Sentences with phrase «on euphemisms»

Given our cultural reluctance to talk openly about women's periods — even ads for tampons and liners tend to rely on euphemisms and avoid any...

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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.

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

«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.

The latter re-incorporated themselves as «banks» to get Federal Reserve handouts and access to the Fed's $ 2 trillion in «cash for trash» swaps crediting Wall Street with Fed deposits for otherwise «illiquid» loans and securities (the euphemism for toxic, fraudulent or otherwise insolvent and unmarketable debt instruments)-- at «cost» based on full mark - to - model fictitious valuations.

The tax collector (a euphemism for taxpayers) suffers as investors across the economic spectrum borrow funds so as to leverage a higher return on equity.

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

«Putting one's hand under the thigh» was a euphemism for placing it on a person's genitals.

The author of this book goes on to argue (quite persuasively) that the «rib» in Genesis 2:21 - 22 is another euphemism.

Song of Songs 5:4 states, «My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him» which is suggestive of intercourse...» Hand» appears as a euphemism in another part of the Bible which states, «You have loved their bed, You have looked on their manhood [literal Hebrew, «looked on their hand»].»

To this day, many still defend «enhanced interrogation,» a euphemism if ever there was one, and a direct assault on the dignity of the individual.

• The whole debate on torture has been soaked in euphemisms and word games.

Writing on the website Spiked, Ann Furedi, the head of BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a euphemism similar to «Planned Parenthood»), notes that «most people who think of themselves as liberal and modern - thinking believe that rape, incest, youth, poverty or even general «unwantedness» are «good reasons» for doctors to approve abortion; and they think «sex selection» is a bad reason, which should be stopped.»

My daughter has a «personality disorder» (the new euphemism for clinical mental illness) and her primary coping mechanism is playing Pogo Games for most of the day on my computer.

For years locals had hidden behind euphemisms, saying of an HIV - positive woman, «She has a House in Veeplaas,» a play on the name of a local neighborhood.

Yes he's been a wonderful player over the years — even though there have been periods of inconsistency which have probably been more to do with the lack of midfield support (euphemism for gross under - spending on midfelders during the Fergie years).

This was disingenuous and self - serving, but it revealed not only the familiar trope of the disaffected young that the police are their enemy, but also a consistent world view in which Charlie Hebdo had declared war on Muslims, and had to be «neutralisé», in the euphemism employed by French ministers during the crisis.

We are convinced that this is only a euphemism for the wholesale privatization of both vital state power companies and we urge President Akufo Addo to come clear on the matter to foster proper national debate on the subject.

In addition to a probable lack of information the reason is twofold and points to Israel: Gazans have been living in an open air prison since 2006 where Israel unilaterally locked them up; Gazans suffer constant shortages, a blockade on all kinds of goods monitored at checkpoints such as Kerem Shalom and are barred from accessing their own maritime enclave; frustration is a euphemism for six years of deprivation and economic meltdown.

Naturally, the word «ziti» — the euphemism borrowed from The Sopranos to describe the alleged bribes to Percoco as payments to his wife for what prosecutors say was a «low - show» job — was tossed around in court on Tuesday.

@mbomb007 Your prisons are overflowing because for - profit prisons mean they have an incentive to keep prisons as full as possible, even if it means lobbying for heavier criminal penalties even for minor offenses (usually under such auspicious euphemisms as «tough on crime», «law and order»).

In that experiment, the participants who were expected to be offended spent greater time focused on the probe words, and their ability to recall them improved — except in surprising contexts, when they spent more time looking at the taboo words or their euphemisms.

on Caught Our Notice: Is «miscommunication of the rejection» the new euphemism for «paper accepted»?

A nice euphemism for saying a loved on has passed is saying «they grew their angel wings today», which is probably why this necklace is so popular.

Use euphemisms to turn each other on.

One of the «best» (euphemism) phrases I've read on an online dating profile was this one: «If the only gym you know is a guy named Jim, move on.»

People who are euphemisms such ads: «Whether you're in anything in Queensland you here on his prostate play.

1st base is when you first make out with your companion or (boy / girl) it is dry lips, then grdualy put your tounge into the others mouth and play with it foer a little bit which is 2nd you feel a higher level of sexual conection and start to get into 3rd base when you start feeling on each other slowwly and intamately while stile french he is done touching and stroaking your upper parts (breasts) you start to feel more intamate and both of you work your way Among American adolescents, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships.

curvy is used on these sites by many women as a euphemism for overweight.

