats were initially reluctant to embrace Super PACs, in part out of squeamishness, having resisted such unfettered campaign funding by big business. Analysis: Obama vs. the Super PACs - How the incumbent prevailed 2012-11-07T22:18:40Z That, combined with the increasing squeamishness of rich countries about taking casualties, is leading to the use of a new type of drone in the form of unmanned helicopters to deliver supplies. Autonomous helicopters: Robocopter arrives 2012-09-13T15:03:53Z His squeamishness about edgy partisanship is long gone. Campaign Style of Candidate Obama is Relaxed and Loose 2012-08-27T04:37:44Z Some members' attraction to offal stems from their disdain for Western squeamishness and wastefulness. Offal Tale: For This Club, Everything Is on the Menu 2012-06-25T02:48:14Z I am happy to say, however, that the army in Abyssinia has altogether overcome any feeling of squeamishness. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z I tell you of it now merely to dissipate any notion you may have formed as to my squeamishness in looking unpleasant facts squarely in the face. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z They ridicule our squeamishness; we stand amazed at their indelicacy. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z So, for my final thoughts: to the beef industry, clearer labeling and heightened public awareness would help to quash some of the squeamishness at LFTB’s inclusion in the food pantheon. Pink Slime, Deconstructed 2012-03-27T18:15:00.307Z Though he was receptive to the overall messages in those films, he did express some squeamishness about their content. In Santorum?s Writings, a Consistently Conservative Voice 2012-03-19T21:26:12Z "It's my turn not to be a savage," Viola pleaded in defense of her squeamishness. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z From Pliny we learn that the ancients took the ground seed medicinally with bread, water or wine, and that it was accounted the best of condiments as a remedy for squeamishness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z PASADENA, Calif. — NBC’s entertainment chief insists that it wasn’t squeamishness over booze that got “vodka” dropped from the television version of Chelsea Handler’s memoir. NBC didn?t drop vodka from title of Handler show because of squeamishness over booze 2012-01-07T00:29:30Z The sombre streets are worthy your researches: The ways are foul, the lava pavement's horrid, But pleasant sights, which squeamishness disparages, Are missed by all who roll about in carriages. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z In these days, when 'leader of the House of Commons' is the recognised title of the principal Minister in the House, it is not without interest to notice this constitutional squeamishness. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z I loathe that squeamishness which refuses to help religious works if there is a blemish about the instrument by which the work is carried on. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z She had to press him for these details; any squeamishness was on his side, and he a doctor! The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z There is no namby-pambiness about black Tom, and no squeamishness either. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z With policy ammunition running desperately short, he said it was time for governments to overcome their squeamishness about confronting vested interests opposed to change. Analysis: Europe puts its head in sand over growth crisis 2011-09-05T08:19:22Z Then why this strange squeamishness—these wild chaotic dreams, through all of which one face in particular seemed always to the fore? Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Talk to him of honour and he would laugh in your face at your squeamishness. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Visits to the Terrapin occurred frequently during our stay, but none were of long duration, for a growing squeamishness on the part of our guests generally cut them short. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z In her proposed fight against the hatred of her husband's family she had lost the first move, for she could well imagine the triumphant mockery of her mother-in-law over her weakness and squeamishness. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z “It slowly dies out,” she said, her twisted smile expressing her squeamishness. Greenpoint Journal: A Slaughterhouse in Brooklyn, and Misery Next Door 2011-06-11T02:22:33Z Though his bent brows still protested against such squeamishness, the mozo politely submitted. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Of course his squeamishness had been marked and he became the butt of every youngster with any talent for smut. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z The thing's been a blunder from beginning to end, all through the squeamishness of Monsieur, votre mari. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z He felt he had no right to squeamishness. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z That is a vulgar squeamishness which leaves it to poison the atmosphere and offend the senses on the assumption that it is too noisome to be dealt with or utilized. