Sentence examples for how euphemistic from inspiring English sources

To me, this probably reveals how soft we've become, how euphemistic we expect such writing to be, how many silent taboos and directives we carry around in our heads.

No matter how many euphemistic statements you sign, no matter how many state-sanctioned discrimination laws are passed in the next 4 years, and no matter how vehemently you believe otherwise, the Church will look back in generations to come at this period in our history in much the same way we do now when we look at Christian support for slavery and Jim Crow and interracial marriage bans.

Whenever I come face to face with wildlife, especially in when it is something like a family of elephants, it strikes me how we depend on euphemistic terms to soften the truth.

The Bush administration has learned well how to dismantle a social program by disguising a bill with a euphemistic title and throwing in a little bait.

I noticed, in the obituaries for Philip Seymour Hoffman, how many writers felt obliged to say that he was fat (or euphemistic words to that effect) and exclaimed that, despite this, he was a star.

For half a week in Kazakhstan, we stayed with the doctor of a tiny mountainside village who was everything you ever wanted in a rural Kazakh physician a thundering, mustached Babar of a man whose physique recalls the healthy, non-euphemistic meaning of "well fed" and also warns you from afar how loud he's going to be.

Rhetoric from the New York protests became a model for how to oppose school desegregation without using overtly racist language, said Delmont".Busing" became a catch-all, euphemistic term for a complicated resistance to racially mixed schools.

Note how well the non-U words conform to Fowler's definition of genteelism: the choice of the fancier, rarer, or more euphemistic word.

Euphemistic smalltalk flows uneasily.

Another risk manager was less euphemistic.

Perhaps 'cooked' is too euphemistic a term.