(Later he Ian would ask Sofi why she «slept» with him that night, giving that tired euphemism as new meaning: sex on a toilet seat.)

The film finds ways to keep us glued to the mundane work of reporting and builds tension as we watch the team poring over newly discovered documents late into the night, decoding them for the various euphemisms used to disguise misconduct as «sick» priests «on leave» were being transferred from parish to parish.

Amid the policy wrangling and a farcical round of «referring up» — this crowd's euphemism for passing the buck — heart - stopping scenes follow the mission's undercover operative (Barkhad Abdi of «Captain Phillips») on the streets of Nairobi.

At first glance it looks an awful lot like the trend for Bond girls needing to be unimaginably attractive has carried on solid - as - a-rock into the 21st Century, with Daniel Craig's Bond teaming up — definitely a euphemism — with the jaw - dropping likes of Gemma Arterton, Eva Green and Madonna (she's still got it and we won't hear otherwise).

When the narrative eventually folds back on this pronouncement, it transpires that he is speaking to the by - the - book Manchester police detective Nock (Rory Kinnear), whose investigation of a burglary at Turing's home has led to the mathematician being charged with «gross indecency,» a euphemism for homosexual acts that were punishable by imprisonment until the relevant 1885 law was repealed in 1967.

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.»

Toller — like Schrader — is a man on the fringes, a brooding intellect and spiritual thinker navigating a time of denial, when euphemisms are exalted, Instagrams are the new cinema, political correctness is in vogue and the consequences of sins are negotiable.

The fate of Betsy DeVos» privatization agenda may hinge on the public's ability to root out the euphemisms and codewords used to disguise the failure of school vouchers.

Because income mixing, in contrast, relies on passive effects, advocates can more easily get away with couching these predicates in euphemism and indirection.

To enable teacher evaluations, another 47 points would be allocated based on the quality of a state's «data systems» for tracking student performance in all grades — which is a euphemism for the kind of full - bore testing regime that makes many parents and children cringe but that the reformers argue is necessary for any serious attempt to track not only student progress but also teacher effectiveness.

you made the perfect euphemism on the subject, people buy an A / C Unit (car) and they use it every day to cool their home (drive said car to and from places) and they can do things such as not replace the A / C air filter (car maintenance) and they come home one day to a house with the A / C not working and its 100 degrees inside (they break down on the side of the road) Pretty cleaver eh?

On the front end of these stores, you'd have an awesome bookstore that would actually sell the books that Amazon Publishing publishes (we both know that no one else seems to want them)-- and on the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like todaOn the front end of these stores, you'd have an awesome bookstore that would actually sell the books that Amazon Publishing publishes (we both know that no one else seems to want them)-- and on the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like todaon the back end, you'd have one of your «fulfillment centers» — more on that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like todaon that lovely euphemism in a moment — where you could get me and other Prime customers our merchandise pronto, like today.

Jim Crow was a localized form of state - sponsored oppression that was, at the time illegal based on federal law but allowed to continue by apathetic and politically expedient federal authorities under the guise of furthering a doctrine of «states rights»; the same euphemism for slavery the southern plantation owning oligarchs used to rationalize secession and trick the poor white southerners to fight a war and die in the millions.

Also, eliminating «Special Offers,» Amazon's euphemism for advertisements on the lock screen and main interface, still costs $ 20.

The Oasis version I tested, which supplements its Wi - Fi adapter with a 3G connection (so you can download e-books while on the go) and that doesn't present you with «special offers» (Amazon's euphemism for advertisements that appear on the Kindle's lockscreen), sells for $ 380.

And on that night I learned what metaphor and euphemism was.

When you invest in an emerging market, which is essentially a euphemism for «underdeveloped» market, you take on even greater risk.

Overstimulation: A euphemism for «too much petting,» some felines simply want your affection on their terms.

In a town where «classic» is a euphemism for «marked for implosion,» Flamingo Las Vegas, which was originally owned by Bugsy Siegel in 1946, has exuberantly remade itself and become the hippest hotel on the Strip.

Last year they offered free vacations to Vince Gilligan and eight members of the Breaking Bad cast — after the phrase «taking a trip to Belize» was used on the show as a euphemism for getting murdered.

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.