It sounded vaguely unthreatening, so we beckoned them to approach.
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The Lake Louise layout is considered unthreatening by downhill standards.
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Grief and angst lurk around even the most unthreatening of corners.
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" The plaintiffs claim that "Hernández was unarmed and unthreatening at the time.
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I appeared unthreatening, possibly because I closely resemble a lesbian Harry Potter.
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But Anand missed his chance, instead opting for a mild and unthreatening play.
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Why shouldn't her story, like this story, pose a few teasing, little, unthreatening threats.
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The paintings are unthreatening, having been vetted for hidden messages and inflammatory political statements.
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They're friendly and unthreatening — all smooth edges and round corners, like a giant pill big.
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It's cute, kinda flirty, and Jimmy Fallon is as unthreatening as a labrador retriever puppy.
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"The goal is to appear as unthreatening as you know you are," Ms. Levin said.
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Rose is merely a symptom of what ails the Knicks, and a relatively unthreatening one.
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He's the kid that misbehaves in kindergarten, but he's also the unthreatening runt of the class.
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Small enough to be unthreatening, to fit in small spaces and to elicit pity from viewers.
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James said Rumaysah seemed very "media-savvy" and unthreatening, "not in the slightest" capable of violence.
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Do you feel that your job is to transform yourself into someone as unthreatening as possible?
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Instead, he's often borrowed from the conventions of black culture and kept his masculinity neutralized and unthreatening.
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Feminism, Zeisler reminds us, can never truly be glamorous, not when glamour involves being unthreatening to men.
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Someone might also perceive unthreatening people as dangerous, or be unable to accept support that's available to them.
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Working the bureaucratic ropes, he secured repeated reprieves for unthreatening clients he served pro bono like Nury Chavarria.
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I do it a couple of times off an unthreatening three-foot wall, and I'm good to go.
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And because she projects "Midwestern unthreatening," it would be difficult to demonize Senate candidates for associating with her.
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Blush pink — feminine, unthreatening, on trend, and inescapable — is the biggest symbol of Trump's personality in Women Who Work.
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MIKE LEVIN has the perfect hair, wash-and-wear grin and firm yet unthreatening handshake of a seasoned politician.
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"I don't feel so nervous anymore," Whack says, looking at the unthreatening faces in the audience during the soundcheck.
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Perhaps the true lesson is that you can win as a strong liberal if your personal demeanor is unthreatening.
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The gastrodomes' designs were talked about more often and more enthusiastically than their menus, which aimed for unthreatening familiarity.
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Midwesterners like their politics unthreatening, realistic and with a touch of humour to smooth over areas of disagreement, she believes.
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I'm starting to feel like Australia's policy of censoring TV shows that paint arachnids as unthreatening creatures is spot on.
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By all indications, an artist who's makes the exact sort of unthreatening abstract stuff that lends itself to brand collaborations.
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What got them out was a campaign so eager to organize in Texas, and so theoretically unthreatening to moderate voters.
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The ditz is allowed to be incredibly competent because she's still conventionally feminine, and her femininity makes her competence unthreatening.
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It comes from the same root as their violence: from the conviction that you are a delicate, breakable, and unthreatening thing.
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Simpson went to Buffalo and broke records and became a cultural phenomenon, an "unthreatening superstar," according to NFL historian Michael MacCambridge.
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That creature — a decidedly unthreatening dragon — became an unconventional love interest, winning the affection of the maiden portrayed by Maria Clara Coehlo.
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As the world truly moved online, abstract fears were repeatedly met with, and answered by, specific, irresistible and unthreatening products and experiences.
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He had sat out those tragic years as an unthreatening apparatchik in charge of Communist Party affairs at the capital's electric-power bureau.
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The phone was then X-rayed and deemed unthreatening, probably left behind by a previous passenger and overlooked by cleaners, according to reports.
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And though the frat guys depart, they are replaced by other attendees: sorority sisters, who love Kappa's unthreatening atmosphere and want to join.
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But to do it, she has to join forces with an unthreatening and likable running mate, someone who will neutralize Paris's scary and effortful ambitions.
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Blacks saw Obama as a man who came across as unthreatening but was still treated as if he was, says Stidhum, the writer and director.
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He was selected by Uber's board in part because of his personality: agreeable, unthreatening, comfortable with the kind of corporate talk that investors find reassuring.
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Despite being a pirate, Depp's makeuped, fashion-obsessed, and generally flouncy character had an unthreatening sexiness that was perfect for us 11- and 12-year-olds.
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In most of these cases, the GOP lawmakers were speaking to unthreatening conservative listeners when, unbidden, they blurted out exactly what they weren't supposed to say.
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There is also a portrait of Adam Parfrey, the late founder of Feral Press, as also of such utterly unthreatening figures as the comedian, Soupy Sales.
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Over the past 100 years, regular injections of inert, unthreatening forms of feminism were supposed to stave off the virus threatening to wreck a patriarchal body politic.
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The Japanese have a term for a certain type of character in manga (comic books) and anime: bishonen — pubescent in appearance, devoid of facial hair, sensitive, unthreatening.
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That is the sort of "passing," Zakaria says, that many American Muslims engage in "to appear to be unthreatening" in this season of terror and Donald Trump.
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I was a little unsure about his mask in the first scene; it looked flat and unthreatening, which may have been a function of lighting or camera angles.
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The most important part of this image is me—a radiant Black woman in a role traditionally reserved for white women only: sultry and beautiful, hot and unthreatening.
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And her polished, poised, unthreatening-but-vaguely-feminist-if-you-squint persona helped sway the 51 percent of white women who voted for Trump in the general election.
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Even in the FM-radio heyday of Black Sabbath, the Allman Brothers and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, there was a place for a well-groomed, unthreatening young pop singer.
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At the same time, because he became a regular, unthreatening presence, he was able to photograph on-the-ground action, much of it sexual, from an intimate vantage.
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Mars is arguably unthreatening to older, whiter audiences, in a way that separates him from black artists of past eras and current hip-hop stars who epitomize groundbreaking coolness.
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The scientists in Arrival tried to attribute a positive, unthreatening image to these extraterrestrials by calling them Abbott and Costello, but these aliens never became Amy Adams' best friends.
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The more his opponents caricature Mr. Sanders as a Sandinista or a Bolshevik, the more Mr. Sanders's actual similarity to 19th-century socialists makes him seem unthreatening, even avuncular.
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There's something interesting about your drag, which highlights how femininity is very unthreatening up to a certain point, but then it becomes terrifying if there's too much of it.
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In previous recent cycles Georgia Democrats have assumed such voters would just tag along, as they nominated unthreatening white moderates designed to appeal to swing voters, an increasingly hypothetical group.
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Instead, she learned to start a conversation by rambling on about something boring—usually the weather—in order to ease her way into the person's attention in an unthreatening manner.
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A similar anxiety unsettles Mr. Van Sant's paintings, although their unthreatening pastel palette and miasmic drifts of gentle brush strokes leave you wondering what, here, really, is not to like?
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And by making its network look weak and unthreatening in the overall telecommunications landscape, the company is clearly hoping that regulators will be more likely to let the deal go through.
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When a woman is shaped in a more feminine way, or is dressed or carrying herself as a stereotypical woman would, visual and textual cues position her as an unthreatening competitor.
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Coach K's squad faces another pair of unthreatening conference foes this week before gearing up for what will likely be a top-10 showdown against the Louisville Cardinals the following week.
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Cuteness is unthreatening, it's welcoming, it's a method of expression that comes from parts of the community that are bored with Generic Beardy Gun Boy and his band of beige man-friends.
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When there's a swap or a merge, your tribe is seen as small and unthreatening, and you can play the crucial swing vote while the bigger two tribes battle it out for supremacy.
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He said work that Netflix had done on optimizing video for internet delivery meant it could deliver "amazing" pictures at unthreatening speeds as low as 300 kilobits per second "using the operator's bandwidth".
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She shares their savior complexes and wholesome condescension, their drive to erase difference in the name of protection, to destroy the uncanny in favor of the unthreatening, the extraordinary in favor of the safe.
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"The Monk of Mokha" is part of a wave of narratives introducing "the good Muslim": funny and cuddly — almost aggressively unthreatening — and, crucially, never devout (see also: "Master of None" and "The Big Sick").
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Perhaps its greatest skill is in how it focuses on areas that are perceived as unconscionable and ominous — perhaps even PTSD-grade blacked out — by breaking these areas down into manageable, unthreatening units of information.
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This is why denying discrimination protections is so contemptible—because without job safety in coming out, millions of Americans stay mired in the closet, unable to show the world just how unthreatening we truly are.
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"Bob came out onstage as a proud gay man in straight comedy clubs in the mid-'80s at the height of the AIDS crisis by telling an unthreatening and hilarious joke," she said by email.
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Osvaldo Gonzalez and Alberto Arias, friends and business partners, happened to pass under a Miami bridge that Thursday afternoon, the road bustling with fellow drivers also out on the most ordinary and unthreatening of life's tasks.
