| 单词 | euphemism |
| 例句 | I remember she paused after she said that, and for one horrible moment, I thought that might be a euphemism. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Amaranta felt so uncomfortable with her defective diction and her habit of using euphemisms to designate everything that she would always speak gibberish in front of her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I’m with an old family” was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks’ cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury that you couldn’t even understand them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you know from now on, ‘witnessing for Jesus’ is going to be our euphemism for making out, right?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z As far as I can tell, the Land of Promise is their euphemism for death, although they do not admit it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Our linguistic ancestors parlayed that incomprehension into euphemisms like passed on in which death consists of a journey to a remote location. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One day, irritated by the mockery, Fernanda wanted to know what Amaranta was saying, and she did not use euphemisms in answering her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Holmes denied that he and Julia had ever engaged each other physically, or that she had undergone “a criminal operation,” a then-current euphemism for abortion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’s a euphemism for the curse Noah put upon Canaan, Ham’s son. It’s the reason the Negro was enslaved,” she says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I was jarred—a little spooked, as well—at so blatant a reference to something referred to, by mutual agreement, almost exclusively with codes, catchwords, a hundred different euphemisms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Even she, who knew nothing of military strategy or journalistic convention, understood a euphemism for retreat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Is Mercury Home the new euphemism for ‘trailer’?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I know people who speak of death with timorous euphemisms of ‘passing away.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, horses could break down, racing’s euphemism for incurring leg injuries. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In conversation they papered over the grim realities of their jobs with cheery euphemisms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The quickening, Madeline had called it, as she laid her hands on Mia’s skin—such an old-fashioned euphemism, one that made her think of quicksilver, a lithe little fish whipping about within her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Interesting" was Walter's euphemism for odd people, and having worked for hundreds of people throughout the county over the years, he'd encountered no shortage of “interesting" people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the inhabitants of neighboring towns were—to borrow a modern euphemism—“incentivized” to resettle there. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z To justify the exterminations, the Nazis had already begun to describe the victims using the euphemism lebensunwertes Leben—lives unworthy of living. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I imagined, of course, the bedside scene behind the curtain of that euphemism. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As unsettling to me as the photos’ purpose was the fact that they weren’t called something else—say, employee contingency portraits, or some other euphemism. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is too solid and unequivocal a term to be used as a euphemism and this seems to be what we are attempting. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z However painful it must have been to predicate the harsh word dead of a beloved sister, no euphemism—has passed away, is no longer with us—could have ended that sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Entering the water” was thus a euphemism on the order of “passed on to a better place.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z One of these was the co-optative power of management, illustrated by such euphemisms as associate and team member. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and again, though, Manifest Destiny was revealed as little more than a euphemism for the violent appropriation of Native American land for the benefit of white settlers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And later she tells you this, her eyebrows knotted, because she’s realised how many times she hears this “they”, this strange otherness discussed in throwaway euphemisms. Scenes in the life of a liberal Jew | Eva Wiseman 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Gerima tends to speak directly and without euphemism, his words propelled by the force of his conviction. Haile Gerima Is Having a Hollywood Moment. It’s Left Him Conflicted. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In a conversation about Cherry’s miscarriage, Sam coins the memorable euphemism “womb goof.” ‘GLOW’ Season 1: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Ken Loach’s polemic exposes that term as a euphemism for a much less glamorous reality. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “Sophisticated” is really a comforting euphemism for “expensive”. R Kelly, Michael Jackson and Bryan Singer. Who knew? Everyone 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z If that wasn’t emasculating enough, Sean then voluntarily talked about a stingray latching on to his “man parts” during the honeymoon, and it wasn’t a euphemism. The Bachelor Watch: The Women Tell All About Juan Pablo, Fantasy Suites And Who Will “Win” 2014-03-04T04:24:57Z People who sell Scientology services have always gone by the more pleasant euphemism registrar, often shortened to reg. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z “She wasn’t in the mainstream press, which is really just a euphemism for the white press,” she said. A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’ 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But that version was heavily censored by publishers, with euphemisms such as 'How did you do them in?' replacing 'How did you kill them?', and other lines removed altogether. Uncensored: Sassoon's Atrocities 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “Issues” was a Mike euphemism for lack of respect. The early Serious Eats struggle days: Hemorrhaging money, "we were a soufflé ready to fall" 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z “This is cities under siege. And slum renewal becomes a euphemism for a lot of things.” “Stop being victims. I think it’s wicked, in a way, to be a victim”: Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary is “Citizen Jane” 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Whenever a thing is known by a euphemism, it’s probably a thing that makes people squirm. Welcome to the Menopause Gold Rush 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z I suppose I could resort to “lavatory,” the word preferred by my kindergarten teacher, a Latinate euphemism that is at least gender-neutral. Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z So many of our mainstream words began as euphemisms. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z Perhaps a vigorous distaste for euphemisms for dying stems from the hope of expressing a gimlet-eyed courage in the face of mortality. Americanisms are often closer to home than we imagine 2013-05-13T09:02:20Z And that allows them leeway to express themselves without euphemism. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Seriously, whoever writes these deserves a Pulitzer, or at very least a Clio; Their ability to condense major, life-altering events into vague understatements and euphemisms is a feat worthy of Don Draper himself. “Henry arranges a family reunion” and 10 other hilariously misleading “Mad Men” episode descriptions, translated 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Death until recently was often a conversational taboo, dark fodder for goth sites, maybe, but otherwise invoked discreetly, if at all, in spirit-soothing euphemisms. Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z But the spirited choreography, rhymed dialogue and zippy songs, when paired with a stream of sexual euphemisms and tasteless jokes, sometimes create an unsavory contrast. Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Nowhere is this more evident than in the arena of “school choice” — a conservative euphemism for “gutting public education from the inside out.” 7 absurd things America’s kids are learning thanks to conservatives 2014-03-04T13:00:00Z The kind directors wouldn't hang a blockbuster on the cheekbones of, but would, say, use for depth, flavour, grit – every creative euphemism that conveys "solid acting, shame about the face". Irrfan Khan: 'I object to the term Bollywood' 2013-07-25T18:00:00Z Until this moment she has been able to hide behind euphemisms. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z In all these cases, there was, in the end, an emotional coolness — all those flat screens! — that felt somehow unoperatic, and it would be unfortunate if “semi-staged” became a euphemism for “projection based.” Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z And unless “some steak” is a euphemism for “a cow,” I can immediately tell you that Jack Dorsey is consuming fewer than 1,000 calories a day. Perspective | The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it ‘biohacking.’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The Associated Press instructs journalists to avoid the term, “because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims.” Merriam-Webster adds 'alt-right' and 'sriracha' and 250 more words to its dictionary 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In middle school there were all these cheeky euphemisms for menstrual cycles. Perspective | It was a wave election. The wave was women defending abortion rights. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z To me it is a ridiculous euphemism, the way you might refer to cannibals as “practitioners of nontraditional culinary adventuresomeness.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I have a better term for the ‘vaccine-hesitant’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Too few people followed the rule, however, which caused the hotels to switch to sample-size products, a euphemism for “microscopic.” Perspective | Miss Manners: Do’s and don’ts for hotel soaps 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z So they came up with this word — this is up in Northern Europe — bruin, meaning "the brown one" as a euphemism, and then segued into bear. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z Cattelan paused, then settled for a sardonic euphemism: ‘‘a family moment.’’ A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z Even the working classes preferred euphemisms, though theirs were decidedly better: “in the pudding club,” or “up the duff.” A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The language around cancer often falls into clichés and euphemisms: it’s a journey or a battle; the patient is brave or a fighter. Life with Cancer in “Dani” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In 1945 he was hospitalized for “battle fatigue” — often a euphemism for a breakdown — and after recovering he stayed on in Europe past the end of the war, chasing Nazi functionaries. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z The first was a comedy, “Epic Proportions,” and then came the musical “Grease,” with its script scrubbed of profanity and one character’s unwed pregnancy papered over in euphemisms. Samuel G. Freedman: A Catholic School Meets a Challenge 2010-12-18T01:45:26Z He’s right that aid in dying is a euphemism. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The term publisher, Mercuriadis has said, is “a euphemism for someone that collects your money but doesn’t really add value to the song.” This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z In American movies — and maybe not only there — the idea of luck often functions as a euphemism for, and an antidote to, the effects of class. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z This is a movie in which the racket kicked up by various couples “boinking,” to use its favorite euphemism, is enough to wake up an entire city. Movie Review: ‘The Big Wedding,’ a Farce With Keaton and De Niro 2013-04-26T00:06:16Z Ron was going over it with us, page by page, giving us “notes,” which is a Hollywood euphemism. Gene Weingarten: the Opie-Changey thing 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In the Sea Org, we softened the euphemism even further: I was first posted in New York City as part of the international sales team called Flag Service Consultants. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z I took that as a euphemism for sexual energy, which drives most of Koons’s art. | Jeff Koons, Car Painter 2010-04-09T18:58:00Z This was another excellent episode from The Hospital documentary series, which works harder than most to strip away the layers of artifice and euphemism that increasingly clutter any interaction between the public and public medicine. TV review: The Hospital and Who Do You Think You Are? 2010-07-27T06:59:00Z As Kaitlyn gets ready for her dinner date, she tells that camera that “He goes there,” and there is no interest in finding out if that’s a euphemism. 'The Bachelorette' Finale: Decision Day for Kaitlyn 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z I’m pretty lyric in a lot of my explanations, but I really tried to avoid euphemisms. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z I don’t want them to think I need a euphemism at all. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z He takes her horseback riding — which is not a euphemism — and then they head back to the hotel because Juan Pablo is really looking forward to another long evening of “talking” with Nikki. The Bachelor Watch: Juan Pablo Gets Dumped (Again!) 2014-02-26T04:15:37Z Thus begins the rumour about a mysterious "package" – presumed by some to be a euphemism for HIV – that provides the saga's big cliffhanger. R Kelly: Trapped in the Closet is back, here's our guide to who's who 2012-11-16T16:00:00Z "Sometimes all that happened was that the misleading old euphemisms were replaced by the misleading new cliches." Good sex in literature: why is it so hard to find? 