Sentences with phrase «as euphemistic»

«Digestive issues» is good as euphemistic language, but unfortunately it is probably too vague to help in refining hypotheses around diet.

Not exact matches

Sure: the ancient Persians, Greeks and Romans (before Christianity and Islam) seem to have regarded bisexuality as the norm for men — although their attitudes do not map straightforwardly onto modern ones (the main distinction was between «active» and «passive» or to be less euphemistic, penetrator and penetrated, with the former regarded as superior).

«Removing» cats — a euphemistic reference to an often - fatal course of action — on the other hand, is not the end of the story at all (except, as I say, for the particular cats involved).

And let's forget the euphemistic language, bordering on the mendacious, in the reiteration of words such as «collaboration» and «partnership.»

Mr Barnard also fails to mention the opinions of rural family physicians such as Dr Sandy Reider, from Vermont, who is at the front line of clinical care for those affected by wind turbine noise, that «wind turbine syndrome» is a euphemistic description which does not sufficiently depict the clinical severity of the clinical cases he is seeing [10].

As to placing quotation marks around the term: climate skeptics, I get it that you are being euphemistic, but I'm certainly a climate skeptic, as I hope all worthwhile climate scientists are, toAs to placing quotation marks around the term: climate skeptics, I get it that you are being euphemistic, but I'm certainly a climate skeptic, as I hope all worthwhile climate scientists are, toas I hope all worthwhile climate scientists are, too.

And in the larger picture, it's intellectually dishonest for advocates of socializing electric utilities to promote the euphemistic «decoupling» as if it were some novel solution rather than what it really is — a subversion of our capitalistic system.

In a world where euphemistic monikers are proliferating (lawyers as «legal knowledge engineers», librarians as «knowledge management professionals» etc.), are law librarians wanting to keep their designation pure?