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But if Mr. Beshear can be expected to present an unthreatening message to voters in the political middle, it is his work on health care that has made him a national figure in the Democratic Party.
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Over all this, he has a firm hold on power, secured by trusted military leaders in vital positions and a new economic course of his making in which private enterprise plays an essential — but unthreatening — role.
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The men here — including a post-The OC Adam Brody and a pre-Parks and Recreation Chris Pratt — are mostly just bodies to be disposed of and are either entirely unthreatening or simultaneously threatening and pathetic.
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What she is is viscerally — gratifyingly — real, which makes her more like the blissfully imperfect (if more comic) heroine of a feminist cri de coeur like "Eighth Grade" than the plucky, unthreatening girls that mainstream film loves.
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In Washington, DC, where the institute has its administrative headquarters, this unthreatening style is known as a "DC beard" – sufficient facial hair to hint at a personality, but not enough to jeopardise your chance of security clearance.
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He speaks in long, long sentences, which he organizes with a repertoire of hand gestures—karate chops, a raised index finger, imploring open hands, table sweeps, a fist shaken at an unthreatening angle, a palm to his chest.
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It played a critical role in the suffragette movement—as women became more politically active, many of them continued to work in needlecraft to maintain an image of unthreatening domesticity, in order to gain support for the cause.
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This unthreatening character type, which appears in everything from '254s movies like Mannequin to Queer Eye (old and new) to Sex and the City, helped make gay men respectable by depicting them in service of something other than themselves.
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It's a profound statement on the position of women that the only way for a woman's account of sexual assault to be believed is if she, and the account itself, becomes as amenable, as unthreatening to men, as possible.
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Rosa and her mother, a well-known "appeasement specialist librarian" who helps keep ghosts calm and unthreatening to the living, have moved to a place that is apparently free of the ghosts that inhabit all other towns and cities.
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But realistically — especially through the eyes of people who have watched the deaths of a long list of black people every bit as unthreatening as those whom Roof massacred during their Bible study session go unpunished in recent years — there was.
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It was a Trojan horse — the first colorful, fun, utterly unthreatening game that was downloaded onto a billion phones, and the start of a decade of downloading free apps without having any real idea what they were getting from us.
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Instead, Timberlake is working with two extremes: the fantasy of the rugged white male West, and the fantasy of the unthreatening Michael-Jackson-light sex symbol he's perfected over his 20023 years of fame: Man of the Woods... out now!
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After a few evasions and pot shots, Aldo would catch Stephens shifting in or throwing out that lazy, unthreatening jab and instead of moving back—as so many Stephens opponents do—he cracked Stephens with a counter and broke his advance.
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Washington views the Kim Jong Un regime as a fundamentally threatening entity with revisionist (hostile) impulses; Seoul, after dramatic summit pageantry in 2018, has resuscitated its old view of the North as an unthreatening entity prompted mostly by reactive (benign) impulses.
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It appears as though they are returning to a time in their youth when they were infatuated with teenage boy bands and read teen magazines; a time when beautiful young men were still magical and unattainable and thus largely unthreatening.
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If he hoists a glass of orange juice while they down their pints at the pub, and skips the meat at lunch when it isn't halal, for the most part he passes as a regular lad and is thus unthreatening.
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Old couples waving white flags of truce from windows of small white cars are exceedingly unthreatening, even in a place like Tal Afar in September 2004, where many of the young men were very dangerous, including and perhaps especially us.
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Sugar also detailed some of the obstacles she faced behind the scenes at Cartoon Network, most persistently the harmful idea that queerness is somehow "adult content" — despite, like the heterosexual Muppets of Sesame Street, straight romance being deemed unthreatening to young audiences.
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Kessel is also more on the Creature's side of things than on that of his creator — Frankenstein tends to come off as a self-absorbed prig — but Kessel doesn't fall into the trap of making the Creature so sympathetic as to become unthreatening.
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But she is selling stale goods in which adult women spout girl-power clichés and conform to norms that make it very clear what kind of heroines still get to fly high: young, thin, beautiful, perfectly coifed, impeccably manicured and profoundly unthreatening.
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At each of those Summer Games it was the United States who denied Australia the chance of gold but on Tuesday it was the 37th-ranked Serbians, who sneaked into the last eight as the fourth seeds with an unthreatening 2-3 group record.
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As Depp himself has said in many interviews, the character was The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards combined with cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew — a macho but effeminate drunk clown, with rock star sex appeal, but a cartoonish quality and enough androgyny to be unthreatening.
