Sentence examples for sound palatable from inspiring English sources

Holmes is dark-haired and eloquent; she has the parliamentarian's trick of making harsh ultimatums sound palatable, even breezy.

By smoothing Miami Bass's edge with bubblegum arrangements, "My Boo" made a rough, regional sound palatable for the entire country, giving the song its evergreen appeal as a call to motion you didn't have to dance like the girls in Dr. Luke videos to dance along.

And I can't stop thinking about the ways we distort narratives to make atrocities sound palatable and even moral.

He has a distinctive point of view -- that the Republican Party should reconstruct itself as the party of the white working class through restoring traditional sexual mores -- and a set of rhetorical techniques designed to make his message sound palatable even to the Times' generally liberal readership.

Birther or Kenyan influence may sound more palatable than "racial epithets," he notes.

A card that "entitles" citizens to a wide range of public services may sound more palatable - but it is simply an ID card by any other name.

The thought of collaborating with people who have been involved with this grotesque, murderous group might not sound particularly palatable, but it is an approach that seems to have worked for the Danish government.

Attach whatever euphemism you like to plastic surgery to make it sound more palatable and less serious to the public -- "aesthetic" and "cosmetic" are two examples -- yet it is still surgery, complete with risk.

To make Vickrey's idea sound more palatable, today's traffic engineers have changed the term from "congestion pricing" to "value pricing," the idea being that drivers are paying to get something of value.

It is a gambit premised in part on her atypical Republican opponent — and a hope that promises of incremental change might sound more palatable when the alternative is viewed as truly dangerous.

The Cars' Ric Ocasek loved Suicide so much he produced their second album, 1980's Alan Vega/Martin Rev, pulling off the not-inconsiderable feat of making their sound more palatable without diffusing its power: the same sessions produced the beautiful Dream Baby Dream, evidence of Suicide's oft and perhaps understandably overlooked softer side.