Quotes Tagged With :euphemism

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

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

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

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

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us....

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

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

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

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he....

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