The Trump administration's motivation for this quest to euphemize is hardly obscure.
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He didn't equivocate or euphemize, and he championed and defended regular people.
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But there was certainly no effort to soft-pedal or euphemize their views.
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Jargon acts not only to euphemize but to license, setting insiders against outsiders and giving the flimsiest notions a scientific aura.
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The same goes for President Trump's attempt to euphemize a first year in office that was historic for all the wrong reasons.
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In a world where too many people ignore, euphemize, or generalize about the experiences of marginalized people, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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It is a positive development that it is hatred toward vulnerable minorities that is truly considered obscene, and that we euphemize words through which some people express such loathing.
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The single biggest spoiler wasn't Trump, or even Ted Cruz, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who—let's not euphemize—humiliated Rubio in an exchange about Rubio's dearth of experience and accomplishments.
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Ms. Serre has worked in the studios of Balenciaga, Dior and Margiela, and her work has reflections of that experience, particularly in her willingness to push what fashion people euphemize as a "strong" look.
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My impulse to euphemize is symptomatic of a broader struggle the country is having with the tendency to speak less than truthfully for fear of offending those unwilling, or incapable, of facing realities that make them uncomfortable.
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Her clothes aren't flashy or splashy: They are neutral, well considered, the sort of thing those magazines like to euphemize as "elevated basics," as if there were anything basic about making something women want to wear every day.
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Not only do Christoph Büchel, Michael Walker (of the New York Times) and Hauser & Wirth Gallery fail at critique, they reinforce the use of art to euphemize and aestheticize state violence, and mock the lived experiences of those most affected by that violence.
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Before going on the air with CBS' Gayle King, Northam would have done well to read Peniel Joseph on why it's so pivotal during this Black History Month not to euphemize America's racist past, a history shaped in part by the story of those 19 enslaved Africans.
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The picturesque vocabulary of Donelaitis is akin to folklore. He never waters down a phrase, nor does he euphemize, but is able to recreate in words the substantiality of the world and the speech of the rustics he portrays. His diction is crisp and fresh, and - because of its authenticity - simple and dignified.
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Once the electricity is back she surfs the internet for an additional job. Eventually she ends up on a dubious website where mature men advertise in order to get to know women. She contacts a man called Joe who wants to pay her for keeping him company. When they meet she is very nervous and obviously very ashamed but her experienced suitor manages to euphemize the situation.
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