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z I hope that Mr. Trump’s asymmetric, weirdly brazen dishonesty has broken reporters of the bad habits of false equivalency, euphemism and forced balance. Can the Media Recover From This Election? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Seat covers for a set of chairs feature facsimiles of newspaper clippings from the period, including a notice placed by Gadsby in which he advertises a need for “servants” — a euphemism. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z But then in another, opposite process, euphemisms take perfectly good words and taint them. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z The euphemism "cull" for kill is presumably allowed in the context of liquidating troublesome foreigners. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z And they model a set of euphemisms and exclusions that help transform the shocking into the ordinary. How Educational Children’s Books Are Explaining President Trump 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It works against false comfort, complacency and euphemism, against attempts to repress or sanitize that which disturbs us. For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Trump is not the only President whose story requires a certain degree of euphemism when compressed into a format meant to be digested by kids, of course. How Educational Children’s Books Are Explaining President Trump 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Samuel P. Huntington, of Harvard, has even coined a marvelously American euphemism for the technique — “forced-draft urbanization and modernization.” Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Comedians are powerful — and sometimes more trusted and respected than journalists, as “The Daily Show” and company have shown — because they can say uncomfortable things flat-out, ditch the euphemisms, call a “falsehood” a lie. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: BBC/Origin Pictures/Origin Pictures Teatime in Mrs Fox's parlour and the euphemisms flew like biscuit crumbs. The Crimson Petal and the White: episode two 2011-04-13T21:02:01Z This makes the state a kind of metonym for New England at large: old, overwhelmingly white, conservative in character if not in politics, skeptical, flinty, salty or whatever other mildly condescending euphemism you prefer. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The result was a evening of elegant musicianship and history lessons, with Thompson cheerfully stressing the innuendo and euphemism in seduction stories like Watkins Ale. Richard Thompson and?Philip?Pickett 2010-12-08T22:15:00Z The teenagers in “The Myth of the American Sleepover,” David Robert Mitchell’s lovely debut feature, are linked in a great chain of liking, which is their euphemism for longing. | 'The Myth of the American Sleepover': The Night Belongs to Teenage Yearning 2011-07-21T22:06:02Z It takes two, as they say in another sexual euphemism, to tango. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey With Jiri Kylian’s ‘Petite Mort’ at City Center 2012-12-09T23:21:42Z He famously objects, for example, to the word "Holocaust" – "a euphemism, a cowardly and unimaginative glibness". Dossier K by Imre Kertész – review 2013-07-13T07:30:00Z “Traditional” is one of those coded euphemism whose true meaning, when referring to culture, is almost always connected to some form of subjugation. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But then this is a writer who will never use the expression "low tax" when he can reach for that providential euphemism "light touch fiscal policy". Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z It’s a convenient euphemism and often the best she can muster. The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Today, domestic spying is indeed undergoing massive expansion under the banner of “cyber security,” an Orwellian euphemism that most Americans probably find more palatable than “spying” or “data-mining.” Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z And while "Grey's Anatomy" turned "vajayjay" into a euphemism a few seasons ago, this year, there's very little pussyfooting around. Television's season of the vagina 2011-09-26T14:27:00Z To borrow a euphemism from the world of aeronautics, this long and draggy book is a “controlled flight into terrain.” Chang-rae Lee’s Latest Is Fueled by Harrowing Travel, Witness Protection and Food, Food and More Food 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z When she turned him down, he sulked that, “My love tank has not been depleted for years,” almost definitely a euphemism. The Bachelorette Watch: Desiree Enters The Thunderdome Of Love (and Hashtags) 2013-05-28T09:45:39Z Agree with your relative that the doctors are blunt and do avoid euphemism, speaking casually about procedures and body parts in a way you or I may not be used to. Conservative relatives can’t let the Planned Parenthood “scandal” go? Try these talking points 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z She has no use for euphemisms anymore, and both she and Ben are hilariously frank and cranky in discussing his imminent demise. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z Mr. Norris focuses on the evasions, euphemisms and tongue-tied paralysis that afflict such discussions and comes to the conclusion that talk — at least among the all-American solipsists he portrays — is worse than cheap: it’s valueless. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z Norris's skill lies in stripping away the polite camouflage of euphemism to reveal the racism of America, then and now. Clybourne Park 2010-09-03T09:35:00Z This time he enters through “the zone of interest,” an actual euphemism, in a genocidal operation rife with euphemisms, for the area surrounding Auschwitz. Book review: ‘The Zone of Interest,’ by Martin Amis When their invaluable sacrifices begin to kill them, they are said, in the story’s most appalling euphemism, to be reaching “completion.” The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z On the one hand, it was your average sauce-fest inspired by the sex trade in Georgian London and overflowing with ever more purple euphemisms for cockstands. Bodice-rippers! How period drama went from buttoned up to sexed up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z We use a euphemism when we don’t want to say the real thing, because either it embarrasses us or it scares us, or we’re not comfortable with it, or maybe we’re lying about it. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z But if the euphemism which most frequently attaches itself to your personage is “strong-willed”, then chances are your lawn makes Augusta National Golf Club look like the Kalahari. Moronic irrigation: LA’s new turf war against its sprinkler-happy celebrities 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In night life circles, “French” is not a euphemism for pretentious white tablecloth dining, but a buzzword for debauchery. French Impresarios Infiltrate New York?s Party Scene 2012-02-24T22:57:05Z One might come up with things that are in fact “more Orwellian” — including the bland euphemism “voter integrity,” which typically serves the cause of disenfranchisement and not voting rights. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z If there’s one thing pop culture is good for, it’s helping people understand the delicate nature of unfortunate euphemisms. Wilmore to Marco Rubio, Chris Christie: Stop talking about “ramming things down our throats” and spanking Hillary Clinton 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z First Date: Kaitlyn invited Ben H. for a ride in her dinghy, which is not a euphemism, but could be. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: Kissing and Confessions in Ireland 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The movie is to be commended for using the word “abortion” rather than a euphemism. Review: ‘The Young Kieslowski’ Is a Sobering Comedy of Consequences 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z A final point – I loved Peggy's assumption that "talk to Achilles" was some kind of classical euphemism that went over her head. Mad Men: series three, episode ten 2010-03-24T22:45:00Z As to the album’s commercial expectations, most parties involved shrugged or used euphemisms like “modest.” Music: Lou Reed and Metallica Team Up on ?Lulu? 2011-10-27T12:00:00Z Fletcher notes, “while this may simply be a euphemism for the forces of chaos the hippo represented, it may possibly have been a historical fact.” ‘The Story of Egypt’: A look at a gender-bending society where women could rule 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z “Our daily activity hinged on the repeated description — description, elaboration, and delineation — of matters that were, outside, generally subject to euphemism and elision.” Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Instead, we danced around — for years — with euphemisms like “misstatements” and “racially tinged comments.” Perspective | The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy. 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z They kiss the Blarney Stone, they kiss each other, they make out in her hotel room with cocktails in hand, she teaches him to drive stick shift, which is not a euphemism. The Bachelorette Watch: Getting Really Real In Ireland 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z At this crucial moment, Facebook’s language often sounds clueless, with its combination of stilted corporate euphemism and childlike wonder about “community” and “sharing.” Perspective | Facebook still denies what it is. The Cleveland murder shows how. 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z "Conflict photography" is a common if dodgy euphemism applied to this line of work. In theaters now: Movie reviews 2011-04-22T14:32:39Z After all, comfortable is “a common euphemism for being upper-middle-class or rich.” In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z "But the spirited choreography, rhymed dialogue and zippy songs, when paired with a stream of sexual euphemisms and tasteless jokes, sometimes create an unsavory contrast." Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Jared wants to know if their much-discussed “road trip” was a euphemism for anything, and she winked at him and said no. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: All About Bromance, Bullying and 'Bachelor in Paradise' 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z A media regulator said those rules were needed to restore government prestige and media credibility following a spate of reports based on "false information" - often a euphemism for reports the government would rather suppress. China wants to ban several types of movie content 2011-12-15T07:01:04Z Conspiracy theorists had publicized her address, sent messages to her employer and threatened her with words so vile that there is no printable euphemism to describe them. There’s no good way to deal with trolls, so you might as well tattle to their moms 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z It derives from French, so it probably was a euphemism used in order to lift the tone of and bagpipe out of the gutter. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z Others will only speak to me in euphemisms. Erectile dysfunction or performance anxiety? The truth behind a modern malaise 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Then, Ben shows Jojo his helicopter launching pad, which is not a euphemism. Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Gatecrash a Hot Tub on 'The Bachelor' 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Because the surgeon with the best outcomes is not on their policy's list of approved carers, Shep is forced to become a "co-insurer", a euphemism for paying out even though he is paid up. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z Jolie ends her New York Times article discussing the "challenges" of life, but this is a rare instance of her opting for euphemisms. Jolie has done something extraordinary 2013-05-14T13:48:10Z Perhaps I was born highly strung – one of the many delightful euphemisms given to us odd children when experts can't quite work out what's wrong. My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues 2013-01-21T08:00:02Z It is the kind of strategy the euphemism “refresh” was created to describe. The Stealth Makeover of Diane von Furstenberg 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The term “ordering patterns” isn’t just a euphemism for stanzas, rhyme schemes and meter. Review | Everything you ever wanted to know about poetry (but were afraid to ask) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z A sharp downturn in “underwriting” — public broadcasting’s euphemism for its tasteful style of advertising — prompted NPR to adopt a package of pay cuts, furloughs and other concessions in April. NPR may be ‘public’ radio, but it’s feeling the economic pain of the pandemic. More trouble lies ahead. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In a military where war's cruelties often hide in masquerade, Samet bristles at euphemisms such as "limited conflicts" and "low intensity" missions. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Still, few could help but be impressed by Baker's uniquely creative approach to euphemism, laid bare in a copy editors' style sheet currently circulating on the internet. Nicholson Baker's 'glorious filthfest' gives a whole new meaning to The Tipping Point 2011-08-16T19:30:01Z If so, I wondered, will the phrase “inner city” no longer be a euphemism for a place where poor people live? When ‘All Thumbs’ Becomes a Compliment 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “Is “Foggy Bottom Pants” a euphemism for flatulence?” Metro opened a gift shop. The Internet mocked it. But the true believers came. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z At the front desk, where there was now a second receptionist, my sex-fried brain scuffled to find the right euphemism for “here is a bag with a jar of my jism.” My 20 minutes in fertility hell 2012-09-21T00:00:00Z There's quite a few euphemisms they've developed because it's often effective. The real IT Crowd: how true is the C4 sitcom? 2010-07-09T08:00:00Z “The Cruelty Is the Point” implies that real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain — in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z “If I can’t use the correct scientific terminology,” Bill protests, “I’m just going to come off like a sweaty degenerate groping for sexual euphemisms.” 