Sentence examples for abuses of language from inspiring English sources

No doubt many liberals have grown increasingly sensitive to the uses and abuses of language.

Presidential elections are always a joy for students of the uses and abuses of language.

With a free rein, Capek put his keen mind to the dangers of blind adherence to ideology, as well as the uses and abuses of language.

But in this book he tangles further, and profitably, with the obsessions that have defined his career: colonialism, identity, family, the uses and abuses of language.

There, he set out the ways in which abuses of language and truth so readily and often lead to abuses of power.

And his sensitivity to the uses and abuses of language is highly apparent in several pencil-on-graph-paper drawings of text messages, most of which have calamitous subtexts.

No one has written better than Orwell on the abuse of language for political ends.

The firing of James Comey, the F.B.I. director, on the other hand, represents not only an abuse of language but an abuse of power.

He criticized the belief "that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light".

I doubt it was great in the purest sense of the word, but all our tongues are dirty on that particular abuse of language.

"Orwellian" to me evokes his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language", and the way in which the abuse of language can lead to the contortion of truth and, ultimately, the abuse of people themselves.