Assertion: scare quote | /r/CapableOf | provide a cordon sanitaire
Facets:
value: between the word
type: OTHER
value: between the writer’s finer sensibilities
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Oxford Manual of Style says scare quotes may serve ‘to hold up a word for inspection, as if by tongs, providing a cordon sanitaire between the word and the writer’s finer sensibilities’.