Quotes Tagged With :euphemism

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

Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

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

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

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

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of....

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went....

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

How is it possible to have a civil war?