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z He calls the procedure a "vampire face-lift" on one his websites, though with some squeamishness about its sensationalism. Facial rejuvenation, vampire style 2011-03-03T05:16:04Z The announcement was a reminder of the publishers’ squeamishness over having their e-books available in libraries. Media Decoder: A Limit on Lending E-Books 2011-02-28T01:57:09Z Why this squeamishness, my young squire of dames? The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z "Surely the tradesman affects no such squeamishness about what he offers for sale." Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z The Mundurucú would have shown but slight squeamishness at swallowing one of the squabs as it was, while to Mozey it would have signified less. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The thing’s been a blunder from beginning to end; all through the squeamishness of Monsieur, votre mari. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z This squeamishness conquered, the beginner will have to be careful not to become hard and pessimistic. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z I weaseled my way out of the assignment -- the editor had no sympathy with my squeamishness so I just kept smiling and saying I was working on it and meanwhile worked on other things. Drunk horseback riding: Is riding a horse while drunk legal in Montana? 2011-01-17T15:42:00Z I tell you, Arthur, that sort of squeamishness don't get you anywhere. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Byron when he wrote it must have had a spasm of squeamishness. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z But there are few signs of squeamishness yet. BHP gets aggressive 2010-08-18T19:07:00Z The main distinction between these tramps and the less successful members of the craft is that they have completely conquered the amateur's squeamishness about begging. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z Bear in mind, as you have in the past, that we don’t want to depend on men of brittle resolution and temperamental squeamishness. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Both the word and its derivatives, however, are associated with false squeamishness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" It is not every one who would take this view of the catacombs; but the practice of medicine and surgery does not lend itself to the cultivation of squeamishness. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 Not because of squeamishness, as you intimate, but from sheer inability. Triplanetary No squeamishness as to the terms that might have been used towards himself would have prevented his gratifying this wish. A Rent In A Cloud I have very little of that sort of squeamishness myself, but he was much more confidential. Captain Macedoine's Daughter I knew they were written by a lady, but squeamishness is not a fault of mine, and so I just allowed myself to glance over them. Hand and Ring Three months earlier, if anybody had told Adrian he would ever be guilty of such “squeamishness” he would have laughed in derision. A Daughter of the Forest He pities her squeamishness, but thinks it rather unreasonable. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Now, no squeamishness, but write your name firmly. A Rent In A Cloud A firm grasp of catholic Christology in its entirety is the cure for this squeamishness. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology He proceeded to make an examination without any delay or squeamishness. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School It was squeamishness that stood in his way rather than any ethical considerations, although he did indeed believe that every creature had the right to live. The Most Sentimental Man Perhaps the true course lies midway; for certainly if there was much coarseness then, there is much cant and much squeamishness now, which could be excellently well dispensed with. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 But I can't bear to see a fine lad ruined for a bit of squeamishness. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas She detested every item which had to do with that kitchen; and yet, to save Henry the price of a cook––now seventy dollars a month––she sacrificed her squeamishness. Rope He feels the embryo stir within him, and in the squeamishness of enceinteship, he asks but for a few of the fruits of knowledge. The Book of Khalid A lady who has been on the border-line of squeamishness for the last hour, hurriedly leaves the cabin, probably to see if her luggage is all right. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Five years in the Légion des Etrangers and fourteen more of war and preparation for war had rendered him proof against squeamishness. Louisiana Lou A Western Story But what really prevented his returning to a loose woman, over and above the natural squeamishness, was the recollection of the paucity of the last experience. The Rainbow It was Lund's apparent callousness that affected him more than his own squeamishness. A Man to His Mate He had no squeamishness about living on her ranch instead of his own, if she wanted it that way. The Ranch at the Wolverine An elderly man, who had offered to show me a terrible ulcer on his leg, smiled at my squeamishness, as if he pitied me, when I declined the privilege. Change in the Village However, I made up for my night's restlessness by a hearty breakfast, and appeared on the quarter-deck with a face exhibiting no symptoms of squeamishness. