Sentences with phrase «more euphemistic»

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.

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).

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

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

It could have been gathered for real FOIA purpose; it could have been copied by a whistleblower; it could have been «found» on open channels (the famous euphemistic third theory); it could have been obtained by Chinese secret agents; the possibilities are endless, more or less endearing.