Quotes Tagged With :jargon

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder....

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible....

We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts.""Really?""We adopted a proactive....

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

... A few centuries earlier... humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was....

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological....

These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education.....

Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very....

Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either....