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 But Bud, who, perhaps, was too young to feel any squeamishness at the proximity to death, hurried forward and knelt beside the motionless figure. The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Shakespeare was as profoundly the enemy of scholastic pedantry as he was the enemy of puritan squeamishness. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions They are sure of treble pay, and besides, are not troubled with squeamishness. The Light of Scarthey Defenseless merchant seamen could not be allowed to suffer for his squeamishness. Brandon of the Engineers With a limited, if uncertain, time before they had to be ready, she had to get Odeon past his squeamishness as quickly as possible so she could start training him as her assistant. The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel One of the functions of the moisture-reclaimers was a rough joke, or a squeamishness. The Planet Strappers The subject comes up occasionally, and we have no squeamishness about discussing it, and the history of the colony is well known to every intelligent inhabitant of the place. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent A girl who could watch a fight without timidity or squeamishness but in impartial, impersonal joy of the conflict was unique in his experience. The Fifth Ace He was, with a young man’s squeamishness, rather sick of her ferocity. Chance A Tale in Two Parts God willing, she thought, Sara would never get over what she called squeamishness; humanity needed far more of that type than it did Inquisitors, or even regular Enforcement troopers. The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel You must not allow my squeamishness to be a bar to the satisfaction of your own appetite, if you feel hungry enough to eat raw flesh. The Castaways They have never displayed much squeamishness—about work: and if they could not benefit the rising generation in a maternal, were willing to make themselves useful in a tutorial capacity. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States A midshipman’s berth in those days did not allow of any squeamishness. Adrift in a Boat He knew, however, that this was no time to permit an interruption through squeamishness. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol But his spirit is throughout perfectly serene and, in the best sense of the word, scientific, so that he can work out his argument to the end without a trace of squeamishness or false modesty. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The lesson is that infinite trouble grows out of our rotten squeamishness about sex facts. Possessed But he had a feeling akin to contempt for the punctilious and conventional squeamishness of polite society. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn It is an altogether delightful anachronism to imagine that religious ritual in the ancient and aromatic East was inspired by such squeamishness as a British sanitary inspector of the twentieth century might experience! The Evolution of the Dragon Oh, it is not a question of squeamishness, it is the insult of the thing. The Daughters of Danaus The other gentlemen watched these operations with mute delight; and, after a space, Captain Templar challenged him to a bumper, which was taken and swallowed without much squeamishness. Rattlin the Reefer We’d got over our squeamishness; they hadn’t, for I don’t count their bit of firing as anything. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah They want to impose their squeamishness on sturdy health: that is at the bottom of it all. Browning's Heroines So I quietly smothered any little squeamishness that might naturally have arisen, and finished my dinner, and then resumed the religious service. By Canoe and Dog-Train These things had little influence upon him, and the men who liked them overmuch, who chaffed him because of his squeamishness and distaste of them, were not such friends as he needed in his life. Civilization Tales of the Orient The intervention of an executive officer in the procedure of a Court of Justice was no rare occurrence at that period, and Cardan was deeply disappointed at the squeamishness or indolence of his whilom patient. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study If I went reluctantly it was not owing to any new-born squeamishness. Branded I saw, noting the fact automatically and without the least squeamishness, that it was his brains. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad In treating such a theme as friendship, the worst dangers are hardness and levity on the one extreme, exaggeration and mawkishness on the other, and cowardice and squeamishness between. The Friendships of Women This trio took to themselves the credit of having overcome the squeamishness of society, and as a reward for their perspicuity they considered themselves entitled to intimacy with their idol. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow The free stride of his activities was not restricted by any form of what he would have called squeamishness. The Short Cut "Well, to be sure, here's a pretty kettle of fish," said her uncle, using strong compulsion to adapt his words to the squeamishness of a "lil gel." By Berwen Banks Now this is a mark of "incontinency" in pleasurable matters, and of "effeminacy" or "squeamishness" in unpleasant matters, according to Ethic. vii, 1. