PENSACOLA, Fla. – Republicans have may finally hit on the one easy trick to making their presidential nominee palatable: Minimize the words emerging from Donald Trump's mouth that aren't written ahead of time by somebody else.
Is it merely because the phrase "climate revenues" used in the budget is more politically palatable than the word "tax"?
Owen is an Irishman who has willingly collaborated with the Royal Engineers in the act of translating the ancient names of County Donegal into words more palatable to the English tongue.
You have to shape -- and sometimes soften -- the conversation, so your words come off palatable and respectful.
Just ask Scholastic, which altered the original Philosopher's Stone to make the book more palatable to American kids by changing Britishisms (jumper) to familiar words (sweater).
"Palatable", meanwhile, is perhaps not the word for Aussie one-off The Smuggler (Trinity, 15), the suspense of which hinges on the resilient digestive system of a hapless heroin mule caught at the airport – and held in custody until the swallowed goods emerge.
Cap-and-trade programs are politically more palatable than anything that has the word "tax" in it, says Knittel.
Herbaceous species were categorized into four palatability classes, as highly palatable, palatable, less palatable, and unpalatable based on the opinion of livestock herders and according to Tainton (1981).
If a reviewer suggests that you change some of the wording to make it more palatable, do it.
To some, the word "postdoc" is simply a palatable label put on a temporary assignment with no job security and little protection.
