Sentence examples for insidious language from inspiring English sources

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In my reading, the ad, in the insidious language of symbolism, says that Mr. Obama is himself the danger, the outsider within.

But the majority of people voting for and supporting bills like these don't realize the other insidious language hidden in them -- because they've been sold on the bathroom issue.

m. ad against Obama, Harvard's Orlando Patterson wrote in The New York Times that it contained a "racist sub-message" and "the ad, in the insidious language of symbolism, says that Mr. Obama is himself the danger, the outsider within".

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But she is also a sharp observer of class and the insidious distortion of language in advertising and politics.

Lindis Percy Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases Malcolm Rifkind accuses Snowden and his supporters of "insidious use of language such as mass surveillance and Orwellian" which "blurs, unforgivably, the distinction between a system that uses the state to protect the people, and one that uses the state to protect itself against the people".

Now, I totally get that these apps are primarily for sex and people have preferences, and blah, blah, blah, but really: how these things are said with such casualness shows the insidious powers of language.

It would be a mistake, too, to seize upon these instances of overt vulgarity while ignoring more insidious forms of sexist language.

This language is insidious.

Americans were afraid before Trump, but Trump distorted this fear through an onslaught of dark language and insidious insinuations.

Words are insidious weapons, so be aware that language such as "nag" or "bitch" painfully reverberate.

But a more insidious longer-term shift in language appears to have been accepted across the political spectrum: the replacement of "social security" by "welfare" to denote benefits paid to working age people (and to a lesser extent those above pension age).

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