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province A strange feeling of squeamishness mingled with compassion rose in his breast. The Awakening The Resurrection Lucy's squeamishness was further proof of a narrow and commonplace mind. In the Roaring Fifties Lulu has told that I'm an heiress; now don't you upset it all with your squeamishness about the truth. Bad Hugh But I will chew majum and bestow myself in the cabin; thus perhaps I may avoid squeamishness. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India "Refinement" was the word he preferred, but I should have called it an absurd squeamishness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 He is a gentleman without the slightest squeamishness. Trumps Rebuking himself for squeamishness, the station-agent returned to his office, caught an O.S. from the wire, took some general instructions, and went out to look at the weather. Success A Novel I shall have to lay aside some of my old-fashioned squeamishness, and take a few lessons from so accomplished a teacher. True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings Moreover, Mr. Punch begs leave to say, that squeamishness of that kind is becoming more and more absurd every day under the influence of the New Poetry and its professors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 The thing was horrible to him, but the life he led had taught him the folly of weakness, and he was too pitiful to let his squeamishness overcome him. Winston of the Prairie Having at once the slave's brutality and the master's lack of squeamishness, he can see blood without fainting, and he can also bend his back under a mishap until able to throw it off. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Dol began on them greedily; and though the first mouthful or two threatened to sicken him, his squeamishness wore off, and he gained strength with every morsel. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods They have no squeamishness whatever about his watching their own natatorial duties; why, then, should he shrink within himself and wave them off? Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama He had no idea of being cheated out of it by a sudden fit of unreasonable squeamishness. Tales of a Traveller Why this squeamishness, I can't understand . . . especially when a man . . . is ill . Love The excessive squeamishness of taste of the present day is very unfavourable to the genius of comedy, which demands a certain liberty and a freedom from restraints. The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 That there was a good deal of "squeamishness" felt at the idea of being captured, cannot be doubted. History of Kershaw's Brigade We may smile at this feminine squeamishness; yet, after all, we cannot help admiring the possessor of it wherever we find her. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The atmosphere of a Protestant middle-class home clung to him yet, begetting in him a squeamishness, not to say prudery, almost worthy of his hostesses, the Miss Minetts. Deadham Hard "If she is, the jade has a rare squeamishness, after what has passed!" The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Her hand was ready at every turn, and knew nothing of that silly squeamishness which leads a woman to suppose that she demeans herself by meddling with household affairs. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York However, my burning desire to express myself in writing overruled my squeamishness. Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press Our fair moralist, however, has no such squeamishness. Famous Reviews I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Nicholas Nickleby "The lake," said I, for it was no time for squeamishness. Under the Andes At the sound of these names Strether almost blushed to feel that he couldn't have sounded them first—and yet couldn't either have justified his squeamishness. The Ambassadors Also, he had no squeamishness about saying what was in no sense true, if the falsehood were necessary to his purposes. The Grain of Dust The squeamishness of stomach alone, produced by the last night's intemperance, which he took no pains to conceal, destroyed my appetite. Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman Except—' added Nicholas hastily, after a short silence, 'except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect. Nicholas Nickleby A few weeks of campaigning, he said, would soon cure me of my squeamishness. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Master Mervale," said the marquis, "I will be frank with you, for you appear a lad of good intelligence, as lads run, and barring a trifle of affectation and a certain squeamishness in speech. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages A fine thing if your pretended squeamishness ruin my plot! Mary Marston I know," she said, "that you will say I can't understand, that my feeling is only a woman's squeamishness or ignorance…. Together With a temper quite unlike that of the characteristic northerner, she showed no squeamishness at all about the matter. The History of David Grieve In many plainnesses of speech the old Egyptian resembled the modern Oriental, or our own forefathers, more than ourselves in this age of squeamishness as yet unparalleled in the world. Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty Away with all squeamishness, and perhaps prevent more murder. Erema — My Father's Sin Not by any of the confraternity, whose constant course of life, even long before I became your general, to this hour, has justified what ye now in a fit of squeamishness, and through envy, condemn. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 Is he to change his fare, with all the capriciousness of luxury, and relieve, by variety, the squeamishness of excess? The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I He had been behind the scenes in more than one European crisis, and that which goes on behind the scenes is not always edifying or conducive to a squeamishness of touch. The Sowers Grant realized that there was no room for squeamishness in this affair. The Postmaster's Daughter This squeamishness, Elsie, is the one thing about you that displeases me very much. Elsie Dinsmore "Who taught thee thy squeamishness?" the mullah asked at last, getting up and coming nearer. King of the Khyber Rifles If you are so thin-skinned that you can't allow a colored man to think, talk, act, and prosper like a man, the sooner you get over your squeamishness the better. Bricks Without Straw You are not really sincere in this sudden squeamishness, and I would like you better if you had seized your advantage at once, without stopping to consider whence or how it came. The Silver Horde Corydon was horrified at this; and by way of helping her to overcome her squeamishness he would make her carry home the bleeding corpses. Love's Pilgrimage It is from no girlish squeamishness, from no wish to exercise my short-lived power, that I refuse to do what you now ask me. La Vendée That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose. King of the Khyber Rifles It is useless for me to affect squeamishness in accepting favors from you at this late day. An Original Belle Then he would glare at Ruth impatiently and execrate the squeamishness of women. Told in the East I know I have no right to do this without saying, "By your leave," but item-hunters the world over do likewise, so I feel little squeamishness about it. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran She was fully determined to speak her mind to the man and to be checked by no feminine squeamishness. The American Senator I tried to shake him in what I regarded as his absurd squeamishness—but in vain. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose Vaniman, in that crisis in his affairs, was not affected by squeamishness. When Egypt Went Broke But, fortunately, I am a gambler and spend all my temperament on gaming; on that account simple squeamishness speaks louder within me than this same unearthly feeling. Yama: the pit "This is all squeamishness," said Mr. Levering trying to argue against his convictions. Home Lights and Shadows This is not squeamishness, it is a rough standard, arrived at by instinct rather than by any refined process of reasoning. Letters of Franklin K. Lane There was no beating about the bush here, no squeamishness of spirit, and yet there was subtlety—the kind McKenty liked. The Titan Only the reflection that nowhere in Urbino was he as likely as here to find the thing he sought, impelled him to stifle his natural squeamishness and remain. Love-at-Arms Opinions may differ, but my experience goes to prove that conventional squeamishness at such times as these is more talked and written about than practised. The Hand of Ethelberta But the ultra-delicacy, the squeamishness of an age which is by no means purer or more virtuous than its ruder predecessors, has ended in trenching upon the ridiculous. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 If you begin by declining causes you disapprove of, the public will end by letting you alone in your self-conceited squeamishness. That Fortune "What is your name, father?" asked Foma, noticing the expression of squeamishness on the pilgrim's face. The Man Who Was Afraid “Lord Nelson, I have read, never got over his squeamishness at sea,” I said. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Then, again, the narrowness, the partiality, the sickliness, and the squeamishness of our consciences,—all that makes us to be too often penny-wise and pound-foolish in our religious life. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) As, judging from other passages in the book, squeamishness does not seem to have been the author's literary failing, the sensitive reader can feel only grateful for the omission. The Fawn Gloves And hiding an almost insupportable squeamishness from Glenn, she took the pig in her hands and fondled it. The Call of the Canyon And, barring this secret squeamishness, there can be no doubt he found all the praise and distinction and fuss he got a delightful and even intoxicating draught. Twelve Stories and a Dream And they had no squeamishness as critics of the art of fable-making. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War He was, with a young man’s squeamishness, rather sick of her ferocity. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Still, my chum was so pressing about this breakfast-party of his that I could not well get out of it, unless I wished to earn a name for squeamishness. Gobseck But, she told herself, the time was past for squeamishness. Chronicles of Avonlea There is no squeamishness whatever on the part of the mothers, who leave their little ones to tumble into rivers, and remain out naked in torrential rains, and generally shift for themselves. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont |
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