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The weight of the evidence points in the more positive direction, based on the global scope of the rally, the cyclical sectors leading the way and the rapid repricing of bonds that have yields emerging from historic depths toward more normal but still unthreatening levels.
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Kate Middleton held no official title before her wedding to Prince William, and her virginity did not become the subject of national conversation — but she was wealthy and attended prestigious and expensive schools, and her public persona is overwhelmingly quiet, unthreatening, conventional, and white.
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If those dudes had cut their hair while recording Master of Puppets, it would've been one thing, but the fact that their close-cropped cuts coincided with their newfound unthreatening radio-friendly biker rock sound made their new look feel a lot more drastic than it should've.
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Poetsch was chosen as chairman because he is seen as a relatively neutral and unthreatening figure within VW, where radical reforms can be blocked by labour representatives who hold half the supervisory board seats, and its home state of Lower Saxony, which holds a 20 percent stake.
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White Americans, while marginally more comfortable with racial icons, typically reserved their respect for figures who were exemplary but unthreatening: Virtuous Americans, neither radical nor outspoken, who confirmed the possibility for success and served as a reminder that oppression could be overcome with hard work and the right attitude.
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To keep alive the perception of white superiority, these white Americans tuck their heads under cone-shaped hats and American flags and deny themselves the dignity of face-to-face confrontation, training their guns on the unarmed, the innocent, the scared, on subjects who are running away, exposing their unthreatening backs to bullets.
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To keep alive the perception of white superiority, these white Americans tuck their heads under cone-shaped hats and American flags and deny themselves the dignity of face-to-face confrontation, training their guns on the unarmed, the innocent, the scared, on subjects who are running away, exposing their unthreatening backs to bullets.
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Book Hannah has some shading, but just enough to establish that she was born out of the fantasies of a thousand lonely high school boys: She's attractively damaged but secretly pure, sarcastic but unthreatening, and only Clay really understands her because of a secret connection they have that the book does nothing to sell.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Revolving around the desire for an ever more intimate, ever more sensuous relation to objects already regarded as familiar and unthreatening, cuteness is not just an aestheticization but an eroticization of powerlessness, evoking tenderness for "small things" but also, sometimes, a desire to belittle or diminish them further.
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"New Man" hits peak romance right here: Let me remind you of the days when you used to hold my handAnd when we sipped champagne out of cider cansI guess if you were Lois Lane, I wasn't Superman, just a young boy trying to be lovedSo let me give it to you He's so unthreatening and vulnerable!
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Author Sarah Banet-Weiser, a professor of media and communication at the London School of Economics, spent five years researching and writing the book, which draws a connection between what she calls "popular feminism" — the unthreatening, capitalist-friendly kind — and "popular misogyny," the backlash to it, which she argues operates as a kind of distorted mirror image to popular feminism.
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The album's themes of disappointment, loneliness, and rebellion were instantly relatable to the angsty, frustrated, mopey kids that so many of us were, and the music itself—an appealingly odd, unthreatening blend of crunchy alt-rock, nu-metal, and hip-hop, punctuated by rapper Mike Shinoda's bars and Bennington's high, often pained vocals—was confrontational enough to feel dangerous, but accessible enough to keep us hooked.
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It's the push and pull between Anne's absurd fantasies and the sensible and unthreatening world in which she lives that makes L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and its sequels so immensely charming — and it's that very push and pull that's missing from Netflix's new adaptation, Anne With an E. Montgomery's Anne Shirley knows exactly what she'd do if she had to spend the night out of doors.
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And there is the fact that, in the event I am conditionally able to convince white professors or colleagues of my deservingness to be present (because I was raised by two academics, I am usually successful in presenting a relatively "unthreatening" performance of Blackness), I am then often compelled to endure commiserating complaints about other students or staff whose Blackness presents a difficulty in a way mine seems not to.
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Accordingly, like the best Hallmark Christmas movies, Netflix's newest entry into the genre offers a charming and snow-frosted small town; a heroine played by an actress of moderate teen show fame (Kat Graham of The Vampire Diaries) with a quirky but unthreatening profession (she's a photographer); a whimsical and ambiguously supernatural wild card (magic calendar!); and a love story so generic that it is the romantic equivalent of Cheezums brand snack crackers.
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It didn't matter that her "success lessons" were all, in reality, quite unthreatening: "Sit at the Table" (don't allow men to become the center of decisions when you're in the room), "Make Your Partner a Real Partner" (find someone who'll split labor and doesn't treat you or your job as insignificant), and "Don't Leave Before You Leave" (don't refuse opportunities just because you're planning a family, and don't quit the workforce simply because child care is expensive).
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