Sentences with phrase «in euphemistic»

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.

The Tate website is constructed and worded to produce the impression that Tate is a commercial publisher — the last time I checked, the fee was mentioned just once on the entire site, in euphemistic language that many authors are likely to miss or misinterpret.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

«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 euphemistic «could have been more delicate» for an outright insult is bad enough, but for Malloy to think that he will ever have teacher buy - in with such anti - student / teacher / education and pro - business / privatization proposals is actually comical.

Bottom line: «Growth» is a euphemistic name for a gain in test scores from one point in time to another.

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.

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

When a gallerist tells an artist that her work is «in transition,» it is usually a euphemistic way of saying «Thanks, but no thanks.»

Copley's figures are «scoring» in the classic, euphemistic sense: getting it on or suggesting that they soon will.

And let's forget the euphemistic language, bordering on the mendacious, in the reiteration of words such as «collaboration» and «partnership.»

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

(BTW, their term for the observed loss, «sea ice withdrawal,» is rather interesting (euphemistic) in itself, isn't it?)

The beneficiaries of these handouts are almost exclusively corporations in the business of building the euphemistic Alternate Energy Generation.

But the euphemistic «managed appropriately» in many cases does actually mean giving up coastal cities and moving inland, so you would seem to be agreeing with Mann's assessment here.

Hi Adi, I think you're being euphemistic here, in fact I think I'm being euphemistic in saying so.

And in the larger picture, it's intellectually dishonest for advocates of socializing electric utilities to promote the euphemistic «decoupling» as if it were some novel solution rather than what it really is — a subversion of our capitalistic system.

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?