Sentences with word «euphemistic»

Such opportunities — a rather euphemistic term for some of the encounters a minister has with alcoholics — are thrust upon him, whether or not he wants them or is prepared for them.

Other games in the God of War series use a variety of euphemistic naming schemes for this.

The post reads as just a half - apology: He frames his actions as being perceived as offensive, rather than objectively being so («while I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women») and he apologizes «for being a clueless, selfish, unapologetic and defensive ass» — a rather euphemistic way to refer to sexual harassment.

Together they installed objects collected from the shuttered school in a Tyler classroom, accompanied by texts and oral testimonies, including the superintendent's letter announcing the closure — in euphemistic managerial speak — and a more emotional series of essays written by Fairhill students directly onto the walls of exhibition space.

So in place of Naomi's euphemistic use of «interesting», I say «vital».

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).

accompanied by texts and oral testimonies, including the superintendent's letter announcing the closure — in euphemistic managerial speak — and a more emotional series of essays written by Fairhill students directly onto the walls of exhibition space.

«I'm protecting the company, employees, my family...» Euphemistic labelling: You use obfuscating language.

Mr. Trump's choice of words, which harked back to an earlier generation's euphemistic locutions about «those people,» couldn't have been more heartless.

Texas's interest... could be recast in similarly euphemistic terms: «preserving the traditional sexual mores of our society.»

In that tone of euphemistic detachment that even the most caring doctors use in hospital charts, he wrote, «Emergent surgical intervention holds only valid option for this patient, whose risks for demise are severe.»

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

His punishments are suitably, grandly, vicious — chopping off fingers, blowing up cars and nightclubs, even detonating a bomb he's inserted inside one villain's «behind» (Creasy's strangely euphemistic word for it).

With respect to the latter, the notion of having an ultimate goal on raising student achievement is perhaps more than euphemistic on raising test scores, cultivating a test - centric way of doing things.

While many states have amended their dismissal policy to be more explict about classroom ineffectiveness, some still retain euphemistic terms such as «incompetency,» «inefficiency» or «incapacity.»

Make sure the amount you save from the reduction on the interest rate is not secretly added to your loan in the form of administrative fees, closing fees, application fees, or any other euphemistic expression.

And before you jump to that assumptions, take note that the titular Black Flag refers to nothing euphemistic.

At times, memorable phrases coalesce into a blizzard of euphemistic banality («To thine own self be true», mea culpa Hamlet).

Like Marcel Duchamp before her, she finds euphemistic potential in everyday items, explaining: «Things acquire, accrue a kind of powerfulness to them.»

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?

«The bitcoin community, with its insistence with neutral euphemistic language, [has] an ideology of integration, which is kind of scary.

To give an example: the voice - activated elevators that are crucial to your movement begin to improvise their lines a little, straying from the usual «please state a floor» toward something altogether more euphemistic.

Euphemistic terms such as «incompetency» are ambiguous at best and may be interpreted as concerning dereliction of duty rather than ineffectiveness.

United CEO Oscar Munoz's response to the incident only fueled users» outrage for its euphemistic use of «re-accommodate.»

Are you referring to the shellfish or being euphemistic?

Although there are exceptions, in many instances the use of these terms can be more euphemistic than honest.

I am so tired of nefarious, euphemistic and meaningless bullshit based on the colourful use of language but without any real thought behind it.

(b) Make up some euphemistic nonsense like «well, we didn't mean that literally» after having done exactly that for the last 1900 years until science comprehensively disproved it.

One thing we've started doing: teaching our daughter about her body... minus the euphemistic names for certain parts.

But he wanted his students to see that post-dictatorship societies often face irreconcilable conflicts between truth, justice, and order (for which the euphemistic term is peace).

Isn't that where you close your eyes and think silent thoughts like «dear God, please elect somebody other than my brother as Pope» and a being powerful enough to have created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13 billion years ago reads your mind (or «hears your prayers» if you prefer the euphemistic terminology) and reacts by altering what would otherwise be the course of history to answer your request?

Rare is the manager that doesn't have at one dismissal on his record, be that a formal sacking or a euphemistic severance by mutual consent, and the average tenure of a Premier League manager is generally calculated at under two years.

The neglect he refers to is a deliberate choice that has been used to justify estate «regeneration», a euphemistic term that equates to removing people from their homes so that property developers can build expensive flats.

When it comes to Europe, gone are the euphemistic references to «balance of competences» and «renegotiating» European policy.

The UK Border Agency faces a humiliating attack from MPs today, who have mocked it for its «euphemistic» management - speak.

The tag of «Orwellian» is used in an increasingly lazy manner, denoting anything vaguely authoritarian or euphemistic.

Political work by employees of the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council was rated under the euphemistic heading «community participation» in annual performance reviews, FBI probers learned.

The brutal honesty about the euphemistic «areas for development» is what I have appreciated most.

«Those sort of euphemistic emojis might be one way in which you can flirt a little more acceptably than saying overly euphemistic things that might be offensive, though I don't know if I'd like to try it,» he says, laughing.

The title is euphemistic for WTF.

«Bromance» doesn't suggest our culture has become more comfortable about male bonding; instead its euphemistic qualities suggest a greater sense of embarrassment and self - consciousness about it.