The phrase "a neutral phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement or expression that does not convey strong emotions or opinions, remaining impartial.
Example: "In academic writing, it is important to use a neutral phrase to maintain objectivity in your arguments."
Alternatives: "an unbiased expression" or "a nonpartisan statement".
And the Saudi station Al Arabiya uses a more neutral phrase: "The Third Gulf War".
From the horrors of the whaling industry to the melting icecaps of the Arctic, greed and the desire to be independent of nature seem to have outweighed any sense of the wisdom of conserving non-renewable resources, in itself a disturbingly neutral phrase for the lovely diversity of creatures that have disappeared on our watch.
Deferring to sensitivities in Japan, which ruled Korea during the first half of the 20th century, the North Koreans dropped the historically loaded word "compensation," using the more neutral phrase "economic cooperation".
However, the trainer also switched up these combinations — saying the "praise" phrases in a neutral tone of voice, and saying the "neutral" phrases in a tone that sounded like she was praising the dogs.
The comparatively more neutral phrasing is a shift from an original overt opposition to merit pay.
The two databases have significant differences, with the LDC corpus containing 'acted' emotional speech collected from seven professional actors with the speech comprising preselected, semantically neutral phrases.
Message content was standardised with neutral phrasing and provided as simple text in the local language of Swahili.
As managing director of television, shortly before his elevation to director general, Milne went to visit the Conservative backbench 1922 committee to defend the BBC's coverage of the Falklands conflict in 1982, amid objections over the broadcaster's efforts to adopt a neutral tone, using phrases such as "British forces".
It's not that "ridicule it until it goes away" press isn't effective; I just think there needs to be, pardon the phrase, a neutral body.
Preskorn (2005) recommends the alternative phrase 'multiple medication use.' However, Preskorn's phrase has a neutral connotation because concomitant use of multiple drugs is often supported by evidence-based guidelines for various disease states (Preskorn 2005).
