Sentences with phrase «not euphemisms»

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.

The term «grace» is not a euphemism for enabling our sinful nature to continue unchecked.

The restaurant chain grills chicken breasts over a blazing real wood fire, so crank your grill up high enough to get the flames nipping at your cluckers (not a euphemism).

That's not a euphemism.

These range from horror films, such as the House of Wax (2005) remake, which has Paris Hilton hilariously impaled by a metal pole (no, that's not a euphemism) to Orphan (2009), a gloriously silly and overstated horror film involving a killer child.

But patience, in this case, is not a euphemism for bloated or slow.

An important distinction: «differentiated instruction» is not a euphemism for lowered expectations.

Substantial, however, is not a euphemism for coarse.

The company behind one of the best games ever made (not a euphemism) is asking the fans what they'd like to have in their game.

But while it does many things wrong the actual core stealth mechanics work pretty damn well, including the newly introduced Swoop trick which lends itself nicely to daring raids on passing guards coin purses, which I must stress is not a euphemism.

For those of us who on occasion actually hike the Appalachian trail, I'm afraid I will have to start adding a caveat that no, my weekend plans are not a euphemism.

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).

This isn't a euphemism for anything — the insurer actually wants to know your general lifestyle, specifically whether you are inclined to participate in activities that statistically affect the chance that you'll die from anything other than old age.

I took Google's Pixel XL to the Enchanted Highway — and that's not a euphemism.

A pair of hens turned out to be roosters and were shuffled off to the country (not a euphemism... I hope).

I'm finishing it with a slug of grape juice (not a euphemism) in a glass of water.

Not exact matches

«Yes, I don't want to go into that,» Mattis said, agreeing that his closely held military option involved kinetic action, a euphemism to describe lethal military force.

«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.

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,»... Read more

«their favorite euphemisms»... My favorite [NOT]: Block Grants.

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

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,» and so on.

It's not just ideas — if you make a bad - hiring decision, take corrective action (euphemism for let them go) sooner than later.

Everything is a matter of choice, not a necessity («price - inelastic» is the neoclassical euphemism) said Krugman:

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.

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

By the way, pointing to people killed during pointless wars that past and current presidents and congress put soldiers into is not justification for killing babies (or you can use the euphemism «abortion»).

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.

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.

I think if you spend long periods apart you put a relationship inevitably under strain and, using the euphemism, other distractions have a habit of filling the vacuum and if you're not careful you find that, for one reason or another, the relationship you once had has dwindled.»

It is not an exaggeration, nor a euphemism, but a reality.

Thank you Esta not quite sure what screwing your own drive entails or if that is a euphemism.

Otherwise, abortion would not be smothered in euphemisms.

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.

I'm not familiar with Italian slang, but is «without any taboo» a euphemism for «with heartfelt agreement»?

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

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

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.»

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

While seeing the potential value in such decisions, the reader would not have to be a cynic — realism would suffice — to wonder whether the results might be a mere shuffling of labels; unless sufficient additional personnel and funds were made available, «treatment» would be no more than a euphemism.

Manly made Gods in name onliness euphemisms have become false - cherishing Jew - based sublimations not to be subliminally outdone by anothers» naming of God such as Elohim or Jehovah or Yahweh etc etc..

Convenient euphemisms don't change our hearts.

Using «God» and no pronouns can make for a heavy, artificial style, but until a convention emerges that is not overly distracting, perhaps this is the best recourse, supplemented with euphemisms like «divinity.»

These words are not merely a euphemism.

Invariably what he doesn't want is to have to work for them the hard way — «wants to win trophies» is a thinly veiled euphemism for wanting to go to the team best placed to win the next available trophy.

It is exactly this lack of ambition to clear out all the «squad players» which is a euphemism for being NOT GOOD ENOUGH, that is keeping our club as also rans.

It just wouldn't be late June if we weren't listening to analysts come up with euphemisms for why White Player X fits the Jazz or Pacers system.

And even the most basic «Penn Stater» positions go to money - raisers, not Penn Staters, because «putting football first» is a euphemism for «putting money first».]

There was a time, not long ago, where the marathon was an event that was dominated by runners who would often be described as «strong, having great endurance and staying power», which was basically a euphemism (in many cases) for saying they lacked the basic speed necessary to be a great track runner.

But you can throw all the clichés and euphemisms you like at the Monaco Grand Prix, it doesn't stop it from being... well, underwhelming.