Sentences with phrase «euphemisms do»

Convenient euphemisms don't change our hearts.

Not exact matches

Those who believe the Times is anti-Trump and the Journal is pro-Trump will likely continue to do so regardless of which euphemism or adjective is used.

«Yes, I don't want to go into that,» Mattis said, agreeing that his closely held military option involved kinetic action, a euphemism to describe lethal military force.

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,»... Read more

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,» and so on.

Just look, Perkins said, at the way the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, a major figure within the evangelical world, used a popular golf euphemism for a «do - over» — a «mulligan» — to imply that Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels should be ignored.

But when he goes to arrange the second, in a scene also remarkable for the ridiculous lengths to which the doctor resorts to euphemism to speak of anything but «baby, «birth,» and «abortion,» he learns that the first was never done.

«It's almost like a euphemism or a go - to for people, like, «Yeah, I want to do my thing, or I want to have a career, but then I eventually want to start a nonprofit,»» says Kohl Crecelius.

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

Invariably what he doesn't want is to have to work for them the hard way — «wants to win trophies» is a thinly veiled euphemism for wanting to go to the team best placed to win the next available trophy.

Imagine the ego involved in this... I think the spin euphemisms and excuses would have to be the worst part of doing the job cause somewhere along the way you have to reflect and realize that the only reason you have to talk like this is because you are no good at your job

What the quad does that euphemism even mean?

But you can throw all the clichés and euphemisms you like at the Monaco Grand Prix, it doesn't stop it from being... well, underwhelming.

Yes he's been a wonderful player over the years — even though there have been periods of inconsistency which have probably been more to do with the lack of midfield support (euphemism for gross under - spending on midfelders during the Fergie years).

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

We don't have to use euphemisms for genitals, because they don't need euphemisms any more than arms, legs, or toes do.

Not only did I never expect to have conversations about it, the last thing I'd ever have believed was that I would be blogging about poo... particularly having been raised in a house where euphemisms were always used instead: a baby was «busy» or was «doing their business», with «poo» referred to as «biz».

Those doing the removal were called «honey - pot men»; the euphemism has clearly travelled and lasted.

Making an effort to do so from birth will serve as reinforcement for your child that the body is normal and doesn't need euphemisms.

We do like that the site has stuck to the «fun» euphemism throughout, but we all know that everyone is there for just one thing.

1st base is when you first make out with your companion or (boy / girl) it is dry lips, then grdualy put your tounge into the others mouth and play with it foer a little bit which is 2nd you feel a higher level of sexual conection and start to get into 3rd base when you start feeling on each other slowwly and intamately while stile french he is done touching and stroaking your upper parts (breasts) you start to feel more intamate and both of you work your way Among American adolescents, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships.

Most of the time, the phrase «mixed reviews» is used as a euphemism for «negative reviews» but this really did get mixed reviews, some critics loving it and some hating it.

When she indulges in an outburst, lashing out at the polite euphemisms of the principal who doesn't think her kid is the «right fit» at an elite private school, it's not cheap comic catharsis — there's genuine pain and fear behind it.

«Turning around» low - performing schools is a euphemism for NCLB - style punishments: if scores don't go up, schools are closed, privatized, turned into charters or handed over to the state.

you made the perfect euphemism on the subject, people buy an A / C Unit (car) and they use it every day to cool their home (drive said car to and from places) and they can do things such as not replace the A / C air filter (car maintenance) and they come home one day to a house with the A / C not working and its 100 degrees inside (they break down on the side of the road) Pretty cleaver eh?

It doesn't change the way anything operates, but to use an old British car euphemism, it's charming.

For me, stickler for proper word use that I am, it's about the misappropriation of terminology (seriously, if you don't own your ISBN number and have granted rights to someone else, you are no more — and no less — independent than a commercially - published author) and the use of euphemisms — trying to escape the negative implications of something by calling it something else.

Do not confuse euphuism with euphemism, which both derive from the same Greek source but have different meanings.

The Oasis version I tested, which supplements its Wi - Fi adapter with a 3G connection (so you can download e-books while on the go) and that doesn't present you with «special offers» (Amazon's euphemism for advertisements that appear on the Kindle's lockscreen), sells for $ 380.

But saying the math doesn't quite work is a euphemism.

In the short term there is no doubt that prices are driven by «news» — a euphemism for surprises and predicting surprises can not be done successfully by the mass market because, by definition, it wouldn't be news at all.

Don't use euphemisms like «went bye - bye and can't come back» or «went to sleep and didn't wake up» for reasons that are obvious, right?

Dog lipstick is a euphemism for dog penis, and most people don't like seeing it.

* This seems to be precisely what they're doing, even — or maybe especially — when they're using all the familiar double - speak, euphemisms, and dog - whistles.

In other words, until the No Kill movement came into its own and proved that shelter killing can be eliminated, PETA attempted to defray criticism for its killing by cloaking it in the euphemisms and rationalizations used to justify shelter killing, even though, in reality, they do not act in a sheltering capacity.

But while it does many things wrong the actual core stealth mechanics work pretty damn well, including the newly introduced Swoop trick which lends itself nicely to daring raids on passing guards coin purses, which I must stress is not a euphemism.

Also tossed into the Kleenex bin of rejection were Postule, Pus and Flange — which to Brits is a euphemism for... y ’ know what, don't worry about it.

And, I don't like the euphemism «climate change» because it was coined to make people feel that it's less our fault.

Hundreds of thousands will have died due to the war (not just IS), and millions of lives will have been redirected, n many cases for the worse — and I don't mean «redirected» as a euphemism to cover up the numerous cases in which lives are more or less wrecked, only an inclusive term recognizing that many refugees will also eventually make satisfactory new lives for themselves in their new homelands.

Why do we need this massive investment in euphemisms under «ideology» when most understand it exactly as I and many describe it?

Standstill, for a warmist, is a euphemism for «I really don't understand what is going on but I can't admit to that»

«Doing nothing» about emissions is a euphemism for allowing emissions to rise.

Do not take the client's case personally — I frequently tell younger lawyers to remember the euphemism «not my case, not my monkeys».

As far as profitability (or cost recovery, whatever euphemism) is concerned, doing several short procedures beats one longer procedure, even when surgery time is billed by the minute.

Whatever the case, Faraday says it'll continue to push ahead toward its new goal of reimagining the way people access «mobility» — an industry euphemism that doesn't mean anything.

You just know a day is going to be challenging when you wake up and discover the dog's upset stomach has done unspeakable things to the dining room carpet («upset stomach» may be a euphemism).