Euphemism Quotes

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic. Richard Corliss
You Worth Word Responsibility Broad Definition Exact Narrow Ironic Irony Current Being Meaning Meaning Of Euphemism Sarcasm Sarcastic Using Hardly
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. Bobbie Gentry
Lying Euphemism
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. Alan Dershowitz
Terrorism Innocent Innocent Civilians Collateral Civilians Like Just Warfare Euphemism Damage
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor. Bret Stephens
Integrity Word Honor Before Sense Fired Became Personal Being Public Euphemism Resignation
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left. Dennis Prager
Election Black President Once Impact Blacks Construct Had Animosity Tensions Toward Most Understand Understands Left Left-Wing Begins Racial Whites Euphemism Why
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. Elizabeth Hardwick
Generation Language Power Military Lasting City Threatening Brutality Come Most Empty Courtesy Hand Bureaucratic Theatrical Younger Younger Generation Euphemism Assertion Coherent
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. Evgeny Morozov
Great Cloud Computer Computing Centralization Euphemism Server Services
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing. James Surowiecki
Capitalism Corruption People See Legacy Reform Euphemism Many
I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were. Joe R. Lansdale
Family You People Feeling Think Gave Our Worse Broke Never Felt Were Than Different Psychologically Which Poor Far Euphemism
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying. Joseph Wood Krutch
Time Game Losing Through True True Meaning Ceases Begins Trying Any After Meaning Show Euphemism Keep
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. Marge Piercy
Together Marriage People Cats Sleeping Tantamount Euphemism
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup. Mona Eltahawy
Envy Revolution Outcome Looked Coup Because Years Iranians Uprising Euphemism Popular
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal. Nigel Rees
Work Job Other Does End Process Euphemism Workplace Descriptions Peak

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