Guys who ... Eclectic is a polite word in some cases, right?
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Ambivalence is a polite word for Stafford's feelings for her own family.
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I am sure he would have liked me to use the polite word: homeopath.
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He's really good and, um, creative, would be the polite word, about raising money.
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There is no polite word for the female sex organ in Burmese, the country's official language.
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His app wants to make executive coaching (a polite word for therapy) part of even the busiest executive's schedule.
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"The ag economy is not very good right now — fragile is the polite word for it," Mr. Gould said.
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Narrator: Another popular design is the Chingon and Chingona, which translates to a less polite word for awesome in Mexican slang.
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Advocacy groups, both of the right and of the left, make their money by exciting (a polite word for scaring) their constituents.
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In each, black characters confront (among other things) gentrification, a polite word for what, in effect, is a form of white colonization.
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" Asked if he had "fun" playing the killer, Criss said, "I don't know if fun is the polite word, but it certainly goes to dark places.
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I don't think being Donald Trump's — what's a polite word for it — being Mr. Trump's man Friday is going to help him politically in New York.
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Wildlife authorities around the world have long turned to culls — a polite word for hunting — to reduce the populations of wild animals living too close to people or livestock.
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On that note — and given that AI is an area where Europe and the U.K. in particular excels — I turn the topic to Brexit and ask the pair what they make of the current Brexit mess (actually, I used a far less polite word).
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For in Spanish, services is a polite word for a close-stool.
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Prevalence of "negro" as a demonym has varied in American English. All-Negro Comics was a 1947 comic anthology written by African-American writers and featuring black characters. An emblem of the U.S. Negro league baseball. Negro superseded colored as the most polite word for African Americans at a time when black was considered more offensive.
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In practice, many of the honorific compound words are used as canned polite word alternatives, rather than being grammatically composed as people speak. There is not a systemic rule in Chinese grammar to alter words (e.g., conjugation or other inflections) for the purpose of increasing speech politeness, though the same effect can often be achieved. However, in letters (，) and official documents (), a complex system of honorifics and rule sets exists.
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Sexual dreams were not thought to come from witchcraft, even though the witches always went naked, flew through the air riding their pythons, while 'throttling' is a polite word for sexual intercourse. Some people in a village had the power to see and fight witches in their dreams and were called 'defenders', the most important being the village headmen. The visions and power of the defenders came from the same source as the witches and pythons. The defenders worked within the law and morality, while the witches acted selfishly against the law and morality.
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It would be morally impermissible for persons to maintain the monopoly in the ultraminimal state without providing protective services for all, even if this requires specific 'redistribution.' The operators of the ultraminimal state are morally obligated to produce the minimal state". In the early 1970s, Rothbard wrote: "One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy. 'Libertarians' had long been simply a polite word for left- wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety.
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Rothbard described this modern use of the words overtly as a "capture" from his enemies, writing that "for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy. 'Libertarians' had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over". In the 1970s, Robert Nozick was responsible for popularizing this usage of the term in academic and philosophical circles outside the United States,Teles, Steven; Kenney, Daniel A. (2008).
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JR East E655 series EMU, the train used by the Japanese imperial family In Japan, trains for the emperor, the empress, or the empress dowager are called , literally meaning "trains that they use", albeit using an extremely polite word for "use". Trains for the other members of the imperial family are called , meaning "trains to ride" in slightly more common language. However, both Omeshi Ressha and Gojōyō Ressha refer to a non-scheduled service solely operated for the imperial family. Dedicated imperial carriages were owned by Japanese National Railways (JNR), and these came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) following privatization.
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Aston's eldest son by Elizabeth Gill, William Aston junior (1643-1686), who was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, killed a Mr Keating in a street brawl in Dublin in 1686 and was tried, convicted and hanged for his murder. The crime was considered so grave, and his defence of his actions so feeble, that the Crown, despite his high social standing, clearly decided to make an example of him. A good deal of trouble was taken to empanel a "good jury" i.e. one which could be trusted, with a certain amount of "persuasion" (a polite word for bullying) from the Bench, to bring in a guilty verdict.
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" Mehdi Hasan wrote in The Guardian, "These 'men on motorbikes' have been described as 'assassins'. But assassination is just a more-polite word for murder ... How many more of our values will we shred in the name of security? Once we have allowed our governments to order the killing of ... fellow human beings, in secret, without oversight or accountability, what other powers will we dare deny them?" Historian Michael Burleigh compared the assassinations to the Allied bombing of Nazi V2 rocket sites during World War II, noting that the bombers "were not unduly concerned whether scientists and engineers were killed too, nor foreign slave labourers provided the V2s ceased raining down on London.
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