Sentences with phrase «of euphemism»

Other examples from law of euphemism, evasion and doublespeak: «tort reform,» «death taxes,» «faith - based initiatives,» «Clear Skies Initiative» and «Healthy Forests Restoration Act.»

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.

Basis points are commonly used for such situations, and they serve as somewhat of a euphemism for the real numbers as well as a simplification.

The whole co-publishing things smacks of euphemism.

Often the use of euphemism and suggestion results in a far more powerful story in the hands of a skillful author than swearing and obscenities.

Shorn of all euphemism, it is the principle that sees the national economic space as a frontiers space with economic cowboys shooting from the hip to achieve the highest value and profit.

«Zero hour contracts and things that are not defined as zero hour contracts but are of the same ilk, flexibility, availability, whatever — this is a kind of euphemism for precarity.

Journalists are running out of euphemisms to say «Trump lied.»

Michael Hudson: They are using a lot of euphemisms as a cover for dismantling the fairly modest regulation that was put in by Dodd Frank.

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

I have to be either pro-life or pro-choice (using all kind of euphemisms), anti-gay or pro-gay... Jesus» Grace and Jesus» righteousness as one sole reality, is missing... Castrate Gospel.

There are a lot of euphemisms that fall under the umbrella of grilled cheese recipes.

As with all really serious state encroachments into the private lives of citizens, the powers are buried deep in a legislative document and smoothed out with all sorts of euphemisms.

Sexual humor runs rampant, as all kinds of euphemisms are summoned to refer to sex acts and body parts.

However Whelehan and Gwynne also found that contemporary film depictions of aging often «focus on images of loss, decline, and with the increasing number of euphemisms used to disguise the fact of age.»

«Urban» has become one of a series of euphemisms for African American and Latina / o students.

For me, stickler for proper word use that I am, it's about the misappropriation of terminology (seriously, if you don't own your ISBN number and have granted rights to someone else, you are no more — and no less — independent than a commercially - published author) and the use of euphemisms — trying to escape the negative implications of something by calling it something else.

The Greeks were fond of euphemisms.

Be careful of euphemisms for hurt or scare, such as «correct», «reprimand», «balance», «establish dominance», etc..

Over the years, game development companies have found all sorts of euphemisms for unpaid overtime, but Nintendo's might be the best.

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?

Amidst the chrome trolleys, neon signs, dream catchers, cowboy hats, hookah pipes, and camel saddles which partially constitute the installation, guests were invited to contribute to Rhoades's ongoing project of creating a cross-cultural compendium of euphemisms for female genitalia.

Not exact matches

Turns out the art of the deal is really a euphemism for an eye - gouging brawl.

Those who believe the Times is anti-Trump and the Journal is pro-Trump will likely continue to do so regardless of which euphemism or adjective is used.

Madison Avenue has always struggled to market feminine - hygiene products, favoring euphemisms like «protection» and «freshness» alongside images of women frolicking on beaches in white pants.

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.

«Adult use» is the marijuana industry's preferred euphemism for legal recreational use of cannabis, weed, pot — call it what you like.

As your retirement date approaches, after 40 years of saving, planning and working, the word «volatility» can become a euphemism for danger.

Throughout 2017, AFRICOM reported a number of «self - defense strikes» against Shabaab in Somalia, a euphemism for close air support for offensive operations.

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.

In it we take issue with the government's promotion of «smart regulation», the current euphemism for -LSB-...]

What Benito Mussolini called «corporatism» in the 1920s (to give it its polite name) is now being achieved by Europe's large banks and financial institutions — ironically (but I suppose inevitably) under the euphemism of «free market economics.»

«Saving the economy» has become a euphemism for the policy of keeping bad debts on the books and saving high finance from writing them down to reflect the realistic ability to pay.

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.

The policy of giving money to the wealthiest sectors — these days the financial sector — turns the trickle - down economy into a euphemism for the concentration of wealth.

The US equity markets are in the midst of a correction, consolidation, pullback or whatever other euphemism can be used to describe the recent modest decline in equity prices.

The first ploy to serve bankers and bondholders is to place technocrats (a scientific sounding euphemism for bank lobbyists) in place of elected governments in Greece and Italy.

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Funny, but in my line of work, the concept of uncertainty is a euphemism for opportunity.

Corporate actions, returns of capital, share splits, whatever euphemism is used for shenanigans, can cause puzzlement and chaos.

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

I have a problem with this euphemism because I believe that love is one of the most clarifying, visionary and rooted convictions you can have about another person.

The word «heaven» has come to denote an exterior place (where G - d lives)... but in the Jewish culture, it is a sin to speak the «real» name of G - d, and so EVERY «name» of G - d in the scriptures is a euphemism.

In January 2017, less than two weeks before the end of the last presidential administration, drug office head Michael Botticelli issued a memo called «Changing the Language of Addiction,» a similarly fussy list of officially approved euphemisms.

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

Equality of opportunity was passé; racial quotas masqueraded under the euphemism of «affirmative action»; King's righteous demand that his children be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was inverted by race - hustlers and shakedown artists» an inversion subsequently validated by activist judges.

People's moral and civil rights are nowadays subjected to mundane abuses of Federalism, the father of adoption's secularism and divorcee of theocracy whose many so many autocrats are of the abolitionists within Christendom's creeds of embittered many; now marrying into the servile atheists euphemisms giving rises to the ever damned younger infidels of socially perverse and vulgar demeaning pragmatisms via emotionalized pleasurable natures, leading down the future's committed vile systems of embittered communalisms reaping the awaiting harbingers» coming wraths of despotisms accruals.

I listened to the testimony of the nurses and doctors who had worked in those abortion clinics, and I heard the echoes of Mengele and the language of deceit and euphemism that we have condemned universally since discovering that genocide, that collusion in evil.

Many of the comments were from people who were outraged at the suggestion that God's Holy Bible contained sexual innuendoes and euphemisms.