Quotes Tagged With :euphemism

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate,....

Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries....

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight,....

When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’....

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink,....

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking.....

How is it possible to have a civil war?

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of....

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually....