Sentences with phrase «euphemisms in»

There is nothing intrinsically evil about politically correct euphemisms in government documents, including ones pertaining to marriage.

The word for flesh there is basar, which is the most common euphemism in Scripture for the «meat» of a man.

In other words, it would be another euphemism in Scripture.

Song of Songs 5:4 states, «My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him» which is suggestive of intercourse...» Hand» appears as a euphemism in another part of the Bible which states, «You have loved their bed, You have looked on their manhood [literal Hebrew, «looked on their hand»].»

Even if these unknown guarantees were to be accepted, however, restoration is but a euphemism in this case given the fact that the environmental damage caused to the Rosia Montana region would be irreversible.

Last week, Shell shut its Trans Niger pipeline because of a «leak» — the preferred euphemism in Nigeria for theft.

On the front end of these stores, you'd have an awesome bookstore that would actually sell the books that Amazon Publishing publishes (we both know that no one else seems to want them)-- and on the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like today.

There always seemed to be a sort of dance around the subject, a kind of indirectness, reflecting embarrassment, humility, or alienation, as well as a certain level of secrecy or euphemism in speaking about it.

The latter was certainly an allusion to the term «non-practicing entities» (or some say «non-producing», but here we're talking about Internet services, not products per se), a euphemism in many cases for «trolls».

He made sure I caught the euphemism in case it was lost on me.

Not exact matches

Madison Avenue has always struggled to market feminine - hygiene products, favoring euphemisms like «protection» and «freshness» alongside images of women frolicking on beaches in white pants.

«If there's one takeaway from Ford ditching Fields,» Wired concludes, «it's that in our current transportation environment, «mobility» isn't so much a strategy as it is a euphemism for «we have no idea what's happening next.

Throughout 2017, AFRICOM reported a number of «self - defense strikes» against Shabaab in Somalia, a euphemism for close air support for offensive operations.

All of these are not euphemisms, exactly, but they were powerful signifiers to the Playboy reader: She had been recognized as a perfect physical specimen, and had been rewarded for it in the farm leagues, but while she may have been circling close to the venues where nudity is required, there is very good chance — or at least it was plausible for the consumer to believe — that these Playboy photos were her first experience with the form.

In the past, people referred to «curing cancer» as an unrealistic goal, a euphemism for things that couldn't be conceived or achieved.

In it we take issue with the government's promotion of «smart regulation», the current euphemism for -LSB-...]

What Benito Mussolini called «corporatism» in the 1920s (to give it its polite name) is now being achieved by Europe's large banks and financial institutions — ironically (but I suppose inevitably) under the euphemism of «free market economics.»

The latter re-incorporated themselves as «banks» to get Federal Reserve handouts and access to the Fed's $ 2 trillion in «cash for trash» swaps crediting Wall Street with Fed deposits for otherwise «illiquid» loans and securities (the euphemism for toxic, fraudulent or otherwise insolvent and unmarketable debt instruments)-- at «cost» based on full mark - to - model fictitious valuations.

Michael Hudson: They are using a lot of euphemisms as a cover for dismantling the fairly modest regulation that was put in by Dodd Frank.

If the sales chump (er, I mean «licensed professional financial adviser») can't give you a complete and total rundown of every fee (expense, charge, penalty, cost or whatever other lame - ass euphemism he wants to use), run away and invest in a Vanguard index fund — just compare the expense ratio.

The US equity markets are in the midst of a correction, consolidation, pullback or whatever other euphemism can be used to describe the recent modest decline in equity prices.

Let's look at the euphemisms as an exercise in doublethink.

The first ploy to serve bankers and bondholders is to place technocrats (a scientific sounding euphemism for bank lobbyists) in place of elected governments in Greece and Italy.

Funny, but in my line of work, the concept of uncertainty is a euphemism for opportunity.

This is the soap opera that Americans should be watching, if only it weren't conducted in the foreign language of jargon and euphemism.

The word «heaven» has come to denote an exterior place (where G - d lives)... but in the Jewish culture, it is a sin to speak the «real» name of G - d, and so EVERY «name» of G - d in the scriptures is a euphemism.

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

If you can understand that «heaven» is a euphemism for «G - d», then you can understand «what» exactly is being discussed in the NT better.

In January 2017, less than two weeks before the end of the last presidential administration, drug office head Michael Botticelli issued a memo called «Changing the Language of Addiction,» a similarly fussy list of officially approved euphemisms.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case

I listened to the testimony of the nurses and doctors who had worked in those abortion clinics, and I heard the echoes of Mengele and the language of deceit and euphemism that we have condemned universally since discovering that genocide, that collusion in evil.

the Revised Version declines a literal rendering and disguises what the Hebrew says in euphemisms — «heart» or «inward parts.»

I should add that the word translated «stones» in the KJV is often literally translated as «thigh,» but that is merely a well known Hebrew euphemism for «penis,» per the oath - taking examples I mentioned from the Bible, «put your hand under my thigh and take an oath.»

But most translations of Job fail to inform readers, even in a footnote, that the ancient Hebrew word for «tail» could also be a euphemism for «penis.»

The author of this book goes on to argue (quite persuasively) that the «rib» in Genesis 2:21 - 22 is another euphemism.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... I rest my case

Which is why it's a shame that your knowledge of Hitler and stalin stems from what someone who heard it from someone else and possibly half asleep in school and not from a homeschool teacher who used the term «home schooling» as an unintended euphemism.

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.

Assisted - suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances.

One of the key terms in Marcel Mauss's seminal 1925 work The Gift is «prestation,» a French word that means «services provided,» but one meaning of which is a sexual euphemism.

Think of the euphemisms still employed in the newspaper obituaries when someone has died of HIV - related illness.

Otherwise, abortion would not be smothered in euphemisms.

The solution, Cohen suggests, is a change in nomenclature: The pro-choice movement should market itself as the pro-freedom movement - a euphemism for a euphemism now sullied by the reality it signals.

I would offer only one friendly amendment: The problem is not with psychology per se, but with the reductionist psychology which says man is just stuff and conscience is just a euphemism for inhibitions pumped in from outside.

In Latin, the word «grind,» and the related word «mill,» are both euphemisms for things sexual.

Afraid of gay aggressiveness in promoting their «alternative lifestyle» (terrible this euphemism!)

There's a fair bit of pissing against the wall (at least in older translations, even before Evangelicals thought it was only a crude euphemism).

The assisted suicide movement certainly isn't alone in deploying euphemisms as a political tactic.

• The whole debate on torture has been soaked in euphemisms and word games.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.