'Masters of Sex' recap: Bill's demons arise during TV shoot 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But it ranks among the world’s more disturbing euphemisms. Shock ‘n’ Roll: 7 Controversial Band Names 2013-10-25T09:45:45Z Or, “double clicking the mouse” to use one of the many, many euphemisms for giving oneself a treat. Go ahead, touch yourself: eight things to know for masturbation month 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Many critics praised “The Long Walk Home” for its candor, not the least of which came in the author’s shunning of misty euphemism in favor of the term “cripple” — a Purple Heart, defiantly worn. Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Finally, personal belongings arrive after being “released from their materialistic clutches,” said one local dealer, employing a polite euphemism for “they die.” In Palm Beach County, secondhand designer clothes are as good as the first time 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z They will identify racism or white supremacy by using plain language instead of euphemism. Perspective | The media can be glad for the Biden White House’s return to normalcy. But let’s not be lulled. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z That’s a euphemism for the missile that will obliterate everything and everybody surrounding four vehicles in a corner of Somalia. ‘And West Is West’ review: An Air Force drone pilot hesitates to fire 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z I was thinking of this, these euphemisms and this body apologia, late into the night of the midterm elections Tuesday. Perspective | It was a wave election. The wave was women defending abortion rights. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s an aging code, and a euphemism, meaningless to those who don’t already get it. Perspective | Let’s talk about maternal gore 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Skiers scoffed at the “packed powder” euphemism used in the weather reports. AWAY IS HOME | When your itinerary goes sideways, have a backup plan 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z How rare is it to discover a documentary about disability that scorns “differently abled” euphemisms and rhapsodies of inner beauty? | 'NoBody?s Perfect': The Devastating Legacy of Thalidomide 2010-04-16T00:54:00Z A writer’s tumescent member is a reader’s risible euphemism. Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “Let’s be honest, these companies are using ethnicity as a nice, polished euphemism for race, and they’re trying to define biological races using this genetic data. That in itself is shifty,” he says. ‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z One rarely encounters such glorious euphemisms in Arthur Conan Doyle. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The very first line of the book states that reproduction is "a euphemism to comfort prospective parents". Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states' 2013-02-16T15:00:01Z For a long time, the “gig economy” sounded like a glamorous euphemism for a world of zero-hours contracts and piecework. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z So we come up with euphemisms, or we pretend that denying the truth is in some way a service to children. We need to stop lying to kids about Donald Trump 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The studio might take a cue from the cartoonist Al Capp, who twisted the offending word into shmoo, which was a further revision of the euphemism schmo. Jay Roach?s ?Dinner for Schmucks? and All Its Meshugas 2010-05-03T21:51:00Z While the casting process has been professionalized for years, concerns about the “casting couch” — a euphemism for demanding sex in exchange for a job — are as old as Hollywood. How #MeToo Is Smashing the Casting Couch 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Cemetery was originally a euphemism for graveyard: it's Greek for dormitory or the sleeping place. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z The early century favoured coy euphemism – "the curse", "time of the month", flower motifs, being "on", having one's guest/friend/relative/decorators in, and the jolly hockey sticks being "off games". 'Jam rags' outrage 2010-07-28T12:03:00Z Plain Talker: People use many different euphemisms when referring to death. Perspective | Ask Amy: Son’s delirium causes unexpected hurt 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. de Grandmont laughed as he explained that they had sometimes miscommunicated and blundered because they didn’t know cultural connotations, euphemisms and slang. A ‘Final Fantasy’ Alliance Gets Real 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “Scuffling” is a word without contextual meaning — technically, it means fighting or walking in a shambling manner — but coaches and managers, seeking the balm of euphemism, apply it to players who are playing dreadfully. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Take me out to the Old. Word. Game. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Half Man Half Biscuit's song touches on plum tomatoes, rhubarb, new potatoes, and "fresh broad beans and aubergines" in a tale of euphemism, guerilla gigs, road signs and vegetables. Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results 2010-09-30T22:30:00Z Not demons in the metaphorical sense, a euphemism for PTSD. ‘Demon Camp’: hounded by the dead and the devils of war 2014-02-19T20:12:24Z She’s a nimble writer, one who walks in fear of euphemism or pretension. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z As I once noted, this has given rise to a strange lexicon of euphemisms unique to baseball, the two most common of which are “scuffling” and “grinding.” Perspective | Why limit preposterous understatements to baseball? Imagine the possibilities. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Tuesday night, Jan. 2: our contest for euphemisms. Style Invitational Week 1260: What lies (are) ahead for 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z And rental sister is such a suggestive euphemism. Books of The Times: ‘Hikikomori and the Rental Sister,’ by Jeff Backhaus 2013-01-29T22:33:33Z 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. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z We use euphemisms such as passing, passing on, passing away, because it is a struggle to understand how a person goes in a split second. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z All these demure wardrobe updates are being “encouraged” by the Queen, which just might be a euphemism for enforced. | Marc Jacobs’s Plans for the Future, The Duchess of Cambridge’s New Style and Zac Posen’s Bridal Designs 2014-02-07T22:15:38Z Today, we talk about a newly “flexible economy,” often a euphemism for the geometric growth of a precariously positioned, insecure workforce. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z One reading of Genesis proposed by contemporary scholars is that Ham “seeing” Noah isn’t a metaphor or a euphemism at all; the crime is in the gaze itself. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z This is not a dark euphemism: He has begun a second act as a companion donkey to a mare who lost her partner at a farm down the road. Enter Stage Left: A Donkey Debuts at the Met Opera 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z I'm trying to think of a good euphemism for this column. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-29T07:00:01Z “We have no word in English for this act which is not either a long abstraction or an evasive euphemism, and we are constantly running away from it, or dissolving into dots,” Professor Hoggart said. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z “Talking about the weather” is often a euphemism for talking about nothing, but the fact is, weather talk is vitally important for a solo traveler embarking across the moors or mountains. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z You dislike euphemisms for fatness like "big" or "big-boned." Lindy West is the troll-fighting feminist warrior you've been waiting for 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Orwell criticized the writing of his time for vagueness and euphemism, claiming that official-sounding jargon was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In explaining his aesthetic, Mr. Vaccaro often said that conventional theater was timid and dishonest in its unwillingness to depict its actual subjects — sex, for instance — and in its dependence on decorum and euphemism. John Vaccaro, Iconoclastic Director, Dies at 86 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z There are also plenty of euphemisms by journalists — like “evacuees” — that disguised the true nature of the internments, now widely considered a historic injustice. Life in a Japanese-American Internment Camp, via the Diary of a Young Man 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Of course, dancing's also a euphemism here, as anyone grooving to "Teach Me" learns when guest vocalist Kiesza arrives to start educating. Essential tracks: Joey Badass' 'Teach Me' is catchy and simple 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z “While visiting friends” was the euphemism of choice. This Life: In an Age of Lessening Privacy, Some Family Secrets Persist 2014-01-17T23:41:18Z “I’ve got a toddler, and when you read potty-training books, they discourage the use of euphemisms for body parts,” says Melissa Henson, the group’s director of communications. V-word vs. P-word 2012-06-26T15:57:00Z This is a pregnancy euphemism for "having lots of joyless, stressful sex", and you should appreciate this euphemism, because pretty much every other detail you hear will be related in bloodied detail. A girl's guide to modern living 2013-04-20T08:00:00Z It’s the euphemism of choice to save face and explain away unpleasant disputes among performers. H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z J.J. swore there was “a lot of meat to that relationship,” which may or may not be euphemism. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: All About Bromance, Bullying and 'Bachelor in Paradise' 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Without God, moral rules are “nothing but euphemisms for personal taste,” exclaimed the rabbi, waving his hands above his head as if throwing pizza dough. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z The lyrics include obscene insults, and the images include animals that have become euphemisms for defiantly circumventing strict censorship. Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China 2013-05-22T05:03:08Z Among friends, we referred to our wives using only coy and oblique euphemisms. “You must be doing it wrong”: Sex lessons from the Hasids 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z There was the usual talk about “tough” language, as if using racist language was merely candor or an admirable impatience with euphemism. Perspective | What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of ‘shithole countries’? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z How will they find a nanny — sorry, they prefer the delicate euphemism “caregiver” — to replace the jewel they found this summer? Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z We are bombarded with euphemisms, whether these euphemisms are political, commercial, or legal. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s also a knowing wink at the euphemism “woman of a certain age” for an elderly woman. Up Close: Kim France, Former Lucky Editor, Turns Blogger 2012-05-30T17:13:29Z Uretiti beach, a prodigiously wide shelf of white sand flanked by a grassy dune, is officially a “naturist” beach — a euphemism for nude — that also happened to be gorgeous and nearly empty. Discovering Auckland’s Charms (and Idioms) 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “Disappointing” and “underperforming” are among the gentler euphemisms that the news media has applied to these summer slackers. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z She figured, she said in an interview, that the contestants would consist of a mix of “models” and “people who aren’t so model-like” — a delicate euphemism for the unattractive. What Is It About Dating Shows Where Contestants Can’t See Each Other? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z And I just thought, What kind of euphemism is that? “Spotlight” and Its Revelations 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Was it a euphemism for a mind-altering substance? Destination: Wellness 2012-12-28T16:26:19Z Take Disneyland’s super-tidy euphemisms: What are staffers instructed to call it when a visitor throws up? Review | ‘Happiest Place’ sadly ponders Disneyland 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Barnes "devotes a surprising amount of this short text to pernicketiness about other people, their failures of tact and sympathy or their use of euphemisms," remarked the Evening Standard's David Sexton. Book reviews roundup: What the critics thought of: Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Julian Barnes's Levels of Life and Lorna Gibb's West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West 2013-04-05T15:03:01Z Isolation is a euphemism now for trying to deal with the horrors, agony, guilt, shame, and fear accrued in war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z I define euphemisms as what I call comfort words — they're words we use in place of words that make us uncomfortable. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on 'Euphemania' and Euphemisms 2011-01-18T23:35:00Z Only in Washington — or, possibly, some corners of Manhattan’s financial district — would the term “banking task force” be used as a euphemism for sex. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 2: Dangerous Recount Liaisons 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z And we both know “challenging” is a euphemism for “difficult.” Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z “I think we need to move past that euphemism,” she said. Françoise Mouly’s Toon Graphics Takes Comics to Classrooms 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Stashower also reveals how, in covering the Torso Killer’s crimes, newspapers were willing to titillate with carnage, but they bent over backward to find euphemisms for the sexual. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z That word sometimes seemed to be used as a euphemism for “uppity”. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z For years, advertising for tampons and "sanitary products" have been shrouded in nebulous euphemism. Tampon-makers can't mention the V-word. Period. | Richard Adams 2010-03-17T18:39:00Z The euphemism tradition remains alive and well in the Obama administration. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z This was a handy euphemism for the aggressive war against Mexico in 1846 in which the United States seized half of that country’s land, giving us California and the great Southwest. Howard Zinn: “The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Mazzetti effectively wades through the euphemisms and bureaucratic fog. Books of The Times: ‘The Way of the Knife,” by Mark Mazzetti 2013-04-24T21:39:27Z These are euphemisms for “depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, addiction,” Ms. Daley-Ward said. Meet Yrsa Daley-Ward, the Bard of Instagram 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Her role is to manage expectations, which I think is a euphemism for disappointing people. TV Review: This Is England '86 and The Big School Lottery 2010-09-07T22:03:00Z Roe is gone, and so we should throw out the euphemisms, the metaphors, the pictures of coat hangers along with it. Perspective | Let’s talk about maternal gore 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z After the war, the BBC’s foreign services became a prop to the Commonwealth, the new euphemism for “empire.” A Century of the BBC, a ‘Quasi-Mystical’ Part of England’s Psyche 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z We know the euphemism, but we don't know what word it replaced, so is the oldest-known euphemism. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z Did “active” mean independent or was it a euphemism for “wild maniac who launches off all furniture”? Should I aim to mimic her assertive tone? Motherlode Blog: The Preschool Parent Interview: An Elevator Pitch for My 2-Year-Old 2014-02-25T14:31:12Z Clooney may be the last man in public life for whom the phrase “confirmed bachelor” is not a euphemism. George Clooney has not been “finally” pinned down 2014-04-28T18:41:00Z “They see themselves as ‘partners’ or some other euphemism.” Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z "All the social and hormonal turbulence that the later Potter volumes had to veil in the euphemisms of fantasy appear in plain sight here." Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z Her boss, she explains, gives her “a lot of feedback,” which is clearly a euphemism. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z She is just ready to take the boys to Nero’s farm — which is not a euphemism, but could be. Sons of Anarchy Watch: Out With A Bang 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The phrase “Netflix and chill” may have morphed into a euphemism, but the meme began as a straightforward sentiment – people tend to use the platform while horizontal in the comfort of their home. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In subsequent years, the press used euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” when they should have said “torture.” Perspective | Words matter. So these journalists refuse to call GOP election meddling an ‘audit.’ 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z I define euphemisms as what I call "comfort words" — they're words we use in place of words that make us uncomfortable. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z “The subject of race in modern Britain is so delicate, so hedged about by hypocrisy and euphemism, so confused, that it has become impossible to talk about it in plain language,” he wrote. Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The whole category has been very euphemistic, or paternalistic even, and we're saying, enough with the euphemisms, and get over it. Tampon-makers can't mention the V-word. Period. | Richard Adams 2010-03-17T18:39:00Z This new, reverent language around dieting offers innumerable euphemisms for eating disorders. Using Fiction to Show How Self-Control Becomes Self-Destructive 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She realized that they “are not on the same page,” which is a euphemism. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: Kissing and Confessions in Ireland 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z That's the euphemism for a kind of alcoholism, or borderline alcoholism or functioning alcoholism. How "Endeavour" dries out the heroic drunk detective myth 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z It is essentially a legalistic euphemism for disappearance and forced detention. Fan Bingbing’s mysterious disappearance: what it means for China’s elite 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z I want honest words – I cannot stand cutesy euphemisms for body parts or bodily functions. “Too stupid to be c*nts”: The new normal of toxic male entitlement on campus 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z If that is the sense the national leadership finds in that day, why should we expect much more from cultural commemorations than miscellany, euphemism, self-effacement and self-blame? Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Memorials: Many Perspectives, Few Answers 2011-09-02T23:58:41Z A euphemism is a phrase we use when we want to make something sound better than it is. Beer, breakups and babies: Six stories of the Ikea coffee-table phase of life 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The company said on Wednesday that it was exploring strategic options, the euphemism often used when a company is considering selling itself. DealBook: True Religion Puts Itself Up for Sale 2012-10-10T14:33:21Z And its pamphlet-sized prose-bombs were never called pamphlets: "We wanted our publications to be regarded differently, so we called them 'studies', 'papers', 'reports' and other euphemisms." Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-29T07:00:01Z Dulles, appreciative of life’s ironies, was amused by the euphemism given to Gottlieb’s task force within the CIA’s Technical Service division. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z However, state officials tell a very different story: Those who’ve spoken out have indicated that they were forced to use euphemisms in place of the term such as “nuisance flooding.” Jon Stewart does his best impression of America’s most delusional climate deniers 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Reforming the objective” is a dry euphemism for the repression of dissidents; “youth protection” is code for surveillance. ‘Uppercase Print’ Review: Between the Lines 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Best Euphemism: Emily explains that Arie is “youthful,” which is clearly just a euphemism for the awkward truth that he’s incredibly immature. The Bachelorette Watch: Blue (Ball) Curacao 2012-07-10T12:30:14Z Barely more than a year later, for example, he was insisting that a woman’s relationship with a man was naturally “complementary” — a popular euphemism among far-right Christian evangelicals like Erickson, which they really mean submissive. The war to be clown-king of the GOP circus: Erick Erickson’s spat with Donald Trump exposes the conservative movement 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z A win for Davis might have re-focused attention more clearly on race, on the coy euphemism of that phrase “the help” – as opposed to “the servants”. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The “perception of feelings” is a euphemism for telepathy, although what telepathy means in the novel is not entirely clear. Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and the Power of Literary Form 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z “Money laundering” sounds cute, like something Danny Ocean and his merry men do, but it’s a euphemism for something unspeakable. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Today, it seems that all that is left of this policy is a euphemism. Learning From Israel’s Political Assassination Program 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z In one mealy-mouthed section, full of euphemisms and hedges, he excuses waterboarding because the "enhanced interrogation technique" was "very likely" to produce valuable information. Justice and the Enemy by William Shawcross ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:01Z Torture and public execution by torture were once instruments of power and popular mass entertainment: now torture exists only in secret, and hides behind political euphemism. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z Divorce was illegal, sex was not to be discussed and “The Troubles” was the euphemism employed to describe the warring, largely between Catholics and the Protestants, that led to thousands of deaths. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Even so, cloaking Trevor’s truth in euphemisms like “weird” and “artistic” decouples his self-discovery from the violence of his classmates’ response, and his own. Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z My husband likes to call me a rustic cook, which I think is a very kind euphemism for just not actually that good. Zosia Mamet on pushing for a trigger warning for stories about food and feelings 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Asked about the sorts of euphemisms reviewers use to disguise their negative thoughts on books, James Ley from The Sydney Review of Books said "'Interesting' is a usefully neutral term." Ten thoughts to take from Sydney Writers' Festival 2013-05-27T01:41:55Z Her translation is striking for its accessibility and clarity — she calls things what they are, a rarity both in ancient texts and modern headlines that never deploy a fact where a euphemism will do. Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The aim here is to show how product placement, or brand integration to use a Hollywood euphemism, plays a big role in funding movies. Morgan Spurlock for sale. Buy, buy, buy 2011-01-24T15:02:37Z "I do need to talk to you about euphemisms," Spiegelman declares in a video teaser. Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “We don’t talk about death. We don’t even call it what it is,” using instead euphemisms such as “passing away” or “bought the farm.” Cake and death: Why we need to get together and talk about dying 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z And in case you're wondering whether "flying with Eleanor Roosevelt" is some kind of euphemism – no, Amelia Earhart actually did fly with Eleanor Roosevelt. Amelia: Hilary Swank's pioneering aviator deserves a full throttle 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z Along the way, each man lived what those of us who prefer euphemisms would call complicated, compartmentalized private lives. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The Cocktail Party: Obviously Corinne grabs Nick first because she needs some reassurance, which may or may not be a euphemism. The Bachelor Goes To Space And A Backstreet Boys Concert 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Guides to effective writing encourage avoiding euphemisms but your recipient might belong to a culture or religion where they are customary. How to Write a Condolence Note 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z They used no euphemisms like “roommates” or “friends.” Remembering Richard Buckley 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z I am very, very sorry to those people I did mislead, which is a euphemism for `lied to.' Tom Sizemore honest about long-lasting drug battle 2013-06-14T13:57:11Z When I was nine I thought "zig-a-zig-ah" was a euphemism for cigarettes. Spice Girls: What I really really really want 2012-06-28T12:07:34Z “That’s why euphemisms need to be replaced periodically, like air filters.” ‘American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny,’ by Christopher Miller 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z I always battle with jargon and euphemism and all of the paraphernalia of agreement. From ‘Camp David’ to ‘Oslo,’ Forging Drama from Diplomacy 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Quotas is a euphemism for “Should we let Black people in?” ‘I Have to Go in and Decolonize’: Europe’s Black Theater Makers Discuss the Scene 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z This is an illness so frightening that people sometimes find it hard even to utter its name, resorting to such euphemisms as the "C-word." PBS' 'Cancer' an epic, vital story Ken Burns just couldn't refuse 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z To call the nearby village McGregor sleepy would be something of a euphemism — almost comatose might be more accurate. In South Africa, Fine-Art Landscapes for Postcard Prices 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z He shows her how to “pass the gong around,” a euphemism for sharing an opium pipe. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Arguably, euphemisms for snuffing it are only really offensive when they are used by the people whose fault the fatality is: for instance, "collateral damage". Americanisms are often closer to home than we imagine 2013-05-13T09:02:20Z “Someone made a touchdown right here!” calls out another, using a euphemism for a moment you probably won’t see on TV. Puppy Bowl: Cuteness becomes a cash cow 2013-02-01T03:34:14Z Earlier in the night, there had been a lot of tittering on the red carpet about keeping the proceedings “positive,” which appeared to be just a limp euphemism for apolitical. The Corporate Optimism of Justin Timberlake at Last Night’s Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z What is leadership if not the graceful deployment of euphemisms? | Anna Wintour Gets a Building Named After Her, Victoria Beckham Opens a Store and Amy Adams Wears Some Pricey Bling 2014-01-18T00:00:46Z Oliver used a recent example of a textbook that referred to slave labour as chores, “a euphemism par with calling Hitler a bestselling author with a side hustle”. John Oliver: US schools must avoid 'impulse to downplay the horrors of slavery' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z "I've got a toddler, and when you read potty-training books, they discourage the use of euphemisms for body parts," says Melissa Henson, the group's director of communications. P-word? OK. The V-word? That's trickier 2012-06-25T19:58:10Z As the Urban Dictionary will inform you, submarine racing is a period euphemism for the stuff you do that steams up the windows of cars. The Gimlet Eye: Getting Set to Spin 2010-09-22T20:43:00Z Is it possible to speak without using euphemisms? Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z This is not a euphemism, though the film hopes it might be. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z It would be very, very difficult to speak without euphemisms. