Sentence examples for polite description from inspiring English sources

JUNK bonds have never been more popular, even if they no longer deserve to be called high-yield bonds, the more polite description that Wall Street prefers.

The tofu is marinated in a rancid brine of vegetables that have been fermenting for months; there's no polite description for the smell.

Patricia Campbell Hearst, a 20-year-old heiress to the Hearst newspaper empire, had been kidnapped by the SLA's urban guerrillas (to give them a polite description) two months earlier.

Wastewater is a polite description for the stuff: human waste from flushed toilets, food scraps from dishwashing machines, all that water from the shower you and roughly eight million of your neighbors took this morning.

When someone searching for a polite description of a wasted season mentioned to Kenny Rogers that the Rangers were in a prolonged rut, he tossed his head back and said: "It's not a rut.

CRG Partners lists as its special talents financial advisory work, restructuring and reorganization, and turnaround management — polite descriptions of services needed by companies in distress.

These are just a few of the more polite descriptions of England's recent Ashes thrashing by hosts Australia.

'Flame haired' is the politest description on offer, though 'gingernut' wins top prize for ubiquity, and 'music's equivalent to Chris Evans' is chasing hard on its heels.

"Bum" is about as polite a description as comes to mind.

Making politics polite again.

As befits a consummate diplomat, Mr. Ross is generally polite in his descriptions of the people he dealt with (and may yet deal with again), but he can't hide his antipathy for Mr. Netanyahu.