Sentences with phrase «euphemisms when»

Insurance companies and agents take extreme care in some cases to use such applicable euphemisms when referring to death and making final policy plans to prepare for the aftermath of death.

It's not that we skip over such stories, but that we tend to use euphemisms when telling them.

Not exact matches

And he provided a bit of levity during the hearing for former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas last month when Trump's nominee for energy secretary made an accidental euphemism while discussing his private meeting with Franken.

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.

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

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.

For negative deities, new descriptions, euphemisms, etc. are generated, only to fall into disuse, when they become too popular, or well - known.

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

Our language is filled with euphemisms about death: somebody passed away, or «we lost Uncle Ned»; if a husband and wife discuss life insurance, one typically hears, «If something should happen to me...,» not, «When I die...» Graveyards became cemeteries and then memorial gardens, the corpse has become the remains (and a cremated corpse the cremains), burial has become interment, and the death certificate the «vital statistics form.»

But at a time when so unfashionable Leicester City appear to be marching towards that gloriously unexpected Championship (if I may use the term correctly rather than a euphemism for the 2nd Division), perhaps the old Greek phrase which might loosely be translated as «pride and punishment» could be forgiven.

New York University professor Dr. Marion Nestle — who I greatly admire and respect — is absolutely correct when she states in the article that, despite being no fan (and that's an euphemism, if I ever heard one!)

So, when I found a second postdoc and «returned to work» — a euphemism, really, given the demands of around - the - clock breastfeeding combined with relocating my new family overseas — I prioritized publishing.

In that experiment, the participants who were expected to be offended spent greater time focused on the probe words, and their ability to recall them improved — except in surprising contexts, when they spent more time looking at the taboo words or their euphemisms.

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.

Awkward situations arise and are played for laughs, such as the dilemma of needing to use the bathroom when standing at attention (The screenplay, thankfully, is below such euphemisms) or the question of tongue usage («Are you trying to dig your way to China?»)

When the narrative eventually folds back on this pronouncement, it transpires that he is speaking to the by - the - book Manchester police detective Nock (Rory Kinnear), whose investigation of a burglary at Turing's home has led to the mathematician being charged with «gross indecency,» a euphemism for homosexual acts that were punishable by imprisonment until the relevant 1885 law was repealed in 1967.

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.

In the book, she issues a dire warning that researchers are repackaging outmoded notions of race by hiding behind benign - sounding euphemisms like «geographic ancestry» when they should really be disposing of such baseless categorizations entirely.

Its sweaty mythmaking matched by its thirty - something - decade whining, the film substitutes blood for semen in its kinky puerility (a rose - petal love scene is a classic in scarlet euphemism) and becomes boring and pat when it should've been trashy and unapologetic.

Toller — like Schrader — is a man on the fringes, a brooding intellect and spiritual thinker navigating a time of denial, when euphemisms are exalted, Instagrams are the new cinema, political correctness is in vogue and the consequences of sins are negotiable.

Some accountability supporters get concerned when there's talk of «testing reform;» that can be a euphemism for «testing backtracking,» meaning less attention to the educational needs of underserved kids.

When you invest in an emerging market, which is essentially a euphemism for «underdeveloped» market, you take on even greater risk.

When you deny responsibility for the killing, when you in fact deny that you are even killing, choosing to hide behind euphemisms like â $ œputting them to sleepâ $ or â $ œeuthanasia, â $ the impetus to change your own behavior which might impact that killing disappears, and the task of killing is made easWhen you deny responsibility for the killing, when you in fact deny that you are even killing, choosing to hide behind euphemisms like â $ œputting them to sleepâ $ or â $ œeuthanasia, â $ the impetus to change your own behavior which might impact that killing disappears, and the task of killing is made easwhen you in fact deny that you are even killing, choosing to hide behind euphemisms like â $ œputting them to sleepâ $ or â $ œeuthanasia, â $ the impetus to change your own behavior which might impact that killing disappears, and the task of killing is made easier.

* 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.

When prodded about the possibility of the sequel arriving on other platforms, design director Jonathan Biddle coyly responded, «We're just talking about Wii U today,» which is the standard industry euphemism for, «Yeah we're making this game elsewhere as well, but our contract only let's us talk about this one today.»

Will there come a day when Jason Rhoades's giant lexicon of euphemisms for female genitalia — typically manifested in coloured neon letters, several inches high, strung throughout his installations — no longer has the power to offend?

When Dr. Hansen came unglued a teeny bit and called for the criminal prosecution of energy company executives, my first thought was «he's REALLY frustrated from dealing with the Bush Administration», followed quickly by «Holy [expletive] cow, he's really worried; we're in [expletive] deep [euphemism: excrement]» as the significance sank in.

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

• Resist opening up public lands and forests in general for inappropriate «restoration», when it is really a euphemism for cutting for biomass utilization.

When I was typing that last sentence, I was trying to think of a euphemism for «fired» but realized that while that word has a harsh sound, this is not a situation that calls for sugar - coating.

But when it comes to euphemism, Orwell's teachings «have been heeded mainly in their breach,» Fischer contends.

I think it's romantic when my husband laughs because I accidentally sneezed Froot Loops onto his hoodie (and, no, that is not a euphemism).

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.

When politicians say we must «simplify tax codes,» Giovaniello hears it as a euphemism for «going after home ownership incentives» like the Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID).

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).