Sentence examples for a doublespeak from inspiring English sources

They annually give a George Orwell Award for a "distinguished contribution to honesty and clarity in public language". The latest recipients were Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder, authors of "The Language of Advertising". The committee also bestows a Doublespeak Award on flagrant doublespeakers.

That's a doublespeak endorsement of Mr Bainimarama's refusal to hold elections until September 2014 which was exactly the grounds for his being turfed out of the Pacific Islands Forum in the first place.As a matter of tactics, this is incoherent.

(The title sonnet ends with some tragic, familiar names: "John Crawford. Eric Garner. Mike Brown"). Even as he reckons seriously with our state of affairs, Brown brings a sense of semantic play to blackness, bouncing between different connotations of words to create a racial doublespeak.

Since 9/11, the United States and her allies on the War on Terror have engaged in a subtle doublespeak: George Bush and Barack Obama agreed that the enemy in the war is not Islam.

Non-conservatives have promoted "immorality" as "new morality" which is a gross doublespeak distortion of traditional morality.

Wayne Trujillo Denver Kotlowitz uses an Orwellian doublespeak term, "without papers," to describe the state of persons who are in the country illegally.

"It's a lot of doublespeak," said Mary Gade, a former EPA regional administrator under President George W. Bush.

While other actors laughed along with Sean Spicer's jokes at the Emmys in September, that night Isaacs posted a photo of the ex-White House press secretary propping up the bar, with a caption calling him "the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak", a "poisonous purveyor of lies" and a "modern day Geobbels", with "the aura of a giant festering abscess".

His Wonka was bewitching because he was unreliable — a Cheshire Cat with a flair for doublespeak.

Not only was it the only credit card accepted at venues, signs on every cash register read, "We are proud to accept only Visa," a slogan of doublespeak so hideous its originator deserves a back of the hand from Don Draper.

In separate rulings this month, a pair of federal judges in California dealt the doublespeak a blow, shredding arguments that Uber and Lyft depend on.