| And now he's leading the struggle, armed with an acoustic guitar and a variety of euphemisms for the female reproductive system. |
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| Discuss the role of euphemisms in disguising something that is inherently bad. |
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| Apparently, these broadcasters believe that listeners are incapable of handling subversive music, but are ready to swallow euphemisms. |
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| He needed to learn to let bygones be bygones, burry the hatchet, forgive and forget, and all those other euphemisms my mom was so fond of. |
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| As a practical matter, the current legal regime substitutes palliative euphemisms for useful controls on police discretion. |
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| People believe that directness is rude and use a variety of euphemisms and hedges to avoid it. |
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| Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases. |
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| Similarly, the terms native or indigenous are often euphemisms for what used to be termed primitive. |
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| Today, the line has been blurred, with deals coming in under the euphemisms of product integration, sponsorship and marketing partnerships. |
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| Decode the neologisms and euphemisms and you gain a rare insight into the strategists' true intentions. |
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| She wants to reclaim the word old and rejects euphemisms like elderly and seniors. |
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| It has a huge number of synonyms, ranging from coy euphemisms to joking proxies, to coarse vulgarities. |
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| Such mild, culinary euphemisms muffled and camouflaged the enforced famines and the murders of millions. |
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| We have lots of euphemisms for menstruation, and we don't refer to it unless in the company of women, and rarely even then. |
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| Obeying the dictates of modesty, they usually preferred discreet euphemisms or a blushing silence. |
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| It shows that the trend to hide unpleasant truths behind euphemisms is alive and well. |
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| A simple chat with her could be downright frustrating when she didn't understand half of the euphemisms being used. |
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| Like all euphemisms, pedophilia and ephebophilia are words meant to protect us from realities too painful to confront. |
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| Labour is still afraid, or unwilling, to say exactly what it is doing, so it uses euphemisms which won't frighten the horses. |
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| After all, ethnic slurs can start out as euphemisms before evolving into derogations. |
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| Ratios are now commonly being used as euphemisms to express calamity. |
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| I particularly hate it when people are allowed to resign, unchastened, with euphemisms about gardening and spending more time with their families. |
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| There are so many euphemisms for the act of sexual congress. |
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| We regret the loss of a customer and, most especially, the bad PR, which is why I am releasing this statement full of euphemisms and crocodile tears. |
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| It can result, he said, in a collision of euphemisms and their linguistic opposites, dysphemisms. |
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| The whole category has been very euphemistic, or paternalistic even, and we're saying, enough with the euphemisms, and get over it. |
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| One sign of just how unfashionable honour has become is that people talk about it in euphemisms such as conscientiousness or accountability. |
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| Whether you like it or not, teens will think up words and euphemisms that will never make it to the dictionary. |
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| The stories are filled with cussing and free of euphemisms, and five of the nine address death in their first sentence. |
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| It's time for us to get away from the euphemisms and to look at what fatherlessness is, which is a major problem confronting North America. |
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| Pushing 60 but still displaying the sensibility of a naughty schoolboy, Waters displays a real penchant for smutty innuendo and an ever growing catalogue of euphemisms. |
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| The italicised words are his English euphemisms, though his words for what is terrible are English, too. |
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| Cut through the euphemisms and the Treasury accounting, however, and you're left with two forms of welfare. |
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| The marketing people brand this a property trade show, but let's drop the euphemisms and call it the sales fair to flog off Britain. |
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| They're the stats of widespread abuse that needs more than loose causation and euphemisms to treat it. |
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| But that has not handicapped efforts to cripple the language with euphemisms. |
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| In that regard, again based on your experience in Rwanda, does international law recognize the role of euphemisms in genocidal incitement? |
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| Sometimes, it has to be said, this is the umbrella under which are hidden euphemisms for political patronage and vote buying. |
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| There is a long tradition of using euphemisms to cover up the real horrors of war. |
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| Yet I hear nothing other than euphemisms, such as that we must maintain our influence and continue our dialogue. |
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| Sir John could be counted on not to speak in mild euphemisms. |
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| These bespeak a national yearning for perfection, bodily and otherwise. Sensitive China, perfidious AlbionSome Chinese euphemisms also stem from squeamishness. |
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| It often happens that in the course of a conversation, the use of euphemisms in relation to comments made does not mean that the individuals are themselves the target of those characterisations. |
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| We need to stand as members of Parliament in this place and recognize this motion, not using euphemisms but using the word and calling it for what it was: a genocide. |
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| Come with me through 117 pages of euphemisms, bureaucracy, and mayhem. |
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| The trial run for the so-called peacemaking measures, which is of course one of those splendidly misleading euphemisms, may be seen in the Kosovo crisis and in the attack on Kosovo this spring. |
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| Through its verbal manoeuvrings, euphemisms and concealments, the EU's Council Presidency is more elegant at overcoming social and global conflicts, but the overall result is the same. |
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| In repressive societies, parodies, satires, coded words, euphemisms, and allusions to popular culture have become dominant vehicles of communication. |
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| The first question has to do with a comparison of what happened in the Rwandan case versus what we have here in Iran, and then the use of euphemisms. |
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| One thing that bothers me as much as anything when it comes to legal jargon or interpretation, particularly in the political realm, is the use of euphemisms. |
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| There absolutely is a relation to the next question, regarding euphemisms. |
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| Consultants are notorious for using jargon, euphemisms, evasions and other gobbledegook, so it is especially important to pin them down as to their meaning. |
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| Euphemisms are a quick fix for a debate context, but they breed distrust of even the most benign ideas. |
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