“The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.”
"Hugh Hefner" (1985)
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
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“Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse.”
Free Speech and Plain Language (1936)
Context: Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. I notice that a writer in a recent magazine gives this advice to budding newspaper men:
“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”
Commenting on New Yorker staff writer Alastair Reid's use of composite characters.
p. 65, The interplay of influence: mass media and their publics in news, advertising, politics, Wadsworth series in mass communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Edition 2, Wadsworth, 1988.
“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
“Kreeft calls the word "interesting": "that all-purpose meaningless euphemism."”
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings, Ignatius Press (2005), p. 9
“He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself.”
Aphorism #98
Interglacial (2004)
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
Dancing of Sounds http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21378/Dancing_of_Sounds
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“I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy.”
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.