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z For once, that wasn’t a euphemism for “terrible dancing” — and Bill earned a respectable 21. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Latin Night Means Salsa, No Chips 2013-09-24T03:36:32Z It’s all romantic metaphors about “blossoming gardens” and “unfurling crotch orchids”, and kids buy into it because they don’t know what a euphemism is because they are 11. Break the period taboo: my name is Lindy West and I bleed 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z I was heading into the laundry room when I heard Rob telling a new tenant, "She's the one with the huge . . . " and then he used a vulgar euphemism for my breasts. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Taking the measure of a man after a lewd comment about your body 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Clark endured accusations that he was in with the squares, with critic Lester Bangs defining Bandstand as "a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage experience." 'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark has died 2012-04-18T20:02:17Z Farrow writes that NBC even had a corporate euphemism for its settlements — “enhanced severance” — that enabled it to plausibly deny that the payments were hush money. Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z If nothing else, this season of "Downton Abbey" has brought fans a wealth of new euphemisms for sex. 'Downton Abbey': The delights of Liverpool 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Part of overcoming the fear and dismantling the taboo is to eliminate the euphemisms and have open and honest conversations about death. Cake and death: Why we need to get together and talk about dying 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Garnett changed "hips" to "body", which seems to me an improvement, "hips" being an odd thing for Paul to focus on and, I suspect, a euphemism. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z I dislike “big” as a euphemism, maybe because it’s the one chosen most often by people who mean well, who love me and are trying to be gentle with my feelings. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a publishing euphemism that carries more than a whiff of misogyny, implying that fiction written by and about women is by definition something less than literature — heartwarming rather than cerebral, reassuring rather than challenging. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z After reciprocal massages, Clare buys it and declares herself ready to give Chris her “rose,” which is hopefully not a euphemism. 'Bachelor in Paradise' Recap: Every Rose Has Its Thorns 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The women I’m thinking of would hate that description, not just because they’d think of “sturdy” as an offensive euphemism, but because they don’t like taking compliments. Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Tabloids used to use euphemisms like “longtime companion” and “gal pal” to describe them. Review | Robyn Crawford exposes the villains in Whitney Houston’s transcendent, tragic life 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The unsurprising reality is that a specialized language fraught with euphemism and obfuscation is better known as propaganda. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z When you love someone and then you live with that someone, and then you break up with that someone, the euphemism is “went our separate ways.” Beer, breakups and babies: Six stories of the Ikea coffee-table phase of life 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Karageorge’s father described one of his son’s worst concussions to the New York Times as “getting his bell rung,” using professional football commentators’ preferred euphemism for traumatic brain injury. Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z If you thought waste management was a polite euphemism for gangland employment, then The Secret Life of Rubbish was a bracing corrective. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z He is Orwell-like on the euphemisms that hospitals employ to turn away the poor in favor of fewer, wealthier patients. An E.R. Memoir Conveys Hectic Work, Empathy and Outrage 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z “Based on a true story” is Hollywood’s favorite euphemism for “The following movie is mostly fiction.” The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Are we using more euphemisms now than we used to? Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z It was a euphemism used to avoid speaking the creature's name — and unfortunately, historians may never learn its real name, or even when beliefs about it surfaced. More "disease" than "Dracula" — how the vampire myth was born 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The word reproduction is "at best a euphemism," as Andrew Solomon says in his new book, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity." Motherlode Blog: 'Far From the Tree' and the Literature of Autism 2012-11-27T16:22:56Z Critics consider such nationalism a euphemism for Hindu supremacy. How India’s Hindu nationalist BJP seeks Muslim vote in 2024 election 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z We have found that the smugglers' tactics are concealed by a web of euphemisms that enable them to sidestep content moderation and law enforcement. Going undercover to reveal people smugglers' sales tactics 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The term “comfort women,” which was used in the title of Park’s book, is an euphemism for the sex slaves. South Korean scholar acquitted of defaming sexual slavery victims during Japan colonial rule 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z They say that “training” is merely “a technical-sounding euphemism for ‘copying and ingesting.’” Column: This AI chatbot was 'trained' using my books, but don't blame me for its incredible stupidity 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The tragic death of an Indian schoolgirl has laid bare the consequences of "Eve-teasing" - a popular South Asian euphemism which many say trivialises the street harassment and assault of women. Uttar Pradesh: Indian schoolgirl’s cycling death lays bare ugly face of ‘Eve-teasing’ 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Online critics have decried “full-time children” as a euphemism for freeloading off one’s parents, which has traditionally been known by another name, kenlao — literally translated as “gnawing on the elderly.” Young Chinese adults can't find work. Now many have a new job description: 'Full-time children' 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z They see through your wretched lies and euphemisms. Abortion-rights ad featuring image of Jesus faces Catholic blowback 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Although the listing described the house as needing “a little polishing” — a euphemism for remodeling — the couple saw great possibility. How a Spanish bungalow in L.A. went from sad to sexy (Hint: There's an ADU rental) 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The regulation requires all content produced by chatbots to support “socialist core values” — the euphemism for China’s communist ideology. China’s military working on AI weapons and systems for warfighting and ‘overthrowing regimes’ 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Christofi found that while Brian Houston might have used euphemisms in public, his meaning was obvious and speaking “widely and freely” about his father’s abuse indicated Houston wanted people to know, the magistrate said. Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston found not guilty of concealing his father’s child sex crimes 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z "Kellogg’s employment practices are unlawfully based on 'equity,' which is a euphemism for illegal discrimination," Reed Rubenstein, a lawyer with the group, wrote in the letter. Kellogg's 'woke' workplace diversity programs are illegal, group claims 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z A senior defence official told Reuters the reference to neighbouring countries was a euphemism for China, adding that Indian industry had become dependent on the world's second-largest economy despite concern about cyberattacks. Exclusive: India bars makers of military drones from using Chinese parts 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Overall, the central bank said the economy would grow up to 2.5 percent this year, effectively recovering to the “pre-crisis” levels of activity, a euphemism for the period before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia Raises Interest Rates, Trying to Cool Wartime Economy 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Amber Samuels, a 30-year-old therapist in Washington, D.C., who has used “unalive” in her own social accounts, says that she has heard clients use it and similar euphemisms in speech. Online, ‘unalive’ means death or suicide. Experts say it might help kids discuss those things 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Now the Kuki have demanded "territorial autonomy" for the group, a euphemism for a separate, independent administration. Manipur: Murders and mayhem tearing apart an Indian state 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z "He was informed that Wagner would not participate in the Special Military Operation," he used Russia's euphemism for its war on Ukraine. Wagner still recruiting despite mutiny, BBC finds 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z This visual euphemism leaves a gap that A.I. struggles to bridge — and ends up filling with comical, unsettling imagery. A.I. and TV Ads Were Made for Each Other 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Francis Gallagher, from the campaign group SOS Daisy Hill, said: "There is a lot of talk about transformation of care but our fear is that is a euphemism for closing local hospitals." Daisy Hill Hospital: Protesters march to protect Newry services 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The phrase was typically used during South Korea’s postwar authoritarian years as a euphemism for bringing pro-democracy protesters to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency headquarters and interrogating them. A Basement of Horrors in Seoul, Where Past and Present Collide 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z A tender euphemism for logging, “thinning” is not really limited to selectively removing small trees. Forest 'thinning,' aka logging, is not going to save us from wildfires | Op-Ed 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The troupe’s most popular play is “May 35th” — a euphemism for June 4 that some people on the mainland use to refer to the crackdown. Hong Kong Remembered the Tiananmen Massacre, Until It Couldn’t 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z The troupe’s most popular play is titled “May 35th” — a euphemism for June 4 that some people on the mainland use to refer to the crackdown. Hong Kong Remembered the Tiananmen Massacre, Until It Couldn’t 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z “We live in the conditions of de facto war,” Belgorod’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Russian state television this week, breaking with the Kremlin’s usual euphemism of “special military operation” for the conflict. Mother and Child’s Desperate Run for Cover in Kyiv Ends Outside Locked Shelter 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In 2017, the National Historical Commission erected a bronze statue on the Manila waterfront to honor “comfort women,” the euphemism for those forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops. This city was ravaged in WWII. Why do few remember the suffering and sacrifice? 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z “Vinícius Jr does well to raise his voice to point out without euphemisms what is obvious: Spain is a racist country and soccer fields are not an exception. They are the norm,” he tweeted. Vinícius Júnior soccer racism dispute ignites heated off-field debate in Spain 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Soon, both members of the SS’s army, the Waffen SS, as well as regular soldiers of the Wehrmacht were assigned to “Jewish Actions,” the euphemism for organized massacres. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z His repeated dodges and euphemisms were hard to miss on Wednesday. Five Takeaways From Trump’s Unruly CNN Town Hall 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Skinner, at 20-1 on the morning line, is holding firm as the top horse by the “wiseguys,” the euphemism used for professional gamblers. Trainer John Shirreffs' steady approach has him back at Kentucky Derby with Skinner 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z They are usually explicit about this: "the unborn," or other euphemisms for any fertilized eggs, embryos or fetuses which might exist inside the bodies of their pregnant constituents. The terrifying realities of North Dakota's near-total abortion ban 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Wise guy is a euphemism for a professional bettor, one who is looking for value and usually stays away from the heavy favorite. Kentucky Derby storylines: Training death puts early pall over Churchill Downs 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z But to some researchers, “hallucinations” is too much of a euphemism. When A.I. Chatbots Hallucinate 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Our regulators are all too often deferring to foreign counterparts, citing euphemisms like “international cooperation” and “global regulatory harmonization” while paying short shrift to their obligation to consider domestic consequences in accordance with our laws. First Republic’s Troubles Reignite Fears of a Banking Crisis 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Feelings are sublimated, details are discussed only in euphemism. Review | ‘Everything Went Fine’: Death with dignity, and slight indifference 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Assuming those are not his intentions, it is only a matter of teaching him a polite euphemism. Advice | Miss Manners: My husband keeps telling me, ‘You’re crazy’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “It is true, he did take part in the special military operation,” Mr. Peskov told journalists, using the government’s euphemism for the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s spokesman says his son fought in Ukraine. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The women remembered sitting in typing class as one confided to the other using a not-so-subtle euphemism: “I’m having a gusher.” Judy Blume made periods a hot-button topic. A new generation is taking up the fight 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Casual space watchers were further amused by the company describing the fiery explosion on Twitter with cosmic levels of euphemism: “a rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Starship Exploded, but SpaceX Had Reason to Pop Champagne Anyway 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Amid debate over the treatment of terrorism suspects in U.S. custody, Ms. Shepard objected to the use of what she described as “bureaucratic euphemisms” such as “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Alicia Shepard, media writer and Watergate biographer, dies at 69 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Federal Reserve officials dance around it with euphemisms like “a soft landing” or its dreaded alternative, “a hard landing.” U.S. Economy May Be Heading to a Place That Must Not Be Named 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The insulting treatment and euphemisms in the Bureau’s report effectively dismiss the crimes perpetrated against our community. Don’t desecrate Minidoka, memorial to Japanese American incarceration | Op-Ed 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “Pasta water” is not a euphemism or slang; it refers simply to the water in which you boiled your pasta. Our Cheers writer made these 3 pasta-water cocktails — and liked them! 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z So it is also a bit of a euphemism for what is being done, which is creating from nothing. Rachel Heng’s sophomore novel surveys land, love in changing Singapore 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Using Moscow’s euphemism for the war, he added: “This is a regime that has been behind the killing of people for years, since 2014. This is why a special military operation is being conducted.” Russia arrests woman in blast that killed pro-war blogger 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z There is also concern that children who are taught euphemisms could be taken less seriously if they are abused. Women's health: Body part names taboo a risk to health 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Dynamic pricing is the euphemism Ticketmaster uses in place of supply and demand. Ticketmaster fleeces fans | Horsey cartoon 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Who precisely is chubby or curvy or husky or plump, apple-bellied or pear-shaped or any of the other euphemisms for not-thin? Big is beautiful at one of L.A. hottest strip shows 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z His lofty rhetoric aside, Barack Obama launched a $1.7 trillion program for further development of U.S. nuclear forces, under the euphemism of "modernization." Putin's nuclear posturing is heinous — but reckless U.S. policy led the way 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, it could be a euphemism for making them feel like they belong again. Opinion | Why so many Americans feel left out 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z They were not “evacuated” or “relocated,” even worse euphemisms. No, my Japanese American parents were not 'interned' during WWII. They were incarcerated 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Russia calls its action in Ukraine a “special military operation,” while Ukraine and its allies say that is a euphemism for a full blown aggression to grab land. New Russian law would strip acquired citizenship for discrediting Ukraine operation 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Kelley understood the euphemism: the employees “going forward” were spared from layoffs. A Column That Listens for What’s Not Being Said 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z That’s an Orwellian euphemism that obscures what it is: isolating human beings in a maximum security setting, often for long periods of time. Opinion | Virginia finally curbs solitary confinement — but not enough 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Later, the company clarified the precise technical cause, but in the interim that statement looked like the euphemism to end all euphemisms. Opinion | Twitter was — and is — broken 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z I’m wondering how the majority of Americans can see clearly where things stand when news sources employ mealy-mouthed euphemisms instead of the right word: fascism. Opinion: He said 'transgenderism must be eradicated.' Here's what he meant 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z When he opened his phone to prepare for his next shift, he got the message: He’d been “permanently deactivated” — the gig work industry’s euphemism for fired. Column: Uber and Lyft's 'deactivation' policy is dehumanizing and unfair. It must end 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z We’ll have to hope that some later, more enlightened generation will rectify our mistake, step off the euphemism treadmill and confront literary history in all its messy, unexpurgated glory. Opinion | Why it’s wrong to rewrite Roald Dahl’s children’s books 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z "Respecting the audience" recurs in the Fox communications as a euphemism for telling the audience what they wanted to hear. Fox insiders admit even Fox viewers don’t trust Fox 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In a statement released Tuesday night, the Defense Ministry listed the amounts of ammunition and fire cover provided in recent days to “volunteer storm units,” its euphemism for Wagner. Russia’s top paramilitary chief accuses army command of treason 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Moreover, such euphemisms and literal white-washed-speech norms present white supremacy and white racial resentment and rage as somehow based on legitimate grievance instead of as a function of white privilege and other unearned advantages. The media's biggest addiction: Trump voters in diners 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The euphemisms that Republicans use aren't nearly as ingenious as they think. SOTU fallout: Kevin McCarthy's Medicare face-plant 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z “No happy endings,” Maxandra warns Mike before that first Miami dance — a winking euphemism that raises an entirely sincere question about their long-term prospects. Review: ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance,’ a sweetly romantic sequel, doesn’t quite stick the landing 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The judge said that while Treanor has been described as "an errand boy", it was euphemism that "doesn't sit well with the gravity of the offence". Pipe bomb man who blew off his own hands jailed 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Some celebrants avoided mentioning the words “death” or “dying” after hearing news of the shooting, turning instead to euphemisms like “tragedy.” Mass shooting in Monterey Park shatters the hope and joy of Lunar New Year 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Only by clicking on the byline would a reader learn that the article was produced by “automation technology” — itself a euphemism for AI. A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z As I wrote in 2019, there are a number of euphemisms for solitary in our state, sometimes called “administrative segregation” or “ad-seg” or “intensive management unit” or “IMU.” How to dismantle the pipeline from poverty to prison 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z “The Proud Boys are basically a drinking club,” Mr. Jauregui said, employing a euphemism often used by the group. Prosecutors Open Arguments Against Proud Boys in Sedition Trial 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Not only are these euphemisms for what they actually are — a bunch of fascists — it also falsely implies that the disagreement is ideological. McCarthy debacle comes with a lesson: There's a downside to being a party of fascist trolls 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “I very much welcome the common sense approach from Police Scotland, though even in commissioning documents these euphemisms should be avoided as they mask the reality and hide the horror,” Mr. McAskill said. Scottish police scolded for describing pedophiles as ‘minor-attracted people’ 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z “OGA, or ‘Other Government Organization,’ can be a euphemism for CIA, according to multiple former intelligence officials and contractors,” Mr. Taibbi wrote. Latest Twitter Files point to CIA involvement in pressure campaign to curb speech 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Then, when the lockdown of Shanghai began in April this year, online searches for "run"- a euphemism for emigration - skyrocketed in China. Fleeing China's Covid lockdowns for the US - through a Central American jungle 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Bass was straightforward, not mincing words or using political euphemisms to explain exactly what she as mayor plans to do for Black Angelenos specifically. Column: Mayor Karen Bass wants Angelenos to 'believe again.' Black women already do 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Human rights advocates say the terms are euphemisms for organized mass transfers of Uyghur laborers into factories. Global Car Supply Chains Entangled With Abuses in Xinjiang, Report Says 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z But when someone somewhere in the world is “mugged,” to use the paltry euphemism of one of Moreh’s subjects, more often than not America is the “cop” you call for assistance. Review | ‘The Corridors of Power’: A devastating look at genocide and inaction 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Team spokesman Michael Kammarman said Thursday the diagnosis of a pelvic contusion was “not a euphemism.” Christian Pulisic ‘doing everything’ he can to play against the Netherlands 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The PLA’s space warfare capabilities are regarded as part of a suite of niche weapons that will assist in fighting and winning war against a “strong enemy,” a euphemism for the United States. China rapidly building space arms to ‘blind and deafen’ U.S. military, Pentagon says 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Telling people they are responsible for even the unlikeliest consequences of their speech isn’t a coherent principle; it’s just a euphemism for “shut up.” Opinion | No, conservative commentators aren’t responsible for mass shootings 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z These same young people, when they mentioned Mr. Xi online, used euphemisms like “X,” “he” or “that person,” afraid to even utter the president’s name. Proud, Scared and Conflicted. What the China Protesters Told Me. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Our voices have been called too intense or aggressive, to use some diplomatic euphemisms. By refusing to resign, Kevin de León is giving anti-Blackness a pass 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The cliche of “parents’ rights” as a euphemism for marginalizing some children is as sloppy and propagandistic as the now-ubiquitous euphemism of “pro-life,” rarely understood to mean opposing execution or war. Opinion | Why does the right get to define ‘parents’ rights’? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z For decades, many have simply sidestepped the issue, obscuring violations with romantic euphemisms or even suggesting, through subtle turns of phrase, that the women in Ovid’s tales consented to assault. Perspective | Classical poetry is full of sexual violence. We shouldn’t hide that. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The majority of Republicans running for office in the midterms are "election deniers," which is the media's euphemism for flat-out enemies of democracy. Elon Musk's flaming Twitter fiasco is what the US will look like if MAGA wins the midterms 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z His sister Elena said that she called the hotline and was told repeatedly that Vladimir did not appear on any “negative lists,” the euphemism for those confirmed killed, wounded or missing. Frustrating and Often Fruitless: The Search for Missing Russian Soldiers 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Layoff euphemisms — including “right-sizing” and “reduction in force” — make abstract what is a painful, human process, said Roger Lee, the creator of Layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks layoffs in the tech industry. Go forward: What employers use to avoid saying ‘layoffs’ 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z A euphemism that attempts to make abstract what is unpleasant. ‘Go Forward’ 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Going beyond euphemism, Gregory rewrites the scene as consensual in his translation. Perspective | Classical poetry is full of sexual violence. We shouldn’t hide that. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Neutral euphemisms like "election denier" convey validity to a strategic disinformation campaign. Media isn't doing nearly enough to defend democracy — but it's not too late to change 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z That promise was fulfilled, but not — and here was another euphemism Mr. Kriegel disdained — the promise of a “normal life.” Leonard Kriegel, unsparing chronicler of polio, dies at 89 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z He wrote a thesis on “scientific socialism” — a euphemism for communism. