--"The high sounding phrase, 'the American way', will be used by interest groups, intent on profit, to cover a multitude of sins against the American and Christian traditions" --Halford E. Luccock, Yale Divinity School, September 12 , 1938
A veritable mine of high-sounding phrases, in addition to the tried-and-true platitudes of yesteryear.
We should not hide behind jargon and high-sounding phrases if they are not true and we should challenge our managers when they use them too.
"National pride is a great thing, nationalism as a political force in the hands of parties like Ukip is almost always ugly, and despite being wrapped in the garb of high-sounding phrases, can never disguise its essential mean spirit".
On one hand we have the managerial & academic people behind the gov't who take a professional pride in their suppression of natural feelings, or what they consider their "toughness --the Pentoughness --thee an example of toughness --theon the other hand, we have the Pentagonl men out in the oPaperso build their careers on high-sounding phranexampleandiofe promises.
It is not by platitudes, by high-sounding phrases on tolerance, by general statements arraigning no one specifically, that Hoover can shake off the suspicion, more and more certain, that he condones the slimy whisperers who are gathering up votes for him.
He could dip into his low range and project phrases with chesty emphasis, and soar high, sounding mellifluous and lyrical with almost tenorish colorings.
Even the term "net neutrality" was forbidding: "It's a terrible, technical sounding phrase," he said.
There's an ominous and Orwellian sounding phrase creeping into Washington discourse: "homeland security intelligence".
That dry sounding phrase, "falling short of targets," means dead women and children.
He was sceptical of many pastors and church men, dismissing their "high sounding barren words".
