Sentences with word «doublespeak»

Like in the case of elementary grades, minority and disadvantaged students, who tend to blindly trust the information given out by schools, will be particularly hardly hit by this fog of doublespeak about college readiness.

A more classic example of Orwellian doublespeak would be hard to find.

Alongside this habit of using language to mystify questionable practices sits an incarnation of political doublespeak which seeks to obscure the real nature of a thing by titling it as its complete opposite.

Barry (Tony Goldwyn) is the boss, an obviously mercenary snake who dresses his selfishness up in doublespeak about «the good of the team,» while a variety of supporting characters serve to furnish the various stereotypes that are often required of this sort of narrative (wacky gay guy, stoner, quietly desperate old maid, and so on).

Instead, Nestle dismisses concerns, uses doublespeak to deflect and doesn't openly engage with the public.

You really need to read the whole exercise in bureaucratic doublespeak here.

what sort of ridiculous doublespeak is this?

Much doublespeak spews forth from the interviewees, including screenwriter Rodo Sayagues, to rationalize the lack of an Ash counterpart in the update.

The exhibition title, «The New Normal,» refers to Chinese government doublespeak to explain the flatlining of Chinese growth, while the Chinese name «State of Exception» — clearly it has less of a ring in English — alludes to the term given to emergency orders that have become normalized in China.

It seems doublespeak for «self - imposed ignorance», but I don't intend to try to change someone just because I don't understand.

What a load of doublespeak nonsense.

The final straw for Pope was Dee's lawyerly doublespeak in the wake of the Sapp saga.

I'd say the key element of police doublespeak is that he refers to «the event at ExCel».

Until now, Corbyn and his inner circle had hoped to deal with Brexit by not dealing with it - by obfuscating and doublespeaking while waiting for the Tories to screw it up and take the blame.

Of course, it has been doublespeak all the way.

DeFrancisco said Cuomo's statement is «unadulterated doublespeak.»

Incapable of finding a voice, Phillips cuts to two girls kissing, to Stiller resurrecting one of his characters from «The Ben Stiller Show», to the increasingly tiresome Wilson drowning in a sea of his slow - leaking doublespeak, and so on.

Producer Frank Marshall says via Twitter that «The movie was designed to take advantage of the conversion and the filmmakers will supervise,» but will this actually make a difference or is it just P.R. doublespeak?

With the help of a cast of comedy greats, he managed to make Stalinist tyranny, brutal purges and communist doublespeak hilarious, without forgetting to also make them truly horrifying.

But they are simply blissfully ignorant of the subtle nuances of disparate impact doublespeak.

This offer of assistance is, of course, OCR doublespeak for letting states» school districts know that federal harassment was about to commence.

Not surprisingly this big money campaign is full of plenty of doublespeak as the «Families and Teachers for Antonio» group would more accurately be named «a handful of rich white guys for Villaraigosa because he hates teachers and wants to bust their unions like we do.»

In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth.

Last week, noted civil rights expert Gary Orfield, of UCLA's Civil Rights Project, issued a report on Connecticut school integration that included an indictment of the practices of Connecticut's most - practiced purveyors of civil rights doublespeak — charter schools.

So perhaps Alexander's doublespeak praise for DeVos is fitting.

Rosenthal spells out in clear and practical terms exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve.

A lot of their comments have made me chuckle with political doublespeak like:

Here's how to decode pet store doublespeak.

For another, they are apt to slip into the same art doublespeak that they use in their writing (both are academics), a language so ardently theoretical and verbose, it makes my teeth ache.

Given the trajectory of recent years, it's hard not to imagine the not too distant London like a bad knock - off episode of Black Mirror: with a feudal dystopia that sees on one side a comfortable investor class of propertied citizens, and on the other a set of nomadic sub-citizens who move from space to space, all mediated by an abysmally dry doublespeak.

But political doublespeak aside, we face a larger problem.

Ongoing investigation by NGOs exposes divide and doublespeak among EU countries on waste law proposals.

Not that this should come as a huge surprise to anyone really (including the Heartland Institute, Jennifer Marohasy, the Institute for Public Affairs or anyone else branding themselves as a «liberal think - tank» or «policy institute»)-- Exxon is still funding climate change doublespeak.

The group's omitting that «inconvenient information still stands,» he said, «but the featured example of public doublespeak doesn't.»

This, of course, is a play on Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's famous quote during the Second World War, which, depending on one's view, was a clever expression of caution, flexibility, and pragmatism, or the worst example of doublespeak ever uttered by any Canadian politician.

Many times, it can be hard to draw the line between what is the truth and what is simply advertising doublespeak.

In more tax - dollar doublespeak, Texas lawmakers had the state give up hundreds of millions in federal Medicaid funds when they kicked Planned Parenthood out of its public family planning program.

I wonder what this document was like before the unionized nine - to - five» r Phd's in government bureaucratic doublespeak inefficiency experts got hold of it and thinned it out?

If governments engage in Orwellian doublespeak, we need to uphold the Quaker creed of the late US civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and «Speak Truth to Power».

Nestlé defends its unethical business practices and uses doublespeak, denials and deception in an attempt to cover up or justify those practices.

Ridiculous doublespeak.

Not too much doublespeak.

This is absolutely necessary considering the amount of misinformation and marketing doublespeak that's you have probably been exposed to as we all have.