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Layoff euphemisms — including “rightsizing” and “reduction in force” — make abstract what is a painful, human process, said Roger Lee, the creator of Layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks layoffs in the tech industry. ‘Go Forward’ 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Speaking historically, and truthfully, “anthropogenic” is a euphemism for the Global North, especially the British Empire and the United States. Op-Ed: The monumental mortality of sequoias 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The report identifies one Chinese service station in New York, and three in Canada that the report says are being used to support Chinese activities targeting overseas Chinese under the euphemism “persuasion to return.” Report details China’s covert, overseas police operations to force political dissidents to return 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z That was how he wished to be known — not as “handicapped,” nor “disabled,” nor “differently abled,” nor by any other euphemism that, in his view, might serve to obscure the reality of his wasted legs. Leonard Kriegel, unsparing chronicler of polio, dies at 89 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The answer is fans usually don’t — unless it can be conveniently used as a euphemism for “real.” Aaron Judge’s 61st HR another murky milestone for MLB 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Koreans have long had a euphemism for seeking therapy or getting mental health care: going to a “white house” on a hill. From BTS to Zoom therapy, why Korean Americans are seeking more mental health help 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Precisely what that means is unclear; markets seem to fear it’s a euphemism for more political interference in the setting of interest rates and other monetary policies. Opinion | An early lesson in the British pound’s free fall 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Local outlet YA62.ru reported that he “started laughing and shouting that he did not want to participate in the special operation in Ukraine,” using the Kremlin-preferred euphemism for the war. Gunman attacks Russian military recruiter as thousands flee mobilization 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Officials couch this as an effort to slow excess demand and put the labor market back into “balance” — a euphemism that glosses over the fact many people could lose their jobs in the process. Fed’s Bostic says US could have a ‘relatively orderly’ slowdown 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “It’s about time we stop using euphemisms and beating around the bush,” Maier said. Flashes of bold UN talk on feminism, masculinity, patriarchy 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z “We have learned that any refusal could result in a direct ticket to the basement,” a euphemism for abduction by the Russians, said Tina, a journalist living in occupied southern Ukraine. In Seized Parts of Ukraine, Moscow Stages Balloting on Joining Russia 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z In another, he asked a female employee whether she had gotten “an upgrade” — a euphemism for a breast augmentation. NBA suspends Suns owner Robert Sarver for use of n-word, misogynistic comments 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The longtime leader of the Russian Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, said that Russia’s undertaking in Ukraine can no longer be called a “special military operation,” the Kremlin’s preferred euphemism for war. Rapid loss of territory in Ukraine reveals spent Russian military 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The trades demanded that any housing projects be required to use “skilled and trained” labor — a euphemism for union members. California legislators push politics aside to get a big housing deal done 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Avoid casual phrases that suggest people with disabilities or from other cultures are victims and avoid euphemisms that refer to cultures to which you do not belong. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z For days, state propaganda outlets reported zero cases of “fever,” which North Korea, with its limited testing capacity, apparently uses as a euphemism for potential covid-19. North Korea claims miraculous win over coronavirus, says Kim suffered a fever 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Those who knew her often relied on euphemisms: Emanuela wrote of her mother’s “ghosts”; her close friend and editor Marina Bignotti referred to the “shadows of her mind,” an expression frequently used by Merini herself. Overlooked No More: Alda Merini, a Poet of Mental Illness 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z For many, it is a euphemism for “getting your kids in line,” “nipping that behavior in the bud,” “showing your child who’s boss” or “giving consequences.” Advice | How do we start to discipline our child? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z It is the left that has put us on a never-ending euphemism treadmill, transforming “illegal alien” into “illegal immigrant” and therefrom to “undocumented worker” and so on — and across many sensitive issues. Opinion | Enough with the ‘is this a recession?’ blather 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z He knew their euphemism for deforestation: “to clean.” He’s been called a deforester and killer. Now he’s called mayor. He questioned whether it is “just another euphemism for gutting our most foundational environmental and public health protections, like the National Environmental Policy Act.” Climate crisis hawks have questions about energy policies in Democrats’ new plan 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Netflix is beginning to push “paid sharing” subscriptions, a euphemism for charging extra to those people who now share a single Netflix password with six cousins and the pizza delivery guy. Streaming Is Sadder Now 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “Today there are ideologies conspiring to tear us apart by promoting identity politics under such euphemisms as ‘critical race theory.’ Salem Media crowned as conservative triumph 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z It was pretty unsubtle as euphemisms go, but much of what drew in his male audience was the overt sexism. Trumpism before Trump: Misogyny remains the thread tying the right-wing coalition together 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Before withdrawing his lawmakers, Sadr had pushed for a coalition with Sunni and Kurdish allies to form what he called a national majority government - a euphemism for a government free of Iran-backed parties. Iraqi cleric Sadr's supporters throng Baghdad streets in show of strength 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “Self-taught” is also a euphemism, one eliding the structural reasons why an artist might have gone without formal education. The Enduring Appeal of the Self-Taught Artist 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z I write in the book about the "third world" or developing nations as euphemisms for this figure of the heathen, in both the religious and the secular realm. America and the "Heathen": How we set ourselves apart from "sh**hole countries" 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z It has since diligently released daily updates on the spread of “fever,” an apparent euphemism for potential coronavirus cases due to its lack of testing capacity. Making sense of N. Korea’s coronavirus mystery — and its menace 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Nothing can quite convey the devastation of those who knew and loved “the fallen,” a euphemism that ennobles their sacrifice but also fails to capture the awfulness of violent death. Opinion | This Memorial Day, remember the young lives cut short 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Quotas abound in Virginia, though they’re usually concealed under a euphemism. Opinion | New Virginia law bans police arrest and ticket quotas 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Talk of the ethnic or cultural "transformation" of countries through large-scale immigration is a commonplace euphemism for replacement theory claims. CPAC Hungary: Global right doubles down on "replacement" theory: "This is what tyrants do" 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It also has become a euphemism for irreversible losses in conflict. War critics in Russia, facing continuing crackdown, turn to craftier, coded protests 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z North Korea calls the cases “fever,” an apparent euphemism for covid-19, as it probably lacks the capacity for proper diagnosis because of a shortage of test kits. What you need to know about the covid crisis hitting North Korea 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “They are experiencing another ‘arduous march,’’’ Yang said, referring to the state’s euphemism for a devastating famine in the 1990s that killed hundreds of thousands of people. N. Korea’s Kim faces ‘huge dilemma’ on aid as virus surges 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Experts noted that North Korean authorities appear to use the word “fever” as a euphemism for covid-19, as they probably lack the capacity for proper diagnosis because of a shortage of test kits. Coronavirus cases, deaths in North Korea surge as Kim blames officials 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z “Why? First, they cover up the word ‘abortion’ through euphemism — a function of abortion stigma, which encourages people to believe that ‘abortion’ is a bad word and needs to be concealed.” House Pro-Choice Caucus rejects ‘choice’ as Dems struggle with abortion messaging 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In 2017, a relative told Abdureshid that both her parents and her younger brother had been taken away to study, a euphemism referring to the short-term detention camps. Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Moscow described the call as a "frank exchange of views", normally a diplomatic euphemism for a difficult conversation. Putin tells Finland that swapping neutrality for NATO is a mistake 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z “As long as we use ‘hip-hop’ and ‘urban’ and ‘Black’ as euphemisms for crime, we’re going to have issues like this.” Young Thug is latest rapper to have lyrics used against him in court 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The birders’ euphemism for catching a talon is “getting footed,” and it’s both extremely painful and difficult to remove. Seattle is home to many raptors. These volunteers protect them from the dangers of city living 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z More often, it is hidden behind euphemisms and shrugs - and carefully ambivalent replies. Ukraine war: 'When the shelling stops, the traitors will be punished' 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Adversaries deployed the “Greenwich Village bachelor” label, less as a euphemism than a slur. The Secrets Ed Koch Carried 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z He also riffed on the derisive “Let’s go, Brandon” chat that is a euphemism for an obscenity aimed at him. White House correspondents’ dinner: Biden jokes about return to near-normal 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z The new inmates were put in uniforms and had their hair cut and were told they would be "vaccinated", which turned out to be a euphemism for a beating, Nikita said. A Ukrainian father's terrifying journey to a Russian prison and back 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Ahmed quotes Audre Lorde: "Looking on the bright side of things is a euphemism used for obscuring certain realities of life, the open consideration of which might prove threatening or dangerous to the status quo." The problem with positive psychology: When the pursuit of happiness regresses into toxic positivity 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z This is why it's so dangerous to have outlets like the New York Times downplay the rise of anti-democracy sentiment in America by using euphemisms like "impassioned about electoral issues." How the GOP came to love Jan. 6 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z She fostered Bagel for about a year, then adopted her after the canine’s “career change” — the gentle euphemism used when guide dogs don’t make the cut. The Dog Aging Project digs deeper than ever to help our best friends live better longer — and the findings could help us, too 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In a pathetic bid to make the story seem fair-and-balanced — rather than plain old truthful — Epstein and Weisman lean heavily on euphemisms to describe Republican enthusiasm for repeating the Big Lie. Sorry, New York Times: Republicans aren't "concerned" about democracy — they want to destroy it 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Chinese people have also ridiculed the bureaucratic euphemisms that officials increasingly use to describe lockdowns. China’s Covid shutdowns go far beyond Shanghai. 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The stated goal of China’s military reform is to “fight and win wars” against a “strong enemy” — a euphemism widely understood to refer to the United States. China looks to learn from Russian failures in Ukraine 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Nice rhyme, Mr. Loychik, but I believe “the birds and the bees” is a euphemism for sex education, an entirely different thing that you’re probably against. Opinion | ‘Don’t say gay’ says ‘don’t say straight,’ too. Let’s exploit it. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Youngkin’s suggestions on how to “combat” plastic pollution are a series of platitudes, euphemisms and hollow rhetoric. Opinion | Youngkin is trashing Virginia’s future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z What followed, he said, was the repackaging of the radical ideas of 1968 into ideologies that have trickled down into nearly every institution in society, albeit often through "postmodern" euphemisms like "diversity" or "equity." The guy who brought us CRT panic offers a new far-right agenda: Destroy public education 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In Toulon, every supporter I spoke to offered up some euphemism when asked what they thought of her presence there that evening, then, when pressed, said what they really meant: “So young! So pretty!” France’s Far Right Turn 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “Using euphemisms can fuel stigma and being direct about support for abortion rights is not only the right thing to do, but also politically advantageous.” With Roe endangered, Democrats divide on saying the word ‘abortion’ 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z “De-escalation is a euphemism for retreat,” said Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of War Studies at King’s College London. Peace Talks May Be Little More Than Russian Tactics, Analysts Say 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z An army public relations officer gave the prison the euphemism “Camp Harmony.” What life was like for Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Puyallup Fairgrounds 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z References to people “from camp” were stripped of context; conversations were cloaked in silver linings and euphemisms. Seattle’s Panama Hotel is a living museum of the Japanese American experience 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z And they saw how our newspaper parroted government euphemisms like “humane” and “efficient” to describe the treatment of people who were ripped from their lives, homes and families. Why we must confront the racism and neglect of our own news pages 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Sadr has vowed to push through what he calls a “national majority” government, a euphemism for one that excludes pro-Iran groups. Iraq parliament fails to elect new state president over lack of quorum 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Eddie’s use of “differently abled” is merely a euphemism for a slur and Anne’s immediate reaction to a joke is self-defense. A Shakespearean power struggle gets transplanted to high school hallways at Seattle Rep 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z And he likened Moscow’s discussion of “the Ukrainian issue” to the “final solution,” a euphemism used by the Nazi bureaucracy in detailing their plans for the genocide of Jews in Europe. Walls, Dreams and Genocide: Zelensky Invokes History to Rally Support 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z “Every single one was taken for tea,” Mr. Lu said in a telephone interview, using a common euphemism referring to being questioned by the police. Defying China’s Censors to Urge Beijing to Denounce Russia’s War 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In fact, the packaging and marketing of war through obfuscation, euphemism and even dishonesty is almost as old as war itself. Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z "Mr. Smollett anticipates he will most likely be assigned to segregated incarceration or protective custody, both euphemisms for solitary confinement; a situation which could have extraordinary damage on his mental health," the filing continues. Jussie Smollett’s legal team files for release pending appeal in emergency motion 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Ignoring the problem — or obscuring it with diplomatic euphemisms and opacity — only helps the hostage-takers. Opinion | Why I’m so concerned for WNBA star Brittney Griner 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Putin said Russia does not intend to occupy Ukraine but plans to “demilitarize” it, a euphemism for destroying its armed forces. Ukraine invasion: What to know as Russian troops sweep in 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The crowd chanted the slogan, a euphemism for a vulgar insult of President Biden and a shot at the mainstream media, as Mr. Cruz departed the stage. Sen. Ted Cruz draws cheers at CPAC, encouraging resistance to the left 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z They noted that substituting different verbs, adding more agreeable phrases, using euphemisms and adopting the passive voice can make morally offensive behaviors more palatable to people. Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In announcing his “special military operation,” Putin said his goal was to “demilitarize” Ukraine, a euphemism for destroying its armed forces. EXPLAINER: Deciding when to use ‘invasion’ label in Ukraine 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The actions hidden by a grotesque euphemism — “enhanced interrogation techniques” — damaged the United States’ standing in the world, perhaps irreparably. Column: Twenty years on, we haven't closed the book on America's torture program 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z However, euphemisms often have the unintended consequences of misdirecting the conversation and maintaining the status quo. Column: You got it wrong, NFL. Hiring issues are about meritocracy not diversity 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z They used to use the euphemism human activities. Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z During the George W. Bush administration, two egregious euphemisms stand out. Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Trump aides had a euphemism for Trump’s laziness: “Executive time” was the item listed on his official schedule when he wanted to sit on the couch and watch Fox News. Opinion | There’s a name for someone who calls violence ‘legitimate.’ It isn’t ‘Republican.’ 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Haredi publications alluded to the Walder episode in euphemisms such as “the upheaval” while refraining from mentioning him by name and largely ignoring what he was said to have done. A #MeToo Moment Shakes Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “I think that critical race theory is so nebulous that, for people who aren’t experts in the field, CRT is becoming a euphemism for Black history, and that is a shame. They aren’t the same.” Florida district cancels seminar over race theory concerns 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Gaming is often used as a euphemism for gambling in the United States. UAE sheikhdom to allow gaming as Wynn Resorts plans project 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Some other newspapers adopted the administration’s language or used their own euphemisms, referring to waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slamming suspects against walls as “severe tactics” or “rough treatment.” Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z They had a euphemism for his misogyny: “locker room talk.” Opinion | There’s a name for someone who calls violence ‘legitimate.’ It isn’t ‘Republican.’ 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The union, which represents Deadspin writers and is part of Writers Guild of America East, called the mandate to ‘stick to sports’ a “thinly veiled euphemism for ‘don’t speak truth to power.’” Why publisher of the Onion, A.V. Club is battling WGA, East 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z The scandal destroyed his marriage, and “Appalachian Trail” became a euphemism for infidelity. Sorry, World: Famous Apologies by High-Profile Figures 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Japanese companies often describe price hikes as something they do as a last resort when costs cannot be absorbed by corporate efforts - a euphemism for cost-cutting. As costs soar, some Japanese companies do the unthinkable: raise prices 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z “I’m not afraid to say that, and to couch that in some euphemisms — somebody died very tragically. And I’ve gotten so much, I mean so much, goodwill from people. It’s just incredible.” Alec Baldwin says 'no one wants the truth more than I do' about 'Rust' shooting 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z They even had a euphemism for his racism: He refused to be “politically correct.” Opinion | There’s a name for someone who calls violence ‘legitimate.’ It isn’t ‘Republican.’ 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z He continued: "The death of Halyna Hutchins. I’m not afraid to say that and to couch that in some euphemism... Somebody died, very tragically." Alec Baldwin speaking with spiritual, philosophical leaders in 2022 to cope with Halyna Huthcins’ death 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z It was that kind of euphemism that was used in Iraq by three presidents. The meaning of words: Orwell, Didion, Trump and the death of language 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z If Ball’s condition was going to be addressed, network censors preferred the use of euphemisms instead, including in the episode’s title, “Lucy Is Enceinte,” or “expectant.” How accurate is 'Being the Ricardos'? We break down what's fact and what's fiction 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z A largely farcical virtual symposium at Syracuse University in March tried to justify the unjustifiable, trumpeting the new euphemism of choice — “collection care” — as the dire need. Commentary: From NFTs to long-overdue reckonings, 10 things that shaped the art world in 2021 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s an absurd euphemism — and it points to another one. Opinion | There’s a name for someone who calls violence ‘legitimate.’ It isn’t ‘Republican.’ 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Let’s Go Brandon retail outlets have popped up in seven locations just in time for the holiday season, offering T-shirts, hats, hoodies, mugs, magnets, stickers, flags and other merchandise inspired by the viral political euphemism. Let’s Go Brandon stores selling anti-Biden merch take off in New England 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s not just Big’s fatal spin on the Peloton — can I start using “taking your 1,000th ride” as a euphemism for death? — but also the many references to the “horror show” of the pandemic. How terrible is the 'Sex and the City' reboot? We duke it out 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Fang had been asked multiple times to “drink tea” — a euphemism for being threatened by security services — for his activism, Law said. They helped Chinese women, workers, the forgotten and dying. Then they disappeared 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is China’s euphemism for market-oriented communism that has returned to prominence under Mr. Xi as the Chinese Communist Party seeks to diminish U.S. power and influence internationally while expanding its own. Biden administration rejects Chinese ‘Maoist’ demands for policy changes 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Each new product was a means to more “engagement,” a euphemism used to conceal illicit extraction operations. Opinion | You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Predictably, Democratic "moderates" are blaming "progressives" and "liberals" for being too "woke," which supposedly translates into "suburban voters" — largely a euphemism for easily frightened white people — flocking to Youngkin and the Republican Party. Election guru Rachel Bitecofer: Democrats face "10-alarm fire" after Virginia debacle 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “The term ‘loss and damage’ is a euphemism for terms we’re not allowed to use, which are ‘liability and compensation,’ ” Huq said. Calls for climate reparations reach boiling point in Glasgow talks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “It’s a euphemism, but something the Fed takes very seriously,” said Diane Swonk, the chief economist at the accounting firm Grant Thornton. Job Gains Offer a Brighter Picture of the U.S. Economy 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z China continues to strengthen its ability to fight and win wars against a “strong enemy,” the report said, adding that the term is “likely a euphemism for the United States.” China accelerates nuclear weapons expansion, seeks 1,000 warheads or more, Pentagon says 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Two protesters dropped the euphemism entirely, holding up hand-drawn signs with the profanity. How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But using that phrase — it didn’t work out for us — is quite the euphemism for the quarterback’s enduring a head injury. Daniel Jones’s Big Play Shows the Giants’ Bullheaded Approach 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z After all, the N.C.A.A. has long claimed that the essence of college sports is “amateurism” — its euphemism for not paying the players. The Difference Between an Unpaid and a Paid Student-Athlete? Not Much. 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z When directed toward beneficiaries of safety net programs, it’s often a euphemism for “lazy” or “undeserving.” Perspective | Work requirements don’t curb ‘entitlement.’ They just make families’ lives harder. 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z She was “shocked” to come across terms like “cultural competency” and “educational equity” — euphemisms, as she saw it, for critical race theory. Christian Schools Boom in a Revolt Against Curriculum and Pandemic Rules 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z This is an interesting euphemism for “rich people are going to pay the minimum amount of taxes the law already requires.” Opinion | The GOP rebrands itself as the party of tax cheats 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z After the Civil War it would be spoken of in only genteel euphemisms, like "the peculiar institution." White America's "hidden wound" threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z But the euphemisms would hardly mean anything to those in faraway countries for whom terrifying and lethal drone attacks and other components of U.S. air wars are about life and death rather than political language. Can we stop calling our humongous military spending the "defense" budget? 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z She often skips “smaller elections,” but said she’s determined to vote this fall “because of the recent past,” her euphemism for Trump’s presidency. In scramble for votes in Virginia, emotions flare over Trump, covid and race 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The Biden administration has said it can conduct surveillance and strikes in Afghanistan from “over the horizon” — a euphemism for military or covert bases in countries outside the immediate region. FBI director says Afghanistan withdrawal raises concern of terror groups rebuilding 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The Biden administration has said it can conduct surveillance and strikes in Afghanistan from “over the horizon” — a euphemism for military or covert bases in other countries outside the immediate region. FBI director says Afghanistan withdrawal raises concern of terror groups rebuilding 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Again, too many of them chose to stay silent or to speak of such things only indirectly or through euphemism. Trump "revelations" are an indictment of America's political class: They knew, and did nothing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z In the end, an “except for” is nothing more than a euphemism for failure or, in Mr. Trump’s vernacular, being a “loser.” Opinion | Mr. Trump and Gen. Lee 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Toll revenue “leakage” — an industry euphemism for uncollected tolls — has become the focus of turnpike agencies across the country as the use of E-ZPass transponders and license plate cameras continues to spread. Free rides take $104M toll on Pennsylvania Turnpike finances 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z |
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