The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the time I did my training in medical school to the end of my residency we were already seeing the transformation of adult onset diabetes into Type II, which is what we call it now, which from my perspective is a euphemism we have draped over this condition to conceal the fact that what was a chronic disease in midlife is now epidemic in children. Frankly, Type II diabetes in a seven year old is adult onset diabetes. We just don't want to confront that unpleasant fact.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
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